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Love and Marriage

“Do you still love me?” He asks as you read. You’re unsure if you heard the words correctly in between the arcane texts you fumble your way through. You lift your head and look at him with a smile. “Do you still love me?”

You bat away the question. What a silly thing to ask. Of course, you love him. You never stopped loving him. Who does he think you are? Mystra? What even gave him this idea? Yes, things have been tough. You married in a hurry but after everything, it seemed like the right thing to do. Yes, Tara criticises everything you do to him, you’ll never be good enough for her dear friend, but she’s Tara and it must be let go. Yes, his mother is constantly just popping by for one little thing or another. Checking up on you, asking for grandkids, but it’s his mother and so it must be let go. He was going to die a year ago, after all, he’s trying to make up for all the time he missed with them.

“You’re yet to entertain my question…” The silence has hung for a while. You’re not sure why you can’t answer him and yet the words stick in your throat. Say yes. You do love him, don’t you? You didn’t just fall in love out of pity, for a chance to mend his broken heart? You didn’t marry him for his skills, for his intelligence, for his looks? You married him because you loved him, right? Your heartbeat quickens. You ask why he’s questioning your love so suddenly.

“Nevermind. It seems your mind is elsewhere… again” He mumbles the last part, another passive bit of snark he thinks you don’t register. But you remember all of them and you hold a grudge for each one. You watch as he retreats to his library, again he does this when things get uncomfortable. Just like the time he was wrong about a spell but wouldn’t admit to it and things got heated. When you refused to talk to each other for the rest of the evening, no apologies ever made. Love. Such a powerful curse. 

You think over his question for the hours that follow. You try to read the book in front of you, try to bury the anger you’re feeling. How dare he ask you such a question? Just because you can’t conjure stars or create a cosmic intimacy. Sorry that all he gets is your pathetic attempts at romance, poems written in common and not in the exotic tongues his goddess would spoil him with. Now you’re angrier with him, you want to confront him. You go to his library and knock on the door prepared for what he might say.

And then he opens the door, his eyes tired and defeated, his wedding ring resting on the table and you know this is it. This is what a sudden marriage after trauma comes with; two people who barely know each other hurting one another when there is no calamity pulling them together. Do you still love him? Yes… Are you in love with him? Well, that’s another question entirely. 

#bg3 #bg3 gale #gale of waterdeep #i cry

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Valorean and Astarion for @laurawritesandgames 🪈🎼💫

#bg3 #baldurs gate 3 #dragonborn #commission #dnd commission

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In BG3, dialogue options for wild magic sorcerers don't always come up...

But when they do, they can be pretty fun!

#bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #sorcerer oc #baldur's gate iii #wild magic #dnd #act iii spoilers #act 3 spoilers #bg3 act 3 spoilers #bg3 act 3 #baldurs gate spoilers #bg3 spoilers #baldurs gate 3 spoilers

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She's just a little gnome with a silly hat

#baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #gnome oc

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My latest Tav is Argent!

She's a silver dragonborn cleric of Oghma hailing from Candlekeep who has an adorable smile...particularly when she's thinking about a certain someone. 'Twas truly love at first sight!

#baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #dragonborn oc

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How it started

How it's going

#baldur's gate 3 #baldur's gate iii #baldur's gate lae'zel #bg3 #lae'zel romance #dragonborn #dragonborn oc

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New Fic

I wrote a fic for @dapolyshipping‘s exchange! Please check it out!

The Portrait

Fandom: Dragon Age: Inquisition Rating: T Relationship: Female Adaar/Josephine Montilyet/Lace Harding Word Count: 8,604 Status: Complete Summary: After the Exalted Council and the disbanding of the Inquisition, Josephine Montilyet, Adder Adaar, and Lace Harding sit for a portrait painted by Josephine's sister, Yvette. But what will Josephine do when Adder and Lace have some issues with the portrait?

#dragon age fanfic #dai #da:i #josephine montilyet #lace harding #female adaar #dragon age #my fic

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Look at this beautiful art by the amazing Stef! It brought back such wonderful memories to see this on my dash!

Second Tarot Card for Laura, of her Inquisitor Adder Adaar and Sera. :) The relationship between these two is INTENSE, and you can read more of it in the Jenny and the Ox series.

#fanart #adder adaar #inquisitor adaar #sera x adaar #sera #Sera/Adaar

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After the Curtain - Finished!

Fandom: Beetlejuice (Musical)

Rating: E

Pairing: Beetlejuice/Adam Maitland/Barbara Maitland; one-sided Beetlejuice/Lydia for a few chapters

Blurb: Barbara and Adam died, became ghosts, and gained a new family in the span of a few days. It’s a lot to process. As years pass and the Maitland-Deetz household grows, the Maitlands find themselves making some unexpected choices about (un)life, lust and love.

Full story available now on AO3!

#beetlejuice #beetlejuice the musical #beetlelands #fanfic

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Thanks so much for all your hard work and talent!

The finished piece of Kallian Tabris for @laurawritesandgames ! I am so appreciative to be commissioned and it was great to draw a puppy!

Buy me a ko-fi!

#dragon age #warden Tabris #dragon age origins #Kallian Tabris #warden #dao #commission #art

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Ooof. It took far too long, but it’s finally finished!

Read on AO3!

Alistair really just wants to spend some time alone with the love of his life. Clearly the Maker is laughing at him right now, because every single person in Thedas seems to interrupt his plans!

#dragon age #dragon age prompt exchange #dragon age fanfic #alistair theirin #anora mac tir #queen anora #kallian tabris #tabris warden #tabris #alistair X tabris #da:o #da: origins

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Thanks so much for all your hard work! The throne and my Lavellan look so awesome!

Commission for @laurawritesandgames of Ellana Lavellan and a design of her ironbark Dalish throne at Skyhold 🌿

#commissioned work #dragon age #ellana lavellan #inquisitor #inquisitor lavellan #dragon age inquisition #da:i

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I don’t know what to fucking say anymore.

I’m tired. I’m hurt. I’m sad. And angry, like, really FUCKING angry.

They were children, they were only kids. And they found 215 of their corpses buried near those goddamn schools. It shouldn’t even be called a school.

As an indigenous person, this is fucking heartbreaking. But it’s not like it’s new. Shit like this has been happening and will continue happen unless we do something about it.

Sign a petition

Support indigenous artists/creators/actors

Educate yourself on residential schools and the generational trauma that we endure

Just PLEASE for the love of god talk about this.

We can’t keep letting shit like this slide. That was only one school where they found those kids. Imagine how many more have mass graves on the premises. This isn’t just “a dark chapter in our country’s history” this was and still is the whole fucking book. There are people in my community who have lived through the horrors of residential schools and many more that live with the trauma it brought.

The link below me is a petition to call for a national day of mourning for the kids who didn’t make it home to their families.

Please sign and share it. Remember these kids and the horrors they went through because we should NEVER forget this atrocity.

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Gamers for Groceries 2: May 22nd, 1pm MST / 3pm EST / 12pm PST

This is a game dev Twitch variety show including things such as interviews and trivia. It’s a charity stream in support of Food Banks Canada. 

Twitch link

Early donation link

Some of the Dragon Age team writers and editors are going to be doing this again. Come watch them ramble for charity! [source]

Gamers for Groceries 1 was fun and interesting, so if you’re able to or considering watching it I totally recommend it! (There’s a compilation of insights and tidbits from the first stream here.)

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I’m still squeeing over @didiher’s take on Edric Cadash and Josephine Montilyet. Thanks so much for your time and attention to detail! Edric is from my fic The Ambassador’s Choice (AO3) and hopefully more fics to come! 

#commissioned work #dragon age #dragon age inquisition #da:i #inquisitor #dwarven inquisitor #cadash #josephine montilyet

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Kallian Tabris is looking fine in @shepofships’s beautiful style! Thanks so much! Kallian currently stars in Interrupted (AO3) and Pillow Talk (AO3), with more fics to come.

Please commission @shepofships if you have the chance!

#dragon age #dragon age origins #da: origins #da:o #commissioned work #warden #warden tabris #kallian tabris #tabris