I've been typing some fluff fics involving Cullen and Lavellan anyway. Could I get in on this?
Of course! Anyone can jump in... if it's what we want to do?? It was just the first thing I came up with. I thought it might be fun, since what happens next doesn't necessarily have to be sexy or romantic, it could be silly or platonic or whatever. (and I suppose we mentally replace the words "Valentine's Day" with whatever the Thedas equivalent is)
Other thoughts?? Esp from the non-writers??
I'm not a writer by any stretch but I do like the scene set up / what happens next idea. That opens the door for everything and everyone to contribute however they are most able or comfortable.
Me ok but no oic
"oic" ?
Was that maybe supposed to be pic?
I think it was Oh, I see?
Of course! Anyone can jump in... if it's what we want to do?? It was just the first thing I came up with. I thought it might be fun, since what happens next doesn't necessarily have to be sexy or romantic, it could be silly or platonic or whatever. (and I suppose we mentally replace the words "Valentine's Day" with whatever the Thedas equivalent is)
Other thoughts?? Esp from the non-writers??
I'd rather replace Val Day with something more Theodosian. I admit, anything I produce is likely to be more comedic than serious, but I think that's a given 
If we don't want to use Valentine's Day exactly, my advice would be to go back to its roots. Saint Valentine is (was?) a Catholic saint said to have been martyred in Third Century Rome. The Medieval Catholic religion was all about revering not just God and Jesus, but Mary, Jesus' disciples, and all manner of saints and martyrs. The Thedas Andrastian religion is basically Fantasy Medieval Catholicism. I'm sure they've got a bunch of saints and martyrs they celebrate there.
One thing I noticed when I grazed Saint Valentine's info on wiki is that it was once a "feast day." We know Thedas has feast days. Perhaps we could make up the Thedas fantasy equivalent of Saint Valentine, and say that it is a feast day to celebrate him/her (as I'm sure they have feast and fast days to commemorate other Andrastian saints), where this one happens to emphasize love or lovers (because this saint is associated with it), the way other feast days emphasize other things.
Just my two cents.
I like the idea of each person posting limericks
although what I'd do with Cullen for the day would likely be veeeery tame compared to what some of you pervy wankers might put!
Agree with R2 about the need to sign up, let's get this ball rolling!
Any other fun things we could do?
Maybe everyone write a fun little manifesto about what Cullen means to you.
OR a 1-hour sketch or 100 word flash fic of Cullen x your inquisitor, YOUR CHOICE!!
YES good idea
Me too, though I might want to rethink a drunken Surana and Timur the mabari singing...
IS THIS CANON??? XD
Don't tell me, they are still bathing Timur right now...
Of course! Anyone can jump in... if it's what we want to do?? It was just the first thing I came up with. I thought it might be fun, since what happens next doesn't necessarily have to be sexy or romantic, it could be silly or platonic or whatever. (and I suppose we mentally replace the words "Valentine's Day" with whatever the Thedas equivalent is)
Other thoughts?? Esp from the non-writers??
I'm not going to draw anything TBH because there are some spiky red elf stuffs I need to draw or I'll be more crazy than now 
"oic" ?
Was that maybe supposed to be pic?
New phone who am I yep, sorry the new touchscreen was too small for me T___T. I forgot my personal cell phone so I used my pro one and that one's freaking hard to use.
Aaaah the flash fic idea is GREAT! YES TO FLASH FIC
I'd rather replace Val Day with something more Theodosian. I admit, anything I produce is likely to be more comedic than serious, but I think that's a given
If we don't want to use Valentine's Day exactly, my advice would be to go back to its roots. Saint Valentine is (was?) a Catholic saint said to have been martyred in Third Century Rome. The Medieval Catholic religion was all about revering not just God and Jesus, but Mary, Jesus' disciples, and all manner of saints and martyrs. The Thedas Andrastian religion is basically Fantasy Medieval Catholicism. I'm sure they've got a bunch of saints and martyrs they celebrate there.
One thing I noticed when I grazed Saint Valentine's info on wiki is that it was once a "feast day." We know Thedas has feast days. Perhaps we could make up the Thedas fantasy equivalent of Saint Valentine, and say that it is a feast day to celebrate him/her (as I'm sure they have feast and fast days to commemorate other Andrastian saints), where this one happens to emphasize love or lovers (because this saint is associated with it), the way other feast days emphasize other things.
Just my two cents.
Agree with Tish & Revassan! Although on that front I'm telling you guys, whatever I make will probably be silly to the max or angsty to the max. I am a Sith so I only deals with the absolute
Something funny can be nice, tired of crying that my favourite character is not compatible with happiness
Let's call it Thedosian Love Day?
Okay do they have saints in Thedas?
Feast of St. Valentine - Valentine Amatius, Tevinter priest who helped shepherd rebel lovers to escape the Evil Empire; he eventually traveled south and became a brother in the Orlesian Chantry.
EDIT: Okay I'm planning a (short) fic response to the Sera prompt and maybe a few more 100 word flash fics!
IS THIS CANON??? XD
Don't tell me, they are still bathing Timur right now...
Maayyybeee. When it comes to those two, anything is possible. And... the entire scene keeps writing itself in my head and adding details.
Eeexcellent! The "do what you want"s prevail! As always, honestly, do what makes you happy. The prompts and ideas are there to help. Just make it culleny.
I sort of wrote a story for my Sera prompt with Siri while driving to work this morning. We'll see if I get it finished up into a proper story! It was pretty hilarious, tho, hearing Siri read it back to me. "Cullen heads up the stairs, but that guy whose name I don't remember tries to stop him" LOL
Did we come up with anything for replacing Vday with something else? I poked around and there doesn't seem to be anything in canon. There are a couple of Thedosian holidays that celebrate marriage, but they didn't sound the same (more akin to May Day, etc). There are feastdays, but THE "feastday" is April Fool's Day.
For myself, I think I may just go with "Valentine's Day." Modern Vday isn't about the historical significant of St Valentine anyway, just as Thedas didn't culturally develop English or "Tuesday." So I'm going to squint... and co-opt curiousartemis's idea:
Okay do they have saints in Thedas?
Feast of St. Valentine - Valentine Amatius, Tevinter priest who helped shepherd rebel lovers to escape the Evil Empire; he eventually traveled south and became a brother in the Orlesian Chantry.
"Modern day Thedosians celebrate the Feast of St. Valentine often without knowing its deeper historical roots in Tevinter. While today it consists of ostentatious demonstrations of affection between lovers, the feast commemorates Valentine Amatius, a priest known to help slaves escape from Tevinter. His tireless efforts to end slavery were overshadowed by romanticized tales of shepherding rogue lovers from the strictures of Tevinter society. When he later escaped south himself and joined the Orlesian chantry, the bards of Val Royeaux immediately popularized his tale. Now he is considered the patron saint of lovers, and once a year, his feastday is recognized in Orlais, Ferelden, and parts of the Free Marches with the exchange of too-expensive gifts and chocolate. The more lavish celebrations wane, but the chocolate remains."
--Brother Genetivi, Holidays, Celebrations and Ritual Bloodlettings in Modern Thedas
"Modern day Thedosians celebrate the Feast of St. Valentine often without knowing its deeper historical roots in Tevinter. While today it consists of ostentatious demonstrations of affection between lovers, the feast commemorates Valentine Amatius, a priest known to help slaves escape from Tevinter. His tireless efforts to end slavery were overshadowed by romanticized tales of shepherding rogue lovers from the strictures of Tevinter society. When he later escaped south himself and joined the Orlesian chantry, the bards of Val Royeaux immediately popularized his tale. Now he is considered the patron saint of lovers, and once a year, his feastday is recognized in Orlais, Ferelden, and parts of the Free Marches with the exchange of too-expensive gifts and chocolate. The more lavish celebrations wane, but the chocolate remains."
--Brother Genetivi, Holidays, Celebrations and Ritual Bloodlettings in Modern Thedas
Yeah!!! Pure gold, excellent work, "Brother Genetivi" 
EDIT: Oh yeah and this:
It was pretty hilarious, tho, hearing Siri read it back to me. "Cullen heads up the stairs, but that guy whose name I don't remember tries to stop him"
Pffffffffffft
Okay do they have saints in Thedas?
Short answer: Probably not.
Long answer: In my defense, Andrastianism is Fantasy Medieval Christianity. The many spirits of Andraste's allies you encounter in the Temple seem like expies of Jesus' disciples, and the Chantry itself seems to have a real persecution complex (and they're quick to turn Andrastian humans who died for their beliefs into martyrs), so I imagine they could conceivably have the Thedas equivalent of saints... if a fanfiction writer so chose to write about a made up one... 
Feast of St. Valentine - Valentine Amatius, Tevinter priest who helped shepherd rebel lovers to escape the Evil Empire; he eventually traveled south and became a brother in the Orlesian Chantry.
EDIT: Okay I'm planning a (short) fic response to the Sera prompt and maybe a few more 100 word flash fics!
That sounds good, although you gotta slip that he had a lover in there somewhere!
I know little about the story of the actual (probably fictional, let's be honest) Saint Valentine. I heard a colloquial story that he was he got locked up by the Roman Empire (because they were persecuting Christians at the time, of course), then right before he was executed he sent a letter to a woman he was really close with (I can't remember if they were in love or engaged or just had feelings for each other from a distance) basically comforting her, reassuring her that God would reward his faithfulness with heaven, then signing the letter, "From your Valentine."
Because of this, this canonized saint that some medieval scholars wrote hagiography about (which is almost certainly not historically accurate; in fact, it's doubtful the guy ever existed), then became associated with courtly love. Which eventually became just regular romantic and sexual love, because people.
Anyway, throw in a reference to this Thedas Valentine having a lady love (perhaps one he sent a sweet letter right before getting the chop) and we're in business.
Eeexcellent! The "do what you want"s prevail! As always, honestly, do what makes you happy. The prompts and ideas are there to help. Just make it culleny.
I sort of wrote a story for my Sera prompt with Siri while driving to work this morning. We'll see if I get it finished up into a proper story! It was pretty hilarious, tho, hearing Siri read it back to me. "Cullen heads up the stairs, but that guy whose name I don't remember tries to stop him" LOL
Did we come up with anything for replacing Vday with something else? I poked around and there doesn't seem to be anything in canon. There are a couple of Thedosian holidays that celebrate marriage, but they didn't sound the same (more akin to May Day, etc). There are feastdays, but THE "feastday" is April Fool's Day.
For myself, I think I may just go with "Valentine's Day." Modern Vday isn't about the historical significant of St Valentine anyway, just as Thedas didn't culturally develop English or "Tuesday." So I'm going to squint... and co-opt curiousartemis's idea:
Yeah... that's the downside of Thedas being a shallow, surface-level fantasy counterpart to real medieval kingdoms, cultures, religions, and holidays. It's useful in some ways, but if you wanna dig deeper, you'll hit rock bottom in two inches.
In my digging since this morning, I realized that "feastday" is just an archaic word for "holiday." Granted, the Medieval Catholics had a million of them because they have a million disciples and saints and martyrs to celebrate (there's basically a saint for every day of the calendar), but, you know... some were more popular and had bigger celebrations than others. (You could definitely see where this one would appeal to the masses. 
)
"Modern day Thedosians celebrate the Feast of St. Valentine often without knowing its deeper historical roots in Tevinter. While today it consists of ostentatious demonstrations of affection between lovers, the feast commemorates Valentine Amatius, a priest known to help slaves escape from Tevinter. His tireless efforts to end slavery were overshadowed by romanticized tales of shepherding rogue lovers from the strictures of Tevinter society. When he later escaped south himself and joined the Orlesian chantry, the bards of Val Royeaux immediately popularized his tale. Now he is considered the patron saint of lovers, and once a year, his feastday is recognized in Orlais, Ferelden, and parts of the Free Marches with the exchange of too-expensive gifts and chocolate. The more lavish celebrations wane, but the chocolate remains."--Brother Genetivi, Holidays, Celebrations and Ritual Bloodlettings in Modern Thedas
I LOVE THIS!
In my fic, I'm totally gonna have Chantry clerics lament that this is supposed to be a serious holiday celebrating the religious devotion of a devout Andrastian who did good works for early, pre-Chantry Andrastians... yet to everyone else this holiday is just an excuse to throw feasts, festivals, and smooch a loved one.
*GASP* Maybe we could approach this Hunchback of Notre Dame style?
In the first movie, there was the Festival of Fools, obviously an expy of April Fool's, which the Feastday DLC of DAO is clearly meant to represent.
In the second movie (which honestly hurts my soul because of how bad it is x_x), there was the Love Festival, obviously an expy of Valentine's Day, which we can use for writing inspiration if we so choose.
--Brother Genetivi, Holidays, Celebrations and Ritual Bloodlettings in Modern Thedas
I have to say the title of this Genetivi work, including "ritual bloodlettings" made me giggle.
I have to say the title of this Genetivi work, including "ritual bloodlettings" made me giggle.
Hee hee. Good, since that was my aim.
And for, erm, inspiration! Lilyrutherford's at it again. Unf.
"Don’t interrupt him."
http://lilyrutherfor...im-01272016-kim
And for, erm, inspiration! Lilyrutherford's at it again. Unf.
"Don’t interrupt him."
Oh man that's super hot :V
Is there more to it? Or is it just his face? I think I am missing the "hotness" aspect But it is beautiful art *_*
Is there more to it? Or is it just his face? I think I am missing the "hotness" aspect
LOL I think it's the intensity. He's got the "goddmmit Jim!" look in his eye. Meow.
Am I the only one who felt bad for that messenger? (What's his name? Jim?) Cullen's constantly grilling his men to be prompt with his orders, then bites their heads off if they're a moment late. The messenger brings the report "directly to" Cullen like he ordered, then Cullen looks like he's about to bite his head off. (He only realized moments later that Cullen was... uh... busy.) Just can't win for losing. 
Am I the only one who felt bad for that messenger? (What's his name? Jim?) Cullen's constantly grilling his men to be prompt with his orders, then bites their heads off if they're a moment late. The messenger brings the report "directly to" Cullen like he ordered, then Cullen looks like he's about to bite his head off. (He only realized moments later that Cullen was... uh... busy.) Just can't win for losing.
Jim's the name fandom gave him and has stuck so thoroughly that devs use it sometimes. I feel for him, but only a little. He had to be pretty clueless to see that the Commander was there, but not see who he was with or their postures - even in the civilian world, what assistant interrupts his boss when he's with someone important without checking out the situation?? Speaking as ex-military, Jim ignored several rules and customs and got off fairly lightly - just a growl and a glare, after all. Recruits go through much worse than that several times in the first hour of training.
I mean - imagine Grant with Lee taking his surrender. "Sir! Here's that report on rations you wanted!"
...Not Cullen.
Now I'll just go crawl into bed and cry for the next century. Never cried so much while painting something. The day you guys encouraged me to start with drawing is a blessing and a curse at the same time.
Jim's the name fandom gave him and has stuck so thoroughly that devs use it sometimes. I feel for him, but only a little. He had to be pretty clueless to see that the Commander was there, but not see who he was with or their postures - even in the civilian world, what assistant interrupts his boss when he's with someone important without checking out the situation?? Speaking as ex-military, Jim ignored several rules and customs and got off fairly lightly - just a growl and a glare, after all. Recruits go through much worse than that several times in the first hour of training.
I mean - imagine Grant with Lee taking his surrender. "Sir! Here's that report on rations you wanted!"
LOL Agree. I have no sympathy for Jim. Esp given that Cullen's has had to take him to task before. Dude needs to learn how to do his job. Of course this is all said from a place of deep affection for Jim. But interrupting Take 1 of that kiss is unforgiveable. 
...Not Cullen.
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Now I'll just go crawl into bed and cry for the next century. Never cried so much while painting something. The day you guys encouraged me to start with drawing is a blessing and a curse at the same time.
...well it's a blessing for us! 
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