Making this a like place holder pinned post to remind myself to eventually fill this out better (editing this nearly a year later and wow I sure haven't done that!). If there's ever something that I've posted that doesn't have an image description please send me an ask with a link to the specific post and I'll fix it ASAP! I try to add IDs to all of my posts but I'm sure I've made/will make mistakes.
Anyways!!! Here's some fun links for your viewing pleasure
My Greatest Masterpiece
My art tag
The Lead Sugar Shortbread Saga (This is the best most complete version everyone reblog this version and don't be a dumbass trying to Uhm Actually! in the replies or tags when the original point of the post was calling out white supremacist BS in fandom spaces and also it's likely someone else already said something very similar and it's been addressed and/or debunked! My wife!!!! Is fucking Smart!!!! Stop doubting that!!!!!!)
Mutuals feel free to DM me and ask for my Discord <3
Dragon Age OC Tag Links under the cut, in a perfect world I'll eventually write more thorough summaries for them that I'll link to but don't hold your breath.
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Hand on your head. Did you howl, little wolf, when first it dripped down your spine? Sweet and molten as sugar, syrupy burn leaving ravines in its wake, and you, strung out on its precipice—
No.
Not for him. Jaw locked so tight you felt your teeth break (and now, mouth open and panting-hot, you mark the spot on her ribs where your own glow ghost) but you did not, would not, will not, howl for him. Chained cur or beloved pet, you do not howl.
Hand on your head. She touches your hair, your cheek, your jaw where your teeth still ache. She touches your hair, restless, ceaseless, hand to your lips wet and smearing.
You bite. Never learned not to. Never could tell the hand that feeds from the hand that hurts, never could make yourself care about the difference when even the feed tastes of ozone and metal (and salt and skin), but first press of your teeth earns a gasp and first taste of your tongue flexes her hand, a new shape in the dark corners of your mouth.
Clever trick, little wolf. What others do you know?
This: you dip your head (saliva smears your cheek, cooling-cold on your scars) and lick, and her thigh trembles lightning-hot static-sharp against your cheek and her moan hits your ears staccato like a sob.
You know your tricks well. Soon enough, your skin is fire, walls and bedsheets and soft bare skin washed foxglove, and there are chasms of ice down your arms, your lips, the frozen ridge of your spine. She touches your neck and says your name, and obedience wraps its jaws around your throat and grips you tight.
“Fenris—”
“Jasper.”
More a growl than a word. Rasping against the soft dark inside of your throat, the last warm place in your body.
“Here—” she’s breathless, wordless, pulls you up and wraps her arms around the searing cage of your ribs, presses herself to your mouth, length of her body eclipsing yours as the pain washes through you. In the dark corners of her world, her bedroom, her mouth, it takes on a shape like ecstasy. “Are you okay?”
Fingers against the crack in the world that should be your spine. You didn’t howl for him, but you could for her. Could for her, if only you could.
“I have to go.”
“Fenris—” frowning, now, fingernails against your ribs as she pushes on her elbows, tries to smile. To meet your eyes. “Was it that bad?”
“It was fine.” You don’t let her. Pull back, cast about for your clothes, so hastily discarded. Metal glistening firelight-umber on her rich warm carpet. It weighs on your shoulders like shame, like anger, knits your body tight in on itself with every buckle. “It– that– no.”
How do you tell her you’re hurting me? What do you have, little wolf, but tooth and jaw and the will to use them? You pull your vambrace too tight, feel the tips of your fingers start to numb. Jasper sits up, head to one side, bleach-bone hair pooling at her collarbone. No shame, nothing to be shy about, she watches you with the same gentle worry she watches all of you, her pack of misfits. The bruise on her ribs is lurid purple, and, ungenerous and possessive, you wonder if she’ll have her mage wipe it from her skin.
So there it is: like a stray snapping over scraps, your teeth ache at the thought. Fiddling with a buckle, you look into the fire.
“Did I hurt you?”
Her voice is soft, pre-laden with guilt. Your Jasper (your Jasper, already, since the day you met–), always taking on others’ burdens. In the face of her offering, brittle bones and brittle smiles, what can you do but lie?
“No. It– it was better than I could have dreamed.” A sideways look; she blinks, eyes firebright. A soft landing for your words. “I started to– remember. Flashes.” Dressed, now, metal and sharp edges against her bared skin. “My life before. I– I can’t do this.”
She doesn’t stop you leaving, but you feel the chain at your throat all the same. You may never howl for him, but for her, always, you will come when called.
i think out of disrespect we should just start using "spamtenna moment" as shorthand for when a nothing tier yaoi ships between side characters somehow manages to eclipse in fandom popularity all of the central character relations of both the main cast and the rest of the side characters that aren't men. i think this should become such a widespread and entrenched form of fandom lingo for insulting ships that the next generation of teens will grow up understanding its meaning and not its origins in the same way teens of my generation used adjective!character parlance long before ever learning what bang paths were.
If you want more content of a ship or character you like you can always..... (hand motions)..... make it yourself? Instead of trying to shame fans of the big ship just make more content of the things you like. Share art and fanfics of the one you like.
Mlm ships overtake fandoms because the fans are passionate. Try matching that passion instead of trying to act as if they're inferior. 😐
Are they really so inferior if they are Actually Making Art?
shit like this is so fucking intensionally dense. femalash fans are some of the most consistently dedicated and passionate people in any given fan space. and it literally does not matter how much they make and share because, until people who are interested in female characters are not the significant minority in literally every fan space with meaningfully mix-gendered casts, it will never ever be possible for us to produce enough fan works to make up the difference. do you understand that? the gap between how much fan interest there is in female character vs male characters relative to their respective screentime is massive and acting like you can bootstraps you way out of cultural misogyny is just fucking vile. the reason you can say that m/m fans are "actually making art" with the implications that fans of female characters aren't is because like everyone else you're not interested in going out and looking for it. it exists.
here's me not shaming "m/m" fans in general. here's me shaming you specifically: you are either a misogynist, an idiot, or both. you are inferior to me because you are incapable of reflecting on fandom trends as being subject to the same social forces that any other types of group behavior on the planet are. you are thirty years old and your response to women who are frustrated with an extremely noticeable and mathematically backed up male bias in fandom that predates either of us being born is to be dismissive and pass the buck back towards us as if it's our job to become Fanart Sweatshops to try and compensate for how little anyone else gives a shit about us. no matter how central female characters narrative arcs and interpersonal relationships are to the plot of a work, if there are two male characters that are theoretically shippable in proximity to them that character dynamic will immediately become the most widely celebrated one. always. across essentially every piece of media that's developed a real fanbase on the entire planet. why do you think that is, dipshit? use your brain. you've typed enough letters in a row there that you've got to have at least something rattling around in your otherwise empty head
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I keep realizing that I am not actually following people I thought I was already following because they're reblogged so frequently by mutuals and I just. Assume that I also started following them at some point and then eventually I click on a post and realize. No. No I never did that.
sorry to everyone out there who thinks they have the funniest tshirt but i think i can confidently say i just saw the actual funniest tshirt just now. i passed by a beautiful black woman with long multicolor braids blowing majestically in the beach breeze & she was wearing an oversized tshirt that said in gigantic letters "WHITE BOY OF THE YEAR"
a young tabris grows up with a stuffed mabari. it's their favourite childhood toy. it's then passed on to a young shianni to comfort her when cyrion takes her in after her parents' deaths.
do you know what happens in the arl's estate when the elves try to break their women out?
because these are war hounds, they're raised by and for nobility first and foremost. they're a status symbol. they're a weapon. their ownership is restricted and controlled in the same way that any other weapons are because that's how you keep a monopoly on violence.
these dogs are a part of that exact monopoly on violence.
Census Survey Results, Pt. 1 - Intro & General Demographics
We're finally here! Because of how lengthy these posts will be, I'm going to have to split them over multiple posts. The plan is to have this intro, posts focused on each game and its main responses, and then a further few posts dedicated to each game's responses on the optional opinion section along with a selection of the free-response text box answers. They'll all be tagged with '#census survey', and once they're all out, I'll link them all in the pinned post so they're easy to find :)
Here is a list of pretty interesting patterns and findings I got from the results before we dive into the answers themselves!
When it comes to the free-response section, Veilguard inspired far more writing than any other game, with the highest comment count, response rate, average word count, and total word count
Solas inspired the largest number of people to say something, with the highest raw comment count and highest response rate. Cullen, Loghain, Anders, and Oghren also all broke 200+ optional text responses.
Sigrun had the least text responses (though she was rated positively by 85.2% of respondents and negatively by virtually nobody), with all the Awakening companions getting between 80-100. The non-DLC character with the fewest responses was Inquisition Leliana
Josephine inspired relatively few and relatively short responses, but 94.7% of respondents rated her positively
Taash generated the most intense free-response engagement, with the most total words and average words per response
Anders was the character who inspired the least indifference - only 1% of respondents selected "I'm indifferent" for him
Cullen was the most polarising, with his ratings fairly evenly distributed. He also had the highest negative percentage, narrowly ahead of Oghren
Oghren had the highest percentage of "mixed/conflicted feelings"
Tallis inspired the most indifference, with 43.5% of respondents selecting "I'm indifferent" for her. The next highest result was Sebastian at 25.4%
The top five characters with the most "I love them" responses were Dorian (75.4%), Zevran, Morrigan, Merrill, and DA2 Varric. Dorian was the most overwhelmingly positively rated, with 94.2% positive answers, 0.8% negative, and 1.4% indifferent
Vivienne, Sera, Taash, Harding, and Lucanis all had very positive ratings as characters, but their free-response text boxes were generally criticism-heavy, with people citing issues with their writing and storylines
Opinions on Oghren don't differ by gender - men were slightly more likely to be mixed rather than negative, but otherwise percentages were broadly the same across the board
Opinions on Taash differ pretty clearly between cis and trans/nonbinary respondents. Trans and nonbinary results are almost identical, but cis people were broadly less positive on Taash. 6.4% of trans and 5.6% nonbinary respondents rated Taash negatively ("dislike" or "hate") compared to 16.8% of cis respondents. 38.5% of trans and 38.6% of nonbinary people specifically selected "I love them" for Taash, compared to only 22.8% of cis respondents.
Men were substantially more likely to love Anders - 41.2% of women loved him vs. 61.5% of men.
Women were substantially more likely to love Cullen - 28.9% of women vs. 13.1% of men - and men were substantially more likely to hate Cullen (10.1% of women vs. 25.3% of men).
Sera was loved by 52.6% of men vs. only 35.3% of women
Some other interesting patterns: Neve was more positively rated by nonbinary people and men than she was by women, and Iron Bull was much more positively rated by nonbinary people than by either men or women
People who like Solas are almost twice as likely than others to also like Blackwall
Anders and Fenris fans aren't generally opposing camps, though Fenris fans are more likely to dislike Anders than Anders fans are likely to dislike Fenris. Among people positive about Anders, 97.2% were also positive about Fenris.
Ace-spec respondents lean slightly more positively toward Lucanis, but the difference isn't statistically significant
Older respondents (for this purpose 36+) like Cullen more than younger respondents do, while they like Loghain significantly less. Older respondents are also notably more likely to like Lucanis, Emmrich, and Aveline. Velanna, for some reason, peaks significantly for 23-27 year olds
Bellara was rated positively by every single person who said Veilguard was their favourite game
People who romanced Alistair in Origins tended to romance Fenris in DA2 and Cullen in Inquisition. People who romanced Leliana in Origins heavily favoured Josephine in Inquisition. Merrill romancers strongly gravitate toward Josephine and Bellara. Isabela romancers overwhelmingly favour Neve in Veilguard. Zevran romancers favour Dorian and Lucanis. Blackwall romancers divide strongly between Emmrich and Davrin.
The most common favourite romance pipelines were Zevran > Fenris > Dorian > Lucanis and Zevran > Fenris > Dorian > Emmrich
The fandom is very consistently pro mage, with 97.8% siding with the mages in Origins, 95.6% in DA2, and 89.7% in Inquisition. Only 1 respondent out of the 760 who answered the question for all three games chose the Templar option in every game.
To back up the common complaint in the free-response boxes about Veilguard forcing a harmonious team with no ability to disagree with companions, Rook was dramatically more likely to get along with everyone. The percentage of people who said their protagonist genuinely got along with every companion was 28.9% for the Warden, 22.1% for Hawke, 28.3% for the Inquisitor, and 72.2% for Rook. The most common sources of friction: For the Warden, Oghren, then Wynne; for Hawke, Sebastian, then Aveline and Carver; for the Inquisitor, Vivienne and Cullen, then Sera and Solas; and for Rook, Lucanis and Taash, but at much lower rates than any previous game's conflicts.
Certain pairings of characters were very often loved by the same people; some examples were Aveline and Cassandra, Morrigan and Isabela, Velanna and Merrill, Isabela and Neve, Isabela and Sera, Zevran and Fenris, and Nathaniel and Carver.
Cullen fans were more likely than other players to dislike Velanna, Merrill, Sera, Vivienne, and Isabela.
Inquisition players who chose the mages usually allied with them, but players who chose the Templars usually conscripted them.
How old are you?: 28-35 (48.3%), 23-27 (24.6%), 36-45 (18.4%), 18-22 (6.3%), 46-55 (1.9%), 13-17 (0.3%), 56+ (0.1%)
What's your gender identity?: Cis woman (48.2%), nonbinary (31.5%), trans man (10%), cis man (2.3%), trans woman (1.9%)
Write-in responses were mostly more specific nonbinary labels, people who didn't know their identity, and those who weren't comfortable disclosing gender identity but chose not to skip the question.
Where do you live?: North America (61%), Europe (31.5%), Australia/New Zealand (4.5%), Asia (1.3%), South America (1.3%), Africa (0.5%)
Which Dragon Age games have you played?: Inquisition (98.5%), Origins (96.9%), DA2 (95.8%), Veilguard (84.2%)
Which is your favourite Dragon Age game?: DA2 (40.6%), Origins (29%), Inquisition (24.1%), Veilguard (6.3%)
Which was your first Dragon Age game?: Origins (62.9%), Inquisition (26.5%), DA2 (8.8%), Veilguard (1.8%)
Which difficulty do you generally play on?: Normal (49.7%), Casual (37.4%), Hard (9.4%), Nightmare (3.5%)
Which platform do you generally play on?: PC (69.4%), PlayStation (17.1%), XBOX (13.5%)
Which of the spin-off games have you played, if any?: None of the above (66.1%), Dragon Age: The Last Court (25.8%), Heroes of Dragon Age (15%), Dragon Age Legends (6%), Dragon Age Journeys (3.8%)
Which of the animated/live action screen media pieces have you watched, if any?: Absolution (53.6%), none of the above (37.9%), Dawn of the Seeker (31.7%), Redemption (16.5%), Warden's Fall (8.3%)
Which of the tie-in books have you read, if any?: Tevinter Nights (43.4%), The Stolen Throne (40.6%), The World of Thedas Vol. 1 (40.5%), The World of Thedas Vol. 2 (39.7%), Asundder (37.8%), The Masked Empire (36.3%), The Calling (34.7%), none of the above (28.5%), Last Flight (26.7%), Hard in Hightown (17.6%)
Which of the tie-in comics have you read, if any?: None of the above (52%), The Silent Grove (32.7%), Those Who Speak (30.4%), Magekiller (30%), Blue Wraith (28.3%), Until We Sleep (28.3%), Knight Errant (25.9%), The Missing (22.9%), Deception (20%), Dark Fortress (18.8%)
Which additional spin-off media have you engaged in, if any?: None of the above (56.6%), the Vows & Vengeance podcast (32.4%), the Dragon Age tabletop RPG (21.7%)
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i think wyll . grapples with this fundamental tension. between the two equally important realities that 1) if you want to really help people you don’t always have the luxury of being precious about your methods, sometimes you do have to engage in something distasteful to effect change, but also 2) corrupt methods corrupt outcomes and there is a FINE line between getting your hands dirty for a good cause and having your cause tainted by the dirt
which i think is exemplified in his pact — he saved his city from certain ruin, he’s saved countless lives, he could not have done that if he had decided it is Always Wrong to Deal With Devils. but it’s not a one-time deal and the longer it goes on, no matter how he tries, his patron will do everything in her power to turn his weapon against innocents, against zariel’s targets, against the people he fights to protect. & i think that diplomacy/hypocrisy line is soooo good for this too … wyll is Always grappling with where that line is for other people and for himself… at what point is a necessary evil just an evil
every now and again i get tags on this one that imply that they think i'm pointing out a flaw here... i want to be clear i think this is one of wyll's most admirable traits. he Thinks about what it means to him to be good! even though it is natural to him to be decent he doesn't make it a simple or thoughtless proposition. if he is sometimes on the wrong side of the line — or there are sometimes unforeseen consequences to his actions — it's not as a result of thoughtlessness or carelessness, because he thinks a Lot about where his lines are, i think
that's how he can simultaneously not regret entering into his pact and also badly want to be free of it. it's how he can admit freely that his father is the man who taught him his moral code And say he sees his father's diplomatic endeavours as hypocrisy. the line moves, it's dictated by circumstance, and wyll, like... to me he doesn't let it move without his noticing. anyway i like him
learning that cole's banters with solas were a bunch of stupid references to movies and tv shows pissed me off in ways i cannot put into words bc i spent So Long trying to understand what in the world these two were talking about, thinking it had to do with other characters or whatever only to be freaking. supernatural and a shitty brad pitt movie no one remembers.
especially considering cole is the only spirit companion we've had since justice, he could have given us so much insights with solas and then they did this
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like if you read and pay attention to any of dragon age’s lore, from the games and books and other supplemental materials, you will notice plot holes, because the series constantly contradicts itself, rewrites its own lore, retcons characters’ stories, redefines terminology, and so forth. there are some cases where it can be explained watsonianly by way of varying in-universe sources, but if these sources are cross-referenced it often still does not make sense. with gaider leaving during veilguard’s development and the rest of the mess around it this is more emphasized in that game but it has been present in every game. because the series is inconsistent and bioware can’t commit to the choices they make. dragon age is literally bad is the thing. like it can be good when it’s good but underneath the good it’s still mostly bad. why is there tuesday in thedas
I don't have space to reinstall Inquisition but I wanted to draw my girl so bad!!! I don't even have any screenshots but then I remembered I am not bound to the CC so here's Namani Lavellan around the start of Inquisition. I love her so much I should ramble about her sometime
