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Good morning sleepyhead~

IM BACK FROM MY 2ND HAITUS WHATS UPPPP

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Had what I can only describe as a monumental crash out at work yesterday and made this to make myself feel better

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this render is actually everything to me, ughhh he looks so lovely.

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"You are safe here, both those of flesh and those of Fade."

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vigil's keep gang 💀💅✨

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Day 30: DA

My playable character's reactions to being asked to help random strangers:

Origins:

Vilisse- We should help them because it's what the Grey Wardens stand for. Takes a step back away from Alastair and Leliana. Also somehow helping out these people always seems to help us out in the end so *something* Andraste or otherwise is working with us here.

DA2:

Thalion- I have accidentally become politically important and I need to keep our reputation clean for my mother's sake, but on the down low we're over throwing the government one specific side quest at a time.

Inquisition:

Isil - I hate being cooped up in Skyhold so I'll use helping others as an excuse to get out. Good press for the inquisition, gain a little gold for the coffers, and I might find a couple people who don't know who I am so I can avoid the chanting and whispers of my name. Works out for everyone.

Veilguard:

Hui'ne -

Externally - Ah of course we'll help you. We always take care of our business partners and a believe in quid pro quo.

Internally - I will fucking punch the next person that asks me for a favor. I've picked the pockets of the last three nobles we've passed, AND that last person will find honey in EVERY nook and cranny of their house and will NEVER be rid of ants EVER again.

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Also I have like - a million WIPs...all related to Solas. I swear it's a it's a disease. I love so many other DA characters but yeah, HIM.

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“I’ll hold on to you, Hawke. Till the very end”

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𝐏𝐎𝐒𝐒𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐈𝐕𝐄 𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐌𝐏𝐓𝐒 (a collection of prompts about possessiveness and jealousy. Some have romantic undertones, but not all of them. Feel free to adjust phrasing and gendered terms as necessary) 

“Too bad, [NAME]. You’re stuck with me”

“It kills me to imagine you with anyone else.”

“You’re mine.”

“I’m not the jealous type, but what’s mine is mine.”

“Touch them and I’ll break your neck.”

“No one would hurt you again, or I’d kill them.”

“I could keep you safe, they’re all afraid of me.”

“This isn’t love, it’s obsession.”

“I will be good to you, [NAME]. I will protect you. You are mine.”

“You belong to me. Don’t forget this.”

“You don’t own me.”

“You’re mine and I’m yours.”

“All I want is to keep you.”

“I just want to be yours.”

“I’m yours, and yours alone.”

“Nothing will take you from me. Not even death.”

“Better to destroy everything than surrender you.”

“I never craved attention until I tasted yours.”

“I’m jealous of all the people that can see you every day.”

“Me, jealous? Yes.”

“Don’t touch this! It’s mine.”

“I don’t like sharing.”

“I never said you could borrow my stuff.”

“Get your filthy hands away from this.”

“I’m not one to share what is mine.”

“Is this my shirt? I never said you could take it.”

“I’m not jealous of them!”

“They have everything I want.”

“I am jealous of everybody who is with you when I’m not.”

“You will do as I say.”

“No matter how much you hurt your feet trying to escape, no matter how far you’re trying to run, I will never let you go anywhere again.”

“In the end, all you want is to possess me.”

“The center of your attention is a very bad place to be.”

“I gave you an order.”

“I don’t own you, you just belong to me.”

“I admit that I am very possessive.”

“I can be controlling, yes.”

“I don’t belong to anyone.”

“I need my own space.”

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What if instead of keeping a pet wyvern Lucanis goes several steps further and founds a Wyvern Sanctuary "The Dellamorte Nature Preserve", inadvertently becoming the first first talon who is actively engaging in environmental conservation entirely because no hunter in their right mind would go near a crow owned nature preserve.

And he can go look at wyverns whenever he wants.

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Your OC as a flower

I was tagged by @lathbora-virann - thank you so much, this was so much fun to go through! It was tough to decide on just one, I don't blame you for picking two!

Lath Lavellan

Clematis: A fragrant flower known to widely symbolize the beauty of ingenuity, mental prowess, and artifice. Victorian floriography also makes note of the clematis having an ability to weave dreams. The clematis has links with Apollo in Greek mythology and Venus in Roman mythology and a significance within Chinese culture too. All of which consider the clematis to represent beauty, elegance and transformation (with some variations between each culture). The Clematis is a climbing plant, with vines that possess an innate ability to ascend effortlessly. However the vines do also rely on the support of other plants and objects to reach the sunlight. Once situated, the clematis adapts to it's environment and is a great plant to have to support the ecosystem - specifically day and night pollinator such as bee's, butterflies and moths. It can come in a variety in colours and is sometimes affectionately called 'Queen of the Vines'.

I have a Clematis in my own garden, and I'm always amazed that it's resilient enough to keep climbing and trying. Especially considering how inconsistent the weather is in the UK. It was a trickier plant when we first planted it but once it had rooted itself, it began to climb closer to the sun prettily and elegantly. It's now always surrounded by some kind of pollinator and never fails to make me me smile whenever I catch sight of it.

I'd consider the above to have plenty of parallels to what I think of Lath. She's resilient, adaptable and once she's grounded herself enough, is always the first to nurture her environment. Much like the Clematis, she's adaptable but equally wouldn't get too far without the people she cares about supporting her climb and flourishes with their help. She's a graceful and a fighter and even through all of the unfortunate circumstances she's unexpectedly forced through, she doesn't give up and navigates it all with kindness. (yes I'm totally normal about her and definitely don't have approx 10 years worth of head canon locked and loaded).

I tag: @fall-like-lightning, @queenofperv, @dreadcubic, @lana-writes, @sllverchariot @galacticsparkles @luzial (no pressure at all, I always feel a lil awkward tagging these things and know it's not everyone's cup of tea!) and anyone else if they want to give it a go.

Can't wait to see yours if you do want to do it and sorry if anyone has already done it, I did try and check beforehand but I missed some last time I did one of these so who knows!

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we have always lived on the island

Solas was born thrice.

First to pain: the agony of his new body shrieking all around him. Every contraction of his muscles felt white-hot, burning him from the inside out. He was astonished by the heaviness of the flesh, the horrible sensation of his internal organs churning inside him. He blinked and was briefly shocked and terrified by the way the world around him could vanish and reappear so easily.

Second to grief: waking to feel the Veil shimmering on his skin. He knew already from his journeys in the Fade what his desperate recourse had wrought, but it was only in that moment, as he returned to full consciousness, that the weight of it finally descended on him. He lay for hours staring glassy-eyed at the cobwebbed rafters of the shrine where he had laid himself to rest. Shame and regret, heavy-lidded shadows. He had slept for thousands of years, and yet the thought of everything he had to do filled him with a despairing exhaustion.

Third, the last time, to safety: to the sound of the sea, and gentle hands at his temples.

On the dressing table beside him there is a little vase full of soft grey feathers. He does not understand where he is. He does not understand why he is alive at all. His eyes are blurred, his vision fogged, his mind clutches hopelessly at words through the thick treacle of his sluggish waking.

And yet, despite all the grey haze; he knows that face. Impossible, but in that moment he is not capable of doubting it. Instead he says, desperately, 'It is done?'

'Yes, Solas,' she says. 'It is done.'

He has so many questions, but he cannot ask them. Instead he starts to cry. It is done. It is done.

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After the Veil comes down, Solas falls back into uthenera. Lavellan watches over him, waiting for him to wake.

(oneshot, 11k)

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I took my little brother (autistic, mostly non verbal) out and he was using his voice keyboard to tell me something, and this little boy (maybe 4 or 5?) heard him and asked me "Is he a robot??" I tried to explain to him that no, he isn't a robot, he just communicates differently, but my darling brother was in the background max volume "I am robot I am robot I am robot I am robot"

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The best advice i can give any creator is do it before you're good at it, do it BEFORE you're happy, do it while you suck, do it while you're doubting yourself and get stuck the fuck in, because waiting around to be "good enough" is a motherfucking trap of the highest degree. You'll get good along the way and better after ever project is complete. Remember, this is the greatest thing you've ever created, and then you'll do something else. You're only ever gonna get better, but not if you stand still.

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Hawke, what the actual fuck?

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a lot of people have said that having a Regret Prison that locks you in until you confront and move on from your regrets for people who have 0 regrets makes no sense.

and they're right.

but no where did Veilguard actually say that was what the prison was.

Solas says that he was moving the Evanuris into a new prison because the old one was weakening. We only find out that the prison that Solas gets stuck in is the Regret Prison when Rook gets stuck there. Rook also doesn't get imprisoned as themselves, Solas manipulates them into someone the prison will mistake for him.

It's possible that the prison was built to adapt to the inhabitants to keep them locked in there. For Solas, he will never be able to process his regrets, at least not without help. So the Regret Prison is perfect for him.

And since Rook wasn't registered as a separate entity to Solas, they also got the Regret prison but were able to escape because it wasn't built for them.

so if everything had gone to plan then Elgar'nan and Ghilan'nain would've each been imprisoned by the thing they would never be able to confront. Possibly their own Pride, which would be incredibly poetic since Solas = Pride = their downfall.

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a very messy concept for a traditional oil painting i hope to start in the next week or so. i got a really uniquely shaped canvas that I’m excited about, so why not paint the inquisitor’s arrival in orlais? 👀 somehow i think this is simultaneously the least and most detailed sketch i’ve ever done.