And Yet The Hands Are Still There.

and yet the hands are still there.

i saw this and couldn't resist doing a small sketch

one of the most challenging skills i've had to learn as an adult is the art of figuring out whether i'm proportionally annoyed with someone or just tired and overstimulated and looking for reasons to be pissed off

*gets down on one knee* I want to make a shared oc universe with you

Ok, hear me out on a Josephine x Trevelyan Persuasion AU. Like Josie and Trevelyan are in love, but Trevelyan's family disapprove of the match because of Josie's family status, the whole not being able to trade with Orlais part of her story. So Trevelyan turns down her proposal.

Except Josie manages to rebuild the family fortune, and Trevelyan still is deeply in love with her, but they can't re-propose as it'll make them seem like they're just after the fortune. So they PINE.

Idk if I prefer this as m/f or f/f. Because on one hand. Lesbians. On the other though, I think the gender reversal of the m/f would be really interesting (since in the book its the man who is poor and then makes his fortune).

I have way too many projects rn to think about doing this but...solavellan pride and prejudice AU

Its so perfect! And not just because Solas=Pride in elvish.

You have Solas aka Mr Darcy, wealthy landed gentry, he is generally a bit of an ass, up himself and socially reserved. In the book, Darcy falls in love with Lizzie early on, even though he considers it an attachment 'below his station'. He proposes to her, never concieving of the fact that she will turn him down, because he's hella rich and above her station. Lizzie takes him to town on it and then Darcy goes away, thinks about his life choices and becomes a better person. This reminding anybody of Solas' regard for the Dalish...? His arc of seeing the people of thedas as real people?

Then you have Lavellan aka Lizzie, she is slighted by Solas early on and this colours her entire perspective of him, and leads her to believe things about him that she probably should have had some more critical thinking about. He proposes she turns him down while roasting him. However, in doing so she learns that he isn't quite as bad as stories have made him out to be. In the book this is the fact that Mr Wickham, who has been telling Lizzie bad things about him, is actually a bad guy and tried to elope with Darcy's 15 year old sister. (I could see this paralleling with the vallaslin removal or the reveal of the actual history of fen harel).

But in the book, the point where Lizzie actually falls in love with Darcy is when she visits his home, the grand estate of Pemberly (maybe Skyhold in an au?). Here Darcy is a kind and generous man, he uses sustainable farming practices, he is kind to his tenants and servants, generous to guests he has only just met, and he adores his lil sister. This also seems a good solavellan parallel because despite being a very prideful person, Solas is a very kind person- he likes helping people! Its so easy to get approval with him- just ask questions!

Idk where I'm going with this, I just think its neat! Also...who would be the Jane/Bingly equivalents in the AU?? Jane, perfect ray of sunshine, and Bingly with his massive golden retriever energy?? Or my fave girl and aro icon Charlotte Lucas...?

Wait...would Cole be the equivalent of Georgiana Darcy???

So I've been starting some Internal Family System (IFS) therapy and I just realised....its so Harry Du Boirs coded....