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A vow and a token of affection

My gift for @factorykat with her Hawke, Wyatt. This was for the HAnders Gift Exchange of this year ( @handers-time ). Hope you like it! ❤️

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#so proud of what everyone's produced for the handers exchange so far! well done all! #m!handers #dragon age 2 #handers #lovely fanart #handers exchange 2024 #hawke x anders

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Gift for @gevascloset for the Handers Exchange 2024 from PorlPoint / @goth-surana!

Healing the Healer

Pairings: Anders/Male Hawke

Tags: Hurt/Comfort, Whump (mild), Love Confessions

Summary: Anders is seriously injured and out of mana, with only Hawke there to heal him before it's too late.

Read on Ao3

#so proud of what everyone's produced for the handers exchange so far! well done all! #anyway #to read #m!handers #hawke x anders #handers exchange 2024 #handers #dragon age #dragon age 2 fanfic

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Finally finished my piece for the Handers Gift Exchange!

This is my gift for @kittyoperas!

I'd never say no to a good ol' vampire!AU... especially if it's Anders the one who's self control is hanging by a thread ╮⁠(⁠.⁠ ⁠❛⁠ ⁠ᴗ⁠ ⁠❛⁠.⁠)⁠╭

I had a lot of fun drawing these two sillies in love—

I hope you like it! ✨

@handers-time

#oh WOW #this is so good! #i love it #so proud of what everyone's produced for the Handers Exchange so far! well done all! #m!handers #dragon age 2 #lovely fanart #handers #hawke x anders #handers exchange 2024 #vampire!AU

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My gift to @transandersrights as part of the @handers-time 2024 Handers Gift Exchange <3

Summary: Anders reaches his 50th Name Day. He never expected to make it past 30, let alone have his happy ending.

Words: 3,415

Rated: M

Pairing: Anders x m!Hawke

Tagged: Canon Universe, Canon-Typical Violence, Established Relationship, POV Anders, Mage Hawke, Red Hawke, Past Anders/Karl Thekla, Hurt/Comfort, Trauma, Domestic Fluff, Happy Ending, Scars

Excerpt:

“I’m fifty,” Anders groaned. Hawke looked older. He was older. He carried it in his eyes, hardened by worry and trauma and exhaustion. Hawke was no longer the carefree, flippant man he had met in Kirkwall. Wisps of white hair flecked his temples. His beard. Anders thought it made him look distinguished, his ink-black hair now streaked with salt and pepper. 

Read more on AO3.

#handers exchange 2024 #m!handers #hawke x anders #handers #to read #dragon age 2 fanfic #so proud of what everyone's produced for the handers exchange so far! well done all!

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Pride's End

#merrill #dragon age 2 #tw: blood #lovely fanart #oooh i like this #love it #so good

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“phones are disrupting natural sleep cycles” I mean true but also bold of you to assume I had one before the tech boom lol catch me out here reading chapter books by the light of my light up pens in the third grade

#LOL #same #sleep #insomnia #as a lifelong insomniac i know this feel

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Hawke in his bedroom: door open, sounds of grunting and exertion

Carver, coming down the hall: "please, PLEASE don't be what it sounds like—"

Hawke in his bedroom: lifting weights to get ripped

Carver: "oh thank the fucking maker"

#LMAO #actually made me laugh out loud. carver’s relief LMAO #hawke #carver hawke #dragon age 2 #m!hawke

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kitty needs some sunshine

#anders #handers #dragon age 2 #lovely fanart #hawke x anders #m!handers

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#hawke #dragon age 2 #marian hawke #f!hawke #lovely fanart

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you can make Anders a blood mage in awakening then in da2 like 30% of his personality is hating blood magic

you can make Hawke a blood mage in da2 then in inquisition like 70% of their personality is hating blood magic

Merrill, on the other hand, is a blood mage no matter what and never expresses any animosity towards the practice, leading me to conclude this is a skill issue on Hawke and Anders' parts. they're just mad they'll never be as good at it as her

#as much as i love anders and mage hawke this is such a crazy retcon on bioware's part #of course i love merrill too but that goes without saying LMAO #anyway #this #absolutely this #merrill #blood magic #dragon age 2 #headcanon accepted #headcanons #meta

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aren't you a bit old to be thirst posting like this tho?? 🤧

catch me thirst posting on my deathbed the grind never stops

#LOL #amazing #thirstposting

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Good job, Hawke! We sure have seen the last of Corypheus now!

There is only a little Corypheus over at Patreon and society6. Barely noticeable. Don't worry about it.

#LOL #dragon age 2 #hawke #corypheus #cartoon #comic strip #comic #f!hawke #marian hawke #lovely fanart

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some guys i adore ( ˘͈ ᵕ ˘͈♡)

#dragon age 2 #lovely fanart #marian hawke #carver hawke #warden!carver #fenris #isabela #merrill #varric tethras #tw: blood

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"READ MY DNI" no. use your block button like an adult. i'm not scrolling through the many-paragraphs-long pinned posts of every blog i reblog something from. if you insist certain types of people aren't welcome in the notes of your posts then it's your responsibility to curate that. or choose a closed social media platform like facebook or instagram. or go and live in a barn away from humanity if you really don't like sharing the world with people who are different from you

#can i just add that having a DNI list literally does not stop unwanted people from interacting with you and is therefore useless #also what is it with these people then seeking out and interacting with people they've listed on their own DNI lists LMAO #doesn't that also defeat the point #anyway #tagging this as #DNI #do not interact

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MARIA ALEKSEEVA Dress if you want to support this blog consider donating to:ko-fi.com/fashionrunways

#OMG YESSSSSSS #she would look so pretty in this #thanks so much my friend! #vonuberwald #clothes #dresses #thanks for tagging me!

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«i never knew why the spirit kept me alive, when I should have died all those years ago. now i do.»

dragon age numbers meme (x) three deaths: 1/3 - wynne’s death in asunder

#dragon age #asunder #wynne

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About the AO3 "No Guest Comments for a while" warning

If you're not following any of AO3's social media accounts you might be in the dark as to what kind of "spam comments" have engendered this banner at the top of the site:

These spam comments have been posted about a great deal on the AO3 subreddit for the past couple of days. Initially they comprised a bunch of guest (logged out users) bot comments that insulted authors by suggesting they were using AI and not writing their own fics. Some examples, from the subreddit:

But it then escalated to outright graphic porn images and gifs being posted in comments, again by logged out 'Guest' accounts. Obviously, I'm not going to give examples of those, but between these two bot infestations, AO3 has clearly decided to act and has temporarily closed the ability to post comments for users who are not logged in with an AO3 account.

Unfortunately, this means that genuine readers who don't have an AO3 account won't be able to leave comments on fics that they enjoy.

If you are a genuine reader who doesn't yet have an AO3 account, I strongly suggest getting yourself on the waiting list for one. More and more AO3 authors are now locking their fics down to registered users only - either due to these bot comments or concerns about AI scraping their work - which means you're probably missing out on a lot of great stuff.

Hopefully guest commenting will be enabled again at some point soon, but I suggest not waiting until then. Get yourself on that list.

Wait times are going to be longer than usual at the moment, due to the current Wattpad purge [info on Fanlore | Wattpad subreddit thread], but if you're in line, then your invite will come through eventually.

Update: There's now a Megathread about this on the AO3 subreddit.

#PSA #archive of our own #AO3 #signal boost