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i have so many pages of this one handwritten i neeeeed to get off my ass and type it!!!! i got a little unhappy with it bc i think i was being too uh... methodical with the details when i can skip more (me @ myself: we do not need to go through every question in this pub quiz, just enough to set the vibe!). but on the bright side it is i think the only oneshot wip that is still on this list from last time i did this!!!

the basic premise is solas takes ian to his friends' (thora, cadri, iron bull, josephine but she's busy that night) pub trivia night as a means to get to know him better. it is full of both fluffy and cringe. solas is taking Ls all night until mayhaps he takes a W.

Thank you for the ask! ^_^

🥧 pie: let’s talk about food in your wip. are there any special recipes or traditional meals? do any of your OCs cook or bake?

Right now I'm working mostly on Riptide, which is my pre-Veilguard Solavellan fic. It focuses around my Lavellan, Sene, and her relationships between Trespasser and Veilguard: Abelas and Ameridan, and how, no matter what, everything always leads her back to Solas.

I don't think I focus much on food in this wip, or in my writing in general, but as with nearly everything I write, there's a lot of alcohol. Alcohol is this thing that my characters use to both celebrate and cope. Sene, who was raised by a family of vintners and liquor distillers, likes champagne and rose. Solas drinks whiskey, and in the new chapter that will come out today, we'll see Sene and Sera drinking whiskey at a bar in Antiva City, a habit that they, themselves, picked up from Solas during their days in the Inquisition. Abelas drinks beer, as he used to be a farmer before he was a Sentinel, and so the earthy feel of beer is on theme. Sene drinks gin and ginger when she's with Ameridan, as this drink indicates a medicinal function, and she drinks whiskey teas in winter. Sene doesn't really get drunk, but she likes alcohol for its ritual factors, because it is a part of her upbringing.

Another thing I use a lot of in my Dragon Age writing is elfroot, which functions as something sort of between cigarettes and marijuana. Abelas, who grew up on an elfroot farm outside of Arlathan, grows and treats his own elfroot. He smokes it frequently, because the lights and colors of the new world are still very bright and stressful for him, and the drug takes the edge off. Ameridan smokes constantly, for similar reasons. Solas used to, though now he is worried about losing control, and he favors liquor instead as his coping mechanism. In my Dragon Age universe, I am always trying to explore the effects that essential "time travel" would have on these ancient elves, like a cosmic jet lag, and the reality of how they might abuse substances, even if only lightly or in a high functioning manner, to cope with it.

OMG!!! THANK YOU SO SO MUCH!!! I'm glad to know <3 really! <33 *cries*

Of course!! It's a time consuming process,i usually do when i'm in a art block or anxious and need something to focus on for hours. >///<

I use Paint tool sai to draw and color the frames and Photoshop to animate.

To get the gif splitted in frames i use the site ezgif  (it's a fast and easy way) ,normally i cut the numbers of frames in half or less.

I'll use this one as a example. From this gif i picked 6 frames.

Then i draw who i want over it.

Then i animate  to see if every frame is working well.

That’s how it looks with just the 6 frames with 0,1 sec each.

If I'm satisfied with the result here i finish them (coloring everything).

So now it's the tricky part,to make them more smooth,not that stiff thing,or even too slow.

The 6 frames became 20.

I use 2 of each frame(always,never use just one),but repeat more of the last two (5 and 6) to make the laugh more smooth. Like this:

1-1-2-2-3-3-4-4-5-5-6-6-5-5-6-6-5-5-6-6

with 0.1sec for each frame again. Then it turns out like this.

smooth smooth :D

Sorry for the long post lol I'm not good at explaining things and this method is probably not the best but its all i know for now >////< :D

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