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
My tumblr dividers - free to use, credit is nice but not necessary, don't claim them as your own work or use them in commercial works
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)
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I find mechs difficult but I'm willing to give it a fair go
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You can only wear one colour and one metal shade* forever. Choose:
red with gold
orange with gold
yellow with gold
green with gold
blue with gold
purple with gold
red with silver
orange with silver
yellow with silver
green with silver
blue with silver
purple with silver
Remaining time: 4 days 9 hours
[*copper/bronze/etc are hereby classified as "gold", and all grey metals from platinum to steel are classified as "silver". You can pick whatever shades and tones of your colour, so shades of beige and brown count as "orange". You can also wear either black or white as an addition to your colour, but not both. If you want to wear grey, go nude forever, or otherwise choose an option not listed above, you will be killed on sight.]
Tyria Lavellan is very devout. She's First of Clan Lavellan, after all, and loves the stories of the elven Creators and the lessons that they teach.
Oh.
You meant Andrastian. 😉
Tyria does not exactly believe in Andraste and the Maker, but she isn't going to be rude about it. Her go to is a gentle reminder of "your gods are not my gods," and then she will ask people to share their stories with her anyway because she loves to hear them. She's not about to convert anytime soon, though. At least, not before finding out the issues with her own deities in Trespasser.
She thinks Andrastianism can be kind, or rather, that it has elements that encourage kindness in those willing to be influenced in that direction, but it has its flaws that other people will lean too heavily on. If there's one thing she hopes to do as Inquisitor, at least, it's to redirect toward that kindness more often, and if possible, encourage change to the parts that just seem cruel, as much as her influence can manage. And if anyone dares try to use her as a mouthpiece for their own cruelty, she will shut that down loudly and firmly. She only hopes that can last after she's gone.
idk to put it this into words but like. Alistair is very aware of how he was treated, right. him saying he was raised by dogs and left to sleep in the kennels and that the chantry mother/sister (i dont remember) beat him. he mentions all of this, but its all in a joking, dont take me too seriously tone. and it makes me think how like. he cant fully acknowledge these things without this veneer of sarcams/jokes bc i think acknowledging and adressing them as what they truly were (abuse and neglect) also means breaking some illusions to things were fine. alistair holds eamon in very high regard, but if he acknowledges this, it means having to confront that what eamon did to him was wrong, that he is not this great man alistair likes to think that he is. and the thing is, im sure that if it was anyone else telling alistair they went through all that. he'd be sympathetic towards them right. but its like he cant extend that to himself bc with the way he talks at times, its almost like he sees all that as smthg he "deserved it". like i keep thinking about how when he tells the story of his mother's amulet, he says that after his discussion with eamon, eamon never came to visit him again in the monastery and he's all. yeah that's what i get for acting the way i did when like, he was a fucking child and eamon was an adult.
and its so complicated bc we can never fully adress this and i think its bc alistair himself is not ready to fully adress this in game but i keep thinking what would happen on the day that he like. comes to term with this, that he was literally just a kid and that everyone around him failed him and that he did not deserve all that.
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Runup to Inquisitor Appreciation Week - 7 Days to Go!
One week is left till the Inquisitor Appreciation Week! And like with Warden and Hawke Appreciation, we are starting with a series of posts allowing you a chance to introduce your Inquisitor.
I have decided to mix it up a bit this year, focusing a bit more with those questions on your Inquisitor's decisions during the game.
But today, on the first day of the Runup Week, let's start with the most basic of questions: Who is your Inquisitor? Who were they before they became the Inquisitor? Introduce them to us!
Reblog this post with your answer or introduce your Inquisitor in a different post and tag this account (@daheroweek)! We will do our best to reblog!
Tyria Lavellan was First of Clan Lavellan, granddaughter of Keeper Deshanna and only daughter of Paven and Tanithel of Clan Lavellan (Tanithel was Deshanna's daughter).
She has three brothers: Soran (her slightly-older twin), Jelan, and Aralan.
Of the four of them, only she manifested magic, when she was a child defending an even younger child from a human forester who didn't like Dalish children wandering onto his land. She doesn't know if she killed the man or merely injured him, and no one else will tell her, but either way, because of that incident, she resolved to use her magic to help others where she could.
She's had a few relationships in her past, but none have lasted (only one ended poorly, however).
Tyria is kind and patient, and loves learning about other cultures and sharing in their stories. She was sent to the Conclave at age 27 by her grandmother to learn what she could of the proceedings and to report back, but we all know what happens instead.
Yes, I know SatAM Sonic can swim. I love playing with that fact.
But while it's true that my Flesh and Steel AU is very strongly based on SatAM, this is not one trait that carries over, for...reasons. Anyway. F&S Sonic? Well....
Anyway, let's traumatize a hedgehog!
Prompt 3: Water
“Nope. Nuh-uh. Not doing this. You can go on without me.”
“Sonic, it’s just water.”
Sonic glared out at the glassy-smooth surface of the high mountain lake, dug his heels in, and tried to ignore how casually Sally was pulling on the breathing apparatus that Rotor had supplied for this run. Around them, the rocky shoreline still held a surprising amount of greenery for something within the general radius of Robotnik’s attention span, but then it had probably been low on the pungent dictator’s radar up until it turned out there was a magic rock in there somewhere. Even now, evidence of Snively’s presence was limited to a cluster of hover units and a boxy mobile command station some distance down the shoreline, and something dark but unmoving far out on the water. Sonic and Sally hadn’t sabotaged any of it yet. Sally reasoned it was best not to alert Snively to their presence before they had to. Sonic agreed, even if it was the boring answer.
“In case you forgot, I can’t swim,” he grumbled, squinting as though staring hard enough at the water would make it all evaporate, and squirming yet again at the now-ever-present feeling of his bones crawling with ants thanks to the red Stone in Sally’s pack; Sally didn’t want to leave it at Knothole, just in case Snively could somehow track the weird humming buzz too. At least it hadn’t compounded with proximity to the lake. Yet. “And I sink like a rock.”
“And I’ll be right there with you.”
Blue eyes filled his vision, and he blinked and backed up a half-step to put some space between his nose and Sally’s as she leaned in to catch his eyes. “Wh—hey, watch it!” He could feel heat rising to his ears, feel his hackles stand on end at her sneaking up on him like that and the weird feeling of both an overwhelming urge to bolt and reassurance at her nearness. What won was tried-and-true performative bravado, too cool for her attentions or her sympathy.
Even if he kind of liked it.
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Oh, yeah. Also giving a fourteen-year-old boy surprise Feelings™ for his friend, because I'm an unrepentant shipper (though it's not really going to be more than inklings at this point in their timeline).
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shoutout to the mutuals i actually interact with regularly & big apologies to the mutuals i do not interact with regularly or the mutuals who i used to interact with but now do not. ily all
I like to think that AO3 and fanfiction are a bastion against dead internet theory. Sure, there's the AI and the bots, but at its heart fandom is still a community of passionate people going "LOOK AT WHAT I MADE" and having people go "THAT'S SO COOL" right back.
So yeah. You wanna beat the bots? Make things. Comment. The internet's not dead as long as you're still here making noise.
I'm not dead yet! Just...got waylaid by illness, which kept me from writing (or doing much of anything brain-intensive the second half of this week, yay).
But I have the second Sonally Week prompt written now, and late is better than never (and frankly, how many times have events said "there is no 'late' in posting"?), so I'm getting this shared now.
It's a Sonic story. The prompt is fire. You know where this is going.
🔥 VOLCANO 🔥
Prompt 2: Fire
“Oh, come on!”
The indignant shout on the comms pulled Sally’s attention away from the map she was trying to decipher, and she looked out over the low wall that hid her from the rest of the volcanic cavern to scan the twisted outcroppings and heat-baked stone edifices that jutted out of the magma pools below. Another Lightkeeper stronghold, also long abandoned to the ravages of time and the forces of nature, and now invaded by a swarm of excavating robots.
And a supersonic hedgehog.
It took a moment to spot him. What remained of any pathways in the cavern were hard-packed, so she couldn’t mark his passage by his usual telltale plume of dust kicked up in his wake, and his inarticulate shouting over the comms didn’t give her any clue where to look—and frankly he was lucky Rosie wasn’t there to hear his mouth; where did he even learn half those words?—but a moment later one of the half-crumbled ruin walls suddenly fell with a rumble and a cloud of stone chips and sparking electricity, accompanied by a whoop and a “yeah, that’s what you get!” directly in her ear.
She sighed and dialed down the volume just a bit, and went back to her map.
Just their luck that they’d chosen to go after the same Stone as Snively, though honestly that was probably for the best, if only to keep tabs on him, and actively thwart his efforts.
“Yikes! Saw blades!?”
Even if that meant having to race him through a volcanic cavern full of old traps.
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Oh, fun fact: when writing the scenery in this one, I was not only channeling the writing I did for the Marble Zone chapter of my fic Awakening (link to the chapter in question), but also some of the visuals from Dragon Age: the Veilguard, specifically Sharksmouth Cave, because it's a massive volcanic cavern with ruins inside.
There's definitely no obligation to read, especially if you're not into Sonic stuff. 💙 But I love you all the same, so tag!
Reblog this if you would not only accept, but welcome fan art, moodboards, etc. of your fics
All of these used to be so common for people to show their appreciation of different fics and authors, and I think it’s a shame people don’t do it anymore. I love seeing fan work for my fics!!
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Hey all Twitch streamer, Twitch has you opt in by default that your streams will be use to train GenAI. To opt out, you have to go your "Settings" and in the tab "Security and Privacy." At the bottom of the tab, there is the "Training for Generative AI" setting.
