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A guide to swearing in Thedas

These are all taken from the toolset (mostly under “cuss” in the soundsets, but also from various bits of dialogue), organized for your convenience.

These are Dragon Age: Origins ONLY. There are no files that are human-readable for DA:A, DA2, or any DLC or expansions.

Not English the King’s Tongue

Brasca! (Zevran)

Vashedan! (Sten)

Pretty normal

Alas!

Blast it all, anyhow!

Blasted bastards!

Blech. (Sandal)

Blood and ashes.

Blood and honor!

Bloody blast it!

Bollocks.

Cripes.

Crud!

Curse me for a fool!

Cursed for a fool!

Curses!

Confound it! (Flemeth, of all people)

Damnation!

Drat!

Fiddlesticks!

Blast and blazes!

Blast and damnation! (Morrigan)

Blasted curses of a thousand misfortunes!

Blood and damnation! (Leliana)

Burn it all!

Fire and death!

Dirt and spit!

Flaming bastard.

Garbage!

Lazy, slack-jawed louts.

Miserable wretch.

Of all the blasted–!

Of all the cursed–!

Of all the infernal–! (Riordan)

Of all the–! (Leliana)

Oh dear.

Oh, bother!

Oh, for pity’s sake!

Oh, poppycock.

Oh… blast it! (Alistair)

Phooey!

Shoddy piece of crap!

Sod it all!

Son of a bitch!

Son of an inbred!

Tarnation!

That’s a stinker! (fade!Cailan)

That’s swill!

Those bloody whoresons.

Thrice-cursed whorespawn.

Two-faced bastards.

Elves

Bleeding thorns!

By the lost Dales!

Fenharel’s teeth!

Mythal'enaste!

Slap me around and call me a wild sylvan! (Shianni)

Well punch me in the teeth and call me a wild sylvan…

Invocations of Andraste

By the Lady!

Andraste’s ashes!

Andraste’s breath!

For the love of Andraste!

For the love of Lady Andraste!

Lady’s breath!

Merciful Andraste!

Oh, Andraste, help me…

Oh, for Andraste’s sake.

Oh, for the love of Blessed Andraste!

Oh, for the love of the Maker’s Bride.

Well, throw me in a fire and call me Andraste!

Andraste’s clothing

Andraste’s holy knickers!

By Andraste’s burning under-drawers!

By Andraste’s dirty socks!

By Andraste’s holy knickers!

By Andraste’s sword!

Andraste’s ass

Andraste’s ass!

Andraste’s fat ass!

Andraste’s lily-white ass!

Maferath’s hairy arse! (bonus Andraste’s husband’s ass due to not having another category in which to put it)

The Maker

Great Maker!

Holy Maker!

Maker damn you for a fool!

Maker-forsaken piece of–

Maker’s beard!

Maker’s Blood.

Maker’s breath! (by far the most common Thedas-specific curse)

Tears of the Maker!

Paragons

Aeducan’s beard!

Beards of the Paragons!

Bemot’s beard!

Blood of the Paragons!

By the beards of the Paragons!

Caridin’s teeth!

Ortan’s teeth!

Paragon’s teeth!

Paragons have mercy!

Ancestors

Ancestors have mercy!

By the hairs of my ancestors!

By the stones of the Ancestors!

By the teats of my ancestors!

By the tits of my ancestors!

Dwarf culture

Bronto piss!

By the Stone!

For the love of nugs and idiot children!

Nug-dung!

Nug-humper!

Nugs and dolts!

Stonecursed duster!

Stones!

What the nug!

 The Blight

Ah, Blight!

Blight and destruction!

Blighted wretch!

Darkspawn blood!

Fire and Blight!

Griffon’s buttocks! (fade!Duncan)

 The Fade

Blasted fade monkeys!

By the Black City!

By the walls of the golden city! (Desire demon)

Fade monkeys! 

Racial epithets

Bare-skinned shem!

Filthy elf-lover!

Bloody elf guts!

Son of a Fereldan bitch! (Tevinter guard)

Pee and poop

Ah, piss and vinegar.

Crap!

Dog piss!

Flaming rat turds.

Oh, piss on it!

Piss and blood!

Piss and spittle!

Piss on a stick.

Piss on it!

Shit.

Shite.

Stinking road apples!

Turd!

Dogs

Base-born jackal.

Bloody kibble!

Flea-bitten whelps.

Hound’s arse!

Miserable cur!

Of all the motherless mongrels.

Scurvy dogs! (Isabela)

 Food

Applesauce!

Beans and spuds!

Milk and cookies! (Perpetua)

Pickles! (Paivel)

Ugh! That’s bean-rot!

Fereldan culture and history

By the giant stones of the Dwarfson.

Great Dane’s bitch.

Calenhad’s crown! (fade!Maric)

 Animals and insects

Dung beetles!

Flies and bother!

For the love of little fish.

Hind of a jackrabbit!

Hog wash!

Horse feathers! (Wynne)

Motherless son of a goat.

Oh, donkey bum!

Oh… f-frogs! (Daveth)

Oh… rats.

Ox dung!

Pigeon crap! (Shale)

Rats!

Rotten maggot-spawn!

Skunk breath! (Sloth)

Shave a horse and punch me in the teeth.

Spawn of motherless goat.

Sod-eating rodents!

Well, wax my head and call me a pug!

what is this i dont even

Dust bugger!

Oh, fuddle-knuckles.

Stab me with a fork and call me Susan! (Carroll)

Thunder humper! (Oghren)

Whiplash and Crow sauce!

You dung-brained goat herder.

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Angelina Jolie - Vogue (October 2021)

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to all the fic writers out there who have made 2021 bearable and have given us all countless hours of happiness and escapism, thank you so much

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I wasn’t diagnosed until my sophomore year of high school! I was weird, yes, and I’ll attest to that, but holy crap, don’t bully me just because of that (I was bullied cuz of my “weirdness” at least once a day from pre-k through 12th grade)!

The hard truth about autism acceptance that a lot of people don't want to hear is that autism acceptance also inherently requires acceptance of people who are just weird.

And yes, I mean Those TM people. Middle schoolers who growl and bark and naruto run in the halls. Thirtysomethings who live with their parents. Furries. Fourteen-year-olds who identify as stargender and use neopronouns. Picky eaters. Adults in fandoms. People who talk weird. People who dress weird.

Because autistic people shouldn't have to disclose a medical diagnosis to you to avoid being mocked and ostracized for stuff that, at absolute worst, is annoying. Ruthlessly deriding people for this stuff then tacking on a "oh, but it's okay if they're autistic" does absolutely nothing to help autistic people! Especially when undiagnosed autistic people exist.

Like it or not, if you want to be an ally to autistic people, you're going to have to take the L and leave eccentric, weird people alone. Even if you don't know them to be autistic. You shouldn't be looking for Acceptable Reasons to be mean to people in the first place. Being respectful should be the default.

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has anyone else ever had a fanfic that just... haunts them? like it's been months and maybe even years since you read it, but it just lingers with you and you can never truly leave behind the imprint it made on you? and maybe it's just a single line, one sentence that you can't shake off, that takes up residence in your mind and stays there, feeding into your psyche and subtly influencing your brainspace and maybe even your writing or other works?

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It occurs to me that there are people who weren’t on this website in 2012 and therefore never saw the magical gif that you can actually hear:

It’s been over five years and that still impresses the hell out of me.

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I try to keep my nose out of shit like this but today. man. today I encountered something that really ticked me off.

today I met a professor who does queer studies. she told me that her teenage gay son yelled at her recently for using the word “queer” in describing her discipline and demanded to know how the university “could get away with calling it that.”

so of course she’s baffled right, and asks him where on earth this is coming from. and he told her he read it on Tumblr. 

listen if you don’t want to be called queer and don’t want to be lumped in with folks who comprise the queer community, that’s fine. that’s totally fine. it is 100% okay. people are allowed to have complicated histories with that word. it’s a fraught signifier. it’s a mess and it’s allowed to be. 

what’s not cool is telling young LGBTQ+ people that queer is a slur in all contexts because now you are stripping away not just the language that we use to describe ourselves but also the language that creates the discipline that lets us study our own lives and our cultures. Queer studies has been a part of American academe since the 1970s (possibly earlier, depending on who you ask). “Queer” has been a functioning and largely unproblematic signifier in American academe since ten years before the AIDS crisis. If you don’t at least know that much, you have absolutely no business trying to educate LGBTQ+ youth about queer history.

Trying to censor the word queer from our collective cultural lexicon is 1) impossible. it’s here now. and 2) an erasure of our lineage of scholarship. I could spend all day lobbing criticisms at American academic culture and I do, but queers created space for ourselves in academe. We built a queer world inside the tower that tried its best to keep us out and now we have a place here. 

I am a queer person and I am a queer scholar. You use whatever words you want to signify who you are and how you live your life and how you love your loves. You won’t hear a peep of criticism from me.  All I’m asking is that you do me and mine the courtesy of leaving our collective body of text very much the fuck alone.

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Hey kids, take it from an old forest hag: it's totally okay to half-ass your hobbies

... trace that picture for your journal

... like old cars without knowing how to fix them

... watch the movies without reading the comics

... super glue the part of the model

... learn one (1) way to make a braid

... watch how-to videos for every step of the recipe

... google every second word in that article

... use the automatic setting on your camera

And don't be ashamed. Real life isn't school. The all or nothing mentality is not healthy. Don't gate-keep yourself from stuff that might be fun. Shrug, grin, and hold eye contact with a boomer while you do it. It's good I promise.

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PSA regarding tumblr’s latest Censorship Nightmare

For those of you who haven’t seen this announcement, tumblr recently made some changes to the iOS version of the app, purportedly to comply with Apple’s content guidelines. These changes took effect on Dec 21, starting in version 22.5.1 of the iOS app. As some of you may recall, Apple’s strict guidelines were the driving force for the infamous Great Purge of 2018, which coincidentally also happened around this time of year, but it seems banning all of the female-presenting nipples wasn’t good enough for Apple.

Below is a summary of the important changes. Note that these changes technically ONLY affect those using the iOS app. If you’re accessing tumblr through a different app or operating system (Google Chrome, Android app, etc) it won’t affect you directly but it will affect your followers who use iOS so you should definitely be aware of it.

The list of banned tags has been expanded. As before, there’s no way to know which words or phrases have been banned until you try searching for them, in which case you’ll either get no search results or the following message: “This content has been hidden because of potentially suggestive or explicit content.” You may think this doesn’t concern you if you don’t post explicit material, but do not make the mistake of expecting the banned tags to be logical or reasonable. I’ve already encountered multiple completely innocuous posts (random fandom gifsets) that seem to be hidden on iOS for no discernible reason.

Blogs that have been flagged as explicit can no longer be viewed. Previously, flagged blogs just had their posts hidden from searches, but if you knew the username you could still visit it after clicking through a warning about sensitive content. Now you can’t access it at all.

Likes and reblogs from blogs that have been flagged will no longer show up in your notes. This one won’t affect most people’s user experience as much as the others, but it does mean you may be missing notes. It’s unclear if likes and reblogs from flagged blogs will still count towards the overall note total (and only be missing from the activity feed and note viewer) but I suspect that’s the case.

THE BIG ONE: ANY POST TAGGED WITH A BANNED TAG WILL NO LONGER SHOW UP ON YOUR DASHBOARD. Previously, if you tagged a post with a banned word or phrase (even if the words were used inside another tag), that post would not show up in searches, but your followers would still be able to see it on their dashboard. Now those posts are hidden from your own followers as well. This includes both original posts and reblogs. And if that wasn’t bad enough, here’s the real kicker: even if you don’t tag something with one of the banned words, if the OP used a banned tag, any reblogs of that post will not show up on anyone’s dashboard (on the iOS app). The only saving grace here, and I hate to even call it that, is that the blocked posts are still visible if you visit a blog directly or if you have post notifications turned on.

As usual, tumblr was extremely unclear and evasive about all of this in their official announcement. Not surprising, of course, since if more people were aware of these new draconian tactics I can’t imagine there wouldn’t be more of an uproar about it. Tumblr claims that these changes are somewhat temporary and that they are currently working on something that will allow for a less restricted iOS experience, but they refuse to say what that something is and when it will be implemented. And let’s just say, considering their track record, I’m not hopeful.

All of this is horrible and infuriating for many reasons, but the worst part is how insanely counterproductive it is to creating the “safe” environment tumblr (or more specifically Apple) supposedly wants.

Tags have always been used for both blog organization and filtering purposes. Tagging posts with triggers and content warnings is a common practice that gives users the ability to filter out content they may find upsetting or just don’t don’t want to see for whatever reason. By choosing to ban a bunch of unlisted “sensitive content” tags, all they’re doing is encouraging people who want to share that kind of content to come up with alternative less well-known tags or simply not tag that content at all anymore if they want it to show up on their follower’s dashboards, thereby making it more likely for someone to encounter it when they didn’t want to.

So really, with all of the alleged concern for safety and “protecting the children,” all they’ve done is make tumblr less safe for everyone. Typical.

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Angst fics can help people come to terms with their own grief, begin healing, or give people that good cry that they need.

Smut fics can help people affirm and accept their sexuality. It can help them explore their sexuality in a safe way. They can also just be fun, and having fun is a drastically undervalued way to improve your mental health.

Dark fics can help people face their fears or process their trauma. It can make them feel safer and more secure. It can help them find their courage.

Fluff fics can give people rest and respite and comfort. It can give them hope that soft places exist and that maybe there is one out there for them. It can bring up their mood, which, if they have depression, can be a life saver.

And every fic people write makes someone feel less alone.

Point being, just because a particular thing doesn’t serve you, doesn’t mean it lacks value.

This is not to say that we have to consume all fic uncritically. Of course not. It is just to say that entire “genres” aren’t trash or lacking value just because they don’t serve you.

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Pavellan Incorrect Quote

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Thinking fondly about how the three big liar companions in Inquisition lie in very distinct ways.

Bull almost exclusively tells the unvarnished truth, really. But he tells the truths that lead you in the direction he wants. The big question with him is ultimately about where his deepest loyalties lay, and he doesn't actually lie about that, either. He just encourages avoidance of the question.

Varric lies constantly, but mostly in a very wink wink nudge nudge way, encouraging you to think of the lies as innocuous storytelling, so that the important lies go unexamined. So he cheerfully hides everything that's most important to him and is, you know, a fucken mob boss while always giving the "lovable uncle who deals under the table sometimes" vibe

Solas lies almost entirely by omission. Honesty and informed consent matter hugely to him, and he'll bend over backwards to tell the truth when directly questioned. He just tries to be vague and cryptic as much as possible to avoid any deeper investigations. And of course his go to "I saw it in the Fade" which is technically always true and thus actually meaningless.

Blackwall is a terrible liar, and relies entirely on his audience not knowing enough to argue.

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Dalish children sitting in the mud and drawing vallaslin on theirs and their friends’ faces.

Dalish children running around naked until they become apprentices and the warriors and hunters don armor for the first time.

Dalish children about to become apprentices who steal one of the clan’s halla for a rite-of-passage joy ride that has half the adults screaming and the other half cheering.

Dalish children learning from trial and error which bugs and leaves are safe to eat and which should only be touched if you want a medical emergency.

Dalish children who never get sick catching a cold for the first time and convinced they’re dying.

Dalish children sleeping in and outside of aravels in piles of limbs and smooshed faces.

Dalish children always getting something to eat even if the hunters have to starve themselves.

Dalish children growing up speaking their clan’s colloquial mish-mash of Elven and the country’s Common.

Dalish children learning that lethallin and lethallan are synonyms for trust and love and home.

Dalish children (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧

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The signs as Brandi Quinones looks

Aries

Taurus

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Cancer

Leo

Virgo

Libra

Scorpio

Sagittarius

Capricorn

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Pisces