#theluckywizard

[theluckywizard]

Garrett Hawke, Champion of Kirkwall

AKA Barnabus Bird, C. Huckles, Havartus the Cheeselord

Inquisitor Rose Trevelyan’s not so secret lover

Featured in my DA:I long fic In the Shattering of Things and my yet to be published DA:2 matchmaking romantic comedy Kiss Me Moonstruck (Hawke x Trevelyan)

#Garrett Hawke #warrior!hawke #Dragon Age 2 #Dragon Age Inquisition #Dragon Age Fan Fiction #Dragon Age Fan Art #My custom blue-purple man 🥰 #Hawke x Trevelyan #I am stupid about this ship #my artwork #theluckywizard

[warpedlegacy]

Fan Works Friday Whenever

Rules: If you're tagged, MAKE A NEW POST and showcase one fanartist or fanfic you recommend (with links), and tag someone to give their recs next! Don't forget to reblog the rec you were tagged in!

Late to this, but thanks for the tag @dreadfutures and thanks for getting this started! No forward tags since I'm late this week but feel free to reblog!

Starting this off with an artist:

Lucky Wizard is such a delight to work with! She is very communicative and I'm always astounded at how fast she is able to crank out such stunning pieces like the above. She did all of the art in Swept Away and was able to perfectly portray the style I had in mind. All of her art shows a love and care for the characters she is portraying, especially in the facial expressions.

Tumblr - @theluckywizard Ko Fi - Lucky Wizard

#my friend's art #fan work fridays #fan art recs #theluckywizard #dragon age fanart

[lykegenia]

Ohhhh tell me about Post Blight Shenanigans 🤩

Post Blight Shenanigans!

In hindsight I really should have started writing it in earnest before I started ATWFD because trying to handle two Dragon Age longfics at once is a bit much, and this is a shorter story so it would have been finished sooner.

Anyway, the story is a straight-up sequel to DA:O with a Tabris HoF who made Alistair king. It's set immediately after the game, while they try to get to grips with how to run a country and clear up after the mess the Blight made of the countryside. There's politics, scheming, romance, Fereldans being Fereldan, and of course, Rosslyn Cousland is there. In this version of the story she became the spearhead of the rebellion against Loghain, which kept him busy enough for Alistair and Tabris to slip through the cracks and save the world. It has no title, but I've written 38k+ words of a plan and I know how it ends. Here's a little snippet beneath the cut:

"No, you don’t understand, I almost kissed her."

Alistair sprawled on an overstuffed velvet sofa, one hand thrown over his face to hide from the pitying looks being levelled at him by his friends. It had been an hour since he left Rosslyn, just enough time for him to flee to Leliana’s apartment near the chantry, but her image still loomed in front of him with perfect, searing clarity. The most beautiful thing he ever beheld.

"Did she look like she wanted you to?" Leliana asked, and he could hear amusement behind her curiosity.

"She’s not interested." He groaned. "I legged it before I could embarrass myself. More than I already did, anyway."

Thea snorted. "So you’re finally ready to admit you’re giddy on her then?"

"Andraste’s knickers, of course you’re not going to let this go. Fine. You were right. She’s so… she’s…"

His mind scattered like sunlight through a spray of water, to images of Rosslyn dancing, training, knelt on the floor of her brother's hall with nothing but defiance in the bow of her head. The way her mouth curled up in the left corner when he made a joke. But he stopped himself there, with another earnest groan, because that thought only brought him back to the near-confrontation in his office, to the question of how soft her mouth might be, and whether she would have kissed him back. She might have leaned into him, twined her fingers into his hair -

He cursed. He might not have much – or anything – in the way of practical experience, but had heard and saw enough of Thea and Zevran’s relationship on the road to fill in blanks, no matter how he had tried not to for decency’s sake.

"But this is adorable!" Leliana cried. "That day in the glade was not wasted, I see. But what makes you think she’s not interested?"

"She told him to piss off when they were still back in Highever."

A gasp. "You tried to approach her?"

Heat flushed his face, indignation a low swoop in his stomach that drove him back to sitting. "Of course not!"

#wip game #theluckywizard

[ammoniteflesh]

Ohhh Farscape. Tell me about Aeryn x Pilot!

YESSSS, this one has been quietly percolating in the back of my mind for a while - put on hold bc the friends I was watching Farscape with have been very busy. But I adore Aeryn/Pilot and I really want to write some stuff for it at some point. An idea I had for this concept relatively recently was 'the rest of the gang get captured so Aeryn and Pilot have to pose as Peacekeepers and they both have very complex feelings about it'.

I also really wanted to dive into Aeryn's upbringing bc I'm very interested in what a Peacekeeper childhood looks like! The only bit of actual text in the doc is about this:

Your name is Aeryn Sun. It was given to you by your creche commanding officer. You don’t know why he chose it; it’s not your business to know. You were assigned a name and now you answer to it. Like a dog learning a trick.

#theluckywizard #farscape #faust writes #wip titles tag game #speak faust

[breninarthur]

Ok I have to know more about Maz Hawke's romantic misadventures obviously! <3

Thank you for asking!! 🥰

I've posted before about my high hopes for this one, and also this lil excerpt here :3

This is the summary I have so far:

"In which Maz Hawke is a disaster bisexual in the saddest, most pathetic, wet blanket-est way."

It's inspired by my playthrough and how I managed to completely miss every single romance flag 😂 I had to go back a couple hours to the closest one, which was Fenris!

Here's another excerpt 👀

Hawke was panicking.

This was a big decision, and one she felt she had no right in weighing in on as someone who was neither particularly religious, nor supported the idea of a monarchy.

"Well, uh…" she started, casting a wide net in the still pond of her mind and coming up with precisely nothing. He should just do what he wanted to. Was that sound advice? Did he have some sort of responsibility? But who cared, really?

"No one can tell you what to do," she stammered, immediately cursing herself for being too blunt. "I mean like, you can do who you want. What you want! You can do what you want! Well, you can do who you want too, but you know, that's not what I… meant… to say."

Maker send her a divine bolt of lightning to crash straight through the chantry and strike her down, she was a sinner and an idiot.

Sebastian's gaze was an arrow rooting her to the spot. She only flushed five shades deeper under his scrutiny.

"Hawke, you – don't think I'm not tempted."

Why did those words not set her alight with joy, she wondered.

"But I can't."

Ah yes, that was why.

"I knelt and swore before the Maker that I would take no bride before Andraste."

He looked… sad. Her breath quickened. They were much too far away from each other, and Hawke wanted nothing more than to grab him in an embrace, or run away and never look back. She knew she hadn't imagined it. There was something there. 

Sebastian wasn't just incredibly attractive, he was kind. He was fearless and sincere, and he made her feel as though she mattered. His fingers always lingered too long when he took the lockpicking kit she carried for him. He laughed the loudest at her terrible jokes. On the rare occasion he came to the Hanged Man; they drank together, alcohol cloying on their breath, pressed as close as their awarenesses would allow.

But it wasn't enough.

So that's a little bit about Maz Hawke's misadventures! There's some things I wanna keep ~secret~ about this fic, and those bits feel quite ambitious to me. I really hope I can pull it off, because I just have such a vision for it 😂

#dragon age #da2 #sebhawke #sebastian vael #hawke #maz hawke #maz x sebastian #my writing #asks #theluckywizard

[delicatefade]

Writer v. OC!

Tagged by @theluckywizard. Here's me v. Eilan. If you'd like to give this a shot, you can find the piccrew here.

Tagging @bluewren @flaggermuser @oliversrarebooks @mrslyncx @narravero @moonlightheretic @hekaerges @varric-tethras-editor @megasaurusssss

#eilan lavellan #tumblr games #picrew

[plisuu]

the Inquisitor walks into a volley of arrows....

WIP Wednesday tags:

@rosella-writes @dreadfutures @demarogue @daggerbeanart @greypetrel @theluckywizard @nirikeehan @exalted-dawn @inquisimer @alienturnip @blarrghe @sulky-valkyrie @knuttydraws @about2dance @effelants @warpedlegacy

#dragon age #cullen rutherford #cullen x trevelyan #cullevelyan #bi cullen #cullen x male trevelyan #connor trevelyan #my art #my wips #if you saw me post this already: no you didn't #anyway i think it'd be neat if the inquisitor got stuck with a few arrows now and then don't you?

[dreadfutures]

Rules: If you're tagged, MAKE A NEW POST and showcase one fanartist or fanfic you recommend (with links), and tag someone to give their recs next! Don't forget to reblog the rec you were tagged in!

Let's bring back rec posts, and share some love for the creative work we get to enjoy every day in our fandoms! For ANY fandom, highlight either a fanartist or a piece of fan writing (or both) you love and tag some friends!

FANARTIST: @yolebrat

Today I'm highlight @yolebrat - an amazing artist who I first found through painterly Dragon Age fanart. Since then I've enjoyed commissions, and cute little doodle replies that make me smile!

One of my favorite pieces is a commission yole made for Mel (below) Give it a reblog and follow yole for more art of all kinds. Or buy a commission and get an amazing painted piece of your own!

FANFIC: Cheating the Dread Wolf by cartadwarfwithaheartofgold

I read this story long ago all in one sitting. It absolutely gripped me, tugged at my heartstrings, and wouldn't let me go. A Cadash/Solas/Varric Tethras rare pair, you have to give this a try.

Rating: E Pairing: Female Cadash/Solas, Female Cadash/Varric, Varric/Solas Chapters: 13/13 Length: 42,657 words Summary: Maria Cadash hung up the Inquisitor's mantle for the Viscountess' crown, but she's unable to stop her desperate and impossible struggle to stop Fen'Harel from destroying the world both her husband and daughter inhabit. The fact Varric, Maria, and Solas are all madly in love with each other just means she may have enough of an edge to win this game.

Tags

I'm tagging a lot of people on this one because I want to get this KICKSTARTED. Dragon Age is coming BACK this summer, and I'm trying to get twitter refugees who don't know anyone on tumblr to realize that there's a thriving DA fandom that has been here the whole time. But feel free to recommend from other fandoms! I love finding new fics and new artists to follow.

Dragon Age FanFic server tag list: @warpedlegacy | @rakshadow | @rosella-writes | @effelants | @bluewren | @breninarthur | @ar-lath-ma-cully | @inquisimer | @crackinglamb | @theluckywizard | @nirikeehan | @oxygenforthewicked | @exalted-dawn | @melisusthewee | @blarrghe | @agentkatie | @delicatefade | @leggywillow | @about2dance | @plisuu

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(There is a tag limit of 50 people on posts so I'm pushing it lol)

#dragon age fanfic #tag meme #consider this fic rec friday #long post #fanwork friday #fic rec friday #fanart friday #fan work friday #remember to make a NEW POST and tag me

[greypetrel]

WIP (not) Wednesday

Tagged by @plisuu, thank you so much! :) This week has been hectic work-wise, but I scraped some time to work on a couple of things...

Kieran is a very spoiled child on some accounts, but Karens never last long in Amaranthine, for unknown reasons. Something in the water, clearly.

Some more Whale Au which is not an AU anymore, working on the gals. Darkened Aisling's hair a little to see how it is. Raina got a little in the sun, and her shirt is not correct for the time period (I forgot Edwardian shirts had detachable collars) and it should be corrected. The books is titled "Whales are better than you" and in this universe too she doesn't wear neither black nor white if she can help it. While Raina only wears black, white and red.

Tagging: @salsedinepicta @ndostairlyrium @shivunin @melisusthewee @dungeons-and-dragon-age @theluckywizard @whimsyswastry @hollytree33 @pinayelf @dreadfutures @transprincecaspian and YOU!

#wip wednesday #dragon age #dragon age origins #female mahariel x morrigan #whale au #aisling lavellan #raina hawke #alyra mahariel #greypetrel #digital art

[blarrghe]

Rating: M | Category: M/M | Words: 30 839 | Chapters 14/28

Summary:

When Magister Dorian Pavus' expedition meets unexpectedly with a clan of unhappy Dalish elves, First Taren Lavellan may be the unhappiest among them. Unhappier still to be put to the task of helping to see his quest through. This is the tale of how a fortnight in the forests of the Free Marches can change everything.

From the top

Ch. 14: A Lesson in Responsibility

Snippet:

“The last time the clan travelled through these parts, I was needed with them,” he explained. This admittance held more of that hidden embarrassment, a shortness to the usually even candour of his accented speech. “Even now, we could not spare the people, but then you came along,” he sighed, but the words contained less malice than Dorian had come to expect. “The clan will be moving early, we won’t return until the forest heals. A few seasons, at least. Our hunters needed to come out this way to prepare, and with your —” he faltered, “the help of your people, your supplies…” And here, Dorian understood. The great upset his witless companions had caused in alighting the forest and abandoning their slaves had benefited him, in a roundabout way. The slaves who wished to join clan Lavellan would now help his people prepare to travel, the supplies and gold taken from Dorian’s looted packs meant that elves of the clan who might have been sent to trade were free to join him, and meanwhile the hunt had to be sent further out. All of it allowed the bright-eyed, story-telling First to set out for the mythic temple he had, apparently, a longstanding fascination with. He had only to chaperone Dorian through the forest, and that too had benefits besides his own winning charm. He was, after all, another mage.  “So… you’re using me, my resources and my people, to do something you wanted to do all along?” Dorian concluded, settling back with the first genuinely smug smile he’d ever been able to direct at this self-important elf.

Daff tags list below the cut

@warpedlegacy @rakshadow @rosella-writes @effelants @breninarthur @ar-lath-ma-cully @dreadfutures @ir0n-angel @inquisimer @crackinglamb @theluckywizard @nirikeehan @oxygenforthewicked @exalted-dawn-drabbles @melisusthewee @agentkatie @delicatefade @leggywillow @about2dance @plisuu

#my fic #my writing #dragon age #dragon age inquisition #da:i #dragon age fanfiction #dragon age inquisition fanfiction #pavellan #dorian x lavellan #canon divergent #enemies to lovers #the hunter the snake and the fox

[exalted-dawn]

OC Kiss Week 2024, Day 1: Almost

Talenna/Garrett for @theluckywizard

#ockiss24 #oc kiss week #talenna ethera #garrett hawke #dragon age #dragon age ocs #dragon age 2

[theluckywizard]

In the Shattering of Things, Ch. 67: A Diplomatic Affair

Summary: Rose continues preparations for the peace talks at Halamshiral learning what she can from Leliana, Josephine and Vivienne. The Game. The players. Tailoring fit for a bard. Dancing. And when all the pressure steals away any hope of relaxing, she finds comfort in the familiar.

Fic Summary: Lady Rose Trevelyan's idle, aristocratic life blinks out in a haze of irrelevance when the breach destroys the Conclave. She may be soft and coddled when she joins the Inquisition, but there's a fierceness inside her she's yet to fully recognize. Armed with only a few relevant skills and the mark that makes her a legend, she is thrust onto a path delivering hope where it’s long been scorched away and finds comfort in the grumpy, handsome stick in the mud charged with her protection and training. As she stumbles her way across southern Thedas, she begins to realize she's tangled at the center of machinations she barely understands, and she's not alone in that. Enter Hawke.

Excerpt below the cut!👇

Vivienne gazes across the old table between us, the barest crease of concern marking her brow, but I see it. “Romantic entanglements can be a dreadful inconvenience. But they can also be a source of great strength. Certainly I could have pursued my ambitions confidently without Bastien’s support, but his steadiness has been nothing but a boon. It isn’t romantic relations that’s the problem precisely, it’s managing your disappointments,” she says, a little too pointedly. “I’m well aware of how things failed to coalesce between you and the Commander.”

Of course she knows. I open my mouth to speak but she continues.

“I’m also aware of the liaison between you and Hawke that seems to have concluded.”

I gasp a dismayed laugh. “So the gossip reached you too.”

“Not at all, darling. I would have to have been fantastically blind to have missed it.”

So much for being discreet. “It was a fling,” I explain.

She bears into me with another focused look, her serene expression not quite hiding the turning gears of her calculating mind.

“I need to stay focused.”

“Mm.”

I fidget under her scrutiny. “Obviously.”

“I’m glad we both agree,” she says, an abiding tension in her voice. “There are also the political implications to consider. Choosing a partner or a lover is a reflection of your priorities and values.”

My breathing tightens as I consider what might have been construed from a relationship with my own general.

“Forgive me my impertinence but consider. Publicly partnering with a templar, the man known to have cosigned on years of Knight-Commander Meredith’s mismanagement and eventual madness? Not that he didn’t single handedly hold Kirkwall together in the aftermath, but that’s a stench that will never quite wash off. I’m sure he’d agree. Still, he’s a general. He carries himself with commensurate gravitas. And he refuses to engage in the machinations of politicians. You can guess what conclusions might have been drawn.”

“And the Champion ? Well that’s another matter entirely. His celebrity could be advantageous. But given his relatively apolitical status, his strange associates and disastrous choices are normally dismissed as curiosities than anything worth careful scrutiny. Aligning with him publicly would change that. You’d be associated with someone who supported mage extremism.”

“I think if you spoke with him you’d find—”

“The truth of it matters little. Only the appearance.”

I purse my lips, prickling in his defense. In my defense. And Maker knows why.

Read the rest here!

Start the fic here!

DAFF Tag List:

@warpedlegacy | @rakshadow | @rosella-writes | @effelants | @bluewren | @breninarthur | @ar-lath-ma-cully | @dreadfutures | @ir0n-angel | @inquisimer | @crackinglamb | @nirikeehan | @oxygenforthewicked | @about2dance | @exalted-dawn-drabbles | @melisusthewee | @blarrghe | @agentkatie | @delicatefade

#cullen x trevelyan #rose trevelyan #hawke x trevelyan #in the shattering of things #dragon age inquisition #dragon age fan fiction #cullen rutherford #garrett hawke #vivienne de fer #rogue inquisitor #wicked eyes wicked hearts incoming #theluckywizard

[warpedlegacy]

@theluckywizard created this absolutely stunning sketch art for my JosieBela fic I've been working on. Here is a great preview from my first chapter - Isabela and her first mate Brand rowing through some wreckage at sea.

I am in love with this style, and so grateful that she was so gung-ho and as excited as I am to bring this image to life! You rock!

#isabela #isabela dragon age #da2 #swept away #wreckage at sea #my friend's art #theluckywizard #sketch art #line art #black and white art #adventure and romance story #very treasure island vibes

[dadrunkwriting]

DWC Housekeeping - Team NA/AUS/Asia

Hi all!

It's time for some DWC housekeeping - the headcount list for Team NA/AUS/Asia is about to exceed Tumblr's limit for user mentions, so we're updating the active/inactive members list. We want to make sure that everyone on the regular headcount is still interested and make life a little easier for the admins.

If you are interested in staying on the headcount list, please reply to or reblog this post with a message by Thursday, 2/22, at 11:59pm PST. If your blog name has changed, please let us know that as well!

If you want to be inactive, you do not have to do anything. If you do not reply to/reblog this post, we will assume you want to be taken off the headcount.

Reminders:

You are not required to write or participate any set number of times, so if you think you'll want to participate in the coming months, feel free to stay on the active list.

Inactive writers can become active again at any time! Just message an admin and we'll add you back to the regular headcount.

Inactive writers can always opt in for the occasional Friday! You will not be tagged in the headcount, but if you reply to the post before 4pm Pacific Time on Friday, we'll include you on the kickoff.

Regardless of whether you're active or inactive, DADWC members are always welcome to post and tag us on Friday nights. If an old prompt inspires you, write, post, and tag! (Note: please do NOT do this if you are not a DADWC member. If you'd like to sign up, message an admin!)

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[warpedlegacywrites]

Chapter 22: What Festers in the Shadows

Their wounds have festered in the darkness for too long. Only exposing them to the light will cleanse them, and allow them to heal.

“Tess…” A sob tears from his throat.  The wind lashes at his back, blowing his hair across his face. Behind him, the waves crash over the shore, displacing a flock of cormorants. Cal watches their flight with great interest, but dutifully remains at his master’s side.  “Maybe we’re both broken,” Theresa finally utters, still not meeting Cullen’s eye. “I… don’t know how to fix this.”  Her words sink in like a blade, so painful he can hardly breathe. He has no defence against it. No shield against such a raw and vulnerable confession. But the pain brings with it a kind of clarity, as all the self-deception falls away.  “Maybe…” He licks his lips, tasting salt from tears and sea spray. “Maybe it’s not yours to fix. At least, not yours alone.”  As he speaks, a heavy desolation settles over his shoulders, as the finality of it finally sinks in. It was a beautiful dream. It’s lasted far longer than he could ever have hoped. Far past anything he could ever deserve. Now, it’s shattered, and he’s standing amidst the shards, unable to step away without being cut. But it’s the only hope he has of maybe, one day, reassembling it.  Perhaps that hope is foolish. But when it comes to her, he’ll gladly play the fool. 

DAFF tag list: @rakshadow, @rosella-writes, @effelants, @bluewren, @breninarthur, @ar-lath-ma-cully, @dreadfutures, @ir0n-angel, @inquisimer, @crackinglamb, @theluckywizard, @nirikeehan, @oxygenforthewicked, @exalted-dawn-drabbles, @melisusthewee, @blarrghe, @agentkatie, @delicatefade, @leggywillow, @about2dance, @plisuu

#my writing #the black city #while time remains #theresa x cullen #cullen x trevelyan #theresa trevelyan #cullen rutherford #grief #and its effect on a relationship #love is a verb not an excuse #love must be chosen never forced #they will persevere #this is not an end but a new beginning

[melisusthewee]

WIP Wednesday

Because the day isn't over!!! (But oh I wish it was.) Bless you, @ndostairlyrium for the tag! I am so out of the loop with things these days, I can't keep up with what's what.

The good news is that my work for this year's Terror Reverse Bang finished up last weekend. The bad news is that I am still having to deal with an ongoing work/irl issue that's made me just an absolute ball of stress. So here's some WIPs that are um... a little weird. Depending on your view.

An Eduardo Strauch sticker. Imagine that rainbow text was sparkly. Because I am. (Nobody come at me; in all the books I've read to date, this man absolutely is the guy who went to Europe once and made it his entire goddamn personality for a little while. Sorry, I don't make the rules.)

Also if you remember that other drawing I did, here's cold and sad and wet Marcelo because a) the individual looks every character was given is seriously understated, b) this was just something I did to wind down after working on other things and wasn't intended for posting but... well... what is WIP if not for posting things you're not sure will ever be completed?

Tags are under the cut and in the meantime, if anyone has suggestions on how to build an art instagram, I'm all ears.

If you got something, do share it because I want to see it! @greypetrel @theluckywizard @delicatefade @blarrghe @dreadfutures @daggerbean @absyntthe @zoannearts @breninarthur

#i'm sorry all my dragon age friends #none of this is dragon age #i still haven't touched that screenshot redraw