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Despite my initial impatience and wanting to skip to Inquisition, I ended up really enjoying Dragon Age 2. It took me less time to finish than Origins because I didn't give in to my chronic restart-itis this time.

Biggest complaint is that you can't kiss your LI whenever wherever like in Origins. (Spoilers) Let me kiss Anders after he blows up the chantry.

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Please, spread this for those who might need it right now

U.S. suicide hotline: call or text 988 (available 24 hours)

U.S. trans lifeline: (877) 565-8860 (when you call, you’ll speak to a trans/nonbinary peer operator. full anonymity and confidentiality)

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) National Helpline: 1-800-662-HELP (4357) – provides 24/7 confidential support and referrals for individuals and families facing mental health and substance use disorders, including panic attacks and anxiety.

LGBT National Help Center: (888) 843-4564

Trevor Project: Call (866) 488-7386, text START to 678-678, or chat online.

Take care of yourself and each other. Please stay safe ♡

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I've been choosing all the flirty options with everyone in Dragon Age 2 and flirting with Anders is so funny because he'll flirt back then immediately get upset and dramatic about it.

Anders: you're pretty

5 seconds later: no I'll just end up hurting you 😞

Hawke: then hurt me coward

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Anders: *reveals his regrets and past with Justice etc.*

Hawke: so that's why you're hot

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I finished Origins like a week ago and finished Awakening + Witchhunt a couple days ago. I started Dragon Age 2 and I do want to play it...But I also want to rush straight to Inquisition. Single tear for my impatience. I will resist.

Also, I'm sorry but the art (animation?) in Dragon Age 2 is Not Good. They should've stuck with the Origins style lol

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I see what you did there

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Kissing Alistair in front of Gorim as an Aeducan because haha I can move on too

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I am super late to the party but oh well.

I'm playing DA: Origins for the first time as a female Aeducan and I very much like it. The whole Aeducan/Gorim thing is very nice and also a little sad.

But one thing had me thinking like, from a story perspective, what was stopping Gorim from just...waiting outside the deep roads for you to come out with the Grey Wardens? Or maybe finding the Grey Warden camp? If he can somehow find his way to a city he's never been to all the way across the map, it shouldn't be too hard to find Ostagar. I mean, he made it clear he wanted to go with/be with you. Why is his first thought, "I'm gonna head to a kinda far away human city all alone even though I know I'm not great with 1 on 1 combat and also don't know if either of us will survive to make it there."

If he waited, he'd probably be able to ask the Grey Wardens if you survived and if they didn't see you, if they all can go back to find you.

Anyways I have an alternate universe in my head where he waits and they become Grey Wardens and fight together again.

And in canon she's glad he was able to find happiness and finally be his own man on the surface, even though she's sad about it and misses him. She plays it off with, "It's fine, I don't have time or energy to deal with matters of my heart outside of making sure it's still beating anyways." Then cries while killing stuff.

Both of these she is very frustrated with how bright it is outside and her eyes hurt.

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I’m going to give you the best piece of Adult Life Is Hard advice I’ve ever learned:

Talk to people when things go to shit.

I don’t just mean get it off your chest, although that’s good. I mean: Something’s wrong with your paycheck/you lost your job/you had unexpected emergency car repairs and now you’re broke so your credit card payment is late. Like, not just 15 days late. We’re talking, shit got crazy and now you’re 90 days late with compounded interest and late fees and the Minimum Payment Due is, like, $390, and you’ve got about $3.90 in your bank account. Call the credit card company. 

I know it’s scary. I know you feel like you’re going to get in trouble, like you’re gong to get yelled at or scolded for not having your life together. But the credit card company isn’t your parents; they’re just interested in getting money from you. And you can’t squeeze blood from a stone or money from someone who doesn’t have any. So what you do is you call them. You explain you’re experiencing temporary financial hardships, and you’re currently unable to bring your account up to date, but you don’t want to just let it get worse. Can you maybe talk to someone about a payment plan so you can work something out? Nine times out of ten you’ll be able to negotiate something so that at least it’s not just taking a constant, giant shit on your credit score.

- Can’t pay your power bill? Call the power company.

- Can’t pay your full rent? Talk to your landlord.

- Had to go to the hospital without insurance and have giant medical bills looming in your place? Call the hospital and ask if they have someone who helps people with financial hardships. Many do.

- Got super sick and missed half a semester of class because flu/pneumonia/auto-immune problems/depressive episode? Talk to your professor. If that doesn’t help, talk to your advisor.

You may not be able to fix everything, but you’ll likely be able to make improvements. At the very least, it’s possible that they have a list of people you can contact to help you with things. (Also, don’t be afraid to google things like, “I can’t pay my power bill [state you live in]” because you’d be surprised at what turns up on Google!) But the thing is, people in these positions gain nothing if you fail. There’s no emotional satisfaction for them if your attempts at having your life together completely bite the dust. In fact, they stand to benefit if things work out for you! And chances are, they’ll be completely happy to take $20 a month from you over getting $0 a month from you, your account will be considered current because you’ve talked to them and made an agreement, you won’t get reported to a collections agency, and your credit score won’t completely tank.

Here’s some helpful tips to keep in mind:

1. Be polite. Don’t demand things; request them. Let me tell you about how customer service people hold your life in their hands and how many extra miles they’ll go for someone who is nice to them.

2. Stick to the facts, and keep them minimal unless asked for them. Chances are they’re not really interested in the details. “We had several family emergencies in a row, and now I’m having trouble making the payments” is better than “Well, two months ago my husband wrecked his bike, and then he had a reaction to the muscle relaxer they gave him, and then our dog swallowed a shoestring and we had to take him to the emergency clinic, and just last week MY car broke down, and now my account’s in the negatives and I don’t know how I’m gonna get it back out.” The person you’re talking to is aware shit happens to everyone; they don’t need the details to prove you’re somehow “worthy” of being helped. They may ask you for details at a certain point if they have to fill out any kind of request form, but let them do that.

3. Ask questions. “Is there anything we can do about X?” “Would it be possible to move my payment date to Y day instead so it’s not coming out of the same paycheck as my rent?” The answer may be “no.” That’s not a failure on your part. But a good customer service person may have an alternate solution. 

Anyway! I hope that helps! Don’t just assume the answer is “no” before you’ve even begun. There is more help out there than you ever imagined.

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Gay person written by a straight person voice: but babe why won’t you come out to your homophobic parents… It’ll make me so happy

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REMEMBER SKIP-IT FROM THE 90’S

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It was said that there were stories to tell between CYM and the Movie iirc?? In which case I'm sure we get to see some transition stuff/context for some changes!! Altho I highly doubt we'd get any war info :(

Honestly I think it’s probably gonna be a lot of filler here again, just like in the regular series. It would be fun to get some war info but it’s unlikely like you said.

The way it’s set up it looks like it’s just gonna be, like you said, some transition and context, and probably just showing Steven with the diamonds more. Although it also looks like there may be some tensions with Homeworld gems who maybe didn’t assimilate as well, and possibly an issue wit White, which could be fun. Although, if I’m being honest, I don’t really want the Jasper/White fusion that they’re setting up. I want Jasper to be redeemed like she already should have been, but if she fuses with White then she may be “irredeemable”. Although White would probably be redeemed still no matter what

Still mad that the space tyrants got redeemed with no punishment but Jasper doesn’t because she doesn’t like Steven though lol

I am gonna watch it either way tho, I’ve watched every episode so far and even if I’m not happy with it, I do want closure lol. I’ll try to keep my expectations low but I might not be able to. I love Jasper and seeing her again even just in the trailer makes me happy :)

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okay I love Steven Universe, it’s a great show. Yeah it has some issues but still, I enjoy it!

But I don’t like all the focus on the present and now it’s going into the future. I don’t like how it took like two seconds to redeem galactic tyrants who committed genocide.

Tbh I feel like instead of Steven Universe Future it should be set in the past. I think it would be much more interesting to see the war, Pink Diamond, learn more about the gems and such. It would be really interesting to see the war instead of just hearing bits and pieces, seeing the Diamonds before Pink and then maybe with her.

Still, I’m sure that the new series will be great. I just hope it reveals more backstory.

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Reblog if you’re bisexual, support bisexual people or are actually a bunch of tiny velociraptors in a human suit

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anyways, here’s my hot comic take: if you don’t want to use a character, you don’t have to kill them off. You can just make them go do mental health stuff. Like you could say that literally any character in a superhero comic is busy because they went on a year long cruise to avoid having a mental breakdown from the stress the hero life brings and everyone would be like, “yeah, sounds legit.” and then the writer after you doesnt need to bring in some bogus reason why a cool character they want to write was actually alive this whole time. everyone wins!

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Me: I’m totally independent, I don’t need anyone’s help

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