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Here to provide your regularly scheduled MB fanart 😌🤝😌

Something something about my Shepard who was raised on earth surrounded by death, who joined the military, who died only to be resurrected to die again. Something about falling in love with an assassin who was terminally ill who didn’t die from his illness but from a sword through the chest. Something about being an orphan, being in grief, being surrounded by war, and accidentally falling in love with a specialist who hasn’t given up yet, who wants to build a future. Something about being surrounded by death every minute and every day, being a murderer and being a soldier and being a survivor. And choosing life.

This is the single best take on Dragon Age 2 I’ve ever read and why I will defend it with my life AND TWO OF THE WRITERS BASICALLY CONFIRMED IT??

(Also everyone go follow Margaret Owen on twitter. she writes books.)

twitter thread here

I feel as though this is very important

I think the problem is that on both sides of fandom, the concept of a “redemption arc” has gotten twisted to a point where it’s basically meaningless.

See, a lot of the time when the woobifiers say they want a “redemption arc” for their fave, they don’t mean that they want that character to have to face the awfulness of what they’ve done or put any actual effort into changing or face any real consequences. They basically mean that they want the good guys to realize to realize their fave wasn’t so bad all along and have them hug it all out or something, with maybe a token nod to the villain feeling regret, but nothing that really holds them accountable.

So of course if you’re thinking of “redemption” that way, you’re going to have people on the other side saying “This character doesn’t deserve redemption! They’ve done awful things!” Because yeah, they don’t deserve unconditional forgiveness and support from the heroes. They don’t deserve to have the slate magically wiped clean as if all the bad things they did never happened. But that was never supposed to be what a redemption arc was about. Real redemption is long and messy and hard, and it takes a really good writer to pull a proper redemption off. But when it is done right, it’s not about letting the villain off the hook - it’s exactly the opposite.

A Cautionary Tale

There are as many tales of Mandalore’s fall 

as there are Clans that remain.

Every tale is different, every tale is the same; 

the other Kryze sister is to blame. 

Dried Blood in my Father’s Beskar

Talking shit about a certain crime boss!

Bingo Sheets for everyone to print off My Free Space suggestion is “And the Warden still doesn’t make a fucking appearance”

late posts of some of my Wicked act2 scenes. 

I’m always here for time-travel Molly/Caleb fan fiction but I just pictured the well adjusted post campaign Caleb experimenting on new time spells with Essek and accidentally traveling back in time and saving Molly and for some reason it’s hilarious to me

Like…

1) Caleb surrounded by all the disasters of early campaign Mighty Nein and their all like….Caleb are you okay? You seem okay I’m worried

2) Caleb/Molly/Essek where Caleb misses his husband, Essek, and his love, Molly, and his crush, Kingsley

3) Caleb meeting Essek again and going…Well this is awkward my traitor to the dynasty husband without all his character development

4) Just like…all of it there’s so much comedy potential. Imagine well adjusted Caleb having a conversation about mental health with any of them

5) Caleb just absolutely destroying Trent Ickithon

And like yeah there would be some angst cause he misses the future and has to do it all again but I just think it would be a Really Fun Fanfic

Dragon Age comics

Halla | The Artifact | Cultural Divide

Mass Effect Comics

“Fist-fight” | Diplomacy | Downtime  | The Gala

yeah the Citadel DLC was great but where were the pretty dresses???? chekmaté

set in me1.  went very much out of my comfort zone on all levels with this one

this thing has been on the back burner for three months and that’s way too long for me to look at one project and feel confident with it. ultimately decided to finish it just to feel some sort of accomplishment, hence the rushed shading and overall rendering