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He’s such a disney princess but with spirits instead of animals. 🤭 I love it.

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garden variety conservative transphobia is going to get worse but radical feminism is also going to get worse. if youre a cis women terfs are going to try to recruit you and make you believe that the reason your rights are at stake is because of trans people. they're going to tell you that all men are your violent oppressors and they're going to include trans women in that category. they're gonna tell you about women who are gender traitors and joined the enemy and they're going to point to trans men. don't believe them. trans people are not your enemy, we have no power over you, and we desperately need your support and your solidarity.

be aware of radfem pipelines and dog whistles too. be skeptical of anyone that talks about the divine feminine or correlates birthing, menstruating, or female reproductive organs with womanhood. be especially skeptical of people who use those biological things as reasons to why women are more spiritual, or more in tune with nature, or just that they're better than men (read: anyone they decide is a man)

radical feminism is an expected reactionary outcome from cis women who are being oppressed by conservatives, especially when all they practice is ciscentric, liberal, white feminism. they feel the need to be radicalized but don't have the experience and information to pinpoint the true source of their suffering. trans people are not your enemy, AMAB people are not your enemy, anyone who identifies as a man is not your enemy. we're all being crushed under the same stone

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Mel and Jayce experience the horrors.

⸻ MEL MEDARDA AND JAYCE TALIS, Arcane S2, Act 2

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Emmrich is really a romantic who has dreamed of love and marriage for decades and never found it.

Remember, his parents died in a collapsed building when he was a boy, so if he had distant relatives, they never took him in.

He dreamed of getting married. Oh my godddd. "I always thought ..."

As if he's given up. It's too late, he thinks.

HARDINGGGG-

I fully believe him.

We know Emmrich dated a healthy amount. An Orlesian woman who was an art dealer is the one we know from convos with Lucanis. ("She taught me many things that summer.") It's also implied that the relationship ended because she couldn't commit in the 'long-run.'

Marriage.

And this gem:

"Sounds like you, yeah."

I mean, it would, yeah. Yeah.

(Source - seriously, these to have the best banter imo.)

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This frame makes me feral.

the way her eyes aren't too wide nor too closed, like i can actually feel the concern and genuine worry rather than it just being shock.

It makes me so sad that Ambessa loves her so much but still lacks the ability to show it properly, she never learns.

This is the only scene where we have her being eye-to-eye with Mel, in a near embrace with her hand at her cheek, like a parent checking if their little child is okay after falling.

And the fact that she stays there for a moment, perhaps to relish that feeling for a couple of seconds before getting serious with the enforcers, because Mel IS her weakness, and she forces herself to pry away.

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Hear me out, if Dorian Pavus apprenticed under Emmrich in Nevarra in his teens, he probably not only picked up fom hin not just spells, but also the love for facial hair.

Imagine, of you will, baby gay Dorian with a massive crush on his necromancy professor, who not only knows all there is to know about the death, he's also soft spoken, erudite and openly bisexual, coming back to Tevinter with the first wisps of his signature mustache, and a new need to be himself openly. No wonder he'd rebelled and gone off the rails.

Also, imagine Felix seeing him for the first time and making fun of his mustache, and Dorian defending it because it looked so good on Emmrich.

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I'm up to the "I dunno maybe children working 13 hour shifts is bad, guys" part of Capital and it feels important to inform people that haven't read it yet that capitalists in the 19th century were not by any means wringing their hands and twirling their mustaches about employing children to squeeze out profits, they were hiring "experts" to write newspaper articles for them, explaining how "well, the socialists have these big demands about an 8-hour work day, and taking Saturdays off, but it's actually just so complicated, it's too complicated for most people to understand, we just NEED to hire children for night shifts because the stamina of their strong, youthful bodies is the only way we can survive as a business! It's science, you see. Economics doesn't work like that, just ask our economics professors at Oxford. You CAN'T turn a profit only working people 8 hours! Trust the experts, they know. It's just so complicated..."

That exact infuriating cadence that you read in New York Times articles, in the Atlantic Monthly, in the WaPo and all the other bourgeois rags where "everything is so complicated, and it's actually a lot more complicated than you think.." that has been around since the beginning. It is nothing new. So the next time you see some op-ed from Matt Yglesias or any of those other guys huffing their own farts about how "complicated" everything is, and how "unrealistic" a 30-hour work week is, remember that Marx was dealing with that exact class of "intellectuals" "explaining" how working 13 hours at age 10 was "vital" to the "moral fibre" of those poor kids.

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Ok, discovered more Emmrich lore via some banter with Neve.

After discussing Tevinter vs. Nevarran mage/nobility politicking, she comments how it must be even more intimidating if one were from poorer means and fondly says:

'but at least you did alright for yourself...' :)

and realizing her implication, he goes 'how did you-?' :0

Follow-up banter he's like 'so how did you deduce I came from poorer means?' and she basically lists the following observations about him:

always finishes his plate, always the first to eat

covered in gold, yet saves all his candle stubs

gives away more gold to the beggars than anyone else

always looks them in the eye, no aversion, "Poor is familiar"

Emmrich adds that yes, while he hasn't been poor in a while, she's correct, he was.

(sorry for the paraphrasing, I keep forgetting to record these things)

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Varric, thinking back to Cassandra’s hatred of growing up around the Grand Necropolis and the Mortalitasi: So, Rook, you must be glad to be out of there, hm?

Rook, who can’t go home bc they stopped two undead nobles from tearing it apart and miss it soooo much:

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This emmrich and neve banter man… very good

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How do they choose which sand to be the glass and which sand to be the sand in an hourglass... Imagine you and your best friend were two grains of sand and you had to be in the hourglass and your bestie had to be the glass. Ur together but youve never been more apart. A Sick and twisted practice hourglassery is...

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Don’t look down wearing a crown

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when you realize that you care

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They're my disaster toxic queeer polycule babies, your honour

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what if you were a BISEXUAL and your bf nearly DIES and then he leaves you to become JESUS and then your hot gf gets KIDNAPPED and your little sister becomes a DICTATOR and you grow a BEARD