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elena | baldur’s gate, more rpgs, writing, etc. | she/her, 30s | @anderstrevelyan on ao3 | icon by @point-maitimo, header by juraj herz

[dearbhaalist]

Hi! I’m Elena (she/her, in my 30s). Formerly anderstrevelyan (which remains where you can find me on ao3).

🫀I write fic about Baldur’s Gate 3. I like playing around with the Dark Urge origin, especially connecting it back to the first two games—Valas is the son of my Gorion’s Ward, Feron, and Viconia DeVir.

🫀His origin story fic is Haunted One (four chapters, 18k words), which also features Jaheira and plenty of durgetash.

🫀My newest fic is The Feeling Grows Claws (five chapters, 25k words), about the beginning of a physicality to Valas and Gortash’s relationship.

🫀Here’s a master list of my bg3 fics, all one-shots otherwise, including more durgetash, but also characters like Orin and Viconia. I’ve also written some (Anders-focused) Dragon Age.

🫀You’ll see me posting and reblogging (and maybe someday writing?) about other rpgs, too (Kingdom Come: Deliverance currently has me by the throat).

tags: my writing, valas devir

[rachelkatwalsh]

“my favourite assassin”

a snapshot of dahlia and gortash in their pre-lobotomy violently toxic situationship

[shinnamon-roll]

Playing by the Rules

[swordtit]

the best thing you can do to a character make them averse to touch and absolutely starved for it

[grimknights]

Waiting to die

[apicturespeaks]

Faust, Jan Švankmajer

[weirdlandtv]

FAUST (1994) by Czech artist, Jan Švankmajer.

[panszczvr]

[carcinogen-art]

“Hey, little girl, would you like to be

the king's pet or the king?"

"I'd choose odorless and invisible

but otherwise I would choose the king.”

[fourorfivemovements]

Films Watched in 2023: 108. Lekce Faust/Faust (1994) - Dir. Jan Švankmajer

[dearbhaalist]

This week, I get to: ignore what my czech textbook wants me to learn next and instead design my own list of phrases to help me order coffee/dinner; and watch all the czech films in my collection I haven't seen yet

[dearbhaalist]

oh my god, guess what time it is?? choosing what books to bring on vacation-o'clock

[karisrahl]

Orin You can find this and many more of my designs on my Redbubble shop.

[pollen]

happy Barely Keeping It Together Wednesday to all who celebrate

[fangirlinginleatherboots]

just so yall know

art block is your brain telling you to do studies.

draw a still life. practice some poses. sketch some naked people. do a color study. try out a different technique on a basic shape.

art block doesnt stop you from drawing, it stops you from making your drawings look the way you want them to. and thats because you need to push your skills to the next level so you can preform at that standard

think of it as level grinding for your next work.

[gallusrostromegalus]

As a scientific illustrator- this is 100% true and going to review your basics will fix it every goddamn time.  Not only does it keep your skills sharp, when you’re not emotionally invested in the final product of a piece, you relax and your brain makes more/better art juice for you.  So, when you get back to that big/important piece?  You’ll know what to do and how to do it.

Nothing in nature blooms all year round.  Rest, and take care of yourself.

[strawbebbynya]

i want someone to put this into writer’s blocks now

[404computerhamstersnotfound]

Writer’s block means you need to relearn the whole alphabet. idiot.

[redwingedwhump]

For writers block- same thing. Do Studies.

Write a description of an object. write the weather today. Write a made up characterization of a random photo of an actor from the internet as to the character they are in that picture. Write a little story about your pet’s day. Write about spilling soup and make it super dramatic and tragic. Write about someone’s day being ruined and make it funny. Write a meetcute coffeeshop AU of two OCs you’d never put together- maybe from different stories. Write them breaking up.

Write a bunch of short stuff meant for no audience ever and super duper self indulgent.

[blackaquokat]

@sweetiepie08

[accidental-spice]

@kanerallels

[catkin-morgs-kookaburralover]

I found out relatively recently that it really helps if I write short fiction surrounding the novels I write. Like oh? I’m stuck for a bit? Ooh there was that section I wanted to explore but doesn’t fit in the plot really. There was that what-if that could never happen in the actual story but would be fun to explore. It keeps me in the characters’ headspace (tho that’s not always what I’m needing) but not right where they are exactly.

[winterinhimring]

Yes! I have gotten past writers’ block multiple times by writing drabble collections. Making something coherent happen in just 100 words is a very different challenge from writing a long story and it also lets me get past plot points that I don’t want to explore in-depth.

I am also going to have to start drawing studies now…

[ineffectualdemon]

I joined a writing group that used journalling prompts to get through a bad case of writers block and it really helped

[kjscottwrites]

Truly the all time funniest writer thing is when you're doing edits and you think to yourself "omg I've got the PERFeCT sentence to add right here!" and then you stick it in all excited, only to find that literally three lines down you have virtually that exact same sentence in the draft already.

[dearbhaalist]

literally the day after I decide to start listening to french news to try and resurrect my long-dormant french comprehension, the library sends me a copy of a french film I thought would surely have english subtitles, like every other dvd I've ever gotten from the library.... it does not!!

french listening test by fire, I guess, wish me luck