#preparing to launch

[anbaisai]

In light of the uh, recent news regarding the new Halloween event posted by @raven-at-the-writing-desk...

It's so over for me 💔

[gawki]

Store is officially open! I’ll be posting the new goodies soon.

Store!

[mumms-the-word]

Bound by Blood - Prologue

Prologue

Characters: Alistair, fem!Surana, Zevran, fem!Tabris, and basically the rest of the DAO crew Plot: Seventeen-year-old Nyssa Surana never expected to find herself a Grey Warden - let alone one of three surviving Wardens, one of which is her own cousin, Velle Tabris. She's the last person anyone would ever choose to save the world. Young, inexperienced, deeply anxious, and only just out of the Circle Tower for the first time in a decade, she's convinced she's as unlikely a hero as unlikely heroes come. But someone has to save Ferelden from the Fifth Blight...and keep her cousin out of trouble...and try not to fall in love with the charming Alistair Theirin, all at the same time. Three impossible tasks, but she's determined to succeed, even with the odds stacked against her. A/N: A quick poetic prologue to get us started. More to come!

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She was only seventeen.

So young, and yet already burdened with responsibility.

Only seventeen, yet bearing the weight of an entire kingdom on her shoulders. Only seventeen, yet it was up to her and two other Wardens to defeat an oncoming Blight, the fifth in the history of all of Thedas. Only seventeen, yet she was expected to fill the shoes of heroes who were twice, three times her age when they gave their lives to defeat previous Blights.

She was only seventeen, but the world did not stop for her to remain young and carefree.

She was not meant to be one of three surviving Grey Wardens. She should have died in the Joining, or in the battle, or at the top of the Tower of Ishal. But the Maker had a sense of humor, if he was intervening at all, and so there she stood outside the ramshackle hut of Flemeth and her daughter, along with two other Grey Wardens not much older than her, each of them burdened with the weight of the impossible task ahead.

Part of her wished to hide until she was older, but Blights and Archdemons didn’t care about age. Younger women than her would die if she hid and did nothing. Children would not be spared the onslaught of the darkspawn hoard. She knew that. She had seen their vicious brutality firsthand.

She had to fight, no matter how naive and inexperienced and young she felt. If she didn’t, who would?

She was only seventeen. But the Blight, like death, did not discriminate. She had survived the Joining. Now she had to make that sacrifice mean something.

[aethersea]

Hello! I am really enjoying your Thistle the Show analysis posts, there are some really interesting ideas in that show! (and also from a goncharov-ing a story perspective they are so much fun to read)

eyy I'm so glad! I love that show, I love the heavy atmosphere and the overwrought symbolism and the 'power of the land' magic that's never fully explained and the tragedy of it all, god this show is so good at tragedy for something that does technically earn a happy ending. if KILLING OFF YOUR EPONYMOUS PROTAGONIST can count as a happy ending, god, I never recovered, even if he did come back to life afterward that still just MURDERED me.

it's so thematically satisfying is the thing T.T he dies and I'm just sitting there like....the themes......we're breaking the cycles of trauma and vengeance.......

[everlastiingiimmortals]

do we all agree that robin could kick sunday's ass

[butterfirefly]

Episode 7 has Hoshina byeeeee

no I am not gonna talk about my precious son being turned into swiss cheese nor 9's hilarious reaction to him and Iharu (it's already been turned into a meme bless) but HOSHINA. yes. Hoshina. The vice captain. Soushiro. Hoshina fuku taichou. Hoshina of the third division. my hu-

[doriana-gray-games]

We miss you, notice me!

❤️

I’ve been gone for good reasons—as the game’s discord can tell you—I’ve been writing a lot, more than usual ☺️ tho that does mean I’ve been neglecting this place. I’m sorry tumblr anons 🥺 I’ll try and find a little time for you all too ❤️

[hungerpunch]

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[beloved-child-of-the-house]

so i'm writing an 8th year fic and h&d are taking a muggle studies class together in which they read one of shakespeare's plays, and i'm trying to write a final project (for which they are partners) but like. hogwarts academics don't seem all that uhhhhh rigorous to me (like we see the students complaining about having to write a foot of parchment which is essentially ONE PAGE HANDWRITTEN) and i'm a little worried that my assignment is too rigorous.

it involves a lot of like. thinking analytically and using your imagination wrt the motivations of people unlike yourself, and that's not rlly something they do much at hogwarts as far as i can see. BUT it is muggle studies, and like. they could definitely all use some practice at those skills, following the recent implosion of their society.

[scleracentipede]

New logo !

[opalias]

[carajubu]

People only ask "how are you doing" and "what do you do for fun" and not "what fandoms are you currently hyper fixated with" or "which fictional characters do you ship" and it's so lame

[petit-papillion]

I could listen to Charles talk in Italian all day.. 💕

SF-24 Launch Day | 13 February 2024

🎥 giada_canelita

[not-quitenormal]

When your Jewish therapist says Hitler was a center of the universe and it triggers the first massive migraine in a while.

I know that leaving this on the website that pisses on poor people will be a bad move, but fuck it. Let your minds explode a bit with me.

[cruentaquevivere]

SpaceX’s Starship exploded shortly after launching around 8:30am CDT on 4/20/2023.

SpaceX is allergic to the words “failure” and “explosion”

[iwatcheditbegin]

I know he’s talking about sale loses, but it’s genuinely chilling to hear the words “she’ll probably pay a price” in regards to endorsing a democrat from a man who encouraged a insurrection