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[katharaya]

I feel for Abelas though because sometimes when i’m bored i get all did up in my gaudiest makeups, with the glossiest of glosses, put on the shiniest of pants, too. Then the door rings and it’s like  damn now i gotta answer the door looking like Lady Gaga and the infidel defilers of our temple are going to think i’m all weird. 

#dragon age #dragon age inquisition

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WE FINALLY FINISHED…. A project with @belkovich for RMIT AIM studio 4 where we made a motion graphics end credits sequence for a fictional Dragon Age Origins movie adaption. 

Music ‘Whatever We Were Before’ by World Beyond 

*Note: We couldn’t fit in every party member so we unfortunately had to cut out a few including Shale, Oghren, dog…. 

#ooooohhhhhh this is amazing!!!! #dragon age #dragon age origins

[katharaya]

Part 12: First Crush

#guess who's back on their dragon age bullshit #that's right it's this bitch!! #op i love how u drew alistair in the 2nd page #with the lil '?' #like yeah yeah that's how it went down absolutely!!! #dragon age #dragon age origins

[katharaya]

digging through memories

Available as a print: buy here

#acnh

[katharaya]

Hi! I read The Secrets We Keep Come Out in Our Sleep months ago and fell HARD in love with your writing -- I randomly thought of it today and went to read it again when I saw your new work! And once more, head over heels with For One More Sunrise. You are amazing!!!

thank you!!! ❤ Secrets We Keep is still a fic that i love and am proud of, but by the time i'd finished it i wasn't into the arcana anymore and kind of stopped writing anything for like....... a year lmao. For One More Sunrise was an old draft i picked up just to get back into writing, and i'm happy with how it turned out and am super super happy that other people like it too!!!!

thank you again for the sweet ask, and here is a bonus lil art of the bath kiss scene, which was the first scene i wrote and is still my overall favorite:

#the arcana #the arcana game #asra alnazar #rei #katharayawrites #katharayadraws #anon asks #sorry for the late reply life has been busy #but this is so sweet anon thank u!!! #❤❤❤ #u have my uwus

[katharaya]

local disaster wayfarers have been pining after each other for years and still can't spit it out, more at 8

#wayfarer game #wayfarer mc #aeran kellis #sana lamayan #katharayadraws #look at these fools #these absolute CLOWNS #when can they kiss!!! #WHEN!!!!!!

[katharaya]

Karth.

#wayfarer game #aeran kellis #wayfarer mc #sana lamayan #cw: blood #idk how it went down exactly #but i feel deep in my soul #that their reunion in karth was EMOTIONAL #just. all the emotions #also #not shown here: a dead sandwraith somewhere in the background lmao #katharayadraws

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Tfw there's only a tiny cot on the ship so you gotta cuddle

My OC Brienne and Aeran from Wayfarer IF by @idrellegames

#🥺🥺🥺 #hey op good job im crying over my coffee on a friday morning #catch me SOBBING over these FOOLS #wayfarer game #aeran kellis #wayfarer mc

[katharaya]

I am so weak for these two 😩

#wayfarer game #aeran kellis #SAME OP SAME #this is so SOFT 🥺

[katharaya]

Their apartment on Mulch Road is . . . honestly, it's too generous to call it an apartment. It's barely a room. It's barely a closet, even—tiny beyond miserable measure, forcing them to squeeze around each other in a miserable box of four walls that do little to keep out the damp and the cold and miserable fucking rain. The windows, kept permanently shuttered against the elements, let in only slivers of the gray dawn light.

Aeran rolls over on his makeshift bed, the wooden floorboards pressing hard against his shoulder through the thin layers separating him from the floor. Their room, much like their last six months in Rona, is dank and cold and miserable, miserable, miserable, and—

And less than an arm's length away—their sleeping pallets overlap when spread out for the night; that's how ridiculously tiny their stupid closet is—Sana lies on her side facing him, her breathing slow and gentle in the soft dark.

And—

Even here, where the damp seeps in through the waterlogged walls and the stench of muck and decay permeate the air and a fatal deadline hangs over their heads; even here, in this wretched hellpit of a city—

—even here, she still glows like the sun.

. . . And that's the stupidest thought he's had so far today, and it's barely even morning, so he's got plenty more time to think of something even stupider, which is itself not an encouraging thought.

And he is, regrettably, something of a dreamer in the early hours before the sun rises.

And she is still wearing his pendant.

Got it as a bonus on an assignment, he'd told her, one of the rare occassions they'd crossed paths. Don't really have a use for it besides selling it. Thought maybe you'd like to have it.

Which was—true, to an extent.

But the reality was this: he'd been offered his pick of trinkets and treasures—ruby rings and emerald pins and diamond diadems worth twice their weight in gold—

And underneath it all he'd found a simple golden necklace, probably the cheapest of the lot, with a small piece of polished amber set into a pendant wrought in the shape of a sun. And as soon as he'd seen it, he'd thought, Oh.

Sunny should have this.

So he'd taken it and carried it around in his pocket for . . . a year, maybe more, until they happened to bump into each other in some backwater town beplagued by some unmemorable beast.

"You're giving me a necklace?" she'd asked, bewildered, the golden chain dangling from her fingers as she'd examined it.

"If you want it," he'd said, shrugging all nonchalant, and gods, he'd felt so young in that moment, stupid and reckless and hopeful all at once.

(He was young. It was before the Spire fell.)

"What for? Does it turn into a backup weapon? A lockpick? Can I open it up and hide poisons in it?"

He rolls his eyes, so stupidly, unbearably fond. "It's a necklace, Sassy, you wear it and look pretty, or whatever."

"Excuse you," she'd said, grinning. "I am already the pinnacle of beauty and grace, thank you."

And he'd laughed, warmth bubbling something ticklish in his chest, and his answer had come from the heart: "Of course you are, Sanni."

And they'd parted ways, like always, and then the Spire fell and the world went to shit and stayed shit until he'd found her again, his Sunny, and she'd still been wearing the necklace.

"Did you ever get to do anything with it?" he'd asked. "Maybe hide a poisoned needle in it or something?"

She'd touched the pendant briefly where it rested over her heart. "Still thinking about it," she'd said, and grinned. "But it does make me feel pretty and fancy."

And somehow, years later, she still has it. Honestly, it's something of a miracle that she hasn't lost it yet here in Rona, with all the pickpockets who'd steal a tin can if it was shiny enough.

(And here's another stupid thought: Maybe those kinds of tiny miracles will be enough to see them through.)

Sana stirs beside him, finally, cracking an eye open just as the daylight outside gets bright enough for her human eyes to see properly. It's their last day in Rona, for sure. Whether or not they find the Count's chalice, they won't be staying here longer than they already have.

"Hey," she says, a sleepy smile quirking her mouth.

"Hey."

"Big day today."

He snorts. "Long as it ends with us out of this shithole, I'm not complaining."

"Careful what you wish for," she says, stretching out on her pallet with her arms above her head. "But come on. Best get an early start."

He watches her out of the corner of his eye as they prepare to head out. She still looks so damn bright.

(Guess he hasn't completely shaken off his early morning dreamer, yet.)

"Are you coming or do I have to leave you behind until your brain wakes up?" she asks, with one hand on the doorpost and a foot already out the door.

He snaps himself out of it; slipping easily into his waking Wayfarer self, casual and collected and very much not in love with his best friend, thank you. He slings his bow across his back and smirks. "As if you could get rid of me so easily."

And she snorts, amused, before she tilts her chin up, a smug smile tugging at her mouth, and says, "As if I'd want to."

The look on his face must be something to see, because she laughs, and winks, and then disappears down the hall.

And Aeran stands there for a moment, stunned, before he allows himself a wild, dreamer's grin, and follows her out the door.

#wayfarer #wayfarer game #wayfarer spoilers #idk if there ARE any spoilers here but just in case #yoooo new interest y'all and i'm loving it SO MUCH #haven't written anything in. a year 🙃 #but lo and behold!! motivation!!! #katharayawrites #aeran kellis #sana lamayan

[katharaya]

Relationship/s: Asra & Muriel; Asra & his parents; Muriel & food

Word count: 1,098

Summary: Asra attempts to rebuild his relationship with his parents; Muriel attempts to rebuild his relationship with food. Family dinners might not be so bad after all.

A/N: My contributor's copy JUST arrived this week lmao 😅 so here's the piece I wrote for the @vesuviancuisine zine! 🍛🍰🍽

They're also doing extra stock sales for merch right now, so please go check it out! Proceeds go to The Hunger Project ❤❤❤

#the arcana #vesuvian cuisine zine #the arcana fic #asra #muriel #katharayawrites #postal service here is shit even without the pandemic #but aaaaahhhh im so glad its here everything is so nice!!!!! #thanks so much to the mods for making this happen ❤ #as well as the other wonderful contributors #this was my first zine and it was super fun id love to do it again #also pls check out the extra stock sales! #the merch is super cute and pdf copies are still available!!!

[katharaya]

p0rn w/ feelings is so funny it’s like I’ve tricked you into reading this fic by offering you smut but as soon as you get there I pull out a chair, sit backwards on it, and say “hey, pal. you wanna talk about abandonment issues?” and then you have no choice but to listen

#this #but actually jokes one me #bc im the one who set out to write smut #and instead my dumb gay brain #pulls up in a shiny p0rn-with-plot convertible #and was like #get in loser were going to use intimacy as a means to explore insecurities and trauma #and i had no choice but to get in the car

[katharaya]

Ahh your vesuvian cuisine zine fic was so good 😭 I love that family

he's adopted now them's the rules

#but aaaaahhh thank you!! #had a blast writing it im glad u like it ❤ #i wrote it way back in. march. 2020 #😬😬😬 #anyway i miss writing so whoevers reading the tags send prompts uwu #katharayawrites #katharayadraws #8-bit-space #vesuvian cuisine zine #the arcana

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AAAAAAAAAAHHHH i'm so emotional rn bc someone liked my lil old fic enough to translate it into a whole ass different language!!!!!! 😭😭😭

i unfortunately do not speak Russian and therefore cannot read it myself rip BUT for any Russian-speaking followers out there who are also fans of Tali/Garrus, please give this fic some love because i'm still proud of this fic and also translating is super duper hard y'all!!!

thank you so much AO3 user Darsinka i will love this forever 💕💕💕

#mass effect #mass effect trilogy #mass effect fic #garrus x tali #tali'zora vas normandy #garrus vakarian #this is so so so cool im!!! #❤❤❤

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@vesuviancuisine extended preorders until October 1st, so if you haven't yet, you can preorder your copy of the zine (plus some really cute merch!) here: https://vesuviancuisine.bigcartel.com

Proceeds will go to The Hunger Project, an organization dedicated to overcoming hunger and poverty through sustainable, women-centered strategies.

🍴🍛 Aaaand here's a little preview of my fic for the zine! :3 🍰🥄

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"Why," Muriel hisses, "am I here."

Asra grins, but his fingers fidget uneasily in his lap, a nervous habit Muriel easily recognizes.

"It's a family dinner," Asra says, like that explains everything.

"So why am I here?"

Asra's smile turns warmer; sweeter. Softness creeps into the corner of his mouth.

"It's a family dinner, Muri." He lays a light hand on Muriel's arm. "Of course you're supposed to be here."

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#the arcana #the arcana game #vesuvian cuisine zine #the arcana fic #asra #muriel #im very pleased with how this fic came out!! #cant wait for yall to read it!! #❤❤❤

[katharaya]

The sun is filling up the room, And I can hear you dreaming. Do you feel the way I do right now?

. . .

(posting the full version of the Secrets We Keep cover bc im pretty proud of it uwu)

#the arcana #the arcana game #the arcana fanart #asra #asra x apprentice #asra x mc #rei #katharayadraws #i worked hard on this pls appreciate

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Pairing: Asra/F!Apprentice Word Count: 91,551 Summary: They are both of them a little more honest when they dream.

A/N: IT’S DONE THANK FUCK. thank you to everyone who kept up with this fic despite the like, initial lack of chronology and ridiculously irregular updates lmao. to any new readers who might stumble on this fic via this post, please keep in mind that it is VERY angsty, deals with depression and other heavy topics, and is also, like, pretty smutty lmao. additional warnings are listed in the author’s notes at the beginning of each chapter. 

happy reading y’all, and again, thank you so much to everyone who gave this fic a chance!! ❤❤❤

#the arcana #the arcana game #the arcana fic #asra x apprentice #asra x mc #asra #rei #katharayawrites #YES i made a cover for my own fic #what r yall gonna do about it??? #also fair warning #this fic is not NEARLY as Soft and Fluffy as this cover makes it out to be lmao #it is in fact the opposite #read at risk of heartbreak folks!! #uwu