#& I've Tried to make it clear

[vaguely-concerned]

are. are you telling me that if the romanced mage warden dies and alistair is king, he deadass stares greagoir down over her dead body and grants the circle of ferelden its autonomy after ordering it rebuilt somewhere safer. first you have to deliberately leave him behind so he won't die for you and then he does that for you once you're gone, even when you're broken up??? absolute and literal king behaviour of the highest order????? the actions speak louder than words of it all??????? I think I hauve covid

[speakofcompersion]

TAEMIN - 'Eternal' Track List ♥︎

[a-s-levynn]

"A taste of the divine" A Series of Small Offerings - IV/2 - day34

[somegrumpynerd]

Some skeletons as kitty cats

Neko Sansume

[notmoreflippingelves]

[yujeong]

For the micro story ask, how about number 7 (silent fury) for Pete? With your choice of other character/s <3

Ohhh, that's a good one, my friend, thank you so much ❤️ ----------------------- "Hey, P'Pete." "Hm?" "You used to do boxing, right?" "Ah... yes, why?" "What was your nickname?" "My... what?" "The name you'd been given as a fighter. Like how P'Porsche was called The Phoenix." "Well-" "Silent Fury." "Bro, you're not funny." "What? It suits him, doesn't it?" "It sounds stupid and you know it." "It does sound a little stupid, Vegas." "I only meant to emphasize your strengths, Pete." "You did a bad job." "Shut up, Macau." "Phi never answered the question. What was it?" "I... didn't have one." "You didn't? But why?" "No point for a fighter who's bad at his job." "Pete-" "No, I refuse to accept it. We're giving you one right now... Don't laugh, Phi, I'm being serious!" "Fine, Macau. Do whatever you want. But it can't be Silent Fury." "It suits you-" "Hia won't participate in the brainstorming. Only me and P'Pete." "Okay, that's it. No dinner for you." "Will I not get dinner either, Vegas?" "It depends, Pete. Are you going to behave?" "Ugh, never mind, I'm out of here. You started being gross again." "Food will be ready in an hour!" "You better have finished until then!" "No promises."

[crossdressingdeath]

Sera: Crotch rot. Beats his squire. He's a she. Has a bastard. Extra toes. What a fun, close-marrying crowd.

Setting aside the fact that only one of those things makes someone a bad person and it's weird that she's listing having extra toes or crotch rot or a bastard alongside beating people like those are in any way the same (and also who the fuck cares, Sera, I swear for all her big talk she cares more about noble gossip than anyone else), that casual transphobia there... sure is a choice. And the joy of Dragon Age being ahead of the curve as far as queer rep goes means that it's not a case of "it's 2014 and the writing is Like That"; the dialogue surrounding Krem is clumsy but involves any transphobia the player expresses being thoroughly slapped down, this was a deliberate choice that someone made for Sera specifically! Someone chose to make Sera specifically transphobic!

Which... not gonna lie, makes a lot of sense given Sera's kind of just a bully. Like, she's not evil or a villain or anything, she's just... mean. She's really mean to the people around her, especially the ones who are below her in the social pecking order (it's not a coincidence that the Inquisitor she's cruellest to is Lavellan—a Dalish elf who was absolutely considered less than nothing by large chunks of Thedas before they became the Herald—and the Inquisitor she's nicest to is human noble non-mage Trevelyan). Like, of course the bully who likes punching down is transphobic. Is anyone surprised by this? There does seem to be at least some in-universe transphobia in Thedas, of course Sera wants to target people who are under her in the social pecking order in literally any way. That's what she does.

(Also because I want to make my stance on this clear up front: I will be taking no bullshit on this post, and if you try to claim she's totally not being transphobic when she says "he's a she" you better have some actual solid proof to back it up because while I'd really love to believe she isn't being disgusting I struggle to think of any other reason why she'd say that like it's a bad thing. And no, there's no reason to believe that one of the nobles present is a woman pretending to be a man for whatever reason; we have exactly one even slightly verifiable instance of that happening with the original Aveline, and that was long enough ago and under different enough circumstances that I don't think it counts as any sort of proof that that sort of thing happens among the Orlesian nobility in modern Thedas. If you choose to believe this line means nothing that's your prerogative but if you don't have actual proof beyond not wanting to believe it—which to be clear is entirely valid, she isn't real and it's a throwaway line, I just personally can't overlook it—kindly just don't engage with this post.)

[tvckerwash]

sharing some bits and bobs from a wash (and sort of tex) centric one shot I'll hopefully finish someday just because:

The second the barrage of bullets being directed at them by the two chain-gunners stopped, Wash and York were on their feet. Dashing out from behind the concrete pillars they’d been using for cover they ran across the catwalk to enter the main complex.

“We’re all clear, Carolina. We’ll be dark in less than sixty.” York said into his comm, cutting the connection at her confirmation.

When they reached the hallway York turned towards Wash. “Hey, if you’re still going after C.T, a word of advice: Do not get in Tex’s way.” He warned. “Seriously, do NOT do it.”

Wash rolled his eyes.

“Thanks for the tip.”

+

Wash was used to cleaning up after others—if they couldn't do it right, then he would—but it wasn't like Carolina of all people to be so sloppy.

+

The moment he had seen the split second shimmer that rushed past him straight into the line of fire with Carolina hot on its heels, he had known. He had known—There was only ever one outcome with Texas involved, and he wasn’t dumb enough to believe for even a second that his silent prayers for her to fail just once were ever going to be answered.

But…

But—

A string in the back of his mind he hadn’t realized was taut snapped.

The casual admittance, the lack of care, the complete disregard for Connie’s life in her words forced him to a halt as a familiar feeling violently rushed to the surface.

He'd stuck his neck out for Texas, Connie had stuck her neck out for Texas, and this was how she repaid their kindness?

For a moment, he genuinely entertained the thought of killing her.

+

Wash let muscle memory guide him as he stripped off the many protective layers of titanium nanocomposite plating. He kept on the Kevlar bodysuit, choosing to forgo a shirt and just throw on his Freelancer-issued fatigues. He slammed his locker closed with his right foot, resting it on the vertical surface so he could lace up his boot, he then did the same with his left.

Standing up, he took a moment to scour over his mental map of the ship. He decided that he’d go down to R & D, cut through Armor Processing to take a detour up to the observation deck, and loop his way back to the locker room via the maintenance halls. That way, he wouldn’t have to pass through Recovery and, consequently, get dragged into a mildly uncomfortable conversation with Florida.

+

He turned a corner and abruptly stopped as he found himself standing in front of the leaderboard that was just outside the locker room. As he was bathed in its blue light, he recalled the words Connie had said to him all those months ago following Texas’ arrival.

"Don't forget to check your place on that list, Wash."

He didn’t even have to scan the list to find his name. His eyes darted to 5th place, and there it was, just like always.

It almost felt as though the digital display was mocking him in a way, taunting him by bringing all of his silent doubts and quiet insecurities to the forefront of his mind.

Is this how Connie had felt when it first started getting to her head?

Is this how all of the others felt?

He frowned at the thought, moving to sit on the oh-so conveniently placed bench.

+

The sound of armored footsteps broke him out of his thoughts and he reflexively looked up expecting to see Carolina—but instead of Carolina, he found himself staring at a face he had never seen before.

Said mystery face stared right back at him.

A quick glance at the armor color told him it was Texas, but his mind was short circuiting as he struggled to process the fact that Agent Texas actually had a face that wasn't her helmet.

Had he really never seen it before?

+

She had silky wheat blonde hair slicked back into one of those tight, headache inducing buns, fair skin with a light dusting of freckles across her nose, sharp cheekbones, a nicely defined jawline, and the bluest blue eyes he's ever seen.

She was an attractive woman in a girl next door kind of way. If he had to describe it, she had one of those faces where if he were to pass her on the street he wouldn't be stunned speechless and completely awestruck by her beauty, but he would find his gaze lingering on her a little longer than necessary.

All in all, it was a perfectly normal face, despite her good looks though, Wash couldn’t help the vague sense of unease he felt as he stared at her. There was just something that triggered an unsettling sense of wrongness in the back of his brain, like her features were trying too hard to come across as natural, and in doing so it only made them look more artificial.

+

“So, uh, how's the wrist?” He asked, trying to break the ice and shift the silence between them from awkward into something more casual. This technique admittedly didn't always work with this group, but he tried.

“...Fine.” Texas replied, unconsciously raising her arm from her side so she could thumb at her wrist with her other hand. “This arm isn't real, so there's no permanent damage.”

He hated himself for feeling disappointed about that.

+

“Con—C.T, knew the risks that her actions would bring.” He said, turning away from Texas in an effort to hide some of the bitterness that seeped from his voice. “You were just doing your job and following orders.”

[tenojan-in-tevinter]

Honestly I really want to be able to side with Solas in dreadwolf. I think it'd be super interesting to play as an elf in Tevinter and be able to just go "yeah actually I think Fen'Harel is right let's tear down that veil." I mean I assume the main conflict will be Solas trying to convince your character to join him, or your character being told they have to try and stop him, and there are not enough games that let you side with the presented "villain" character. I want to see what the world is like with no veil I'm so interested. Also so interested to see what full-on Fen'Harel Solas is like. Is he still as empathetic? Or is he more conniving and distanced from "mortals" like the old stories would have us believe?

[asairayn]

so i went a little feral

read Panic by @thedemonsurfer / @thedemonscrawler and i fucking HAD to draw them you don't UNDERSTAND i'm losing it!!!!! it's literally been like. less than twelve hours. i couldn't get the image of eclipse bashing bloodmoon with a keyboard out of my head. i had to.

[supernovasilence]

No. No no no no absolutely hell no.

(Diane Duane this is about tumblr not you you’re great)

Apparently tumblr has decided to give us note previews at the bottom of posts now and I hate it. Partly it’s annoying; if I wanted to see notes and replies I would click on the notes! The button’s right there! It takes an extra 0.2 second! This just clutters up the post layout without adding any functionality. But it’s also terrifying, because it is once again trying to make tumblr like other social media.

It’s trying to say “here is this Cool Thing (in our algorithmically-informed view). You don’t think/know yet you want to look at this Cool Thing but we know you want to look at this Cool Thing, because we know better than you what you should be looking at.”

See, this note is not the most recent note by a long shot, but it is by dduane/Diane Duane, who has been on tumblr a long time, pops up fairly regularly in the Star Trek fandom, and has written actual official Trek novels (among many other things). She’s probably the most “famous” note on this post (or what passes for famous/popular on tumblr). I’m guessing it’s not a coincidence hers was the note featured.

A quick look through the “tumblr update” tag shows people are also having issues like seeing terf comments previewed even though that’s the sort of content they would never willingly look at.

@staff @support​ @wip​ no thank you. We’re all still here because tumblr is the one social media that lets us choose what we see, not the algorithm. Get rid of note previews or give us a switch to turn them off. We don’t want them here.

[pixelsjoy]

Me playing Tears of the Kingdom: As much as I miss the champions, it makes sense they're not mentioned much. It's been a hundred years since they died. Even if they survived the Calamity, most of them would probably be dead at this point. The only exception being Mipha, who would have been the only one that would still be alive if she survived the calamity due to her age. The reason they're still remembered so much in Breath of the Wild is because the Divine Beasts, one of the last remaining connections to them, are still active and looming in Hyrule. Impa also said that their spirits feel uneasy knowing their task of defeating the Calamity wasn't done. They were at peace when the Calamity was defeated and passed on. They're not brought up from that point on because them and their era are over and can be laid to rest.

Also me playing Tears of the Kingdom: - holding back tears - Damn I miss the champions

[bunnihearted]

𓂃 ࣪˖ ִֶָ𐀔

[skrunksthatwunk]

why the fuck did i write about birds this fucking sucks. i just found out birds only sleep for a few minutes at a time, hundreds of times a day. do you know what this is going to do to my structure? the logistics of their road trip? this is already like three days late and i've been fighting for my life to get A Plot Like Any Plot That Makes Sense out and now the birds fucking sleep for 5 minutes at a time.

[moghedien]

I'm so glad I got to play 2 hours of BG3 before my one (1) month old PS5 broke

[bookwyrminspiration]

I made the Stellarlune survey! About whether you liked it and why!

It is anonymous, 9 questions (7 multiple choice, 2 open response), and all questions are technically optional. However, it's better for data if you fill them all out.

If you have any questions, feel free to ask!

Tagging people who said they'd be willing to take it: @ethervalism @commonghost @valentinerose529 @n0itsbecky-13 @thelavendernarwhal @fandomsareforlife @official-kenralie-fanbase @when-wax-wings-melt @gay-otlc @pissy-victorian-vampire @three-bunnies-in-a-trenchcoat @xanadaus @camelspit @a-withered-old-rose

(thank you in advance! I will be sharing anything I can extrapolate from this)