January 2012
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Difficulties in keeping up
I am all about the facing of the daylight horrors, but there are days when I find myself unable to face the day itself. This was, in its own way, such a day; I did face part of it, but the pain made it so difficult to do anything at all. So I closed my eyes, for what was meant to be just a little while, and then I lost the entire day instead. I feel like I do not mind it so much as I ought to. I...
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Karl's Alphabet - Z As In Zero Compromise
Note: This is not the end. The Swedish alphabet has three more letters, so there will be stories for those as well.
Anders’ letters reminds Karl of a different time; one that was better for him but worse for Anders, a time with innocent notes meant to inspire hope being snuck into a cell, hidden under a dinner bowl. This time, a time that is worse for Karl and seemingly better for Anders, the...
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Dreams
It was rare for families around these parts to own any books other than the Chant of Light, as they are both rare and precious, but his does have a few. This one is old, with faded pages and a cover with bumped corners, and it is a treasure. It is older than he is and belongs to his mother, but he is allowed to borrow it because he is big now, and knows how to be careful.
There are pictures of...
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MsBarrows' Maunderings: P is for... Poutine!? →
msbarrows:
This is not my P entry for Arren, just some silly fluff I ended up with when trying to figure out what my “P” entry for Arren’s Alphabet will be. Combination-nc and a1879, I blame this on you since you both encouraged me to actually write it!
Alistair swore, and shook his hand, then sucked on…
This is a blame I will gladly carry! I mean come on, as so many have said, what is...
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Review: Belethil on Etsy
A while ago, Belethil’s beautiful elf ears made a round here on tumblr, so I checked out the shop! And I have such a weakness for shiny things. And opals. And necklaces. So I did not end up with spare ears, but this beauty:
My picture does not do this necklace justice; that is the issue with not having proper daylight. As well as a lack of photography skills. Let us move on to words,...
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I wish to sing about how much I love the world
It is as if each new sunrise is even more beautiful than the last. All the comments on the alphabet has just… made me so, so very happy. And there are so many things that I want to say, but I am about to fall off my chair, so many of them must wait.
I did not get to post all the things I wanted, tonight. There were these little things to correct, the finishing touches - and then suddenly I...
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Karl's Alphabet - Y Is For Yearning
Yearnings are much more difficult to bear than simple wants. A want can be handled, suppressed, but a yearning is something so much stronger, so deep that it is like a hole in the heart, one that needs to be filled; or it will consume you instead.
He has never yearned for the Anderfels like this.
He has never yearned for friendship like this.
He has never yearned for love like this.
He has never...
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Karl things!
apostatical-impudence answered: Lol, I would love to join you in this Karl evening! Your enthusiasm is infectious. And Karl is always worthy of enthusiasm.
He definitely definitely is! All the enthusiasm! I cannot believe he has not had his very own week, yet, dedicated to him. This...
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A little bit on a Karl high!
So I was going to do something but then I saw apostatical-impudence’s terrific KARL POST and then I kind of forgot about everything else. And now I have to discuss Karl, I must, I need it like air, to respond to everything and, aah - okay. Okay. Breathing. Karl feelings and thoughts and things coming up and I am just in such a Karl mood so if Karl prompts were to just… magically turn...
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Lawful Honey Heroine OR Perky Conjuress Tess
…I went to the Magical Girl Title Generator, okay. See, I like the one with the honey, as I love honey. The second one is kind of, more like my magical stripper name, or… porn name, perhaps. Well! If I should ever get into stripping, in some kind of alternate universe, I know what my stage name will be! Choosing Combo made it Queen Scanner Combo, which sounds like it should be one of...
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Anonymous asked: Hello my lovely Valentine! Just me again asking about things for your present! So what is your headcanon for Karl and Anders age difference?
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Love and its splendour in the sunrise
So I was going to sleep, but then I just had to write a little bit more on a cute little story about an Anders and a favourite childhood book and lots and lots of cats, and then a bit more on a story for this picture by pollencount, and oh my goodness then this beautiful sunrise showed up and I simply must watch it, I must, because it is mesmerising in its beauty, all the colours floating into...
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Karl's Alphabet - X As In Xenophobia
When he could no longer stand doing nothing, change came, but not the kind he wanted, and not one he would have expected. Not the kind he had been quietly planting seeds for, not the kind of change he had tried to awaken wishes for in others. Perhaps he had not been quiet enough.
The Gallows is not only a change in surroundings, but being forced to adapt to an entirely different way of living. The...
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combination-nc asked: Anders and Karl in the...
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msbarrows:
Anders’ hands were shaking, just a faint tremor. As Karl watched he tightened them into fists, his kuckles showing white against the skin for a moment, before flattening them out again. They were still, briefly, then the shaking began again.
Karl frowned and finished brewing the tea, pouring it out into the two prepared mugs - one with cream and a little sugar, one with...
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combination-nc asked: The Adventures of...
msbarrows:
“Volcano vomit? Really, Hawke?” Anders said in a tone of disbelief.
“Yeah, you know, all that… that dust, and flying rocks, and the hot stuff…” Hawke replied, making a vague upwards gesture with his hands that looked more like he was trying to sketch in the lithsome outline of a nubile female - Isabela, for example - than something geologic.
“You mean ash, pumice, and lava?” Anders...
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Oh, hell. Leah's babbling about Anders again.
impressioniste:
Uh, this was meant to be fairly short but it kind of ran away with me and ended up as one of my bugfuck-insane 4,000 word essays.
Obvious disclaimers that anything babbled about under the cut is all my personal headcanon and subject to my usual conjecture and bullshitting, mostly about:
Anders and the concept of ‘family’
The concept of potentially just how many people have...
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Lightweight courage
I did not really want to leave bed today. I wanted to hide under the covers and pretend to be a stone oracle, awaiting my daily chocolate sacrifices in exchange for my wisdom. No one brought me any chocolate sacrifices; I only got a comment of “it is almost 13:30, are you awake”. Yes. Yes I am awake although I am not completely sure if I really want to be.
And then I thought about...
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Karl's Alphabet - W Is For Walls
The tower walls does not close in on him the way they do around Anders, but he is bothered by them, by how they are mostly just that; walls. The few windows are placed so high up that most are impossible to look out of without some stretching and climbing beforehand, or has coloured glass distorting the view.
He does not agree with mages being locked up for most for their lives, but he can at...
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Anders/Karl - Virtue of Patience
msbarrows:
combination-nc replied to your post: Hit Me With A Prompt…
Anders, Karl, and the virtue of patience!
Karl leaned back in his chair, frowning as the wood creaked with the shift in weight.
“And your point?” he asked the man standing across the desk from him.
“He’s a trouble maker; if you keep spending time with him the way you have, the templars are going to start keeping a closer...
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Suggestions for Fan Week 30th Dec to 5th Jan
dragonagefanweek:
It’s time once again to vote for next week’s theme! Here are the suggestions collected so far. Reblog, reply, or send an ask with your choice for the coming week or something else entirely you’d like to see.
Female Characters:
Velanna Week
Wynne Week
Shale Week
Anora Week
Shianni Week
Leliana Week
Flemeth Week
Misc:
Pole Dancing Week
Dog Week
Rare Pairs
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Fluffy feelings and Karl's (fluffy?) beard
Everyone is just so wonderful, so very very wonderful, and I have a lot of feelings for you, and Isabela is probably constantly harassing Fenris about the colour of his smalls, and he likes it. (And I do write secret things, that I think I will never ever share.)
When fluffy Friday got mentioned, I thought to myself, I should post that Karl’s beard thing that I wrote before. Because, it...
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Love is the point
There are days when everyone is just, so kind and supportive and encouraging and, just, gives good advice and cares, and I want to hug everyone and say thank you a million times, complete with unflattering sobbing and all. Looking good while crying is a thing that belongs in stories, I think, it simply does not work out so well in real life.
Speaking of stories, I do still have stories in me. I...
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Face your daylight horrors!: Karl's Alphabet - V... →
rhiannon42:
combination-nc:
Karl does not spend as much time in front of the mirror as a certain other mage he knows, but he takes time to trim his beard in the mornings. There are those that grow one to hide something, such as an unfortunate chin or the lack of one, but not Karl. He has the sharp, strong bone structure…
Ah, I know you’ve talked about this before (perhaps in one of the Ask...
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Karl's Alphabet - V As In Vanity
Karl does not spend as much time in front of the mirror as a certain other mage he knows, but he takes time to trim his beard in the mornings. There are those that grow one to hide something, such as an unfortunate chin or the lack of one, but not Karl. He has the sharp, strong bone structure that he vaguely remembers being so common in his homeland, that he on occasion finds himself missing...
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We need to talk about the Anti-Counterfeiting...
roxanneritchi:
ACTA is dangerous and devastating legislation essentially proposed and funded by corporations that can and will end the internet as many of us know it as well as limit or even outright ban generic medications and severely hinder agricultural development and the helpfulness of such all in the name of money. While it is being described as the European SOPA/PIPA, the reality is that...
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Stained Glass
This was my entry for the Asunder writing challenge. I have revisited certain themes that I have written about before, with the intention of improving them; so there is claustrophobia present here, which is also a trigger warning. I was choosing between writing about this, or about a mage just before being made tranquil. I decided on this, eventually, since the other choice would have broken my...
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When days turn into collections of mostly bad...
I could not sleep due to the pain, and I look like a postpartum depression waiting to happen. Which is a phrasing that makes my family laugh, but I am very serious. I am honestly that swollen, and not looking too happy about it. I do not know yet, when the surgery will be, and I am terrified of surgeries and I do not want even more surgery scars, but, these growths really needs to be removed, and...
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F is for Fade
defira85:
This one refused to be helpful, and was rewritten from scratch three times. I knew the idea behind if from the beginning, but telling the story proved to be… difficult. As such, it’s less drabblicious and more chapterish. We will attempt to return you to our regular drabble broadcast tomorrow. But for now, enjoy character development and plot! Also available on AO3, and the rest of the...
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Hey Look, There's Stuff.: A is for Acquisition →
janiejanine:
What do you want? Zevran asked once, during a massage, when she was too relaxed to guard her answers. I don’t know, she’d replied, realizing in that moment that no one had ever asked her that before. She’d gone quiet, pondering, and Zevran hadn’t pressed.
I want to see what’s beyond this…
I think that this is wonderful; this is a part of her that I have wanted to see more of,...
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About that lack of joy
It started to snow, and I want to think of it as the weather trying to cheer me up, because I love the idea of a world where things like that can happen.
I am not ready for a forever goodbye, just yet; I have lost (or misplaced?) the joy I had in writing, but if it is possible to regain it, then, I will write again. And, I am not abandoning the projects that I have taken on (it would be too much...
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Karl's Alphabet - U Is For Understanding
Karl does not like the templars, but he lacks Anders’ intensity when it comes to loathing them. Most of them do not have much either – more than mages, of course, and they are at least allowed outside, but not all of them have been given a choice in whether to be here or not. Some of them are children born by mages in the tower, grown up to guard parents they will never know. He certainly...
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I am not going to shut up about this. If we don't... →
This thing is seriously much, much worse than both SOPA and PIPA. Getting rid of those will not mean much if ACTA goes through. Sign the petition, signal boost, write about it, anything.
If you are in the EU, write to petition them as well: information about protesting to the EU. It might take a little while longer, but seriously, this is really, really important. They have to know that this is...
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Being made of walls of feelings
Everyone has been so lovely to me, and perhaps much more than I deserve - there are times when I feel that I do not really deserve such kindness, but, when people are kind to me, that is their choice, and not something that I should question. I know that, deep inside, but I am still amazed at times, that there are those that find me deserving of kindness and encouragement. This is the kind of day...
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Karl's Alphabet - T As In Temptation
The tower is, despite its dullness, not completely devoid of temptations. The temptation to avoid ones’ chores, to sneak something out of the kitchen, to keep a book for longer than is proper, to sneak someone into your dorm and under your covers. And then, of course, are the demons, their constant presence in the Fade and attempts to find a way in.
Karl does not worry about demons much; he has...
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serindrana: Scattered Coin :: B is for Begging →
serindrana:
When she’s a little girl, she learns how to pickpocket while she’s supposed to be learning how to beg. Her mother doesn’t notice at first, how her little girl, barely eight years old, begins trailing after shems. It’s a testament to their poverty that she doesn’t scoop up Athenril into her arms…
I think you all know how I feel about character alphabets by now. I am very, very...
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Warning for feelings: This day has been kind of...
There are times when all sorts of things, bad things, keep piling up, and one at the time, they would not be so difficult to deal with, but together they just make the day this.. big blob of badness.
This day was not the success it was meant to be. New doctor is not a good doctor at all. She interrupted me and tried to change the subject several times, which was very impolite. Also; doctor,...
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The Dragon Age Character Alphabet AO3 Collection →
minorearth:
So, I went and did it. ::points to link above:: Presenting, the AO3 collection for the Dragon Age character alphabets! If you’re writing an alphabet and posting on AO3, please submit your work to the collection!
Ways to submit:
1) Join the collection - you can do so from the front page above.
2) If your fic is already posted on AO3, go into ‘edit’ - you’ll find a “Post to...
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Petition the European Parliament to review and... →
chocotaur:
EVERYONE PAY ATTENTION.
THIS IS THE OFFICIAL CHANNEL FOR ADDRESSING THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT ABOUT ACTA.
If you’re an European citizen, this is what you CAN do:
Send a petition to the European Parliament where you explain, briefly but thoroughly, why it needs to push back ACTA and demand a more transparent debate of its contents, as well as demand that the agreement be more precise...
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Frolic in a land of snow
I am all about the facing of fears. It tends to be awkward, and sometimes kind of painful, but it is better to try your best and do it instead of leaving it alone, or it will not get better, perhaps ever. So, tomorrow, I will face the fear of doctors, and hopefully they will have something good to say. Then I will face the fear of the posting of stories, and the fear of the combination of a...
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thessalian:
“Interesting as all this is, sweet thing, your mouth could be put to much better use” would probably be Isabela’s reaction to that kind of ‘pillow talk’. And frankly, who could refuse such a delightfully-worded invitation? :3
It would, and there is no way Anders would refuse a request like that :3 Someone should write about that, in more… in-depth detail.
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Karl's Alphabet - S Is For Scars
Anders’ back is covered in a cobweb of scars, thick and thin, flat and raised, red, pink and white. None of them should hurt any longer, not with all the healing magic that has been pooled into them, but Anders still flinches at first whenever they are touched.
Because there are scars on the inside that no healing magic can ever hope to reach.
He is not the only mage in the tower with a scarred...
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In Amaranthine
minorearth answered: Bethany and any of the Amaranthine Warden crew - getting to know you.
Being stationed in Amaranthine was… nice, in a way. It was not claustrophobic and filled to the brim with templars like Kirkwall had been, she had her own room at the Keep and did not have to hide what she was. But this… this was not the way she had imagined getting it, not the room, or not needing to...
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Anonymous asked: Karl/Anders - "I reject your reality, and substitute it with my own." (Hope you're a Mythbusters fan =3)