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Viago: If you marry Lucanis but remain in my House, the other Talons will see it as an unacceptable consolidation of power and rebel.

Rook de Riva: No problem. I'll defect to House Egrativi.

Viago: ...

Rook de Riva: Hey, Jacobus! You're my boss now!

Jacobus: It's about time! Go get me a coffee!

Viago: You are both absolutely—

Rook de Riva: Sorry. Can't talk now. I have to get my boss a coffee.

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Another one I like a lot: write a POV or scene that cannot exist in the main narrative, for whatever reason (character who can't be there, POV is tight on the narrator and doesn't deviate, takes place before or after the story, etc etc). Do not write with the intent of using it. It doesn't need to be directly linked, doesn't need to be finished, doesn't need to 100% line up. Shake the structure, see what falls out.

6 Quick Writing Exercises to Wake Up Your Imagination

We all hit those blah writing days. Your fingers are ready, your doc is open... and your brain goes static. That’s where writing exercises come in — small creative boosts to shake off the dust and get back into your story flow. Here are six to try when your words feel stuck in traffic.

1. The 5-Minute Word Sprint

Pick a random word (use a generator or close your eyes and point at a book), set a 5-minute timer, and write anything involving that word. No stopping, no deleting.

2. Dialogue Without Context

Write a short convo between two people. No descriptions. No setting. Just back-and-forth lines.

3. Rewrite a Scene in Another Genre

Take a scene from your current story and flip the genre. Drama becomes comedy. Fantasy becomes sci-fi. Romance becomes horror.

4. Describe a Place Using the Five Senses — No Sight Allowed

Can’t mention what anything looks like. Only sound, touch, smell, taste, and intuition.

5. Character Swap POVs

Write a paragraph from the POV of a side character reacting to your main character. Bonus if the POV is brutally honest or completely wrong.

6. One Line Story Hooks

Write 3 one-sentence story starters that make you want to keep writing. (Example: “I woke up married to my enemy, and worse — he knew it before I did.”)

You don’t need to write a masterpiece every day. But showing up — even for a silly exercise — keeps the creative part of your brain warmed up. Try one of these before your next writing session, and see where it takes you. 🍒

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Me: *replaying Veilguard, just finished choosing between two cities*

Varric: "Now, don't get trapped in your regrets."

Me: YOU SONUVABITCH

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'i believe it's true 'cause nothing matters when i'm all wrapped up in you'

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I noticed something about one of the conversations Rook has with Solas in the Fade and I need to yap about it.

Not considering the first time (because it was the first time), Rook is always on their "camp" clothes when they're in the Prison, because in order to get there they need to be in their calmest, most relaxed state, and while in there they're usually collected, the most you can do is be a little sassy, but Rook is always aware and in control of their emotions.

Except here:

Which is right after Treviso or Minrathous gets blighted. It's right after the first decision Rook makes as a leader that has big consequences outside their own reach, and it's the first time Rook really loses their temper around Solas. It's the first time they can actually yell at him.

In my opinion, it's also the first time the Prison itself shifts to accept Rook. Because Rook is still in the battle, their mind is still set in what just happened (for me, it's the same reason as to why Spite always shows up in Lucanis' default armor, because mentally he never takes it off). Rook is shaken, they're angry and upset about the decision they made, and in their eyes Solas is condescending about it. He doesn't care that one of the cities is lost, why would he? All that matters to him is "fixing" what he did centuries ago.

Except this is also one of the most important moments of their journey so far. If Solas misshandles Rook now, he loses the leverage he had against them in the first place. He needs them to be angry, and he needs them to see a way out of this anger as well. This is where my absolute favorite conversation in the entire game takes place. "They called me the Dread Wolf. What will they call you, when its over?". Right now Rook is Solas, and Rook is exactly what the Prison will accept in his place.

He could've taken them right there, but he would've joined the fight with little to no information or advantage against the Evanuris. So he keeps to himself, he works with what he has, and he waits.

And idk I think it's one of the best scenes in the game actually.

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‘unreliable narrator’ but it’s ’narrator is deeply in love with the person they are narrating’

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girl you would flourish under my dark tutelage

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Absolutely delighted to have been devastated by this one and now I have come to drag anyone I can down with me.

Tracing Names in Ash

A (complete) post-Tearstone Island twoshot

Chapter 1 | Chapter 2

Rating: M

Relationship: Rookanis

Words: 4,799

Warnings: Descriptions of canon-typical violence, heavy angst, dissociation

Summary: The sky is bloody, and this is not something anyone can solve with knives. He’d seen this. He’d known. He’d said, “Don’t make promises you might not keep.” The rising wind had moaned in his ears.

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Lucanis goes to her as the rest scatter like leaves, the broken tension blowing each of them to their own preparations. Rook turns as light as a dancer at his fingers on her arm. It is the first time they have touched since Tearstone, and his skin burns against the fabric of her filthy sleeve. Spite’s a physical need clenching in his hands and a frisson clawing its way up his spine. There is too much he—they—he wants in this moment. He wants to weep, and hold her, and scream, maybe not in that order, maybe all at once. He wants to say—the bright thing—anything, everything. He opens his mouth. The words that come out are, “Are you alright?”  The disgust that surges through him is equal parts his own and his demon's, but he can't find anything else to say.  Rook looks at him for a long, thrumming moment out from her baleful mask. Her eyes are less rain-washed sky than they are chips of glazed tile: flat and dead under their shine, more than weary or mourning. Then she grins. It is an awful thing. “I can collapse when this is over,” she says easily. 

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While I don't necessarily like the idea of Spite a willing participant in the rookanis relationship because I like the idea of spirits not really being about the whole sex thing unless they're Made For That i.e. certain types of desire spirits/demons I do think he makes the whole thing so much worse for Lucanis at the start because he doesn't really know what sexual attraction is but what he *does* know is that whatever Lucanis is currently feeling is a *good* feeling and in his short stint in the mortal world he really has not experienced a lot of those so he's always trying to encourage Lucanis to YES FEEL MORE OF THAT and when he figures out that it's Rook causing those feelings it's actually game over

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2 as a writer, 1 as a reader. Bbs you do whatever you WANT I am here to support your choices. Keep fandom fun and weird. Bless you, yes, do the AU where they’re hotdogs. Live your life.

I, on the other hand, will be over here anxiously googling the average knot speed of a Portuguese caravel and stressing about it (true story) but that’s a me problem, ok???

There are two types of writers:

1. 'It's fiction, it doesn't need to make sense!'

2. 'I didn't account for the rotation of the planet and how that affects the constalations while my characters stargazed at different times of year, I have failed as a writer, and this entire thing is trash'

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me as a writer

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"aww is the rook scared of heights?"

"shut it"

rook has some great idling animations when standing near the precipice. bonus points cuz i caught lucanis smirking

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OC + Core

Rules: go to pinterest, search "your OC's name + core", post six pictures & tag however many you want

Thank you for the tag @rookamell!

My best girl.... I love her........

@adejareve if you feel like it!!