Figured it was about time I create a masterpost to pin on my blog.
Name: Kogarashi, Amanda, "hey you"
Editor, (fandom) writer, freelance artist
Multifandom geek and generally crafty jack-of-all-trades (master of none)
~ I Draw ~ I Write ~ I Craft ~
Outside links here, but the most relevant is probably my Archive of our Own page.
You can buy me a cocoa (Ko-fi) if you want to throw a tip my way, and you can buy things with my art on Redbubble (slowly adding to inventory).
I also have a side blog for reblogging art I like, and now a side blog for reblogging other people's fiction.
I have a tag list for things like tag games. Want on (or off) the list? Just leave a comment on the linked post.
Fandoms, collected posts, commission info, etc. below the cut to keep this shorter on my page.
Quick links to my OCs:
Castelin Cousland | Aelinn Hawke | Tyria Lavellan | Saadrah Mercar
There are a lot of fandoms I'm in (or at least consider myself a part of, even if mostly on the sidelines). The biggest three would probably be:
Sonic the Hedgehog
Dragon Age
Mass Effect
But you'll find me posting things from other fandoms from time to time. If you followed me for one specific fandom but it seems like my hyperfixation has shifted, if you stick around long enough I'm sure it'll shift back.
I've got some sets of posts where I've put together a masterpost to link them all in one place, or have a collective tag for useful things. You can find them here:
Writing Tips (mine specifically; you can find more under the tag "writing advice")
Art Resources (I may not have every resource post properly tagged for this one, but I did my best)
My fandom headcanons
Yes, I do take commissions for both art and writing. If you don't see a type of commission listed below that you're interested in, you can always send me a message to ask.
OCs or canon characters (or both)
No NSFW
I find mechs difficult but I'm willing to give it a fair go
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What you Get:
High-res digital copy of your commission
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Thanks for the tags, @serialsforbellara, @sorcerousadventurer, and @genjyoandgojyoandhakkai! Took a break from other things to pull this together.
It's summer here and I want to see your OCs at the beach! Do they like the beach? What are they wearing? And how do they spend their time there?
And I could have just gone with photos pulled from the internet, but I have fashion bases for the ladies (because one of these months years days I'm going to draw their in-universe wardrobes), so I drew their beach-wear instead. :)
Behold, four ladies and their idea of what to wear to the beach! Yaps below the cut.
Castelin gets to dress like I do at the beach. Racer-back tank (yes, it's Warden-themed, though mine IRL is just striped) and board shorts, because then that's less skin you have to slather with sunblock, and then a hat to keep the sun off her face and and a flowy cover-up for a touch of girliness. Practical sandals that won't fall off, though. She probably burns easier than I do, though.
Hawke, meanwhile, went the bikini route, but with a practical sport style rather than something meant more for fashion. While I do wear a big hat like Cas does for just existing on the beach, a visor like Hawke has is what I wear when out on the water (more secure, dries easier, probably won't fall apart if it gets wet). In Hawke's case, it's mostly for keeping the sun out of her eyes while she ropes the other ladies into beach volleyball. (Not pictured: shorts and an oversized beach shirt for her cover-up.)
Tyria's sense of beach style trends more toward the fashionable but not too revealing type, so she's got a one-piece swimsuit and a sarong. Barefoot sandals because Dalish, other coordinating jewelry and a big flower for her hair, sunglasses because sometimes it's just too bright. Cullen's coin as a necklace.
Saadrah, of all people, has the smallest swimsuit because she likes showing off her wing tattoos. Her cover-up is a lace wrap for the same reason, which she ties around her hips when she has to hit the shops, and she adds some beachy jewelry to coordinate. She prefers basic flip-flops, easy to kick off as needed, and because she's my knife nut, she gets a diving knife strapped to one calf.
They all like the beach well enough, and Hawke is totally going to try to get a 2 v 2 game going. Who should be on each team? ;)
I got tagged by @rooks-dagger to do the beachy picrews linked here:
Doll maker here!
I also found this picrew with beachy vibes to include some masc options!
Which looks really cute, but also doesn't have Qunari or elf options (and Tyria would end up way too curvy on the first one), so instead I'm reblogging this art I did back in February. It's beach day!
If you want to join in, by all means, go try out the picrews! Fresh tags below the cut.
Perhaps this is an obnoxious take on my part, but video games should, above all things, prioritize the ability of being paused. At any point. Regardless of whether it's during a cutscene, a special animation, or a time-based puzzle. You never know when you're gonna get a phone call, or someone will need you in another room, or you get a sudden urge to go to the bathroom, or you hear your cat licking plastic, or whatever. Other entertainment mediums like books, movies, and music can be paused whenever you want. Why do some games not give you the same luxury??
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writing is a fantastic hobby but the kicker is it's a lot harder to show your friends as it's progressing. with a sketch i can show someone and they'll be like oh that's an apple. you can't do that with words until you get a lot of them down. so i'll just be like damn fuckin. uhh. check this out
that's right. and that's just one of the several words i know
For the last day of Lucanis week, I'd like to share something... a sweet secret! 💜
When Rook and their team rescue Lucanis from the Ossuary and bring him to the Lighthouse for the first time, in the first cutscene, they can tell him that they don't want to leave him alone with a demon (if the romantic dialogue option is selected).
Lucanis responds by telling Rook not to worry about him. Normally, the camera is behind Rook at this moment, far away from him, so we don't get a good enough look at his face.
Well, I need everybody to know that this is what Lucanis looks like up close when he responds to Rook:
Share your favorite romance scenes that you have written. Kisses, dramatic confessions, tragic partings, tearful reunions - whatever you like.
Thanks for tagging me on this one, @redaresss, @jenn2d2, and @chaosherald. I'm late to doing this, but I was deliberately holding out for the latest chapter of my longfic to be posted (and then I was working on other stuff too, but here we are).
And I have a couple of favorite romance scenes I can include on this one. 😊
I'm a sucker for a good kiss scene. Bonus points if it's also a bit awkward. Makes it feel more real. From What You Strive For, Chapter 19.
Even now, here he was, the coward, letting her walk away.
Everything was frozen. Numb. Foundering.
He had to do something before it was too late. Before the chance was lost forever.
And that terrified him.
Void take him.
Castelin looked up in surprise when he grabbed her wrist and pulled her to a stop, and then his mouth was pressed to hers, angle awkward with their noses bumping together but he didn’t care, because her lips were soft and warm and both of their teeth only a little bit in the way. He’d always wondered how breathing worked, and while he wasn’t sure they were doing it quite right, he managed to not suffocate either of them. His other hand hung uselessly by his side because he didn’t know what to do with it, but that didn’t matter because her hands weren’t doing much better, stiff and still and caught halfway between them. And Garrus, bless him, just watched instead of getting in the way again.
Good dog.
Alistair eventually pulled back, slowly, breathless. “That...wasn’t too soon, was it?” he asked, a little awed, a little desperate. “Please tell me it wasn’t too soon.”
Castelin didn’t respond. She just looked dazed, as though she hadn’t quite caught up with events yet.
Oh no.
Maker, I’m an idiot.
Castelin blinked. Looked up at Alistair like she didn’t know what to make of him.
What to do with him.
Probably stake him out for bogfishers to pick at or something. Likely after castrating him.
The Void could swallow him right then and there and it would probably serve him better than whatever Castelin would do and—
She grabbed the collar of his shirt.
This is it, this is how I die.
And yanked him down the inch or so needed to plant her lips on his.
Oh. Nevermind.
She definitely knew what she was doing. That didn’t surprise him. Why didn’t it surprise him? Castelin angled their heads just right to avoid smushed noses or clacking teeth, and her mouth moved in a rhythm that he tentatively matched, rewarded with a hum of satisfaction. Her fingers twisted in his shirt collar, keeping him close, the pressure against the back of his neck enticing instead of painful, and he leaned in closer when she pulled a little more. His heart hammered against her knuckles. Neither of them still had any idea of what to do with their free hands, moving in a clumsy dance around wrists and waists and elbows before settling tentatively on forearms or just dropping to the side again.
When the kiss—longer, warmer, the best part of Alistair’s day—finally broke, it was Alistair’s turn to be dazed. Definitely breathless. Maybe there was no way to do breathing right, but he didn’t mind. Castelin simply smiled, soft and small, but so full of warmth that actually reached her eyes that it spread to his chest too.
“Good night,” she murmured, and turned to walk away with Garrus again. He let her.
“Yeah,” he mumbled. “It is.”
And a second one, from the same fic, but Chapter 23. I could go with the steamy bit, but I actually like this scene of the aftermath more.
Alistair watched the firelight dance across tent canvas and listened to Cas’s soft snores against his collarbone, and wondered that he hadn’t been struck by lightning yet like all the Chantry sisters had told him. Maybe it would happen later, once he fell asleep. Or needed a few more indiscretions out of him first, just to be sure it was necessary.
He looked down at the curve of Cas’s freckle-dusted shoulder, at the spill of her coppery hair everywhere, and smiled.
It would be worth it.
Assuming he hadn’t scared her off, of course.
She shifted against him, skin on skin, and he shivered involuntarily and pulled her closer. Her hair smelled like soap, like trees, like wild things and kaddis and a certain mabari, and her skin, though scarred in places—her left arm especially, thrown across his chest like it could hold him down and was certainly doing a bang-up job of it—was soft and warm. He wished they could lay like that forever, and hang the Blight and Loghain.
“I am a lucky, lucky man,” he murmured.
She hummed softly into his skin and nuzzled closer still against the chill. Waking up, or simply dreaming? He couldn’t tell. He tucked the blanket more firmly around the two of them, and hoped it was the latter. She could use the rest.
A thought struck him. “Zevran isn’t going to shut up about this,” he muttered with a sigh.
“Mmm...I’ll fight ’im fr’you.”
Alistair tried to hide his surprised little jump behind a smile at the sleepy mumble that drifted up from under the cascade of hair. “Go back to sleep.” He stroked her shoulder in soothing circles.
“Can’t. Need t’fight an elf first.”
That startled a laugh out of him. “In the morning, Cas.”
She grunted and buried her face against his chest with a barely audible “love you” and a stronger “not goin’ ’nywhere.”
His heart fluttered at the words. “Good,” he said, swallowing against the swell of affection at her sleepy promises, and kissed the top of her head. “Neither am I.” He looked back up at the canvas overhead. “I’m staying right here.”
A quiet snore was his only response.
Of course, he had to move later when Garrus finally nosed his meaty bulk into the tent, flopping down across both of their tangled bodies like they were inconveniencing him. His weight crushed a muffled oof out of Alistair as all of the air was forced from his lungs. Castelin barely roused to mutter oaths and shove the mabari to the side, and then she tucked herself back into Alistair’s waiting arms without so much as a “by your leave”—not that one was necessary—but with a sleep-fogged kiss to his bicep by way of apology.
It all felt oddly comforting despite the extremely tight quarters, like sleeping among the dogs in the kennels again, only with the best—and if he had his way, last—bunkmate ever, and in no time he had chased Cas into a warm and peaceful sleep.
There's one more, but it's for Lucanis Week Day 5, which isn't up yet, so stay tuned for that!
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I mentioned at the end of the above post that I had another one for Lucanis Week, but it wasn't up yet, and to stay tuned. Well, let's just reblog this with the relevant bit tacked on! 😉 @chaosherald specifically, because you asked. 🥰
I did say I'm a sucker for a good kiss scene, didn't I? From Tenebroso, Chapter 5.
He grunted as rough stone hit his shoulders.
Saadrah murmured something that might have been an apology, but it was lost in the press of her mouth against his, eager and soft and tasting like rain, and he couldn’t tell if the rush in his ears was the pouring rain or his own racing heartbeat.
He also didn’t care.
Just a simple job. Root out a Venatori straggler that had been seen darkening Treviso’s back alleys of late. Show him a dose of Antivan hospitality.
But the rain had come on suddenly, soaking everyone out in the streets, and driven most people indoors, including their quarry.
Not Saadrah.
She’d given him a feisty little smirk and danced in the rain, letting it slick back her pale hair and plaster her scarf to her neck in a way that outlined the shape of it. Then her hand found his, and he found himself drenched too, and dancing turned into a giggling retreat to the relative shelter of the arch with the first deafening thunderclap.
And her hands all over him like a giddy teenager, rather than a grown woman.
Again, he didn’t care.
Her hands rested briefly against his sternum, lingering where his heartbeat pounded like a drumbeat, before skimming down his sides. Past his waist. Hooking under his thighs, and—
He bit back the sound of surprise that lurched up his throat as she hoisted him up against the wall, bracing his weight on the stone. Violet light flared as spectral wings beat free of the cage of his bones and steadied him, and Spite rumbled in irritation about “touchy-feely things.”
Still, Lucanis didn’t care.
“Much better angle,” Saadrah murmured against his lips after pausing to catch her breath.
He hummed in agreement.
Rain poured down around their arch, but sheltered beneath it—though already drenched, their leathers glistening in the rain-dulled lanternlight—they leaned into each other, noses brushing, foreheads touching, laughter bubbling high in their chests like they were children again.
“Sentimental,” Spite hissed once.
He earned a peck on the nose from Saadrah for it, and retreated to the depths of Lucanis’s soul to mull it over like a crow with a shiny bauble, or perhaps swat at it like an inquisitive cat. The demon’s presence no longer felt like hooks, but nettles woven through him, still sharp but gradually softening over time. The bite of cinnamon rather than teeth. Lucanis worried the needles would prick those around him, draw blood and leave wounds.
Every time Saadrah touched him—gently, willingly, unconditionally—he felt another barb dulled, another spur smoothed away.
What would he and Spite look like in a year? Ten? Fifty?
He looked into Saadrah’s silver eyes, and accepted that he looked forward to finding out.
Saadrah shifted Lucanis’s weight against the wall. One of her hands came up, stroking gently through his beard, and he didn’t fight the vulnerable noise that escaped his lips. Nor did he protest when she kissed him again, long and lingering, the giddiness shifting to something no less heady but much deeper.
He let himself sink into it, into the downpour and her warmth, trembling with every last emotion that echoed in his heart.
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so similarly to how I’ve done crochet giveaways for the companion weeks I’m doing a giveaway for rookweek!
Two winners will be getting their very own custom rook tsum bean plushie. I will sketch up a basic idea and once you ok the design I’ll make it and ship it out as soon as it’s finished (these will take an undetermined amount of time due to work and my availability to work on them but generally I get them done pretty quickly) check out some examples of rooks I’ve done:
How to enter: just comment that you want to be entered in the giveaway on this post (one entry per person) (you will have to have a rook and reference pictures)
its free if you're in the USA I will pay for shipping because it's like 4/5 dollars. If you are out of the us and want to enter that's fine with me I will go to the post office and fill out whatever papers they need from me for tariffs/oversea shipping/etc, I just ask that you pay shipping (and only after you receive your bean)
I’ll be drawing winners probably Saturday night/Sunday
This is 2 separate giveaways for my two crocheted Lucanis dolls I did for Lucanis week, I’ll let this run until Monday night and then draw 2 winners. the first gets to choose between the cone and the bean
How to enter:
just comment that you want to be entered in the giveaway on this post (one entry per person)
its free if you're in the USA I will pay for shipping because it's like 4/5 dollars. If you are out of the us and want to enter that's fine with me I will go to the post office and fill out whatever papers they need from me for tariffs/oversea shipping/etc, I just ask that you pay shipping (and only after you receive your doll)
Gently tagging (super no pressure) some lucanismancers in case they want to enter: @kabsey @chaosherald @jenn2d2 @serialsforbellara @sorcerousadventurer @jukkaricity @himluv @pixiedurango @andromeda-xyz @jaderavenarts @kogarashi-art @brightbreezeblog @viagosbrother @genjyoandgojyoandhakkai
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Fun thing for this past week: hopping onto an early save on my game so I can get screenshots of various Shadow Dragons for countdown/up images for Shadow Dragon Week, and really taking a good look at some of the side characters you can find there. I don't know how randomized the unnamed ones are, but I figured I might show off the shots I took, now that the countdown images are scheduled over on the event blog. (With much thanks to @sketchytea for adding that extra stylistic flair to the design I put together. Teamwork!)
A lot of these are in portrait orientation because that's the format I was going to use for the countdown graphics. Also for several of these, I did some basic photo editing to make things easier to see, because it turns out some of the spots in the Hideout on PS5 are dark, or very red (or blue), or otherwise not as good in screenshot form as they looked to my naked eye on the television. Go figure. Also, I definitely have more of both categories than I could use for the images. Oh well.
Let's start out with our unnamed NPCs:
More below the cut.
I love seeing the variety of people and outfits across all the NPCs. Especially finding a dwarf and a Qunari (that isn't Bren)!
Next up, characters whose names I could actually find:
Can't forget our two "conditional" Shadows either:
(I may have to come back and edit/reblog this if I can get a shot of Quillon, but I didn't have a save in the right spot.)
And if you want to know what I meant by photo editing to adjust for the way the screenshots turned out on PS5? Here's Rana before and after editing:
And one of the unnamed NPCs:
Anyway, trying to get nice shots of people on PS5 is fun when I'm limited to what the in-game photo mode has (and don't know a lot of its tricks and whatnot), waiting for people to make interesting motions with their idle animations and then trying to hit pause at the right time. ... All while having a tall character (because Qunari) so everyone's looking up. Oops.
Anyway, go check out @shadow-dragon-week if you haven't yet! 😉
