#will i write it

[hwangyeddeongie]

femme4femme chaerji save me.....save me femme4femme chaerji

[bharv]

if the marcady Emmrich Harding fic isn't going anywhere can you give a general idea of how it was gonna go I was really interested. Only if you want to of course, I was just interested in what the relationships looked like - well- pre relationships.

ahhh anon this is so sweet!

So it was called "tend the rose that blooms" and the general idea was playing with two themes, one of gardening/botany which is a shared area of interest of Harding and Emmrich's (though he's more theoretical and she's more practical, another strand that I was gonna pull at) and one of dreaming.

The little conceit I wanted to play with was my decision that Marcady is named after an Orlesian name for the kind of spirit touched flower that Leliana and Alistair discover in Origins outside of Lothering. I had a little bit written:

“A Marcadisian Rose. Named for the Comte de Marcadis, it is said that they are flowers touched by the divine to blossom under any condition.” “I hear that,” she tells him. “Seems a little… fragrant.” “You are intolerable sometimes, you know.” “I know.” She smiles at him, and he doesn’t recall the last time he felt so light.

Pre-committing to the Romance, Harding is struggling with her feeling of responsibility towards Marcady, who is Varric's niece. She was adopted in Tevinter when her mother left Bartrand to return to the Ambassadoria, and Varric sought her out via Mae when he started to get a bit more... reflective on his life. With everything that happens, Harding feels she needs to look after her, but doesn't know how, especially when she suddenly gets her powers and Marcady seems to be unable to open up about her feelings. Meanwhile when Emmrich joins the party, he's immediately taken by Marcady's curiosity about magic and the fade; as a soporati she has lived outside of magic for years, and relishes the opportunity to learn more, which endears her to him. He gives her time and space to learn, and she is equally enamoured by the idea of life beyond death.

Then when things get more real with the titans, Harding leans more on Emmrich for understanding, Marcady gets more frustrated and angry, and Emmrich starts to wonder if he can truly, responsibly, court this very young girl. She starts to become more reliant on him to understand what it really means to dream, as does Harding, and he starts to see that what they really need is to find the tangible things, and stop reaching for dreams that they have been severed from. They need to tend the rose that blooms now, and that rose is their love for each other, based on friendship with strong, familial roots.

[cowgurrrl]

The feminine urge to write an au about famous singer Joel Miller and the actress he has to fake date for the tabloids but then they start to fall in love ✨for realsies✨

[lesbinewren]

we need to make using chatgpt embarrassing bc sorry it really is. what do you mean you can’t write an email

[alivingtypo]

you can pry starting sentences with 'and' or 'but' out of my cold, dead hands

[clonerightsagenda]

I was rambling on the issue of museums and human remains and how certain populations are more likely to have their bodies put on display to be gawked at and then went "well I guess the Pompeii casts were of Europeans. there are bones in there right?" and Googled it to make sure, at which point I confirmed that yes there are bones in there, but more interestingly DNA testing revealed that a cast of an adult holding a child everyone assumed was a mother and child were, in fact, a man and a kid entirely unrelated to him. Honestly that's more moving to me. Maybe they were connected in a way other than blood, but maybe a stranger saw a child when the world was ending and thought the one thing he could do was hold them.

[blueboxbeagle]

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[arynneva]

wait do people read first person stories and think they're the ones in the story???

Saw people talking about not liking first person, which is fair, but their reasoning was like "I would not do that" and I don't understand that mindset.

First person stories are still about a character. A character making their own decisions. First person isn't about you???? At least I thought it wasn't. What am I missing? I've always seen first person as just a more in-depth look into a character's mind and stricter POV. Not as a reader stand-in.

[roboticnebula]

Pros of re-reading your own fic

a good time;

Has exactly the tropes you like and the characterization you want to read;

Gratification: yes you did finish a thing and yes you did do good;

just a very fun time all around.

Cons of re-reading your own fic:

Is that another TYpO

[so-many-ocs]

[on the verge of having a complete breakdown] i need to make some kind of list or perhaps sort things into categories

[incandescent-creativity]

Do you ever write a sentence and then realize “Nah, that’s too self aware for you” and backspace a bunch of times.

[evidently-endless]

i think we should remind musicians they can absolutely make up little stories for their songs btw. it doesn’t have to be about them at all. you can invent a guy and put him in situations to music. time honoured tradition in fact.

[helpful-writing-tips]

if you're trying to get into the head of your story's antagonist, try writing an "Am I the Asshole" reddit post from their perspective, explaining their problems and their plans for solving them. Let the voice and logic come through.

[bookwyrminspiration]

sometimes a theme recurs in your work without your permission. and sometimes it reaches a threshold where you're like. well now i think this is saying something about me against my will. don't know what though

[fipindustries]

>be me, massive egg

>kind of a 6/10, mid looking, glasses, nerdy clothes, scruffy beard, baggy eyes

>have a type that i have to hots for

>gothy wth bangs, slightly chubby

>egg cracks, transition, dye my hair, change my fashion style, gain weight do to eating healthier

>mfw i became my type

>always was a little bi but now with hormones i start developing more of an attraction for men

>find out i like nerdy, scruffy guys with glasses and baggy eyes

>mfw past me is now my type

>wtf