your blood joined with mine

kellan. it/its. 26. dragon age + bg3 sideblog. 18+ preferred. ao3: cordycathartidae, main blog: @heartbreakincident.

[veilkeeper]

i spend too much time thinking about my OCs, which you can read more about here.

My canon dragon age world-state: Ren Amell -> Theo Hawke -> Ghila Lavellan -> Corentin Laidir

BG3 OC's are:

Roz, they/them, githyanki, gloomstalker ranger/war cleric.

Serenity, he/him, ????, goolock, durge.

Quick link to my BG3 and DA analysis posts.

Check me out on AO3, and here's some fics I've written:

the delightful intensity of its taste (BG3, 3021 words) Gen, minor Tav/Astarion. Roz becomes a partial-illithid and finds they start having certain... cravings... as a result.

Dear Alistair (can I come home yet?) (DA, 29215 words) Alistair/M!Amell. Ren Amell pursues the Architect’s darkspawn into the Deep Roads and reminisces about his time in Denerim as Alistair’s chancellor. 

Addendum (DA, 3557 words) Varric/m!Hawke. Ten years is a long time to pretend you aren't in love with your best friend.

[veilkeeper]

we need block appeal on this site i need to be able to argue my merit to people who hate me for one (1) thing i said so that i can reblog their good posts

[veilkeeper]

me, kneeling before the person who blocked me: please, god king, ruler of these sacred lands, i do not even know your quarrel with me, but i humbly request the ability to reblog your joke posts once more

the person who blocked me: your takes on solavellan displeased me.

me: twas mere frustration! a criticism of those unhinged few, liege. i have no quarrel with the likes of you, and wish only to show fealty by reblogging your meta posts with the tag "scrumptious", or perhaps even "SOOOOOOO TRUE!"

the person who blocked me: alas, this is a sin that i cannot forgive you for. leave these lands and never return, for your ilk are not welcome here.

me: very well. then you understand i must reply to your slight in kind.

the person who blocked me: aye. such as it must be.

me, hitting the block button on the way out: may our paths never cross again, warmonger.

[dalishiousmods]

Skin Tint Edits for Dragon Age The Veilguard

This mod edits the skin tint gradient file to remove the greenness of the Cool skin tints. They are still cooler than Neutral, but less green! This is especially noticeable on darker skin.

I will be experimenting with other edits as well. (First on my priority list is to see if I can get the darker tones to have a darker range.)

[DOWNLOAD FROM NEXUSMODS]

[maidenvault]

Not “Only my reading of canon is correct” or “Interpretations are subjective and all valid” but a secret third thing, “More than one interpretation can be valid but there’s a reason your English teacher had you cite quotes and examples in your papers, you have to have a strong argument that your interpretation is actually supported by the text or it is just wrong and I’m fine with telling you it’s wrong, actually.”

[mooncustafer]

If the text says the curtains are blue you can argue about what that means; but if you’re going to claim they’re actually yellow you’d better have a really good argument.

[xwilltruman]

i know the curtains better than the author. thank you for coming to my ted talk

[maidenvault]

Fandom has such unresolved mommy/daddy issues about authors. If you apply a little reading comprehension skills to my original post you’ll see I didn’t say anything at all about the author. You guys always make “interpretation” about your beef with the author. You’re all obsessed with the author. This post is just about deciphering what is there in canon. Figuring out what is being communicated by the canon itself with all the words and images and basic formal elements that are there in canon. That’s all it’s about. It really doesn’t matter if the author intentionally put all those things there in a pattern that might support the idea that this one character’s queer. That’s not what this is about. What matters is if you can compellingly argue there’s a pattern of evidence there. Or not. Everyone is conspiring together to make me go insane still adding shit about authorial intent on my post.

[quibbs]

leliana if her nun robes had stats that justified my decision to keep them equipped

[dykieran]

well now i'm curious

how long have you been playing dragon age

1-2 years

3-4 years

5-6 years

7-8 years

9-10 years

11-12 years

13-14 years

15-16 years

the whole time (17 years)

Voting ended onApr 1

[anishenanigans]

rlly fascinating phenomenon to me is when a character is extremely popular, and that popularity seems understandable enough because they've got something interesting going on, and then you look at the fandom and realize 99% of their fans don't actually care about engaging with any of the things that make them interesting and instead seem to be fans of an imaginary milquetoast version that exists solely for ship and/or angst content and is so far removed from the canon character they might as well be an unrelated OC at this point

[tubermylord]

[the-cryptographer]

Do you guys ever think about how little Danarius cared about Hadriana and how much of her hatred and resentment towards Fenris are perhaps a bit reasonable when her teacher sent her on a dangerous trip halfway across Thedas to die trying to bring him back? And then Danarius just doesn't even mention her in Act 3 or consider her death in any way an impediment to accepting Fenris back into his service and under his wing?

[the-cryptographer]

Woman gets repeatedly told the elves and non-mages and slaves around her are her inferiors, but with every single action her teacher takes it's clear that this non-mage elf slave is absolutely more important to him than she is. And actually everything that Hadriana got told made her more special were exactly what gave her comparative personhood and agency were exactly what make her more difficult to objectify and control were exactly what made her less valuable to the Minrathous elite. And in the end she dies all alone and far from home on an errand desperately trying to curry political favour with a guy who will not be mourning her.

[the-cryptographer]

And to be clear Fenris was absolutely right to kill her; she was an absolute threat to his safety and livelihood. And his breakdown about how he didn't keep his promise to show her mercy is still insane of him (and still extremely telling when he doesn't have a breakdown for refusing to show mercy to a non-mage mercenary in the exact same way for the exact same reasons earlier in the quest). But the amount of contempt that Fenris and Hadriana hold one another in while Danarius - the person siccing them on one another - is sitting pretty and lapping up their affection and favour? Truly bonkers.

[androidtrashfire]

It's so weird when people are like, "Ugh why is Aveline even here, she sucks??"

Aveline is here because on top of everything else, DA2 is a refugee metaphor. Kirkwall is a place actively hostile to Ferelden refugees, the Hawkes and Aveline have been through the hell of losing both their homes and families together. And like many refugees from the same place who traveled together irl, they are bound as tightly as blood and are now literally ride-or-die family even if they wouldn't normally have had anything in common to even make them friends back home. The Hawkes are the only family left that Aveline has, and it doesn't matter if Carver sucks or Hawke runs around with their collection of weird borderline-criminal bisexuals. They are her people and she is theirs. It would take a literal city-destroying cataclysm to even think of putting them at any sort of real odds.

Hope that clears up a very basic straightforward dynamic within the game!

[aromanceforthedragonages]

A Romance for the Ages: A Dragon Age Gift Exchange

Any questions should be sent to this blog or @commander-krios​​

Exchange Info- AO3 Collection | FAQ | Nominations | Signup Form

2026 Exchange Schedule:

Nominations open: March 15th, 2026 Nominations close: March 29th, 2026 Sign-ups open: April 5th, 2026 Sign-ups close: April 26th, 2026 Assignments go out: April 27-28th, 2026 Works due: June 7th, 2026 Works revealed: June 14th, 2026 Creators revealed: June 21st, 2026

Minimum Requirements:

A finished piece of art or fanfiction that is a standalone work. Currently, not accepting edits or gifs unless you want to do those as an extra "treat" gift. Fanfiction must be at least 500 words. Art must be at least a clean lineart drawing.

The exchange is an 18+ event (NSFW content IS allowed so that means all participants must be over 18 years old).

All pairings are allowed for this exchange: platonic (friendship or family), romantic (including poly ships), the PC with both official love interests and npcs, canon romances (such as Sera/Dagna or Iron Bull/Dorian) and non-canon romances (such as Alistar/Zevran or Merrill/Isabela). Have fun!

If you have any questions about what may be allowed, please take a look at the FAQ. There are a few notes about pairings that are not allowed (such as adult/minor romantic ships), but most pairings ARE acceptable.

Note: I will be attempting to do nominations this year so look out for an updated post in March when I open the tag set.

[bleedthebeat]

i have things to say about characters being made into daddy doms who shouldn’t be, as a guy who is very much into D/s and daddy kink himself, and also as a guy who considers himself fairly adept at character analysis. but i’m walking home and will need to sit down and think to put it into words so please hold

[bleedthebeat]

(chugs the rest of my can of monster) ok so like. full disclosure i’m not a scholar on any of this aside from the character analysis. but like. unless you’re engaging in specific styles of bdsm relationship, “daddy” and “dom” are bedroom roles. they’re part of the performance of bdsm. and ideally, whoever is taking on one or both of those roles should be enthusiastic about it, whether it’s something they are ambivalent about but willing to do in order to fulfill their partner, or something they derive active pleasure from. there are characters who could fall into either of those categories, depending on their partner, and characters who would be uncomfortable with taking on those roles regardless.

and “daddy” and “dom” are also not synonymous. “daddy” is a particular type of dom, one that entails a guiding and often nurturing role, a particular style of mature authority, and security/protection for the sub. it can often involve ageplay but it can also just denote that the daddy has enough experience that they can take care of their sub. even where brat taming or punishment are involved, it’s fundamental that there are elements of caretaking and guidance from a position of authority. there are other styles of domination that are more focused on emulating danger or making the sub feel unsafe. it’s a rectangle-square situation, not everyone who is a dom is a daddy/mommy dom. and some people who like this style of domming still wouldn’t want to be called daddy/mommy for whatever reason.

so, like, all of that is to say. some characters would dom in a different style (see: marazhai), don’t have the confidence to be a daddy dom (see: lucanis), wouldn’t like being called “daddy” (see: dorian), or wouldn’t feel comfortable domming at all, and that much can be figured out via character analysis. and a character can be interpreted multiple ways, there’s no “right” answer necessarily, just have some way to back it up if you’re trying to be in-character. someone who’s a control freak might be read as a dom by some or a person who needs to submit and let go of control by others. or even by the same fan. switching and fluidity exist.

it also depends on the dynamic with their partner(s)! there are characters who i don’t think are doms by nature or who i don’t think would exclusively dom, but they’d be willing to or enthusiastic about it with the right person, in the right time or place, and that goes for daddy domming specifically too. idk i think it depends.

also because there are more notes on that post now (op is right i agree with them) and i scrolled through them realizing i forgot to finish this post. there are not two sexual roles to choose between. a character does not have to be either “daddy dom” or “submissive and whimpering on his knees begging for it” please for the love of god people can have sex that isn’t D/s it’s how most people have sex D/s is a specific kink that many people do not have oh my god. submission is also a specific sexual preference. someone can be neither dominant nor submissive. someone can be a switch. someone can have no interest in D/s whatsoever. there are so many ways to dominate and submit that are different from those two stereotypes. you are doing the exact same thing of shoving a character into a cardboard cutout sexual role without further thought that the people making astarion a daddy dom are doing. you are doing uke/seme shit again or whatever. stop.

[detectiveneve]

not gonna say it. but he popped into your head didn’t he

[tadfools]

[noelle-ism]

floor the gas!!!! some sort of 50s Dandy is in our way!

[langernameohnebedeutung]

glass cannon is objectively the sexiest build. you put down 10 enemies in one go and then need to be carried off the battle field the next round? so hot

[seracadash]

My top 5 disapprovals to get from dai

5. Getting the "cassandra greatly disaproves" when you free the mages to then hear her say "I don't disaprove" 4. Asking Solas what would he know about Court Intrigue if he never was in Court 3. When you tell Varric Orsino turning into a monster made no sense 2. When you tell Iron Bull he should talk about his feelings instead of getting hit by a stick 1. When you tell high approval Solas "im not special every person is complex dude"

[dalishious]

i know freckles arent a big deal in the “incapable of correctly doing diversity” category but but jesus theyre a physical difference a lot of people have!!! they’re not that hard!! why do companies always make them look like pimples! sometimes i just want my face to be normal and not laughed at. i love hardings freckles, all the freckles were super well done in veilguard!! the character creator (mostly) and things like that are the few areas veilguard EXCELLED and and now harding is sunburnt and has pimples, thanks funko pop. (fuck those guys anyway). seriously though why does she also have that huge line of blush???? just give the girl her goddamn freckles

I swear to god I've seen other characters with strong freckles before made into Funko Pops without looking like... this?

[slightlyplant]

i love wyll ravengard