i am a story i tell myself

cham. 26. lover of many things

[sexyapostate]

hello! my name is cham

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[lilyflxwers]

sources: ophelia, act IV, scene V // traci brimhall, dear eros // unknown // suzanne scanlone, promising young women // destiny, fieldplates gauntlets // camille rankine, emergency management // fatima aamer bilal, being unwanted is a language // unknown

[martyrborne]

Anger: A strong emotion of displeasure, frustration, or hostility, often in response to pain, perceived wrongs, injustices, or obstacles.

To take the bird out of your mouth. To get off your knees. To harden your heart to prevent further pain.

[martyrborne]

Devotion: profound dedication, loyalty, or love for a person, activity, or cause.

To love like a dog. To give everything and receive nothing but table scraps. To always want more.

[megthemariner]

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[megthemariner]

Into the Crossroads

Created for @dragonagereversebang!

the wonderful @sexyapostate, Cham, wrote a fic based off this piece! It was so fun to collaborate 💕

wounds with no blood by titasylaise (atechamcham) on ao3

“Did you hear about Clan Lavellan?”

The man behind the fruit stall bore Falon'din's vallaslin. It was faded, scars and wrinkles dancing across its lines as it sank back into his tan skin. He lifted his head in recognition at the name, and Merrill tucked her face deeper into her cloak. She turns an apple in her hand, notes the dents in its skin.

"They were here just recently, no? Not three months ago," He said, his voice slow and weighed down by the years, "Just outside the city. Their Keeper was kind enough to trade me some herbs from the Silent Plains."

Merrill had heard the name before; part of her training as First meant she'd have to know every Clan that attended the last Arlathven, so she might be better prepared for the next one. As another Clan in the Marches, Lavellan came up frequently.

The name of their Keeper and their First eluded Merrill at the time. It'd been too long.

"You knew them then?" The woman's tone was conspiratorial, like whatever she meant to say was bleaker than a loose bit of gossip.

"Aye," He says, and for a moment Merrill could see the grief etched into every line on his skin, as if Falon'din himself had come to cast his shadow over them. He knows, in the hollow of his heart, but still he asks: "What happened?"

That was the first time Merrill had heard of the name Inquisitor Lindiranae Lavellan.

"Slaughtered, the lot of them."

[tuxedo-rabbit]

I will say playing a DnD game set in Thedas is a great balm to the death of the series. The collaborative storytelling of ttrpgs is the closest thing I've gotten to how it feels to play Dragon Age.

I highly recommend anyone else who is missing the series try to organize a game to play with your other DA fans. Sheryl Chee said the series is ours now, and it really is.

Dragon Age has it's own ttrpg, but if your more familiar with 5e and want something similar, there are people who have worked on conversions. Tantervale 9:21 is a wiki for someone's personal 5e Dragon Age campaign, and they've been kind enough to give everyone access to their class and race conversions for 5e.

The best part is you get to choose what part of the world and what stories you want to focus on! It's a lot of fun.

[sexyapostate]

HELLO THIS IS US THIS WAS OUR CAMPAIGN!! we played Tantervale 9:21 for several years, from 2020 to 2024, and it was an incredible campaign by our wonderful DM and storyteller gem (who i'll tag if they lets me lol) and they worked tirelessly on this conversion and the campaign for the years we played.

i will say playing in our campaign is why the series' death didn't hit me as hard. because i know how great Dragon Age can be when we build stories together. the worldbuilding is vast and our sandbox. we could do whatever we wanted with it, and we did. i fully encourage everyone else grieving the series to do the same. the conversion is specific to our campaign so it could definitely be more broad, we tweaked and messed around as we played. i don't know if gem will pick up the conversion again as they're a very busy fancy scientist person now, but we put it up so everyone could see it and use it themselves. its a real labor of they love and ill be so glad if more people find joy in it

i still run the occasional oneshot using this conversion, so if anyone in the notes is down to clown and play some of our Dragon Age 5E conversion, feel free to message me <3 maybe we could get a party together

[kitkatpancakestack]

Cheryl Strayed, tiny beautiful things | Haruki Murakami, 1Q84 | Mary Oliver, the fourth sign of the zodiac | Mary Oliver, upstream | Susan Sontag, Reborn | Homer, the Iliad | Albert Camus, notebooks | Kate Tempest, people's faces | Vincent Van Gogh, irises | Roald Dahl

[kikicolors]

trapped in the fade

[meowse]

[astra-lun]

So a new necromancer huh?

[wickedapostate]

Something that I've noticed about Lucanis' design is that on his belt/hip area he has a bunch of what appears to be buttons/pins, which is, really quite funny to me. He has to have put them on himself. I have no idea why he'd do that besides fashion. And they're right on design theme for him. I love him

[quietsphere]

All the Dragon Age Veilguard news got me pumped up so I just had to draw all the companions ✨

[greelin]

[GUY WHO IS NORMAL ABOUT DEMONIC POSSESSION VOICE] yeah it would be so bad if i got possessed. Demonically

[greelin]

not immensely intimate. or romantic. Nothing like that

[daftpatience]

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[sexyapostate]

thank u op this is such a comprehensive list of characters and i love them all

[syn4k]

"it's so fucking over" yeah dude it's 11pm it's the end of the day it's time for you to go to bed. and tomorrow you'll be so fucking back because you'll be awake. go tuck yourself in dude you'll be ok

[raisunii]

Palestine will be free.

Who Remembers the Armenians?, Najwan Darwish / Myth of the Vanishing Indian, Rena Priest / Shadow Procession, William Kentridge / The Wretched of the Earth, Frantz Fanon / Darfur (Jesus Wept), William F. DeVault / Srebrenica, Safet Zec