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can we take a moment to just think about how incredibly scary magical healing is in-context?

You get your insides ripped open but your friend waves his hands and your flesh just pulls back together, agony and evisceration pulling back to a ‘kinda hurts’ level of pain and you’re physically whole, with the 100% expectation that you’ll get back up and keep fighting whatever it was that struck you down the first time.

You break your arm after falling somewhere and after you’re healed instead of looking for ‘another way around’ everybody just looks at you and goes “okay try again”.

You’ve been fighting for hours, you’re hungry, thirsty, bleeding, crying from exhaustion, and a hand-wave happens and only two of those things go away. you’re still hungry, you’re still weak from thirst, but the handwave means you have ‘no excuse’ to stop.

You act out aggressively maybe punch a wall or gnash your teeth or hit your head on something and it’s hand-waved because it’s ‘such a small injury you probably can’t even feel it anymore’ but the point was that you felt it at all?

Your pain literally means nothing because as long as you’re not bleeding you’re not injured, right? Here drink this potion and who cares about the emotional exhaustion of that butchered village, why are you so reserved in camp don’t you think it’s fun retelling that time you fell through a burning building and with a hand-wave you got back up again and ran out with those two kids and their dog? 

Older warriors who get a shiver around magic-users not because of the whole ‘fireball’ thing but the ‘I don’t know what a normal pain tolerance is anymore’ effect of too much healing. Permanent paralysis and loss of sensation in limbs is pretty much a given in the later years of any fighter’s life. Did I have a stroke or did the mage just heal too hard and now this side of my face doesn’t work? No i’m not dead from the dragon’s claws but I can’t even bend my torso anymore because of how the scar tissue grew out of me like a vine.

Magical healing is great and keeps casualties down.

But man.

That stuff is scary.

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So the good news for those reading Ashes is that I've retired from mythic raiding in WoW. The bad news is I've become addicted to Star Wars: the Old Republic game.

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You, a cleric, have been kidnapped by a wild orc clan. Why did they kidnap you? Because as a cleric you have the gift of blessing others in the name of your gods, and the orcs want you to bless their chieftain’s marriage.

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You’re a park ranger of a very dense forest and you take care of everything, including the supernatural cryptids. One day, a murder happens in your forest and the culprit evades the authorities. You then politely ask the cryptids for their aid in the culprit’s capture. They agree.

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These are my current hyperfixation songs

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After the five chapters posted tonight, it's still gonna be like six more chapters maybe? IDK I'm bad at figuring out chapter breaks

Still writing, I promise, I'm just hyperfixated

I am still actively writing Ashes (as if I could ABANDON Obi-Wan and Adrina in their hour of need). BUT, I probably won't be updating it until I finish writing through Ep 3. By my estimates, that's about six more chapters.

Famine now, feast later. It will be worth it! (I hope.)

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For 10+ years a child goes to a forest to play/talk with the fairies there despite local legends of their sadism/cruelty, and afflicting fates worse than death. So when the now 16 y/o child is abducted, the traffickers find out not all local legends are BS when the fairies come for their “pet”.

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“What happened? What sort of spell was that? Is that an unforgivable curse?”, “It’s called sniper rifle, you wizardly scum”

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“I cannot promise our safety, but as much as it is in my power, I will always come back to you.” ~ Obi-Wan Kenobi, Ashes by ElentariR on AO3

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Average person: how does writing work

writer: Well u type an u delete. You rethink. Then u do 187 min of research and correct it. You reread and wonder if u hav a grasp of english. Then u revise

person: then ur done with the book?

writer: then u move onto the next sentence

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Just wanted to draw ghost Ahsoka @osfi-am

Happy Halloween :)

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@jeorgiii requested clone wars trio self care affirmations!!! ...and my lizard brain immediately had to draw this meme

(ko-fi requests are open!!)

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Still writing, I promise, I'm just hyperfixated

I am still actively writing Ashes (as if I could ABANDON Obi-Wan and Adrina in their hour of need). BUT, I probably won't be updating it until I finish writing through Ep 3. By my estimates, that's about six more chapters.

Famine now, feast later. It will be worth it! (I hope.)

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The playlist inspired by Ashes, my Star Wars fanfic on Ao3

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One unlucky encounter set her on a course that would plunge her into a galactic war. In which, from the ashes of her life, she found a place to call home. SLOW burn, canon re-write

Obi-Wan/OC

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“Do you have a metal arm?” Bucky looked down at the boy and glanced at his exposed left hand. “Yeah.” “Can I touch it?” Bucky blinked. “Sure.” The boy slowly poked Bucky’s metal hand. “Cool.” Steven drew out the word. “You're awesome."