Mixing Memory and Desire

I posted a sampling of that speed-lining-thing I tried to do with the tablet a few days ago. Someone asked to see more, so, uh, here. Not all are fantastic (imo) or instantly recognizable, but many made me giggle (Meredith’s *ahem* bumptious armor chest there for one). I did identify the characters this time though ;)

Anyone could try this exercise it was pretty *fun* to do! Just throw away the worry that it may suck, because, really, those are 10-15 seconds in the making each. Not much wasted effort if it doesn’t turn out amazing!

Now, I need to find a way to do this with real ink and brush. That should prove interesting as well.

I love the movement, and the simplicity, and how evocative they are. Just beautiful.

“Demons are just like spirits. Like Honor or Joy” ~ Merrill

Me: WAIT. WAIT. There’s Spirits of JOY running amok?? I bet they’re huggers.  I bet the Spirit of Joy goes around giving free hugs that NOBODY wants. (Inspired by Cupid!Supernatural much? YESSS)

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Can you just imagine a Joy Abomination? 

Anders: What’s happening? Are we being attacked? Justice: No.. this is how they say hello. Anders: I don’t like it! Justice: No one likes it… 

I can’t summon the words to describe how much this amuses me, so I’ll just… I’ll just leave it here.

tarysande replied to your chat: Anders: So, you were invested as a brother in the…

I think that’s a definite possibility. Anders’ single-mindedness and Sebastian’s unwillingness to acknowledge his own privilege really worked against any kind of good relationship they might have had. Especially since Anders is probably the most Andrastian of them all aside from Sebastian (depending on whether or not Beth is around). He brings up the Maker a lot when talking to Merrill, and in Awakening he talks about being a good little Andrastian before being taken to the Circle. It’s not clear if he’s actually very devout, but he definitely has the background and it seems like he does believe on some level.

Gah, this makes me have so many thoughts. Like oh, let’s go through things banter-by-banter thoughts. O____O (Which I’m not going to do, but OH THE THOUGHTS.) I kind of think the idea of Anders as lapsed (or, more likely, disappointed) Andrastian is interesting. (As an aside, do you know who doesn’t talk about the Maker? Justice. Like, I just scanned through his Awakening dialogue, and he talks about spirits and demons and such, but not the Maker. So perhaps there’s something to that? Justice is Justice; there’s no room for outside agency, even from a divine being?) There’s so much room for questioning the difference between faith and the absolute cock-up organized religion can make of faith.

…too many thoughts! None of them very cohesive at the moment :D (I WANT TO FILL IN ALL THE BACKSTORIES.)

Ooooh I never noticed that about Justice, but you’re right. And that’s very interesting. Hmmmm.

Interjecting in my official capacity as Queen of All Things Justice.

Justice does talk briefly about the Maker in a trigger point scene outside the Chantry in Amaranthine. The conversation can be summed up by him saying he doesn’t know if there’s a Maker, that’s he’s never seen any evidence of one and (MY FAVOURITE CONSPIRACY THEORY) maybe spirits and demons only believe in the Maker because they have seen him in the dreams of mortals. 

He says that no spirits or demons go to the Black City, and none of them know what it is. Now, he’s clearly taking it upon himself to speak on behalf of all spirits forever everywhere (Oh Justice darling, you’re so full of yourself) but it’s interesting nonetheless. 

Yes! I did remember that one conversation with the Warden (and should have been more clear, I think; it's only that he never mentions the Maker with any of the companions in any of the banters, which was related to how much Anders talks about the Maker--to justify or to rage against--in his DA2 banters). Thank you for posting the audio file, because yes, I do think that's a fabulous conspiracy theory ;D (And what do spirits think of the pantheon of the elves? I wonder.)