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The scene is this: you and I stand in the room that is the center of my universe.

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A moment of rest ✨

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astarion’s “i’ve almost forgotten how much color there is in the world” line is so infinitely more heartbreaking when you realize he’s an elf- which means by dnd/baldurs gate rules he has darkvision

darkvision, which allows certain character races to see in the dark but only in shades of gray

this man quite literally has been living almost 200 years in complete colorless darkness or at the very least with a very limited visualization and only just now is able to see a full spectrum of color….

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MAY YOU NEVER LOSE YOUR HYPERFIXATION

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Gentle reminder, first drafts are for putting it all on the page and out of your head. First drafts are for telling. Later drafts are for showing. So keep writing that first draft. You've got this.

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me: i’m gonna write something fun and low stakes!

also me: creates 3 timelines, 9 characters with trauma, a fictional language, and a 45-page outline i will never follow

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"Maybe the journey isn't about becoming anything. Maybe it's about unbecoming everything that isn't really you, so that you can be who you were meant to be in the first place."

— Paulo Coelho

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the years have made me weird and strange to talk to. but still i must post

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Halsin.

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— Nitya Prakash

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My brain went BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR with those lately.

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Simone de Beauvoir, from a diary entry featured in Diary of a Philosophy Student

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I am good. I am loved.

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so soft it hurts