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"Is it a safe space to say i hate-" NOT IN THE MAINTAGS IT ISNT

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if ur mad at me this is who your mad at

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insistence on a canon for rpg games especially games like dragon age is always eugh because it goes against a lot of what the games promise and encourage players to be interested in. and to take it one step further i think playing with what is even allowed to be part of the games options is fun

like for example i used to download mods to romance solas and blackwell playing as a woman/non elf and mods to romance morrigan playing as a woman, and i consider those gameplays as equally ’canon’ as ‘intended’ romance options because why not!

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i dont even have to come up with new dialogue to have solas and rook say in the fic because they Just Interact Like That

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solas & rook

elektra, sophokles / agamemnon, aeschylus / escam escapism anthology/ richard siken / ??? / david levithan, the lover's dictionary / if we were villains, m. l. rio/ journal 1970-1986, andrei tarkovsky

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its takin me more time to write the next chapter of misery business due to Issues but believe me. when i lock in its over

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It May Frankly Be Worse But We Stay Silly !!!!

ive been going though. vague hand gestures. gastrointestinal issues. but we prevail nonetheless

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ive been going though. vague hand gestures. gastrointestinal issues. but we prevail nonetheless

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chapter is out muhaha

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starts gasping writhing on the floor hitting my head against the wall

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i love like, pseudosex

erotic vampire bites, magic ritual that feels Very Good to participants, multi-person fusion, mind-meld, sexy mitosis, consensual mindfuck, love-hivemind, being tfed into something or other, that sort of stuff

its hot

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its fucking dember.

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i think it's extremely fun to pair rook and solas together in any regard, no matter if he previously was being romanced because as clear narrative foils, having an enemies to lovers (and in tandem, bitch4bitch, hater x hater) dynamic feeds into that delicious 'whenever I see you I see myself and I hate that' and 'you are everything I hate about myself' soup.

I once saw a post with a collection of quotes that had this certain vibe, in the 'you and I are the same' (negative) way. if i had a quote to represent them it would be:

so shipping them feels very complex and interesting to think about, because, like in that one dialogue

(first of all, like c'mon) furthermore it's the cycle. rook is to solas what solas was to elgar'nan, there are several times in the game, especially the end, where they can see each other in each other. even if you dont see it in a shipping lenses (which you dont have to!) this is a juicy story.

moreover, at the end of the game if rook outwits solas by giving him the fake ritual dagger, solas not only recognizes that he was out played by 'wits alone' he also says that he's met his match. this mimics the several stories of fen'harel who uses his wits, wisdom etc to get out of a situation

(example: the story of fen'harel, andruil and anaris, solas goading them both into fighting each other so he could get out paralleling solas making rook fight the gods and in addition a thousand other enemies in order to get himself enough time to get out of the fade prison without rook getting ahead of it)

the betrayal too, i don't have much to say that hasn't been said already about the prison switcheroo, (evokes solas's betrayal of felassan yada yada) other then it's really tasty.

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'bad ending' solas and rook (pt.ii)

antigone by jean anouilh / the art of dragon age: the veilguard (pg.45) / how we fight for our lives by saeed jones / 'dantes inferno' by samuel michlap / 'the binding of fenrir' (1909) by mabel dorothy hardy / 'i am tired of making a religion out of my suffering' by fatima aamer bilal / 'the vision of the valley of dry bones' (1866) by gustave dore / psalm of scattered ashes by ashley mares / the lathe of heaven by ursula k. le guin / the last man on earth by wolf alice / 'the hypocrites' (unk.) by gustave dore / 'the tower' (dragon age: inquisition official art) / [source not found]

(pt.i)

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its hard out here.....

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this is me rn with my solrook fic because wdym. i can imagine them sloppy kissing Just fine but when i have to write it suddenly uhhhh googooo gaga

executive dysfunction gets me So bad when im writing because I have the visual of a story beat so well thought out that it gets hard to verbalize it or write it down so im stuck staring at the damn screen for hours