Made pumpkin muffins and about to start my homework for Exodus. Not a bad way to spend an afternoon. 😊

Today is a good day to support my friends and former co-workers, whether they're at @yellowbrickgames.bsky.social, @summerfallstudios.com, @northmiststudios.bsky.social, or elsewhere. So many brilliant people making things that bring a little more love into the world.

get in babes, it's time to restore the honmoon.💅 there are things we can do to help small game creatives, including the folks formerly at Bioware. share this on or off platform without credit. i want us to build the environment we need for games to flourish in the middle of the dumpster fire.

Going to be controversial here and say that along with the doom, I'm feeling some bitter relief about probably not seeing another ME. Given EA's fuckery with DATV, I had no faith that we were going to get something worthy of the legacy. It's better off left in the loving hands of fans. 🫶

Me with the current news! ☹️ Look, the best way to support the DA team now is try to support them where ever they go. They’re still creating things, go support them!

Me and my new follower:

Post a meme made by you I'm in too deep at this point 😅

Alright, I've suggested it before and I'll do it again: if you're worried about the Keep going down, make your canon Inquisitor(s), import their world state(s), get whatever you need from the Golden Nug, save the game and never overwrite those saves. Clunky but still peace of mind.

Could any of you who play DAI on console let me know if you see anything odd today on startup. Thanks!

Out of DA commissions so it's time to dive into my extensive screenshot archives for #DAFanFriday. ♥️ First up is Ruya in her golden fury. 💪 #DragonAge #Veilguard #Rook #DATV #Qunari

Elaryn Cousland: I am a hero. 💪 Dacia Hawke: I have to be a hero. 😠 Marian Trevelyan: Fine, I'll be a hero if no one else is gonna do it. 🤨 Ruya Laidir: I get to be a hero? 🥹 😆 I love them all so much.

Shepard, hands down. All of my Dragon Age OCs would do their best and stand a decent chance of succeeding (with Inky being least likely since she doesn't have a hero complex like the other 3), but c'mon, paragon Shepard gets the job done. 🤍♥️♥️🤍 #MassEffect #MassEffect3

Yeah. That's him there. #dragonage

My car needs emergency surgery, so I'm passing this around again 🖤 just in case anyone's interested. no pressure to get anything etc etc

For #DAFanFriday here are party icons for my favourite grouchy OC, Inquisitor Marian Trevelyan. 💚 Commissioned from Galore Art (on 🐦) #DragonAge #DragonAgeInquisition

For a neutral good character, Lynaea gives some pretty good murder face. Her version of nature's justice is less primal than Halsin's but no less effective. ⚔️ #BaldursGate3 #bg3 #tav

Well, that was a pleasant six month shore leave, back to work everyone. 😜 Stopped playing ME3 in March while awaiting the completion of some feelgood Shenko commissions. 😅 I wanted some artistic evidence of everything eventually being okay before the darker half of the game. 💙 #MassEffect #ME3

Be overprepared and excessively accommodating. Once a guest arrives they aren't getting up again until they leave. 😆 Ruya will vault over furniture to refill a drink or get someone a snack posthaste. With enough notice she'll also prep a little bundle of snacks for the road as a departing gift. ❤️

I love them so much. 🥹 Remade Elaryn in Inquisition just so I could make this. ♥️ (Art by xla-hainex on Tumblr 💖) #DragonAge #AlistairTheirin #HeroOfFerelden #DragonAgeOrigins #DragonAgeInquisition #togetherforever

🧶 Big owlbear ami! 10"/25cm tall and crocheted from my own secret recipe I mean original design, it has crocheted "button" eyes, decorative visible mending, and is very huggable. Safe to wash/dry on delicate settings. $215 + shipping. DM to claim. #crochet #BG3 #owlbear #amigurumi #handmade

Hero of Ferelden, no contest. Especially since the events of Awakening. 🤗 Hawke basically slept alone 'til Fenris, so she's good. Ditto Inquisitor. Rook is WAY happier sleeping with company, but she's not as codependent about it as my HoF is. 😅❤️

Dang. Reviewing screenshots from finishing Awakening yesterday and I had no idea that Elaryn actually looks about as done with being Warden-Commander as my canon dictates. In the past she's always had a full helmet on so I couldn't see her expression. She needs Alistair cuddles, stat. 🤗 #DragonAge

Know what would have been real helpful to look up before now? How to hide the UI for screenshots in Origins. Literally didn't wonder if it was an option until the endgame High Dragon fight in Awakening. 🤦 It's um. It's "v" for anyone who's wondering. 💀

Apart from the obvious, the first thing Lynaea does is travel around Baldur's Gate with Halsin to find survivors and heal them. Two end up being her extremely estranged parents that she's been ghosting out of guilt for literal centuries. Halsin mediates and helps Lyn heal the rift between them. 💚

It made Marian (mage), already a baseline grouch, angrier, at least at first. It was just one more "gift" from the "Maker" to set her apart and make everyone else see her as Other and dangerous. But the more helpful it proved to be the less bitter she was about it, at least until Trespasser.

Ruya is all about #emmrook positivity. 🥰

Since it's #AlistairWeek and I'm totally normal about that character, for #DAFanFriday here's a photo from when I flew from Ontario to LA solely to see Steve Valentine's magic show. I knew he didn't do cons and I wanted to meet him. 🥰 He's an absolute gem and his shows are so good!!

Down by the River💚Halsin

And now that I've received the completed commission for it, I really ought to finish writing the fanfic that inspired it. 😅

This gorgeous commission was done for me by @offbeatworlds.bsky.social! 🥰 Shepard and Kaidan are pictured five years after the Reaper War. They're in civvies because they run an independent outer colony training facility on Virmire. ❤️ #MassEffect #CommanderShepard #KaidanAlenko

“What radicalized you?” Bro I was told to treat people the way I would want to be treated in kindergarten and it made sense idk what else there is to say

It’s here! We wrote a book about game writing and narrative… and it’s finally COMING OUT. We would love for people to check it out! This is a tome for all levels as we believe that sometimes going back to basics can solve even the most complicated problems. www.routledge.com/The-Definiti...

I only opened Pinterest to try and find this ring again. I know it's on Etsy and I'm silly enough to kind of want to buy it because it's serving as a reference for Elaryn's engagement ring from Alistair. ❤️

"You attract what you fear." Oh my god nooooo, unlimited free time to write my weird little stories in a secluded forest cabin, AHHHHH, get away from meeeeee

I always forget how lonely Awakening feels, at least at the beginning. It's very start of ME2 "I had a good team" coded. Except instead of Garrus you get Oghren and um. He's no Garrus. 😋 #DragonAge #DragonAgeOrigins #DragonAgeAwakening

Your last saved pic is your moral philosophy You know what? That tracks. 🐻

Going through screenshots and got reminded of some wait, what? moments. 😅 Have Arl Eamon and First Enchanter Irving always been in the archdemon fight and I somehow missed it the six times I played on PS3? Kardol from the Legion of the Dead was running around too. #DragonAgeOrigins #DragonAge

I have to say, of all the mods I used, the bug fixes were the best. Alistair not referring to himself as king when he shouldn't be is worth a million kisses and wedding scenes. I didn't even know Anora was supposed to give the battle speech when she's queen (though Alistair does it better 😜).

📣Calling all #DragonAge fans!! 📣 The Grey Wardens have come to Bluesky to recruit... for a #zine! forms.gle/jdqVHv7wLLqo... The interest check will be open until October 5th, with mod applications coming soon! #dragonagezine #interestcheck #fanzine #atzfeed #greywardens #fandomevents #dafanzine

Taking a somewhat voluntary, probably indefinite, break from game writing. I'm so burnt out that just opening Word starts a stress knot in my stomach. The good news is that I finally have the creative bandwidth to write for fun again. Probably by hand, given the aforementioned Word-avoidance. 😅

Now the Grey Warden wedding mod, the very first mod I downloaded after realizing I had a laptop decent enough to play the game on, that one is perfection. 😊 #DragonAge #DragonAgeOrigins #Alistair #AlistairTheirin

Hm. Fought to get a Dark Ritual mod working all morning only for it to not be what I thought it was. It's good and still an improvement over the creepy Morrigan advancing on terrified Alistair default, but not what I had in mind. Guess I've got a fic to write after all. 😋 #DragonAge

I commissioned this piece from www.instagram.com/maxbeechcrea... after moving to the US. When Hawke says these lines in DAI, this is what pops into my head: Hawke looking back at a burning Kirkwall. I added the quote to the original piece and it's now a metal print in my office. ❤️ #DAFanFriday

My canon Heroes of Thedas. 💖 RIP to my assorted elf rogues that had brief, shining moments of being canon. 😅 #DragonAge

"There it is. Right there. That damned look in the eye that marked every Cousland success that held me back. It would appear that you've made something of yourself after all." The conclusion to the Howe fight that I always wanted. ❤️ #DragonAge #DragonAgeOrigins #AlistairTheirin

Post Deep Roads 'let's never go down there again' kiss. 😜 Got Elaryn her endgame gear, including upgraded Warden-Commander armour without the weird pink patches. Denerim and the Landsmeet are next. I have a mod for the Howe death scene that I'm looking forward to. 😁 #DragonAgeOrigins #DragonAge

Know what would have made me stupidly happy? If the blight eruption in the Hossberg wetlands was actually a broodmother. 😅 I'll never understand why they dropped such an iconic enemy after the first game. And can you imagine how unsettling it would have been in the Veilguard darkspawn style?

i have a crazy idea that might just fix this

summer is DEAD 😌 comic by @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social

Hubby unearthed his ME Legendary Edition helmet. I used it do some very important research re: my Shepard's ponytail and wish to share it for any other be-ponytailed Shepard players who might have wondered: It's actually completely comfortable to shove a helmet over a ponytail. 😜😁