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Chapters: 3/? Fandom: Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Rook/Emmrich Volkarin Characters: Rook (Dragon Age), Emmrich Volkarin, Neve Gallus, Bellara Lutare Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Coffee Shops & Cafés, Alternate Universe - College/University, Alternate Universe - Modern Setting Summary:

Modern AU where Emmrich is an anthropology professor, and Rook is the barista at his favorite coffee shop.

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After like half a year, I finally found the motivation to finish another chapter after a pretty gnarly bout of insomnia. 

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tag your traumatized man comfort character

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Dragon Age - All Media Types, Mass Effect - All Media Types, Dragon Age: Inquisition Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Female Inquisitor/Cullen Rutherford, Cullen Rutherford/Female Trevelyan Characters: Cullen Rutherford, Female Inquisitor (Dragon Age) Additional Tags: Enemies to Lovers, Alternate Universe- Mass Effect Summary:

Lieutenant Trevelyan of the Alliance Navy survives her ship exploding, only to be stranded halfway across the galaxy with Cullen Rutherford, a Cerberus operative.

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A Cullen/F!Inquisitor Mass Effect AU

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making any sort of AU with Cullen in it is so so hard because like... the prejudice that is so central to his character is only really understandable in the very specific circumstances of the DA universe. Transplant him anywhere else and he's just racist.

And obviously you can write a story about a racist overcoming their bias, but you don't start from the same point of empathy you do with normal DA universe Cullen because the templars are kind of right.

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does everyone else have their like one contrarian dragon age plot decision where your hill to die on is that the unpopular choice is better/makes more sense in-world/creates a more interesting narrative. for me it's sacrificing the chargers for sure qunari bull they could never make me hate you

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a brief anti-AI rant

Since gen AI became popular, mostly everyone in my social circle has been against it, and I stupidly thought that was the prevailing sentiment for the average person. I started my master's program a few months ago, and the amount of people who use AI for everything is so shocking to me. We have to do a lot of group projects, and multiple classmates have fully admitted they don't think they can write at a graduate level and they have ChatGPT rewrite their first draft to bring it up to a graduate level (which it doesn't, I have to go back and edit their slop before turning it in). Having to work with these people for massive projects feels like trying to run a relay race with people who are still learning how to walk.

The worst part is, the program is for a career that involves handling a lot of personal/private client data. Multiple classmates have had ChatGPT write mock client treatment plans for them, meaning they aren't actually developing this very important skill and will likely continue to use ChatGPT for treatment plans in the future when they're dealing with real people's private info. They don't even get now negligent that is because they DO NOT UNDERSTAND HOW AI WORKS. They seem to genuinely think ChatGPT is their own personal, private chatbot trained on Encyclopedia Britannica and a list of grammar rules; not that it's a data harvesting slop mill trained on the entirety of fucking Reddit.

tl,dr; going to grad school has made me realize how many people are using AI for everything, while not understanding how it works at all, and it is driving me up the fucking wall.

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leliana when she becomes divine

care about other people. i am no longer asking

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Reblog to give prev the power to write their fanfiction

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gives u a lil kiss on the forehead

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ahhhhhh ty for sharing, I just dm'd them on nexus to see if they wanted to work with some other people to add more entries to the mod!

veilguard mod idea- make a da keep esque questionnaire, get together a collective of fanfic writers to write codex entries to put into the game to give resolutions to some of the different choices that got ignored.

a grey warden report on hof's whereabouts (if they survived), a letter from kieran to morrigan, a journal entry from varric about how he's handled hawke's disappearance, a letter from the southern divine to the inquisitor, y'all get the idea.

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veilguard mod idea- make a da keep esque questionnaire, get together a collective of fanfic writers to write codex entries to put into the game to give resolutions to some of the different choices that got ignored.

a grey warden report on hof's whereabouts (if they survived), a letter from kieran to morrigan, a journal entry from varric about how he's handled hawke's disappearance, a letter from the southern divine to the inquisitor, y'all get the idea.

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The world is in great peril, and you are the unlucky protagonist who must save it! Spin this wheel three times and get your Dragon Age party that you're stuck trying to save it with.

Feel free to reroll repeats. Most are companions, but there are also a few companion-adjacent possibilities. You can assume that you as the protagonist have a basic level of combat competency even if you don't in real life, so don't worry about yourself

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chat cbt

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Girl brush the crumbs off your tits and keep going <3

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we need to ban the word hyperfixation okay... you have a HOBBY you have an INTEREST

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if yes please share her favorite song in the tags

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emmrich volkarin