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Character growth?

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Kicking ass

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Sorry Alistair

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We often talk about "ludonarrative dissonance" in terms of morality and situations like "the story says violence is bad, but the gameplay enables and encourages you to kill things" but my actual fave version of it is "the story says you have a very serious plot-relevant time-sensitive thing to do, but the gameplay enables and encourages you to buzz off into the world and search for collectibles for five weeks"

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Would LOVE to hear your elaborate headcanon about Harding surviving because I love that idea! 👀

Sorry for taking so long to answer this! I'm also going to tag @ninfadeloslagos because she also asked about it

The tl;dr version is that she uses her powers to suspend herself in stone to prevent herself from succumbing to her injuries.

We see her do this on instinct after she fell off the cliff when she first discovers her powers, and we know that lyrium!Harding can do it too because we find dwarves encased in lyrium at the end of Harding's questline. These dwarves are suspended in time- they have no memory from the time they were encased to the time they were freed by Harding. Sure, you could interpret this as just being unconscious but that's not fun. I choose to think of it as a bug in amber, unable to bleed or decay.

The combination of Harding being able to encase herself AND the idea that doing so suspends her in time means that she should be able to prevent her injuries from killing her until she can safely be extracted and treated by a healer. Both the First Warden and Strife get stabbed through the middle and survive so I think she'll be fine actually

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Actually that no punctuation plot hole ooc wattpad fanfic written by that 12 year old will ALWAYS be better than character ai. And I love that 12 year old btw

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Don’t get attached to unpopular ships because you will run out of fic and die

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its just embarrassing when you make a fandom related post and it doesnt get any notes like okay. so no one want to play tuoys with me. no one wants to play with our little guys together. okay thats fine. yeah its cool... puts my hands in my jacket pockets. kicks a beer can that was on the side of the road a little

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Rich tit says what?

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If you're feeling down just imagine Taash doing happy hand stimming

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“One day the magic will come back. All of it. Everyone will be just like they were. The shadows will part, and the skies will open wide. When he rises, everyone will see.”

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Hawke family fleeing the Blight

I have some thoughts on my Hawke having to deal with another Blight and keeping her family safe again. But that's too long for this post, so I'm just gonna add it to my list of Dragon Age fics that I still need to finish...

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Still getting to grips with posting/tagging stuff, so reposting this as a fresh post this time, with the post that inspired it 😂 (Thanks for the food, @vaguely-concerned!)

Please return this man to his cousin, just let him go home & rest, he's had a rough night 😭

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varric’s relationship to rook is so funny bc with hawke he’s like, the world has done ENOUGH to you, you’ve been dragged into enough fights, i will risk my life lying to the most powerful in the land to keep you out of further trouble. and with the inquisitor he starts out by telling them they should think about running bc he knows how these stories end, and finally in trespasser he’s trying to set them up a place in kirkwall for when everything crashes and burns. and then you get to rook and he’s like, well random talented stranger, this might as well all be your problem

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listen not to pull the "wont anyone PLEASE think of the straight women" card but it has to be said i'm mildly convinced the so called "solas hate" from the devs is actually just misogyny.

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You know how people say "draw every day, train your body to miss it".

Used to be a big believer of that and felt like shit because I was completely unable to stick to it for more than a few days in a row (ADD orz). It ate away at my confidence and made me feel like I was a fraud.

Now that I've gone through a massive burnout lasting about 4 years, and as a professional artist, I can tell you that the only way to get out of it for me was to unlearn that shit.

So here's my honest, hard-earned take:

(disclaimer: this applies to people that can afford to take breaks from doing art. If you're a professional artist or going to art school and you're burnt out from that, I feel for you and I don't have good advice, I'm sorry. I hope it gets better soon ❤️)

If you have the personality to stick to it, if you get joy from the consistency, if you FEEL GOOD doing it, then it's the right approach for you. Have at it, go nuts.

Although if you feel like shit at the idea of sticking to something like Inktober, or doing anything for more than 2 days in a row makes you start questioning if it's even worth it

Listen to me.

Stop doing it.

It's ok to stop doing it.

Instead find a subject that you're passionate about ( a fandom, a medium, a type of subject) and every time you feel possessed by that sweet sweet art itch, just do it as much as you possibly can. Cram as much art as you want into a short amount of time and then MOVE ON.

Accept that your brain is satisfied and move on.

If you love it will come back, I promise you.

Now that I feel better and I know how to listen to myself to check what I feel like doing, I have these incredible art sprees that can last any amount of days/weeks/months. It's so much fucking fun guys.

And here's the kicker:

If I let it stew and come up to a boil until I know I will have fun doing it, I find out a lot of the times that sitting on it and just thinking about it made me learn anyway.

Coming back to a medium after months of not having touched it? All the useless info is gone, only the important stuff stuck in my brain. Which means it's a lot less involved to get started and just do things. Less expectations, more fun.

You might not learn at the same pace as someone that does it every day, but you need to be kind to yourself and learn what you can do without breaking.