I'm still not sure Eilhana and Thom ever do actually get around to getting married, with all of Eilhana's hang ups about ceremony and what it means, but I think they do just start calling each other husband / wife and that's good enough for them.

Oh, I completely forgot to share - yesterday was my birthday!!! I would be grateful for reposts, and thank you so much for supporting my art! I'm so glad to share my paintings with you 😄🎉 #dragonage #masseffect

chapter three of growing between! - eilhana does not enjoy the revelations in various elven ruins - orgasms and baths solve everything, right? - toddler temper tantrum - eilhana really has a thing for older men - only an epilogue left to go archiveofourown.org/works/849165...

chapter three of growing between! - eilhana does not enjoy the revelations in various elven ruins - orgasms and baths solve everything, right? - toddler temper tantrum - eilhana really has a thing for older men - only an epilogue left to go archiveofourown.org/works/849165...

no chapter of growing between today, I was out with friends at the theatre, but tomorrow … 👀👀👀 (it’s a juicy one, the bulk of the rest of the story)

citadel dlc: invite kolyat over so you can hold thane’s memorial me: no thank you we require three business days to prepare and also several tissues, I am not ready

shep's one true love in every game i play is the space hamster. her outrage for and adoration over the space hamster in citadel dlc is like, my guiding light.

wishing for date night that doesn't involve spy shenanigans or falling through a fish tank

citadel dlc time baby

okay but … what if I booked to go see hadestown again. what then. like. look at them.

eilhana would really rather everyone called her by her name, though she understands the importance of titles and tolerates being inquisitor / herald if it gets her what she wants when she was little, everyone called her eila. now only one person does. she’s very partial to thom calling her love.

cross stitch continues apace

renegade!shep's journey continues and I'm still not sure I love her as much as I loved my first goodie two shoes shep but I think she's absolutely fascinating and i still adore her, in all her complete ruthlessness

essential mass effect moments

Nathaniel Howe commission for mercenarysexuality #dragonage

Happy #DAFanFriday! Here's Growing Between, Chapter 2 - Thom POV time! - Thom and Cullen have a chat - Cullen confronts the realities of acting like Eilhana's spouse - More Thom/Eilhana smut - Iron Bull dishes some gossip archiveofourown.org/works/849165...

Chapter 16 - Ilia faces the realities of war while Blackwall's past comes back to haunt him. archiveofourown.org/works/741595...

blackwall has a very deep, gravelly voice, but he can keep a tune much better than you’d expect. I don’t think he’s particularly into music though so I imagine his repertoire is mostly tavern songs and drunken chants (obligatory Blackwall’s VA is in Hadestown plug youtu.be/53FHYbQhgYw)

eilhana’s first time with blackwall is the canonical!barn scene and she had an absolute fantastic time, why did they not do this sooner, she falls asleep dreaming of what they might do together next time … and then she wakes up alone in the stables and all those fantasies come to a screeching halt

the problem with finishing a wip is then you have to like, pick another one to actually focus on as a primary project instead of just letting your attention be drawn elsewhere. I’m not short of ideas just short of focus!

Eilhana never missed the opportunity to hit the flirt option Lavellan? Yeah. She’d be romanceable. And if the player character is a big strong warrior with a heart of gold a decade or two older than her, she’s definitely super into it 🤣

for #DAFanFriday, Growing Between: Chapter 1 - it's Exalted Council / Trespasser time! - with a toddler in tow - Thom/Eilhana reunion sex - Cassandra thinks there's going to be a proposal; Cullen is not so sure - Eilhana continues to have terrible timing archiveofourown.org/works/84916506

fellow Blackwall lovers, you can spy a bit of Alastair Parker’s Hades in this new clip of the Hadestown UK cast performing Epic III at the V&A - he’s delightfully deep voiced. youtu.be/53FHYbQhgYw

Chapter 15 - The Winter Palace reminds Blackwall that his relationship with Ilia is less secure than he's been pretending it is. archiveofourown.org/works/741595...

trying to get all the edits done on the first chapter of the growing certainty sequel so i can get it posted this weekend... *writes writes writes* i think i'll manage it, it's all coming together slowly.

just write a trespasser era sequel, I thought, it'll be, fine, bash it out in like 15K... ha. but nearly 25K later i am pleased that the first draft of the trespasser era sequel is DONE. the epilogue probably needs revising and the whole thing needs a line edit but it's a start.

i took absolutely zero (0) screenshots of my first inquisition run, which means I do not have anywhere near the screenshot library some of you do, but i adore seeing everyone's pretty screenshots so I pulled up inquisition to grab a few. urge to do a whole new run with eilhana growing.

🎶 happy birthday to me please read my new fic

new fic! soldier's lullaby Blackwall, a lullaby, a daughter and a lover. archiveofourown.org/works/84559526 the actual sequel to growing certainty is very nearly done and I hope I can start posting soon but until then please enjoy this piece of domestic baby fluff

I also forgot it was free comic book day, but no trip to London is complete without a tour of the comic book shops, so got a pleasant surprise with extra goodies (and ran into @kierongillen.bsky.social too!) Comic book got as well!

today as an early birthday treat to myself, myself and my sibling went to London to see ✨Hadestown✨ it was great, ensemble was incredible, just what a delightful show!

maybe the fourth stab at writing this epilogue will be the right one. maybe. come on I just want this fic done.

having to leave hawke or alistair in the fade was the most agonising choice i have ever faced in a game so I refused to have that happen in my canon... ... however, my response to fix things is still primarily set on 'how do i make it worse' so instead lavellan leaves blackwall in the fade.

Chapter 14 - After her attempt to help Solas save a friend goes disastrously wrong, Ilia spends a night with Blackwall at the tavern to distract herself. archiveofourown.org/works/741595...

Day off

went to see Rebuilding tonight and it was just. beautiful and gentle and moving and hopeful but it also made me cry? which is exactly what I want in a movie. youtu.be/QkwoapyJjiI?...

sibling has sent me a video of them begging their cat to come down the stairs so they can “give him a little kiss on his little forehead” and the cat spends the entire video like this:

Chapter 13 - Blackwall and Ilia face the things they fear most. archiveofourown.org/works/741595...

making progress 🌌✨

I had finished Inquisiton two months ago and I'm just obsessed with them #DragonAge #DragonAgeArt #Blackwall #Lavellan

*stares into the camera* eilhana lavellan is all of nineteen when she arrives at the inquisition and Blackwall is, well… over twenty years older than her (when the thom rainier stuff comes out it’s like! oh! he’s only that much older than her! the actual warden Blackwall would have been 30+)

liara and shepard having a great time, everything is normal, no notes.

Chapter 12 - While Ilia struggles under the weight of the expectations placed on her as the Inquisitor, Blackwall looks for ways to help. archiveofourown.org/works/741595...

doing that thing where I edit and I’m adding more words than I’m cutting. which is not to say I’m not like. cutting a bunch! losing whole paragraphs etc over here. however I also keep writing new ones. oops.

me: i will not romance thane this time round we are making /different/ choices thane: 🥺 me: okay well we can look. it's just looking.

she’s a 19 year old dalish elf who values honesty, kindness, and doing the right thing, and he’s a forty-something man lying about his identity who once ordered a family for money and prestige, so uh yeah, big differences. (lavellan and blackwall)

Lyna knows of him, has corresponded with him, but I don’t think they ever meet in person, due to Lyna’s years hiding from every warden apart from her husband (Alistair) and then like, heading a big warden schism post-Inquisition. They do not get on. She thinks he’s leaving the wardens out to dry.

20K and uh, well, most of the plot bits are here, there’s at least one more bit of smut to write and some scenes to finish and bring together. 25K total? maybe? depends how much I lose editing I guess.

agreed to cover leading my choir for a week our choir director is away. surely years of encouraging teenage girls to sing around a campfire will translate to leading four part harmony. right. right. right.