#*off tune singing*

[dudewhy3]

said that i was fine

SAID IT FROM THE COFFIN

[chalkscrub]

the Official and Fully Articulated Chalk Sheet - already want to completely revamp it which is a hallmark of any ref sheet i deign to make

[thewardenisonthecase]

im not going to find it now, but @/v-arbellanaris post on the themes of identity loss in DAI are not that well handled because the inquisitior is not allowed to have an identity TO BEGIN with due to how centrist this game is is always on my mind.

Because like, everytime i see people talking about this big theme around the inquisitor i cant help but feel like i played a different game. I felt so disconnected from the inquisitor because I had no idea who they were. Like, they felt too much like a blank slate. DAO and DA2 both gave you established backstories of which you could build your character around, but DAI felt like I needed to work it from the ground up. I remember the first time i got that convo with Josie, in Haven, where you can establish some stuff, I felt almost weirded out because I was suddenly being told things about this character that I knew nothing about and now i had to establish things? It was confusing and I didn't even KNOW what to pick. And I played the games in order, so for it was extremely JARRING to jump from warden to hawke to inquisitor. So much so that it took 3 tries, with 3 different characters until I finally landed on one that I felt like i could work with, because until then, I couldn't figure out who the fuck my inquisitor was supposed to be.

And its really, REALLY hard to have a theme of you're losing your identity when you don't have one. I almost feel like there should have been two games - one where you deal maybe with only the mage rebellion and get to see and understand who your character REALLY is and then DAI, where you see all that you were get rewritten. And honestly, it gets to me because loss of identity is something that lowkey permeates the other characters - The reason Varric wrote the tale of the champion was in part because people were getting Hawke's story wrong (Cassandra is a GREAT example of how people were imagining things went down and why Varric's book was so relevant). I like to add that "you're only a symbol now" theme to my warden sometimes and it fees like a natural progression but to the inquisitor?

And to be honest, I'm not even entirely sure that this theme was intentional on the writer's part. Like, i give DAI some grace because of HELLISH the development was, but sometimes it feels to me that either they had a specific idea for who the inquisitor should be and if you play differently, themes get lost, or that the inquisitor was 1000% just some placeholder.

No wonder that the one character that stuck with me was Adaar because it was the only backstory that i felt gave me something i could work with - it said you have at least one mother and one father who left the qun and you joined a mercenary band and they have names. Not the faceless trevelyans who you only mildly hear about nor clan lavellan, who is talked about as if all those people were one person instead of, y'know, a group of people (i bring these two up because my 1st inky was a trevelyan and the 1st inky i ACTUALLY finished a playthriugh with was a lavellan and my god. i felt SO disconnected with them).

There's some other stuff too regarding the inquisitor's story that i don't know how to explain but that add to that feeling of not liking the inquisitor. Like, I think one of the things that I really like about the warden and Hawke is that you really have to build that character from the ground up. The wardens are very near the bottom of the social ladder and hawke is a refugee who's possibly an apostate too. it takes LONG in these games for your character to get any semblance of comfort. But for the inquisitor idk, i didnt feel that? Things happened to them and I had this feeling that they didn't deserve it. Like you go from haven, who's alreayd more organized than anything the warden and hawke had from the get go, and then you go to skyhold which is even nicer but I just cant help but feel that its unearned.

idk. its hard to explain. its even harder when i add the whole anchor thing, because I really do hate this thing. Like sorry, even if the inquisitor got named that because of their leadership, they were only given a chance to begin with bc of the mark. Its not a chosen one story but it sure as fuck feels like one to me most of the time. And the inquisitor being this leader is also something i just struggle with, and i blame it mostly on the fucking war table missions. Idk, again, bc in dao and da2 you have to basically do everything yourself, i could picture the warden and hawke as leaders, but because the nit and gritty is done by leliana/josephine/cullen, its like ok so am i just the guy who sits on a chair and orders people around? I just never get the feeling that the inquisitor is ACTUALLY working to get these things done its always just ordering others around. And like sure, the king who sits on the throne and orders people to their deaths is a leader, but the general who's going to war with me feels more like my leader than the guy with the crown (terrible analogy but its the best icould come up with).

idk. i have too many thoughts about how i don't like the inquisitor as a PC because of how they were written. its why i talk much less about asala because for me, despite doing 2 FULL PLAYTRHOUGHS its so hard to picture her in my head because the game gives me so freaking little to work with.

[glitterghost]

Petition for Sleep Token to put out a lullaby album.

[yanderederee]

👹👹👹

DONT EVEN JOKE LAD

[bumblingbabooshka]

Voyager plotline in which The Doctor, Seven, Tuvok, and Neelix have to become a barbershop quartet in order to save the crew. With the little outfits and everything. (Harry's providing the music)

[vanweezer]

i dont even listen to deftones like that but when someone else says they dont like them for some bullshit reason im like hey Hey you shut your damn mouth. those are my problematic uncles on my nu metal side

[1-nexomon-a-day]

4/13/24 - Rubby

[bmpmp3]

i totally understand the preference for the sound of concatenative vocal synths vs deep learning based ones (dl i find is often a lot weaker than concatenative, even in voicebanks meant for powerful singing. although they can also be more tonally expressive in ways concatenative struggles with. but of course sometimes you just want the metallic sound which is easier to get concatenatively compared to dl's more autotune-y noise) BUT i do often see people say its because theyre worried about more same-y sounding tuning from the auto pitch creation functions which i get but also it does make me giggle a little because have you forgotten the endless plug-and-play war going on from the past 20 years. have you forgotten the millions of untuned covers uploaded every day since the dawn of vocal synthesis. have you forgotten the autopitchwriter debate. the more things change the more things stay the same <3

[galaxy-lilies]

chipping away at season 5 cub's POV again, theyre vex pranking tango by building elsa's castle and scar is making so many frozen jokes and puns while cub is just *head in hands*

[biitchcakes]

@silverjetsystm // continued from ( ▽ )

[ ✉ ⤷ mr. moon 🌕 : ] well, i'd say my night is going better than hers at least

[ ✉ ⤷ mr. moon 🌕 : ] good thing you were there

There's a brief pause to her texts, fingers hovering over the keyboard.

[ ✉ ⤷ mr. moon 🌕 : ] i bet you worked up an appetite scaring that mugger off

[ ✉ ⤷ mr. moon 🌕 : ] i always do after that kinda stuff

[ ✉ ⤷ mr. moon 🌕 : ] and since you're already in the neighbourhood, could i interest you in some couple-hour-old chinese takeout? 🙂

[ ✉ ⤷ mr. moon 🌕 : ] i ordered too much, got plenty of leftovers

[ ✉ ⤷ mr. moon 🌕 : ] always do that too

[19catsncounting]

Wild idea: Alex Jones was one of Azazel's Special Children that he made just for funsies.

Research I didn't actually have to do but did: The Special Children Activation happened between 2006-2007 and Alex was kidnapped by Celia from her family smack-dab in the middle of that. 😃

[radioregine]

as much as i support #wickedhate i do think people in the notes of that post talking about how much they hate all musicals are immature and missing the point tho

[eurydices-carnation]

I just remembered this was happening uh-

SO IF ANYONE IS GOING ON THAT CRUISE CAN YOU TELL ME IF THEY SING THRILL OF FIRST LOVE TOGETHER

[hopefulqueer]

just sang a song in front of an Audience (specifically At An Audition) for the first time in...oh, six years? I am still shaking

[dark-raven-feathers]

Something about people in band and someone starting to hum the opening movement and five minutes later everyone is humming/loudly singing every single song they learned that year anyways