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why would you show me this

dear tumblr algorithm, i will be taking legal action for the psychic damage you keep hitting me with on my for you tab

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dear tumblr algorithm, i will be taking legal action for the psychic damage you keep hitting me with on my for you tab

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Writing isn't the hobby. Being insane about little fake people is the hobby. Writing is just the only outlet i have for that

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anyway. death to capitalism in our lifetime inshallah 🤲

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me just trying to get this godforsaken degree vs the board of governors refusing to negotiate with the faculty association bc they want to force a strike to avoid paying their salaries

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me when someone abruptly asks me if i want to go and do something fun together but the fun thing wasn't part of my daily plan:

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Every day my heart breaks for Veilguard not having Origins-esque prologues for the Factions. Don’t get me wrong, I love the opening in Minrathous, but it just feels…so weird to keep hearing about this exciting and character defining moment of Rook’s past second hand.

Like what do you mean Grey Warden!Rook drove back a horde and collapsed an entire building to seal off a Darkspawn tunnel?

What do you mean Lord of Fortune!Rook performed an Indiana Jones level escape from an ancient ruin and killed the son of a bitch that crossed them?

Don’t even get me started on Mourn Watcher!Rook being involved in something called War of Banners (it already has a name!!) where they prevented an entire civil war between undead!

I want more!! I want to get invested! I want to see what Varric saw in them, how he knew they were exactly what he needed.

Dragon Age: Origins, no one did prologues like you and I still think about them to this day.

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>ask if he's an actual leftist or a liberal who wants to feel cool

>he laughs "it's a good ideology"

>look inside

>blood and cartilage and bone and sinew and he's screaming and he's screaming and he's screaming and h

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the bisexuality was there. it didnt change anything. it didn't save anyone. there were just too many forces against it. but it still matters that the bisexuality was there

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i like to think sebastian raves about anders during war strategy meetings and nobody can tell whether he's homophobic or in love with him. and the scary answer is literally neither.

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i ADORE third person limited. i LOVE writing from an ‘outside perspective’ while still having a character’s thoughts and feelings to show through and affect how the story is told. keeping details from the reader is so much fun, especially when they might assume that just because a piece of writing doesn’t come directly from the mind of a character, it must surely be completely objective and unbiased.

it’s especially fun for me to use it in stories where not every chapter is focused on the same guy. i love building up an impression of certain characters in the reader’s mind based on the opinions and biases of another, and then switching focus to reveal that, actually, that’s just not accurate. that character’s thoughts might be entirely incongruous with how they behave (or how other characters perceive their behaviour). they might have their own misguided opinions and biases about the character we were focused on in the previous chapter. considering they’re written by me, they absolutely do. my characters could not provide a reliable and objective description of the people around them if their lives depended on it.

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Pick a seat: BG3 Strugglebus

"Where's Halsin/Minsc/Jaheira?" - travelling on foot. Wouldn't be caught on dead on a bus.

"Who's driving?" - Yenna

"Which way is the bus facing?" - go with your heart

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wip wednesday

@flowersforthemachines & @isayashai both tagged me forever agoooooo, ive been so busy with exam prep i dont have the time/energy to sit down & write for long periods, but i keep throwing scene fragments at my various wip docs and hope that i'll still remember what i wanted to do with them in a month (or two or three...)

first is awakening au!luc + out of context codependent anders friendship dialogue snippets (self-harm cw)

second is the set up to vasilia losing her lyrium during legacy & crawling back to meredith in the throes of withdrawal for some forced dependency possessive toxic yuri-isms

ummmmm i'll no-pressure tag @dragonologist-phd @jean-dieu & @vigilskept

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Choosing to read DA2 Justice as a Disco Elysium skill check implanted into Anders’ mind and everything about him makes more sense

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Hello there, dragonagepolls! I hope this is an appropriate poll!

Which game is considered the most horny?

Thank you! Have a good day!

Occasionally suggestions get to jump the queue because the person running the blog has no ethical oversight and plays favourites