Arin Clare, Writer Extraordinaire

Arin Clare ~ 30 ~ she/her ~ bi ~ Nav // Buy me a Ko-fi

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Thank you to @gravesidevibes for helping me finally title the remaining part of Damage Left Behind!!!

A brief overview; Damage Left Behind is my (very ambitious) 5 part series of The Nursery Nurse canon compatible fics centred around the character Kathleen and the mark she left on Charlotte and Siobhan. Currently the first part what does the medicine taste like (and why is it so familiar?) is already available to read.

The subsequent parts all have titles now and they are:

Part 2: a chapter by any other name (wouldn’t read the same)

Part 3: anything you can do (i’ll do you better)

Part 4: among the missing petals (there’s still a point to be made)

Part 5: just keep your eyes on me (the rest is easy)

I am working on writing the rest and will update with links when I do post. They can each be read as a standalone or in any order as a series.

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Am I crazy or did there used to be a line of dialogue banter between Alistair and Morrigan after you named Dog where if you named Dog “Duncan” Alistair would comment that it was a good way to honour him. OR If you named Dog “Alistair” Morrigan would comment that Dog!Alistair was probably the smarter of the two. Did I dream this up? I swore this used to be a thing

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Let me gab about my Grey Warden. His name is Orion, he’s a dwarven noble. He has relationships with men and sex with women.

I’ll talk about him after but I need to get to the point of this post — and spoilers for the male dwarven noble origin (literally the only origin I have played) — but if you don’t play along and get into the spirit of conspiracy about your brothers, and you don’t tell the scout about what you were talking to Gorim about/warn that there might be an ambush, then as soon as you leave conversation, everyone in Trian’s party just LOUDLY DIES IN THE OTHER ROOM?!?!?

So yeah, Orion didn’t play along with the conspiracy and was devastated when he found Trian’s body. And then to immediately be accused of doing it.

Let’s see, Gorim asked if Orion wanted the angry man from house Vollney killed and he said yes. Orion took on both Noble-Hunters. Orion won the Proving and gifted the helmet to Ivo. Orion was a bitch to his brothers but didn’t antagonize them.

At the banquet Orion agreed to Lord Dace’s request and stuck to his guns when the nasty lady from house Helmi called him an idiot for wanting to see the good in things. He fulfilled his promise to Lord Dace.

I forgot to grab the shield of Aeducan and got all the way back to the start before I realized that was why the ambush with Trian wasn’t triggering (I thought I was just lost)

Killed the scout for daring to slander my good name. I was a good boy so far.

I did not point my finger at Bhelen while my father interrogated me. Had a homoerotic moment with Gorim in jail. Gave my warning about Bhelen destroying them all and now we are back to where I got before my computer crashed. Yay

I think it’s so funny that I can’t keep my perspectives straight. I fought so hard to stay in the third person with Orion. You can see where I failed. This happens when I write synopsises too, I’ll slip into second person despite my actual writing being in 3rd limited… this post got away from me

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We’re in Lothering!

The party presently is Orion, Alistair, Morrigan, and Sten (previous Dog, named Duncan).

Killed the bandits on the bridge. Did not kill the raving lunatic outside the chantry.

Alistair made a comment about Morrigan’s nose bearing a resemblance to her mother’s and Morrigan’s response just a a very pointed “I hate you so much”.

We’re either headed to pick up Wynne next or Shale.

It is so hard for me to build a party in this game because I want certain characters to interact and also I want all my favourites in the party. But that’s how we die. Or get into really stupid tactics.

In a perfect world my party would be Alistair, Morrigan, and either Sten or Shale. Orion is a rogue.

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Let me gab about my Grey Warden. His name is Orion, he’s a dwarven noble. He has relationships with men and sex with women.

I’ll talk about him after but I need to get to the point of this post — and spoilers for the male dwarven noble origin (literally the only origin I have played) — but if you don’t play along and get into the spirit of conspiracy about your brothers, and you don’t tell the scout about what you were talking to Gorim about/warn that there might be an ambush, then as soon as you leave conversation, everyone in Trian’s party just LOUDLY DIES IN THE OTHER ROOM?!?!?

So yeah, Orion didn’t play along with the conspiracy and was devastated when he found Trian’s body. And then to immediately be accused of doing it.

Let’s see, Gorim asked if Orion wanted the angry man from house Vollney killed and he said yes. Orion took on both Noble-Hunters. Orion won the Proving and gifted the helmet to Ivo. Orion was a bitch to his brothers but didn’t antagonize them.

At the banquet Orion agreed to Lord Dace’s request and stuck to his guns when the nasty lady from house Helmi called him an idiot for wanting to see the good in things. He fulfilled his promise to Lord Dace.

I forgot to grab the shield of Aeducan and got all the way back to the start before I realized that was why the ambush with Trian wasn’t triggering (I thought I was just lost)

Killed the scout for daring to slander my good name. I was a good boy so far.

I did not point my finger at Bhelen while my father interrogated me. Had a homoerotic moment with Gorim in jail. Gave my warning about Bhelen destroying them all and now we are back to where I got before my computer crashed. Yay

I think it’s so funny that I can’t keep my perspectives straight. I fought so hard to stay in the third person with Orion. You can see where I failed. This happens when I write synopsises too, I’ll slip into second person despite my actual writing being in 3rd limited… this post got away from me

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I just tried verifying my game files and my whole computer crashed about it

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OH MY GOD ITS FIXED

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I just tried verifying my game files and my whole computer crashed about it

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I cannot play Dragon Age: Origins without some kind of technical issue.

Last time it was literally being unable to cross the bridge at the end of the tutorial. I would crash half way consistently and it required modding to fix.

This time the audio appears to be playing at half speed and is horribly crunchy.

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Everyone say congratulations to Milk for becoming his own father

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Do some ideas go to the Ideas Graveyard™️ because of how I note them down, or do I know down certain ideas the way I do because they are destined for the Ideas Graveyard™️ and I just need to get them out of my head?

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Both Sapphires have found their way down to the rat way

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Mobile typing problems:

Apostrophes ( ‘ ) become capital m ( M )

Example:

Like a bear trap, suddenly both of MarjorieMs hands clasped around SiobhanMs.

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Sometimes you think of background/world building for a story late at night while you don’t have your phone or notebook immediately handy

But it’s ok. Because the idea is really cool and you’re not going to forget it. You’ll just note it down as soon as your phone is back in your hands

Flash forward 2 maybe 3 WEEKS and you go to note down a DIFFERENT idea for the same project and find you did NOT note down the original cool idea you had that you were totally going to remember because it was so cool

Yeah… I don’t remember. The worst part is I KNOW the idea was cool

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Another important thing about Milk is that he operates on a first come first serve basis.

How this manifests in Skyrim is him siding with the first person to ask for his help.

Examples being setting Fastred up with Bassianus and telling Sibbi where Svidi ran off to. Realizing this means he’ll be siding with the Alik’r over Saadia (which I’ve never done)

[quietwingsinthesky]

the Relationship Ambiguity Zone™️ is a beautiful place to be. safe place to put your characters. put all characters into Relationship Ambiguity Zone. is that guy your mentor or your dad? Ambiguous!!! are you friends or enemies? Ambiguous!!! is it romantic? is it platonic? is it sexual? Ambiguous!!!!!!! never categorize anything ever in the Relationship Ambiguity Zone. just make them fucking weird about each other.

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girl asks me to use her like a toy so i put her in a row with several other girls sorted by name alphabetically & sit there silently looking at her

[gyrovagi]

care and tenderness as violating and coercive acts. being forced into vulnerability for your own good by someone who does not actually see you as a person but as a symbol or a figure too valuable to let die. you have power over so much but not your own body. you have lost the right to risk. everybody cheered