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and he breasted boobily in the backseat …

(screencap redraw from 2022)

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Andrew Robinson on playing Garak for the first time. 

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Junco Couple Chat!

Another iconic bird--this one of bird feeders and front yards, the dark-eyed junco! This little junco couple is having a cute conversation over some winter berries.

This is part of a weekly bird challenge with @elleskinner-justart and @elizabethpatricianart so check out theirs, too!

In my shop!

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Idk drawing of my budgie because i wanted to

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just learned about dopamine decor and i feel crazy

tiktok people are just now discovering you can put things in your living space that you like. , Guys

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just remembered the other day a teen approached me holding a rapidly melting chunk of ice in his hand and asked if i wanted to buy a "limited edition pet rock"

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My painting, "Capybara Among the Stars."

Sending you peace and capyness! 💜

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I’m actually kind of amazed how many people do not understand this concept

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mutuals i am. placing a very small very friendly baby dragon . in your hand :]

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some visdev i did for school

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Happy birthday to AO3 🎂🎉

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da2 isn't the best dragon age game *because* it's openly a tragedy, but being a tragedy forces a level of narrative coherence that the other games in the series don't have, and *that's* what makes it a better game.

okay, so. dragon age 2 runs on nested foreshadowing and a limited set of themes that almost every character and plot beat fall into: love is not enough, wealth is not enough, power is not enough, good intent is not enough. the problems you run into are structural, rather than individual, and your ability to resolve them as one person is strictly limited. the arishok is a central figure for this, because he prefigures every other tragedy and makes the game's thesis statement as clear as possible. he doesn't want to be in kirkwall, but he is compelled to remain until he gets back what was stolen. he doesn't want to lead a coup attempt, but he is compelled by qunari codes of justice to act. he does not want to die and fail his duty, but but he is compelled to by the other two impossible demands. every tragedy in kirkwall is the result of too many people with wildly different definitions of justice crammed into one place specifically designed to maximize human misery and suffering, and so you get a wonderfully nested narrative onion where each quest reinforces that idea, where there are no good options, just positions you can take — even the affinity system plays into that, where constantly gassing up your friends or constantly pushing them to change are equally correct ways to go, but ones that won't ultimately make a huge difference in their lives or characters, because no matter how much they like you, they're not under your control.

this coherence is even justified by the framing device. of *course* the moral of the game is "insisting on a dogmatic, narrow idea of justice destroys individuals and societies," it's a yarn being spun by varric the con artist to a chantry cop!

neither origins or inquisition play with that sort of narrative complexity. origins is a jaundiced hero's quest, certainly, but it's still basically a hero's quest; inquisition has a number of characters who question what you're doing and why, but the multitude of voices pulls the game in too many potential directions. DA2 was so constrained in its production that it pulled on decidedly ancient theatrical traditions, and it worked so, so well

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This is where I’m at these days.

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NYARGH from Meeting in the Flesh! Sculpey & acrylic paint.

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literally sleeping on a barbecue sauce

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neopets just made an avatar of the dead chia and the requirements to recieve it are to have a sick yellow chia at 0 hp. so now there are people on the boards passing around a handful of gravely ill yellow chias to each other to get a picture of a dead one

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Only TWO DAYS till Sorry We're Closed comes out!!! TWO DAYS!! If you want weird indie games to be the future then share with your pals. Tell them to look!! Tell them to gaze upon our ps1 inspired horror game with thine eyes (please)!

Wishlist Sorry We're Closed on Steam!!