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Fic authors self rec! When you get this, reply with your favorite five fics that you've written, then pass on to at least five other writers (if you’d like). Spread the self-love ♥️

Thank you for the ask!! I think if I had to pick my 5 favorite fics at this moment in time, they would be:

1. trust fall - Mass Effect, Shepard/Miranda growing together against their wills. Wrote this in a haze, and it's probably my favorite fic I have written, I fell in love with Miranda while writing and really got to explore her through this

2. anatomy of a haunted heart - DA: Awakening, Nathaniel/Velanna and time loops. I proved to myself I could write on a time crunch, and I reread this recently and really liked it!

3. gold dust woman - DA: Origins, Branka/Hespith, how everything happened; this one was very fun to write and I am quite proud of it!

4. the care and feeding of lovebirds - DDLJ, Raj/Simran, a little look into their lives post-movie, very very dear to my heart

5. the orlesian drop - DA: Inquisition, Cullen/Trevelyan, AU where Trevelyan is a travelling performer for the Circle and Cullen is her bodyguard, self-indulgent but I love it

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The Selkie - oil painting by Kai Carpenter

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what is the first thing that comes to ur mind when u think of the person u rb'd this from?

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i love writing fanfiction that has a stupid fanfictionass plotline like yesss that’s exactly where it belongs

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circuit board inspired bracelet !

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CONTRIBUTOR SPOTLIGHT

@weatheredlaw - Prose Writer

Cat has been writing DA fic under the username weatheredlaw since 2015. She is a great lover of fantasy and Bioware media in general. She considers herself an amateur poet and has competed at poetry competitions since 2018.

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She feels tears drop onto the clenched fist in her lap. Varric angles himself closer, falling into her line of view. “Seeker.” “It isn’t fair.” “No,” he agrees. “It isn’t. But you’re breaking my heart.” He reaches for her other hand, and Cassandra opens her eyes. “You keep crying like that, Seeker, and I just might have to kiss you.” The sentiment takes her by surprise, but it does what she supposes he intended it to do – She laughs. It is her first in so long, and the noise startles a smile out of him. “There she is,” he says.

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They've filled the Normandy with people who look up to you in an effect to placate you and make you feel at home, but it's more alienating than if everyone hated you. They've given you your own private quarters but they make you feel alone and cut off from everyone. They say it's your ship, just like the one flew on before, and that you're in command, only there are doors that won't open for you and are locked tight. They parade before you a friend you knew who is so excited about all of this, but you didn't live through that and you're not over what you lost like he is. You look in the mirror and you're literally cracking at the seams and they tell you and only you can save the galaxy - enough that you were worth billions of resources to bring back - and you think about the soldier, the friend, you lost on Virmire and how nobody thought to bring them back. You're a ghost everyone is worshipping, a legend that everyone is clinging to, a soldier, a spectre, a saviour, a hero, but not a person anymore.

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https://archiveofourown.org/works/60992851/chapters/158846899

Musings from the man himself!

New chapter up now!

Emmrich x Rook

Summary: For librarian Lottie “Rook” Ingellvar, the pandemic was not the only darkness that swept over her life in 2020. An act of unbelievable betrayal and violence has left her numb as the world begins to thaw and life returns to normal. Struggling with equilibrium, her boss in special collections proposes to relieve her of her usual duties and set her up with a more flexible job - assisting a professor in his research.

In the distinguished, older Professor Volkarin, Rook finds a stability she’s never known and an easy charm that soon develops into a roiling, back-breaking crush that threatens to upend the careful walls she’s erected around her heart and body.

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Amanda Ba (Chinese-American)

Girl at the Party, 2016

Oil on canvas

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If your hair doesn't fit into one of these categories, or if you do not have hair, select whatever you think is closest– unfortunately there's no room for an "other" option.

Descriptions are taken from the Andre Walker Hair Typing System wikipedia page.

We ask your questions anonymously so you don’t have to! Submissions are open on the 1st and 15th of the month.

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Why did you go to Notre Dame?

The West Wing (1999-2006) | 2x07 "The Portland Trip"

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may all the people who see this finish their current wip this year

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having a freeze response to stress is so funny in the context of normal adult stressors. millions of years of evolution are trying to tell me that the email will not find me if i stay very still and do nothing

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Moss Agate - Yellowstone River, Custer Co., Montana

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what is the first thing that comes to ur mind when u think of the person u rb'd this from?