#sbh ask

[storybookhawke]

HANDERS HORROR ASYLUM AU

It's honestly probably next on my list after the War AU! I don't have any real snippets to share of it, but it's fully plotted out from start to finish.

Without giving away too much, Anders' newly acquired job is being a nightshift nurse at the Kirkwall Home for the Criminally Insane, and there's a certain patient who is quite obsessed with him. 👀 And then the real nightmare begins when the inmate-patients decide they've had enough and are out for blood. But for better or for worse, he has inmate Hawke at his side.

[storybookhawke]

hi the dragon age doorway the back is all hollow from some angle and looks very v v weird, it only show as double sided if you look at the wall from the top but other angle the back is missing lot of geometry. How can I fix pls?

Should be fixed. I really hate doors, windows, and arches in this game...

[storybookhawke]

All the WIPs sound amazing but I want to know everything about that CarverMerrill wife carrying competition!

Lmao I do love that one, because it's so silly and I'd like to contribute a fic to the CarverMerrill ship someday!

The premise: Carver's templar drinking buddies at the Hanged Man talk about the annual wife-carrying competition, where the prize is glory and your partner's weight in ale. He thinks nothing of it for a few days—and perhaps even thinks it's ridiculous—until he visits his mother at the estate and sees his brother training and lifting in preparation for the race, saying he's going to win by carrying Anders. Carver says "he's not your wife," and Hawke retorts with "if you read the rules, your 'wife' doesn't actually have to be your wife."

And in true chip-on-your-shoulder brotherly competition, Carver now has to enter the race, but he needs a partner... someone preferably light, and not a complete stranger... HmMmMmMmmMmmmmm

[storybookhawke]

The real reason the Templars don't do anything to mage Hawke is because Hawke is too beefy. Templars, I'm a mage and also stronger than all of you, so don't try any shit.

Oh they're absolutely 1000% terrified of Hawke. Hawke could rob a hightown bank and they'd be like "... don't know anything about that"

[storybookhawke]

I want to learn how to draw but I don’t know how to begin or where to learn the skills. Do you have any advice?

I feel like perhaps I'm not the best person to ask since I learned to draw from 2005 deviantart tutorials and these books

I assume you want to draw people or characters, since you're asking me about learning to draw. I suggest a few videos.

How to shade basic forms

The Loomis Method of Drawing Heads + Another One

Eyes (or any video from @ssavaart's instructional videos)

And then, unironically, practice. A lot. The margins of all my notebooks growing up were filled with just disembodied heads or floating eyes, for all 17 years of my education lol

If you ever find yourself getting frustrated, try perspective drawing backgrounds. It can give you a lot of practice of moving a pencil/pen and creating lines, forms, etc without having to draw a face yet. It's much more mathy and you might enjoy it. And it would come in handy if you ever wanted to put backgrounds or objects in your drawings.

[storybookhawke]

You seem to be the person to ask with all the DA to TS4 CC. Do you know if anyone has made any of the hairs from VG? BioWare finally figured out how to make good hair and I’m itching for it for my simmies lol. Especially those beautiful wavy and curly ones.

I've only Maxis-Matchi-ified Lucanis' hair so far. No one has converted the Rook/companion hairs (alpha) yet, as far as I know. It's annoyingly complex and in a zillion itty-bitty pieces. I've tried doing Dorian's but failed and scrapped it. I might try it again one day, but it's... it's a lot. Lot of polygons, lot of work.

Perhaps anyone following knows, because I'd love to know too.

[storybookhawke]

from your WIP ask game a million years ago, I must know about the Carver/Merrill wife-carrying competition

lmao it's such a silly idea, but it's based off the Wife Carrying competitions in Finland and other parts of the world, where competitors carry wives (or anyone wife-adjacent, gender neutral). In Kirkwall, they go the North American route where winners win the 'wife's' weight in beer and gold.

Carver hears of such a competition from his templar drinking buddies, but doesn't care for it until he learns that Garrett is training to win by carrying Anders. And Carver gets that ✨ sibling rivalry ✨ feeling and is like "but who could I ask" and ultimately Merrill accepts being his partner in the race.

You may be able to guess who wins :)

[storybookhawke]

Tbh, Nathaniel Howe and Anders should've hugged AT THE VERY LEAST during his da2 cameo.

They deserved that.