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Running List of Fics

Hi, I’m Ryan! I took to writing fanfic as therapy, and it’s the most fun I’ve had in years. Mostly I write fluff and fun with the occasional introspective character study. Say hi! Fandom community can be awesome if you let it.

Mass Effect fics Two Lovesick Idiots (tumblr) (Ao3) - mshenko; my first fic since college twenty years ago about a silly scrapbook, inspired by this artwork by @sinclairsolutions

Chamomile with Honey (tumblr) (Ao3) - Cortez & Vega; fluff about getting through a cold

Pretty Sweet Hoverboard (tumblr) (Ao3) - mshenko; in which Shepard annoys Kaidan with a hoverboard, inspired by this post from @zet-sway

Here at the End of Everything (tumblr 1, 2) (Ao3) - a character study about Joker making the choice to leave Shepard on the Crucible, aka the fic that’s helping me fix whatever it was about the ME3 ending that broke my brain

Dragon Age fics What Bards Sing About (tumblr) (Ao3) - Lacklon/Roland; four times during the show Lacklon notices Roland and blames it on his legs

Steam Winter Sale, on til January 5th 2023

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elfyourmother replied to your post ““I wasn’t looking for victory, just a few seconds””

Mmmm Candylore.

Revans and Exiles of various flavours went down to the Candy Store.

I’m sorry I just needed this on my blog

What your favorite Dragon Age LI says about you.

Alistair: You have marathoned Buffy at least once.

Leliana: You were always a little too enthusiastic about the Shakespeare unit in English class.

Morrigan: You wanted to be a real baddass growing up but the closest you ever got was being an Evil Aligned character in D&D.

Zevran: You think there’s a certain artistry to a well timed “that’s what she said” joke.

Anders: You always read the comments under youtube videos even though you know they’ll just make you angry.

Fenris: You know the words to every “Panic! At The Disco” song.

Isabela: You’re a genuinely great person and you hate wearing pants.

Merrill: You feel bad for flowers when you pick them.

Sebastian: You know the name of every Disney Prince.

Sera: You’ve gone without bathing for a week.

Josephine: You always put the crayons back in the box in ROYGBIV order.

Cullen: You have arrived early and camped out all day in line for something.

Cassandra: You write heartfelt poetry about your dog.

The Iron Bull: You have, or have considered, nipple piercings.

Dorian: People are always asking you if something’s wrong even though you feel fine and are probably more well adjusted than they are.

Blackwall: You drink too much coffee and need a hug.

Solas: You hate yourself.

Who did you romance in your first playthrough?

Reblog with your answer in the tags.

Mass Effect & Dragon Age data mining

Have you ever wondered if people choose similar love interests between Mass Effect and Dragon Age? If there’s a correlation? Thought that maybe the majority of Kaidan-mancers are also Solas-mancers, for example? Or if Zevran lovers are also Iron Bull lovers? No? Just me? 

Well I’ve wondered about it a lot so I made a form to find out.

The form lists canonically available love interests for the PC from the two game series, the gender of your PC, and a breakdown of races for Origins and Inquisition.

If you’ve played both series and want to contribute your choices, please fill in the form and share it around! It’s a few pages long and should take about 5 minutes to complete. Feel free to fill it out even if you haven’t played all the games.

I’ll keep it open for a few weeks, then start to analyse and display the results in a bunch of pretty charts.

i wish you could choose best friends in Bioware games like how you choose romance options. like its treated as a romance but on a platonic level e.g. there’s a best friend quest line and people comment on ur friendship and U wear friendship swords and before the final quest/mission you have a BFFL cutscene and everything. please bioware I want to be platonically loved

HEADCANON WEDNESDAY REMINDER

Just a heads up that tomorrow is HEADCANON WEDNESDAY.

How did your Shepard’s biotics manifest? How quirky is your Hawke? What’s Palaven really like? What guns make your characters swoon? What’s your meta on mana?

We’ve seen some tremendous stories, discussions and world building so far, and would love to hear from YOU.

The rules. (There aren’t many rules.)

Write it, post it, and tag it with #headcanon wednesday or submit it here. Anything tagged will get reblogged on Headcanon Wednesday. If you don’t see it reblogged, please drop me an ask! I hate it when I miss something.  

Please, join in the fun and TELL YOUR FRIENDS!

Honestly, one of the possibilities I’m most dreading about Dragon Age Inquisition is the likelihood that they’ll return to having at least one or two exclusively straight romances, at which point all the…

I’m not going to insert my own opinion on the issue because I don’t need the stress, but It’s probably pretty likely that there will be LI options in DAI with gender-conditional romance criteria.

I hate to bring up previous shitstorms, but David Gaider commented on a DA Confession with his stance on the issue:

Not that Gaider doesn't annoy me with his continual dismissal of bisexuality, but that actual quotation seems to encourage the bisexual LI perspective to me?  Because he says they'd only 'go back' to having gender specific romances if they had more options, thus not removing the possibility of choice for all players.

And, tbqh, I agree that not everyone should be interested in the PC. Aveline and Samara in ME2 were wonderful.  I think the PC should always have the option to express an interest, but I'm fine with the NPCs turning said PC down ...  I just don't want one of the criteria to be gender.

Personality tracking of some sort?  A point of no return on a personal quest? No blood magic in the bedroom? Sure fine.  Arbitrary gender and sexuality flags seems like a step backwards though.  

I have read some other blurbs that seemed to imply they might be doing that for DAI, but I've read other ones that implied the other way, so clearly this is not something we're going to get a straight answer on for quite awhile.

Attention, all writers, artists, and fanmixers! Click on the link above to answer some survey questions, designed to help the mods plan any future Big Bang rounds. We need your feedback! 

NOTE: the first few questions reference the possibility of hosting a Bioware-inclusive Reverse Big Bang. So, we’d really like to get some feedback from other Bioware game fans who might potentially be interested. Signal boosting would be much appreciated! 

Thanks in advance - we hope to have our next round, whatever it may turn out to be, announced in the near future!