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
Digital delivery
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What you Get:
High-res digital copy of your commission
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Okay, so, I'm actually doing two today instead of one, because I will never get over how much this amuses me.
Because I, like many people, had to wonder, "why doesn't the Archon's Palace help defend the city against the dragon attack?"
And, of course, the obvious answer is that the Venatori take advantage of the distraction the dragon provides (courtesy of their newly risen gods) to take over the palace and keep it out of the fight, while preventing the Shadow Dragons from stopping them or the dragon.
But the funnier answer is right here in these two screenshots.
Because, you see, the rush to stop the dragon when saving Minrathous uses the same map area as the prologue, you just go to the left where the dragon arena is instead of to the right to the base of the statue of Our Lady of Victory. And when you run through during the dragon attack, the Archon's Palace isn't there. Its spot in the sky is just...empty.
I find that hilarious.
The Archon's palace didn't help out because it was off on holiday.
(Okay but seriously, why is it missing? Does the palace have steering controls? Is it actually capable of movement? If so, does this mean the Magisterium could theoretically fly it around Thedas? I have so many questions.)
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I'll be honest, this is probably the loosest connection to the prompt words, but that's fine. A little Rebellion is fine, even with event prompts.
Dum Lux Est, Spes Est(where there's light, there's hope)
Chapter 6: Rebellion
Rating: T
Words: 1,452
Snippet:
Saadrahās knee took three months to heal enough for her to run the rooftops again without worrying it might collapse at the worst moment and drop her several stories to her death. Three months in which the kind of work she could pick up was limited, three months in which her leads practically dried up, three months in which her irritation slowly built at being figurativelyāand near literallyāhamstrung.
Three months of silence on both fronts, cultist and shadowy stalker alike. No one accosted her at night, thankfully. No one left her threatening notes or sharp gifts either.
Her only consolation was finding a talkative drunkard at an open air pub who, after hearing her mention the word āvenatori,ā happily rambled for a good hour about mage supremacist groups and their involvement in Inquisition affairs while the sky had been ripped open. The bartender, after failing to get the man to shut up, finally filled in a few extra details for Saadrahās benefit when she asked why no one wanted to talk about it. Apparently the group were indeed cultistsāSaadrah had hidden her satisfaction at making that connection finallyāand wanted some rot about ancient Tevinter rising again. Then the bartender clammed up, the barās hired muscle had dragged the drunkard up to his room, and Saadrah had been not-so-politely told not to bring the topic up again.
That had been four weeks ago.
Saadrah had gotten nothing since.
Thanks for the tag, @ladyofcrowsandcoffee! I know...next to nothing about zodiac stuff, but this was still fun for the color palettes.
Play here
So first off, here's mine.
Very warm, very earthy. Not a bad palette, though generally not colors I favor. (Not 100% sure on the moon, rising, or Venus parts, because I don't know the exact time I was born and I'm not sure which one(s) were affected by location, but whatever.) This would make a nice palette for a future project.
And now my four DA girls, after fudging details. I have a rough idea of when each is born within the Thedosian year, so I just picked a date round about those parts on the Gregorian calendar, picked a random time, and set everyone to the same geographical location because I couldn't be bothered to guess where on Earth their relative birth locations might be.
Castelin Cousland and Aelinn Hawke
I'm glad Cas (winter baby) got at least one water-related color on her palette. It's not terrible, but it'd be nice if the greens were more blue (the yellow is a good approximation of the accent color I tend to give her nice clothes).
And Aelinn's (Halloween Funalis baby) got a red on her palette, so that's good. The grey suits her too, but then we've got a weird swerve with the green and purple. The palette is a bit of a headache, just like the Kirkwall years for her, I guess.
Tyria Lavellan and Saadrah Mercar
Okay, I actually think these two worked out pretty well. Tyria's (spring baby) got green for the Anchor and her Dalish heritage, while the purple goes with her vallaslin color, and the overall vibe is kind of floral. Not too shabby.
And Saadrah (early autumn) managed to get two shades of purple, and another overall nice palette.
And I don't know what any of this says about their personalities. š
As Shepard confronts the horrors of Cerberus experimentation and the ghosts of a past she narrowly escaped, Garrus begins to realize his feelings for her run far deeper than admiration.
Posted to the Shakarian Mini-Bang 2026 collection on the AO3.
Got tagged by @maagisterpavus, @rooks-dagger, and @redaresss for this one. Really nice template, which can be found here!
Since this started out as a Veilguard-themed template, I'll start with Saadrah and Lucanis, but yes, I did my other ladies too. Also, I've done ship templates for them before, but this one's got different options on it. I pulled tropes for each pair from their Ship Memes and Tropes page I did.
Ship: Shadow and Crow ā Saadrah/Lucanis(/Spite)
(yaps and other ladies below the cut)
Yes, Spite is included in this chart. I see him as ace, though, so his contributions to the ship are platonic.
Their heights always make me giggle.
Taking my best stab at Lucanis's age and height, since we don't really have canon for either. I'm a "Short King Lucanis" fan, and while 5'6" is perfectly average, given how many people in this franchise are "heroic" height, that's still short.
Saadrah's not the jealous type so much as the resigned type (she unfortunately has insecurities about being the one Lucanis chooses when he has human admirers, but she's working on that). Lucanis, meanwhile, is surprised at how jealous he feels the first time he sees someone actually flirt with Saadrah. (Spite may be ace, but he can still be super-jealous, right?)
Saadrah's love languages line up with Spite's, but not Lucanis's. Given the care Lucanis shows in buying gifts for people and in preparing food for them, and also the cheers he'll give Rook in combat regardless of romance or not, you can't tell me that man's languages aren't affirmation and service.
Lucanis is totally the one more likely to sleep in once he's convinced to start sleeping properly again. Also he's the one more likely to start a fight (at least between the two of them) by virtue of Caterina drama. He's working on that.
If the fight-starting is meant to be with others, then it'd actually probably be Saadrah, but I didn't consider that when making this.
Spite is totally the bed-hog of the trio. Luckily for Saadrah, Spite considers her part of the bed (living body pillow). He and Saadrah are totally doing blanket forts together.
Saadrah may be rather stubborn when someone else is telling her what to do (especially if she disagrees with it), but she's super-flexible when plans have to change, so I went with that.
Spite is the most punctual of the trio. One of Lucanis's logbook entries mentions Spite being able to keep time in the fade better than anyone else in the Veilguard, so I'm choosing to interpret that as an innate and perfect sense of time. Also, being on time is kind of like keeping your end of a deal, and Spite cares about that a lot.
And now for the other three. I did a hue-edit on the background layer to fit the other games, but didn't change the line colors on the scales in the bottom-right box.
Ship: Warden x Warden ā Castelin/Alistair
Ages are from when they meet in DAO.
Yes, I like making my characters tall, most of the time. I'm tall too (though not as tall as Cas here).
Cas is suuuuuuper jealous of anyone hitting on Alistair. Alistair finds to his surprise the first time it finally happens that he's almost as jealous when the tables are turned. (It takes a while for someone to flirt with Castelin because most people who might are intimidated by her height, her no-nonsense noble mask, or her attachment to Alistair.)
Alistair gets three love languages because I said so.
Cas is definitely most likely to start a fight. Sometimes it's with Alistair. Most of the time it's with other people.
Cas is very stoic, closed-off, and serious, but not so serious that she won't occasionally crack jokes with Alistair.
Cas is also surprisingly snuggly with him, but mostly in private.
Ship: Partners in Crime ā Aelinn/Fenris
Fenris gets a question mark on his age because not only do we not have a canon age for him, but as an ex-slave with amnesia, he probably doesn't really even know. I like to think he's a little bit younger than Hawke, but not by much. (Ages are from the start of DA2, before they meet.)
Fenris may be tall by elf standards, but I like the idea of Aelinn being just a tad taller. She's my height, which seems so short when I line up all of my OCs and their love interests in a row (it's those heroic builds, I tells ya).
Hawke's sexuality is listed as "comfortable" because she doesn't really care about labels. She leans generally toward being attracted to men but hasn't completely ruled out the possibility that she could be attracted to women too, and is pretty loose with her affections prior to falling hard for Fenris (after that she's in too deep and absolutely monogamous).
Between the two of them, Fenris turns out to be the more jealous partner. Hawke actually finds it kind of hot, and the only reason he isn't annoyed by that reaction is because of her thorough reassurance that she would never act on anyone flirting with her other than him.
Hawke is squarely in "unintentional" on the love triangle because she didn't want to fall for Fenris, it just sort of happened. She would've been happy not being in love with anyone.
The only "most likely" Hawke doesn't check off is reading conspiracies, because Fenris is totally reading those once he learns how to read. Meanwhile, the two of them can team up on burning dinner (this is part of why Hawke is happy to hire Orana), and on starting fights (sometimes with each other, often with other people).
Hawke and Fenris are never on time to anything, unless it has to do with making Meredith's or slavers' days worse.
Hawkeāmelee mage who specializes in fire and force magicsāis 1000% the loudest person anywhere.
Ship: Checkmate ā Tyria/Cullen
Ages are from DAI.
Tyria definitely wasn't intending to fall for Cullen, but also dang, look at that shemlen's face, if ever there was evidence a Maker might exist it'd be that (because if the Creators had crafted that face he'd have pointy ears).
Meanwhile, Cullen "I tend to fall for human and elven mages" Rutherford didn't intend to fall for her, but also thought she was pretty and kind, but also falls a bit slower (and then lands hard).
Neither of them are really the jealous type. Cullen probably can't be all that jealous, because that man has a chronic case of "I don't deserve nice things." (He's working on that.)
Cullen is too regimented and punctual to sleep in, ever. If he does, it's time to call a healer because he's sick with something debilitating.
Cullen gets to burn dinner because I didn't want to go 4/4 on my ladies getting that "honor." Cullen also gets the "talk too much" on a technicality; between him and Tyria, he's more likely to start rambling and talk himself out of something he wants, or blurt out something he didn't mean to, but he doesn't do it often. Same with starting fights: he doesn't do it often, but he either peeves her off by overworking himself or he leans into the "let's throw swords at the problem" meme with other people.
Tyria gets to be open and outgoing and a little bit silly because she's his sunshine.
And finally tags so people can see (and join in if you want; tag me if you've already done this so I can see).
The template is here if you want to play along. I used Photoshop and it's fine (the font Photoshop converted to because I didn't have the one on the template installed still looks fine). Photopea (free, browser-based) can also work (rooks-dagger says it handled the layers fine), and the link also has a png version if you want to use that instead.
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Unfortunately, no actual bingo for Saadrah (so close on the rightmost column, but she doesn't have war trauma). I guess it's fitting for the Mercar who's not an actual Mercar (cover name, not adopted).
I know Undercity seems like the obvious prompt to use out of today's pair, but I had an idea for Hightown and I'm sticking with it.
That idea was a cameo. See if you can guess who it is.
Dum Lux Est, Spes Est(where there's light, there's hope)
Chapter 5: Hightown
Rating: T
Words: 1,526
Snippet:
Saadrahās mother would be the first person to complaināif one could find herāthat Saadrah was more stubborn than a druffalo with opinions. When told not to climb so high as a child, she only climbed higher, and then hid. When told to stay in bed at night like a good child, she snuck out and explored whatever town or city they were living in. When told that Crows were scary monsters who would spirit her off to Antiva City in the night, she only looked at her Crow daggerāa gift from a one-time friendāand played pretend.
With no other recourse, Hissera had trained her daughter instead, in an effort to channel that stubbornness and interest into more productive pursuits.
And certainly, Saadrah thought, as she crouched on a ledge in Hightown, no threatening note stabbed onto her door was going to convince her if her own mother couldnāt.
sometimes Iām reminded that there are still people who donāt know ao3 was literally created by incest shippers ā and the siteās sole purpose is to 1. be completely against censorship and 2. host all kinds of dark, taboo fics that are banned on other platforms ā and the first ever fic that was posted on ao3 was a fic about an incest ship from supernatural.
you are in the house that was created by freaks. for freaks (affectionate). every disgusting thing you can think of is rightfully allowed and welcomed on ao3, because they are exactly the reasons why ao3 was created in the first place.
ao3 was created because its creators got tired of censorship, they got tired of dark and taboo fics getting banned on pro-censorship platforms, and they wanted a place that was safe for ALL FICS THAT WERE DARK AND TABOO.
ao3ās main principle is being against censorship and being proship / profic.
there are some things in fiction that make me uncomfortable, but instead of shaming people who are just minding their own business and not harming anyone in real life, I choose to curate my own internet experience by blocking/muting what I donāt want to see. ao3 has excellent tagging system, so instead of being a bitch, use their tagging system properly and you wonāt see the things you donāt want to see.
itās your job to curate what you see. itās not other peopleās jobs or responsibilities to censor themselves for your personal comfort. the world does not revolve around you.
also you cannot censor āonly the things you personally hateā without expecting everything else, that isnāt of conservative beliefs, to be censored too. because censorship is a slippery slope and a fascist tool. I promise you there are people who think āwhy do tags for queer love even exist on ao3? theyāre grooming childrenā.
if you allow the things that you hate to be censored ā because someone with enough power gets to control what other people can and cannot create/consume, it will not stop at the things that you hate.
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Honestly, the eluvian room in the Safehouse looks like a nice place to relax between missions. And I'm sure that wide open balcony/window space lets in a lovely breeze, even if it might smell a little briny.
The Rubicon. A line that's been crossed; a point of no return.
With only hours left before the inevitable, Garrus seeks out Shepard and proposes going on one last date to spend what could be one of their last days alive on just being together. When Shepard agrees, they take a small walk down memory lane. Bittersweet and light on plot.
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