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Merk @merkality.bsky.social · 3m

When sb makes an "Idaho is full go home" "joke" I like to hit em with the fact that Idaho is in the bottom 10 states for population density. Like literally amongst the least full.

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🎃👻NeFaierius👻🎃 @faierius.bsky.social · 2h

Saw this going through FB memories, and...yeah. Still pretty fuckin accurate.

I've never had FOMO. I really don't care if I miss X new popular thing. But I do have a fear of being left behind or of not connecting. The way I enjoy the things I enjoy...I do it slowly. I can't play 4 or 5 games at a time or read 3 or 4 books at a time. I can't watch a movie while I also listen to a podcast while I also work on a hobby thing. I have to pay attention to what I do. Which means I rarely take in newer media or even watch or play much. This disconnects me from a lot of the communities I could be part of, and it sucks.

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chris☀️ @arcanegold.bsky.social · 41m

behold. sealrogi

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Merk @merkality.bsky.social · 1d

SMUT! Alistair x Zevran x Female Warden.

Elanna Cousland not only broke Alistair's heart, but added herself to the long list of people who made choices for him. But on the verge of the Archdemon battle, he decides to make one choice for himself...

archiveofourown.org/works/725121...

Something For Himself - Chapter 1 - Merkality - Dragon Age: Origins [Archive of Our Own]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

archiveofourown.org

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Merk @merkality.bsky.social · 8h

Chapter 5 is live! Today's chapter is Murder in the Garden! Bet you can't guess where someone gets murdered.

This is my October Spooky Fic, updating every Wednesday and Saturday until Halloween!

#DragonAgeFanfic #DASpookyFic #SpookyFic

archiveofourown.org/works/716706...

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Jasper 🐦‍⬛ TTRPG artist @jaspermillerart.com · 18h

Did a photo study and made it Scout Harding because we all need to appreciate her more thanks

[ #jasperdraws #veilguard #laceharding #artstudy ]

Illustration of Lace Harding (dwarf woman, pale freckled skin, red hair). She wears green underwear and sits on a wooden chest, doing up her hair.

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Merk @merkality.bsky.social · 1d

SMUT! Alistair x Zevran x Female Warden.

Elanna Cousland not only broke Alistair's heart, but added herself to the long list of people who made choices for him. But on the verge of the Archdemon battle, he decides to make one choice for himself...

archiveofourown.org/works/725121...

Something For Himself - Chapter 1 - Merkality - Dragon Age: Origins [Archive of Our Own]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

archiveofourown.org

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Forty✨️ | Istvan's Puppy @comfortyart.bsky.social · 5d

Taking 4 more of these quick sketch commissions!!

No Colour: £25 per character
Colour: +15 per character

sfw or nsfw welcome

Shares are super appreciated! 💖

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Merk @merkality.bsky.social · 3d

Sometimes I'll read sb's "headcanon" and it's like damn ok we really just can say words in any order huh

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Merk @merkality.bsky.social · 16d

I am broke as fuck! I have jewelry that's cool, you should buy it! Then I'll be less broke!

#DragonAgeArt #handmade #GreyWardens #jewelry #nerdjewelry #DragonAge #DragonAgeMerch

mercality.etsy.com

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Merk @merkality.bsky.social · 3d

The substitute pilates instructor waged war on my inner thighs this morning

Merk @merkality.bsky.social · 3d

I'm less than 500 hits away from 30,000 hits on my AO3. Maybe that shouldn't make me vibrate with happiness, but it does anyway. Thirty THOUSDAND views???? of my dumb little writings???? WHAT!

Merk @merkality.bsky.social · 3d

I crashed out this weekend after Big Audit. Spent most of it asleep. BUT I made great progress on cleaning my house.

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 5d

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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Trick Weekes @trickweekes.bsky.social · 3d

pivoting to multiplayer campaign

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 6d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 24d

Everyone could use a reminder that the idea behind our system of government is that we cede some of our power to it in exchange for it working on our behalf. When it stops doing that it becomes illegitimate and must be changed. The idea that the people can "betray" a government organ is perverse

David Noll @david.noll.org · 24d

In response to California passing a law limiting law enforcement officers' ability to conceal their identities, the president of the Peace Officers Research Association of California contends that police are not subject to democratic control.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u...

Brian R. Marvel, the president of the Peace Officers Research Association of California, which represents over 87,000 public safety officers, said he was outraged by the passage of the law.

He said in a statement that he believed that California did not have the authority to regulate federal agents, so it would ultimately apply only to local law enforcement officers, which he called a “troubling betrayal that California’s local law enforcement community will not soon forget.” He said that limiting face coverings and opening officers up to prosecution would most likely hurt recruitment and drive officers from the state.

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Lynayru @lynayru.bsky.social · Sep 5

Hi I'm Lyn, avid doodler of critters, dragons and other nonsense. Welcome to my sketchblog where you’ll find my attempts at art as well as sketches and doodles. Working on improving, thank you for stopping by!

Cara
SheezyArt
tumblr
Ko-fi
inPRNT

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bibi 🌷 is walking the dinan'shiral @gabibia.bsky.social · 3d

Totally not late for Zevran Week haha
#ZevranWeek | Day 4 - Gift

🏷 #art | #dragonage | #zevran

Digital illustration of character Zevran Arainai. The character is portrayed from the waist up against a flat green background, with a pink blob of color behind his head. Zevran holds a leather boot with his left hand, and a rag with his right one. He's looking down at the shoe with a happy expression.

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Boo-ly, Li'l Ghost Bull 👻🐮 @bullythelsb.bsky.social · Jun 28

you have a right to be angry

Drawing of Little My, a small girl in a red dress, sliding down a hill. She is drawn by Tove Jansson from the Moomin series. The text reads: "WHEN you're angry, then you're angry," thought Little My, peeling her potato with her teeth. "Sometimes you have to be angry. Every little creature has the right to get angry."

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Comrat / Comms Closed @boonekeller1.bsky.social · 12d

the shittiest art you DO make is always better than the perfect art you never make

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Merk @merkality.bsky.social · 4d

Chapter 4 of a Violent Vacation is live!

A Nathaniel Howe x Hero of Ferelden Spooky Fic, updating every Wednesday and Saturday until Halloween!

#NathanielHowe #DragonAgeFanfic #HeroofFerelden #DragonAgeSpookyFic

archiveofourown.org/works/716706...

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Chenria @chenria.bsky.social · 3d

I really had to take a break from just black and white Inktober with some colors. So I followed one of the tutorials by james_julier to destress and relax.

digital illustration of a clearing in the woods that is illuminated by sunshine.

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Merk @merkality.bsky.social · 4d

Chapter 4 of a Violent Vacation is live!

A Nathaniel Howe x Hero of Ferelden Spooky Fic, updating every Wednesday and Saturday until Halloween!

#NathanielHowe #DragonAgeFanfic #HeroofFerelden #DragonAgeSpookyFic

archiveofourown.org/works/716706...

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geoffrey, 💀 mode @parsnip.bsky.social · 4d

i don't believe in fortnite. you all have been running this con a long time but i won't be fooled. i know that's not real

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 4d

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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