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harley · 20s · she/they rpg brainrot (mostly dragon age)

[arrowfortea]

harley, An Adult, she/they, quaker. the last one is relevant because leliana is a quaker. in this essay i will—

mostly: dragon age. and everything bioware (JADE EMPIRE!!!!!!) · fable · FABLE!!!!!! · cRPGs (owlcat!!) · bg3 · interactive fiction · i can't stop writing solavellan & fenhawke, it's a compulsion

i tag #[game/character] critical for when i'm crotchety (mostly abt veilguard. if u like it that's fine!! we are still best friends, you and i)

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[quietwingsinthesky]

like the betrayal’s always going to be worse if they cared about you and it didn’t matter. someone discards you because they didn’t give a shit, then you can be angry about that, you can feel vindicated in that, you can get over it. but if they can look you in the eyes and say “I love you. I would make the same choice again.” You will never sleep peacefully again, is all.

[quietwingsinthesky]

“I thought they cared about me, but they were lying this whole time.” <- tired. boring. removes all the nuance of this relationship to make it easier to move on from.

“I thought they cared about me, and I was right, and every minute they were there for me, every time they said they were proud, every laugh we shared leaning against each other bruised and breathless, all of it was real. and they still left me behind. They could put their love aside. I couldn’t.” <- insane. will never leave you alone. reminds you that even the worst people are still people and can still care about even the ones they hurt the most and that undoes neither the harm nor the love.

[arrowfortea]

it's very funny to me and possibly me alone the incidental correlation between:

- me posting on ao3 in earnest for the first time in a decade

and

- losing my job then getting diagnosed with lupus, a brain infection, and literal cancer

like. now that i'm Stable do i even want to write again i don't know man that seems unwise

[arrowfortea]

"can you explain this gap in your resume" i lay in dark and dreaming sleep while countless wars and ages passed; i woke still weak a year before i joined you

[arrowfortea]

i heard the call of my people (the enemies of archivist banon) and thus i rise (managed to remember my tumblr password)

[inkypain]

People really wanted to comfort Little Solas so I'm making him apologize first and he will likely have to apologize later as well

You may now hold him as your bonus, Enjoy:

be soft with him please

[arrowfortea]

having a Real Real Bad One due to—*spamton voice* [Hot Men In Your Area!!]—but this goes out to... the Character... giving me something else to think about... oh we're really in it now solas dragon age

[sunlight-shunlight]

attempt to deter the herald of andraste from reading an inaccurate treatise on "the magickal art of dalish fresco" out loud.

5 minutes later, deterrence successful. no one is reading anything.

ouch. anchor malfunction after closing a rift.

two elves, standing 5 feet apart, because they're Emotionally Detached Professionals™

(uhhh pretend the vallaslin is on there, it's deeply annoying to draw on a small scale without ruining the facial expressions fjfsfhg)

[fadeling]

am I sick in the head or is senechal varel kind of irresistible? feel free to comment

[fadeling]

promise?

[neon-ufo]

Battery Acid (Ages 3 And Up)

[inorheona]

disaster woman Marienne Hawke for @arrowfortea

[citree]

Miss Briala from The Masked Empire ❤️ I would give her the world if I could

[ephemeralinstance]

It seems to me that seeking to avoid criticism by eliminating grey areas and telling the audience exactly what they are supposed to think about everything is sort of self-defeating, because it actually makes you more vulnerable to criticism. 

The inevitable consequence of having a prescriptive approach to morality is that you are then committed to morally endorsing all of the implications of your story: if you are trying to tell people what to think, then you can be criticized for telling them the wrong things! And if you present something without explicitly condemning it, then in the context of this prescriptive approach to storytelling, you are naturally interpreted as endorsing it. 

Whereas if you write a story which simply presents events and lets characters react to them naturally and does not dictate to the audience what they are supposed to think, then you are not committed to endorsing everything in your story. If you are self-evidently not trying to tell people what to think, you can't be criticized for telling them the wrong things. And though of course there will always be people determined to misunderstand, usually audiences will come to appreciate that the occurrence of an event in your plot does not necessarily indicate approval of it, even if no explicit condemnation is made. 

[captains0ur]

This was a recent set of oc commission sketches for the lovely @arrowfortea

This comm mostly revolved around the characters hair and the different styles she wears it in- which if you know me is amazing because hair is my favourite thing to draw!!

This was so much fun, if you would like to inquire about a commission all my info is pinned to the top of my blog :)

[pinacoladamatata]

i have a vision…. unfortunately that vision is above my skill level and requires more patience than i currently posses

[deco-devolution]

When you forced deep underground, well -- you see things from the bottom up. And down at the bottom of the city, I saw a fire burning.

[arrowfortea]

i just spontaneously tried the url daisyfitzroy and got it ? i cannot overstate the enormity of this for my brain. i am too sleep deprived to process this