would you adopt me from the hawke shelter be honest.

dragon age shitposts

Joaquín Hawke through the years

Pre-Blight / Mid DA2 / Post-DA2

Details about each fit under the cut

fenhawke, nsfw, weird and disjointed venty sketch comic with no real resolution. Content warnings for references to past sexual abuse/trauma, dissociation/depersonalization.

It's been over three years since I first drew these two on their wedding day. They deserve an update

I can’t believe it

All that obsessive research into medieval dental hygiene actually paid off

I was spending all this time thinking “Literally no one cares about Thedosian dental hygiene, Amy, why are you wasting your time on this” but HERE IT IS

So yeah, this isn’t actually true! While the toothbrush itself is a fairly modern invention, there’s a well recorded history of people in medieval Europe using a combination of various sweet-smelling mouth rinses and scrubbing their teeth clean with a cloth and a mild abrasive herb paste of some sort. Some common rinses included mint and wine or mint and vinegar, and pastes included things like marjoram and mint, rosemary and charcoal, and vinegar, pickling alum, white salt and honey.

Someone even tested a bunch of historical remedies out and found out that they were mostly pretty effective.

i feel compelled to add that since andrastianism is so centered around singing and breath, dental hygiene prob has a strong cultural component, too — not that non-andrastian characters should have bad breath, but that this would be a p widespread and normal idea in the same way andrastianism is widespread and normalized.

big fan of dwarves having a strong cultural trend towards hygiene simply bc they’re more likely to be in contact w darkspawn and so a higher standard of cleanliness, in particular making sure your mouth is carefully washed out, makes a ton of sense, too. also, it’s v advantageous to be a famous inventor. dwarven water pick real to me!!!!

wrt dalish clans, chew sticks have been used worldwide in a variety of environments for thousands and thousands of years. there’s so much knowledge-exchange happening between arlathvhens and intermarrying/mages being sent to other clans that they’ve prob got multiple options + they don’t require mages to isolate from the rest of the community, so they’re prob more comfortable w magically-aided hygiene.

Yaaay a sleeping pile of characters! :3

☙ Inquisitor Brendolin of Clan Lavellan ❧