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Emmrich x Rook - Canon Divergent AU

The events of Veilguard haven’t occurred. Varric died stopping Solas. After their success in stopping the Dreadwolf Rook took work from Neve in Minrathous. There he helped the Shadow Dragons and Archon Pavus establish their hold. In the work Rook became quietly known as the best bodyguard a mage could have. Peace of kind settled in Minrathous, but its troubled ripples beget waves of change on way to Nevarra. Secure but concerned, the Archon decides to send the best protection he can to his old professor in danger of losing his pretty head.

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“Professor Volkarin, most senior watchers already have several.” Myrna sat at her desk. It was pale, bone-white and appeared made from numerous remains. Skulls and femurs, ribs and spine, but with a closer eye…marble. A singular block carved with the care of a master over years. The thing had drawers.

FOES VISAGED SURROUND FRIENDS BEGIN TO FADE

“Thank you, Vorgoth.” Emmrich nodded to the hooded mist flanking Myrna.

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Continuing to work my long-neglected drawing muscles. I have NO idea what the context of this scene would even be, as I can't imagine Emmrich would be terribly thrilled about being handled this way, but there was this really bizarre and honestly fascinating old illustration I immediately knew I HAD to do a study of:

These men have known each other. Intimately.

I also just get a kick out of gender role reversal. Who's getting swept off their feet NOW?

(I did change the left arm position, and I regret it. I thought it would look more like he was properly startled. Oh well!)

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She laughs, pulls him down onto the meditation couch and says, "Shh, quick, quick."

His mouth covers hers, pulling out another high giggle for him to catch on his tongue. The sensation of his small, neat mustache against her lip is new and exciting, as is the taste of his mouth--clean, vague tea. He tastes like his own wise words and the way that he smiles. Intense and gentle all at once. He tastes like this stolen moment, and fun secrets, and not as much like death as one might think.

She can't remember how they got here, or what she was doing before. It feels a little like her life began when he knelt between her thighs.

"C'mon," she says into his mouth, his searching tongue, and she hikes up the hem of the skirt she doesn't remember putting on. The smell of him is amazing, heightening the experience of his body against hers in a way that feels almost intoxicating. She is so desperate to feel him inside her that every second between now and their iminent coupling seems to stretch for an eternity.

"Sweet girl," he says against the hollow of her throat, and her back arches off the couch as pure reflex. He's face-down in her tits now, sucking a bruise onto one of them while his beringed hand skates up the swell of her thigh, dips underneath her ass and pulls her leg snug against his waist. Her hips accommodate the shape of him effortlessly, like they were hewn specifically to cradle him in the heated curve of her sex.

She thinks he was wearing trousers and a sash, as he usually is, but they are both gone all at once. In fact, very suddenly they're both naked aside from the tantalizing drape of her bright red skirt around her waist and his gold, clinking and singing as his body moves. She feels the head of his cock slide against the inside of her thigh, hot and damp and erotic. The anticipation of being fucked, being fucked by him, strikes through her body from the back of her throat to the depths of her cunt.

"Fuck me," she breathes, arms around his shoulders, thighs spread. "Please? Please?"

"You needn't beg, my love," he says, reaching down--his rings slide against her, cool amongst her heat. She shudders and giggles--ticklish despite herself. He smiles, a gentle curve to his lips and an echoing one in the facial hair above his lip, and there is so much love and sex flooded in her belly that she feels almost sick with it. His eyelids flutter as he slides into her. The apple in his throat bobs. She drags a kiss onto it.

"Yes," she sighs, head falling back against the couch cushion. "Oh, yes."

She wants him to go fast--because there's a feeling in the back of her head, though she doesn't know why, that they don't have much time. She thinks it has something to do with the door hiding behind the back of the couch, or the number of hours in the day. She wants him to go slow, because she feels safe here. He is inside her, around her, and she has never felt more cherished.

"Oh, oh," is all she can bring herself to say. She curls her fingers into the dip of his shoulder blades, indenting his skin with her blunt nails. He gasps against her ear, a shaking hand ghosting down her side and coming to rest around the thickest part of her thigh.

"I love you," he whispers. "Oh, I love you."

She groans, finds his hair with one hand and digs all five of her fingers into it. She has never felt so fucking wanted--

"Rook."

It falls away. Everything spins and, when she refocuses, she's on that Maker-forsaken cliffside. The gray expanse of Solas' Fade prison stretches out before her, stale air suffocating.

Mortifyingly, she can still feel the ghost of Emmrich inside her. The spectre of his hands and cock. Wetness between her thighs brought on by the dream of him.

"Fuck completely off," Rook snarls at Solas--the looming visage of her stoic, dis-a-fucking-proving God lurking on the other side of the crevasse. "I'm not talking to you right now. Are you kidding? Let me wake up."

Because he doesn't know what's good for him, Solas opens his mouth. "My apologies. I am not privy to what dreams your slumbering mind offers you before our link establishes itself."

"I'm sure you can assume," Rook says, patting at her body just to make sure her clothes are back. They are, as usual in this place, her Watcher's apron and armor. She wonders what her face looks like. "Fuck off, Solas. Let me wake up."

"You are in control of that particular function."

Rook offers him a middle finger for his trouble, and then she seems to fall face-forward.

Waking from the Fade prison is usually jarring. She snaps up, still dressed, sweating and hot as hell. She is still aching for a fuck--for the dick of a man who has never touched her with anything approaching lust.

"Shit," she breathes, palming her face. "Oh...dammit."

It isn't even the memory of his mouth and hands that stands out from the rapidly-fading dream. She has no way of knowing if the shape of his rings against her or the length of him are true--they are estimations of her dreaming mind. But she knows what his voice sounds like. She knows his smell from a few occasions where he'd stood too close.

She can still hear him say that he loves her.

"Fuck," she says, mourning the dream--and a few tears fall into her palms.

WARNING do NOT start reading books and comics or watching movies or looking at art!!! you will start wanting to create art yourself. or god forbid. writing.

Breakfast time

Let's all pretend an anon sent me this prompt for the Rook&partner's asks (I got real asks from real people, but this was the first headcanon that came to my mind):

5. Do they have different cultural backgrounds (e.g. a Rook who was raised in Antiva with Harding who was raised in Ferelden)? If so, do they ever share parts of their culture with each other? If they're similar, how do they celebrate their culture together?

I like to think there are some cross-clan songs among Dalish (like children songs, in this case), and I totally picture Ayanne, Bellara and/or Davrin to hum them randomly sometimes. If the song is catchy enough, the others would join, more or less willingly ;)

Rook and Bellara are particularly satisfied when they succeed in making Davrin sing <3

A bonus, as usual:

it's ok tony diterlizzi i'm sorry they didn't like your swag and epic pern dragon designs. i love them and they should have let you do your full illustrated pern novel.

The illustrated edition he did get to do was still pretty epic! Definitely a bucket list item I will track down one of these days. (Pictures from his Facebook page (here), where there are a few more!)

Oh, I'm glad he got to do an illustrated version! I misread a page on his blog, and thought that the project had been collapsed to him just illustrating the cover. Incidentally, if anyone can find a higher resolution of his initial dragon design page for Dragonflight, I would love to read the notes. I love these weird guys.

So, I reached out via DiTerlizzi's website and asked, and his studio manager very kindly sent me a slightly better quality image!

Pern Dragons

Next to top left image: Have a natural smile when viewed head on (like dolphins and whales)

Next to image of rider and dragon, next to the penant: Weyr-colours on pennant

Next to bottom left image: Weyr insignia patterns on thigh

Next to top right image: Newborn

Next to head of image of rider and dragon: Wearable feathers on bridle

Large multi-faceted eyes

Next to middle right image: Basic head shape

Next to bottom right image of flaming dragon: Basic dragon body shape

They also shared the below images!

oh, awesome! thanks so much. I love the different head shape explorations, i think the camelid looking "more antelope" head on the bottom left has to be a favorite

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I’ve reached that special flavour of mental decay where i’m seriously about to write a crackfic about the Lich Lords of the Grand Necropolis and their one shared, haunted strap-on: The Wailing Wand of Eternal Girth.

Eternal life, you see, is too great a boon for there to be no drawbacks. And the drawback? No dick. Zero cock.

But the Lich Lords? crafty little bitches. They found a workaround. A loophole. A workaround to the loophole. A detachable, magically-sustained schlong, forged deep within the molten crotch-fires of the Thrust Crucible and tempered in holy lube.

Some say if you press it to your ear, you can hear the echoes of long-lost orgasms and a choir of moaning angels harmonizing in E-flat.

Problem is: the mana cost to keep more than one operational would bankrupt even the most depraved necro-economy. So they share. A communal cock. A mystical timeshare phallus.

To gain access, you’ve gotta fill out a 17-page Request for Penetrative Artifact Use and Handling Form, answer a deeply invasive magical questionnaire that screams whenever you lie, and provide a full itinerary of where, when, and in whom the Wand will be going, including diagrams, consent forms, and a post-use cleaning incantation.

Greg from accounting (yes, Lich Greg, who somehow kept his W-2 filing kink into undeath) still has it booked until Thursday. Bastard. Nobody knows what he’s doing with it, but the moaning hasn’t stopped since Tuesday and the walls of the Grand Necropolis are starting to melt.

They didn’t tell Emmrich that when they pitched lichdom to him

Rook faints when he brings it around the first time

A MYSTICAL TIMESHARE PHALLUS

THANKS I HATE IT AND LOVE IT

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