#elnawen

yayyyyy im glad!!! i find it to be a hard book to pitch to people, because it manages to be about so many people and touch on so many ideas. when i say it's about classism and racism and family abuse and so on, i don't want to make it seem like it does so in a tedious and preachy way, it's the opposite... one thing i admire madly about emily brontë is this ability to shift effortlessly between tones ; some scenes are darkly funny, or just very very funny, and then the next is the most beautiful romantic monologue you've ever read, and then the next scene makes you feel like you're stuck at dinner with an abusive tyrant. and then back to funny again somehow! i never get tired of watching mr lockwood so elegantly move from one social blunder to another

They act now that your money will flow into certain mentioned organisations (yeah, right !), in return you get some cheap, childish plastic/wooden sh!t in return (yeah, great) they try to make money with copyrighted stuff (the entire DA lore, games, characters, etc. yes it it all copyrighted). The money flows directly into their own pockets and they share it with their scam-"artists".

Do not give these thieves/scammers any of your personal informations nor any money, if you want any DA merch get the official Bioware merch and prints or create these cheap plastic pins, emotes yourself (if you do it just for your own use, without selling it, it is tolerated) -> go to a printshop, at least you know where your money really ends up and it's cheaper.

Behind these zine and merch blogs sit scammers who will keep the money they make, do not let them fool you and here is another "fanzine" that is working the same way and both blogs are very likely connected, the one who sells Leliana (lelianazine) merch:

(you see the blogs always look similar and emphasize "charity")

This individual here wants for a A4 print or a cheap coffee cup with print on a good amount of money for a character he does not even own the rights on. The printing itself is cheap af and you get it for a few euro in any print shop lol (even the reviews are fake, copy pasted). Like most art scammers he sends himself anon asks, too typical for them to have a reason to advertise their stuff further. There are many of such "artists" out there but they all do the same: they sell art/merch/zines that is copyright protected.

he even tries to copy the original artstyle of Zevran drawn by Matt Rhodes here the original:

Here the following art that copies the original by the concept art style (armor, body posture, dagger position, even the window in the background is same), but yeah it's his art....

(shhhh tell nobody I stole Matt Rhodes artstyle and make money out of it)

^ an abandoned scam account, they create regularly new ones

again: Online transactions can be easily tracked, you can get into trouble by law too not only the one who sells the forbidden stuff that is copyrighted. Many of the tumblr "artists" who create art for the fanzines are known donation scam supporters (others do not know it any better but they know they make money with copyrighted characters), they try to make money from different sources and it is at the end the same = scam. Do not let them fool you !

I always wonder why these artists do not do their own very individual art (if they want to sell anything, fanart is fine as long as not sold) that is NOT connected to any existing merch/company/in general copyright protected. Lack of own creativity? They want to surf on the already existing hype wave of what others had built? I would say both, next to scamming people.

If you want DA prints get it from the original DA artists Matt Rhodes for example I mentioned him in another post you get quality there, it's legal and made by the lead concept artist himself, or merch from Biowares offical merch shop.

My other post about merch and zine scam:

Gift for @elnawen​ based on this AU (you won’t understand what’s below if you don’t read/click this link)

My dearest Cas,

I hope you’re doing well since you sent your last letter. I heard the bombings at the French Front haven’t been going well. I guess if a member of the Team Free Will trio had been killed I would have heard, but I’m very worried.

After months of trying to forget the “greatest betrayer of all time,” the guys in charge have finally realized I actually am loyal to my country. Perks of being the best spy; nobody trusts me. I am still frowned upon and some want me executed. The only thing that’s convinced me that I still deserve to live is reading your letters.

I have an assignment with the army nerds now. What we do is obviously classified, but you love ‘enigmas’ and I know you have the clearance. The team is full of geniuses. There is a girl named Charlie and I can barely understand what she says most of the time, exactly like Kevin. She’s a lesbian, though not openly, of course. Kevin looks like a Jap, poor boy, though I think he’s Vietnamese. We are the trash the army would like to get rid of, but they can’t because they need our talent.

I had a nightmare the other day. Not like one of the nightmares about Alistair. It was after debriefing. They told me leave, so I went to a bar for the night. When I was leaving, I was ambushed. I fought, of course, thinking they were some of Alistair’s men, because I’m sure the bastard is still tracking me down.

But they weren’t Alistair’s. One of them was my captain and when I recognized him, he told me undercover agents like me were a liability for the Allies, and I had to be executed.

I woke up screaming. I consider myself fortunate to know you and your powerful family. I am sure if you hadn’t been there to pull some strings, I would already be dead or worse - back with Alistair.

On another subject, you should find a little package with this letter. When I saw this necklace I knew it was for you. The color is just like your eyes. How sappy is this? I was told it’s a lucky charm. I guess we should put all chances on our side, right?

I am sorry this letter isn’t really happy. I feel so useless in the back, worrying for you, Sam, and Meg. I know you are all freaking gods of the sky, but the three of you are in my thoughts every day.

Please bring back my baby brother alive and well. Come back to me, my love. I am waiting.

All my love forever,

D.

Thank you so much, lovely! I hope you have a WONDERFUL new year too!

10. What song sums up this year for you?

Hmm...I don’t know if there’s any songs that really describe my year, but anything by Jon Bellion could be the soundtrack for my year! I’ve listened to his music this year, I can already tell that if I listen to any of those songs in the future, it’s gonna throw me on a nostalgia trip to 2017.

19. What was one nice thing you did for yourself?

I stopped waiting around for other people to ask me to do stuff, or to make time in their calendars for me, and I decided to do things I want to do, with or without anyone else... so I took myself to Iceland. :)

43. What have you learned about yourself this year that you didn’t know in the years prior?

If you want to take a photo with a dinosaur you can always ask saawek she’ll be delighted to take a selfie with you

deancas fusion with the film tombstone. dean is wyatt earp, given up law to settle down as a businessman in lawless tombstone, arizona with his brother and his brother’s new wife. when his old friend cas (doc holliday) rolls into town again, together the three of them (with sam’s wife eileen) take out the gang ruining everything for everybody. subplot about cas being revealed to be dying from TB and dean valiantly wanting to find a cure for it. endverse flavoured cas. lots of hurt/comfort all around but happy ending.

Really nice to dip my feet back into this fandom, it’s been way too long!

~~~

“I can not paint if you will not hold still.”

He was certain that he had been giving this line for at least five different times yet it had to be repeated once more. Somewhere he had thought that Ezio had grown out of his jittery period but it seemed that even the power of age could not stop the man from twisting uncomfortably when sitting still for too long.