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Ouaaaghhhh so I impulse bought two different commissions for my Rook from Dragon Age Veilguard and both are in now and they're so beautiful!! One is a gooorgeous bust artwork and the other is an adorable chibi drawing of Rook and Lucanis flying.

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In other news I realized in my sickness haze last week that threesentenceficathon started and I'm rattling the bars of my cage wanting to participate!!! I haven't had a chance to look at anything yet 😭 but hopefully this weekend I'll find some time. I've been very unmotivated writing-wise this month and it's killing me because I have so much stuff I want to write...

I've done it.....63 hours and 158 screenshots later.....I've beaten Dragon Age: The Veilguard.

The non-spoilery tl;dr: I liked it! Maybe it was the high of playing a new Dragon Age game for the first time in ten years, but I had a lot of fun with it. The combat is snappy, the characters are charming, the sidequests aren't all tedious time wasters. I think a lot of the complaints online are bad faith arguments or personal preferences. (Not that the game is perfect or there aren't valid critiques, just that you can tell who's like, mad about DA being ""woke"" now or whatever lmao.)

So yeah, I'd recommend it, and I think people who haven't played any DA games could still have a good time too. There's callbacks and stuff that wouldn't really mean anything to newbies, and obviously there's spoilers for Inquisition (but I feel that particular cat is out of the bag anyway), but overall I think new players could definitely just jump in and have fun without having played the previous games. (But you still should play the previous games because they're great. DA2 is still my fave. Sorry Veilguard, you could not dethrone the king.)

Please look at some pictures of my beautiful Rook before I continue on with my very spoilery commentary below.

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I feel like I could probably go on forever about random stuff as I think about it. This post has already taken two days of poking at it on and off and is way too long so I should probably just wrap it up. If you read all this you should probably get an award or something. I don't even want to re-read it to proofread lol.

But I would love to hear other people's thoughts on the game, good or bad! I have to catch up on the reading list so if you already posted your thoughts I am on my way 👀

If anyone's using Bluesky feel free to add me, I'm @bhujerba on there! Just let me know who you are so I can follow back. I mostly reblog art and make the occasional inane post, but it's definitely nicer than Twitter so I hope it sticks around.


Temporarily lost my mind and spent $145 on books!! It was the fastest I've ever tricked myself into spending a large amount of money lmao. I'm so excited for them though because they're gorgeous fan-design versions of The Last Binding trilogy by Freya Marske with custom dust jackets and printed edges.

( fancy book designs )

The design's by c-leadraw, and they posted the original artwork for the covers here on Tumblr. I never buy special editions of books (even though I'd like to) because they're so pricey, but I love this series so much I knew the regret would be strong if I waffled over this, waited too long, and then they ended up being sold out or something. So I decided to just make them a Christmas present to myself lmao. The only thing is that for that price I wish they were hardcovers and not paperbacks, but beggars can't be choosers, I suppose. I already own the regular set in hardback so this will just be my pretty display set haha.

(The end of the year is such a dangerous time for me, I'm constantly being like "but it's holiday time, you deserve to buy things" sjhdfksjhdfs on top of these books I already bought some novellas I'd had my eye on, and way too much stationery/journaling stuff, and I'm eyeballing the current sale at Fangamer and some notebooks on sale from Tiefossi too. Help!! After all that + Christmas presents for my family I have GOT to put a moratorium on buying things until after the holidays...)


Other than that, I've mostly been spending my free time just playing more Veilguard! I'm close-ish to the end, I just finished story chapter 10 and am doing all the character quests to make everyone Heroes of the Veilguard at the moment. I did end up locking in a Lucanis romance lmao but I'm having a lot of fun with everyone's stories. Once I actually beat the game I'll write up my full thoughts.

I also watched the Deadpool & Wolverine movie. It was not as good as either of the previous two Deadpools, but they got their damn X-men nostalgia hooks in me so I still had a good time sjhdfksfhs I loved all the cameos (Pyro!! my god I was shook), I loved seeing Jackman as Wolverine again, I loved how stupid it was that Wolverine and Deadpool just kept murdering each other. I'm easy to please, I guess! (Except I'm still not forgiving them for what they did with Shatterstar last movie, even if they did bring him back. 😑) Unfortunately it also made me want to rewatch the entire X-men franchise, which I don't have time for!!

It took longer than I'd have liked, but I finally beat my Dragon Age Inquisition replay and started playing Dragon Age: The Veilguard! Everyone has probably shown off their Rooks already but oh well better late than never.

But first, Inquisition blabbing.

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And then, finally, Veilguard... I definitely spent like 2 hours in the character creator working on my Rook and Inquisitor even though I'm sure the Inquisitor has like a 5 minute cameo at most or something shdfjshfds I was just excited to get to see Aimeric again, okay... But here's what I ended up with:

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Okay this post was like 80% me going on about DAI/my Inquisitor, but oh well. Please no spoilers for Veilguard, obviously, but do tell me how far along you guys are/share your Rooks/tell me how you're liking the game!

Too lazy to write a real update so here's some bullet points.

☆ Forgot to eat dinner after work today so I'm waiting for my frozen chicken nuggets to bake while I type this up.

☆ The reason I forgot to eat dinner was because I was absorbed in attempting to recreate my DA Inquisitor in multiple Picrews which was of course a failed venture because he's a Dalish elf with face tattoos (and also not a lot of Picrews offer auburn hair??). But I did find one cute one I was able to make a satisfactory version in, please admire my son: ( + )

☆ Did y'all hear that Netflix is doing a modern Picture of Dorian Gray adaptation but supposedly Basil and Dorian are being made siblings. This is the funniest thing I've ever heard, I can't even BEGIN to imagine what someone's thought process must be like to suggest that change. Welcome back Sailor Moon dub version of Haruka and Michiru.

☆ I'm so easily distracted that my nuggets finished cooking before I finished writing this.

*covers my face* Don't look at me this isn't the anime/cartoon post I keep swearing I'll write up. The Dragon Age: The Veilguard release date trailer came out and I'm hyped all over againnnn. Everyone looks so good still, I'm torn on who I'm going to romance first--obviously I may end up winging it when I actually play it, but right now I'm leaning toward either Lucanis or Neve... I've gotta thoroughly plan out my choices because I can say I'll replay this game multiple times for everyone all I want but I know I'll give up at two playthroughs or something. Hopefully it's as fun to play as it looks so I can squeeze some more playthroughs out of it!

I also finally dug up the info on my main world states from the previous games, I couldn't find info on my OG Warden anywhere, I guess I didn't blog about it when I was playing it?? But today I suddenly realized I had stuff uploaded to my DA Keep from when DAI came out and lo and behold!! I can't believe I forgot my original Warden's name lmao Aeneas I'm so sorry. So thankfully now I have my DAO and DA2 world state info to refresh my bad memory.

In the meantime I'm still playing though Inquisition, I think this is going to be my "official" DAI world state. ( + )


While it's fresh in my memory, unfortunately, there's also The Umbrella Academy season 4.....woof. That was bad. And I'm notoriously lax with bad television. (I watched every single episode of Once Upon a Time of my own free will.) Cutting this for complaining and major spoilers but these are probably the same complaints every other TUA fan had so lmao. ( + )

Anyway in conclusion don't bother watching TUA S4, just watch Dark on Netflix, which is a fantastic time travel family drama that does all the serious parts of TUA way better.


Uhhh I also watched The Fall Guy which is that Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt action-comedy movie, about a "stuntman working on his ex-girlfriend's directorial debut, only to find himself involved in a conspiracy surrounding the film's lead actor," and that was actually better than I expected. The plot itself is pretty average, but the action and stunts were fantastic, as one would hope from a movie about a stuntman haha. And Gosling and Blunt are both fun actors that jive well together. I'd definitely recommend it to anyone who likes action movies/cool stuntwork.


A while ago I mentioned making an AU prompt comm because I couldn't find any, then never brought it up again. Well now it is made! Behold au_challenge! It's got both prompt tables and a bingo card option. I'm putting the finishing touches on the info posts but after that I guess I'll just go ahead and advertise it. It's very low maintenance/has no deadlines so hopefully it can be useful to some people.

Sooo much Dragon Age is happening right now, I can't believe I'm excited about a DA game again after all these years sjdfhskjfs. I didn't watch all the Veilguard gameplay reveal stuff but the trailers look fun and I'm definitely interested in the characters 👀 Lucanis, Neve, and Bellara are probably my favorites at the moment (given the limited info) but everyone looks really good. And apparently we're visiting Rivain as well as Tevinter which are the two places I wanted in a game so that's cool. Obviously the quality of the story and writing will remain to be seen, but I am tentatively excited...

All the DA hype of course has me wanting to replay the old games, and the Steam gods heard my prayers because the entire series is 90% off on Steam right now!! So I snagged Origins, DA2, and Inquisition for 10 bucks total which is a steaaal please go get these games if you've never played DA before. Especially DA2 which is my favorite and the best of the bunch and I'll die on that hill no hesitation.

But despite that I'm actually starting Inquisition right now lmao I only ever played that game once when it first came out (female Qunari mage inquisitor who romanced Josephine) so I'm finally doing a second playthrough. I spent far too long in the character creator and even then gave up about halfway because I have no patience for tweaking all those little sliders lmao but! Here is the result: ( my newest little meow meow )

Anyway who else is getting back into Dragon Age because of all this lol anyone doing any replays? Playing for the first time? Thoughts on the Veilguard reveals? Talk to me about your Wardens/Hawkes/Inquisitors 👀