MsBarrows' Maunderings

Huge-ass thunderstorm going overhead right now, near constant rumbling, and now hail. Marble-sized hail. Methinks I will shut down and even go as far as unplugging the power bar from the wall for bit. Better safe than system-fried!

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outrageouslies:

Ruska - Apocalyptica

Sweeeeeet - hadn’t heard this yet. Lovely!

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The Hanged Man was almost empty, only a scant handful of the tables occupied. Fenris looked around hopefully, but it was obvious that none of the people there was his sister; they were almost all male, and the two that weren’t, were well known to him – the waitress Norah, and a rather drunken human female slumped at a corner table, mumbling into her tankard of ale. He sighed almost silently, then forced a smile as he glanced at Alistair, trying to hide his disappointment. “Why don’t you get some stew and a table for us. I’m just going to head upstairs for a moment and say hello to Varric, and apologize to him for skipping out on our card night yesterday.”

Alistair nodded, then smiled. “All right. Don’t be long, or I’ll eat your stew,” he said.

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rustedchild:

Don’t ask me who did it.

I had this particularly… depressive image in my head for months and only now I had the courage to draw it. Yeah…

Ack! Noooooooo Seb! No dying allowed!

dragonagefanweek:

Much as we hate to say goodbye to Varric Week, it’s time to pick a new theme for the coming week. Here are the suggestions we’ve collected so far. Reblog, reply, or send an ask with your choice for the coming week or something else entirely you’d like to see.

Female Characters:

• Shale Week *
• Shianni Week 
• Varania Week *
• Ser Cauthrien Week
• Broodmother Week *

Misc:

• Pole Dancing Week 
• Dog Week 
• Flight Attendant AU *
• Pirate Theme (in honour of SOPA/PIPA/ACTA/CISPA) 
• Recreational Use of Magic week [suggestions: Creative Use of Magic (IN BED!); 101 creative uses for the grease spell] ***
• Threesomes *
• Crossovers
• Minor Characters Week
• Desire Demon Week *
• Darkspawn Week
• Kossith/Qunari Week
• Characters in Uniform **

BONUS OPTION: One more week of Varric and then two consecutive female-character-themed weeks?

Obligatory Note: If anyone has a problem with one of the weeks listed, PLEASE send a message so we can talk about it and get it sorted out. 

Ser Cauthrien week! Though I’d still enjoy either recreational uses of magic or threesomes.

Alistair was disappointed to hear that Oghren had been so close yet unable to visit, but was also very pleased to hear that Fenris had met him, that the dwarf seemed to be in good health, and that Oghren had remembered Alistair fondly. His parting message made Alistair laugh, and have the widest of smiles on his face for some considerable time afterwards.

He asked almost as many questions about the dwarf as the dwarf had asked about him, and once again Fenris found himself having to answer “I don’t know” to most of them. Fenris also repeated as much as he could remember about Oghren’s stories of his time in the Grey Wardens, about his wife and family, and so forth. It took until quite late that night before he finished, the two of them long-since retired to bed, though sitting up and talking rather than trying to sleep. Alistair looked rather pleased but thoughtful when he’d done.

“I miss the Wardens,” he said after a few minutes. “At least the way they were before Ostagar. It was the first time I’d ever been really accepted, you know? For myself, with my background not mattering at all.” He fell silent for a while, then smiled crookedly. “I suppose I miss them after Ostagar as well, when it was just Laurel and I. It wasn’t always a very pleasant time – in fact most of it was pretty blighted unpleasant – but it was still one of the best times in my life. I was actually doing something that mattered, with good friends at my side.”

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