#(somewhat anyway)

[fadetouchedsilk]

gonna select a few moments from the ama that had me '????' let's go

okay so knowing this i do have to wonder Why they still kept the lof in the final product because it is so unbalanced? i understand every faction not being 1:1 in terms of inclusion, but compared to the crows or wardens the difference is really apparent

??? we can still like. get into arguments with people while working towards the same goal lmao. in fact in a world-ending situation i'd argue that you'd probably see it at a higher frequency than usual due to stress.

sorry this one makes me mad lmfao. so you're telling me the player character got shafted here in favour of Party Banter At The Lighthouse??? a lot of which you can apparently hear outside the lighthouse too? (i am not convinced anyone was actually concerned with rook as a character in the writer's room)

is the onboarding process in the room with us right now? i must have more gaps in my memory than i realize, because as far as i recall the 'onboarding' for previous games consisted of a couple options for a bioware-assigned worldstate, or the choice to import from the keep. read the summary. that's the onboarding.

given the Rough Draft state of the writing in general i just don't buy this as a reason. tbh. i think it would be different If there were a post-decision debriefing conversation with him (at the Bare Minimum) but since apparently dialogue wheels + walking were beyond the capabilities of frostbite, we didn't get that.

i won't even lie i thought about this as i played lmfao i don't actually think we have enough to avoid bad genetics here (pool of at least 50 i think??) looking forward to the french bulldogs of griffons in the coming decades

with peace and love this studio is Not to be trusted with more qunari content in the immediate future unless we start to fix a lot of racist tendencies real fast

don't hold your breath (it gets stated multiple times that there's no dlc plans period) but blood mage was on the table, unfortunate it didn't get implemented but add that to the stack of missed opportunities ig

[aleisters]

the impression i have rightly or wrongly from "the resident of the boudoir" is that haarlep simply does not leave the bedroom, which had me thinking about things:

the extent of the decadence in there. most of it is raphael's taste, but i think haarlep would drive raphael batshit if haarlep did not have the appropriate amount of enrichment in his enclosure

haarlep spends their whole life eating nice food and sleeping in a nice bed and has a bath so big u can swim in it ... who is the princess here ... (it's still raphael, but haarlep is borderline princess)

i do not get the impression we're supposed to feel sorry for haarlep. it would be very easy with a few tonal changes and suggestions for the game to make it clear that haarlep is miserable and their situation sucks. haarlep doesn't mind making trouble for raphael but doesn't seem to hate him either

wait what other creature gets kept indoors all the time, has to have enough enrichment or they go insane, and has a questionable amount of respect for their person

cat

haarlep is a house cat

haarlep is one of those indoor cats bc if you let them go outside they're going to decimate the local bird population

[mimobiii]

tiefling astarion because i feel like we were robbed. i have many thoughts about how his story would be so much deeper had he been a tiefling magistrate who made laws that made thr refugees’ lives harder, as a sort of ‘pulling up the ladder behind him’ move. it would also make the apathy he has towards the grove make more sense other than ‘he’s a racist elf’

[risetherivermoon]

this one snippet from the new little fic im working on really sums up the specific nark dynamic in it im going for, so you could call this a preview (if it ever sees the light of day)

[smallsleepyoarfish]

I got the twilight mirror paraglider fabric as my second drop from scanning wolf link!

Such a pretty design, it doesn’t glow enough to be useful but it looks great!

[flatstarcarcosa]

just had a thought about how ben and i’s relationship evolves from him intentionally flashing me in the face with a flashlight beam to prove i’m ~*~*a liability in the field~*~* because of my eyes, to bernard trigger, where i actually DO get incapped in the field because of my eyes and he drags me out of the fray, even if he does insist it’s only because he’s the only one around,

to much, much, later on where he ends up fully having butcher’s role of gleefully being willing to pop people who take my eyes by surprise with light.

[chalkrub]

autumnal chill....featuring the girl

[inkskinned]

this is just my opinion but i think any good media needs obsession behind it. it needs passion, the kind of passion that's no longer "gentle scented candle" and is now "oh shit the house caught on fire". it needs a creator that's biting the floorboards and gnawing the story off their skin. creators are supposed to be wild animals. they are supposed to want to tell a story with the ferocity of eating a good stone fruit while standing over the sink. the same protective, strange instinct as being 7 and making mud potions in pink teacups: you gotta get weird with it.

good media needs unhinged, googling-at-midnight kind of energy. it needs "what kind of seams are invented on this planet" energy and "im just gonna trust the audience to roll with me about this" energy. it needs one person (at least) screaming into the void with so much drive and energy that it forces the story to be real.

sometimes people are baffled when fanfic has some stunning jaw-dropping tattoo-it-on-you lines. and i'm like - well, i don't go here, but that makes sense to me. of fucking course people who have this amount of passion are going to create something good. they moved from a place of genuine love and enjoyment.

so yeah, duh! saturday cartoons have banger lines. random street art is sometimes the most precious heart-wrenching shit you've ever seen. someone singing on tiktok ends up creating your next favorite song. youtubers are giving us 5 hours of carefully researched content. all of this is the impossible equation to latestage capitalism. like, you can't force something to be good. AI cannot make it good. no amount of focus-group testing or market research. what makes a story worth listening to is that someone cares so much about telling it - through dance, art, music, whatever it takes - that they are just a little unhinged about it.

one time my friend told me he stayed up all night researching how many ways there are to peel an orange. he wrote me a poem that made me cry on public transportation. the love came through it like pith, you know? the words all came apart in my hands. it tasted like breakfast.

[mumblesplash]

i know it’s like years old at this point but i love that one collab mumbo and grian did with tommyinnit bc it’s like the single most concentrated example i’ve seen of mumbo’s Chaos Nullification Powers

you get to see a bit of it on hermitcraft, mostly via his interactions with grian, but until seeing that collab it didn’t really hit me just how completely mumbo can no-sell other people’s attempts to control a situation. tommyinnit is possibly the single shoutiest, most chaotic minecraft youtuber out there, and in most videos i’ve seen he pretty much overwhelms everyone else and sets the tone for interactions because of this. but mumbo just. doesn’t let him. no matter how much tommy escalates in intensity, mumbo reacts with *exactly* the same energy he always does. grian largely comes across in the whole video as annoyed and reluctant to engage with the whole thing, but mumbo’s not even affected. he just rolls with anything he finds funny and basically ignores anything he disapproves of, only seeming more and more unflappable the harder anyone tries to get a rise out of him.

AND imo, this is the key to my favorite interpretation of him as a character

see, when the people around him are being more reasonable/calm, i think mumbo often comes across as anxious and a bit easily overwhelmed. the thing is, his nervous wet cat vibes do not scale. he has one setting. his responses to the last life ‘ah-ha!’ jokes and to hermitcraft 8 starting to crumble to pieces under a falling moon are almost identical.

mumbo jumbo is inexorably and eternally Just Some Guy, but that gets stranger and stranger the weirder his surroundings become. the giggly incredulousness that makes him an easy target for goofy puns looks Very different when it’s also his reaction to the impending end of the world.

[poisoned-pearls]

Masquerade Road Trip 🚌

Okay but like…. What if instead of using mirrors they had to stuff this whole cast of people into a bus/van

It’d be a little funny

(Also turn up phone brightness to see it better. Or don’t. Idk I don’t control you)

[lotus-pear]

horrendously late entry for @luneariann’s dtiys!! congrats on one million ely i’m so proud of you <3

[warningsine]

Love seeing the new generation find out how, well, gay "Wicked" is.

Closeted high femme dressed as the lesbian flag not getting on her rebellious activist bestie's broom and regretting it for the rest of her conformist life.

[welcometogrouchland]

[ID in ALT] I've made posts before about Talia/Dick co-parenting Damian moments (will never happen but let me dream) and this came to me in a vision. Took me ages to finish for some reason 😭 and then even longer to post

[seongclb]

i want to post but i habe to revise history now .

[ruporas]

it's time to go, my love (ID in alt)

[ochibrochi]

they could never make me hate this dude 👹