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You're afraid to write because you care too much about your craft. Not because you suck.

You want it to be perfect. Worthy. You're scared it won't be good enough. But the thing is, everything you write is worthy if you write it with heart.

That fear doesn't make you a fraud, or lazy. It makes you a perfectionist who doesn't write as much as they should because their fear is choking them. Your writing will never be perfect—nothing ever is.

So stop waiting for the perfect moment and go pour your heart out. Unleash your wild—and slightly disturbing—imagination onto those pages. Go create magic that only you can make.

GO WRITE THE THING YOU KEEP THINKING ABOUT DAY AND NIGHT. And make sure you write it for yourself before anyone else!

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me when someone abruptly asks me if i want to go and do something fun together but the fun thing wasn't part of my daily plan:

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Ciao Grey! For kiss roulette number 22, with Cullen and Aislin.

E facciamoli scaldare un po' sti due🔥

You said to heat them up... 😌✨🔥 ~ French kiss

Cut before Tumblr comes at me with pitchforks, thanks you so much for asking, dear, any time! <3

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brialavellan would literally go hard as fuck

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More medieval dyes for y'all!

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my most well kept veilguard hot take is that the “vhenan” solas lets out when he sees lavellan in that final scene made me bust out laughing the first time I saw it. I don’t know why

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really annoys me when my mutual's art doesn't get 10 billion notes. none of you have good taste. pony up and reblog

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day six - reunion featuring @pickelda's thea lavellan and cullen!

She is Inquisitor at the gates, Thea when she shuts the door behind him.

Weary of eyes upon him, Cullen finds hers don't weather him as others do. There isn't a glimpse of the demons he faced in Kinloch Hold in them, the only questions she asks take nothing to answer. Yes, tea would be nice. No, the fire's perfect.

He catches her hand when she sets the cup on the table beside him, nursing his lips against her knuckles.

"Don't stray too far," he asks her, and so she settles in his lap, laughing like she told a joke.

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day seven - celebration solas x non-binary!lavellan. aka solian.

Solas had heard the vows in the mouths of the People a hundred times before this, words said between lovers who had nothing but themselves, never dreaming they would one day be his. Ian traces the shape of his lips with a wonder greater than any divine worship— a love he can touch.

Though he is the taller one between them, it seems, somehow, that Ian falls upon him; kissing him as he has done a thousand times before now.

And yet all is made new.

There are no endings, only new beginnings written in the corners of Ian's smile.

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throwback to the milves <3

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“Is this the company you would present as the Inquisition?” “I know, right? You people are weird.”

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What they don't tell you about writing is that as you write, you discover scenes and entire plots that you hadn't accounted for that need to be written. So you can spend two hours writing and editing only to realise you're further away from the finish line than you thought you were when you started

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I love her

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!

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