!!!! Always great to find another ghost hunt lover. If you’re looking for more of a fix, GhosthuntHQ is currently running a Ghost Hunt Exhange with art and fanfiction. And there’s a bunch of other artists that are adding to the fandom all the time. <3

Ohhhh boy you have opened a can of worms my friend so I apologize if this answer gets really long (but also thank you so much for asking and giving me an excuse to talk about this!)

My current world-building project is actually my DA2 modern AU longfic (which I’ve talked about a little before and written a couple things), Lyrium Ghosts. It started innocently enough as a regular degular modern AU, but then it somehow very quickly snowballed into a massive world-building project and universe all its own. It’s a work in progress, and I haven’t even started publishing real chapters, but it has become a behemoth of a project so I really want to get it to a good spot I feel comfortable with before I start formally releasing it to the world. So with that in mind--

One of the non-spoilery parts I’m proud of and really like is actually just the premise this fic and this world spawned from: “there’s no magic, but instead there’s drugs?” This stupid sentence literally started the entire process that has resulted in tens of thousands of written words and become this huge project that’s so close to my heart, so that’s why I’m saying it’s one of the things I’m most proud of-- it kind of summarizes how the entire world-building of the fic came to be.

Lyrium is the drug in question-- it’s a powerful substance with a lot of uses and applications, one of which is as a recreational drug. But there’s also a small percentage of the population who have unique biochemistry that not only reap the beneficial enhancing properties of it without the side effects, they also need it to stay healthy and live (the equivalent to mages, basically). So there’s a legal and an illegal side to lyrium-- that of the Circles, who carefully control and distribute it to the people that need it, and the underground drug trade of it-- and as such, there can be a lot of problems and conflict. And thus the fic was born

Where i work they tell us if we think someone is shoplifting then we should go up to them and be like “hey I saw you had X product earlier I just want to let you know we had y product which is similar” or something along the lines of that. Pretty much every time I’ve done that they drop what ever they took on the nearest shelf once i walk away.

And I’ll be honest with you usually the management of my store isn’t all that concerned with all of the sales associates going up after everybody they think might be shoplifting. It’s basically only go after the ones who you’re like 90% sure I actually took something.

Aghhh I would die. I don’t know how everyone makes this sound so easy. Like maybe at the start it wouldn’t be so bad, but now the frequency of it is really piling up and it’s just. Super freaking overwhelming.

That’s reassuring though! At least they’re not super-duper stringent about it though (like my brain likes to be). Of course, that means the times you’re actually doing it are the Super Serious times, which is the opposite of good.

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gc2b is great. They’ve got really good instructions for how to measure correctly

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Pyrrha is probably the closest thing I’ve ever had to a fictional crush. She’s great.