sporeweave

🍄goblin word weaver🌷🕸 ✦ 28 ✦ she/her ✦ ♏ ✦ main blog @dryadshell 🌱side blog for my fandom fixations🐛

[phantazesthai]

Hello! I'm Helena, a postgrad museology student who loves collecting antique trinkets for my nest, drawing faeries on post-it notes and attempting to write fanfic. I've always found the song and dance of social media intimidating (I've mainly been a shy lurker since day 1 of my Internet usage), but I'm trying to be braver! So, welcome to my cosy little nerd nook 🧚‍♀️💚

Currently, my brain has been consumed by Dragon Age, but some of my other great loves are Baldur's Gate 3, Star Trek, and the Dark Crystal.

𓆣 My musings, OC ramblings and fic snippets live under the tag #sporeweavemuses

𓆣 My Ao3 handle is sporeweave. I have one Rookanis work in progress published there currently: 𖥔 VEILED SOULS 𖥔

My main blog is @dryadshell, so that's what I comment and follow back under 💖✨️

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[brambeag]

mythals chosen on a southern scouting mission

[ratbagjasper]

Harding Week Day 1: Compassion | Rage

Thank you @datvcompanionweeks for hosting!

[brambeag]

visiting old friends<3

[onemonthintheatlantic]

SAM REID CALLING OMEGAVERSE "VERY URSULA LE GUIN"

[onemonthintheatlantic]

[knave3]

purple chronically ill wizard i have some thoughts about you

[stonesense]

we’ve gotta do more with grimoires.

[stonesense]

you know i’m a dragon age inquisition complainer by trade but the thing where mages have their grimoires on their hip in a very like practical battle-ready way like they need it accessible at all times? legendary.

[thirstkanaphan]

[mooreaux]

This 2026 dragon age inquisition playthru is gonna be all wish fulfillment and headcanon whimsy. So my new dwarf inquisitor Arascha has three hot sisters also, and isn’t in the carta- she’s instead from an upper middle class family driven above ground from their thaig by darkspawn. Potential romances are Varric and Solas or both if the mood takes me because why not

[zazrichor]

is there something on my face?

[fangmich]

Avowed - Murals by Rita Yuwei Li

[dykezuko]

Sapadal

[those--strange--trees]

Yatzli asking the important questions

[phantazesthai]

My Aumaua Envoy, Ulalume 🍄🪻 Dreamy Court Augur with a penchant for frost magic and axes 💕

[phantazesthai]

Anyone else feel like an obsessive plastic surgeon with how often they keep returning to veilguard's character creator to tweak their Rook's face? I'm such a creepy perfectionist... So I'm staging an intervention! Enough is enough! The nose bridge looks normal and totally proportionate! All noses are beautiful!

I've spent a frankly unhealthy amount of time locked in fisticuffs with the head sliders trying to remember what a Human Face looks like. It's like a surprise psychological experiment dressed up as a character creator in a video game

(I love character creators. Shout out to all the weirdo angels I've crafted! Your faces made me question reality a lil bit, but that's part of the fun!)

[phantazesthai]

Two of the weirdo angels in question: Aurisma and Kostaari ✨️

[lavenderprose]

The reason I always mention Emmrich's accent in my fics is because I truly believe that on no planet does that man not have theeee funkiest Nevarran accent. I'm fully convinced that people who have spent the majority of their lives in the Necropolis have an accent all their own and it's recognizable to other Nevarrans especially but even to people from other countries. It's thick. It's funky. It does stuff with elongated vowels that you wouldn't believe. Rook Ingellvar has this accent too but crucially nowhere near as crazy as Emmrich's because Emmrich picked up the accent from the old dusty academics he spent all his time around as a kid. He's kind of the only one who still speaks quite like that and is not LITERALLY a ghost.

In my headcanon this is reason numero uno why Rook is looking at Emmrich Like That when they meet him. Like whoa. Is this guy for real.

(They're into it. They're very into it.)

[phantazesthai]

Rook furtively glanced around them, like a thief checking for wayward guards. Satisfied no one was lurking nearby, she took his hand in hers.

“Follow me, and I shall show you something wondrous,” she whispered dramatically, wiggling the fingers on her free hand in a spidery motion as though casting a spell on him. In the turquoise gloom of the Memorial gardens, flecks of green light from the nearby veil fire danced in her teasing eyes. Lucanis was instantly entranced.

He chuckled, heart giddy at her adorable attempt at sneakiness. He bowed his head in silent invitation for her to lead on, ready to follow her to the ends of the earth.

A Dreamer, a Crow, and a Demon. Lost souls found and intertwined.

𖥔 VEILED SOULS 𖥔 a Dreamer Rook, Spite and Lucanis love story, is now on Ao3!

I was finally satisfied enough with the first five chapters of this fic to take the plunge and publish them. The next three chapters are where things get a lot more interesting, so I’m still tweaking them, but they should hopefully be up sometime next month ❤︎‬