Summoner's Sketchbook

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

Thanks for tagging me, @jellyeliart! (and @redaresss right at the end before I posted.)

Shamelessly share the song or piece of music that is *your* current favorite! If you discovered it yesterday, been listening to it on repeat for weeks or months or years, find it really meaningful, find it fun or funny, find it super technically well made, you like it just because, any reason at all: please share!

Today, I felt like showing off a bardcore musician I found that I like. A lot of bardcore music is really cool, playing modern songs with more medieval-style instrumentation (or at least medieval-vibes).

Hildegard von Blingin' goes one step further, actually rewriting the song's lyrics to suit the medieval vibe too. I love it. She also usually edits old manuscript illustrations or draws new ones inspired by them (depending on what she needs) to suit each song. Sometimes she does collaborations with other people (her brother Friar Funk a few times, Whitney Avalon, one or two others I don't recall off the top of my head).

So, for your consideration, a short selection of her covers and an encouragement to go check out her channel for more.

Somebody That I Used to Know — One of the first songs I encountered, and actually the first way I heard this song before later finding the original.

Holding Out for a Hero — One of the only animated videos, and also a delightful cover of this song.

Losing My Religion — I love how this one gets to show off Hildegard's lower range as well. Her voice is so rich when she drops to the lower register.

Teenage Dirtbag — And her newest one, with her brother taking the lead, and in my opinion a really good example of how she converts the original lyrics to something that suits the medieval feel.

Tags! (Apologies if you aren't music lovers.)

I suspect this one is more of a surprise than the Carver/Merrill ficlet. 😏

For my final entry, I decided to tease a little another ship I have for my canon worldstate: Illario/Neve. I largely landed on the pairing on my own, mostly as a little "what-if" seed that took root, but I was also little bit inspired by @himluv's Illario/Bellara stuff, and definitely reinforced (reassured? that I wasn't just being daft) by @jenn2d2's Illario/Neve stuff (which I still need to read). What can I say? The idea of a redemption arc and a little "oops I fell in love when I didn't intend to" for Illario appeals to me.

Doesn't mean I won't smack him around a little emotionally first. Penance.

Space Enough for Breath

Seven kisses, seven pairs, not all of them good ideas.

Rating: T

And for the other parts: Day 1 (Camp) | Day 2 (Injury) | Day 3 (Courtyard) | Day 4 (Exploration) | Day 5 (Beach) | Day 6 (Mourning) Read the whole thing on AO3

Day 7: Sneaky(Illario/Neve)

(Set sometime after the events of Veilguard.) Note: "nievita" means "little snow" in Spanish (thank you to my husband for help picking it). I couldn't pass up the play on Neve's name.

Illario let out a soft grunt as his back hit the shelves in the small closet, and he nearly sneezed on the dust that kicked up before a firm hand pressed over his mouth. The close quarters meant he had very little room to maneuver, even less to get out of the way as a body—compact, curved, smelling of sandalwood and cedar perfume—pressed into his with the closing of the door.

Not that he wanted to get out of the way, anyway. Not from this particular assailant.

He let his hands drift toward hips that dug into his, but the hand on his lips turned ice-cold, a clear warning, and he stopped. He knew better than to push. Knew better than to antagonize her, even if the frigid look in her eyes—not quite visible in the wan light seeping through the gap at the bottom of the door—was as much temptation as it was threat.

Instead, he left a kiss in her palm, slow and sensual, and smirked when he felt her shiver against him. Her hand clenched tighter around his mouth, fingers pressing into his jaw, just shy of hard enough to bruise. He heard a sharp hiss of breath, the barest of whispers.

His charms were no match for the will of Neve Gallus, and that intrigued him more than anything.

So he waited. Let her take charge, like she usually did, and amused himself with fantasizing how things would play out this time.

Continue reading on AO3

Final tag for the event week. Hope you enjoyed them all!

Oh, this one was fun (and quick)! 💙 Thanks for the tags, @genjyoandgojyoandhakkai and @handsignals, and also @serialsforbellara via DM!

Picrew here

Castelin Cousland

Castelin doesn't wear any fancy perfumes. At all. She prefers kaddis, for her mabari. Specifically a blue-tinted one that smells very strongly of the sea near Highever (she describes it as "seawater and soil," but Alistair once described it as "someone tried to dress up dead fish and rotting wood and failed miserably"). She tends to only use it in potential combat scenarios, but has been known to wear it to council meetings if there's a particular noble she doesn't like.

(It honestly doesn't smell as bad as Alistair described it, just strong. It takes getting used to.)

Aelinn Hawke

Aelinn isn't one to wear fragrances often, but she does have one blend that she likes for fancy occasions (sometimes the fancy occasion is getting drunk at the Hanged Man). It smells like cinnamon, clove, hot pepper, and woodsmoke, as befitting a fire mage. The fragrance became more popular in Kirkwall after Aelinn earned the title of Champion, but the perfumer who crafted the fragrance still reserves a bottle for her on the regular. Yes, she still wears this fragrance even after she pivots to force magic as her go-to.

Tyria Lavellan

Tyria is not generally one to wear perfumes either, preferring her own natural scent plus whatever she picks up while out in nature. She often smells like flowers just from having them tucked into her hair, or like the woods just from being outside (anyone who's ever smelled their kid's hair after they've come in from playing outdoors probably has an idea of what that's like, or is it just my kids?).

But she does have one bottle of an expensive Orlesian perfume Josephine had commissioned for her, which smells like gardenias and pine (but on purpose and with fancier ingredients!), which Tyria wears for important social functions and also private dates with Cullen.

Saadrah Mercar

I like to think that Qunari in general have a better sense of smell than humans, elves, and dwarves, with adaari having an even better sense than that. So Saadrah can pick up on scents easier than her fellow protagonists (but not as well as Taash does), and thus is more careful with personal grooming to manage how she smells, but also what she puts on herself so as not to overwhelm herself (or Taash).

To that end, it took Lucanis a while to hit on a perfume that Saadrah would willingly wear, but she does wear it for him because she knows he likes it. Inspired by Spite's description of her, it contains notes of citrus (lemon more than orange though) and mint, but the dominant scent is lilacs (because I like lilacs).

Tags for the people on my tag list, and anyone else who sees this and wants to do it!