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Welcome! I’m Gin (she/they), and I’m a psychology/creative writing graduate, cat parent, and a fanfiction writer for Dragon Age.
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Primary ships: NB!Solavellan, Pavellan, and sometimes Zevwarden
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Disclaimers:
18+ only, please. This is a safe space for everyone in the LGBTQ+ community, and that includes people who identify as ace, aro, demi, trans, or nonbinary. I do not tolerate racism, bigotry, bullying, or drama, and will use the block button liberally. I am firmly in the camp of "don't like, don't read/engage." I have curated my own space here and I encourage other people to do the same.
Feel free to open a conversation with me if I say or do anything harmful; there's always room to make the world a better place.
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I am open to transformative works of my fics so long as I am notified and credited, and it does not violate my DNWs (see exchange letter). This includes art, written works inspired by mine, podfics, and any works related to the Mirrors to the Multiverse AU. Please see my exchange letter for details and DNWs.
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I do try to keep most of these to a minimum, though. If it is a post involving abuse or other dark topics, I will mark it as "cw:" and then whatever the content is.
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A Dragon Age fan for well over a decade, Sinope has been reading and writing fanfic since the early 90s. She loves found family, overthinks everything, and spends too much time playing with yeast and yarn (separately).
Rosella is a writer of fanfic by day and a chronic replayer of video games by night. When not pondering ancient elves, dwarven castes, and the Chant of Light, you can find them making soup and sourdough.
The midjourney stuff just reminds of when we were trying to find a new platform to host the ao3 donation form, and companies kept trying to tell me about all their "ai" features that would track donor engagement, and figure out the optimal pattern to email individual donors asking for follow up donations, and all the ways they suggest we manipulate people into staying on our websites. It was a great way to filter out who either wasn't listening to us when we described our ethics and donor base, or just didn't believe us.
Now granted ao3 is a unique case based on a) the amount of page views we get in any given time period and b) the fact that most donors absolutely do Not want to be identified as such anywhere, (the default "list of recent donors" module got nuked Immediately) but it surprised me some that the concept of "donors who value their privacy and would be furious at even the whiff of AI" is unique. Some of us really are just existing in different worlds.
#I just started dropping '2.5 Billion page views a month'#into conversations as early as possible bc they would Not believe me otherwise#it was right up there with having to say 'csam attacks' to get them to take my compartmentalization of information concerns seriously#turns out those are the magic words#otw#op
The last part was kind of insane, honestly. When we started changing platforms for the donor database, I kept telling them that yes I was aware we already had an account for the volunteer database, and no that could not be connected to the donor database. And they said yes fine sure and then connected them anyway. And I called them back and said, excuse me, I'm confused, I can see both databases. And they said, well, yeah, but it's only you, someone has to be able to see both databases to give other users access. The other users can't see both. And I said, no, we have been asking for a completely separate database. I should not be able to see both. And they said, you are one organization, one organization can't have two databases. And I said, last year someone used our volunteer email list to commit approximately one thousand felonies. Please feel free to imagine how much worse it could have been had they had a way to use volunteers' email addresses to get their legal names. We do not want this to be something anyone can do no matter how much we trust them. Let me describe those felonies to you in more detail. And they emailed me two hours later and said, you can have two separate databases.
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Fic summary:
In the relative respite of the Emprise Du Lion, Sylvia Mercar learns what it means to have survived. Fenris and Hawke show the way, as best they can- but the path she takes is hers. That does not mean they allow her to walk it alone.
COME GET YOUR SECOND CHAPTER, MY COMRADES
(Like last week: While it's not necessary, I recommend reading Quantum Satis (As Much as Needed) beforehand, as much of this fic is about the aftermath of that fic)
Preview below the cut!
The silence stretches between them. With his part said, Hawke’s hands trace beside the markings of Fenris’s body, brows twitching. He scratches idly at his beard with a spare hand. Fenris allows himself to be touched as he thinks of a suitable response.
It is difficult to find. Difficult to explain why he did not seek out Sylvia. She needs her rest, but that was not what kept him from her door. It is the memory of seared flesh and death. He realizes, then, that some part of him is afraid still. Not for her life, but that Sylvia is lost. Unrecognizable.
But then, Fenris was not recognizable after he had emerged from Nenealeus’ estate. Not even his mind retained traces of the boy he had been before. A clean slate.
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Yolebrat is a professional artist, illustrator, and Doctor of Fine Arts inspired by fantasy worlds. Dragon Age holds a special place in her heart and growing up with the games totally had nothing to do with the direction of her academic career.
We all love the "becoming the very thing you sought to destroy," trope. but I have a growing fondness for "destroying the very thing you sought to become"
"this is a dwarf noble from a city that has been living on top of the deep roads for generations. even if he’s older by origins, he has military rank, noble training, and probably more actual understanding of dwarven warfare than people remember."
"he has spent decades in the assembly, which means he has survived the deadliest combat arena in orzammar: old dwarves arguing"
vs. The Arishok
"he is enormous, heavily armed, personally duels hawke, and hits hard enough that half the playerbase remembers that fight as “running in circles around pillars while a giant qunari tries to delete me”"
Thinking about how Shadowheart is so thirsty, y'know? She flirts with Karlach and Wyll, pines after Shar, has an incredibly homoerotic dynamic with Lae'zel, dreams about Halsin, and, if prompted, is enthusiastically polyamarous.
All of this is all well and good from a horny standpoint, but I think it also illustrates something important about Shadowheart's personality: No matter how prickly she tries to present herself, she's a lover at her core.
She loves life, even when she attempts to mask this love behind cold violence. She loves cute animals and pretty flowers. She loves her parents, even as she struggles to remember them. She loves her goddess (In her own, fucked up way). She loves trashy romance chapbooks and good wine. She loves her friends, even when they annoy her. She loves herself, after a fashion, and loves her body, loves other people's bodies. Even before fully abandoning Shar, as a partner she's caring, affectionate, even a little girlish and goofy behind the veneer of brooding mysteries.
And these things manifest even after being raised in Shar's cloister, after several decades of trauma and memory wipes. So strong is Shadowheart's love that Viconia literally has to erase her multiple times to build a colder, more callous acolyte. So strong is her love that even when mind wiped and personally guided by the hand of the Lady of Sorrows, she still harbors doubts about the thing that tells her to abandon her love.
It's the love of and for her companions, and the gnawing feeling of absence where her she knows her other loves should be, that ultimately leads her away from Shar. Her first priority after enduring timeless torments in the Shadowfell is affirming her love to a romanced player character. If her parents survive, she abandons what would have almost certainly been a life of fame, fortune, and power to care for them on a cozy farmstead, surrounding herself with the things and people that she loves. And if it comes up, she sees any proposed nonmonogamy not as an indictment of her partner's loyalty or their bond with her, but as a chance for them to spread and share and revel in the love that she holds so dear.
It's no wonder Viconia and Shar were so desperate to control her, to turn her away from Selûne. This is a woman whose love burns so brightly that even the goddess of darkness and loss failed to snuff out her light.
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oops... I redesigned them again 🙈 just in time for artfight! (you can find my profile here!)
I worked hard on their previous design but realized it didn't quite fit the aesthetic I ultimately want to shoot for. they're an alchemist first and foremost so I really wanted to bring out a more scholarly side. I needed something prim but still simple and functional. I also limited the color palette even further than before and went for a darker look overall.
it was a challenge not to overdesign everything and add unnecessary accessories or slap on patterns Luthais wouldn't be caught dead in. this may not be an super detailed lineup but I think it fits them and that's what matters!!
