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[felassan]

I’m sure you’re getting swamped with stuff but in case you want to pass it along, Tevinter Nights is available to read for free for those with a Kindle Unlimited subscription.

hello! ◕‿◕ thanku for sending this my way. absolutely!! that's awesome. posting this up for peoples' info. ^^ given some of the 7 companions, I would totally recommend reading TN before playing DA:TV (also it is just a great book in its own right!!).

[shitpostsampler]

Firstly, thank you so much for everything you do on this blog! I'm thinking about designing my first piece for a Jane Austen quote (I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal). It's fairly lengthy so I was wondering if you have any general advice on font choice, layout, spacing, borders etc. Basically, things you know now about making a design that you wish you knew when you started. Thank you :)

A few pointers- - Quotes are way longer than you think they are, every time.  - Decide if you want to use 1 font or 2 and what the general approach for which words will be in which font and how you would like the emphasis laid out. - We usually try to stay in the 5-12 stitches high range for our fonts, just to keep the entire sampler more manageable as a whole design - Try to layout the words evenly and in a way that is aesthetically pleasing to you. Try to limit the amount of dead space. Generally speaking, if it looks bad to you, it probably looks bad. - Borders range from super simple to cumbersome and difficult to manage. Whichever one you pick, commit to it.  - You will inevitably hit a wall while designing. We have the luxury of having two brains to bounce designs back and forth between. It is perfectly acceptable to set your design down and take a break. Usually trying to force it results in lackluster choices. We hope this helps!

[baejax-the-great]

47. Bundling up in a stack of quilts to read a book - for Fenhawke please!

Thank you! This will be my first prompt fill for @dadrunkwriting 

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“Hawke?”

“I’m in here!” came a muffled voice from a stack of what appeared to be every blanket and quilt they owned.

“Are you ill?” he asked the pile, “Or hiding?”

“Neither. Reading.”

How? He wanted to ask, but then he found the hole that was allowing her to both breathe and see the pages in her hand.

“The thing is,” she said, anticipating his next comment, “The dog. You know him, big fellow, loud bark, sleeps on my feet at night and growls at you a bit when you get fresh? Porthos. Lovely chap, but I’m afraid he has a lot of opinions about blankets for a dog.”

Fenris was very familiar with the dog. “Mhm.”

“Every time I curl up with a blanket and a book, he walks over, claws the blanket off of me, and makes a little nest for himself. As if I weren’t using it. Rude little bastard.”

“So your solution was to take every quilt we have and cover yourself in all of them?”

“On a night like this? Yes.”

He laughed at her, looking like the softest and lumpiest tortoise he’d ever seen. “Did it work?”

Hawke grinned at him. “Take a look for yourself.”

She held up the blankets so that Fenris could peek inside, and there, curled up happily, was Porthos, snoring a little.

“I’m glad our household has found peace at last,” he muttered.

“Do you want in?” she asked, still holding up the blankets, “I’ll read to you. Varric’s newest serial.”

Fenris considered only a moment. The night was cold, and there were worse ways to spend an evening than listening to Hawke dissect Varric’s work. He crawled in and snuggled up.  

[slothssassin]

Top five colors!

Thanks for asking :)

Turquoise

Dark red

Magenta

Mustard yellow

Mint green

[bronzeagelove]

Super detailed OC questions for Ianus: 8 and 44

Heya, thanks very much for the ask :)

Super Detailed OC questions

8. Did they have pets as a child? Do they have pets as an adult? Do they like animals?

The Etherian family never had pets, given that their mom was always busy with her career. Little Ianus always wanted something to take care of, but was told he could get a pet later… but on the cruiser, there is (obviously) a zero pets policy. Adult Ianus never really thinks about having a pet, though interestingly, animals love him… and he finds it weird XD

44. What is their favourite season? Type of weather? Are they good in the cold or the heat? What weather do they complain in the most?

When Ianus was small, he always loved the warmer seasons, and dry climates. Given he’s a turian, he’s obviously better with hot temperatures, though his training in the ground forces put him through some gruesome training in all kinds of extreme climates - he tolerates most of them well. 

Given he hasn’t really left the cruiser for the last 10 years, he finds weather weird by now, and especially hates rain.

[slothssassin-art]

Happy Birthday to Em! How is she celebrating today out in Appalachia?

Thank you!! ♥ She celebrates at the Landview Lighthouse together with their friends who organised lots of gifts, food and cake! They also summon Mothman to join them :D Here’s an impression :D

[agentkatie]

Ohhhhhh 📖

Once I started an Avvar AU where Shep’s the Commander of the Inquisition and Cullen’s an Avvar leader who keeps pissing her off by fucking with her supply chains. They get into a lengthy territory dispute and then she goes to settle it with her fists and then... y’know.

I just opened the doc to check it out just now and I didn’t get very far into it other than a gushing Shepard POV description of how ripped Cullen is followed by “All in all, she was not impressed.” Girl, you so were.

[hurl-a-can]

ME Relationship asks: 2, 16, 32, 43

2. Does Shepard have a lot of friends?Darragh is an easy-going, fun bloke and he makes friends easily. So yeah, he has a lot of them.He’s closer to some of them than others, but if he’s rich in any respect, he’s rich in having many good friends. Partly because he is a good, dependable friend himself.As Ashley once put it, “He’s a fucking boy scout, but when a shark drops in the fish tank, you’re better off fighting alongside someone like him”. (And then she died on Virmire, poor gal.)

16. What’s Shepard's favourite memory of their family?Helping grandma in the kitchen. Learning mahjongg and cards from grandpa. Spring festival celebrations. Watching grandpa (badly) performing bits from Cantonese opera and exchanging conspiratory winks with grandma and sharing with her that affectionate sentiment of ‘he’s so bad at it but he’s so adorable when he tries’.Beating grandma at video games. Getting beaten at video games by grandma. Grandpa watching over their shoulders and providing snarky comments.

32. Do they have a favourite spot to hang out together?Not really? Since they don’t even become a couple until after Alenko rejoins the team...But they do enjoy hanging out at the observation deck, watching the stars, drinking beer and either enjoying some light conversation or the companionable silence.

43. Is there an enemy for whom your Shepard have/had respect?Definitely Saren. Illusive Man, too, to an extent. (And there may be other, minor antagonists - but it has been a while since I played the trilogy, so I can’t recall them right now.)