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secretsimpleness · 1 year

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Bad dreams again? Who’s on watch tonight, with time to comfort you? HoF Surana, All The Companions Except One / Dragon Age Origins (c) Bioware

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ziracona · 2 years

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Me in every DA game when my pc & the party rouges and warriors get downed and I have to inevitably 1v12 a mob as Anders/Morrigan/Wynne/Merrill/Bethany/Solas/Tryggr/Dorian

#you think ‘oh R is bad at playing rogues and warriors huh?’ no. I am a god. I made it thru 3 games no armor just wedding dress #consider: ‘R is /really/ good at playing mages #dragon age #dragon age origins #dragon age awakening #dragon age 2 #dragon age inquisition #it’s Wynne but shooting Telanadas as the arrow bc that was us carding everyone else fuckin ass through Orzammar hell #for days #Wynne *aims Telanadas at Ogre like a longbow bolt* ‘Shoot for the stars’#not as vivienne tho bc she fucking sucks

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tobythewise · 9 days

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Welcome to DWC! Happy friday! For Zevran/Alistair: “Hey, so about—” “I suddenly have memory loss and don’t remember who you are.”

Thank you for the welcome and for this brilliant prompt!! 🥰💚 I hope you enjoy!

(Written for @dadrunkwriting content ahead: mentions of drinking, a drunk kiss, and getting together)

Alistair wakes up in his tent with a pained groan. His mouth is parched and tastes like dirt, his head is somehow both spinning amd pounding, and his stomach is sour. The smell of booze comes from his breath, making him all the more sick.

By the Maker, what did he do last night?

Oh right. They found themselves at the Pearl, deal with yet another job their fearless leader took on. After that, they somehow found themselves playing cards with a pirate named Isabela and after that there was alcohol. A lot of it.

Alistair hasn’t had many opportunities to get drunk, not while living in Redcliffe and certainly not while studying at the Chantry. So for the first time, he accepted every glass put in front of him. Looking back, he really should have stopped after two, but once he started it felt like a cop out to stop. If Wynne could handle a few drinks, surely he should be able to as well!

That was his line of thinking anyway.

Now? Now Alistair promises himself to never drink again. He’s sticking to water going forward.

Alistair smacks his lips, realizing the last time he woke up with his mouth tasting this vile was his Joining. Great, now he’s going to start associating alcohol with Darkspawn blood.

Covering his face with his hands, Alistair groans long and low. Just then, the flap of his tent folds open, letting sunshine through.

“Close that,” he grumbles without looking up. “Too early. Too bright.”

A warm chuckle makes him part his fingers, finding Zevran carefully closing the tent flap behind himself. Alistair’s stomach does a flip only this time it’s followed by a warm tingly feeling instead of the urge to throw up.

“Ah, I had a feeling you would be feeling a bit rough this morning, my friend. I’ve brought you cold water to help.”

Without saying a single word, Alistair reaches out and takes the water skin from him. Their fingers brush and a shiver runs through him. There’s something nagging him at the back of his mind, something that happened last night.

It must not have been that important if he can’t think of it.

Alistair takes a long swing of water, thankful at the way to washes away the gross taste in his mouth. He looks over at Zevran, finding him staring. Alistair feels himself flushing, something he does often when he’s around Zevran.

And of course because he’s him, the attention makes him panic. Alistair takes a large swig, the water shooting down the wrong pipe and suddenly he’s choking on water, coughing it back up while trying not to spit any water onto Zevran.

With dexterity and smoothness that Alistair is jealous of, Zevran slides further into the tent, kneeling next to him. His hand slides across Alistair’s back, patting him a few times.

By the Maker, the blushing is back and it’s even worse now that he’s so close.

Alistair turns his head, finding himself almost nose to nose with Zevran. This close, he can make out the little golden specks in his brown eyes. He’s so close it would be so easy to….

Oh. Oh no. Holy shit. Oh god.

Alistair’s eyes widen as he realizes what he couldn’t remember about the night before. He was so drunk he could barely walk which meant Zevran had to practically carry him here. While the assassin was helping him into his bedroll, Alistair pulls him down into a sloppy, drunk kiss.

They kissed.

He kissed Zevran.

Alistair can tell the moment Zevran notices that he remembers. His eyes grow soft and he puts on an easy smile.

“Hey,” Zevran starts to say, “so about—“

Alistair does the most mature thing he can think to do in this moment. He shoves Zevran back, falls back into his bedroll, and pulls it over his face.

“I suddenly have memory loss! I don’t remember who you are!”

There’s a long moment of silence. It goes on so long that Alistair is half convinced that the man he’s grown to have a giant, embarrassing crush on has left his tent. He just wants to hide and pretend none of this has happened because he’s not sure he’ll survive the teasing this situation is going to leave him with.

“If you wish to play it this way, I am not one to push,” Zevran finally says, his voice surprisingly soft. “In my experience, drunk lips tell what one is too scared to share while sober. If that’s not the case, consider this conversation to have never happened.”

Alistair swallows around the lump in his throat. It would be so easy to let it go, to pretend it was all a drinker mistake. But for once, he wants to be brave. He wants to take a leap. Zevran is worth that.

Pulling the blanket down so only his eyes are showing, he stares up into Zevran’s eyes. “And if my drunk lips were telling the truth?”

Zevran’s lips curls into an easy smile. “Then I would ask you to never kiss me while drunk again.” Before Alistair can apologize or throw himself from the tent in embarrassment and rejection, Zevran continues. “When our lips meet, I want all of your wits about you. I want you to experience our kiss fully. I want your sober lips to talk to me, my warden.”

Alistair might not remember much about their first kiss but their second kiss? He commits it to memory, completely sober.

#dadrunkwriting #tobywrites #alistair x zevran #dragon age #fanfic #mentions of drinking #Zevran x alistair

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natreads · 4 months

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2023 reading wrap up

I read 45 books this year, including one for work. I don't typically include those but I was working with the translation of a book and so it had technically already come out so I decided to put it on Goodreads. I have however not included it in this wrapup, so there's only 44 of them here.

Classics (8) 1 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 2 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5 - ⭐⭐⭐

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (reread) ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin (queer, reread) ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans (e, childrens) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

The Grey Woman by Elizabeth Gaskell (au) ⭐⭐⭐

Play It as It Lays by Joan Didion (modern) ⭐⭐⭐

The House of Hunger by Dambudzo Marechera ⭐⭐⭐

Slow Days, Fast Company by Eve Babitz (modern) ⭐⭐⭐

Teleny by Anonymous (queer) ⭐⭐⭐

Poetry (4) 1 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 2 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 1 - ⭐⭐⭐

Dancing in Odessa by Ilya Kaminsky (e) ⭐⭐⭐

Closer Baby Closer by Savannah Brown (e) ⭐⭐⭐⭐

The Carrying by Ada Limón (au/ph) ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Things You May Find Hidden In My Ear by Mosab Abu Toha (e) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Romance (2) 1 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 1 - ⭐⭐⭐

The Duke and I by Julia Quinn (au) ⭐⭐⭐

Red White and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston (reread, queer) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Non-fiction (10) 3 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 2 - ⭐⭐⭐

Letters to Camondo by Edmund De Waal ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Det är natten by Karolina Ramqvist (sv, e) ⭐⭐⭐

En bok av dagar by Patti Smith (tr) ⭐⭐⭐⭐

My Salinger Year by Joanna Rakoff ⭐⭐⭐⭐

A Kind of Magic by Luke Edward Hall ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Blir du ledsen om jag dör? by Nicolas Lunabba (sv) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Krigsdagböcker by Astrid Lindgren (sv) ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Dagbok från 20-talet by Nicolas Lunabba (sv) ⭐⭐⭐

The Forster Cavafy Letters edited by Peter Jeffreys ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Greco Disco by Luke Edward Hall ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Fantasy (1) 1 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan (au, ph) ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Contemporary (19) 1 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 8 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 9 - ⭐⭐⭐

Big Swiss by Jen Beagin (queer, au) ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Kärlek i Seoul by Sang Young Park (queer, tr, au) ⭐⭐⭐

Andromeda by Therese Bohman (sv) ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Min Far by Annie Ernaux (tr) ⭐⭐⭐

Göra sig kvitt Eddy Bellegueule Édouard Louis (queer, tr) ⭐⭐⭐

Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami (au) ⭐⭐⭐

After Sappho by Selby Wynn Schwartz (queer) ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Babetta by Nina Wähä (au, sv) ⭐⭐⭐⭐

My Policeman by Bethan Roberts (queer) ⭐⭐⭐

Rumple Buttercup by Matthew Gray Gubler (e, childrens) ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Aftonland by Therese Bohman (sv) ⭐⭐⭐

Om uträkning av omfång 1 by Solvej Balle (tr, au) ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Commonwealth by Ann Patchett ⭐⭐⭐⭐

The Adventures of the Seven Christmas Cards by Anthony Horowitz (au) ⭐⭐⭐

Vinternoveller by Ingvild H. Rishøi (tr) ⭐⭐⭐

Heartstopper volume 5 by Alice Oseman (queer, YA) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Stargate by Ingvild H. Rishøi (tr, au) ⭐⭐⭐⭐

In the Absence of Men by Philippe Besson (queer, tr) ⭐⭐⭐

Saint Sebastian’s Abyss by Mark Haber (au) ⭐⭐⭐

Additional info and stats under the cut:

e = ebook au = audiobook ph = physical (only used when I alternated between the audiobook and the physical copy) tr = translated sv = originally in Swedish

Childrens - 2

YA - 1

Middle grade - 1

Graphic novel - 1

Modern classics - 2

Translated - 8 (Korean, English, French x3, Danish x1, Norwegian x2)

Swedish - 7

Audio - 12

E-book - 6

Rereads - 3

Queer - 8

5 stars - 7

4 stars - 18

3 stars - 19

Owned - 30 + bought 1 as e-book)

Unhauled after reading - 8

#nat talks #2023 reading wrap up #long post

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illusivesoul · 3 months

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Hi! Regarding the WIP ask, they all sound really interesting! I would be specifically curious about the "Loss card game aveline leandra". And if you feel like writing more, I would also like to know what "LeliWynne Tomb" is all about! ❤️

Thanks for the ask, friend :)

Got the the idea for this after randomly remembering the banter where Fenris says he plays cards with Donnic and that they dont invite Aveline. So Aveline and Leandra start playing cards together and talking about life and loss.

Heres a snippet from it.

"Forget my impertinence, but… does it get easier overtime?"

"Not so much that it gets easy, you just get used to living with it. Like an old wound, or a bad knee" Leandra said, a smile on her face that covered the sadness on her words "It will sound absurd, but some mornings when I wake I still stretch out my hands to the other side of the bed, hoping to feel Malcom resting beside me"

Aveline nodded "Wesley had this cheap perfume, Fereldan earthwood, that smelled like water of the Drakon river boiled with out of season fruit. It had its charm to it" Aveline laid her card on the table "I don't know if my head got too shaken around on the sail to Kirkwall or if it's me losing my sanity, but I swear I keep smelling that perfunme all over Kirkwall. I've asked around, and most stores either don't know what it is or simply don't have it. Its... bizarre"

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The LeliWynne tomb is about Leli visiting where Wynne's ashes are buried in Andoral's Reach after the events of dai, and its as angsty as it sounds lol

#ask meme

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bengiyo · 1 year

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HIStory5: Love in the Future Ep 10 (Finale) Stray Thoughts

Y'all, I am so glad this show is ending.

Last time, Lin Wynn continued to angst about Vincent, but they at least managed to see each other. Bo-wei is trying to set Hai Yi up with girls because he things he's going to leave. We have some drama coming about the chairman position. Also, they introduced a brothers romance from an earlier series? I hate it.

Oh good. We're wrapping this corporate battle plot quickly. Of course Vincent was a spy the whole time, and Hai Yi has been his confidant. Of course he arranged the warehouse for Johnny. I had no doubt about Vincent, so I'm glad we're moving quickly.

My man Vincent said he needs a break and tendered his resignation.

These necklaces are very romantic. Nice play, Wynn.

It is nice to see Wynn being assured in this encounter with Vincent. Vincent cares so much about Wynn, and checks in before lifting him up the stairs.

Vincent is my kind of man. Big TV downstairs. Big TV in the bedroom. We doin' things real big here.

Bo-wei dealing with the shift in reality that Hai Yi is actually reliable lands okay.

I hope Vincent and Wynn retire to the beach.

I'm so over Bo-wei pushing Hai Yi away.

It'd even soured this first time scene. All this avoidance and bickering means this feels unaligned.

Vincent and Wynn are really the only part of this show I've been able to enjoy. Their beach scene lands completely.

As a gay, if I was doing okay in the future and none of my close family were left behind, I'd stay in the future.

So we held on to the dead grandma card just to get maximum drama here? I kinda hate this.

"I didn't want you to be sad," is a weak excuse for not telling him about his grandmother.

Seriously, what did this summoner want??

I suppose seeing the grandma's ghost is meant to let us feel about him staying?

Okay, but what about the consciousness that was Dai Johnny??

Oh, are we ending at a wedding for the brothers? Hmm, no.

Final Verdict: 5, Not Recommended. Honestly, this show was not it for me at all. I feel like the time travel component felt underutilized, and I have no idea why the psychic who summoned him cared about him so much. I don't feel like we cared about actual Johnny Dai. The corporate plot dragged on too long with no real emotional stakes or payoff. Bo-wei and Hai Yi bickered the whole time. The only part of this that worked was Vincent's incredible devotion to Wynn. I've tried to support the History franchise, but I'm no longer sticking through these shows if they put me off..

#history 5: love in the future #history5: love in the future #taiwanese bl #bl series #Ben watches

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hawkepockets · 2 years

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btw. matsendra surana is my first & favorite dao warden. he was born dalish, a dreamer whose magical talent showed only in rare bright flashes because he spent so much time day-Dreaming, half in the fade. when his cousin diti was chosen to be First, matsendra’s mother agreed to move with him to another clan that had no child mages. he was taken from her arms by templars on the road and brought to the circle, where his name was anglicized to “max” and he was told his birth clan had discarded him. (his memories were too clouded by the Fade to contradict this.) wynne took a shine to him and, worried that he was unusually susceptible to possession, restricted him to the study of theoretical magic, with no spellcasting permitted. over his 21 years in the circle he grew into a gentle, lazy, pleasure-seeking and theory-loving mage who never antagonized the templars and was loved by a lot of his peers, especially anders despite the two contrasting in almost every way. (anders likes people who remind him of cats.) when jowan enlisted his help in escaping the tower, max betrayed him to first enchanter irving in a second, but nevertheless ended up pinned between a rock (irving) and a hard place (knight commander greagoir) and conscripted to the wardens. in the subsequent investigation and stripping-down of max’s office (a former broom closet gifted to him by wynne), the templars found what max had kept hidden, for years, from everyone but anders—extensive, practical research into glyphs and written magic, building to a near perfect understanding of how to create spells using ink, vellum, and lyrium, (and a dreamer’s familiarity with the fade’s geometric structure) without ever breaking wynne’s ban against channeling magic himself. outside the tower max slowly and painfully developed from a spoiled circle centrist into a soft-spoken but terribly persuasive and powerful self-possessed elf mage. he made his research portable by drawing spells on playing cards at first, then by inking them directly onto his skin. he romanced morrigan, broke wynne’s heart with his loss of faith in the circle and alistair’s with his ruthless sparing of loghain, and his own when morrigan left. anders was both disturbed and delighted to recognize his drowsy old friend from the circle in the dark-eyed, tattooed commander of the grey. “max” had changed his politics, but never his love of research, tea, and comfort, or his ability to talk anders into almost anything with a slow blink of his eyes. anders thought they might rebuild some kind of life together in amaranthine, until matsendra, wrecked by distance from morrigan, unknowledge about their child, and silence from anora after her promise to free the circles from chantry control, after a whole life spent in what felt like an experiment to see how much a “good mage” could tolerate, suddenly broke from the wardens and stormed kinloch hold alone, raising a small army of spur-of-the-moment rebel mages and nearly succeeding in taking the tower before wynne, who he’d hoped against hope might change her mind this time, struck him down and held him down long enough for the templars to swarm him and commit the rite of tranquility. this was the incident that spurred anders to leave the wardens and sail for kirkwall. and matsendra stayed in the circle for another 10 years, laboring as a formari and aware only intellectually, with no heat of emotion behind it, of the injustice that had been done to him. until he looked up from his work to see that he and the other tranquil had been traded like coins to a tevinter magister who was killing them for their skulls. this was unsatisfactory, so he took the remaining formari into the redcliffe windmill tunnel he remembered from his youth, then followed rumors of anders and justice, all the way to the tranquility cure. after which there was a beloved witch of the wilds to find, and hell to pay for the chantry.

um.

if you even care.

#dao #long post #oc: max

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heretherebedork · 1 year

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Okay, I will be honest and say I didn't check out History 5. Nothing in the premise really interested me, and nothing I've seen since has convinced me it's really worth it. However, I did watch all the scenes with my favorite worst boy ever.

I was just thinking that for the most part, their relationship was mostly how I kind of thought it would go. I didn't put my bingo card on YongJie being a dedicated sports fan, but YongJie showing up to XingSi's work bc he's slept alone too much is the exact behavior I expect. And the whole 30 second kiss before midnight fits them very well???

Idk, they were oddly cute in the ways I figured they would be once XingSi took control and molded his brother boyfriend into the brother boyfriend he always wanted.

They really did work and the show did them justice in all their little fucked up ways that work out to also be the sweetest ways. I really did enjoy them and getting the chance to see them go all the way to fiances was adorable.

But, yep, it's all about how XingSi helps shape YongJie both as a youth and now as a partner and it's great. Their start was... rocky but, frankly, the show knows that and the show has proved that they handled that in their own way and I appreciate a show that says 'yes, they're fucked but you know what some people are into that'. A+ choices.

They made it work and they did it adorably and I just wish we'd gotten to see them comforting Wynn later in that episode (poor boy deserved more) but I get why not watching the show would make that sentence meaningless.

Anyway, totally agree anon. I do with we'd gotten some Muren, though, mostly because he was played by one of the prettiest men alive and I miss seeing him on my screen playing gay, tbh.

#asked and answered #history 4: close to you #bl ask #yeah i get it #i do like the new history tradition of bringing a couple back to get engaged/married

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psalacanthea · 2 years

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Reforged in Dragon’s Fire- 8

New Chapter Here!

“I genuinely do not care for gambling,” Nathaniel repeated, tearing off a piece of bread.

“It’s only a friendly wager,” Anders said, attempting to shuffle the battered pasteboard playing cards they’d found in a dusty guards’ room. The Keep was a bit in shambles at the moment. “I don’t even know what these suits are. I don’t recognize these at all.” He held up one of the crudely hand-illuminated cards in two fingers.

“It’s a hound’s collar,” Nathaniel said after a brief glance. He dunked his bread in the stew.

“But why? Other than that they’re just like every other set of cards I’ve seen.”

“After the war, having anything that looked Orlesian would get you mocked at best, and into a fight at worst. Orlesian cards went into the fire, and we started making our own. The pip cards are hound’s collars, snares, hunting horns, and axes.”

“Huh,” Anders said contemplatively.

He couldn’t help but ask, “aren’t you Ferelden?”

“Yes, because living in the Circle keeps you up to date on all the latest cultural happenings,” Anders said with cheerful sarcasm, avoiding the question. “The Templars take us on trips to the theater and out on the hunt if we’re good boys and girls.”

“Really?” Oghren asked, glancing up from his ale.

“Yes! You know, the reason it’s called the Circle is because we actually spend a lot of time practicing our circle dances,” Anders said, still upbeat and flippant. “Nothing like a trot around the maypole to keep the spirits up while being imprisoned and oppressed, ey?”

Did the man know how to speak without being sarcastic? It was beginning to seem as if he lived for infuriating people. At least Nathaniel wasn’t the one looking for answers from him.

“Dancin’, huh? That would explain the skirts. Hmh. Figured it couldn’t be as bad as some people whine about. Wynne said they’ve got good ale there,” Oghren said, half to himself.

“Wynne?” Anders asked, voice scaling up. “How does someone like you know Wynne, of all people?”

“She helped me and Feebs beat the Archdemon. Kinda had a thing for me, actually,” Oghren confided as he leaned in, smelling of a tavern floor.

“Well, why wouldn’t she?” Anders said flippantly, carefully shuffling the battered cards. “I’m half in love with you myself, and we’ve only just met.”

Oghren belched, sending a particularly foul wind across the table. And then he laughed to himself, as if that had been some sort of triumph of humor. Nathaniel silently stared down at his food, and then sighed and pushed it away. Oghren immediately grabbed it and dragged it across the table.

“Don’t mind if I do.”

#dragon age awakening #Nathaniel Howe x Cousland #Reforged in Dragon's Fire #Phoebe Cousland #in which the tension begins

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solasan · 2 years

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WARDEN for cedistair peas

NSFW HEADCANON GAME

W: wild card (get a random headcanon for the character of your choice)

alistair's loud. like. after a lifetime of sneaking trysts in dark corners at kinloch, cedany's used to having to be quiet; it's basically the only time she can be quiet, even if she'll still be whispering shit in alistair's ear the whole time that makes him pant. but alistair has woken up half the camp before. he couldnt meet wynne's eyes for a week. zevran congratulated him the next morning. it was very embarrassing for everyone involved, except cedany, who was mostly just very smug.

A: aftercare (what they’re like after sex)

cedany's not used to getting aftercare tbh. or giving it. in the tower, it was usually like... you got out as soon as u finished, just to make sure u weren't caught. but alistair always gets very cuddly and she actually finds she really enjoys that! so they'll often lie in the same bedroll together, giggling or talking or pulling faces at each other, and they'll have their legs tangled together with cedany's face tucked into his chest. even 20 years after the blight, they go right back to that routine hjssdjk.

R: risk (are they game to experiment, do they take risks, etc.)

yeah!! or... i think cedany's more game for it than alistair is, but she never pushes him into doing things he's uncomfortable with doing and he sometimes finds a bit of risk exciting. he's also down to experiment! that's how he found out just how much he likes it when cedany ties him to things dhdjkdsk. i think for the brief time they were together after awakening but before his wedding, they probably played around w doing it in risky places too. the library is definitely one of those places dshdskjsd.

D: dirty secret (pretty self explanatory, a dirty secret of theirs)

answered here.

E: experience (how experienced are they? do they know what they’re doing?)

cedany's always been the more experienced one; she rly got around at the circle bc she had basically nothing else to do for entertainment dshsjdkjds. alistair prefers that tho! during the blight, he's glad that at least one of them knows what they're doing; it makes it much more enjoyable. when they get together on their calling, they've both slept with other people (her with a few randoms, him with his wife) so they've had experience outside of each other, but she's still got the edge on him. they do know each other's bodies rly well still, even if a few things have changed, so even if he has less experience than her, it's not bad sex.

N: NO (something they wouldn’t do, turn offs)

cedany's actually surprisingly possessive, considering she's been involved in group sex before and doesn't have any qualms about it normally. alistair's kinda the only person she's felt a real deep & abiding love for, so she doesn't want to share him— especially not after 20 years of sharing him with his queen. apart from that, there's no choking on either end; it makes them both a bit panicky just bc of how often they've been in combat/nearly killed. and honestly i can't see alistair ever domming her dshjdsjk i just don't think either of them have an interest in that.

#answered #denerims #ch: cedany amell #ch: cedany x alistair #i love them i love them i love them i l-

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verfound · 2 years

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12, 14, and 16

12. If a genie offered you three writing wishes, what would they be? Btw if you wish for more wishes the genie turns all your current WIPs into Lorem Ipsum, I don’t make the rules.

...does Thought to Screen count? 😂 Faster typing speed if that's not possible? A dimensional door to a Writing Nook where whatever mum's watching on the TV isn't attacking my ADD and I can just focus?

14. Do you lend your books to people? Are people scared to borrow books from you? Do you know exactly where all your “lost” books are and which specific friend from school you haven’t seen in twelve years still possesses them? Will you ever get them back?

I will never lend my books out again. I used to trade books off with Sarah Brown Eyes all the time, and it was no big deal. The problem is the friendship deteriorated, and she still has five of my books - including my copy of Changeover, Diana Wynne Jones's first book which is out of print and damnably difficult to find. I lucked out when I got my copy (at the time it was going for $300-400 dollars on Amazon; someone threw up a copy for $25 - it's the most I've ever spent on a non-textbook book but I snatched it up so fast), and over the past year or so I've seen the price fluctuate anywhere from $400 to $9,000 (for a copy someone said was an original 1970 hardcover, which...don't exist anymore, to my knowledge). Right now, because I was curious, Amazon claims it has used paperback copies going from $12-20 - but if you click on it the link takes you to her book Chair Person. SBE has about five of my books still, even though hers have been returned and I asked for mine back, but the one that really pisses me off is Changeover.

It's not a great book, but it's DWJ's first book, and it was important to me. SBE knew this, and she's a book person herself - she knows what she did. I doubt I will ever see my book again, and because of that I refuse to ever let anyone else borrow my books. (I even got twitchy when mum wanted to borrow my copy of Songbirds and Snakes, and that would have been stupidly easy to replace - and we live together.)

16. What’s the weirdest thing you’ve ever used as a bookmark?

That...is an excellent question. 😂 Idk? My bookmarks are pretty standard: old receipts, sticky notes, corners of paper ripped off, a piece of yarn, those paint sample cards, tags from Torrid (like the Outlander tag from a skirt I got a while back), a...oh! I have a florescent orange 3x5 index card with the corner burnt off from a time I was playing with fire (...don't do that kids I'm a horrible example) that I use all the time. Does that count as weird? 😂

#ver asks #weird writer asks #yo sar if you ever see this #I want my damn book back

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trident-dragion · 2 years

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Over the Nexus Deck Profile: Charmers

Charmers are a fan favorite archetype, loved my thousands of players. I count myself among them! However, there is one thing about them that, up until very recently in the history of Yugioh, that most Charmer fans can agree on: we really just like the artwork. Cute, elemental mage girls and their animal buddies is, no pun intended, a very charming theme, and the excellent art style further helps their appeal. However, the cards themselves struggle to accomplish much; needing to keep these weak monsters alive to maintain control of the stolen monster is difficult, and this is made worse when you consider that the opponent needs a monster of your given attribute to steal in the first place. To maximize our odds of getting SOMETHING off, we play two of each of the six Charmers, along with DNA Transplant. To further our odds of survival, we play three Pyramid Turtle, plus a Patrician of Darkness and a Spirit Reaper, I.e. the classic Zombie stall core. Partician, especially paired with Reaper, can keep our Charmers safe until it's time to try to nab something from the opponent's board. This is probably one of the weakest decks I've uploaded, but Charmers are still one of my favorites, so I wanted to make sure they were represented! MONSTERS (20): Aussa the Earth Charmer x2 Dharc the Dark Charmer x2 Eria the Water Charmer x2 Gorz the Emissary of Darkness x1 Hiita the Fire Charmer x2 Lyna the Light Charmer x2 Patrician of Darkness x1 Pyramid Turtle x3 Sangan x1 Spirit Reaper x1 Tragoedia x1 Wynn the Wind Charmer x2 SPELLS (11): Book of Moon x2 Dark Hole x1 Giant Trunade x1 Monster Reborn x1 Mystical Space Typhoon x2 Pot of Duality x3 Swords of Revealing Light x1 TRAPS (9): Call of the Haunted x1 DNA Transplant x2 Mirror Force x1 Solemn Judgment x1 Torrential Tribute x1 Waboku x3 EXTRA DECK: Chimeratech Fortress Dragon x3 Ally of Justice Catastor x1 Arcanite Magician x1 Armory Arm x1 Black Rose Dragon x1 Brionac, Dragon of the Ice Barrier x1 Colossal Fighter x1 Goyo Guardian x1 Red Dragon Archfiend x1 Scrap Dragon x1 Stardust Dragon x1 Thought Ruler Archfiend x1 Trishula, Dragon of the Ice Barrier x1

#yu-gi-oh!#world championship 2011: over the nexus #deck profile #charmers #aussa the earth charmer #dharc the dark charmer #eria the water charmer #hiita the fire charmer #lyna the light charmer #wynn the wind charmer

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WE'RE BACK BABY - CAN YOU DIG IT Here's how the deck works: S Y N C H R O You have a bunch of starters and two card combos, some of your more potent ones are Vedir + Pilica Wynn + Griffin Emergency Teleport Let's talk about the assault package. Emergency teleport gets you into Psi-Reflector. Psi-Reflector searches Assault Beast who discards himself to add Assault Mode Activate. Psi-reflector summons Beast from grave and modulates his level to 6. Why is this important? POWER TOOL DRAGON BABY! YES WE PLAY POWER TOOL NOW Search you a Gusto Tailwind with that bad boy Wanna know the coolest thing? You've used one card from your hand (Emergency Teleport), you should have four other cards to work with now (Technically five if you searched Tailwind) If you already have Tailwind in hand, you can use Psi-reflector to modulate your special summoned assault beast to level 8 or 9, it all depends on the rest of your hand really. This deck very easily gets Baronne out "Baronne is too expensive" Don't worry my dear fledglings, Crystal Clear Wing Synchro Dragon is a good budget replacement, you'll just need to adjust your extra deck and run your combo lines a bit differently to get into him

#yugioh #should I make a proper combo line for this build?#Or maybe host other modern deck profiles?

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bengiyo · 1 year

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HIStory5: Love in the Future Ep 4 Stray Thoughts

Still amazed that we're consistently seeing shows from four or more countries every week now. Last time, we watched Bo-wei get the shit beat out of him in this stupid plan to pursue this woman before being rescued by Hai Yi. Meanwhile, Liang Vincent is the simpiest simp we've had, I think so far this year, and I am obsessed with him and Lin Wynn. Also, I want to study Tony so badly. Finally, we're dealing with the fact that Dai Johnny had a whole life and people who knew him.

Playing the amnesia card? Oh, BL.

"Tell me about my life." Well, let's start with the product placement. Never change, BL.

I hope Johnny's friend sticks around.

Hai Yi is so pathetic. Man has a crush and doesn't know how to act.

I love Tony's outfits.

Si-Chi Lu really thinks there's something going on with her and Vincent, and now she's mad? Girl, bye.

Hai Yi is too old for this petty behavior because his crush hasn't noticed him.

I am so invested in Vincent and Wynn.

Momo said I know romance when I see it. No straight man glares at me like that. Also, we been legalized same sex marriage. This is the present now, baby boy.

These two dancing around a crush as they live together is almost too much.

Tony out here starting shit, but Lin Wynn is having none of it!

I need Vincent and Wynn to kiss soon.

Bo-wei called Wynn down to use his discount, I love it. Nice job building up the friendship so that when they do go on a double date it'll lead to a confrontation between Vincent and Hai Yi about the company.

We also had an earthquake in My Tooth Your Love. Is this going to be a regular tool in Taiwanese BL now?

Time travel involving a period in living memory always offers up some interesting observations, in this case about the immediate impacts of an earthquake on the collective consciousness.

No, go downstairs, Wynn. Kiss him.

Momo said, "Jot this down!" This should help clear things up about Bo-wei being from the past.

Hai Yi's doubt about the time travel is totally valid; I'm okay with him being slow to accept it, and then getting scared of some of the personal connection details.

I'm not sure why this woman needs a husband, but you will not deter a simp from their love.

I'm mixed about the internal monologues in this show.

They locked my boy Lin Wynn in a freezer? EVIL.

All these people are going to need to be fired immediately.

#history5: love in the future #history 5: love in the future #taiwanese bl #bl series #Ben watches

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