#LISTEN TO THEM YOU WILL NOT REGRET IT

[lucid-jester]

OHMYGOD MY TIME HAS COME

Please please please reblog this and put in the tags your music recommendations. I’m not talking about big artists and bands either— what’s a niche group, band, or artist that you can’t get enough of? What song or album do you enjoy the most? Why?

[noodles-and-tea]

This is what the inside of my ears look like every Tuesday :)))

[fischiee]

something that really gets me is that we see so much of york being wholeheartedly dedicated to carolina

we see him staying up late to watch over her, following her orders to a tee, not leaving her side when she’s in a coma, coming back for her and rooting for her even when she loses

AND YET his choice ISNT to stay with her!! he’s such an interesting character bc from that choice alone - to not only turn against her but ask her to change her ways - we see how he truly believed in carolina and believes that she is good. we see so little of him outside of the context of carolina and yet we know so much about him from actions like this!! york wants to be good and to do right, and he will make sacrifices for that, even if the bridges he has to burn in order to do so haunt him forever

[jamiethebeeart]

I don't know where all these Spinaraki shippers came from in the last few months but hello hi welcome thanks for being here I love that y'all are here

[mintjeru]

sometimes i make myself sad thinking about the kvthm fallout text is lyrics from "who knew" by p!nk

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[cent-scratchnsniff]

here together

[monstrousproductions]

i couldn't sleep last night and decided to listen to travelling light for the "first" time - ive never actually gone back and listened to any of the episodes since i released them, which is unusual for me because i make my pods mostly because theyre the kind of shows i want to listen to!

anyway yeah turns out its pretty good lol what a relief!

[rambles-on-dragon-age]

Varric doesn't give you the nickname Rook, your whole faction calls you Rook. It makes no sense to give you a faction specific last name and then your faction doesn't even use it, but yeah.

Hi hi!

This will be a bit of a ramble, sorry.

Varric, as a character, gives nicknames to those he's around for any length of time. (Solas is Chuckles, Merrill is Daisy, Vivi is Iron Lady, etc. Very few people in close contact with him will escape earning a moniker. I can go on about how I think it's one of his ways of telling people he sees them, but I digress.) The player character has been traveling with him for a year/the better part of a year. Varric would have definitely given them a nickname in that time. (Honestly it shocks me Harding doesn't have one by now but maybe he tried and she shut that down like Aveline once did lol) When you're putting out your things in the Lighthouse one of them is his shaving mirror and you have a moment of reflection about what he said when he hands it to you. There's also the whole time where he's giving you advice and guides you (IYKYK) and it's clear he means a lot to a Rook and they're close.

That is to say, no matter what faction you were with, you left in disgrace. You broke some code the higher ups held dear, messed up well laid plan, ignored orders to save people, etc. You didn't "fit the bill" for your faction and were summarily "adopted" by Varric to help in his hunt for Solas. Those things that made you a bad fit for your original faction? Made you perfect for what he's doing. A good person that doesn't let the potential costs stop them; they see what needs to happen to help people and will run head first into it and manage to figure a way through the most fucked up situations possible.

When you first meet Neve, you're introduced as Rook. "Like the chess piece?" Yes! One of the most powerful pieces on the board, "but tends to think in straight lines". Which becomes evident in all our shenanigans as Rook through the game. Rook's ability to claw their way through the worst situations and be flexible and creative means that Solas wouldn't be able to predict them or what they'll do. Which turns out to be right; he doesn't expect you to drop a statue on him in the middle of a massive ritual. Rook saw only "this ritual needs to stop NOW" and found a way, no matter the consequences.

I didn't hear that dialogue my first game, though, because I did my first run as a Shadow Dragon. Neve doesn't comment on the naming convention because instead Varric says you both do work with the Shadow Dragons and she just skims past the naming convention to say "Oh, what a coincidence." You are still introduced as Rook at first; it's not until later when you're in the Lighthouse where you can have the conversation that you've heard of each other even though you've never worked together.

Because even if I've worked in the group beside you under the same boss for 20 years, if you're introduced to me as "Rook" instead of "_____ Mercar" I'm not going to know who you are. It's not until later, probably while you're unconscious and she has a chance to speak to Harding, that she says she knows who you are. (Based on what Bellara says when you find her in the forest, you've been out cold for two or three days. Can you imagine what our detective figured out in two or three days?)

All that to say, if "Rook" was given to you by the Shadow Dragons, Neve would have said "Oh! I heard of a Rook." instead of just "Oh! What a coincidence we're both Shadow Dragons." She doesn't comment on who you are and what you've done until later when you have a chance to talk to her in the Lighthouse.

And throughout the game, you continue to be introduced as Rook. Even if you started as another faction, if you're written a letter about "Rook" and not your real name, why would anyone know who Rook is until they meet and go "Oh this lil shit right here. I know this asshole."

[floweryotter]

Due to personal reasons, I have designated my own Three Big BKDK fics:

"In The Dark" by Jane_Harl0w

"The Time Between Our Lives" by Fitzrovia

"Broke Boys" by SamIsNotLegend

Hope that helps

[cheaploafs]

late night cuddles

[dawnthefluffyduck]

I had my first Pepsi since getting sick today and I think i got a bit carried away

The Ralsei in the bottom right is from the comic Looking Glasses by @ferronickel, you should check it out if you haven't yet ^-^ ((sorry for the tag at two in the morning haha))

edit: whoops forgot to link the comic

[kitkatsgalore]

★彡[>> ɪɴꜱᴇʀᴛ ᴄᴏɪɴ ᴛᴏ ʙᴇɢɪɴ]彡★

[donaviolet]

HAD TO draw my lil oc guy as the New Normal Album Cover (as much as he doesn't look normal in the slightest this whole album is literally him, trust me)

I am extremely normal about both of these men and I definitively do not listen to Will Wood every single day of my life

[imp-thing]

Everyday I mourn that we never got to see Elizabeth's perspective on John and Abigail's affair in more detail. I wish we could've got to see her reaction when she found out. Her sadness, her anger, her throwing out Abigail, her scolding John for his actions and cowardness, and most of all, her thought process of how she came to the conclusion to forgive him instead of ratting him out in the court. All I want is them fighting and arguing, is that too much to ask for?

[spacemanxpaninis]

Lemon Demon’s Jaws & The Aquabats’ The Shark Fighter are opposing songs on the goofy shark music spectrum in this essay I will-

[c0rpsedemon]

links under cut

romeo and cinderella (honorary mentions: ghost rule by deco*27, unknown mother goose by wowaka and gift from the princess who brought sleep by mothy)

kakakuri lament (the symbol used is the left facing buddhist swastika not the right facing nazi one and it was changed to be less swastika-like in later illustrations + the fascist regime here is portrayed like it is in fmdm (actually eerily similar to the fmdm fascists. fmdm came out in 2009 so it's v possible that this was written like immediately after playing it which would explain a lot) i swear i did not link a nazi song) (honorary mention: regret message by mothy)

fire flower (i hated this song for YEARS. the power of a rlly good remaster ig.) (honorary mention: superhero by nem)

snowman (honorary mention: judgement of corruption by mothy)

evil food eater conchita (no honorable mentions i don't listen to much meiko)

akahitoha (fully had luka luka night fever here before i was adding honorary mentions and remembered my actual fave) (honorary mentions: luka luka night fever by samfree, tailor shop on enbizaka by mothy)

the last revolver (honorary mention: muzzle of nemesis by mothy)

prince of necrophilia (this had to be one of the closest calls, i was between this and the specimen girl remaster) (honnorary mentions: specimen girl (2020 remaster) by kiyozumi, the tragedy of chateau cepage by uzuki)

yoshiwara lament (honorary mention: atelier horloge by mothy)