Lady Elianna Cousland-Theirin || The Ghost of Highever || Queen-Consort of Ferelden
Just a quick doodle, I said. Gotta nail down Eli’s design, I said. Whelp. I wanted Elianna in the sort of finery she hasn’t worn since Highever got sacked so here she is!
it feels like i started this blog only the other day, but here we are closing in on a thousand followers! i appreciate each and every follower i get, especially because the entire purpose of this blog is to spread positivity and love. you make every day something worth seeing, and i cannot overstate how much that means to me. so! as a way to give back to the fandom that has given my so much, i’d like to host a giveaway!
grand prize: a binder from shapeshifters inc. (a source of very high quality binders that don’t just have coolass patterns, but can have optional features like altered cuts and zippers, i support and endorse them 👍👍👍👌👌👌) OR fifty (50) USD spent on the internet store of your choice. regardless of which you pick, you also get a thousand (1000) word by @kagetsukai and a physical copy of the hard in hightown book (graciously provided by @freyanuris)
second prize: twenty-five USD spent on the internet store of your choice, along with a thousand (1000) word fic by @somnaborium
third prize: ten to fifteen (10-15) USD spent at the internet store of your choice, as well as a thousand (1000) word fic by @kierarutherford
extra details: the giveaway starts today, december 2nd, and will end on midnight on the 31st. reblogs of this post count, but not likes. please reblog the post only once. and following this blog IS NOT necessary, but certainly appreciated!
Countless community run charity drives, fan-zines, and events have been lovingly crafted by fans, artists, writers, and content creators within the fandom, with many said events profiting LGBT+ support groups, poc communities, charities for children, and/or the disabled (Fortitudo, DA Calendar 2k18, The Unsung Zine, etc)
An unofficial-official Dragon Age day (Dragon4ge Day, Dec 4th) has been organized to commemorate the entire series and the painstakingly talented/hardworking writers, voice actors, and creators of the franchise as well as the fans and content creators that keep it all going (this project also contributes to charity- AbleGamers, for disabled gamers)
Countless fan-organized community events and giveaways are hosted across social media platforms all year long, including entirely free art raffles, pen-pal/secret Santa events, and creative writing/fan-fiction giveaways
An entire blog was created in dedication to promoting positivity, love, and inclusivity within the fandom and is warmheartedly managed without bias ( @fandom-age ) and if that doesn’t make you feel a little something, I’m not sure what will
It can be easy to forget about all of the good- but in the midst of negativity storms and fandom-discourse, there are a lot of positive things going on out there, too. Be proud of what our community can do. Your contributions are appreciated. Your support is meaningful. This community can be beautiful.
So in Solas’s high approval scene where he tells the Inquisitor that he respects them, he starts talking about the Anchor, his magic, and says, “Has it affected you? Changed you in any way? Your mind, your morals, your… spirit?”
And I’m upset because one of the reasons he thinks that the Inquisitor is acting like a decent person IS BECAUSE HE THINKS HIS PERSONALITY HAS RUBBED OF ON THEM THROUGH THE ANCHOR. 😂😂😭
Now I’m just picturing,
“Has is affected you? Has it changed you in any way? Your mind, your morals, your… spirit?”
Piece dedicated to the fantastically talented writer @spirrum. This is a post- Trespasser piece with one of Solas and Ellana’s children, Sage. Solas calls her Da’vhenan which means “little heart”. Thank you for your wonderful fics @spirrum!!! They are a treasure!
I hope Thedas has self-help books, and I hope one of them is called something like “So You Love a Fereldan, And They Have a Mabari: How to Handle Not Being the Most Important Someone in Your Beloved’s Life”
freud: EVERY dude wants to fuck his mom and and EVERY girl wants to fuck her dad and also wants to be a man secretly
men: WOW!!!!!!!!!
“In the 1890s, when Freud was in the dawn of his career, he was struck by how many of his female patients were revealing childhood incest victimization to him. Freud concluded that child sexual abuse was one of the major causes of emotional disturbances in adult women and wrote a brilliant and humane paper called “The Aetiology of Hysteria.” However, rather than receiving acclaim from his colleagues for his ground-breaking insights, Freud met with scorn. He was ridiculed for believing that men of excellent reputation (most of his patients came from upstanding homes) could be perpetrators of incest. Within a few years, Freud buckled under this heavy pressure and recanted his conclusions. In their place he proposed the “Oedipus complex,” which became the foundation of modern psychology. According to this theory any young girl actually desires sexual contact with her father, because she wants to compete with her mother to be the most special person in his life. Freud used this construct to conclude that the episodes of incestuous abuse his clients had revealed to him had never taken place; they were simply fantasies of events the women had wished for when they were children and that the women had come to believe were real. This construct started a hundred-year history in the mental health field of blaming victims for the abuse perpetrated on them and outright discrediting of women’s and children’s reports of mistreatment by men.”
— Lundy Bancroft, Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men
Here I thought Freud was just a dumbass when it turns out he’s a multiclass Dumbass/Coward
Imagine getting it right and then getting it so very wrong
Freud: These women are exhibiting sexual trauma symptoms due to childhood sexual trauma.
Men: Ugh! How can you believe such a ridiculous notion??
Freud: I-I mean, um, all young girls secretly want to fuck their fathers, and all young boys secretly want to fuck their mothers, and their trauma symptoms are really just sexual frustration at not being able to act on it due to social shame.
Men: Okay, now THAT sounds legit!
I’m on my second PowerPoint of the night, working on the 19th slide. As it turns out, I only enjoy making lengthy presentations when the subject matter is Alistair Theirin and his amazing, dorky self.
Too bad my presentation is over Internet Gaming Disorder.
The Maker's Workshop 