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j.r.r tolkien quotes | not accepting

He eyes the red dawn, watching the sky before the sun shines too bright to watch with a naked eye. To him, it is a painting, a red sun over a dark morning sky. It does not bleed pink or orange, but turns grey. To his companion, it is an omen, but not one he can take seriously.

hnnng i cannot articulate how much it gets under...

imma be honest sera never even struck me as explicitly nd, like i feel ppl misunderstand a lot of what she’s saying bc of all the british slang n dialect? like ever since meeting her i didn’t understand why she was always being called crazy cuz she makes total sense to me

“     𝚃𝙷𝙴𝚁𝙴'𝚂   𝙽𝙾𝚃𝙷𝙸𝙽𝙶   𝚀𝚄𝙸𝚃𝙴   𝙻𝙸𝙺𝙴   a   giant   hole   in   the   sky   spewing   out   demons   to   bring   people   together.     ”     And   here   he   had   thought   the   Blight   was   bad.     This     ?     Almost   an   entirely   different   level.     “     I   heard   you   joined   the   Inquisition   willingly     ?     ”

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do you have any advice for other writers?

have fun and do what makes you happy, but also be respectful and listen to other people if they say that you could be handling x, y or z better.  it’ll make you a better writer and a better person!  on the other end of the spectrum, don’t be afraid to block or blacklist people who make you uncomfortable, even if they’re perfectly nice.  it’s okay to cultivate this space for your own comfort above all!!

on the more writey side of things, read a lot --- and not just other rpers.  i’m bad at this myself, and hoping to read more once i graduate and have some more free time.  the more you read, the more places and people you have to pull inspiration from, the more stories you’ll have to reference and grow from.  even beyond that, you’ll also know what’s been done to death!

how are you and your muse different?

ahv is very much my like....my default game personality, i guess.  (  it’s usually either ahv or alia lmao.  )  and that’s because i think she has a lot of traits i value; she’s strong in herself and her beliefs, she’s very very loving, she’s got a strong sense of faith and belief in the value of the future, she’s an optimist in a lot of ways, but she’s also aggressive and won’t tolerate bigotry or the like.  this isn’t to say she’s not flawed, of course, but she has a lot of traits that i also either have or want to have.  that all being said, she’s much braver than i am, and more of an optimist, i think?  like, i am an optimist, but sometimes i have a hard time believing in the future or that the world will ever get better.  but ahvir never once doubts that, which i think is brave.  i’m much less self - sacrificing than her, which is for the best, and a bit less of a hypocrite i think.  or at least i’m more aware of it than she is, and working on it accordingly.  ahvir’s lack of concrete identity is for sure something i’ve projected onto her from my own experiences, but her’s is way worse than my own.

talk about your writing.

meta topics | accepting | @andfire

though it surprises some, the avvar have a history of making peace with other cultures (orzammar, even orlais!) and using these relationships to their advantage, like trading goods in exchange for safe passage through the frostbacks. their beliefs never prohibit outside relations with outsider cultures, and may in fact encourage ones that benefit the survival of the hold.

tbh the “isolationist savage” narrative probably comes from entitled lowlander “”””explorers”””” who weren’t received favorably by avvar due to them treating their culture as primitive but that’s another story entirely lmao

that said, olin has a strong relationship with his people, and his religion in particular keeps him grounded. without either he’s pretty lost. his own self-worth is deeply tied to his sense of duty to his gods and his hold.

when he’s captured by darkspawn and found by the hero of ferelden, he’s at his lowest possible point. if they decide to put him through the joining rather than killing him like he asks, he accepts, but it surfaces later that he believes he’s only alive due to a selfish vengeance he feels against the darkspawn, and he had no right to live after the shame he rightfully suffered. he has a lot of introspection to do and a lot of self-forgiveness to meditate on before he’s able to accept that the gods might have wanted events to play out the way they did. helping to defeat the archdemon bolsters this belief, and he finds a lot of validation and pride in it.

HOW IS MY PORTRAYAL ?