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[R2s Muse]

omg. dying. just dying. 

 

Feylen just created regency AU Cullen for a fanfic. 

 

 

http://feylen.tumblr...nd-in-the-rough

 

and the story: 

Diamond in the Rough

[CuriousArtemis]

I got the mod already >_> and the posts on it say it works in Trespasser too (which I don't have yet). Any pronoun is fine, I'm female, but identify in a kind of wonky way, I consider myself trans, I'd rather go as agender I guess, though I feel more masculine-identified. I'm just me, heh. English really needs gender neutral pronouns other than they/them. Yeah, anyway XD

 

Dang, that is one pretty elf! I thought mine were were nice, but you've got that traditional, almost ethereal beauty going on with him.

 

The one I posted in my first post just looks like he'd mesh better with Cullen than these guys, though I think the warrior might make a second choice. Imagine breaking up with Dorian and then chasing Cullen. I don't think my elf could deal with that kind of drama in his life in addition to trying to stop the world from ending lol

 

Hello fellow agender person The way I feel about pronouns... "she" feels the least wrong. There is still an uncomfortable disconnect, but it's one I've been living with all my life. Nothing feels right or comfortable, unfortunately. But I see it as a first world problem

 

Oh and thank you   The original idea for Auren was that he look slightly wild, as if this were a man you could never, ever fully domesticate. There's a part of him that would always live in the forest. The long hair sort of goes with that (thank you, modders). Another great skin texture mod also really helps. Now, trust me, i can supply some screenshots where he doesn't look that great lol The lighting in this game, I swear...

 

I love that first guy you posted! Forgot to say so. I think he'd look great next to Cullen.

 

omg. dying. just dying. 

 

Feylen just created regency AU Cullen for a fanfic. 

 

 

http://feylen.tumblr...nd-in-the-rough

 

and the story: 

Diamond in the Rough

 

Beautiful artwork, I guess by "regency AU" she means... "similar" to regency England? Or is it that Thedas is going through a regency? Regardless I don't recognize that uniform, but I'm hardly a fashion history expert

[Cerulione]

I'm with you, Ceru; these crazy people above me can talk about "reality" and "that's not how it really works" all they want *huff* but we both know it's all about that OTP, that One True Pairing...

 

It's why I get stuck in a rut and find it difficult to play my games with different characters who go for different people. I have to not recruit Fenris in order to not romance him. And I've never been successful in not romancing Kaidan in ME series. It's like, in my heart of hearts, Shepard and Kaidan just go together. I even tried to play F!Shepard to romance Liara and I couldn't get past the first mission in ME1. It's not like I don't care for that pairing or didn't want to play a female Shepard; I did. It just... IT WAS WRONG I tell ya lol (Somehow I was able to think of male Hawke and female Hawke as very different people though, which is why I was able to have a couple runs with female Hawke x Isabela, but then again, I love DA2 and played it probably 20+ times...)

 

And I definitely could never do those "sleep with one character and run to another" playthroughs. Nuh-uh, my characters are always true to their loves and their loves are true to them. Even with Solas, which sort of "forces" you to break up, I prefer to see it (for my own playthrough) as Solas still being deeply in love with my Lavellan and in return my Lavellan never stops loving Solas. 

 

I guess I'm not looking for painful reality in my gaming experience. I just... I want things to work out for my character lol Real life is hard enough. My baby-on-the-screen shouldn't have to suffer, too!

 

Actually is this definition just enveloping romantic pairing, or can it be non-romantic pairing?

 

Because TBH, in my canon headcannon my two Lavellan girls together are my true OTP. Not romantic (GOSH) they're brought up as sisters (as close as sister as possible... With one of them being an ancient elf ex-nameless-one & the other one a what appear to be Your Standard Dalish Mage TM but with pixie blood mixed in her...). Each of them have different LIs but then when Solas do BOOM with the world both of them just left together leaving the other LI without even saying goodbye... to stay together & resolve the matter.

 

For me their relationships is much stronger & more important than their respective LI. So like... OTP? Not romantic one but they know who their priorities are. Is that OTP? Or is OTP only for romantic pairings?

[CuriousArtemis]

For me their relationships is much stronger & more important than their respective LI. So like... OTP? Not romantic one but they know who their priorities are. Is that OTP? Or is OTP only for romantic pairings?

 

lol Well I suppose it can mean whatever you want it to mean! But perhaps you mean more of a BrOTP.

[R2s Muse]

 

Dang, that is one pretty elf! I thought mine were were nice, but you've got that traditional, almost ethereal beauty going on with him.

 

My Dorian boys:

Spoiler

 

Warrior.

Holy cow. Your warrior is smokin. He looks kind of like Ameridan!!  

[R2s Muse]

 

Beautiful artwork, I guess by "regency AU" she means... "similar" to regency England? Or is it that Thedas is going through a regency? Regardless I don't recognize that uniform, but I'm hardly a fashion history expert

Presumably bodice-ripping regency era romance, Thedas-style, since his outfit seems to be inspired by his DA:I one with the gold flower stitching from the templar skirts. But I haven't read it, so...

[CuriousArtemis]

Presumably bodice-ripping regency era romance, Thedas-style, since his outfit seems to be inspired by his DA:I one with the gold flower stitching from the templar skirts. But I haven't read it, so...

 

*cough* But they didn't really wear bodices in regency England, at least not the corseted type. Sorry, Austen scholar here... I'll shut up now... it's that whole "Jane Austen wrote romance novels!" thing... no, no she didn't. GRRRRRRRRRRRR.

[Danny Boy 7]

omg! Not Cullen. Not even a templar, but seekers are often templars and... :stretches connections between the dots:

 

but OMG! 

 

Dawn of the Seeker Cassandra!

 

 

http://enigmaticagen...a-huge-weakness

*Heart Eyes*

 

How you doin

[CuriousArtemis]

*cough* But they didn't really wear bodices in regency England, at least not the corseted type. Sorry, Austen scholar here... I'll shut up now... it's that whole "Jane Austen wrote romance novels!" thing... no, no she didn't. GRRRRRRRRRRRR.

 

Did some Google image searching, and, in fairness, what they wore was definitely rippable lol

[d4eaming]

Hello fellow agender person The way I feel about pronouns... "she" feels the least wrong. There is still an uncomfortable disconnect, but it's one I've been living with all my life. Nothing feels right or comfortable, unfortunately. But I see it as a first world problem

 

Oh and thank you   The original idea for Auren was that he look slightly wild, as if this were a man you could never, ever fully domesticate. There's a part of him that would always live in the forest. The long hair sort of goes with that (thank you, modders). Another great skin texture mod also really helps. Now, trust me, i can supply some screenshots where he doesn't look that great lol The lighting in this game, I swear...

 

I love that first guy you posted! Forgot to say so. I think he'd look great next to Cullen.

 

For me, she/female/woman feels most wrong XD I have NEVER been able to identify with it, though for simplicity sake, I just live with it. I internally cringe, but I've learned to deal with it, very few people IRL know (I told my mom, it was awkward, and now We Will Never Speak of this Again ™).

 

And yes about the hair! My archer technically has quite long hair (on the crown of his head, the sides are shaved) and then he has it done up in a neat, tidy braid that just fits him so incredibly well. I imagine at Skyhold, he lets his hair down and keeps it pulled over his shoulder so it falls down the front of his torso, but when it's time to adventure and fight, he puts it up to keep it out of the way. I think it goes down to his hip, judging by how intricate and large the braid is.

 

My new mage, Mathai, the first one I posted, has a shaggy, unkempt mohawk of sorts. He says he doesn't like it shaved too short, but that his ears are his best feature and he hates his hair falling over them because it's ticklish and annoying, so it was a compromise to have it longer on top but clean on the sides. (I have my hair that way too, so clearly that's some creator projection going on.) The stock DAI hairs are really lacking in personality. One of the mods I got for Cullen is a kind of ruffled, slightly messy hair, the creator suggested it's because he's stressed and runs his fingers through his hair a lot, giving it a less orderly look, which I can totally see working for him. I can picture Cullen at his desk, elbow resting on the top, with his fingers in his hair as he leans against his palm, fighting back a headache as he looks through his rosters and how many green recruits he needs to get up to fighting standard. If only you could offer him a backrub....

 

Holy cow. Your warrior is smokin. He looks kind of like Ameridan!!

 

Thank you. I wanted a more gruff, slightly older warrior elf who's clearly seen battle and got himself knocked around a few times. Plus, I'd tried so many times to get white hair to work without the character just looking completely wrong, and it took forever, but I finally got it. I imagine him as being so deadpan, too, he's got kind of a super-serious look about him, that no one can figure out if he's actually joking. He's probably at the top of my list of favorite characters I've made for DA as a whole. I'm thinking about getting shots of the sliders for my characters and uploading them to the Nexus, since it's so full of female characters XD ahem sorry, that was really off topic.

[Cerulione]

lol Well I suppose it can mean whatever you want it to mean! But perhaps you mean more of a BrOTP.

 

SisOTP probably. But nah no, that concept of BrOTP itself just feels... Well if life thing comes, they'll go with respective OTP and bye bro. THat's the other way round with my girls... 

 

...I'll stop thinking and crying about that and cry about my icon instead.

[R2s Muse]

 

Thank you. I wanted a more gruff, slightly older warrior elf who's clearly seen battle and got himself knocked around a few times. Plus, I'd tried so many times to get white hair to work without the character just looking completely wrong, and it took forever, but I finally got it. I imagine him as being so deadpan, too, he's got kind of a super-serious look about him, that no one can figure out if he's actually joking. He's probably at the top of my list of favorite characters I've made for DA as a whole. I'm thinking about getting shots of the sliders for my characters and uploading them to the Nexus, since it's so full of female characters XD ahem sorry, that was really off topic.

I tend to find it impossible to create good looking dudes, particularly good looking elf dudes, in chargen. So moar is moar!

[R2s Muse]

*cough* But they didn't really wear bodices in regency England, at least not the corseted type. Sorry, Austen scholar here... I'll shut up now... it's that whole "Jane Austen wrote romance novels!" thing... no, no she didn't. GRRRRRRRRRRRR.

Did some Google image searching, and, in fairness, what they wore was definitely rippable lol

LOL Down, girl. I don't believe anyone invoked the name of Austen. The regency romance is a romance novel genre, like Georgette Heyer. Which I suppose technically involves no ripping of any kind since she tends to write to write them slow burn and exceedingly polite. Think of it as a trope, not a historical novel.

[Cerulione]

Sigh... seriously though, "historical accuracy" remarks as such sometimes feels just like...

I lurked often on Feylen's streaming and she tries very very very hard with her artworks so please be gentle with this point esp with her :3

I think it is easier for everyone else to say things on the result than for her to actually draw it, to get the idea and for actually work on it and put it on paper.

If we are to draw only the historically accurate, codpieces should be drawn and no, sod it :3

[d4eaming]

Sigh... seriously though, "historical accuracy" remarks as such sometimes feels just like...

I lurked often on Feylen's streaming and she tries very very very hard with her artworks so please be gentle with this point esp with her :3

I think it is easier for everyone else to say things on the result than for her to actually draw it, to get the idea and for actually work on it and put it on paper.

If we are to draw only the historically accurate, codpieces should be drawn and no, sod it :3

 

And some of those cod pieces were very... interesting hahaha. I'm trying to imagine Cullen, and no, I just can't see him going for that, as hilarious as it'd be.

[Fadburger]

Sigh... seriously though, "historical accuracy" remarks as such sometimes feels just like...

I lurked often on Feylen's streaming and she tries very very very hard with her artworks so please be gentle with this point esp with her :3

I think it is easier for everyone else to say things on the result than for her to actually draw it, to get the idea and for actually work on it and put it on paper.

If we are to draw only the historically accurate, codpieces should be drawn and no, sod it :3

 

LOL now I actually want to have her do a codpiece on mine...not that I would bring up why though because she is very sweet indeed. I pounced on the last $10 spot so I have like a week and a half to thing of what I want and so far it's "nude Alistair with cheese"...I want to try and choose something a little more unique xD;;;

[Fadburger]

Thank you. I wanted a more gruff, slightly older warrior elf who's clearly seen battle and got himself knocked around a few times. Plus, I'd tried so many times to get white hair to work without the character just looking completely wrong, and it took forever, but I finally got it. I imagine him as being so deadpan, too, he's got kind of a super-serious look about him, that no one can figure out if he's actually joking. He's probably at the top of my list of favorite characters I've made for DA as a whole. I'm thinking about getting shots of the sliders for my characters and uploading them to the Nexus, since it's so full of female characters XD ahem sorry, that was really off topic.

 

That's a great idea to upload the sliders to the Nexus...I should do that with my male characters too...although I usually play as a female (my "canon" is my female Cullenmancing Trevelyan) I recently have played as a couple guys. My user icon is my male human (who I am quite proud of, he's hot lol) and I also made a male Lavellan as a dare from a friend who doesn't like DA and thinks all the elves are ugly to make a hot elf for her who I am proud of xD 

 

https://www.instagra.../p/BBmpDlOk802/ <--instagram pic of my male Lavellan

[CuriousArtemis]

LOL Down, girl. I don't believe anyone invoked the name of Austen. The regency romance is a romance novel genre, like Georgette Heyer. Which I suppose technically involves no ripping of any kind since she tends to write to write them slow burn and exceedingly polite. Think of it as a trope, not a historical novel.

 

Okay, okay, however, I would just like to state for the record that there were no codpieces in Regency England, so, harrrrumph!!!

 

Oh, I see! I was not aware of that sub-genre. Why is it called "regency" romance? Does it actually have anything to do with the Regency time period? How curious.

 

Ceru, I was not criticizing the artist, in fact I said it was a very nice drawing. I was clearly confused about the use of the word "regency" though. And no, no fan should be criticized for how they express their love of fandom stuff But hey you know how Tish explodes when people start talking nonsense about slavery, well apparently that's me and Regency England

[CuriousArtemis]

That's a great idea to upload the sliders to the Nexus...I should do that with my male characters too...although I usually play as a female (my "canon" is my female Cullenmancing Trevelyan) I recently have played as a couple guys. My user icon is my male human (who I am quite proud of, he's hot lol) and I also made a male Lavellan as a dare from a friend who doesn't like DA and thinks all the elves are ugly to make a hot elf for her who I am proud of xD 

 

https://www.instagra.../p/BBmpDlOk802/ <--instagram pic of my male Lavellan

 

That's a very cute elf And your male human is gorgeous!!

 

Sliders are actually very helpful... most of my elves are based on a screenshot of a male elf in CC that John Epler tweeted way back when. I finally did take screenshots of all the sliders for one of them so that I can easily replicate the face shape I prefer. I do remember cruising the Nexus looking for good sliders, but all the cute elves didn't come with sliders, and all the ones who did have sliders weren't to my taste. Of course every time you come across a truly beautiful one the creator makes a point of saying she won't provide sliders because she doesn't want you copying her character  Sometimes I just think people need to step outside, breathe the beautiful spring air, and remember that there are more important things than video games lol

[R2s Muse]

Okay, okay, however, I would just like to state for the record that there were no codpieces in Regency England, so, harrrrumph!!!
 
Oh, I see! I was not aware of that sub-genre. Why is it called "regency" romance? Does it actually have anything to do with the Regency time period? How curious.
 
Ceru, I was not criticizing the artist, in fact I said it was a very nice drawing. I was clearly confused about the use of the word "regency" though. And no, no fan should be criticized for how they express their love of fandom stuff But hey you know how Tish explodes when people start talking nonsense about slavery, well apparently that's me and Regency England

LOL To be honest, I have no idea why they're called Regency romances, except that I thought they were set during the regency period in England. I've read probably Georgette Heyer's whole romance oevre more than once, but her novels are the sum total of what I know from that period (which is mostly the social niceties with the occasional Jacobite thrown in). Reading about her on the wiki, tho, I've learned something new! Apparently she established the subgenre. waddya know!

Georgette Heyer (16 August 1902 – 4 July 1974) was an English historical romance and detective fiction novelist. Heyer essentially established the historical romance genre and its subgenre Regency romance. Her Regencies were inspired by Jane Austen, but unlike Austen, who wrote about and for the times in which she lived, Heyer was forced to include copious information about the period so that her readers would understand the setting. To ensure accuracy, Heyer collected reference works and kept detailed notes on all aspects of Regency life. While some critics thought the novels were too detailed, others considered the level of detail to be Heyer's greatest asset. Her meticulous nature was also evident in her historical novels; Heyer even recreated William the Conqueror's crossing into England for her novel The Conqueror.

Regency romances are a subgenre of romance novels set during the period of the British Regency (1811–1820) or early 19th century. Rather than simply being versions of contemporary romance stories transported to a historical setting, Regency romances are a distinct genre with their own plot and stylistic conventions. These derive not so much from the 19th-century contemporary works of Jane Austen, but rather from Georgette Heyer, who wrote over two dozen novels set in the Regency starting in 1935 until her death in 1974, and from the fiction genre known as the novel of manners. In particular, the more traditional Regencies feature a great deal of intelligent, fast-paced dialog between the protagonists and very little explicit sex or discussion of sex.

 

And I will say, I adore these books. My mom collected them and I keep moving the box of them from place to place in my house, still packed, since my husband doesn't really want them out anywhere. :/ 

[R2s Muse]

That's a great idea to upload the sliders to the Nexus...I should do that with my male characters too...although I usually play as a female (my "canon" is my female Cullenmancing Trevelyan) I recently have played as a couple guys. My user icon is my male human (who I am quite proud of, he's hot lol) and I also made a male Lavellan as a dare from a friend who doesn't like DA and thinks all the elves are ugly to make a hot elf for her who I am proud of xD 

 

https://www.instagra.../p/BBmpDlOk802/ <--instagram pic of my male Lavellan

Ah, and now you've saved me the trouble of asking about your avatar!  

[CuriousArtemis]

Well I was right about the time period, at least. However they throw in something like William the Conqueror, and um, hello, that's the year 1066, so I tend to feel as if whoever wrote this has literally no idea what they're talking about lol Though good for Heyer for doing research for her novels. Though again, seems there is an unfair and populist association of Jane Austen's fiction with romance novels, which still really gets my goat. Sure, she wrote in the novel of manners genre (among other things), but that doesn't mean "novels about holding your pinky finger up when drinking your tea" but more about the social mores of the time and how that was oppressive to people like women.

 

And I will say, I adore these books. My mom collected them and I keep moving the box of them from place to place in my house, still packed, since my husband doesn't really want them out anywhere. :/ 

 

That is sort of like me with my manga, all of which are BL, and keep in mind I think I only have about 5 or 6? Plus Alex Woolfson's Artifice. Like you, I want to proudly display them because damn it I only buy good sh!t (and you have to really shop/read around to find GOOD BL manga and comics), but yet when people come over to my house, especially my parents... and someone picks one of them up...  Them: What's this? Oh you read comics? Me: *sweats nervously* Them: *begins flipping idly through it* Me: *SWEATS NERVOUSLY*

[R2s Muse]

Well I was right about the time period, at least. However they throw in something like William the Conqueror, and um, hello, that's the year 1066, so I tend to feel as if whoever wrote this has literally no idea what they're talking about lol Though good for Heyer for doing research for her novels. Though again, seems there is an unfair and populist association of Jane Austen's fiction with romance novels, which still really gets my goat. Sure, she wrote in the novel of manners genre (among other things), but that doesn't mean "novels about holding your pinky finger up when drinking your tea" but more about the social mores of the time and how that was oppressive to people like women.

 

 

That is sort of like me with my manga, all of which are BL, and keep in mind I think I only have about 5 or 6? Plus Alex Woolfson's Artifice. Like you, I want to proudly display them because damn it I only buy good sh!t (and you have to really shop/read around to find GOOD BL manga and comics), but yet when people come over to my house, especially my parents... and someone picks one of them up...  Them: What's this? Oh you read comics? Me: *sweats nervously* Them: *begins flipping idly through it* Me: *SWEATS NERVOUSLY*

LOL The William the Conqueror book isn't one of the regency romance novels. It's apparently one of her historical novels, which I haven't read. 

 

But yeah, we've transitioned to digital books and ditched most of our hardcopies. And el husbando has an aesthetic issue with my grubby paperbacks. pfft. So now we have bookshelves with doors. :painful eyeroll: yup. LOL 

[Tishina]

LOL To be honest, I have no idea why they're called Regency romances, except that I thought they were set during the regency period in England. I've read probably Georgette Heyer's whole romance oevre more than once, but her novels are the sum total of what I know from that period (which is mostly the social niceties with the occasional Jacobite thrown in). Reading about her on the wiki, tho, I've learned something new! Apparently she established the subgenre. waddya know!

Georgette Heyer (16 August 1902 – 4 July 1974) was an English historical romance and detective fiction novelist. Heyer essentially established the historical romance genre and its subgenre Regency romance. Her Regencies were inspired by Jane Austen, but unlike Austen, who wrote about and for the times in which she lived, Heyer was forced to include copious information about the period so that her readers would understand the setting. To ensure accuracy, Heyer collected reference works and kept detailed notes on all aspects of Regency life. While some critics thought the novels were too detailed, others considered the level of detail to be Heyer's greatest asset. Her meticulous nature was also evident in her historical novels; Heyer even recreated William the Conqueror's crossing into England for her novel The Conqueror.

Regency romances are a subgenre of romance novels set during the period of the British Regency (1811–1820) or early 19th century. Rather than simply being versions of contemporary romance stories transported to a historical setting, Regency romances are a distinct genre with their own plot and stylistic conventions. These derive not so much from the 19th-century contemporary works of Jane Austen, but rather from Georgette Heyer, who wrote over two dozen novels set in the Regency starting in 1935 until her death in 1974, and from the fiction genre known as the novel of manners. In particular, the more traditional Regencies feature a great deal of intelligent, fast-paced dialog between the protagonists and very little explicit sex or discussion of sex.

 

And I will say, I adore these books. My mom collected them and I keep moving the box of them from place to place in my house, still packed, since my husband doesn't really want them out anywhere. :/ 

Oddly enough, I may have actually read a few of her books. Not really to my own taste, if I recall. Back in the days when I'd read anything, almost Not that I don't enjoy romances, just I can be a bit picky about the themes nowadays...

[CuriousArtemis]

LOL The William the Conqueror book isn't one of the regency romance novels. It's apparently one of her historical novels, which I haven't read. 

 

But yeah, we've transitioned to digital books and ditched most of our hardcopies. And el husbando has an aesthetic issue with my grubby paperbacks. pfft. So now we have bookshelves with doors. :painful eyeroll: yup. LOL 

 

(Oh I see)

 

Oh, ouch!! Bookshelves with doors You know I had three boxes full of fantasy/sci-fi paperbacks (printer paper boxes / xerox boxes) and... I donated them to the library. Because they were ugly battered paperbacks. I was about 22. Do you know how often I regret that? So many amazing stories I can never read again because many of them are out of print. Basically every fantasy book I read as a teen. Including the Tanya Huff book we were talking about earlier. I get depressed when I think about it.