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Calico || 20s || he/xi || 🥀✊️ || blog has some NSFT content
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I'm Calico, the resident image ID maker into Dragon Age, Baldur's Gate 3, and Redacted ASMR. If I do an ID of your post, please add it to the original post with or without credit. You can find my image ID creation guide here. Additional resources on image ID making can be found here.

I'm an amateur crafter, sewer, bookbinder, fic writer etc in between semesters.

You can find my Redacted ASMR playlist masterlist here.
DA:O OCs masterlist: here
DA:I OCs masterlist: here

My ko-fi can be found here!

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finehs

It's difficult for you to say aloud, I know, so I won't ask you to. Rather, I would ask you to consider a proposal. Stay on permanently. 

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lichfucker

[image description: gifs of Sherlock from Elementary, speaking with an overwhelmed expression. he says, "I am better with you, Watson. Um, I'm sharper, I'm more focused. Difficult to say why, exactly. Perhaps, in time, I'll solve that, as well." end id]

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anyway just a reminder for the myth lovers out there

king arthur was welsh. merlin was welsh. camelot was in wales. the lady and the lake she pops out of; welsh. excalibur; magic inanimate welsh object. etc.

on the way to see family, i drive past a lake that in which is welsh legend, is the last resting place of excalibur.

i’m just saying in my experience a lot of these legends had been so anglo-fied in the past and it’s like, all this cool shit is celtic welsh legend.

Arthur’s wife was called Gwenhwyfar first.

Like the kraken I emerge, summoned by the English theft of Arthur

  • Arthur is a Welsh name. It means ‘bear’. He’s likely derived from a Gaulish bear god
  • In the form of King Arthur, he is an anti-Saxon mythological WELSH figure, representing the native Brythonic people of Britain against the Anglo-Saxon invaders, dating from the 500s AD
  • The version appropriated by the English in the 1100s is the shitty boring sanitised version - they did it because they were trying to compete with the romance tradition on the continent at the time but didn’t have anything of their own to romanticise
  • Merlin is called Myrddin
  • Percival is Peredur
  • Kay is Cei, and also was subject to enormous character assassination in the English version - in the Welsh version he’s much closer to Arthur’s right hand man
  • Guinevere is Gwenhwyfar
  • There is no Lancelot, no Galahad, no tedious affair story
  • There is no Camelot. Arthur’s seat was Caerllion - modern Caerleon, putting him into both the region of the Silures (one of the most fearsome and warlike of the British tribes, modern South East Wales) and the old Roman fortress, which would have been an impossibly huge Palace for a warlord at the time.
  • They all have super powers and get up to wacky hijinks involving hair care, giants, strange giant wildlife, spectral revolving/glass fortresses in the Celtic sea, and a really fucking weird chess match. Also a cloak made out of beards.
  • What the fuck is the round table

Anyway it’s particularly irritating because traditional Welsh culture and beliefs have been so thoroughly stripped away and destroyed by England over the centuries, and Arthurian legend is one of the few surviving fragments we have left to preserve. And he’s specifically an anti-English figure. So the ubiquity of the boring and appropriative English Arthur across the whole fucking world is… Well, it’s not great.

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"Solas?"

Aqun's breath is warm on his shoulder, the rumble of his voice a faint vibration against Solas' back. Familiar by now, and all too comforting, even when it draws him back from the brink of crossing over into the Fade.

He cracks an eye open.

"Ma vhenan?"

Still strange, so strange to call him that, even weeks later. Every now and then he finds himself retreating to the safety of "my friend", which rings just as true, but that much more distant; a brief and insufficient respite from the bleeding vulnerability of "my heart".

But it is what he is. What they are.

Kadan. Vhenan. So entangled that only the extremes of their language are fit to describe it.

"I... have a question."

Solas chuckles quietly.

"As you do."

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I miss the times I used to just post silly sketchbook doodles. I should do that more often.

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calicostorms

[ID: A semi realistic pencil drawing of Fenris from Dragon Age sitting cross legged and reading a book while wearing casual clothes. A speech bubble going out of frame says "how's it going? Getting any easier?" Fenris replies "mhm" /END ID]

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started watching hannibal upon a friend's recommendation

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mushroomjar

[Image Description: An image of Hannibal Lecter with fire text that reads: i love violating the hippocratic oath. End Image Description]

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the shadow dragons are the funniest faction in veilguard tbh they’re an underground abolitionist revolutionary sect and also the best queer support group in northern thedas, one of their members is bascially tevinter batman, they’re single-handedly responsible for the choice of tevinter’s next archon, their secret hideout is hidden by a singular magic glyph, they don’t even use dragons in their insignia-

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calicostorms

[ID: Digital grayscale art of Dain from Lord of The Rings. He is a dwarven man wearing heavy armor with fur at the shoulders standing straight with hands clasped in front of his chest /END ID]

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