I was tagged by my dear friend @noseysilverfox the challenge to post 5 interesting things about myself. Thanks for the tag, and boy I had to think about this a long time. Here goes nothing 😂
1. I spent fifty years in my chosen trade, and I started out as a Toolmaker Apprentice. At the end of five decades I was working as a Manufacturing Engineer. I learned a lot in all that time and tried to pass on some of it.
2. I was born in Detroit Michigan and lived there until I was twelve, when my dad got transferred. I still like going back there.
3. As part of my trade, I got pretty good at learning how to sharpen things. After a while I ran my own side business for about seven years. Another guy wanted to buy my equipment so I sold it because I had enough of the long hours.
4. I get good ideas sometimes and some work places have suggestion plans. I have won the top award in those plans twice.
5. I just love making big pots of soup. Sometimes you could call it “whatever’s in the fridge” soup. I use my big cast iron Dutch oven and it all gets eaten. 😋
Comment here if you want, I read them all. Or join in, I won’t tag anyone.
this is a mostly error sans blog, Error sans is my special interest and I've been obsessed with him since I first saw the comic like 6 years ago :3
My otp is insomnia (error x dream)
Disclaimers:
caution: This blog is 13+!! It may include triggering things such as flashing lights, eyestrain, blood, possible gore, angst, glitching, fast moving imagery, and other stuff I cant think of rn!!
I'm a minor, so please do not ask or say anything nsfw here, I wont get like terribly upset or anything (cause Ive definitely made a few bad jokes here and there without realizing it was weird) but I will delete what you said, or give a warning!!
I have my dms closed for my own safety, if you want to collab or message me for other reasons, please comment on a post first and I will reach out to you, I don't have a discord and don't plan on getting on, for any questions/requests, do so in my ask box, straw page gimmicks, or comments!!
DNI: Proship, darkship, zoophilies, pedo, necro, homophobes, racists, anti-furs, anti-therians, and ect, the regular critiria
About me:
☆⭐︎ Hi!! I'm Maddz, but i go by many other names!! (Maddz, Merrorz, Hurtz, MyEyesHurt2Much, EyesHurtz, please only refer to me by these names!!)
☆⭐︎ Im pangender and go by all prns!! don't worry about misgendering me lol, I really don't care :3 (+ demiromantic, lesbian/sapphic)
☆⭐︎ I Have ASD, ADHD and awful anxiety so If I talk weirdly or are just awkward in total, my apologies!! I suck at social que's and get scared abt talking to ppl!!
☆⭐︎ I draw, animate, sculpt, paint and really just do anything that involves art!! I don't have comms open, but plan to do some in the near (or far) future!!
I'm Elymi, but will respond to just about anything.
I typically used She/They pronouns, but any pronouns are fine
I'm mostly into the Tales of Arcadia fandom, but I also am into the following:
Furry
Keeper of the Lost Cities
The Amazing Digital Circus
How to Train Your Dragon
My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic
Trolls
and probably a lot of others but those are the main ones I can think of right now.
Asks
My asks are also open to just about anything (although I don't typically role play).
Feel free to:
Ask questions
Discuss ideas or theories
Send art requests — Please keep requests within fandoms listed above.
Art
I do Requests, Commissions, and Art Trades. - details on the latter two here
openings and slots in Bio
direct messages
please say something more than hi or hello, I will not reply to that. If you would like to start a conversation about something specific please explain that.
Tagging
You may tag me for credit, or just wanting me to see something or anything like that. tagging games are okay, but not guaranteed that I will join.
I think that covers about everything... if I have more stuff I'll just edit this.
This poor guy—a juvenile barred owl—showed up yesterday afternoon on our back patio. He had an injured foot and could no longer fly—although whether from exhaustion or injury was unclear.
We contacted our local wildlife rescue and they were eager to get him in as soon as possible. Great!
Except...at current funding levels they can no longer send someone to actually fetch your injured wildlife. You bring the wildlife to them.
In an attempt to be as helpful as possible, however, you are sent a very kindly worded PDF titled (at least in our particular case) How to Catch an Injured Raptor.
It begins by emphatically noting that safety is absolutely the first priority. If by any chance you remain unconvinced about the paramount importance of safety, a graphic description of raptor talons and the damage they can inflict immediately follows.
That softens you up quite nicely for the part where they tell you to encase yourself in safety gear (heavy gloves and jacket, eye protections, etc.) and to be aware of both the current and any potential future location(s) of talons and beak at all times.
Fear successfully instilled, you are then presented with three potential methods for catching your raptor and securing it within a well-ventilated cardboard box. I won't detail each method but they involved various degrees of sneaking as well as a variety of tools to aid capture—including in one instance, a "gentle" shovel.
In choosing which method to pursue you are advised to consider such factors the size and fierceness of your raptor, its levels of agitation and injury, your own confidence, etc.
Following all of that build-up, we were lucky enough to ambush our guy quite easily. No shovels were required. Owl transport and delivery to wildlife rescue was also a breeze.
We've been told that we'll receive an update on his condition in about three days. The foot didn't look too awful but he was also horribly stressed and exhausted. It's hard to say which way things will go.
We've had one or two nesting pairs of barred owls near us for the last ten years or so. We love to hear them hooting away in the night and early mornings in the fall and winter and we catch glimpses of the little ones every spring and summer. We sort of think of them as our owls.
I hope this one makes it. If he does, they say they'll bring him back here to his home territory for release!
FYI:
The calling of barred owls... Here
We also have great horned owls. Their calls are actually my favorite...Here
These questions are for both Baldur's Gate 3 and Dragon Age, but I haven't played BG3, so DA-only it is. Leaving the questions as I copied them for anyone else who plays, though.
What's a small BG3/Dragon Age Detail that you always notice and love?
When the Inquisition music plays during parts of Veilguard. And finding any other callbacks to previous games, especially in Veilguard (especially given how people on the subreddit are so fond of saying "it's not a Dragon Age game" and I just look at the callbacks and references to previous games and go "huh?")
Also when my character's love interest says something sweet to them.
More below the cut.
What's one piece of reference material you're currently obsessed with?
The songs and poems regularly included in the Codex, or in The World of Thedas. Especially "The Soldier and the Seawolf" (the shanty Bryce Cousland sang to propose to Eleanor Mac Eanraig, as seen in The World of Thedas, vol. 2), and which I expanded on over here, but also the folk songs "Bones Beneath the Creek" (Verse 1 Verse 2 Verse 3 Chorus) and "The Echo" (Lavendel's version) in Veilguard.
(I've seen someone post about how "The Echo" is Lavendel's version of "Bones Beneath the Creek," but I think that's just a misunderstanding of Evka's note on "The Echo." I think it's a different song with basically the same rhythm, and the "Lavendel's version" Evka is referencing is that the third verse of the one we see in-game is specific to Lavendel (it's got a noticeably different pattern from the other three stanzas).
Sorry, I like shanties and folk music. It's actually Dragon Age's fault.
Share a snippet or visual from your current project that you're quietly proud of.
Well, I've got the stuff on my recent "Last Line" post. Most of my projects are either done or still in planning/outline stages.
I'll do like Red and post a screenshot I like.
Saadrah was nice enough to stand in a good pose while overlooking the Butcher talking to the rest of the Antaam in Treviso.
What's something you're looking forward to creating or finishing soon?
Cosplay projects. Progress is slow, but I'm hoping to get some good sewing time in next week, when I'm not spending my mornings also managing a fandom event. 😅
And some more art and writing. This has been a very productive year.
What's a fun or silly tradition you have with your OCs?
As far as character creation traditions go, I like to make my ladies tall (relatively speaking). Tyria is the exception, at only 5'5" (though that may be starting to approach tall for a DA elf, I don't know). I do like to make them competent and heroic, too, which is why my canon worldstate is all female heroes (I'll play men on bonus runs instead).
As for in-game traditions with the girls, Castelin and Hawke don't get much, other than the dog being their first stop whenever they're back at camp/the Hawke estate, including skipping their love interest (if present) until the dog has been properly greeted.
Tyria, on the other hand, started my tradition of jumping in the puddle in the courtyard of Skyhold every time I returned from an excursion. Either the puddle wasn't there on my first playthrough on PS3, or it wasn't very satisfying, but with Tyria on the PS4, I had to. Every. Single. Time. Get home, jump in the puddle. Also, a second one is jumping off of high places in Skyhold because there's no fall damage. And then, when out in the field, using Barrier to do the same thing without taking damage.
Saadrah then gets to live up to that by jumping off of anything that won't respawn her due to fall distance. Whenever I leave one of the bedrooms in the Lighthouse's main building, I have her vault over the railings because going the long way 'round is for slowpokes. Same when going up the stairs: vault over the side onto the stairs instead of going around the statue at the end (decor option). Leaving Davrin's room? Running leap instead of going down the stairs. Heading to the Caretaker's boat in the Crossroads to get to another island? Do a little serpentine while sprinting so I don't have to break stride before making a reckless leap into the boat. It's all 100% in character for Saadrah.
What's a BG3/Dragon Age NPC you'd love to see in a completely different outfit or setting?
It would've been nice to see several of the companions, but especially Zevran, Fenris, and Cullen, in Veilguard. New looks, new shenanigans (or new headaches in Cullen's case). Oh well. That's what fanart is for.
What's a tiny headcanon or detail you've added to your OC that brings you joy?
Castelin: her temper. I like her being flawed like that, because it makes her a little more like me (only dialed up).
Hawke: that she's a pioneer in force magic (that the people who can teach it to your Inquisitor in DAI learned it by watching her in action and trying to replicate it), and that it's purely unintentional and mostly born from her channeling her anger and grief at her mother's death into raw power output.
Tyria: giving her Velanna's Keeper specialization from Awakening, because she really should have some more Dalish-specific spells. Also the idea that the game's Codex is her collection of lore and folklore as she travels with the Inquisition, because she would've happily been hahren of her clan if she hadn't had magic.
Saadrah: that her father was the "Adaar" potential Inquisitor from DAI, but perished in the explosion because he wasn't the one who touched the orb and gained the Anchor. That all stemmed from the fact that Saadrah was my first Inquisitor, but not my canon one, and I wanted to use her again for DAtV and repurpose her backstory.
What is something you want your followers to know about you?
That I've been in the DA fandom since mid-2019, and it's all the fault of Mass Effect 2 (free on PlaystationPlus sometime that year) and Miracle of Sound's song "All as One" (which is awesome and you should go listen). I just wasn't really in a large fandom circle until I finished DAtV last year and then started following some people who posted positive things about it and then did a few tag games without being tagged.
✮⋆˙ I write a lot of fluff and write exclusively mlw
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✮⋆˙ I write mainly fluff, but recently I've been testing the waters with spicier stuff. I write angst too sometimes, but i need to be super depressed or listening to sad music.
✮⋆˙ I do take requests and i will get to them if i feel the creative juices running.
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✮⋆˙ I do one shots, drabbles, head canons and longer fics, depending on the theme, season or writing idea.
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