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[greypetrel]

oooohh gimme that sweet sweet Elfroot (for the wip ask game, lest this ask be confused for something else LOL)

Ahahahah alas my stack of fantasy happy plants is all gone. :"(

For the wip, tho, we have something! Thankks for asking!

(it's an old one, but alas the sketch arrived the moment I was trying a new inking brush and hated the hell out of it. I discarded the brush and discarded the sketch. I'm getting back on it tho! With a better brush.)

[greypetrel]

16, 18, and 19 from the ask list!

Hi Mo! <3 Thanks!!

Tis the ask game

16. if you had to get a tattoo right now, what would you get and where?

A minimalistic wave with "The times they are a-changing" in cursive under the curl of the wave. Around my forearm, just below the elbow, or straight from elbow to wrist. I still haven't decided.

I'd love to have some animal too somewhere, an old friend of mine once told me of a coelacanth and I'd like it. Or an orca whale, or a jellyfish. But for those I'd need to get the right artist, so they're not a "on a whim" tattoo. xD

18. rant about your favorite musician 

Already answered here!

I'll go again with Led Zeppelin, this time. I hate hearing people complain that oh but they're satanic and EEEEVIL. Well, yes. But two things can be true. They were horrible in tour and I'm in no way defending anything Jimmy Page ever did.

Still: guys they were a bunch of nerds, and I love how they perfectly show how a band can be serious... And at the same time not. They have a lot of songs directly inspired by Tolkien (in Over the Hills and Far Away, Aragorn complains that Arwen left him for Gollum). And... One song is dedicated to Robert Plant's dog, Strider. Who is a very good boi, of course.

I do tend to get bored by musicians and artists who stay serious all the time. Ok, we get it, you're serious, now have some fun too. (I'm looking at Roger Waters.)

19. what’s your favorite teacher you’ve ever had?

I tend to appreciate teachers and professors that are demanding and that all the rest consider "assholes".

My favourite one was my professor of Italian Literature in the penultimate year of high school. He was still young, and taught me that there was more to writing essays that pure notionism. For that first time in that school (an high school focused on Classics, the air was "We're better than everyone else because we study classics bah bah bah", which I loathed) was more than just learning stuff by heart. It was connecting things, he valued when we would connect other subjects to literature! And even in bad markings he was cool and didn't make it feel like the end of the world. A great fan of classic rock, we got along, LOL.

He knew he wouldn't have been with us the next year, and I still remember that on the last lesson, he took me to the side and told me I should really, really read Master and Margarita by Bulgakov. "I think you'll like it".

... Was he right, LOL. Considering that I went to study Russian exactly for that book!

I wasn't the best student and he openly asked me if I had a split personality: I was great in written exams, but would freeze in oral ones. ... It was autism and probably he was the first person to see that there was something wrong. I don't know, it was good to be seen and I'm still grateful that I had him as professor, even if for so little.

[greypetrel]

L'Apprenti sorciere pleaaase !

Hi Lucky!

There you go the long baby:

A tarot card like thingy, I am struggling a bit with placing the tentacles of dear Hubris down there. The purple shape will be a gothic window. (I am procrastinating with character design? Possibly.)

[greypetrel]

tell me how you think aisling/cassandra would go

Fun that you ask this of all ships!

It's gonna go under a break, but it's from this game, if you're reading this please ask me some more!

Actually Aisling was born as a Cassandramancer. I didn't know she was straight and had a bad surprise in Skyhold. Here's footage on how it went in Haven:

She has a warrior/templar kink and you all can mock her.

Anyway, imagining for a moment that Cassandra had her grand moment of realisation that she was living inside a closet, I think it would have gone spectacularly wrong in the long run.

Aisling is religious. She doesn't show a lot in the Inquisition because she doesn't feel safe in being open about it. You don't exactly organize a celebration for Ghilan'nain when the whole town is convinced you're the Herald of their goddess. Plus, it doesn't fit her grand plan of people-pleasing her way up in everyone's good graces. And it really doesn't help that many people around her are pushing her to go with the flow.

The more she learns about the Chantry, the least she likes it. By the time Cullen tells her about lyrium and Templars, she has her opinion of it, and the opinion is incredibly negative.

You can see it's not a good place to be with Cassandra, and while I can see Cullen as more ready to step back and be a bit more disillusioned and open on the matter (my own personal interpretation, I don't pretend it's the right one. It's the right one for me, if any is thinking otherwise that's great!)... Cassandra isn't.

They could settle at the start not to talk about it. Aisling is *private* over her own culture, she's closed af over any of her feeling that she feels may put the other person ill at ease, that has not a solution, that may paint her in any position that could vaguely be an annoyance or a bother. So, she won't insist on the religion discourse, thinking that it'll settle, she can adapt, it's not that important.

It *is* that important, and the argument will break in the Temple of Mythal. In canon they were friends and they had a *huge* quarrel.

As girlfriends it would be worse. Cassandra's comments about the Temple are just two miles outside Aisling's boundaries. She may not like the Chantry, but she respects people believing in it and seeing that it can be helped. Her patience ends when she hears in no mistakeable terms that she's not given the same grace.

Follows a bad argument.

Follows Aisling breaking up with Cassandra.

Follows everyone being incredibly embarrassed when they're in the same room and suddenly the atmosphere gets frozen.

I don't know if they could save it, from there. If Cassandra becomes Divine, Aisling's gone, she won't stay with her, won't agree in her election. There will be a cold congratulations card out of pure courtesy.

Otherwise... If Cassandra could take a huge step back on matters of religion and become less dogmatic? There could be work to do. Maybe they'll start again but slower, could make it possibly work.

They'll need couple therapy and a lot of work between them and a common project, tho.

[greypetrel]

Hi friend!! 🌻🐝 for the ask game 💕

Hello there! <3 Thank you for asking! :D

Tis the prompt list

🌻 ⇢ tag someone you appreciate but don't talk to on a regular basis

Ok, this is a bit of a tricky question because I'm shy and unable to do small talk, which makes starting conversations... Difficult. Add that in this particular moment of time my free time is spent mostly sleeping, and well. I could sincerely answer with "Every single one of my mutuals that I don't know irl and hasn't make it to the point where I send you OC lore at random".

I'm happy to chat and you never disturb me (worse it gets it'll take me some time to answer), I'm just this:

🐝 ⇢ tag your biggest supporter(s) and say one nice thing about them

Beside people I know in real life, who are out of the count: I'd say the title goes to @davidluongart.

David is a great artist and wonderful human being. The amount of details he puts in his art is stunning, you could look at his work for hours and still find something new. The love he puts in his work really shines through. And he's genuinely a good person and friend, incredibly supportive and enthusiast. I'm happy we met <3

[greypetrel]

3, 4, and 13 for the fic writer asks?

Hi Zen! Thank you so much! :D

Tis the prompt list

3. Describe the creative process of writing a chapter/fic

I generally have an idea. Usually during public transport or the shower.

I'm very chaotic as per writing: I have a list of stuff that needs to happen only when it's particularly complex and I need an outline (see: I'm getting late in updating the DadWolf because we're around Time Travelling galore and that very much requires an outline). Otherwise it's just a long list of write. Re-read. Edit. Think about it. Edit again. Write it all from the start. I'm chaotic, but this is a hobby and I'm treating it like such.

4. Where do you find inspiration for new ideas?

Music I listen too, mainly. So many of my fics and chapters have titles taken from songs..: That's not a case, LOL.

or, studd I see around ideas I have... I daydream quite a lot and tend to roll OCs in my head a lot. Meta I read that makes me go "No that's not it" it's another big inspiration.

Lately, fics are "Fanarts I don't have time to draw", LOL.

13. what’s a common writing tip that you almost always follow?

I try to go after the "Show, don't tell" but it's not always a success, LOL.

As above: writing is an outlet and I'm not putting too many boundaries over myself.

Plus, some tell is needed, at times.

[greypetrel]

also sending you soup 🥣

Thank you so much Zen! <3

It's that low fever that's just there to annoy and prevents me to get out of home. I'm feeling better than yesterday, tho, and I'm totally blaming the thermometre lying to me.

Soup is very much appreciated! :") I'm brewing you tea in exchange! Tell me how you'd like it!

[greypetrel]

☕️ italian food that you particularly love c:

... I'm not the best appreciator of my own cuisine, I have to say x°D (it's good but it gets harder if you can't eat dairy)

If I'm gonna go with peperonata, which is a peppers and onions stew (my mom puts also potatoes in it). I love bell peppers in any way, but this is warm and cozy and delicious. It has the fame of being hard to digest but who cares. My digestive trait is sensitive to many things, but I have the superpower of bell peppers digestion and I'm happy this way.

It's not from the region where I live, but sicilian caponata is my beloved.

As for pasta, I'll never say no to a good plate of tagliatelle, but I'd also like to mention sardinian fregula with clams or malloreddus (I can't find the recipe, but usually they're served with sausage ragù -I refuse to call it bolognese sorry- and sheep cheese. I tasted them with eggplants and a special type of smoked sheep ricotta -ricotta mustia- and OH. MY. GOD.). Sardinian cuisine is particularly underrated, and they have the desserts I like the best (they're not overtly sweet!).

A last thing: ligurian pansoti with walnut sauce. I LOVE pesto sauce, the hand-made one is heavenly, but a good walnut sauce is creamy and cozy and lovely.

Did I make you hungry because I certainly am. xD

send me ☕️ + [topic] and i’ll tell you my opinion on it!