Mick

serious question are bangs a Venatori dress code infraction or

Own awkwardness! Weaponize awkwardness!

What a way to kick off #DragonAgeDay!

This was an incredible amount of work and it has turned out to be absolutely gorgeous. I hope it's as much fun for #DragonAge folks out there to read as it was for us to write...

When I really want to blow a newer fan's mind, I tell them who the Randy Dowager is.

I accept you <3

oh.

YOU SEE THE VISION.

Impressive that "caught hunting halla* and tied to a tree while Andruil and Anaris fought over whether or not Solas had to serve her in bed for a year" didn't even crack his top six regrets...

*also. convinced that "hunting halla" is code for chasing Ghilan'nain

Dumat: hey if you do some blood magic you can be a god
Dumat: there's a whole golden city waiting for you
Dumat: you can do whatever you want forever

The "good guys": we have. uh. Solas left some raisins...?

I guess if there are any loyalty issues, you can always just kill him.

Top three Mass Effect companions to recruit:
- Jack. If you can destroy a space prison, you can destroy a Fade prison. For the glory of Tevinter reborn!
- Grunt. Understands that morals are an inconvenience. Bonus: can smash.
- Zaeed. Smart enough to be useful. Dumb enough to be cannon fodder.

okay but I notice you didn't argue

I think you've misunderstood. The Viper IS divine.

The Grey Warden motto is: "In war – victory. In peace – vigilance. In dwarf – sacrifice."

Did this on my phone. Got 95% and couldn't work out which answer I'd got wrong. Then I realized my autocorrect was trying to help...

Don't worry. Soon every month of the year will be Venatober.

start your own month. venatober. novenatori. cultsmas. why would you want to share a month with fen'harel and the veilguard.

You let slaves do your challenges? Maker, the Venatori certainly have changed since my day.

Two Venatori sitting on their slaves

We all know you pretend to have leg muscles, but as soon as we look away, you're sitting on your slaves again.

art of Solas and Fenris standing opposite each other. Fenris looks hesitant but not uncomfortable while Solas examines his lyrium markings.

i keep forgetting to post this commission of Solas examining Fenris's lyrium markings for @isatunoll.bsky.social which is frankly terrible of me.

it's always a joy to work together & you should also read his fic about these two - archiveofourown.org/works/626385...

#dragonage #🩸 #solas #fenris

[Two comic panels, low lit by candlelight. The first is of a paper with written words, some of which have been crossed out, the page reads:] Ashur, -I don’t- -I can’t- -I should tell you- There’s things about you I shouldn’t know. Your name. Your face. Who you are when you aren’t the Viper. Suppose it’s only fair you know -Look, Ashur, it’s just - -Don’t know how to say this, really, but- I know it doesn’t mean anything, not with you being who you are and all, but -Ashur, I love- -f uck- [The second panel shows Tarquin sitting at a desk, his head in his hands, putting the paper to flame using the reading candles nearby.]

impromptu collab with @isatunoll.bsky.social! putting art to his text and vision: tarquin and a letter he will never send
(transcript in alt-text)

These are the only words you need to know in Tevene. Everyone in Tevinter speaks Trade anyway. If you don’t know how to say it, ask me after evening rites and I’ll say it for you. Fasta vass: Fuck everything. Festis bei umo canavarum: I’m fucked. (This one’s supposed to be something about being eaten by a female dog, but that’s not what it means if you say it.) Incaensor: What you call someone who is behaving badly or acting above their station. (If your slave turns out to be able to do magic, that’s the word for it. Or your servant or whatever you have in Nevarra instead of slaves.) Kaffas: Shit. Vishante kaffas: Someone at my old Circle said it means “you shit on my tongue,” but it makes more sense the other way around so that’s how I say it. Rattus: Means rat, I think. People mostly use it for elves, but you can say it about anyone who’s far enough below you. Venhedis: Go to the Void. Careful, there’s this elven word that’s almost the same, but I don’t know what it means. So I guess don’t say this one if you’re talking to an elf. Or else just don’t talk to elves, I suppose. Venhedis kaffan vas: I’m not telling you. Only I can say this one. —Torn page found in a schoolbook marked “Dorian Pavus” shelved in the library of the Grand Necropolis, Nevarra City, Nevarra

Sneak peek at what’s going on in @worldofthedaszine.bsky.social...

Internet Explorer "on my way to raid Area 51" meme, but the words "Area 51" have been replaced with the word "BioWare"

:V

#eel

A fanfic excerpt from Mick, calendar writer & beta, that reads: Cullen reminds Cole of another man - not the templar, but the mage, the first, failed, feared. Like him, Cullen has the old song in his blood, not by birth, but by necessity. Like him, Culen has been filed away, forgotten, freed from one prison to fill another. Like him, Cullen has wounds that bleed, and bleed, and bleed, and never heal. When they met, Cullen would not have thanked Cole for the comparison. Today, he might understand.

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📝Writer, editor, lore nerd. The kind of person who will conduct a detailed analysis of the blight and then spend hours working out what kind of chair the Imperial Divine sits on in the Argent Spire. Definitely not a blood mage.

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Writer, editor, and lore nerd. The kind of person who will write a detailed analysis of the blight and then spend several hours working out what kind of chair the Imperial Divine sits on in the Argent Spire. In real life, I work in comics, film, television, and other stuff that doesn’t make me sound any less like a nerd.

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Introducing @isatunoll.bsky.social, who'll be joining us as a Writer!

Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/isat...
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AO3: archiveofourown.org/users/Sidney...

We're excited to introduce the contributors for #DragonAgeAnnual 2026! They are already hard at work on some incredible designs.

Keep an eye out in the coming weeks to learn more about each contributor, and see previews of the art & fic they're cooking up! #DragonAge #zine

Bubble waffle is great though!

Tags: Existential Horror, Frankenstein vibes, Comes Back Wrong, there's only so long you can ignore what you don't want to know

these sure are some tags, huh

archiveofourown.org/works/65526277

I have written so many things I didn't expect since Veilguard came out. (By the way I should maybe say that "The Sacred and the Profane" was me, which is how I ended up on this thread speculating about the One Ring.)