you are the hero of ferelden. no matter your origin you watch those you love most be ripped from you. death becomes an endless cycle which seems to follow you wherever you go. the fate of the world rests on your shoulders as you know you can never return home. home is gone now. home is buried with your family, jailed with your closest ally, cradled by the ancestors, forgotten like your beloved, lost to time in the murky glass of the eluvian- dead in your arms, killed at your hand. you are the hero of ferelden and it is your destiny to die. when next the world falls apart, you do not come. this world does not deserve your pity.
you are the champion of kirkwall. you are a refugee, cold and hungry and sold into labour. your mother hates you, though she will never say it. it's your fault the ogre killed your sibling, your fault the taint took the other. but you are happy. you have everything, friends and family and status and riches. you defeat the people plaguing your glorious city, you are the people's hero. you will always know even as she came back, isabela left you to die. you are happy but you are alone. you have everything and then you are rocking back and forth begging please please please do not take my mother as well. you have nothing, but you for a single second, you had everything. you are the champion of kirkwall, and your ally has blown up the chantry. where is your home now that everything is your fault?
you are the herald of andraste. and you are so, so scared. these people do not trust you, do not like you, would feed you to the fade if they could. they do not care if you follow another religion, you are their herald. you can never return home because heroes do not have homes. they say home is the people you choose, but you didn't choose these people, did you? every step you take aches. thousands reach out to touch you, for safety. for comfort. you are a black hole close to destruction, and you cannot do this. you are the herald of andraste and you have not been yourself for so long now.
What a time to be alive.
Happy Black History Month to all and to all a good night ❤️🖤💚
Nothing beats the feeling when you start getting comments on every fic in a fandom or ship from one person, and it’s clear that they’re going on a fic-binge.
In the gay sex dungeon doing my crossword with a coffee, occasionally looking up with mild interest
Friends described living under the Trump Administration as being slowly beaten to death by a rubber chicken.
It still hurts. It's still painful. But you keep hearing a synthetic BAWWW every time it hits you as a constant reminder of how it's the stupidest possible way to die.
When you sit down to write, and the entire scene plays out perfectly in your mind, but on paper it ends up looking like this: “he smiled, his smiling eyes staring at them with a hint of smile”
The question mark option will never not be funny to me.
Like, how many chapters?
Idk.
I—the author—am just as curious as you are.
I need more punching in Inuyasha. Give me an oc who travels from the modern world who doesn't have powers or a magical weapon, but they've been boxing since they were a kid.
"No, Naraku, I don't have any special abilities. But let me get close enough and my knuckles can introduce your nose to the back of your head just fine."
You know what I really love?
How Inuyasha and Kaede are just like bros. Not even by the end. More like by the middle. Kaede gives him shit. He returns that shit. There's some vitriole in the beginning but at some point Kaede is fucking with him and he's in on the bit.
They commiserate on their common point of sadness. At the end when Kagome is gone for those three years he seems to actually be hanging out with and just chill with her. It's nice.