#MAY IS TOO FAR AWAY

[lifeisntfuckiingeasy]

Can’t escape the cold at the moment😭🥶

[jigseul]

You guys... I'm so excited I could cry! I'm gonna change my name from p7ecemaker now that we have an actual name!!

PZSN Forever!

[ochiody]

same heart same blood

@coline7373

[star--nymph]

Vivienne's fear being 'becoming irrelevant' isn't something that's linked explicitly to her pride, no matter what Solas says about her (and the irony of Mr.Pride himself saying that should not be lost on you), it reveals what and who Vivienne truly is.

She's a survivalist.

Because we don't spend as much time in the Free Marches or Orlesian circles, we don't get to experience what being a mage is in these cultures. In Ferelden and Kirkwall, a mage is a lesser being without freedom no matter what they do--but in the Free Marches and Orlais specifically, mages are commodities that are given freedom so long as they play an entertaining enough role. They can explore the world if they have a noble patron, if they catch the right person's eye. They are, in a way, two sides of the same coin--refusing mages agency and forcing them to relay on higher powers. Vivienne lucked out, as sad as it is, when Bastion fell in love with her; she found someone who was contrarian enough to recognize her as a full person and also someone with power that could help her rise through the ranks. This is not to say that Vivienne on her own wasn't an exceedingly talented and intelligent individual--by nineteen she was already the youngest full fledged mage in Circle history and she was skilled enough to make herself an enchanter. But, I can not emphasize this enough, none of that matters if she didn't also play the Game and impress enough people.

Vivienne could have been the most brilliant mage in the history of Thedas and it means nothing if she was overlooked by nobility.

So when Bastion made her his mistress, she gained not just a lover but also a means to an end. Now she can use her magic to protect herself. Now she can roam where she wants and not be question for it because she's Madame Vivienne. Now, she can walk into the Orlasian court and belong there.

And what happens? Celene notices her and makes her the Court Enchanter, a position that has always been the equivalent of a jester. Vivienne took that title, ignored that it was essentially a glorified insult to who she is, and made it a position of power. She made the Court Enchanter into an advisor, a political rank. She had done the impossible and made mages an actual political entity in the Orlasian Court, something that wasn't seen outside of Tervinter (not counting what players can do under very specific conditions if they made mages in DAO and DA2).

All that, however, only continues as long as the court recognizes her as something worth their attention. Vivienne needs to maintain her act as Madame De Fer, The Lady of Iron, the Court Enchanter, The Jewel of the High Court, because the second she just becomes Vivienne, it's over for her. The assassins coming raining in, her name gets devoured by rumors and gossip, and she'll be found dead at bottom of the stair case with a dagger in her back if she's lucky.

So of course when the Circles fall apart during the Rebellion, she clings to that Loyalist Mages to maintain that structure--of course she moves her pieces to the Inquisition, knowing that if the Circle DOES fall, she at least as another place for herself and mages latch onto--of course when she hears that Celene replaced her with a new Court Enchanter that appeared out of no where, she grows to resent Morrigan.

Like, Morrigan literally pops up out of thin air, makes herself invaluable to Celene, and then plants herself in the place Vivienne had to claw her way up to and create so she could survive. Would you not be resentful when your life's work is usurped by some random witch of the wilds because she happened to charm the Empress? Everything Vivienne strived for all whisked away because the court find a gem who glimmers ever so slightly more than Vivienne.

So yes, Vivienne fears becoming irrelevant because the world has made it so that irrelevance for an Orlesian mage means death.

[strwbrryfire]

now i'm the one going ahead

from little women (1994)

[cubbihue]

POV: You just got apprehended by your own lawyer.

Chimmy Changa spent his early years as a Public Defense Lawyer. He had to get really into shape because. For some reason. He kept getting clients who'd bolt from the court room.

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+ bonus sketches i tossed out becuase i couldnt draw them to my satisfaction >:I !!

[blackpilljesus]

So many women being anti-4B is very telling. I'm going to make a longer post on this but it shows what I've spoken about all along on how women know that maIes are generally bad yet many women don't care about sacrificing other women to save themselves.

Even though many womens backlash against 4B is performative bs for maIe validation; If maIes were as great or worthy as many women pretended they were then things like 4B going mainstream should be excellent news - less competition for maIes right? Except one thing I've realised about female intrasexual competition is that it's not just about competing for the "good" maIes, it's about competing to not be with the bad ones aswell. I wrote a post about this before & received an excellent ask on the subject but women who want to date & reproduce with maIes require other women to be shields to keep the bad ones at bay as they cozy up with their nigels.

I've seen so many women seriously tweak out over 4B it cracks me up like why are you complaining? If it's terrible then keep engaging with moids lol their job is hypothetically made easier as more women remove themselves but no matter how maIe identified a woman is, she wont want to be the only or few women around a bunch of maIes that dont have access to other women.

Edit - this is the longer post

[just-sp-in-inginthevoid]

As much as the 'haha Takemichi went to save his husband after saving his wife, bisexual much?' joke is funny, people who seriously thinks Tokyo Revengers should've stopped when Hinata was finally safe and sound missed an important component to the plot.

Yes, it all started with Hinata - but since when was it all about Hinata?

Takemichi, kind-hearted Takemichi, should've just stopped everything after saving her? He got into Toman for this reason, yes, to get closer to Mikey and stop him - and Kisaki - from killing her, but he also sincerely got closer to Mikey. And everyone else. And he's supposed to simply leave them be when 'mission: save Hinata' is complete? As if the number of people he wanted to save didn't get longer with each timeline? Those are his friends why would he throw them all away.

To protect Hinata he decided to stick close to Mikey since he failed to prevent Mikey and Kisaki meeting each other - and he got attached to Mikey during that, as well as all of Toman. Each steps to save Hinata was also a step to save Mikey from corruption and self-destruction. It was all linked from the start.

There was a shift after Bonten, okay, whatever, the only thing that truly changed was Hinata's importance in it. New enemy? That happens in each arc (right, sure, there wasn't Kisaki anymore). Mikey being more and more violent? Again, each arc featured a moment of Mikey showing signs of being mentally unwell - and now it was aggravated because it was two years earlier than what Takemichi got used to go back to. Etc, etc. Toman may be disbanded, but its (at least main) members still meet and interact and they all kept in touch - Mikey aside. That just a change of mood, a mix of the present/future timelines with a more serious setting and of the past timelines with how young they are, despite not being as young as before. And future timelines have never been a problem - there's a lot of love for Manila and Bonten. If Wakui had had time and energy, Kanto Manji, all 70 and so last chapters of TR could've worked with its fanbase. For some reasons it didn't, and I don't get why by myself

[cockroachesunite]

fitzportrait take 2!

(first attempt)

[yunamiudon]

Modern AU! Codywan👮‍♂️

I stole this design from my drawing last year lol

↑I drew this AU again...

https://archiveofourown.org/works/27588466/chapters/67488583

I haven't decided what Cody does for a living in this fic, but I'm starting to think Detective Cody might be a good idea... 🤔

[skunkes]

omigodd you truly Get It about statues can i tell u a secret. at da museum near my house they have grecoroman statues and shit balls security and nooo barriers so u can actually touch them. it kind of makes me feel crazy. they glitter in real life.. i never knew. tickets are like ten dollar and i can touch a 2000 year old rendition of cloth and eagle nose and soft curls for that money. i also steal from their gift shop, sorry i know the money goes to a good cause (my men) but im not paying $50 for a book

JFHAITKJWUFKWNF i love this ask but also soooo real the last time i saw grecoroman statues was when me and my sisters went to a museum shortly before closing so the security wasnt actively patrolling anymore and i rushed to the statue area (nobody else there!!!) before my sisters did and. I didnt touch them but that urge was sooo present, radiating, stinging. Some also had no barriers, just signs. I want to run my hands over the cool surface in a way that I fear would just lead to me making out with them.

[melonyfelonyfellonme]

This is a really big stream of consciousness so I'm sorry if it doesn't make a lot of sense lmao but I really do 100% agree with the folk saying Lucanis probably had a crush on Rook from the very beginning

But see when that develops further and you realise it's not a daft wee crush anymore, and you have fallen - scary And then you find out they feel the same - terrifying, what the hell is going on

I can definitely understand how he gets a fright in the almost-kiss scene, and further when they actually get together, that's he's bewildered about the whole thing - it's disarming, and vulnerability doesn't come easily to someone whose life is taking out targets left and right, who is made to survive. Taking this further, if Lucanis doesn't make it in the final battle, and Rook has romanced him, Isabela comments on their fleeting touches, as if he's making sure it's not a fever dream and--

Like, going from being afraid of the idea of falling in love, to letting it happen (probably bewildered the whole time that it's actually happening) to losing Rook for weeks on end, and when Rook comes back even they need reassured that they're back in the real world, to then feeling comfortable and relaxed enough around Rook to fall asleep (but refuses bc he doesn't want to miss a moment with them)

Nah this romance kills me so bad uugghhhh

[rewritingcanon]

no girl tell us what you think about jegulily!! im so here for it (tone is weird but I mean that genuinely, I don't ship them so I'm not here to be weird)

dw bae ur tone is fine ! (i’ve been waiting for an ask like this 💀) i think jegulily is... yeah its…. like usually as long as its legal idgaf as long as shippers portray their characters right but regulus fans are literally incapable 😭🙏 WHY WOULD U PAIR A MUGGLEBORN AND A BLOOD SUPREMACIST IM SO DONE WITH DIS FANDOMMMM!! that actually goes for a lot of lily ships like bartylily as well (no clue where that came from either but it’s equally as stupid lmfao).

and jegulily just feels like shoving in lily because people feel bad for ditching her, or shoving in regulus because some people like jily and jegulus and want them (for some reason) to coincide even though it makes zeroooo sense for it to. like, idk if i said this with jegulus before (i yap sm on this account i forget what i say), but like it, jegulily can be done well if a realistic dynamic is taken into account, but the marauders fandom is allergic to nuance and so just chalks up everything regulus does and believes to his neglectful homelife. hes not all-bad, sure, i do feel bad for him, but im nowhere close to shipping him with a woman whos part of the people hes trying to eradicate, or with her man who purposefully went against all pureblood tradition (which is such a large part of james’ character— he is a pureblood that chooses to be seperate from that culture hellooooo plz wake uppppp).

marauders fandom has a chronic “i can fix him” mentality when it comes to wizard neo nazis, i have never understood it. but thats a topic for another day.

jegulily should be filled with envy, toxicity and prejudice stop nerfing it to be some fluffy feel-good polyamorous stable marriage where they raise harry together. yall are looking over the potential. this ship has blood and guts in it plz act like it or else idk what to say 😭 if it doesnt end with at least one of them getting murdered i dont want it.

[byler-alarmist]

What scares me most about Byler endgame is the reality of it likely coming out long after the US presidential election 2024.

[icewindandboringhorror]

currently at That Point which occurs once every few months where one briefly begins pacing around the house teary eyed contemplating selling their own organs or becoming an online scammer or getting on anxiety meds so you can bear the risk taking required to be a hitman or so on and so forth.... why must everything so Expensive... Surely all would be healed in life if only I had one big plate of lasagna and a simple loan of $40,000 ... auoughhh....

[opens-up-4-nobody]

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