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i love fic authors who are gooners with such closely held artistic sensibilities that it nearly eclipses the goon. we shall goon, but first we shall follow 70k minimum of a meticulously-plotted and spectacularly-executed character arc replete with several devastating psychological portraits and some trenchant political commentary on what it means to be a human in this world.

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Just remembered I put him in The Invitation before going to see the Butcher one time just to get the screenshots

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Oohhh nooooo I made another fake cover for a fic!!! One I've barely started!! NOOOO!!!

Thought a lot (but not too much) about symbolism on this one

Castling is a move in chess where the rook moves beside the king, then the king jumps over it to a more defensible position

In the cover, the King is both the dagger and even the hollow part of Solas to be sought after/healed/redeemed/ etc etc

Solas is inside the silhouette of the rook (cos he's in rook's head geddit)

Dawes and Harding are facing away from each other this time but still reach to each other despite the lyrium poisoning!! They have so much to focus on but still only think about each other

Castling Queenside means using the rook on the queen's side of the board!! Cos Harding is the queen hehehoho

Also lemme put em next to each other tumblr crop be kind you fuck

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Luck in the Gardens is my favourite story so far!!! Reading about Minrathous and Tevinter on the wiki really doesn't compare to immersing yourself in it in the books.

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What it felt like when Harding chewed out The Egg at the end of the game~<3

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(takes a drag of a cigarette) Nothing quite like looping You Have Everything That You Need and writing out those missing moments from Harding's perspective after Rook passes out at the ritual site

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In that horrifying stage of writing where the goal is to just get the story out in any way you can (oh it's awful oh oh oh)

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Noodled out some previous outfits for a younger Dawes while I was in class today! I based the older clothing on the concept art for Minrathous citizens from the artbook.

Dawes at 28 doing what he could to survive (he got tied up with a few thieving crews) while also trying to find his mother who he couldn't even be sure was still in Minrathous.

30 brought his run-in with the Venatori (left with a nasty lightning injury and got beat to shit). Also lost his mother. Rock bottom for this guy, but at least the Shadow Dragons took him in.

Dawes at 35 just before the Nessus job. He's put on muscle, has access to clothes, supplies, weapons, even a small salary. All things considered, it's going well for him (despite all the problems in the Imperium).

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Got me sketching them again

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alert alert rooklace fic 2 has offically begun words are officially in the doc!!!! I missed my grumpy guy a lot time to put him through the horrors

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Finished the fake book cover for rooklace fic 2 electric boogaloo before writing a single word of it

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THOROUGHLY enjoying Tevinter Nights!! I know I could skip ahead to The Wigmaker Job but some fundamental part of my being will not allow me to do anything out of order

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There's just something very insane to me about this quest that has no markers, that's so easy to miss because the little caves aren't identified and are only found if you're being extremely thorough with your exploring.

All I could hear was Solas condescending to Rook, "Many would have died, I know. But afterward, flowers would grow again." and how Rook is such an inverted mirror to Solas' despair and "burn it down" mentality.

Rook spends all their *own* effort (rather than treating other people as necessary sacrifices for good things to appear once more, risking their own life (because these spots are frequented by darkspawn and spirits) finding flowers to soothe Despair Undying, and bring back Hope.

It's such a bookend to the quest in Dock Town, where you give names to people who brought joy, and art, and knowledge to the world.

I'm always thinking of Lord of the Rings, and often of The Council of Elrond and I hear Tolkien's echoes in this game, over and over.

“It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not. It is wisdom to recognize necessity, when all other courses have been weighed, though as folly it may appear to those who cling to false hope.”

To take the hard road, not the expedient one, to resist becoming the very thing you fight against.

Ugh.

I love this game so much.

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No idea when I decided today was gonna be a rest day but it was somewhere between reading in bed for two hours and writing 1k words of rookquin

I'm calling it refilling the well