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happy Thursday the 20th

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happy Thursday the 20th

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If I could have two things on my wish list for the next Mass Effect game, it's these.

If we aren't dealing with a huge time jump, I want Gianna Parasini on my squad. She's smart and she's capable. She has her finger on the pulse of illicit activity throughout the galaxy. I can think of no better asset to have on a team. And

Shiala. The green asari. She is just so cool. And what if she has long-lasting and very interesting Thorian-exposure super powers? Aside from biotics? What if they change her biotics? What if she develops a weakness or an allergy that gives her an interesting backstory? There's too much potential there to leave behind. I need her on my squad.

Think of the possibilities. Green asari commando. Top secret, undercover agent. And me. (Or you. Whoever. The Protagonist.)

Chef's kiss. I need it.

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Abt that unsolicited ‘concrit’ on fanfic thing

My personal opinion is that you should never offer unsolicited critical feedback to people, and you should only offer it publicly at all under specific circumstances. Why?

- Very few people actually know how to give ‘concrit’. They think it just means saying there were surface errors, or they didn’t like how someone was characterized. That’s not concrit. That’s not useful, at all. That’s an amateur review from someone with little to no relevant expertise.

- Especially where it regards fanfiction, you can’t know who you’re speaking to. You can’t moderate tone or intensity of criticism based on their experience and relative skill level. It’s possible that harsh or even moderate critique could make them stop writing forever. Why? What is the point of taking away someone’s joy in that manner? So that the commenter can feel satisfied that they corrected them? That’s cruel and childish.

- Usually fanfiction is published in only one place— maybe three or four, at most. Why should authors be expected to put up with negative criticism in the ONLY place their work is available? Are published authors expected to attach one star Goodreads reviews to their bookjackets?

- If you genuinely wish to help someone improve their writing, you can do so by speaking personally with them and offering your help. The assertion that criticism from a stranger whose opinion they don’t value and whose qualifications are unknown is going to make them better is disingenuous. If someone is sincere in their desire to assist an author in progressing on their writing journey, they should demonstrate that through investing appropriate time and effort. Otherwise, there are many places to complain away from the author’s sight. The only thing accomplished by doing so in front of them is making them feel bad— and if that is someone’s intent, that’s reprehensible.

Anyway. I’ve never gotten useful concrit in my comments or my bookmarks, and I expect I never will.

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GOING TO SNAP THE END OFF IF YOU KEEP PLAYING WITH IT.

Sir.

That little sound byte alone was worth the price of admission.

POV: You’re mid conversation with Gale and he can’t remember what that book is called.

Also, the text on one of the clips reads:

These are not my sound effects. Tim is reacting to his own sound effects that he put on for no reason.

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I hope you have a lovely day, and a wizard eats your woes away ✨🔮(animation is the same but different angles. There are 3 audio versions available on X...enjoy)

NSFW: Reddit | X | Bluesky

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The threat was loud and clear: Report your so-called “DEI” employees or else. What exactly “DEIA or similar ideologies” means is up in the air, but the message was out there. And so was the email address of the DEIA snitching hotline. Fake emails quickly started to roll in. ‘I don’t care, fuck these McCarthyite bastards,” one BlueSky user said, with an screenshot attached of an email to the hotline where he ironically reported Donald Trump and JD Vance for being “put in their positions solely because of their race and/or gender despite the fact that they are wholly unqualified for their jobs and, in some cases, have criminal records.” “Anyone have a script to fire off a billion e-mails an hour??” another user asked in the replies. “Anyone can email anything of any size even if it crashes the site,” one X user noted. The scope and effectiveness of this latest phase of Trump’s anti-DEI crusade remains to be seen.

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Yeeee!!! I haven't written for a while, there's been a death in my family. (I'm okay, it wasn't immediate family, but there's a lot of people who don't speak to my dad and I'm his only point of contact so things have been busy. And in all fairness, my dad made his own bed. I'm his PoC because someone needs to be.)

So I'll put a little more on here because 1) my last line deserves a little more context, lol and 2) posting will inspire me to finish.

When she looked up from her wandering feet, she found she'd plodded her way past a cold and empty hearth, one that used to bake its warmth into a heavy wooden table set with flagons of mead and ale, and bread and cheese, and a quill with ink and reams of parchment paper. It was a place where stories were told, where fires of friendship stoked camaraderie, now vacant aside from cobwebs and ash. And through the darkness beyond it was the rotunda, lying in wait like a knife poised to strike. Its walls were covered in images of the same story, her story, like a disguise, like a cleverly crafted deception, but its last panel was unfinished. Nothing more than a faint outline. An uncommitted possibility. A freedom to change the outcome. A silent plea for help. He did not want to do this. But Pride could not allow him to stop. And he could only be what he was. But he was not an answer to her prayers. She was the answer to his. She was the answer for so many. Which only left her back where she started. So she turned around once more.

I don't know if I have many moots who've been writing in any Bioware fandoms, but it is so important to keep writing regardless so I'm gonna tag folks that I know have been writing at some point in my own fanfic journey, if that's okay.

And if you haven't written in a while, that's okay too! I just want you to know that I'm thinking of you and you have made an impact on my life somewhere along the line, even if we don't know each other personally. Sometimes it's just nice to be tagged <3

@morby @lanafofana @orangekittyenergy @waterdeep-weavemoss @waterdeepwhiskey @thedissonantverses @dr-demi-bee

(10min from now I'll think of about 19 other people I should've added here but I have to jump off)

Last Line Written!

Thanks @pavuslavellan, @biowaredisasterbisexual, @mageofquandrix, @fangbangerghoul for the tags!

Earlier I was like oh =( I didn't write that much this week bc I've been so busy idk if I have anything =(

But then I realized I wrote that miserable angsty part of Leth's fic bc that's my fave stuff to write 😈

Viago makes an involuntary, wounded sound.

That is an astonishingly succinct sentence, for me lmao

hmmm unsure who has been tagged, so forgive me if you've already played! @dymme @uchidachi @covertleathers @vespaer77 @pixiedurango @bygonesigh

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It started with Lavellan stumbling out of the Fade, broken and near death.

And Solas was there to save her.

It ended with Solas stumbling into the Fade, beaten and broken.

And Lavellan was there to save him.

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the worst is wanting to create and create and create but being trapped in a body that is so so so so tired

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Anyone reading any good books lately?

I've started to dip my toes into horror. I'm never going to be a slasher fan but I'm starting to enjoy some spooky shit. Last night I just finished reading A House With Good Bones by T. Kingfisher and I really loved it. Between that and What Moves the Dead/What Feasts at Night, Kingfisher is very good at writing first person narrators that I just really click with.

It was very refreshing after reading a murder mystery that really dissapointed me and IMO wasted its premise with the least curious main character possible...and she hardly even talked to the ghosts that were advertised on the back of the book. I've had such bad luck when I pick out books at random when I'm at the library but I will continue to do that anyway. If you have any recs for good books with ghosts in them PLEASE I LOVE GHOSTS

But yeah, what are yall reading? :]

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kinda rough but i wanted to draw something raw

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Neve/Rook (Warden) 'Something's Coming' Romance Dialogue

Caught this dialogue between my Warden Rook and romanced Neve while fighting the Blight Eruption from the 'Something's Coming' quest. The distress in 'Rook! Talk to me!' is absolutely precious.

Here are screenshots of the dialogue:

I'd love to know if there are other Romanced Companion/Rook interactions like this one.

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Have you seen brown eyes so beautiful you fall down the Lighthouse floating stairs? *raise hand*

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Right on top of those notes

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Them

Just them <3

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this blog hates donald trump