rae ❧ nevarran cryptid

lil bug friend ft my rook sofina 🪲

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@trickweekes.bsky.social 🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡

Hey folks. As of today, I am no longer with BioWare. However, I am sticking with the wonderful team at Motive Studios for the foreseeable future. Got a fantastic project cooking here. I’ll miss my BW family, but the hope is that I’ll make my way back to ME when the time comes.

remember when EA's tagline was "challenge everything"? Well I challenge all the execs to a fistfight.

EA and BioWare execs forced these dragon age devs through the Veilguard release cycle, didn’t support them whatsoever when they were being threatened and harassed online, and then fired them all without even the decency of calling it what it is. That’s some shit behavior.

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This was a producer that championed for the CC to be included. Yeah. It gets worse.

*laid off or already had plans to leave

a loooot of da devs + animators either were laid off or let go, including trick + karin weeks, + one of the lead animators. theres no member of the old guard mass effect vets on the bioware/me5 team. bioware is "reimagining" itself

and not to be a total shill but it has a discord too 😂

it is soooo satisfying restoring ecosystems, sailing my rube goldberg raft island (some people made pirate ships, their photo mode is insane), finding items that help me explore further.

you sail into a hurricane but it’s actually fun?! WHAT

did I mention it has CO-OP?
you can host your own server with up to 8 friends or go at it alone!

ive been greatly enjoying my experience so far

it has combat, for those who dislike it, but its brief, and the enemies are angry plants

HEY YOU 🫵 do you like cozy games? building creations? petting farm animals? hugging trees? pretending you’re a pirate?

look no further than this lil gem of an early access game, aloft ⛵️

you’re a lil bean hired to explore the inner depths of the storm you orbit around…and there’s corruption afoot!

Just a reminder to all you former Bioware devs.... we love you and the magic you created is not diminished by the greedy and cowardly execs who let you all go. You will go on to make great & amazing things no matter where you land. Out from under the yoke of EA you will not only survive but thrive.

do you want to know how to keep a fandom’s goodwill? by not doing that :)

im sure as hell gonna support whatever they do next…but i have to hold this moment for now. damn.

never in a kajillion years would I anticipate the remaining vg devs we all loved getting laid off.

im sitting here holding the enjoyment of what they contributed and mourning that their new work won’t be dragon age anymore…

despite all the changes, they felt like constants…but alas

I finally finished Dawn!

#rook #dragonage #DAV #dragonageveilguard #art #illustration #fanart

thank you! I hope to add more 🥹

sunkenaravel rae's carrd

hey pookies, I have a carrd now ◡̈

sunkenaravel.carrd.co

still need to add my dalish/nevarra lore but ◡̈ (looks best on desktop)

sometimes you dig around the old captures and find an accidental gem

excuse me messere do you have a moment to talk about mage rights 👁️

Thank you! And what a delightful question in turn!

I think she'd want a big, flower-filled, no-holds barred wedding at her family's estate. All her relatives, friends she made in the Inquisition, the Inquisitor's relatives (if they have any/keep in touch.) She'd begin planning 16 months in advance.

And I never wrote it in-game, so it lives in the hazy world of "only canon in my head": while Emmrich doesn't come from nobility, Myrna does-the Van Markham branch. She had the finest education, even before the Watchers.

She doesn't play it up much, though. Her real passion's her work.

As to your question, there's one line of banter between Emmrich and Neve that talks about this (so, very easy to miss.) The Mourn Watchers live and sleep in the upper (safer) levels of the Necropolis.

trying to avoid the itch to just transplant Sofina as an oc in the Witcher series bc it would be So Easy and her personality might fit better than the bioware protagonist/Rook sensibilities 🧍‍♂️

finished carnal desires in tw3. blind run. i thought i was just renovating a pub. never thought id unravel a situation with gritted teeth and bated breath, culminating in a dead gallop on roach. I could’ve fast traveled. but geralt and i had to sit in that unease for max payoff. and I’m glad i did.

I also wanted to say I really resonated with Josie/Emmrich’s romances as an ace/demi person..both arcs with Inky/Rook had an undercurrent of trust and mutual care for the other…it provided a safe avenue to explore that piece of me. Emmrich’s comment of “going at Rook’s pace” meant the world. 🖤🩶💜

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mourn watch army! mourn watch army! (from the bottom of my heart, thank you, sylvia!)

Hey everyone: sorry I've been quiet on here. Was busy with a big decision, namely deciding to leave BioWare. I'll really, really miss working with everyone there. But after 15 years, it just feels like a good time for a break.

(If/when I've got something noteworthy lined up, I'll mention it here!)

Best wishes and thank you, your writing struck a cord with many of us. Looking forward to whatever you do next!