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I'm finding I can't be as sad about Varric as you'd expect, and I think it's because he won.

He saves the world he knows and loves, through Rook. More than that, depending on player choice, he wins that quiet, unstated argument between Solas and himself. The man on the island didn't give up, and somehow, incredibly, he won. Varric loved the world as it is, and the people in it, in all their deep and messy flaws, and despite their many failings. He loved them fiercely, with a loyalty bordering on the irrational. If he hadn't wanted to save his friend, his friend, Solas, god of lies and trickery (and who is Varric to judge someone for lies and trickery? He never would.), Rook would not have tried to do the same. Maybe, Rook would not have succeeded, without Varric's words ringing in Solas' ears.

It didn't matter to Varric whether Solas saw him as a friend, I don't think. I don't think that would've changed anything for Varric. But I do think that Solas saw him as a friend, too, though a complicated one. A man who challenged and frustrated him at every step, who loved what Solas hated, but who cared so deeply. In a different chain of events, there would certainly have been a demon in the Fade with the name of Varric's death.

But in the end, Varric's simple, dogged, unconditional love for things as they are won out over a god's millennia of pain and striving. He would've thought that was a damn fine way to go.

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You can only REBLOG THIS TODAY

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much better footage of the haka that shut down parliament today

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dreamed tumblr had started saying "les girlies" instead of "the girlies". a common phrase was "le otp des girlies" (the otp of the girlies) which basically meant "an otp shared by me and my friends of exquisite taste". there was some kind of gender discourse about it

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Am I on time? No, but do I have a good attitude? Not at all. But am I making the best of it? Listen.

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anyone else think this too

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brb trying this

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kids these days don’t know what it’s like to get fine dwarven crafts direct from orzammar

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"i sure hope no elven deity breaks free from their prison in the fade and starts wreaking havoc on thedas"

the nefarious ghilan'nain:

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Let's make an oath to live together

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i know my mutuals so whenever i see a horny post im like. *sigh* which republican senator is this about this time

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omg imagine being born and you are on a spaceship and everyone aboard is sooo so mad at you just because you burst out of some guy's chest to be born. like um sorry i've not been alive before i didn't even know that's not allowed please be nice to me um the spaceship floor is cold is no one going to knit me some little booties i am calling child protective services

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my intrusive thoughts during fall

young man

there r leaves all around 

i said young man 

eat a leaf off the ground

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Parting Glances (1986)

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That really is how being in your 30s is like 😭

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there are times in one's life where one must simply review anecdotes from one's childhood and think to oneself "wow, that was an autism in a trench coat"