#Da

[pomegranateruin]

rookanis doodle

[tungle-scant-sequels]

wonder if copwatch would be useful in this situation. might be too localized for something like border patrol?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copwatch (posting their wikipedia page bc each city's org is autonomous)

https://www.portlandcopwatch.org/ https://nccopwatch.org/ (& here's some examples)

ICE raids are starting on Tuesday in Chicago.

Yell “ICE” and “LA MIGRA” to disrupt them. Notify people and use your privilege as a citizen to make ICE’s job as difficult as possible.

Fascism has been here. It’s just loud now. Time to be loud too.

[artist-rat]

tower of ishal doodle

(worldstate with wardens mahariel + tabris :) warrior squad!)

[bluumey]

Davrin and his fave co-star

[theesteppenwolf]

Rook Maribel de Riva for my lovely moot @inkpotcrows 🖤

I learned how to render fire for this one finally

[evilauthor]

I think this pretty clearly explains part of the problem I had with the game. I did have other issues, but Rook's role in the game felt unimportant and underwhelming to me.

Don't mistake, I love adorkable characters, I find them charming...but Rook felt off to me. Rook was constantly repeating the same information we'd already gotten about their two line backstory over and over, but then once we actually dug into the plot they never seemed to retain or remember anything important?

Veilguard is my least favorite game from the series thus far. It wasn't bad exactly. There were parts that were bad, areas of dialog that felt painfully clunky. Definitely felt like the writers were telling me how I was supposed to feel about things rather than letting me form my own opinions or feel how I wanted to about anything.

I've played games where my character isn't the main character before, but even those games made me feel like I was more important than Veilguard did.

...Also...I came out of the game with an observation regarding Solas that would probably get me assassinated by the Inquisition fans. Based on the rest of Veilguard's writing, I'm pretty sure this opinion was entirely accidental on the part of anyone on the writing staff.

What’s really jumping out at me on my second playthrough is that the writers of the first three games understood that your character was the main character. The Veilguard writers clearly thought that the main characters were their characters, the companions.

Every scene is about setting the companions up as cool or competent or sympathetic. Often, this is done at Rook’s expense. The companions get all the witty one-liners; Rook’s attempts at humor not only frequently fall flat, but are frequently called out for falling flat (even when they’re completely automatic and the player has no say in them).

The companions have all the knowledge and skills; Rook just brought them all together and gives them all pep talks so they can focus. I’m trying to edit out all of the comments where Rook is like “Um… what????” from my videos, and let me tell you, it takes WORK. There are A LOT of them. I can count on one hand the number of times when the Inquisitor or Hawke comes across as dumb, but it seems to be a built-in, unavoidable part of Rook’s character. I have not selected a single “purple” option in all of Act 1, and Rook is still coming across as the kid who tries to be the class clown to cover for the fact that he’s always confused. Rook’s role in most scenes is to say “Uhhh… what?” so that the companions look smart.

Rook is always the one offering sympathy and never the one getting it. No one actually comes to comfort you after Varric’s death. No one asks you how you’re feeling about having to lead the team now that Varric is gone. No one tries to reassure you or give you advice for dealing with the trickster god haunting your dreams. We’re told that Neve could keep Solas out of your head, but she never actually offers to do this for you. No one comforts a Shadow Dragon Rook when Minrathous is destroyed or a Grey Warden Rook when Weisshaupt is destroyed. Rook’s problems don’t matter. Only the problems of main characters matter.

Rook is a secondary character in their own story.

[loustica-lucia]

DATV - "You're impossible"💜✨

Adding a bit more to *that one* scene~🙈 All their fears melting away in each other's warmth, finally giving in to their yearning and longing☺️

(Lucanis Dellamorte & Alba de Riva/Rook [he/they])

[comfortyart]

Fen and his boyfriends 🐺🐍✨️

[shay-does-art-things]

A decade of travelling together means they all share one brain cell

[swordbisexual]

Guess I’m in Solavellan hell now.

[hizerain]

2025.01.19

This month has been hellish. I'm fully aware that's a gross oversimplification, I've done some frankly amazing things such as run a 10K for the first time but my mental health has been a complete disaster which has led to ruined exams, a relapse of sorts I've rarely had in years and a general apathy that cut so uncompromisingly deep that all things life were horrendous to even imagine. I'm processing, working with it. It's provided me with the unsurprising yet completely novel insight that the many things I do have more than a slight twinge of OCD infused with them. It's already quite a year.

[arinchez-png]

my love

[ladyfenharel]

I stand by the fact that Cassandra is not straight she is just still hung up on f!Hawke

Solas romance this, Cullen romance that.

Where are my lesbain dragon age girlies who had the utter pain of discovering Cassandra was a straight woman.

[elfsidian]

A friendly chat with Harding in her room in the Lighthouse

[doricula]

cough perhaps more elgarnan rook content queen?

Ask and you shall receive~ But actually anon reminded me that I actually forgot to post this here 👀