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3. Do you have any obsessions right now?

Nothing new atm, still clowning over the wolf man

Hello, and meep. Thank you for asking!!

I’m okay. I always sleep terribly whenever my husband’s not here. I end up staying up way too late and falling asleep while watching like, Gilmore Girls or some other innocuous happy place show lol. The kids are in bed, and it’s so dang quiet!! 

I hope you’re doing well!! I saw your new Falon’din art and :-0 BEAUTIFUL!!

Thanks for asking!! :D

9. Which fic has been the hardest to write?

Ruins, my longfic. Just because it’s so long and has so many expectations tied up in it. (And because it has a million little moving pieces to keep track of now.)

10. Which fic has been the easiest to write?

In and Out of Time Again was easy because it was a clear idea that flowed almost directly out of my head and into a document within a week and a half. Overgrown is generally easy to write because it feels fun and lighthearted, and since it’s a modern AU I don’t have to worry so much about fact-checking my DA lore knowledge every five minutes.

39. Do you ever get rude reviews and how do you deal with them?

Answered here, but I also saw your ask and wanted to elaborate across two answers. First of all, I’m so sorry you’ve gotten rude reviews!! That’s so awful and unforgivable. I hate that it has happened to you.

Aside from what I said in my previous response, I will add that you should absolutely feel completely fine about deleting any comment that makes you feel anything less than overjoyed about your work. It doesn’t matter why the comment makes you unhappy - whether it’s a correction you didn’t ask for, something intentionally rude, or just a weird interaction that rubs you the wrong way. If you don’t like it, delete it. I firmly believe that your space on AO3 belongs to you and no one else, and you have the right to curate it exactly as you would any other blog or social media site. 

Deleting a comment doesn’t make the sting go away completely, of course. But it’s important to get rid of something that would make you sad to see it every time you open your inbox or go to that chapter of your work. Confidence in our writing is such a tenuous and delicate thing. We have to guard it with everything we have. 

PLAYLIST HEADCANONS | accepting

♕ a song and accompanying headcanon about pride or good fortune. East / Sleeping at Last

This is a song about growing up, the pride of children and how self-centered their worlds often are. Many of the lyrics match well with the pretend games many of us might have played growing up, pretending we commanded the seas or ruled the land. It has a slightly different bent when applied to Solas, even a very young Solas, who as a powerful Dreamer had a more direct control over a Veil-less world than most people, but I think that makes it fun.

Solas as a young elf set out wanting to prove himself, to see the pride he felt in himself reflected in the world around him. When I listen to this song I think of Solas discovering the ocean for the first time, of walking through orchards for apple trees to bend and offer him their fruit. I think of Solas growing older, growing more tired, becoming less the picture of the confident youth who charmed himself to Mythal’s side and closer to the person we know in Inquisition. But in that weariness there is a seed of hope that he can become a king again, albeit in a different and more metaphorical way.

The sense I get from the song when listening to it through the lens of Solas’ character is bittersweet. He misses his youth, he’s not sure he’ll ever be as happy as he was before the war which created the evanuris, and he wants it back. However, lines like this:

The years wore on and changed my heart The leading role for a smaller part

Do your drawing suit your aesthetics?

for the most part! i think i consume a lot more horror content than i draw though 🤔

How often do you draw?

20. Do you consider yourself artistic?

Not at all. And I get that it’s kind of silly because obviously I enjoy some things that are considered artistic, but I have this idea in my head that because I can’t draw the term doesn’t apply? Idk, probably not an especially helpful or healthy way to think about it, but it’s definitely not something I’d call myself.

36. What was the first ship you obsessed over?

Hmm. I was the right age group to get pretty destroyed by Titanic. I guess that doesn’t exactly fit because it’s not like there are really multiple ships (lol) in that movie - no I’m not going to go look on AO3 and see how wrong I am. Anyway, my point is, that’s the first fictional relationship I can remember being invested in. I’m sure that the angst and sacrifice have in no way affected the sorts of ships I like now. <.<

50. What's something from you loved your childhood that you still proudly like now?

The Muppets? Yeah, that’s a pretty good one. The Muppet Christmas Carol is definitely up there in terms of the best Muppet movies, but I grew up watching The Great Muppet Caper and GOSH it’s pretty perfect. Miss Piggy as a fashion model, a jewel heist, Diana FREAKING Rigg as a character named “Lady Holiday.” What a great movie tbh.

The gifset in question and my tags:

#i recently had a thought #that we've already seen every smile solas will ever show us #because we won't see him smile in da4 #i love to make myself sad

I hope you’re right, Sales!!! I would also absolutely die for a hint of a smile - just like the faintest movement at the corners of his mouth - when a friendly or romanced Inquisitor shows up for their DA4 cameo. PLEASE JUST LET HIM BE HAPPY AGAIN FOR A FEW SECONDS BEFORE IT ALL INEVITABLY GOES TO HELL. Also please just let him be himself enough to still smile like this.

OK, time to sob.