Sandetiger
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Enough is Enough: a meta essay on the nature of First Inquisition and the friendship of Orlais and the Dales by Sandetiger
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: Inquisition
20 Dec 2025
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Speculation on the nature of the First Inquisition, the context of the friendship between Ameridan and Drakon, and the context of the Dales' unwillingness to participate in the fight against the second blight.
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- Part 8 of meta essays on dragon age
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To The East: Speculation on the history of Andraste's sacred ashes; a meta analysis by Sandetiger
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: Origins
20 Dec 2025
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A small amount of speculation on what "to the east" could mean when Minrathous and the Temple of Sacred Ashes are almost diametrically north-south rather than east-west, and what further implications that could have in the context of the history of Thedas and the development of modern 9:00 Dragon-era Andrastianism.
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- Part 7 of meta essays on dragon age
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 2,574
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Kudos:
- 4
- Hits:
- 12
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This Game Kills Fascism: But Does It, Really? A Meta Analysis on the Sociopolitical Framework of Dragon Age: The Veilguard by Sandetiger
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
09 Nov 2025
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This is intended to be both a media analysis as well as a political analysis through the lens of fandom reception, whereupon I utilize real-world sociopolitics, developer communication, and fandom reception to attempt to synthesize how and why Dragon Age: The Veilguard fails to cohere to the themes and narrative conceits of previous installments. I will post and reference other fandom meta analyses on story, plot, character, thema. This analysis will be primarily Doylist in nature, with Watsonian perspectives when appropriate. In the end, this is a fannish commentary on the development of the game Dragon Age: The Veilguard, on what kind of story it is telling, and on the protective response of its most receptive fans. The language will be semi-academic, but it is still largely an informal essay.
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- Part 1 of meta essays on dragon age
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A Bad Turian, But A Good Man: A Meta Analysis on Adrien Victus by Sandetiger
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types, Mass Effect - Various Authors
29 Oct 2025
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A character analysis on why I think Adrien Victus better embodies the archetye of "a bad turian."
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- Part 2 of meta essays on mass effect
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Mass Effect: Andromeda: Genre-Confused; Subtitled: Science Fiction or Western? - a meta analysis by Sandetiger
Fandoms: Mass Effect - All Media Types, Mass Effect: Andromeda, Mass Effect - Various Authors, Mass Effect Trilogy
28 Oct 2025
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A meta analysis on the genre conventions of Mass Effect: Andromeda, why it's not actually a space western, and why it is a science fiction western that should have been a science fiction anti-western. Originally drafted in a fandom Discord conversation and reworked for essay format.
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- Part 1 of meta essays on mass effect
Recent series
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meta essays on dragon age by Sandetiger
Fandom Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age II, Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening, Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
20 Dec 2025
- Words:
- 69,304
- Works:
- 8
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meta essays on mass effect by Sandetiger
Fandom Mass Effect - All Media Types, Mass Effect - Various Authors, Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect: Andromeda
29 Oct 2025
- Words:
- 9,012
- Works:
- 2
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time is raging; may it rage in vain by Sandetiger
Fandom Mass Effect - All Media Types, Mass Effect Trilogy
26 Aug 2025
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- Works:
- 2
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there is a fracture, there is a song by Sandetiger
Fandom Mass Effect, Mass Effect - All Media Types, Mass Effect - Various Authors, Mass Effect Trilogy
26 Aug 2025
- Words:
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- Works:
- 2
Recent bookmarks
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Prince Lotor and Princess Allura find themselves navigating a surreal landscape, both literally and emotionally. Stranded in a rustic cabin with a mysterious homeowner, the couple must discover how to get home - and how to trust each other in the process. Despite the image of perfection and peace, they can't help but wonder if something far more sinister lurks beneath the surface. The longer they stay in the picturesque scene of a white picket fence and a perfect countryside the more they question if they truly want to leave.
Bookmarked by Sandetiger
12 Jan 2026
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ZYC gets laid like 437598475 times while ZYZ and LL's divorce intensifies: the series
- Words:
- 121,387
- Works:
- 17
- Bookmarks:
- 36
Bookmarked by Sandetiger
12 Dec 2025
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愿今生与你共览 - may this life see me down this winding path with you by 一只小混混 (paws_bells)
Fandoms: 苍兰诀 | Love Between Fairy and Devil (TV)
11 Oct 2024
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Loosely interconnected one-shots/mini arcs exploring the gradually evolving relationship between Moon Prince Xunfeng and Fairy Danyin across a timeline of 700 years, as they progress from reluctant allies, to friends, to lovers.
Chapters may not be in chronological order - please read chapter notes for timeline.
This collection is COMPLETE, but will be further supplemented by other smaller works tagged to this series.
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- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 183,974
- Chapters:
- 38/38
- Comments:
- 502
- Kudos:
- 419
- Bookmarks:
- 43
- Hits:
- 12,804
Bookmarked by Sandetiger
04 Dec 2025
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AO3 is great, but can it run Doom? Of course!!
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 85
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 1,072
- Kudos:
- 18,668
- Bookmarks:
- 3,553
- Hits:
- 367,210
Bookmarked by Sandetiger
27 Nov 2025
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A Desperate Bargain by SampahWangi
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age - All Media Types
03 Jan 2026
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Ellanna died with the world burning. She remembers that. She remembers the sky torn open, the ground split with the raw hunger of the Fade, remembers the silence where the wind should have been — the stillness before the world itself collapsed.
And yet, she wakes. Not as herself. Not in her own body.
Instead, she wears another woman’s face, speaks with her voice, walks with her gait. Human. Noble. Familiar, yet hollow. A stranger’s life stretched over her bones. She does not know if this is mercy or mockery. She only knows it is a reprieve, and she does not intend to waste it.
The world will end. Again. She has seen the shape of it, felt the pull of inevitability. She knows who will end it, and why. She knows the time, the place, the weakness.
But there is no time for grief. Not for what she lost, not for the people who no longer know her name, nor for the man she loved who will destroy everything.
She will stop Solas. She must.
This time, she does not intend to lose — no matter the cost.
Bookmarked by Sandetiger
21 Jul 2025