Beautiful Thieves

Shells And Glitter

A walk across a beautiful beach, waves lapping at your feet and shells glistening in the sun; That was the inspiration for this beautiful set of dice. Filled with blue and rose gold glitter, stunning mylar, and rose gold shells and starfish, this set is the perfect addition for any beach lover, mermaid, or sea-faring sailor. Wherever your adventures take you now, you will certainly turn heads with this amazing dice set. Net these dice over on our Etsy shop: https://www.etsy.com/shop/StarScavengerStudio

Stock progress

Just a little shot of our growing dice stock. Three of these sets are awaiting their photoshoot, so hang tight for detailed pics later!

Shells And Glitter 2

A walk across a beautiful beach, waves lapping at your feet and shells glistening in the sun; That was the inspiration for this beautiful set of dice. Filled with blue and rose gold glitter, stunning mylar, and rose gold shells and starfish, this set is the perfect addition for any beach lover, mermaid, or sea-faring sailor. Wherever your adventures take you now, you will certainly turn heads with this amazing dice set. Net these dice over on our Etsy shop: https://www.etsy.com/shop/StarScavengerStudio

Shells And Glitter 3

A walk across a beautiful beach, waves lapping at your feet and shells glistening in the sun; That was the inspiration for this beautiful set of dice. Filled with blue and rose gold glitter, stunning mylar, and rose gold shells and starfish, this set is the perfect addition for any beach lover, mermaid, or sea-faring sailor. Wherever your adventures take you now, you will certainly turn heads with this amazing dice set. Net these dice over on our Etsy shop: https://www.etsy.com/shop/StarScavengerStudio

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~~~TES V: SKYRIM~~~

The Errant Souls Archive Series

Always Read the Fine Print (@paraparadigm)

Fandom: TES V: Skyrim Pairing: F/M Teldryn Sero/OC | Other minor relationships Genre: Adventure | Grimdark | Found Family | Medium Burn | Rivals to Lovers Rating & Archive Warnings: E (Graphic Depictions of Violence; semi-explicit sexual content)

Summary: Vera’s world ended not with a bang, but with a whimper: the year is 2095, the world in the throes of late-stage climate change. The Earth will keep going, the humans - not so much. As it turns out, the apocalypse is contagious: either that, or she has spectacularly bad luck. Waking up naked on a bloody altar isn’t the best introduction to a new place, but you make do with what life hands you. After a rocky start, Vera finds herself in Markarth, trying to make a new home for herself amidst the violence, corruption, and Thalmor zealotry. But just when things are finally settling down — as much as they can in the city of blood and silver — a Nord and a Dunmer roll into town with the mother of all bad deals. Always read the fine print.

This story starts about a year before the events of the game and will continue through the timeline and the DLCs. Canon-compliant(ish), but skews towards a lot of original content. Narration is in 3rd person limited; the protagonist is not the Dragonborn.

The Prism Umbra (@eranehn)

Fandom: TES V: Skyrim Pairing: F/M; F/F; Multi; F!OC/Original Blade Character; F!OC/Original Altmer Character Genre: Cosmology | Adventure | Established Romance | Disabled Character Rating & Archive Warnings: M (Graphic Depictions of Violence; allusive sexual content)

Summary: Spirit-beings are known for their love of making bargains, especially the tricksy-trappy kind, which rarely culminate into anything more than afternoon bloodsport. But there also exists a much quieter, less flashy sort of transaction, one which lies far outside the notice of a good and proper hero. Rumors throughout Tamriel abound: Agnostic temples whose priests are renowned shade-slips—mystics uniquely suited to mediating transactions between the planes. Sometimes the currencies exchanged involve tourism of the flesh, but information is always the septim of choice. Laurel is high priestess at one such temple, hidden away in the southernmost reaches of the Rift, where she has served the denizens of Aetherius, Oblivion, Skyrim, and Cyrodiil for as long as she can remember.

Trouble brews in the mountains as whispers echo across the planes. Dragons of eld are rising, and the Dragonborn is nowhere to be found. What begins as a favor to her Altmer lover—a covert Blade torn between duty and devotion—concludes with their involvement in an unlikely bunch, none of whom are at all interested in being good and proper heroes. Least of all the Dovakhiin herself, who simply cannot hear Dibella’s will over all that Shouting.

Always Read the Footnotes (Upcoming) (@paraparadigm)

Fandom: TES V: Skyrim Pairing: M/F; Teldryn Sero/OC; other relationships to be added Genre: Adventure | Romance | Grimdark | Found Family Rating & Archive Warnings: E (Graphic Depictions of Violence; semi-explicit sexual content)

Summary: TBA

Gathering Souls (Upcoming) (@paraparadigm, @eranehn)

Fandom: TES V: Skyrim Pairing: Multi Genre: Adventure | Politics | Romance | Established Romantic Relationships | Found Family | Cosmological Shenanigans Rating & Archive Warnings: M; TBD

Summary: TBA

~~~DRAGON AGE~~~

Scions of Levellan and Untold Tales of the Inquisition (@eranehn, galacticatart)

Fandom: Dragon Age: Inquisition Pairing: M/F; M/M; F!Lavellan/Solas; M!Lavellan / Dorian Pavus Genre: Angst & Fluff | Wholesome Sibling Relationship | Social Politics | Bittersweet Romance | Slow Burn Rating & Archive Warnings: M (Graphic Depictions of Violence; some sexual content)

Summary: Just days after their reunion, estranged twins Era'nehn and Avril are embroiled with the Inquisition. Navigating unfamiliar politics is hard enough without the burden of unwanted power, but they find themselves entangled to their very cores. It’s all they can do to keep their footing amidst agency, expectations, and historical events—add new friendships, enmities, some accidental romance, and a little impending doom to that? Things get complicated fast.

This story follows their tumultuous cause and effect, blending canonical events with original interludes told through the eyes of their friends, advisers, companions, and Inquisition agents. Not just a Lavellan show, plenty of love is given to NPCs and their points of view, including those left on the sidelines off main canon.

Please expect introspective characters and angst before the fluff. Depending on the POV, you can also expect gratuitous metaphors and shamelessly poetic imagery. Generally canon/universe compliant with a few minor deviations. It updates roughly three times per month.

Bootlace and Crystal Grace (@eranehn)

Fandom: Dragon Age: Inquisition Pairing: F/F; Lace Harding/F!OC Genre: Established Relationship | Adventure | Fluff | Slice of Life | Memoir Rating & Archive Warnings: M (Graphic Depictions of Violence; some sexual content)

Summary: Zosime defers to her dwarven lover eight times out of ten, but not because she’s “good,” or selfless, or whatever ideal her parents tried (and failed) to raise. Her motivations are quite the opposite, really, something she was quick to point out whenever they worried about her unwavering devotion—which is wholehearted, not blinkered. It’s just that when it comes to Lace Harding, Zosime is the most greedy, selfish person in the world, and she’d do almost anything to see her partner smile.

One year, that meant scouting for the Inquisition and a nice pair of boots.

Recipes for Disaster: The Reluctant Alchemist’s Guide to Thedas (@paraparadigm)

Fandom: Dragon Age: Inquisition Genre: Humor & Angst | Darkest Timeline | Off-Canon | Slow Burn | Cosmology Pairing: F/M; Solas/OC; Other minor relationships Rating & Archive Warnings: E (Graphic Descriptions of Violence; some sexual content)

Summary:  A modern-day historian tries to survive Thedas by wit, chance, and the skin of her teeth at the questionable edges of the Inquisition. 

Margo Duvalle likes her quiet academic life just fine. Her research on the history of botany is going well - until she finds an odd manuscript in the local special collections library. What starts as a promising source for a new article leads to a series of unfortunate events that hurl Margo into an unfamiliar world - and into a stranger’s body. But a PhD in history doesn’t prepare you for surviving in a world on the edge of collapse, especially when the organization that seeks to fix things is itself a sordid mess. As she tries to unravel the mysteries lurking behind young Evelyn Trevelyan’s apparent incompetence, Margo is led into a tangled web that weaves multiple worlds together — and what waits in the shadows might be much bigger than whatever strife plagues Thedas.

Apocrypha (@paraparadigm)

Fandom: DA2/DA Awakening Genre: Body Horror | Epistolary Pairing: F!Cousland/Architect; F!Cousland/Loghain Rating & Archive Warning: E (for body horror & uncomfortable themes)

Summary: A strange journal in an unreadable language surfaces in the Inquisition’s archive. Just one more dubious discard rescued from the rubble of the Kirkwall Circle, it is filed away and promptly forgotten. Until someone takes up the task of deciphering it. The story of the unlikely kinship between two women thrown into Thedas from different worlds, and kept apart by distance and history, but whose lives interweave on the pages of a forgotten textual artifact.

Enter the Crossroads (Upcoming) (@paraparadigm, @eranehn)

Fandom: Dragon Age: All Media Genre: Crossroads Freeform | Slice of Life | Politics | Complicated relationships Pairing: NPC/NPC; OC/ OC Rating & Archive Warnings: M (Graphic Descriptions of Violence; some sexual content)

Summary: TBA

~~~META~~~

Meta Analyses and Unsolicited Opinions (@paraparadigm, @eranehn)

Era here with thanks for the tags from @juniper-tree​, @fandomn00blr​, and @cartadwarfwithaheartofgold​. I’m sorry if I’ve missed anyone during the blog shuffles! Tagging you back, and also @funkypoacher​ (I suspect I’ve missed a bunch of your stuff lately, I’m jonesing) and @serial-chillr​ (art WIPs count too!).

Uuuum so I actually started on a snippet for Scions. It’s…small. And not in order. But it’s the first step taken against burnout, and that makes me happy with it.

Excerpt

She’s technically a monster too. She might not look it at first glance and seems mostly human, but it isn’t deniable even despite her looks compared to the other monsters. 

But she realizes that she is still not like the rest of the monsters either and may not have entirely the same experiences as them, which is why she feels that she might not belong to or deserve to go to the support group. By sometimes passing as human, she feels she isn’t worthy of the space. 

The sad reality though is even though she’s mostly human in appearance, that tail she has undeniably would still cause her some struggle. Humans are still gonna look at that tail and think she’s a freak. There are probably still accommodations she needs because of the tail that she may still struggle to have access to. Even if it is just the tail, that tail is still enough to other her from humans and cause her problems and discrimination. 

She should get to belong in that support group even if she gets told she’s not monster “enough”. She still shares some of the same struggles as them that are caused by being a monster, and needs support. 

Rating: Mature  Category: F/ F Fandom: Dragon Age Relationship: Lace Harding / Original Female Character Format: Episodic short stories

Episode 1

CWs: NSFW sexy times

A branch tangled in Zosime’s hair, forcing her to pause and fish it out with a curse.  She keeps the ringlets just off her shoulders, but of course that didn’t stop the undergrowth from catching in her halo of frizz every humid afternoon. It’s the same damned thing one season after another, and that year brought her so much closer to shaving it all off. But every time she complains, Harding lures her down with a laugh, thrusting her calloused fingers into the dark and springy mass.

“Don’t do it, Zosi,” she says, gently massaging her scalp, “unless it’s really that bad—” And then Zosi forgets whatever she’s ranting about, because that’s what happens whenever Harding gets too close. Lips. Lips happen.

Should she grow it out and braid it for a bun? She considered the possibility while ducking and weaving her way through the woods. What if the bun came loose while she was fighting? Enemies would be thrilled to find a convenient rope…though Harding might like that, too.

Zosime defers to her dwarven lover eight times out of ten, but not because she’s “good,” or selfless, or whatever ideal her parents tried (and failed) to raise. Her motivations are quite the opposite, really, something she was quick to point out whenever they worried about her unwavering devotion—which is wholehearted, not blinkered. It’s just that when it comes to Lace Harding, Zosime is the most greedy, selfish person in the world, and she’d do almost anything to see her partner smile.