Melli's Corner

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[mellidee]

Hey There!!

Guess I should make a proper pinned post??

Pen name is Melli, I’m a hobbyist artist. I post a variety of things, mostly things I’m currently obsessed with. My OCs are my favorite subject matter (ranging from furry to human) but I also draw and reblog posts around Mass Effect, Dragon Age, and basically anything I enjoy. Tumblr is my place to rave about other things that aren’t just my oc content.

If that’s your thing, you’re welcome to stay!

Ask box is open.

This is a side-blog of @melli-flourish , my main blog.

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#melli’s art - main art tag

#quick drawing - Art/sketches that are doodles

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NOTES

This blog, while not explicit, may contain subject matter only for people over 18+. I will mark posts using the site’s filters so if you don’t want to see it, have those on. I will also tag posts.

Do not repost, reuse, or edit my art.

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[mellidee]

My space queen ✨

[revvethasmythh]

happy birthday to THE bitch of all time

[mellidee]

A lady and her knight in dented armor.

[doghawke]

(guy whos doing normal mentally) I need to replay dragon age 2.

[matiekae13]

(Girl who’s solidly grounded in reality) I need to replay Dragon Age: Origins.

[ichorknight]

i dont really talk abt this outside of discord bc ive not liked datv from the very beginning and theres typically nothing critical i could say that others havent said better, but the 1920s paper boy trying to escape a gas explosion level backpedaling and blame shifting trick weekes has done on bluesky lately is a rare highly-concentrated level of insufferable

trick weekes, on a public panel and then again on discord: erm actually ☝️we DID did have slavery depicted in veilguard. if you blathering simpletons wouldve just looked at the 10 seconds of the venatori using the narratively inconsequential elven npcs as furniture, during a quest that rushes you through the experience as fast as possible so you can hear two characters arguing that we actually wrote the quest to show, ermmmm, you would know. and anyway, we didnt even NEED to do that, because erm, OBVIOUSLY☝️every character in the game taking place in slavery city knows that slavery bad, so ermm, methinks theres no need to hammer it in when it takes screentime away from me and my friend's ocs going shopping. and also if youre going to write about dismantling the status quo, erm, methinks you should instead be thinking about the regular people that are free to go outside and complain about the price of buying bread, which is why i wrote it like that, i wanted to write about my - i mean regular peoples experiences, who are struggling too yknow, when they slip and fall on a pile of slave corpses rotting in the sun on their way home

trick weekes, less than a month later: i actually dont have hands. guys. i dont have any hands. i didnt write it like that. it wasnt because i was on board with shipping a fantasy friend group simulator instead of a dragon age game. how could i have when i do not have any hands. i had absolutely no power over the writing, as lead writer. i had to write things bad because my boss was physically standing over me saying WRITE EVERYTHING BAD NOW which he could do because i was just the lead writer i barely even worked there. and then when we got rid of matt goldman 3 entire years ago we could write dragon age again. but then when i gave my script to corrine busche that had dragon age in it she ripped it up in front of me and said UGH! I HATE DRAGON AGE! there was nothing i could do guys. and even if there was as i established i dont have any hands. so. actually it was because of saudi arabia. actually it was because of the VA strike. actually its because you hate friends. you hate friends and you wanted a dragon game with no friends or happiness in it. actually you hate non binary people. actua

[housederiva]

I just saw a post talking about the circle and I have no idea what that is? Maybe it's only because I've played Veilguard but is it like mage school?

In the northern half of Thedas it's a mage school yes, in the southern half it's a prison and its full title is the Circle of Magi, the wiki page for it is here if you want to give it a gander and this is the one for tranquility while we're at it

[carnationinstantbutch]

[housederiva]

I had the same thought as a de Riva because why would I need to do a thesis project as an Antivan Crow? Why would Viago make me put this orb together, is it a poison orb?

And you're right, it shoulda been more Harrowing (see that's a play on words Veilguard players won't understand and now I'm light headed with that realization)

[faeryfrogs]

[liaragaming]

I got to "maybe it's only because I've played Veilguard" and perished.

[crotch-goblins-of-the-light]

[konetainkarr]

Knowledge

[fiannans]

I don't know how else to describe this specific genre of sci fi where it's all about hope and love for humanity but yeah.

[chuwenjie]

introducing the SAJA BOYS! (prints available here)

This cover of Rogue Magazine is a companion piece to the one I did for HUNTR/X and is a fanart/crew member tribute that will be available as a print at my conventions this year, and is currently available for pre-order in my online store! Thanks again for the incredible love on the movie!!

[chiimiraa]

PARKOUR!!!!!!!!!! 🤸

[synnyi]

im on aethyta/benezia ao3 like it’s my damn job

[tikvin]

And "In game model vs how I draw em" came to conclusion! (At least for now)

It was very fun and I hope it motivated some people to draw their own tavs and durges :)

[hallabun]

we as a fandom underutilize just how funny it is that miranda pieced shepard back together over the course of two years. like imagine having someone out there who knows more about your own body than you do. and having that someone be miranda.

shepard: shit, it's asking for exact measurements. i just need to buy a new-

miranda, from across the room, not even looking up from her book: you're approximately 170 centimeters tall. bust is 87 centimeters, waist is 73, and hips are 91. your measurements might have changed over the last six months while you were on house arrest, so i'd recommend taking that into consideration.

shepard:

[favoriteblogonthecitadel]

After resurrection, did your Shepard “come back wrong”? (Open to interpretation)

Came back with all the same memories, skills, & personality. Simply woke up

Partial amnesia, but same skills and temperament

Full amnesia, but same skills and temperament

Memories & personality intact, but skills got screwed up (biotics/muscle memory)

Remembers everything+performs fine in combat, but seems like a different person

There are bits and pieces missing everywhere, but it’s still them, somehow

The person they were is gone.

Something else!

Voting ended onJul 4, 2025

As always, Shepard lore dumps are welcome.

[jarinnards]

I really do miss the DAI formula for the dialogue wheel. I understand they didn't want to go back to silent protags like DAO, but the Inquisitor always felt so malleable and personal. For almost every line of dialogue where your character could speak, you'd be given an option for how you wanted to respond. You could interject in some companion banter and choose your own dialogue, or you could ignore them. You couldn't even be "evil" in Inquisition, but I never felt like I was boxed in or that my character was saying the same thing but worded slightly different. It felt like my Inquisitor was mine. Like they were wholly different from the character someone else was playing and it wasn't just in my head. The game reflected that. Inky rarely ever spoke without your input, and while you had to save the world, it felt very much like your reasons for doing so were your own.

I miss that.

[cussundria-nerd-kneal]

Inquisition got a lot of flack for being too 'malleable', but honestly, I think it works very well. Some people want a Hawke/Geralt-like protag, where you can choose your dialogue response, and the character responds according to your choice in character. The choices are just different sides to said character.

But honestly? I see a LOOOT more people latch onto and connect to their Inquisitors than they do their Hawke. And I think it's because of the fact that when you're creating your character - how they look, what their race and background are - forcing a pre-determined personality onto them doesn't work that well. Like, they're still a compelling character, but it's not... YOUR OC. Hawke really isn't YOURS, because Hawke has a strong personality that comes through their dialogue.

Your Inquisitor is a blank slate. But like Op said, their dialogue wheel varries in tone enough that you CAN construct your own personality for them. You CAN make YOUR OC from the ground up.

I miss a lot of things from DAI.... the dialogue was a giant one.