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you don’t care that the witchita lineman is still on the line?? you’re not so lonesome you could cry?? you’re not walking after midnight?? you don’t want to go to luckenbach texas with waylon willie and the boys?? you’re not lying there with linda on your mind?? you’re not socking it to the harper valley pta?? you’re not kissing an angel good morning??

dragon age is one of those franchises that sprawls over about 600 mediums so here’s a handy list of literally all of them, with links where i could provide downloads. if anyone has other links, or if i’ve missed something somewhere, feel free to add it on!

the games

origins – the first one, the best plot, the worst graphics, decent mechanics for an old game, broadest character development, as good as people say [xbox 360, ps3, & pc]

dragon age 2 – somewhere in the middle, smoother mechanics, deep rather than broad in terms of plot, world, & characters, better than people say [xbox 360, ps3, & pc]

inquisition – the latest one, the nicest graphics, broad rather than deep, actively pretty shallow in areas, nice cc though, not as good as people say [xbox 360, xbox one, ps3, ps4, & pc, though not all dlc are available on last-gen software]

the dlc

origins:

various add-ons, notably the stone prisoner which adds the companion shale

a tale of orzammar – prequel to dwarf origin [.dazip]

the darkspawn chronicles – play alternate plot as a darkspawn

leliana’s song – backstory for leliana

the golems of amgarrak – added quest in orzammar for the warden

witch hunt – sequel to origins involving morrigan

awakening – the main dlc, adds a significant sequel to origins, introduces anders

dragon age 2:

various add-ons, notably the exiled prince (adds the companion sebastian) and the black emporium (adds magic item store, your own mabari, & the ability to customise your appearance after the beginning of the game)

legacy – added quest in a new area, introduces corypheus

mark of the assassin – added quest in a new area, also felicia day is there

inquisition:

various add-ons, notably the black emporium again, although no doggo this time :(

jaws of hakkon – whole new area, multiple quests, explore the story of the first inquisitor & meet avaar, also there’s a bear

the descent – whole new area, deep roads but they’re pretty now, lots of dwarf lore, hopefully introduces stuff picked up in later games?

trespasser – the real ending to the game, why this wasn’t in the base game i’ll never know, it’s really good though like man, def introduces & develops stuff that’s gonna be important

the novels

the stolen throne – prequel to origins, the orlesian occupation of ferelden, introduces king maric & develops loghain [epub]

the calling – sequel to stolen throne, king maric, duncan, & the grey wardens, introduces fiona [epub]

asunder – prequel to inquisition, the development of the mage-templar war, introduces cole [pdf]

the masked empire – concurrent with inquisition, the orlesian civil war between celene and gaspard, develops briala [epub]

last flight – concurrent with inquisition, develops grey wardens in the anderfels, hopefully introduces stuff that’s gonna come up later [epub]

the comics

dragon age (idw comic) – prequel to origins, the daughter of a mage & a templar has a bunch of adventures, focus on circles & magic

dragon age (penny arcade comic) – prequel to origins, a bunch of templars try to find the witch of the wilds [webcomic]

awakening – prequel to the ‘awakening’ dlc, nathaniel howe breaks into his family’s home [webcomic]

the silent grove – sequel to dragon age 2, alistair, isabela, & varric go on an adventure in antiva, there’s stuff involving flemeth & maric [online]

those who speak – sequel to the silent grove, alistair, isabela, & varric in tevinter this time, isabela’s backstory is developed [online]

until we sleep – sequel to those who speak, alistair, isabela, & varric still in tevinter, varric’s backstory is developed, maevaris tilani introduced [online]

knight errant – concurrent with inquisition, an elven squire in kirkwall caught up in inquisition business [online]

magekiller – concurrent with inquisition, two badasses hunting down venatori for the inqusiition, also the archon is there, also lesbians [online]

the short stories

prequels to dragon age 2, companion backstories [anders, aveline, fenris, isabela, merrill, sebastian, varric]

the anime movie

dawn of the seeker – standalone movie about cassandra pentaghast fighting some dragons, fills in her backstory, fun in places but mostly only for the truly desperate [dub, sub]

the tabletop rpg

d&d style tabletop rpg in the dragon age universe, written pre-dragon age 2

being played on ‘tabletop’ with chris hardwick, kevin sussman, & sam witwer [part one, part two]

core rulebook [pdf]

the books

the world of thedas 1 & 2 – books full of lore, character backstory, art of characters, animals, & areas, purportedly written by brother genitivi

the art of dragon age inquisition – art book

In my freshman year, my great grandma passed away. She never threw out or sold anything worth keeping if she could help it, having grown up in the Depression, so when she passed, my grandma suddenly inherited a lifetime’s worth of treasured items. She distributed most of them to her kids and grandkids, saved some sentimental items, and donated most of the clothing and trinkets to charity. I got back the stuffed leopard I’d given great-grandma in the hospital; the fur was still as soft as it’d been when I bought it. One of the biggest things she had to sort through was jewelry. For a year after my great-grandma died, my grandma was setting out organized rows of costume jewelry on basement tables and chivvying her granddaughters to take what they wanted.

And then, after all the choosing, she snuck me into her room while my cousins picked through wristwatches. On her bed were two small jewelry boxes: an old wooden one, and a cushioned one in white pleather.

“I brought you in here because if I gave these to your cousins, they’d sell it. I don’t want these sold. Do you understand?”

I understood.

This is the story of the biggest lie my grandma ever told her mom.

Great-grandma’s birthstone was garnet, and she loved the look of the stones, but could never justify paying for some. Her husband worked constantly, and so did she, and new clothes for the kids was more important than jewelry at the time. When my grandma was 16, she saved her first paychecks to buy her mom a garnet ring for Mother’s Day; that’s what was in the wooden box. The original receipt, handwritten, was crammed into the lid. Great-grandpa saw that ring and teared up; he’d always wanted to get his wife something nice like that, but hadn’t ever had enough money for it. Determined, he vowed to change that. He set aside money for years, slowly, hiding it away in a box in the attic, vowing to buy his wife something she could always wear with her ring.

Time passed, and inflation happened, and he slowly squirreled money away in the hopes that jewelry might get cheaper again sometime. Time passed again, and age had little mercy on him. He got older, typed up a note, and placed in in the box, describing what the money was for; he knew his time was near. Under no circumstances was the money to be spent on anything other than giving his wife a nice gift. The letter read, “One day, my dear Ruth, you’ll have garnet earrings to match that ring.” It’s what great-grandma had always mourned missing; she had such a nice ring, and no good earrings to go with it.

Well, men don’t live forever, and when great-grandpa passed away, my grandma cleaned out her mom’s attic as she prepared to move somewhere smaller. Going through boxes of polaroids and paper clips, she stumbled on the box of earrings money, note and all. She stashed it with her coat, and after that day of cleaning, went to the jeweler before her mom could try and spend the money on something too sensible. She came back with the white pleather box; sure enough, still nestled inside that box were two clip-on garnet earrings.

”Mom never got her ears pierced, you know. That’s why it took so long to find a good pair.”

Once she’d gotten the earrings, grandma presented them to her mom, along with the note. The paper was obviously old and warped by moisture, but it was legible. My great grandma cried happy tears and treasured those earrings more than any other jewelry; the last gift her husband could give her. Decades after the fact, I’d seen her wear them to Christmas parties and worry over them, checking that they stayed on her earlobes.

okay so this is a bit of a complicated question (not in a bad way)!

because we all want the girls to be together and realistically there's only so many words, it's a lot easier to portray all three of them falling at the same time or two of them already being established and falling for the other one.

statistically speaking a relationship like this highly improbable (it can happen but it is very very very unlikely) but this is also fiction! so i wouldn't say any of them are a bad polyam dynamics.

as far as fics that showcase more realistic polyam dynamics, two of the ones i would guide you to are:

"being a bitch is my kink" by @yanniest shows mira's interest in wanting to date zoey separately from what rumi wants, and also treating their sex as equivalent to establishing a dating dynamic (just because they all slept together once doesn't mean they don't want to take zoey out individually)

"counter punch" by @thepointofnotexisting though rumi and mira are dating, zoey's relationship with each of them happens individually and at their own pace

It's their day 🌷