Solavellan | E | pre-DAI eluvian time travel feat. hot blooded and cocky young wolf and clan mage apprentice Lavellan | [read here]
Ellana Lavellan is one of two apprentices to her clan’s Keeper, and not the most skillful of the pair. She expects to be sent away after failing to earn a place as First, but when she stumbles upon an ancient shrine to Fen’Harel and inadvertently summons the Dread Wolf himself, she finds in him a wealth of powerful, forgotten magics. He’ll teach her, if she makes a suitable offering: herself.
Ellana returns to the shrine again and again, summoning Fen’Harel to teach her more, but time works differently on the other side of the eluvian; centuries pass for him while only weeks go by for her. As she grows to know him as Solas, she discovers that the Creators are not the benevolent deities she believed them to be, and that the Dread Wolf is a man she can love.
What comfort can a mere Dalish mage offer a rebel god? More than either of them ever expected.
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The Veil undulated, bringing Ellana up short. Two more droplets spattered the altar and, as she watched, reflected a wavering light that emanated from the surface of the tall mirror. It rippled silver and blue, overpowering the fire in the brazier. Fear gripped Ellana’s throat as a shadow filled the mirror, black against its luminosity. When it stepped out of the mirror and into the chamber, the brightness cut off, leaving Ellana to face whatever had come through it with a broken bow, a stolen knife, and her meager skill with spellcraft.
The brazier’s light caught small shining points set against pale skin: a delicate golden cuff at the top of a knife-sharp ear; a round stud in one nostril of a strong nose; a delicate ring in a full lower lip. Confusion knitted a stern brow over storm sea eyes—gray irises edged with deep blue, oddly like Ellana’s own, yet without any suggestion of her timidity. No, the elf who had come through the mirror had a dauntless bearing and wore fabrics so fine he might’ve walked out of the shrine’s mosaics.
Glancing around the chamber and then back at Ellana, he advanced two steps, speaking in quick, liquid words it took her altogether too long to identify as the ancient elvhen tongue. While most Dalish spoke little more than a few phrases, Keeper Deshanna had studied what remained of their predecessors’ language extensively. She had passed that knowledge on to both her apprentices, and in a rare show of savvy, Ellana had picked it up best.
Yet, for all her lessons, she could barely keep up with the flourishes of this elf’s pronunciation and cadence. His vocabulary far exceeded hers, every syllable fluid and spoken in a deep baritone. He gesticulated for emphasis, Ellana catching every fourth or fifth word—where, expected, misled. She strained to focus, but it was all too much, too fast.
Raising her hands in what she hoped was a universal gesture of stop, she said in the ancient tongue, “Please. Please speak slowly and with, ah”—she sought the correct translation—“short words.”
He cut his tirade blessedly off, eyebrows drawing in again. Ellana despaired for a heartbeat that he hadn’t understood her, but then he said, slowly and in short words, “What is this place? It is not where I expected to be when I came through the eluvian.”
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Fenharel frees the elven slaves.
"Cowering, cringing, blinking to the light. Then cold hands, kind voices. Sleep now. You're safe." (Cole's comment on Solas's mosaic)
And this is the same man who said, "I'll kill you all to save you all." :DDD
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The Minotaur was named that because he was the son of King Minos. Anyone with a bull head has to be named after their dad, like the Kyletaur or something.
yknow theres a lot of pressure to be successful, particularly on artsy kids whose professions are seen as useless unless theyre famous, but life is fucking hard and sometimes things dont turn out
but i think thats not bad. my dad has wanted to be a musician forever, and hes rly pretty good. but then he joined the military to get away from an abusive family, and then he got married, and then he got divorced, and a lot of horrible shit HAPPENED. he has ptsd and severe anxiety and he could never really get back on the horse. and he never made it as a musician, and now hes 53
but i grew up in a house full of instruments, and he can play all of them, and some of my earliest memories are of him playing guitar on the front porch and me thinking there wasnt a better musician in the world. so. even if you dont get to the stars, exactly, what you do isnt worthless. its not a waste of time if life is difficult and you cant make it, or if you arent famous, or if your work doesn’t influence thousands of people. it will influence someone
there are a million ways to be happy and a million ways to be a successful artist. we create what we do to enhance the human experience and relate to each other and improve ourselves. theres something to be said for just doing that,,,for the sake of doing it, yknow
My mother never became a professional artist. She became a social worker, then later taught emotionally disturbed children.
But our home was filled with photographs of wildflowers and wildlife. Spice racks, shelves, and other useful objects were adorned with small paintings. She taught me and my sister that we could make things beautiful, even if in small ways, and let us glue glitter and fake gems on our cheap kids furniture and make it ours.
Capitalism tries to say that art isn’t successful unless it makes money. But that’s not why humans make art.
We make art to convey emotion. To make an object or a moment or a story OURS. And making someone smile when they hear you sing, or look at something you made for them is as valid a reason for creating as any other.
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SanSan Quiet Isle AU where they have to learn to communicate and navigate a reunion nonverbally due to the vow of silence Sandor took and Sansa respects, I have not forgotten you
i promise im done with the Grownup Movie post for now. but also im reminded of when i was like 25 i asked tumblr for book recs and got so many people recommending Percy Jackson that i was like “cool! haven’t heard of it but i’ll just buy the box set and dive in” and as soon as i saw the size of the text i knew i had been tricked
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Chapters: 4/?
Fandom: Silicon Valley (TV)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Bertram Gilfoyle/Monica Hall
Characters: Monica Hall, Bertram Gilfoyle, Richard Hendricks, Dinesh Chugtai, Jared Dunn, Tara (Silicon Valley)
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Romance, There Was Only One Bed, Explicit Sexual Content, Vomiting, Because Richard, Tara/Gilfoyle (not endgame), Workplace Relationship
Summary:
“ALGORITHMS OF THE HEART by Belson and Morgenstern sparks with sex and silicon! Inspired by years in the technology sector, Belson’s voice comes to the fore in this new sizzler from romance’s dynamic duo.”
“A spicy yet surprisingly sweet take on attraction in the workplace. When it comes to this gruff programmer’s girlboss CFO, the Devil does care! Five stars.”
When Gavin Belson’s new novel hits the shelves, it bears a striking resemblance to true events: Ten years ago, only months after Pied Piper’s victory in the fifty-one percent attack, the company needs to court new developers at an upcoming conference. When Richard gets sick, Monica calls on Gilfoyle to fill in for their big presentation. A mix-up with hotel reservations forces them to share a room, feeding the fire that sparked while sharing cigarettes and coffee all night as they uncovered YaoNet’s plan. Gavin may have changed the names and fudged a few details, but the romance is entirely real.
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Writing Silicon Valley rare-ish pair fic like it’s 2018.
