see how it shines

dmitri, 28, italy ao3: transhades pfp by @/ansiettina on IG

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If anyone is in the mood for their daily dose of sad wet dog Solas, this is the fic for you. A completely self-indulgent piece I put my heart in, and made him cry out his in turn.

You can find it on Ao3 ☀️

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Finding some long forgotten screenshots while cleaning out my phone, so it is now Ta'revas Lavellan posting hour

Did I really make a whole playthrough with them as rook just so I could take pictures for reference? Yes that's exactly what happened. Overcome, adapt, survive (I cannot have mods and I needed to see them in this armour more than I valued my sanity)

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Been bashing my head for the past hour trying to finish this fic. Endings are my least favorite part to write because I just never know how to finish something

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Back at it again today because we ain't quitters in this household, and it's so funny what asking oneself "Can I make this character even more pathetic than I already am?" does for creativity. Because the answer will always be yes, and it spurs me on faster than anything

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Been bashing my head for the past hour trying to finish this fic. Endings are my least favorite part to write because I just never know how to finish something

[heartbreakincident]

writing your fave having sex with with their love interest is OUT writing your fave shamefully jerking off and coming pathetically fast at just the idea of fucking their love interest is IN

[star-shard]

Sometimes, fanfiction is carefully plotted out stories, with plot points and call backs and themes that all tie it up in a meaningful and exciting way.

And sometimes fanfiction is, ‘Watch me do a fucking KICK FLIP off this cool sentence!! Also here's some sex'

Both are beautiful forms of writing.

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When I used to go consistently to cons I had no money to spend in the artist alley. Now that I'm an adult and I have money to spend in the artist alley I don't go to cons anymore. Life is unfair

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Tonight I'm randomly thinking about the fact that most of my DA moots don't know that Ta'revas is not, in fact, my first Inquisitor

This mf is

Meet Josh Lavellan, also known as Mr. Resting Bitch Face, President of the Dorian Snoggers Skyhold Club (party of one), and occasional necromancer.

I had made him way back in 2016 when my now wife made me play DA:I for the first time whenever I managed to go and visit her. He was largely molded over one of our OCs at the time, who had the same name, and even though I never actually managed to bring his game to the end and that playthrough was abysmal (I skipped... so many quests...... I would forget how to play between one visit and the next.....,,,.), he still holds a dear place in my heart

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There is nothing funnier than living in the countryside because one second you're immersed in very nice silence and a gentle breeze, and the following moment there's two geese screaming chicken squacking a dog barking and a fourth, mysterious noise you really do not want to know who made it

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DANDELION | overcoming hardship, healing, resilience, hope

I had the pleasure of painting the illustrious Dorian for @daflowerzine 🌼 leftover sales are now closed but you can still get a print of Dorian here!

[cryptid-catt]

Vir Dirthara: Birds of Fancy

The pages of this book - memory? - describe a pair playing, colliding in the air, bodies formed for kissing, stroking, lines of heat as molten as the sun. The dance is fluid, roiling, never ending, lovers tangled in a laughing knot that rolls on for years, a promise never to be parted, whatever ages come.

An annoyed thought intrudes, from one who marked this memory after it was recorded: “By the gods, find a private chamber!”

Inspired by this text from Trespasser and the marble statue The Waltz, by Camille Claudel, c. 1895.

[sh00kspeared]

Solas kissing beautiful men on the lips send tweet

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A Song For Every Letter - Inquisitor Edition

I can be trusted around a song tag game, because I can be normal about them (lie) (they are my favourite). Thank you soo much @vhen-harel for giving me the chance to go feral and share some bops 🔥

Ta'revas Lavellan

T — The Chain by Fleetwood Mac

Listen to the wind blow, watch the sun rise Run in the shadows, damn your love, damn your lies

A — Achilles Come Down by Gang of Youths

The self is not so weightless, nor whole and unbroken Remember the pact of our youth Where you go, I'm going, so jump and I'm jumping Since there is no me without you

R — Rat a Tat by Fall Out Boy

Are you ready for another bad poem? One more off key anthem Let your teeth sink in Remember me as I was not as I am

E — Emerald Star by Lord Huron

I've come for you, my love Through a window in the dark Don't you know you're my everything? If I lost you, I think I would die

V — Various Storms & Saints by Florence and the Machine

The monument of the memory You tear it down in your head Don't make the mountain your enemy Get out, get up there instead

A — As It Was by Hozier

Tell me if, somehow, some of it remains How long you would wait for me and how long I've been away The shape that I'm in now, your shape in the doorway Make your good love known to me

S — SAMRA / سمرة by Saint Levant e Babylone

وأنا عشانك بحمل بقلبي كية ما تبراش (And for you I carry a wound in my heart that never heals) غني عشانك، إنتي النغمة إلّي في دمّي تسير (I sing for you, you’re the melody that runs in my blood)

I had to stop myself from not putting Hozier in here twice, because I clearly have a problem. If any of you are in the mood for some more songs, I have made a playlist for our two favorite disaster gays (technically I also have a Solavellan playlist, but it's very scrawny. Still quite gay though)

Tagging my darling wife @numinfeninan because this is 100% your thing, and also tagging @virshiral, @fadetouchedlurker and @foxeareddevilish ⭐️

[pickled0ctopus]

They call me The Dread Wolf. 

What will they call you when this is over?

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Mythal's fingers and gestures

Who is going to tell @baroquedo (VGEN, Instagram) that I will be unable to do anything but stare at this for the foreseeable future?

This comm of the Solavellans² in an Ancient Arlathan AU is such a dream come true, I have no words, so I will just scream, respectfully

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last line written

thank you as always @virshiral for the tag ⭐️

When they had moved away to unclasp their own cloak from their shoulders and make quick work of wrapping it around his frame, Solas had ground his teeth, fighting against the urge to whine at the absence of their touch.

What could this be? Solavellan angst? Weird, I never ever have write any

Tagging (with no pressure) @lampost-in-winter @vhen-harel and @crimsonphantasmagoria!!

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oh wonderful i will get some mileage out of this as a new reaction image