#curvyelf

[kissingagrumpygiant]

incredibly fun commission for @curvyelf of her newly turned dhampir paladin and artificer, thank you so much again! 🧛‍♂️💞

[hollyand-writes]

Hope this doesn’t come off as overstepping but I saw that blocklist in the tags when it was posted and it immediately gave me bad vibes that someone would even post something like that. I only recently started being active in the DA fandom after 5+ years because of all the needless drama and bullying so… just wanted to send this and some support, also your carver/merrill posts are really cute.

Hey there! Ahhhhhh, you're not overstepping at all – thanks so much for sending me this very kind message and I'm sorry it's taken me so long to reply to it! ❤️  And yeah, I gotta admit – out of all the fandom Discord servers I’ve joined, none of them have a channel called #blocklist full of names to warn server members about, or even a list written out like that.  

And that’s even before you get onto the fact that most of the names on those lists (the ones I know of, anyway) have not done or said the things they’ve been accused of. In fact, many of those on that blocklist under “The Mess” subheading (and some of us on that list, like me, are POC ourselves) who have been accused of “targeting POC with harassment for calling out racism in the Dragon Age fandom” were targeted ourselves with harassment (AND racism!) by the perpetrators of a callout post that called out a bunch of popular fandom creators for being “racist”.... and when questioned further about what these creators did that was so racist, the answer was.... those creators wrote and drew popular sexual Cullen content???

Some of the sexual Cullen content was so mild I’m not even sure I’d call it sexual Cullen content. More like romantic Cullen content. Romantic content with the whitest straight man in the Dragon Age franchise (no shade to anyone who romanced him, even if he’s very much not my thing). One person was called out as racist for.... drawing her Cullen-mancing Lavellan with a low-cut blouse, which the callouters said was “hypersexualising WOC” even though she was barely showing any cleavage. Another person who was called out was a pale-skinned WOC who drew a Cullen-mancing Lavellan based on herself, and was called racist for making her Lavellan pale-skinned like herself?!?!? Their crime wasn’t that they were racist – their crime was that they were popular and well-liked Cullen creators... and the people behind the callout (also Cullen creators) wanted to drive them out of the fandom because of it. 

They collectively had a meltdown when screenshots were leaked from their private Discord server showing them admitting to sending us anon hate, planning how to lie about it to us (and each other!) and attempting to “strategise” (LOL) when their callout was blowing up in their faces. Many of the original perpetrators are still around, but under new Tumblr URLs so that they can hide their former shitty identities (but of course, they’ve not really changed as people). 

And that was what the fandom wank known as “The Mess” was all about, back in August 2020. @weird-in-thedas and @visceralcoma have the receipts, and debunked the entire callout with evidence of these people’s lies, spite and jealousy. At the time, The Mess blew up so big that people outside the Dragon Age fandom came to gawp at it – it got discussed a lot on the fail-fandomanon comm and even made it onto Reddit 😅  but even then, I didn’t think we’d still be talking about it in 2022. But here we are! 🤷🏾‍♀️ 

So, yeah. You were right to get bad vibes from such a list. Some of the people on that Discord blocklist were on the original callout post, some of the people (like me) were somehow dragged into the fray (receiving abuse and even racist remarks from the callout perpetrators simply for saying “hey I know these people, I’d like to know how they’ve supposedly been racist”), and some of the people on the blocklist were never even involved in “The Mess”. Not to mention that one person accused on that blocklist of shipping incest definitely doesn’t, and another was last on Tumblr three years ago (and hasn’t been in DA fandom for nearly 10 years anyway). 

There’s definitely a lot of needless drama and bullying in this fandom, as well as callout posts made on false pretences, and has been for the 8 years I’ve been in it – but I’m glad you’re now active in it after 5+ years: I promise you there’s lots of good and decent people in the fandom; they’re often quieter and harder to find than the more wanky and/or drama-mongering ones. But they’re there, I promise. ❤️ 

On a happier topic – thank you SO MUCH for your support and especially for your kind words about my Carver/Merrill content! 😁  I love them – they’re my favourite Dragon Age ship (my OTP, actually, LOL) and I am forever sad that Bioware planned to get them together if you didn’t romance Merrill, and then denied us by cancelling the third Dragon Age 2 DLC where they’d have got together 😭  which is why I write all the fanfic and commission all the fanart, LOL. I honestly could rant for ever about why I love them and think they’re perfect for each other, but I think this post is long enough 😂  so perhaps that’s one for another post. 

But anyway. Thank you so much for your lovely ask, and thank you for reading my long-arse reply LOL – and I hope you have a great day! ❤️ 

[halsin-moved]

top 5 daedric princes?

♡ meridia, all my girls wanna ice her but for me i love the deliciousness of a her being so gung-ho abt undeath that rumors persist she was an aedra who went too unhinged

♡ sheogorath, beloved of my heart. my fave tes dlc is always gonna be the shivering isles even tho i never got quite around to finishing it. he makes me laugh

♡ malacath, bc i gotta love w all my heart the guy who only gives a fuck for orcs. big mood, buddy, mwah

♡ sanguine, i love love LOVE my party daedra who will fuck up your life with choices. one of the best quests in skyrim is the hangover you get after a night w him and i love making all the bullshit the ldb got up to canon for my ocs

♡ hermaeus mora, because apocrypha actually was one of my fave worldspaces. i spent an awful lot of time afking in skyrim while studying for my exams there. it's peaceful

[ivaerleth-archive]

@curvyelf 🤝 Heri

Sluts for art nouveau

[batsylovesjoky]

Already asked this on twitter but how old does she look to you?

[athrasil-archive]

fireside + quilt? 💘

♡fireside - if you had your dream wardrobe, what would it look like?

- Oh damn. My own tastes in clothing changes so often I can’t pinpoint anything lol. I like sweaters, waist-tied t shirts, button downs, high waisted things and sneakers :D too bad we poor

quilt - how do you take your tea (or coffee)?

-Tea always! I don’t like milk tea that much, but I enjoy any blend of plain tea ( chinese, green tea, peppermint, fruit tea!!!!! and some floral ones like jasmine and chrysanthemum)

♡  Thank you Niesa!

[lyriumrain]

amber + flannel?

amber - share an unpopular opinion that you may have.

Oof. Hm. 🤔 

I don’t think bioware should release another dragon age. The series should die if there’s no commitment to improving their workplace standards or listening to player feedback.

flannel - have you ever gone on a bad date?

Would you believe that I’ve never dated, at all? I’m not very social, or good with people irl. The autism doesn’t help with that jsdfk 😩😂

tysm!! ✨🌸

[opaleyedprince]

🖊 🖊 for any oc currently rotating your brain!!

HMMM how's about donna

really loved fairy tales as a kid, always demanded to be the princess in the tower when he and his siblings would play. he still has that fondness for stories, but keeps it closer to his chest these days.

he only really feels comfortable being outspoken when he's in drag, and is significantly shyer in everyday clothes - but he comes off standoffish or wooden because he doesn't shrink away when he's shy, just clams up.

he also has an ice motif, not because he's icy all the way through but bc he's got that frigid exterior that you've got to break through/melt to see who he is underneath.

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