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it-holic @it-holic.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

demonology incubus nsfw mc/Flea

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it-holic @it-holic.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

也在这边放一点rotr相关

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David Gaider @davidgaider.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

A bit of cut content from DAO that, back in the day, I just couldn't put down until I got it out of my head and made it real. Thankfully, the delightful and talented @aimoahmed.bsky.social was more than happy to collaborate on it. So much fun to do this! My first foray into comic script writing.

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Trick Weekes @trickweekes.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Three character writing notes for Dragon Age Day: 1) Taash never uses commas. (In dialogue or in codex entries that they've written, unless quoting someone else.) 2) In Veilguard, Solas never gives direct orders. (Barring maybe "think" or "remember".) 3) Elgar'nan never asks questions.

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Trick Weekes @trickweekes.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Wishing everyone who plays our games a happy Dragon Age Day! It has been my honor to finish the Dread Wolf's story, my privilege to be part of such an incredible team, and my joy to meet so many wonderful fans.

Screenshot of Solas from Dragon Age: Inquisition drinking tea and making a face. In the corner, a screenshot of a social media post, someone saying, "Man, corporeal existence is such a con. 'Have a body,' they said. 'It'll be great,' they said. NO"

Meme pic of man pointing to heavens, except Varric Tethras is cut-pasted in. Text says, "If nobody got me, I know Varric Tethras got me. Can i get an AMEN?"

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David Gaider @davidgaider.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

CHARACTERS - Day Nine: Cassandra This is the last of the (major) characters I wrote during my time on Dragon Age. I could go into others, and considered moving onto Stray Gods... but I feel like fewer would be interested, and I honestly can't keep up the pace. So let's make this the last, for now.

A head and shoulders shot of Cassandra, in heavy armor, as she first appeared in DA2. I almost forgot she looked like this back then.

Head and shoulders shot of Cassandra, as she appeared in Dragon Age Inquisition. The character artists did such an amazing job translating her into the new engine.

A still from a DAI cutscene which includes Cassandra and the now-infamous "[DISGUSTED NOISE]" subtitle. Honestly, I just had in my head a sort of... short, derisive snort? But I didn't want to SAY "snort" in the subtitles because the LAST time I did that the voice actor literally snorted. As in snorted like a pig! Miranda read this line the first time and started laughing, she didn't know what to make of it, and laughed more when I tried to describe it. The result is now infamous.

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Caitie @ghildirthalen.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Second- a little squiggle is added on double letters, rather than using two of the same letter. Shown below, we have used the capital letters to express this. So to be 'correct', you would write 'piZa' rather than 'pizza'!

A demo on how to correctly use the font. Double letters should be the only thing capitalized.

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Trick Weekes @trickweekes.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

The fact that the tags for the Grey Warden contacts in Veilguard are always "Antoine and Evka" is so funny, because Antoine would be the first, second, and fourth person to insist that it should be "Evka and Antoine."

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it-holic @it-holic.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

love almost every charater written by David Gaider

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David Gaider @davidgaider.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

CHARACTERS - DAY FOUR: Alistair Ah, Alistair. Depending on who you ask, he's the adorable woobie with the biggest heart or the irritating, over-used man-child. Yes, he is indeed all of those things. Good characters have flaws to go with their virtues. Ugly spots. That is literally their humanity.

Original flavour Alistair, in DAO. Always with the eyebrow.

I actually really appreciate the artists took the time to give Alistair a unique appearance in DAI. Probably my favourite version of him.

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David Gaider @davidgaider.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

CHARACTERS - DAY THREE: Flemeth I have a type. I admit it. There are certain wells I can return to repeatedly and always find something new to explore. One of them is older female characters. Mike used to rib me about it. Consider Wynne. Meredith. Genevieve. And, of course, the biggie: Flemeth.

Ahhh the original version of Flemeth's appearance, after we'd cut her unique model. I almost forgot that this is what it looked like. Bah, it's fine. Shapeshifter, right? We'll ignore that shapeshifters don't change into other human appearances - Flemeth is special.

I remember when the artists brought me the concept for DA2's revamp of Flemeth. I was in love immediately. Hair horns? God yes. I'll do whatever I need to in order to explain this, thank you.

Look at that outfit. LOOK AT IT. This is where Morrigan gets it from, clearly. "Watch me serve, daughter, but know you will never do it QUITE as well!"

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David Gaider @davidgaider.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

CHARACTERS - DAY TWO: Kieran (Technically this is an addendum to yesterday, but I make the rules here so nyah!) Heading into DAI, I had a bite-sized problem on my hands. I knew Morrigan would feature. I also knew we were importing previous choices. So now I had to contend with: the Old God Baby. 🧵

Ah, Kieran. So dapper! I had a moment of "but what if the Warden wasn't, you know..." because he's SO white, but the artists just went "shhhh shhhh it's maaaagic" and I had to admit they were correct. This whole sequence had already stretched the limits of our resources and then some.

The Old God soul is transferred! Only appears in one of the three versions, but such a magical moment.

Ah, yes, the (awkwardly animated) Dark Ritual scene. Why didn't we just fade to black? Or move the camera to look at the fireplace or something? I'll never know.

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David Gaider @davidgaider.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

CHARACTERS - DAY ONE: Morrigan Morrigan began, waaaay back, as a bit of Morgan le Fey (hence the Dark Ritual) mixed with Delirium from Sandman. The Delirium elements subsided into more of a weird cadence of speech as my idea of Morrigan solidified - more cynical, wanting to connect but unable to. 🧵

Morrigan's original appearance in DAO. I can't help but look back on this and balk at the old graphics, but at the time I was *enamoured*.

The DAI version of Morrigan - so awesome.

I remember pleading with the artists: "If we put her in the Orlais plot, can we give her a dress?! PLEASE PLEASE" It almost didn't happen.

Some of the first art we put out for Morrigan. I remember seeing this and asking "why does she look so YOUNG?" - that's when I learned how parts of the team thought she was, like, 18. The idea persisted for some time.

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it-holic @it-holic.bsky.social · 17/10/2024

#dragonage post some of my art here, they will always be my favorite gang

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