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Aww, this is such a cute idea! ❤️ Love this!

Rook's Business Card

Thanks @grimrevolution @davrinsleftpectoral @seaglassmelody @mercars-musings @master-of-the-elements @serstolas @biowaredisasterbisexual

OC: Ceren Rosas I’m going to combine this with the oc vibes game cause I got tagged in that too!

My man finally has a last name! He's a Grey Warden who post-game will go home to Docktown and join the Shadow Dragons.

….im not good at graphic design but I have jokes….

I do like how his moodboard came out!

Tagging @davrinsleftpectoral @mageofquandrix @mythals-whore @taashyvashedan @littlemissgeek8 @pavuslavellan @znthra @littlemissgeek8 @neekerbreeker @2mercia2furious @postcardsfromheapside @invinciblerodent @augustnugs @nevarrantorte @cute-ellyna @jouskaroo @uchidachi @i-had-bucky @guacamolleee @miladydewintcr and whoever else wants to do it!!!!

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Me: Ugh, why is dating so difficult? I guess the dating pool where I live is bad :(

Also me, attempting to flirt: How's your day been? :) Did you know that trees pump nutrients into nearby stumps in an effort to keep them alive, resulting in stumps that survive for years entirely on the support of the tree community around them? I like how the trees can sense through their shared root system that their neighbor has been felled, and instead of taking advantage of the new lack of competition, they use their own nutrients to support their now-cut brethren. It's an act of innate, selfless community love from an organism that you'd think is incapable of such a thing, and, in a sense, it's a form of grief, because those surrounding trees won't be able to keep the stump alive forever, and yet they try to keep it alive for as long as possible anyways. It's both touching and a bit disturbing, the sense that trees are trying to hold off the death in their community for as long as possible, almost like they're unable to come to terms with it initially. It seems as though the themes of loss and grief transcend even animal life and have a presence in everything in the world around us. What're your thoughts on that? :D

(As it turns out, turning cool science facts into an analysis of literary themes doesn't make for a good pickup line. Who would've thought?)

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DRAGON AGE: THE VEILGUARD

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absolutely no one: me: what if i put the companions in the shadow dragon casual wear

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dandelions deserve more respect than they get

you say “weeds” I say “widespread non-native edible plant and early-blooming pollinator resource that is not considered invasive because it behaves politely and does not cause deleterious ecological consequences”

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Something I’ll never apologize for tbh

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wait op is 15. I don't want to argue with them. [visibly scheduling a reblog] what day is op's birthday

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Dragon age really is one of the series ever bc it's my only fandom where upon meeting a fellow fan I feel dread rather than excitement because I never know if as soon as I mention my favorite character they'll start excitedly talking about how they love to murder him and how he's so annoying and crazey for advocating for the rights of his people

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“From whence you came” is a classic place to send back a foul beast

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You know, while I have many thoughts and lots to say about many aspects of that buckwild post, I genuinely wonder if the person who called Solas needing to sit in the regret-prison alone with his thoughts for a while "torture" would then also be willing to admit that Solas was not just perfectly willing to let it happen to others, but he actively wanted to subject Rook, a regular mortal and an innocent, to what in their view is infinite torture.

Like beyond everything else, beyond the way their post explicitly contradicts what actually happens in the game, I just wonder how consistent they are in their beliefs.

Forget the way Solas is trapped, and needs Rook to be his eyes, ears, and hands in stopping the Evanuris from subjugating and blighting the whole world, which forges a relationship between them which is more or less symbiotic (regardless of whether it's cautiously optimistic or reluctant and antagonistic). Forget the lies, the manipulations, and that it's fully in Solas' own interest for him to help Rook in achieving their ultimate goal, because without them fixing the latest crisis for him, there's kind of no way for him to go about continuing with his own plan. For-fucking-get that so much of the game is about Rook discovering and understanding Solas' background, his motivations, and his goals of their own volition, and still has honestly quite a few opportunities to be far more sympathetic, understanding, and trusting of him than I would have expected them to be.

I just want that person to look me in the eye, and tell me that they believe what they think of as infinite torture (I don't agree, but let's pretend) to be perfectly okay when Solas is the one doing it to others, and unacceptable when it happens to him.

someday I'm definitely going to write my lengthy, navel-gaze-y post of circular arguments about how the adamant refusal to accept Rook as a protagonist with the opportunity to behave in ways that are reasonable for their situation might just imply something of a desire to continue viewing Solas' figure through the lens of the Inquisitor (who was, by all means, successfully lied to- and manipulated by him throughout the entirety of their relationship, regardless of whether it was platonic or romantic) and not as the antagonist he is, which actually kind of reinforces the theme of facts and history being malleable and changed by the perspective and experiences of those who tell them (which has existed within the franchise since Origins) while stripping him of what I believe to be the most interesting aspects of his character

but today is not that day

today I'll just dunk this post in water to try and keep myself from biting my coffee cup in half in frustration and then having the resulting glass shards as a nice little snack

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Why is Rook the protagonist?

Two things every faction background has in common are Rook going against their faction leaders in some fashion and doing something impressive in terms of their “profession.”

We immediately learn that Rook is extremely good at fighting and covert missions. Some of the backgrounds also directly state that Rook led at least smaller teams.

The other thing we learn from the backgrounds is that whatever Rook did, it went directly against either orders or a general expectations in order to save lives. We know this is why Varric recruited Rook.

And this is just before we started the game.

So Rook isn’t special because they walked into a magical explosion, but because they had already established themselves as “leadership material” and a “decent person” by the time they crossed paths with Varric.

Throughout the game, Rook essentially behaves as you’d expect based on the backgrounds. Rook takes over the leadership of the team and is able to recruit new people and keep the team together and happy. Maybe people just don’t consider this an actual skill set, but Rook has very good soft skills. The bad ending of the game is when Rook fails to live up to their potential and Varric’s expectations.

Rook also remains an uncompromisingly decent person, which is kind of important when the bad guys go around corrupting people and gaining followers.

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having my evening cucumber

I offered a portion to this large and mannerly horse

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THE FUCK YOU MEAN NOBODY KNOWS?

Does everyone in the Necropolis just not question shit?

First it's the crypt baby. 'Oh yeah, it's out crypt baby. Where did he come from? Uhh, we're not really sure'.

And now it's 'Oh, this is my colleague Vorgoth. Why are they a cloud of smoke in a cape? We honestly don't know'.

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