#Dryden

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Two YF-12/Blackbirds in flight. Dryden Flight Research Center, 1975 ➤EXTREME AIRCRAFT VIDEOS: https://dronescapes.video/Extreme ➤HD IMAGE: https://dronescapes.video/YF12s

[unteriors]

Harless Drive, Dryden, Virginia.

[esthete-god]

[blackswaneuroparedux]

Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun.

- John Dryden

[eorzea80]

I so desperately wanted to cosplay this in game for Halloween, but the clock ran out. Dryden and Millerna are my forever favorites. I don't care what the canon is, these guys are besties, super spies and lovers forever! It doesn't hurt that I snagged myself an IRL Dryden. [see below]

[pacificremains]

Young whitetail buck

[artdecoandmodernist]

Helen Dryden, Vogue Cover, April 1920. 

[katiajewelbox]

The couple Dryden Fassa and Princess Millerna Aston from the anime Vision of Escaflowne have a very complicated shared path in life thanks to royal politics as well as Hitomi's interference with fate. Are they too opposite to ever attract, or are they really a strong match due to their differences complementing each other? This pair go through a lot of changes in their relationship over the series, but I hope they get a happily ever after one day whether it is together or apart.

My Picmix portrait features official animation stills from the series along with a painting of Venice by Canaletto.

[travsd]

On Dryden's "Indian" Plays

November is Native American History Month; next year (2025) will mark the 350th anniversary of King Phillip’s War, the beginning of the end for the native people as the dominant polity on this continent. I’m marking the occasion with a series of daily posts related to the history of the Native Americans and their interactions with encroaching Europeans. Some will have to do with pop culture;…

[cklxs]

He whistled as he went for want of thought.

— Dryden

[monkeyssalad-blog]

Enterprise First Free Flight by NASA on The Commons Via Flickr: The Shuttle Orbiter 101 "Enterprise" soars above the NASA 747 carrier aircraft after separating during the first free flight of the Shuttle Apporach and Landing Tests (ALT) conducted on August 12, 1977 at Dryden (now Armstrong) Flight Research Center in Southern California. Astronauts Fred W. Haise Jr., and C. Gordon Fullerton were the crew of the "Enterprise." The ALT free flights are designed to verify Orbiter subsonic airworthiness, integrated systems operations and pilot-guided approach and landing capability and satisfying prerequisites to automatic flight control and navigation mode. NASA Media Usage Guidelines Credit: NASA Image Number: S77-27945 Date: August 12, 1977

[creamecafe]

Men in suits that are rich, will spoil you rotten but also kill for you and give you the world if you ask

Me:

[elena-gilbert]

SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY (2018) dir. Ron Howard

[moontheoretist]

Types of Possessions in Dragon Age world

Monsterification:

The possession can involve strong emotions but doesn't have to (it depends on the case, as it's hard to assume rocks or dead bodies have emotions, but places within the game can have lingering echoes of strong emotions that make such possessions more likely to occur within such area - spirits will just possess whatever).

It's unclear if such possession needs consent to occur.

The possession can be forced by a third party.

The person that gets possessed gets horrifically transformed.

The transformation can't be reveresed after it happens.

The person is driven mad by the transformation.

The possession can be prevented by Litany of Andralla.

Example: Slavren (DAO), Witherfang (DAO), Olivia (DA2)

There are other types of this type of possession that include objects, animals, plants or even corpses. It includes creatures such as: Sylwans (possession of a tree), Arcane Horror (possession of a mage's corpse), Rock Wraith (possession of a rock), Reverant, Skeleton (possession of a corpse), werewolf (possession of a wolf) and more similar cases.

Puppet:*

Person that gets possessed is trapped in the Fade.

Demon takes over the body and wrecks havoc all around, but isn't physically present inside the body of the host (?).

There is no transformation of the body.

The person can be saved by killing the demon in the Fade.

Needs established consent (with demon it will be a deal).

Examples: Uldred (DAO), Connor (DAO)

Teacher:

Person that gets possessed is a living willing host.

It's the opposite of the Puppet - person and the spirit coexist in a type of symbiosis, while the person is taught by the spirit.

There is no visible transformation of the body.

Person and a spirit can be separated via special rituals.

Example: Sigrid Gulsdotten (DAI: Jaws of Hakkon)

Impersonator:

The possessed person is already dead.

Spirit / demon is convinced they're the dead person or posses all the memories of the dead person as if they were them. (Demon may refer to the host as "food" separating itself from the host, while spirit will be confused by the memories of the body).

There is no visible transformation of the body, in fact the body is to some extent preserved thanks to the possession. (In case of a demon there is a second voice hearable when the person speaks).

Example: Sophia Dryden (DAO: Soldier's Peak), Kristoff? (DAO:A)

Revival:

The possessed person is already dead.

The spirit enters the body of the dead person and revives them. It's unclear if the spirit simply ties the soul of the dead person back to their body or assumes the role of said person. (It's quite possible that the spirit could think they're the person that already died or that the soul of the dead person turned into the spirit).

No visible transformation of the body, voice or personality.

No emotional outbursts.

Example: Wynne (DAO)

* Could be also a different type of Merging described below.

**If we consider what happened to Evangeline the spirit may simply just attach itself to the soul and provide a link to the body (so called "spark of life") that is maintained until the spirit leaves the body.

Merging:

The possessed person is a living willing host.

The spirit and the person merge into one being.

It's not possible to separate them as they're already one.

No visible transformation of the body. (Possible visible veins of the Fade light and change of the voice when the spirit is fronting).

Possible emotional outbursts. (Due to taint corruption?)

Possibly person and the spirit loose sense of selves with time to become a fully integrated single personality.

Needs established consent (with demon it will be a deal).

Example: Anders (DA2), Flemeth (DAO, DA2, DAI)

Note: i wanted to add Cole here, but when I was writing down the criteria I noticed for possession I realized that Cole is a spirit that impersonates the dead person, not a spirit that took over his body. (Correct me if I'm wrong here, because I'm pretty sure he was seen as a free roaming spirit that just looked like a human - like the spirits of the old that could just randomly take on the mortal looking body).

*I just realized I forgot about one case of possession. Amalia from Stone Prisoner DLC. It's similar case to Puppet, but the difference is that the demon is already physically in the mortal world. It inhabits a body of a cat and tries to convince Amalia to willingly give her body out. When Amalia gets possessed she gets possessed in the mortal world by a demon that was trapped in the mortal world - her body doesn't change. When Amalia attacks you she doesn't turn into an Abomination monster model, she turns into Desire Demon itself.

^ TBH I'm still not sure if Demon is in the mortal world or in the Fade. As the difference between location is barely discernible in the game. So it's hard to say if demons we meet are in the Fade or mortal world.

Veilguard spoilers below:

Edit 10.12.2024: I'm still thinking where Lucanis fits in this entire thing as I wrote this before I played the game. I still didn't finish the game and don't know everything about Lucanis. So far it looks like to be a case similar to what Tarohne was doing to the Templar recruits in DA2. All of them were people that weren't mages, but in every single case of them they ended up taken over by the demon. Whatever Zara Renata was trying to achieve ended with Lucanis being possessed in a similar way but there seems to be a barrier that stops Spite from taking over Lucanis body and do whatever it wants unless Lucanis guard is down (i.e. when he sleeps) - may have something to do with counciousness. It doesn't seem to be a case of merging even tho it looks similar. Tho it may as well be a case of merging but because we have a demon rather than a spirit here it's more unstable. It still doesn't explain why Spite can't just take over Lucanis when Lucanis is awake and has to wait for him to fall asleep to be able to do what it wants (this idea was explored only in fanfiction before with Justice taking over Anders when asleep).

[freetheshit-outofyou]

[artdecoandmodernist]

1919 Helen Dryden, Vogue Magazine Cover, June 1919.