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always an angel/ never a god

(thank you to babes @plisuu and @queenaeducan for the WIP wednesday tags!! 💖)

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charlotte: i don’t understand why the templars are also rebelling 🥺 i thought they were working with the chantry to keep us all safe!

miranda: it’s because the chantry is run by women. men will do anything to avoid taking us seriously

samantha: well, i’ve known plenty of mages and templars, and the only difference was that the mages didn’t need lyrium to get it up

carrie: big is moving to treviso

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ive seen ppl using /gen, but what abt /nom, /voc, /acc, /dat and /abl?

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when one of your shy mutuals puts something WILD in the tags

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Companions combat animation by Jessica Simard, DA:tV gameplay animator, currently senior animator at Larian Studios.

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Everyone shut up! It’s the ten year anniversary

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everyone take my 114 result ‘which character are you’ uquiz

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bro, does this party have perfectly ripe summer heirloom tomatoes or do we need to pregame?

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Tim Curry photographed for After Dark Magazine, March 1975

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imo one of THE best resources on this topic (which I believe I found via matt bell’s substack no failure only practice) is virginia tufte’s seminal reference text artful sentences: syntax as style.

I used to be very vibes-based about these exact kind of writing logistics, and artful sentences gave me actual!! knowledge!! to understand the different parts of sentences and how they're used as mechanisms for meaning.

having real clarity around noun phrases, verb phrases, prepositions, etc. allows me to write with more precision and feel less conflicted about where to put a dialog tag. tufte also includes chapters about cohesion and syntactic symbolism so it's not just about parts of speech!

anyway I highly recommend artful sentences, but be warned it is a reference text and therefore can be difficult to read straight through (not a knock on virginia tufte's prose at all! she's a master of her craft). I borrowed a copy through my local library and ended up buying my own to have on my desk permanently I loved it so much

it is honestly amazing how much of writing and editing is just. logistics. like... do i use a name here or a pronoun? if i move this dialogue tag to the middle of this line and break it in half, does the end of the line hit harder that way? what if i move the tag to the front? what if i remove it entirely? ...wait, whose point of view am i in; can i reasonably say this character is appalled, or must i say they look or seem or sound appalled? is this a deliberate action or a step-removed one; is her hand closing on his shoulder, or is she closing her hand on his shoulder? environment environment environment, we need to break all this dialogue up with some narration, the scene is coming untethered. what! are! they doing! with! the rest of their bodies that are not hands! fuck fuck fuck FUCK i forgot we covered this two chapters ago and now i either need to cut this whole chunk or find a reason to reprise the conversation from earlier. name or pronoun? name or pronoun? name or pronoun? move this clause around in this sentence? oh i'll add this phrase-- nope, never mind, past!me added the same phrase two lines down. okay, if i add too much environmental narration it's going to take away from this bit, but not enough and it won't feel grounded. what if i move this to its own line? where the FUCK are their hands?

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SPEAKING of the the art book this fuckign concept art of what looks like the crestwood scene has had me by the throat for longer than im willing to admit

bringing lavellan to this place to tell her you’re fen’harel while standing UNDER A GIANT STATUE OF YOYRSELF IM GOING INSAANNNNEE

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you’re all i need

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i understand why some people hate them but i do love video game achievements because im a sick bastard who likes it when the developers call me a good boy

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The herald with her elven servingman <3

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Managed to snag an Ariadne x Tarquin picture from the talented @catebees. It is absolute perfect, thank you so much!

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every inquisition playthrough be like