I just spent like half an hour searching your blog for a very SPECIFIC piece of jm art you made before s5 because I'm writing sad tma fic and I needed comfort so uh thank you very much love your art goodbye
LOL s4 safehouse era art is healing... always glad to help
aksjdhjsks It's extremely relevant; he's Sherlock Holmes in the Japanese version of the game, but the ACD estate protested (I don't know what, exactly, they had the grounds for/objected to, unless it was that the Holmes character was written as a big idiot who's always wrong). Considering AA started as a satire and its sense of humor has always leaned toward parody/tongue-in-cheek, this almost feels like the better outcome 😂
I'm intrigued about your "keep Alistair and Loghain AU" would you be willing to share? 👀
ah, thank you! sadly not much written yet. i was working on a "warden inquisitor" au, and i haven't decided yet if the alistair+loghain road trip part is going to be part of it or just alluded to and then played out its own fic. basically, the idea is amell managed to talk alistair into putting up with loghain by using duncan's memory (eg, "is this what he would want?") and saying this was the best way for him to pay for the warden lives he'd cost (and obviously she has like 100+ coercion lol). but, y'know, alistair spends the rest of the blight glowering silently at loghain from across the camp, and never comes to develop the sense of mutual respect amell and loghain do. and then loghain's assigned elsewhere, so he doesn't have to deal with it.
but cue the events of inquisition, where both of them are there to hear clarel's plan and go what the fuck no. and then both realize they have to go on the run, and that they have better chances together. so they reluctantly travel together. which is good because....listen, i love him, but it's a lot easier to imagine loghain using his sick guerrilla warrior skills to evade the other wardens than to imagine it with alistair, the man whose foot has never found a trap it didn't like.
from that point i'm figuring a lot of awkward nights sitting across the campfire, alistair dripping with hate, before they finally start really talking. and like...alistair has that line, right, if you talk to him at ostagar, about how he doesn't really think much of cailan but trusts loghain. and we see those little kids in denerim playing at being heroes, right?
well, my headcanon has long been that (when he could actually get other kids to even let him play) alistair never wanted to be maric. he wanted to be loghain.
maybe there's a better timeline for both of them where it's loghain who raised him, not eamon (i know you're with me in the eamon hate squad)
and loghain...i think he'll come to see alistair as the man he'd wished cailan had grown up to become. he'll see a lot of what he admired about maric in alistair...and be a little startled when alistair doesn't see that as some great compliment.
also i was thinking amell probably had barkspawn go with alistair and gifted a puppy to loghain, so maybe....mabari-based intervention?
by the time they finally reach skyhold, they've like.....reluctantly adopted each other. like alistair's like "ugh, i guess i've found another dad for my dad collection. gross."
and then comes adamant. bc...pain 🙂 don't think abt the previously mentioned mabari loghain's leaving behind, either...
i'll let you know if i ever actually write enough to constitute a fic 💖 here's an excerpt of what little i do have, so far
“So, I heard you blew up my wife,” Alistair announced across Skyhold’s courtyard. He and Loghain, bedraggled but whole, bowed slightly under packs weighed heavy with their Warden armor. It was too conspicuous to wear on the road, so they’d opted instead to strip armor from the first group of bandits foolish enough to target them.
Amell had always been broad and sturdy, and years of practice with heavy staves and eventually swords had only made her more physically formidable. This was never more apparent than when she sprinted down the stairs and threw herself at Alistair, who nearly toppled over from the force.
“She’s survived worse,” Leliana said dryly, descending the stairs at a much calmer pace. “I assume my scouts were helpful during the last leg of your journey.”
The scouts in question caught up to the group and saluted their spymaster. Loghain nodded approvingly at them. “You’ve taught them well.”
Amell was still wrapped tightly around Alistair, uncaring for the dirt and mess of the road clinging to his looted splintmail. “Maker’s breath, woman, you’d think it’d been a few months and several scrapes with death since we’d last seen each other,” Alistair teased, gently swaying them back and forth. “You’d better be careful, or people will begin to think you like me.”
Amell laughed, but a little shakily. “We can’t have that,” she agreed, and pulled back. A little embarrassed by the emotional display, she cleared her throat and turned to Loghain. “I’m glad to see you, too.”
Oh damn the demon signing himself with a reversed cross made me laugh SO MUCH! AJ finally realising was also hilarious, the only thing that had me stop chuckling was the way Az puts his hand to his mouth. It's heartbreaking... I love your drawings so much! Thank you for sharing it with us!
thankyou all! yes, Az is having a bit of a difficult time of it. i do think he frets and worries, but it’s not so blatant as Zira. he’s sort of been in denial this whole time ever since he found out AJ was Crowley, and now he has to accept that Crow isn’t here.
thankyou! :) don’t worry, Az will cover that in the future.
Heaven and Hell don’t know they’re married. Adam said they didn’t need to worry, so H/H is just partly ignoring them and partly pretending the whole thing didn’t happen. Az and Crow are still technically employed though.
!!! How are you liking The Magnus Archives? Who's your favorite character so far?
You know, it’s weird because I had actually started listening to TMA back when it was only halfway through the second season... and I listened to all of it, and then just immediately forgot to continue to listen as it updated. So I’m actually RElistening right now and am getting close to where I’d left off.
Anyway, I have a stupid love for Stupid Idiots Trying Their Best and I really like Martin. I also like Jon despite how snarky he is. But in general I enjoy all of them.
Hi there, I just wanted to know if I could promo my own fic on here! I just posted the first chapter and I'd love to generate some attention if that's alright. It's called These Roads We Travel, and it's a road trip fic featuring Crowley and Anathema.
Of course you can!
These Roads We Travel by I_Am_Your_Dentist
It's been over a year since the world didn't end. On the surface, everything is perfect. Crowley and Aziraphale had nothing keeping them from pursuing a relationship together. But paradise never seems to last for them, and Aziraphale decides to call it quits. What's a newly single demon to do?