Morrigan And Kieran!

morrigan and kieran! 

(yes morrigan is the bear and crow too) 

Oh boy! This is such a great list!!

Honestly anything by Rivers Solomon is amazing. They're such a wonderful writer. I listened to The Deep recently which is about the children of pregnant African women who were thrown overboard, and their children were born able to breathe water.

The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomez- I'm not far through this yet but its from the 90s and about a african american woman who is turned into a vampire.

Beloved by Toni Morison. Another classic. A woman is haunted by the ghost of her baby daughter who she killed rather than let be taken back into slavery.

The Bone People by Keri Hulme. Written by and about a Maori/Pakeha aroace woman about journeys towards family.

A Magical Girl Retires by Park Seolyeon. A really interesting take on magical girls and a look into South Korean feminist movements.

The Lonely Castle in the Mirror by Mizuki Tsujimura. Another translated book, about the childhood mental health crisis and finding hope in community.

Squire by Nadia Shammas. Particularly relevant as it is by a Palestinian author. A graphic novel about being lured into and overcoming ideologies of empire.

A Snake Falls to Earth by Darcie Little Badger. A wonderful story of a native American girl trying to reconnect with her history and a snake boy trying to save his friend.

P. Djeli Clarke's Dead Djinn universe is also wonderful. Set in 20s Egypt where ancient mythology is real. Follows badass suit wearing lesbian detective

Lost Ark Dreaming by Suyi Davies Okungbowa- set in a skyscraper post climate change sea level rise which has made it an island (think Frostpunk) and about the class struggles within the tower.

I also really recommend making an effort to read books that are published outside the traditional western sphere, so not just American-X writers, but also translated works. Since they're not originally published with the west in mind they can offer really cool new perspectives!

PLEASE for the love of the universe read anti-colonial science fiction and fantasy written from marginalized perspectives. Y’all (you know who you are) are killing me. To see people praise books about empire written exclusively by white women and then turn around and say you don’t know who Octavia Butler is or that you haven’t read any NK Jemisin or that Babel was too heavy-handed just kills me! I’m not saying you HAVE to enjoy specific books but there is such an obvious pattern here

Some of y’all love marginalized stories but you don’t give a fuck about marginalized creators and characters, and it shows. Like damn

Joanna Macy, from a preface to Rilke’s Book of Hours: Love Poems to God

Got inspired by @telanadasvhenan awesome art of the lavellan verse (basically all the lavellans all hangin out and ensuing shenanigans) and have had the brilliant idea of writing a sitcom style fic. Oops all Lavellas. Just putting the blorbos in our heads into silly circumstances. So if anybody has a lavellan they would like to be in it, lmk! (will of course give character credit n all that jazz)

Am currently considering about setting it either in thedas or in a modern au

Do you think that Solas, during the past ten years, has replayed the much softer memories he made with Lavellan before the scene in Crestwood?

Like imagine Solas, weary from all of his preparation work and constantly needing to travel from place to place to escape those that are hunting him, sitting in the chair at his desk in the Lighthouse. He has his face buried in books, tomes, and whatnot, fighting off the tiredness that haunts him more and more each day, then suddenly before he knows it he's lost his train of thought and he's back at the Winter Palace, dancing with Lavellan on the balcony after they saved the Empress (or not, whichever the decision was). Being able to feel their fingers intertwined with his, how they move in such beautiful sync, even if maybe Lavellan's is a little bit more clumsy due to a lack of experience.

Imagine Solas, eating dinner by himself, and then suddenly the seat right across from him at the table sits Lavellan who is telling him another silly story about something that happened within their Clan, their giggles soft and full of such light that it's infectious and makes him chuckle. As his fingers hold his utensils they itch to reach across and glide against the soft features of his love. But he's quickly met with the realization that he is alone, as he chose to be, because he would not have them see what he becomes.

And when he does sleep, he hears echoes of their voice in every corner. Every playful remark, every flirtatious sentence that left from between those lovely lips...and then his fantasy always goes down hill from there, reminded of their last meeting before he left them behind —

And sometimes he walks behind his love in their dreams, watching from afar, witnessing all that haunts them and chasing away the fears that threatened to disturb their sleep while admiring them in moments of peace, despite the air of melancholy that surrounds them now.

Man I'm so excited to see how his romance plays into the new game.