Dragon Eggsquisition

you don’t have to post on a schedule, or update wips that don’t inspire you.

you don’t have to fill all the prompts you get.

you don’t have to write long things because you feel like this fic is too short.

remember that we’re all here to have a good time. when you find yourself getting stressed by fandom stuff, just stop, breathe and think. what’s the rush? is the world gonna end if you don’t work on this fic / art / edit / blog today?

and if anyone tries to make you feel bad about taking it easy, they can kiss my appletaters. we are doing this for free, because we love it.

solas: there’s a huge explanation for that but long story short; if you miscast, do you want a stick to explode or your hand?

hawke: also good for hitting people

dorian: twirly 

vivienne: dramatic flair 

This is the Shok of Protection. He looks after you and keeps you safe from bull shit. You don’t have to do anything, just know he’s out there looking out for you.

The way they could get away with pinking and slashing doublets in the 16th century was partially because the fabrics were so tightly woven that you could simply cut a line on the bias and nothing would fray. 

Regency gowns fucking rocked in terms of fabric quality - we use muslin as a ‘throw away’ before sewing the real fabric, back then it WAS a real fabric and it was so finely made you wouldn’t even think it was the same stuff. 

Hand hemming is still the best way to finish off anything, but harder than hell because of the shitty weave of modern fabrics. 

Satin? Silks?!

Pah. Yes, fabric is cheaper, more affordable and varied than before, but it is an area where QUALITY was sacrificed for QUANTITY. 

Sure, someone might be more technically accomplished than you - you might not be able to colour as nicely or craft a sentence that rings as poetically - but art is only really secondarily about that. It’s firstmost about what you, uniquely, have to express, and how the precise way you express it might be what others need to relate to it - even if it’s less flashy, less “beautiful”, and gets fewer notes.

I promise you this: there are obscure fanfics with only a handful of notes that are the read-and-re-read favourites of someone too anxious to comment. There are drawings done by 14-year-olds in poorly-blended markers that are someone’s favourite because they spoke to something that nothing else did. There are covers of songs where your voice cracks and you cringe every time you hear it but someone thinks the way it cracked just at that moment added beauty to the song. There are angsty three-line poems you wrote at 4am that someone once called “pretentious emo trash” that are loved by someone else going through the same thing as you.

And I guarantee you, there is something unique about your art. Even if you’re “saying something someone else has said”. Even if you’re the thousandth person to take on the subject. Even if you feel like you’re not at all unique. You’re bound to express something, however subtle, that didn’t exist until then.

Autistic writers who have trouble writing conversations due to difficulty with social skills

ADHD writers who want to sit down and write but can’t get themself to do it

Writers with social anxiety that are scared to share their work or talk about it with others

Writers with memory problems that know they already had an idea for a plot point but can’t recall what it was

Depressed writers that are trying their best but their mind says it isn’t enough

Dyslexic writers that have red lines under so many of their words or that have to take extra time to try and communicate their ideas

Writers with DID/OSSD that don’t feel like they get enough time to work on their project or that it gets left on the shelf for long period of time

Spoonie writers that run out of spoons for a day before they get to work on their project

Writers with tourettes who’s tics get in the way of their writing

Mentally Ill writers in general

Disabled writers in general