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rainy stardew day

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obsessed with whatever distracts me from the horrors of being alive

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#iluhyu #lmao

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For girls who are so uninteresting 💛

#i dont like spring lol

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Hawke when you choose to leave him in the Fade

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WGSHDJJDKDKDKDLSK??????

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When you're playing Mass Effect 2 again

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#ok look..... i dont dislike him i just dont like him #i understand why he is the way he is... but it doesnt mean ifs justified in my mind ok #im sorry dont hate me 😭

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“Go with the Inquisitor, Carver, I’ll be right behind you.”

.Here Lies the Abyss; only you have to choose which Hawke to leave behind.

#ugly sobbing

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My husband and I developed a theory so please play along and tell me where you are in birth order (oldest, middle, youngest, only) and if you think having siblings is overall a positive or negative thing.

#oldest #i love my brothers i just had to take a lot of emotional responsibility for the one i grew up with (divorved parents and 10+ yr young bro) #and it took a lot of work to make myself his sibling instead of another mom #even then its still difficult considering i remind him of bdays and see if hes coming to events and stuff #i asked for a sister way too late tho #id do anything for them so like... theyre alright

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are they… you know… [trying to die for each other while adamantly refusing to acknowledge their feelings] soulmates?

#misc

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hi yeah sorry ive just been destroyed for literal days thinking about how in mass effect 1, Kaidan is so upset over Ash’s death that he’ll confront Shepard for choosing him over Ash and Shepard says “I’m sorry, Kaidan. I’d never leave you behind.”

and then in your very last conversation with him in mass effect 3 when you’re evacuating him to the Normandy before going up to the Citadel beam his fucking FIRST WORDS are “Don’t leave me behind”

#mass effect #why would you point this out? 😭

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the fact that you start the Tabris origin by literally stepping into your mother's shoes. the fact that what you get is a wedding outfit and your mother's worn boots, kept carefully intact for years, tucked away for this exact moment. the fact that you then immediately take the path she never could, leaving behind the alienage and the wedding and following Duncan (who would have recruited Adaia first, if not for baby!Tabris) to what ought to have been death.

And Then!! instead of fighting and falling as she did, cheating death and becoming the fighter she always intended you to be instead??? Reliving and simultaneously subverting the story of her life??

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were ..... were the guards investigating the murders at all? like I get that they don't believe they're connected, but that doesn't change the fact that like three women were murdered and their killers never caught. was anyone other than Emeric trying to get justice for these women? Aveline has her little dismissive "Kirkwall is a dangerous place ..." line, and we know of at least one other crime that she just let slip without investigation. what ... do the guards in Kirkwall even do?

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dragon age commission!

#loveeeee #dragon age

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The thing about writing is we’re taught to write in a very specific way as children that is deemed as the “correct” way. And it’s so important to have those fundamentals — to know how sentences are constructed and what is proper paragraph structure and to become familiar with grammar. Those are essential building blocks.

But because schools have to focus on essay writing and technicalities and whatever is needed for the latest standardized test, it’s often the only way we learn how to write when there’s so many ways to write. There’s technical writing, journalistic writing but also editorial writing, copywriting, letter writing, free writing … to infinity and beyond.

We often don’t explore creative writing in an academic setting until later in life when we seek it out (or never at all in most cases). And while there’s guides for these looser types of writing, as well, it’s important to know you can just say FUCK ALL and bastardize the rules that were beat into your brain by red pens all your life.

Make up words. A paragraph can be one sentence, one word, or a whole damn monologue. Run-on sentences can be a style choice. Make a chapter one line. Use capitalization however you see fit. Start sentences with conjunctions. Be abstract in imagery. Forget commas exist and keep using ‘and’ instead (<- my favorite). Fragments can be fire. Create your own voice in the remnants of a burned language.

Learning the rules also means knowing how and when to break them. So break them to tell your story the way you want.

#thus makes me feel better abt my writing