elves & angsts

Gaming/personal blog. Header credits: NASA Hubble Space Telescope. 🔞

[veilranger]

she/they, adult, slav/turkic, EFL

❤ games, cats, art, music, elves

🎮 cozy, fantasy, rpg, mmo [dragon age, bg3, bdo, palia starsand island, acnh, sdv and whatever gets my attention]

🎵 metalcore, post-hardcore, progressive metal, alternative, punk, folk, ambient, OSTs, k-pop

🔞 minors DNI 🚯 zionists, terfs, bigots DNI

[hanatsuki89]

Someone edited a pic of Snow White with this same line in italian and I… couldn’t resist redrawing it with Leliana and one of her ravens.

[innerchildabortionclinic]

the dumbest person alive has come to warn you that fruit has sugar in it

[yellbug]

modesty

[ittybittybumblebee]

bigs my eyes

[ittybittybumblebee]

bigs my eyes at you

[shamebats]

"it's just stress" oh thank god, it's just the silent killer that slowly kills you, perfectly harmless, no need to worry

[blighted-elf]

Haven't been unbearably annoying about my OCs in a minute. Which is really fucked up if you think about it.

[wszczebrzyszynie]

moja Miku w stylu ilustracji Stryjeńskiej (konkretnie tej tabliczki ze strojem łowickim). strój opoczyński ale zmikufikowany

[devjaye]

Credit to: user

[benbrusque]

Reblog if you respect trans men more than billionaires

[thatonegenderfluidmess]

always and forver

[the-wanton-house-wife]

You’re welcome 🧄

[burningshellenberger]

[389]

[inkyrains]

ENTRANCE TO THE MINES 💎 SVE LOCATIONS (3/?) Stardew Valley (2016) dev. ConcernedApe

[housederiva]

I'm confused, you're a Sollavellan romancer? I thought you were queer and nonbinary????

I am all three?

[housederiva]

Happy Pride

[postnuclearophelia]

they want us to all hate each other and everyone falls for it every time

[ars-polonia]

Jacek Malczewski, Śmierć Ellenai (Death of Ellenai)

1906-07, oil on canvas,

[loquaciousquark]

Solas & Adahla Lavellan: new growth.

I commissioned this piece from the unbelievably talented Hotwe, who is one of the most intelligent, thoughtful, deliberate artists I've ever had the pleasure of working with. I cannot express how grateful I am for the kindness shown towards my imaginary dolls at every step of this process. Thank you! <3

This is a paired piece to this one, also by Hotwe, which I commissioned immediately after finishing Inquisition for the first time. Once I finished Veilguard and filled out how the story ends for these two, I knew I desperately wanted the other half of this diptych.

Close-ups and lengthy notes on the incorporated symbolism are below the cut.

Where the first piece was much more somber and determined, I really wanted this moment to feel triumphant (if not unreservedly happy). These are two people at the end of a long war with each other, and moving forward doesn't mean erasing the road before.

Some notes in no particular order:

Solas's hands are now open, releasing the hard and inflexible grip he had in the original piece

The constellation is Fervenial, the Oak, for its associated concept of Vir Tanadhal: "fly straight and don't waver, bend but never break, and the idea of balance. ...The imagery of the hunter (Adahla) metaphorically striking like a bolt on Solas' plans and forcing a reframing of the lightning/smite-y/fate concept of Fulmenos into a concept of balance and growth/organic/spring" - straight from the artist's massive brain

(I've written about why constellations & stars, especially Fulmenos, are important to them here)

Red embrium leaves for healing

Spring growth for seasonal change

Solas, being pushed forward by the strong wind behind him, is finally able to stop thanks to Adahla's pressure

Adahla's dress is inspired by this statue (San Joaquín, Santa Ana y la Virgen Niña by Juan Alonso Villabrille y Ron), but has been reworked with Dragon Age motifs and emblems

The gold vines are from my post-Veilguard fic for them, The Heart Where I Have Roots

I plan to do one more post with both of these pieces together as soon as I can; their journey's been messy to the max, but it honestly brings me so much joy to know they've landed somewhere like this, and I'm again so thankful to Hotwe for bringing that ended war to life.