This Is All I Dream

origins au where the warden dies of their injuries in flemeth’s hut after ostagar. and flemeth sees that the existence of a buddy grey warden was extremely emotionally load-bearing for the one she did manage to save so she puts a spirit in the warden’s corpse and drags them out with the exact same you worry too much young man! look, they’re fine! spiel

no i CAN'T talk right now hilo. i'm about to enter the temple to pray for our family's souls. call you back later. [bores holes into the back of ayt mada's head homoerotically for 2 hours]

read the works of vermin in a feverish rush over the last 36 hours and it ruled. i really liked leech and this hit the same high points of "paradigm-shifting recontextualization that makes you put the book down, do a lap, and reread the entire first act" for me. weird as fuck (positive). described it earlier as "a psychedelically weird adventure story about an exterminator and a perfumer and a reality-shaping bug and a series of horrible coups. in a city made of an enormous stump of a giant tree"

He’s asexual. He’s in pest control. He’s a sex worker. He’s a brotherfather. He’s been in intermittent solitary confinement for 17 years. His evil best friend is in love with him, but not like that. He’ll never pay off his debts. He’s a musical genius who never learned how to notate music. He compulsively writes stories. He won’t add a beheading scene to a wedding. He’s Guylag who slayed the dragon and The Last Poet King and Larbella.