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
Payment will be handled through Ko-fi (if you don't see an option on Ko-fi, message me), or you can send me a DM to discuss alternate payment methods.
What you Get:
High-res digital copy of your commission
Limited personal-use print rights (no re-selling, but you can get it printed on media/merchandise of your choice for your own use)
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Uncommon character development questions for Saadrah
1 - What position do they sleep in?
7 - How does your character perceive themselves?
Thanks for the asks! These are good ones. :) Uncommon asks here.
#1: What position do they sleep in? - Well, assuming she hasn't just wedged herself into a corner or other perch to catch a few Z's while on the prowl, but that she's actually got the luxury of a proper bed and pillows... She starts as a back sleeper, especially when she's got someone (Lucanis) snuggled into the bed with her. Pillows keep her horns from being a problem. But if she's especially restless, she may roll onto her side or even her stomach as she tosses and turns and tries to get comfortable.
#7: How does Saadrah perceive herself? - I think she sees herself as a good person overall. She does see shadows around herself—darker personality elements that may stem from being Qunari (as the Iron Bull seems to fear when you talk to him in DAI)—that she works to keep contained or focused on the right targets, but she also knows she's capable of light and tries to push that forward. She's not always sure she's successful, but what matters is that she tries.
And I think she may see herself as a little more of a slip-up than she actually is, but she won't admit it out loud, especially around certain people (Tarquin). Or she'll try to brush it off as "everyone's critical about themselves, right?" around other people (her colleagues/friends).
6. If you were to pick one song — and only one song — to describe your character, what would it be and why?
For the uncommon asks
Oof, just one? Make this hard, why don't you? 😉 Uncommon asks here.
And my goodness, just one song. Answering for Saadrah on this one.
Let's go with "Right Where You Belong" by Blame My Youth (from the soundtrack for Bill and Ted Face the Music.
I think this is a good demonstration of Saadrah's life uprooted, on the move, from constantly traveling with her family when she was young to feeling out of place in Minrathous as a Shadow Dragon to traveling with Varric to crashing in the Lighthouse during the events of Veilguard. And the thing is that the places in her life are where she's needed to be, and she's the person she's needed to be. She's felt adrift, but she's managed to build home around her, bring it with her.
Thanks for the ask, Beasty!
I'm also going to tag @jellyeliart on this one because it could double as a Favorite Music Friday entry, so here you go Eli!
I'm curious to find out, since I've started doing Favorite Music Friday; what music streaming software, if any, everybody uses? Personally I'm a Qobuz lover, they pay their artists the most per stream out of all the platforms that I know (and they don't use any of their profits to fund any political parties, war efforts, or data scraping for ai).
Yesterday was a bit of a THING and so I didn't get around to doing this then, but why not now?
Tagged by a bunch of people, so I'm just going to drop my whole tag list below and call it good. Thank you all, though! I love seeing people's progress on things!
Let's start with some words!
Shadow Dragon Week starts on Sunday, and I wanted to make sure I had something of my own to contribute, so I've been working on a "Saadrah's recruitment" fic to work with the prompts. It's going well so far. Here's a preview!
A procession of people marched through the Maze’s main thoroughfare, which bisected the district and connected it to both the docks and the Bazaar that flanked the lower reaches of the city. Most of their heads were bowed, their clothes ragged and simple, and Saadrah couldn’t miss the chains that linked wrists to ankles, one person to the next, clanking and rattling like blunted bells as the group trundled along.
Her lip curled in disgust.
Slaves.
A whip snapped again overhead, wielded by a sweaty, shirtless man with a gilded necklace of angular serpent medallions at his neck. He shouted at the slaves to keep moving, even though none had broken stride, and Saadrah’s muscles tightened further with the effort to keep from darting forward and lodging six inches of Crow steel in the man’s ribs.
You can’t do anything right now. Too open. Too risky. You only have one knife.
I've also been working on cosplay-related stuff. Not a whole lot of major progress yet (soon, hopefully), but I've picked up some supplies, and been working on bits here and there. Got a sewing day coming up soon, and then I should have more progress to show. Meanwhile, check out photos below the cut:
Sewing two purse flaps together to make a single flap for one of Aloy's pouches. Still need to glue ribbon over the seam to hide the rough stitching and make it look nicer.
Disassembling a blue purse for the faux leather (need it for my sword sheath for my Warden cosplay, and maybe a few other extra bits), and taking apart a half-fur-half-knitted vest for the faux fur for Aloy (my daughter who crochets got the knitted part so she could pull it apart for the yarn).
And while we're at it, let's show off one of the crocheting daughter's other WIPs, because I can:
Fabric pieces and lots and lots of beadwork (and chains, and jewelry bits, and other things) to create a dragon sitting on its hoard, framed in a gold-painted embroidery hoop. It's beautiful in person.
Tags so everyone can see, and play along if you want and haven't yet.
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30 Uncommon Character Development Questions ( send me a number )
What position does your character sleep in? ( i.e; stomach, side, back, etc. ) Describe why they do this — optional.
Does your character have any noteworthy features? Freckles? Dimples? A scar somewhere unusual? etc.
Does your character have an accent? What does it sound like?
Do they have any verbal tics? Do they have trouble pronouncing certain words or getting their thoughts across clearly?
What are their chief tension areas?
If you were to pick one song — and only one song — to describe your character, what would it be and why?
How does your character perceive themselves? Positive? Negative? Neutral?
Are they a quick thinker or do they need time to sort through their thoughts?
Does your character dream or are their nights filled with an empty blackness? Describe a dream they’ve had or a night they couldn’t sleep and what they did to preoccupy their time.
If they had a choice, would they prefer a subway or a bus for public transportation?
What do they think of creation? Do they believe in evolution or do they believe in God? What is their religion like?
Describe 5 unusual characteristics your muse has.
Have they ever been so overwhelmed they had to stop and take a break from something?
Are they a team player or do they prefer to be solo?
Can they multi-task or must they focus on one subject at a time?
What are their best school subjects? What are their worst? List five of each.
Is your character an introvert or an extrovert? How do they handle big crowds of people?
Are they a leader, do they prefer to follow, or would they rather just stay on the sidelines altogether?
If your character was suddenly challenged, would they rather run away or stay and fight?
If your character was allowed to murder one person without any consequences, who would that person be and why?
Your character has been granted 3 wishes; what would they wish for and why?
Does your character trust people right off the bat or does it take them some time to warm up to someone?
Do they prefer romance or affection? What is the quickest way to your character’s heart?
Does your character have any enemies? If so, who and why?
Do they have any weird bedroom habits? Any unusual kinks?
How does your character prepare for bed? Do they sleep at all or can they stay awake for days on end without trouble?
If your character had one thing to say to their parents before they died, what would it be?
Are they afraid of death? Do they have any regrets?
Does your character get restless when things are too quiet or do they favour solitude and silence? Why?
Finally; if your character was forced to eat one thing for the rest of their life, what would they choose and why?
uh, so: the hawkes flee ferelden directly after loghain’s betrayal at lothering, and when they arrive at the gallows, the guards say kirkwall has been taking in refugees “for months.”
uh. the significance of that particular point in time just occurred to me, specifically in relation to the gallows itself.
because alistair and the warden are happily pelting around ferelden right this moment with a newly liberated morrigan, an adorable zombie granny, a tal-vashoth sten, a mabari, a nun/bard, and a sexy, sexy antivan crow, right? and one of the places they may be present in… is kinloch hold.
….the gallows may be a horror show but say a prayer for the future knight-captain, lads. he’s currently off being extensively tortured right this minute by blood mages in a different circle tower!
either that or he’s locked up in a chantry to “recover.” for like. a hot second. how long does it take before hawke meets cullen in kirkwall? two, three years? not long enough.
(god, it explains so much about act one cullen, though. trying to act like he knows how to be a knight-captain. and he’s like, all of twenty-two years old, still dosing with holy cocaine and dealing with horrific ptsd. shaking my fist at meredith stannard)
one year. hawke is in kirkwall for one year & change and still saving up for the deep roads venture when she receives the opportunity to check on the wounded coast for a missing templar, and first meets brand-new knight-captain cullen stanton rutherford.
i mean no wonder the guy is trying new intimidation tactics that nearly get him killed and falls back to repeating dogma when confronted with opinions on mages!!! he’s practically a fuckin teenager!
fresh from a nightmare-inducing trauma at ferelden circle, wants to impress his absolutely terrifying knight-commander
and the stakes are SUPER high because not only did she specifically import him to kirkwall to specifically imbue him with a fear & hatred of mages in order to take her spot….. but he also took his vows like, two years ago & older templars resent it, his parents died in the Blight & he undoubtedly doesn’t even know where his siblings went yet. he is reliant on the templars for lyrium and alone in a strange city. obeying the knight-commander’s orders without question is literally his only option.
and now the recruits he’s meant to be training and protecting (some of whom may be older than him????) are going missing and he’s worried they’re dead or in thrall to blood mages
worst of all, now he’s made a complete tit of himself in front of a pretty girl with a big sword. and her judgy friends
:(
what the hell do people expect of cullen in this game???? he is NOT having a good time. poor ferelden dingus
And Cullen has a canonical birth year, too. Which means we have a very good idea of how old he was during Act 1 of DA2.
My poor boy was only twenty, maybe going on twenty-one, when he meets Hawke the first time.
Like seriously. He's barely not a teenager, still freshly traumatized, probably getting extra doses of lyrium to help him cope with that, and under the worst Knight-Commander ever's command.
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Going to AX this weekend? Stop by for some exclusive posters!
July 2: Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds / Godzilla @ Booth #1300
July 3: Sonic 35th Anniversary @ 3pm Sonic the Hedgehog Animated Shorts: A Frame-by-Frame Retrospective panel
July 4: Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds x EVANGELION @ Booth #1300
July 5: Sonic x Racing Around the World - AX Edition @ Booth #1300
Considering that Perfect Chaos, Dark/Perfect Dark Gaia, and Solaris are all kind of kaiju (especially Perfect Chaos)? And like you said, giant alien robots have already happened.
This is just Tuesday, and Sonic will absolutely defeat Godzilla with the power of friendship and super-punching the aggression out of the big guy.
30 Uncommon Character Development Questions ( send me a number )
What position does your character sleep in? ( i.e; stomach, side, back, etc. ) Describe why they do this — optional.
Does your character have any noteworthy features? Freckles? Dimples? A scar somewhere unusual? etc.
Does your character have an accent? What does it sound like?
Do they have any verbal tics? Do they have trouble pronouncing certain words or getting their thoughts across clearly?
What are their chief tension areas?
If you were to pick one song — and only one song — to describe your character, what would it be and why?
How does your character perceive themselves? Positive? Negative? Neutral?
Are they a quick thinker or do they need time to sort through their thoughts?
Does your character dream or are their nights filled with an empty blackness? Describe a dream they’ve had or a night they couldn’t sleep and what they did to preoccupy their time.
If they had a choice, would they prefer a subway or a bus for public transportation?
What do they think of creation? Do they believe in evolution or do they believe in God? What is their religion like?
Describe 5 unusual characteristics your muse has.
Have they ever been so overwhelmed they had to stop and take a break from something?
Are they a team player or do they prefer to be solo?
Can they multi-task or must they focus on one subject at a time?
What are their best school subjects? What are their worst? List five of each.
Is your character an introvert or an extrovert? How do they handle big crowds of people?
Are they a leader, do they prefer to follow, or would they rather just stay on the sidelines altogether?
If your character was suddenly challenged, would they rather run away or stay and fight?
If your character was allowed to murder one person without any consequences, who would that person be and why?
Your character has been granted 3 wishes; what would they wish for and why?
Does your character trust people right off the bat or does it take them some time to warm up to someone?
Do they prefer romance or affection? What is the quickest way to your character’s heart?
Does your character have any enemies? If so, who and why?
Do they have any weird bedroom habits? Any unusual kinks?
How does your character prepare for bed? Do they sleep at all or can they stay awake for days on end without trouble?
If your character had one thing to say to their parents before they died, what would it be?
Are they afraid of death? Do they have any regrets?
Does your character get restless when things are too quiet or do they favour solitude and silence? Why?
Finally; if your character was forced to eat one thing for the rest of their life, what would they choose and why?
rules: go to pinterest and type in the prompts below. whatever image pops up first is your image
prompts: colour, quote, character, hobby, accessory, song lyrics, flower
Sure, that works. (Dang, Pinterest, take a swing at me today with those quotes/song lyrics why dontcha? Also that character choice.)
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when brandon sanderson talks about villains in his famous free youtube writing class video lectures he'll say 'what's the difference between gollum and sauron' and of course he means the villain that's present in the narrative and characterized in a way the audience can potentially relate to or sympathize with vs. the looming threatening anonymous far-off force (among other things). but every time he asks that i think 'well one of those guys tracked down frodo and got his ring back'
