#Alcohol CW

[officeobject]

I used to be a kid, looking out from the kitchen, the nearby apartment building visible, as well as my usual playground, and only a bit of the night sky, as I wondered what life would be like, a clean liquor glass of water in my hand, never told my mother ...

Who one day randomly told me to stop drinking out of liquor glasses because they were hard to clean.

"I'm too sober for this," I say before taking a huge chug from a wine glass full of chocolate milk

[felassan]

Matt Rhodes: "Veilguard. The Ship" [source]

Matt Rhodes: "Since we knew this game would involve travelling to many brand new locations, I thought it would be cool if your home base was mobile." [source]

Image 1 caption: "Racing between bulky Qunari dreadnoughts." Image 4 caption: "A new setting for the war table." Image 5 caption: "I thought it'd would be cool if your ship was stolen, and you had to infiltrate an enemy base to get it back. I didn't realize it at the time, but I pitched this ideas back on ME2 as well. One day we'll get a mission to steal your ship back. Mark my words" Image 6 caption: "Isabela found a ship for you! A little elbow grease and it'll be home sweet home!" [captions source]

Image 1 file name: "Beat board - the ship" Image 2 file name: "Beat board - the ship sketch" Image 3 file name: "Beat board - the ship sketch" Image 4 file name: "Beat board - captain's quarters" Image 5 file name: "Beat board - rescue the ship" Image 6 file name: "Beat board - well take it" Image 7 file name: "Beat board - uneasy alliances"

Art by Matt Rhodes.

[scorchrend]

name still pending but yeayy this is my regulation H blorbo welcome back to obscurity indeedee male i will miss you in reg g

[coldslaws]

happy (n)ew years. seriously whoever decided champagne was the drink of choice needs to go jail

[hattersarts]

barbie movie my beloved. incl barbie step-mom, drew a few of these before i saw the movie

[haveyoumetmythief]

Me: It is Perfectly Normal to struggle while doing visual tasks in the dark, and fumbling while plugging in my phone is a neutral act. It has been over a decade, can you please just-

The Thing Inside My Brain:

[awetfrog]

17 notoriety

[aanthonyvb]

Don’t drink kids

[orchidbreezefc]

ok. years have passed and we've had some distance, so i'm finally gonna take the leap of faith that tma fandom is finally ready to hear me on this. let's talk about tannins.

161 was the first tma episode i heard on early release, and i felt the bit where martin declines wine and cites tannins was pretty obvious in its implications. cool, got it, say no more.

imagine my surprise when i was one of maybe three people i saw read between the lines there, in a fandom famous for red stringing--a fandom that immediately caught the much less obvious thread of ignition sources in the same episode. i'll spell it out: alcohol is an issue for martin.

maybe it just felt obvious because addiction is a pet issue for me--as it is for jonny, who has said everything he writes is filtered through a lens of addiction. i don't know if that's due to his own experience or a loved one's, and i won't speculate; i also don't know if martin personally struggled with drinking or just avoids it for fear he would, but alcohol would fit what we know of his family. his dad walking out and his mum spiralling into bitter wallowing and verbal abuse? i'd bet one or both of them drank, yeah.

on a basic level martin tries to decline alcohol, and that alone should have raised eyebrows given what we know of martin and, again, a fandom that dissects everything. we already knew martin "K" blackwood lied about his personal life and his family in particular, especially pre-canon, which is when this flashback took place. i was shocked that everyone took his flimsy excuse at face value with no further questions.

and the excuse is flimsy. martin turns down wine by--nervously--exclaiming tannins are "a proven headache trigger!" which sounds like trivia from a magazine cover and not the words of someone who actually has headaches--and it hasn't come up before or since. jon, confused, points out that tea, a drink martin consumes to a degree that is memetic both in- and out-of-universe, also contains tannins, and martin squawks a panicked, "what?!"

if tannins are enough of a concern for martin that he knew they're in wine and so avoids it, why didn't he know they're in his drink of choice? why does he still drink tea at the time of canon, and why doesn't he struggle with constant headaches from consuming 'a proven headache trigger' day in and day out? why, indeed, would someone avoid wine and not tea?

when sasha insists martin drink he caves and agrees to 'just a drop'. i imagine him pouring it in a plant, which admittedly he could have done if tannins really were the issue. i will say that i, for one, would be less likely to falsely agree to something that makes me physically ill than to a private issue that i'd rather not be pressed on any further. this scene also establishes martin's birthday was an ice cream party instead of the more traditional visit to a pub.

also, this scene was in the first episode of the final season, as one of three flashbacks that could have been to any pre-canon event in the archives. prime narrative real estate. not really time one would waste on establishing the important character context that martin has... headaches. which never comes up before or after, even regarding the week he spent in spiral town. but you know what is pretty crucial character background...?

it felt like a no-brainer, and yet all i saw was h/c fluff about jon attending to martin's headaches. and i hate feeling bitter about disability representation. i want folks with chronic headaches to feel seen and have fluffy escapist fantasies. i don't want to be mad about people portraying a character with a disability. but, guys? you got the wrong disability. jonny sent a clear message, and it went over fandom's head.

[666news-and-horoscopes]

[kiyomitakada]

light yagami is not a sad drunk or angry drunk or chatty drunk. light yagami refuses to drink until the peer pressure gets to a point where refusing would brand him as Weird at which point he takes one sip of asahi beer and doesn’t particularly like it and then has to excuse himself to the bathroom to have a panic attack about how he’s definitely going to tell everyone he’s kira as soon as he opens his mouth because the (single drop of) alcohol is Poisoning His Mind From The Inside (<- guy who has a bordering puritanical mindset about substances) and then he goes back out and adjusts his behavior to become slightly looser and more extroverted as the night goes on without actually drinking any more alcohol. i know this because ohba told me themself

[joejoeba]

Thats bad for you 😠

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[felassan]

Dragon Age: The Veilguard | Official Reveal Trailer - from Xbox Showcase

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Rally the Veilguard and defy the gods in Dragon Age™: The Veilguard, an immersive single player RPG where you become the leader others believe in. When corrupt gods break free from centuries of darkness, the odds will be stacked against you. You can't do this alone. Rally a team of seven companions, each with rich lives and deep backstories. These are characters to befriend, and even fall in love with. Among them, an assassin, a necromancer, and a detective will each bring their own expertise and unique abilities to the fight. You are never alone; decide who to take into battle and together face down demons, dragons and even ancient gods. You’ll fight alongside: Harding: The Scout Neve: The Detective Emmrich: The Necromancer Taash: The Dragon Hunter Davrin: The Warden Bellara: The Veil Jumper Lucanis: The Mage Killer Create memories with your team which will deepen your experiences and give you more to fight for. The world teeters on a knife's edge, but together you have the power to fight back.

[pinetreeshack]

OK

[beardog]

based on this post by @sulemio-week-official

pre-relationship, maybe college au lol

[kit-n-kamoodle]

it's a bit of an acquired taste...

(commission!)