Hello! I have now read over a hundred Bull/Dorian fics and would love to share my favourites with y’all (I’ll probably make similar fic recs for other DA pairings eventually). Some of these are criminally under-kudos’d or lack comments, so if you can please leave the authors some! They definitely deserve it! Also this got pretty long so I’m putting most of it under a cut!
“So, he claims to be a time traveller,” Cullen said, slowly and with obvious disbelief.
“Would anyone be able to tell me what day it is?” Dorian asked.
“He’s obviously a spy,” Cassandra replied.
“I hope it’s not the third,” Dorian muttered.
Dorian has been living through his own personal Groundhog Year and he’s finally decided to tell everybody. It doesn’t matter though, this run’s a wash anyway.
[this is literally my favourite Adoribull fic of all time. Like. I think about it constantly please please read it]
When a spell convinces Bull that Dorian is a danger to the Inquisition, Krem is forced to try and keep Bull from killing Dorian until he can dispel the magic.
[if I’m in the mood for angst this is my go-to fic. I ADORE Krem protecting Dorian from Bull because Bull lovesDorian, and Krem would never let Bull destroy himself like that. It’s just. Yes. Yes to all of it]
Mahanon wants nothing more than for the men he’s in love with to realize that he’s in love with them, and hopes that a long journey to the Hissing Wastes might help sort things out between them.
Getting thrown off a cliff was not part of his plan.
[okay so technically this one is Bull/Dorian/Inquisitor but GUYS ITS LITERALLY PERFECT ITS THE BEST DRAGON AGE SERIES IVE EVER READ IM OBSESSED WITH THE CHARACTER DYNAMICS I KNOW IM A SLUT FOR POLY BUT PLEASE READ THIS ONE - you won’t regret it]
My illustrations for The Duchess and the Spy, for @adoribullmb! It’s a raunchy rule 63 regency AU– if that sounds like your jam, please check it out, you’re gonna love it.
And big thanks to the author, who provided me with tons and tons of really useful references, even though I ended up drawing them half-dressed anyway, and whose enthusiasm made this really fun to work on. <3
So, I was really nervous when it came time to assign artists for the minibang. I was a little worried that I would get shouted down for writing genderswap or femslash, but mostly that my assigned artist wouldn’t understand why it was so important to me that Bull stay… well, Big.
I’m sure it’s obvious that I lucked out, because DAMN. That is a Giant Woman with Giant Horns.
And, like. She’s not made into some male-gazey idea of what a queer woman (or any woman!) “should” look like in order to be palatable.
Story Title: The Duchess and the Spy Link to story: Voilà! Rating: Explicit Warnings: This is a Genderswap Regency romance AU, containing rampant historical anachronism, slapdash borrowing from canon, trashy regency romance tropes, vague Tevinter nastiness toward queer people, and one extremely brief reference to marital/corrective rape. Plus, fisting!
Story summary:
Doria is the Duchess of House Pavus— the only heir of a powerful and ambitious family, and a favorite of the Tevinter Regency gossip mill. The Iron Bull is a mercenary captain from the colonies, whose service to the Imperium has led her into high society with her small company in tow for several weeks of fêtes and parties.
The two meet first at a soirée, then again when Bull accidentally climbs into Doria’s library window in search of letters regarding a Venatori conspiracy against the Inquisition—and despite how mismatched they may seem, the pull between them is too much to ignore. Has Doria found the answer to her problems in a seven-foot-tall Tal-Vashoth woman with one eye and the most horrid taste in clothing she’s ever witnessed?
Link to art: Here! (also included on AO3! Art is not explicit)
I DID IT! I WROTE THIS! IT IS VERY SMUTTY AND ALSO INVOLVES DETAILED DESCRIPTIONS OF REGENCY GOWNS! AND FISTING! DID I MENTION THE FISTING?! THERE’S A PINTEREST LET ME KNOW IF YOU WANT THE LINK TO THE PINTEREST!
So excited to share my preview for the @adoribull-fairytales Zine! A tender moment for The Iron Bull and Dorian !!!!! Details for how to purchase the charity zine are available here!
“Dorian’s a sweet guy. He’s gentle, and he cares under all that bluster. I’m hoping we’re good for each other. Plus I’ve never done it with a mage before. One time he got so excited he set the curtains on fire!”
Quick, before the dreaded Tumblr Nipple Ban ! Here’s a piece of DA:I fanart I did for the Citron Pressé fanzine, which I’m a part of, now (you can find them at Citron_presse_fanzine on insta) Was very pleased and surprised to see these beautiful boys weirdly flirt on my first playthrough years ago, even though I casually boned Bull a bit earlier, and didn’t expect them to actually go full romance on me. Now to feverishly wait for announcements for the fourth…
After the Iron Bull loses his remaining eye Dorian creates a spell that lets him see anyway (and more than before too). Bull of course thinks it’s the coolest shit. Based on @muchymozzarellaidea
It’s not fully visible, but the line and starburst in “Amatus” are made of sparkly multicolored thread, and the red thread on “Kadan” is extra-bulky and knotty.
scary 11 foot monster towers over me with claws bared: Prepare yourself, little human for unimaginable terror!!
Me: oh… no… _unbuttons shirt slowly_ you have me… at your mercy… _tosses shirt away_ whatever… _sits down on the floor_ shall i… do…? _dramatically lays across the floor_
“the demands of good men” updated last night and i utterly lost it and then felt compelled to illustrate that last scene. hoboshorts if you are on tumblr please know that your fic has brought me to my knees time and time again
so like everyone else i am fucking enchanted by brinanners‘ fic “a greater compliment” and apparently if left to my own devices i just illustrate fic i like so eyyyyy what up
I was so incredibly lucky to see Toft’s Adoribull minibang take shape. This particular scene from chapter eight really arrested me from the start, and the final draft rendered it absolutely stunning. I couldn’t not illustrate it.
If you haven’t read it yet, please do yourself the favour and fix that. Inspired by both their canon story and the Ancillary Justice series, it’s forty-three thousand words of sci-fi adventure, the slow progression of trust, and exploring personhood and what makes it. Also guest-starring Dagna and Sera as truly delightful space smugglers.
I’d blame @chaoslindsayforthis but to tell the truth: I absolutely did this to myself. And all of you. But @homsantoft most of all.
And so it’s Bull, carefully pulling the stitches from Dorian’s mouth. The first time Dorian goes to his knees of his own volition, but thereafter Bull moves him into position. like this, Dorian submits, as in all things now. As he never could have been before, he’s Bull’s now. Like this, the Bull—Arvaraad—becomes possessive. His Saarebas. Dorian has submitted to him and by extension the Qun. The Bull understands this gift is precious, and that it would be wasted on anyone else. Even in the peace of the Qun, Dorian remains wary and slow to trust.
When did Dorian accept the Qun? In stages, perhaps. His allegiance shifting as he fell in love and learned the frame that kept the Bull whole and sturdy. Maybe Dorian fell in love with that, too. He never chose the Qun, in any case; he simply slotted into place within it the way he slotted into the Bull’s arms.
And could Tevinter not be purified, under the Qun? The oppressed exalted to the necessary, precious for their duty and equal in esteem. Power taken from the ruling classes, replaced with security and serenity. The stench of blood rinsed or burned away.
Dorian knows, too, that there is love under the Qun, because love lies in both duty and submission. Bull is all the Qun to him, and through him Dorian loves the whole. He does not contemplate the dissonance of raising one up to embody the whole. Bull and the Qun have ever been the same to him.
Bull knows, of course, the flaws in Dorian’s understanding. But the consequences are irrelevant. If Bull is no longer there to be the conduit, it won’t matter, because Dorian will follow behind him in death as well as life.
They are both pretty rubbish Qunari. But Dorian lives in the illusion that this isn’t the case, and the Bull is too rubbish a Qunari to break it. When Bull stitches Dorian’s lips back together, he kisses them, because they are tender and Dorian craves the pain. The taste of him lingers in Dorian’s mouth and throat, and Dorian is at peace.
ages ago annundriel wrote a beautiful fic called “like gold to airy thinness beat” and I informed her I would illustrate the morning after. This was back in May, I think. Anyway, she wrote the morning after, “break of day,” and several months later I finally finished the damn illustration.
NSFW, as my extremely pretentious preview image suggests.
(and this time I think the clickthrough will actually work. fingers crossed, everyone.)
@theladylily asked for postgame vashoth!dorian and bull, and this isn’t so much trespasser spoilers as trespasser spoiler inspired. in rot13 (or whatever the cypher is called): va gur punbf bs gur dhanev nggnpx, ohyy gevrf gb qrsraq qbevna nf orfg ur pna. uvf yblnygvrf ner inthr naq fb ner qbevna’f ohg ohyy jvyy cebgrpg qbevna ng nyy pbfgf
