#Maine inns

[gaytravelinfo]

Gay Friendly Maine - Noble House Inn - Brigton, ME

Noble House Inn | 81 Highland Rd | Bridgton, Maine 04009 | 207-647-3733 Maine’s Mountains & Lakes Region The Noble House is firmly planted in the history of lovely Bridgton, Maine. Formerly a senator’s retreat,  you can feel the history in the beautifully appointed 1903 home and carriage house, lovingly restored and given a modern flare. The five-acre grounds afford relaxation whether it be…

[historical-misfit]

i'm sorry i had to-

[jimmysea]

Doc, give me an oil massage.

WANDEE GOODDAY (2024) - Episode 8

[mirensiart]

I love your Innes art so much he's so underrated it hurts my heart..

Any thoughts on Innes, Gerik, and Tethys?

ANON ‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️

I LOVE YOU! INNES IS LIKE, MY FAVORITE CHARACTER EVER !! like from any media, he’s my favorite number 1 of all time, so getting an Innes related ask…. 👀💖 you’ve made my day hehe

If you’re asking if I like the gerik/innes/tethys ship then the answer is YES

I am honestly OBSESSED with their introduction to the game, like it really makes me insane

Innes being a self sacrificing fool, gerik deciding to DIE with him and tethys being so tired of them but also deciding to stay OUUUGH they’re such an underrated trio, like how do you see this and not love them

I actually made a meme of them that's just their dynamic 100% lol

[elucubrare]

thinking - as often - about that one ancient post that's like "can you have French braids if your world doesn't have a France" and there's a lot of reductio ad absurdum you can do - I said a character was "fighting down panic," and technically panic is etymologically related to the god Pan, so I "shouldn't" use it, and I shouldn't talk about silhouettes (derived from Étienne de Silhouette, French finance minister during the Seven Years War), but once you're delving into things that could be on a fun etymolgy facts listicle, I don't think it's really meaningful -

I could give my perennial advice (it varies from situation to situation, and everyone's anachronism line is different, so just use your judgement), but I do actually have something more specific here:

just rephrase it.

yeah, they don't have French braids, but that lady's hair was "braided closely around her head in a crown." They don't have chicken milanese, but they have "chicken, beat thin and breaded, then fried in oil. she squeezed lemon onto the cutlet, and its bright scent filled the air."

there's nothing wrong with the shorthand of French braids, but the unpacked description of what a French braid actually is isn't that much longer, doesn't bring in a specific thing from our world, and conveys more information.

[aprilblossomgirl]

How’s your shoulder? It's getting better. Your medicine must be effective, I guess. Can I check?

Wandee Goodday (2024) Episode One | Dir. Golf Tanwarin Sukkhapisit

[chiropteracupola]

So come fill up your glasses of brandy and wine / Whatever it costs I will pay / So be easy and free, when you're drinking with me / I'm a man you don't meet every day...

[seiji-the-ice-drake]

The Rose fucking gentrified Osprey Cove

I suppose that makes sense. I wonder what's going on with the ninjas

Oh....

Well, at least the bright side is that you can enforce a "No refund" policy and keep the gold

[himbopunk]

7, 12, and 17 for the Rook + partner asks please!! (Dissonant verses here hi!)

(link to the ask game list!)

hi i'm only 10 million yrs late. gonna try to be less longwinded than usual cuz i wanna do stuff for iktom And hakim a bit

7. Are they a physically affectionate couple? Are they fine displaying those affections in public or do they prefer to be in private? If they're not, how do they prefer to show their love instead? What does their ideal date look like? Do they go on much?

for hakim: in private yes very much hakim has to be pried off lucanis and neve with a crowbar. but in public? i think he teases pda sometimes but he doesn't actually do it that much. like he can be generally physically affectionate in the like. kinda way that you might think is pda before you see he's also like that with harding, taash, davrin, etc. that's just how he is with ppl he cares about. but in terms of like romantic pda i think most people would be surprised to find out that neve and lucanis prolly show more pda with each other than either do with rook unless theyre specifically messing w each other (neve and hakim are the worst offenders of this, esp in the endgame where their pastime is butting in on talon business to bother lucanis)

i think hakim likes dates that get Away from everything. rooftop dinners and people watching in treviso or dock town, maybe a walk or hike in rivain. its like, low pressure and not super social like a fancy date would be, and also very intimate in its own way. just him and them and the world for a bit.

for iktom: i think he's pretty average on the physical affection spectrum, but he seems like very much an acts of service focused kinda guy. or like. just being present With his partners ig. hes not shy about pda when hes feeling it, like picking up and kissing emmrich or davrin after an exciting/scary fight or something (cue get a room noises from taash lol). he's kind of just the kinda guy to get swept up in the moment but he's not crazy touchy feely on his own outside of that.

and with the date thing oh my god iktom is such a 'i wanna show you a place' guy. he will make you hike 4 hours and itll be worth it because you Will see the most amazing natural wonders in the corners of places you thought could only hold agony. granted he hiked around the anderfels professionally since he was like 15 so it makes sense he would be like this but like. yeah. there is often also an activity involved. like sledding or stargazing or some kind of game or something. he will see something beautiful or fun and instantly catalogue it in his brain to share with his loves later.

12. Any inside jokes?

hakim neve and lucanis have to have SO many. hakim and neve especially. unfortunately i am not very good at coming up with inside joke situations for characters on the fly but i know theres been many times where hakim just says A Phrase out of context to try to get one of them to crack up in a situation where it super isn't appropriate (that being said hakim is peak class clown he has inside jokes with everyone sdfghggf)

i think iktom and emmrich keep having this thing where they think they have an inside joke but the other didnt realize this was a thing they were gonna bring up around other people and they get kinda flustered. davrin and iktom definitely have more especially both being wardens i feel like you get a ton from that alone. all the weisshaupt training stories...

17. What is your Rook's favorite thing about their partner? What is the partner's favorite thing about Rook?

(me being like im not gonna be longwinded but then i polyship everyone so i doom myself w questions like these LMAO)

hakim: i think though lucanis does see himself as having been caged or molded towards something his whole life outside of his control (and he Is), i think hakim like. admires his ability to stay kind and such despite this. in that way he's always choosing to be the person he is and that's worth something. idk if that makes sense. but lucanis' thoughtfulness was the first thing that struck out to him.. i guess this is kind of true of neve as well. esp considering neve is hardened in his game its like...despite the hardboiled detective protector of it all, she never stops caring. she has a lot of conviction idk. which is part of why they butt heads sometimes but its good that she keeps him in check. they all keep each other balanced idk. theres a lot of more surface level attraction stuff he has with both sure but hes had that with dozens of people. its that stuff that endears them to him initially beyond the attraction and he holds onto that. says some corny shit like even if we weren't together thats something about you that will always be worth loving

them with hakim though....hm. hakim has this like. infectious like. positivity isnt exactly it but kind of? he's not wholly optimistic but he's always gonna look forward. always gonna find moments of joy or humor or something that can make the tension and fear kind of melt away. idk. thinking about lucanis's 'break apart my perfectly gathered clouds of doom' line w that especially. i think neve also likes this about him but the angles a bit different (and where lucanis is almost like dumbstruck by how much this mf brightens his day neve is almost like frustrated by it cuz like! hes distracting! but like its what she needs a lot of the time + she knows it. idk.)

iktom: i think theres a certain attraction iktom has towards someone who is ultra-competent in their field for one. which i think makes sense for both monster hunter davrin and fade expert emmrich (and also why he was having a constant bi panic with the group overall LMAO) but hm. i do know he loves to listen to them yap so maybe that Is part of it cuz he wants to do what he can to care about what they care about bc they care about them so deeply ykno? with emmrich its all tied up in his compassion. hes such a romantic but not in the literal romance sense like in the way he talks about things. it brightens something in iktoms soul. and davrin has Such conviction to make something of himself and do right by the responsibilities hes been handed and it makes iktom want to do the same. theyre both such fundamentally good people to him in ways that both make them good at what they do and make iktom wanna be better

their favorite thing about iktom though? hmmmm his chest i mean. idk i think davrin admires his strength like sure in a literal way but also in a mental/spiritual way. he's a bit of an anchor for him i think.... like. idk i think about davrins dialogues about being able to change your future and stuff and how he'd see iktom as having done that more than once and they both have this like. strength is shown in protection as much as might kind of thing + thats definitely like. part of it. (also i think in some way they're both each other's examples of why it is their place as wardens is so important/meaningful idk. i love a warden power couple.) for emmrich i think like. iktom has a thoughtfulness and cleverness to him that goes a bit under the radar esp considering hes this huge tank of a guy but emmrich Does catch it and always tries to encourage him to engage/acknowledge it cuz its this wonderful spark that doesnt get enough attention! its the why everyone keeps getting taken by surprise with him, himself included! (iktom is a tanky ass warrior but hes very kinda ranger-y in some ways hes very good in nature esp in the anderfels and is consistently surprising emmrich by just how much he can teach him)

[zylphiacrowley]

I figured I can work on getting my alt up to speed... Or at least get him through EW (and actually get his real outfit).

Anyway meeting these two is always fun. :3

[wall-eye]

Miss Tessa!

[partystoragechest]

A story of romance, drama, and politics which Cullen has accidentally become invested in.

Supplemental material for Unwanted, from the perspective of Cullen. In this addendum, Cullen and Leliana discuss the banquet.

(Masterpost. Addendums. Words: 1,353. Rating: most audiences. Warnings: mentions of death and murder. Addendums may contain spoilers for Unwanted and are best read after finishing the story entirely.)

Chapters 25, Addendum

“Commander, there’s an urgent matter that requires your attention,” the soldier whispered to Cullen, not a minute after he’d retaken his seat at the banquet table. “The raven’s fled the rookery.”

Ah. The others had not been complacent in his absence, then. For if he was hearing Leliana’s summons, surely she knew.

“I’ll see to it right away,” Cullen said. Thank the Maker, really. He did not wish to spend another second in the presence of these pretentious plutocrats. “Excuse me,” he told them, rising from his seat. “There is something to which I must attend.”

Though they stared at him, bug-eyed, as he left—leave he did. The soldier led him through the rotunda door, into the blessed quiet of its embrace. Heaving a long-overdue sigh, Cullen told them:

“I’ll be in my office.”

The soldier nodded. “Sister Nightingale will join you shortly.”

But until then, a respite. Cullen utilised every second, escaping from the keep to his tower. Given he did not encounter Lady Trevelyan and Lady Erridge on the journey, he assumed they had already made it to their rooms. Good. At least she was safe.

And so was he—at last secure within the confines of his office, its thick stone walls between him and the banquet. How he preferred it.

In his moment of solitude, his mind recalled the information Lady Trevelyan had revealed. The horror of the Templar attack. The realisation that it was the cause of the Circle’s downfall. And the failed attempt to stop its destruction.

Too much, for anyone to bear. He would know.

But his peace was soon disturbed, as the door opened. The one who opened it did not knock; she did not need to. All doors opened for the Spymaster of the Inquisition.

“The Comtesse Bervard has never looked worse,” Leliana commented as she strut in, a sly smile on her face.

Cullen stared at her. Now was not the time.

“What happened?” she asked, sensing his disapproval (not that he was ever shy about giving it). “Apparently, Dorian’s cutlery suggested something had occurred between the Comtesse and Lady Trevelyan.”

Cullen sighed. “It’s… it regards the Ostwick delegation. I spoke to her about it some time ago, and she… she revealed that her fellow mages are not missing.”

“They’re dead?”

Leliana’s matter-of-factness in this question was not merely a symptom of her impassive nature—rather, it was a quiet ‘I told you so’. Cullen had always held out some small hope that the delegation still existed, in some form or another. Leliana had been… more realistic, about the idea.

Perhaps it was the guilt which drove his optimism—knowing that they had neglected to send their scouts until it was too late. Then again, it would have always been too late.

“Yes,” he admitted. “They were killed.”

Leliana’s eyebrow quirked. “Why didn’t you tell us?”

“Lady Trevelyan didn’t wish to speak of it any further.” Cullen shook his head. “It was not my place to say.”

Though he expected some rebuttal to this, Leliana understood. This was different, to political secrets and Chantry lies.

“What changed?” she asked. “Why does she wish to speak of it now?”

“You recall why the rebellion at Ostwick occurred?”

Even for her, a woman whose veins ran cold as ice, the thought of it seemed to cause at least some discomfort. “I do.”

“That was what the Comtesse brought up. It was a cruel, insensitive comment—intended to cause distress. I pity whatever township calls her its leader.” Snorting like an animal, Cullen paced his office. “Why does Josephine insist on inviting these people? ”

“Commander,” said Leliana, soft as she could. “Tell me more. There is more.”

Cullen nodded. “There is more. No doubt you’ve put the pieces together yourself. But since she first told me that the delegation were killed, I wondered if they, and the mages’ whose heads were sent to the First Enchanter... are one and the same.”

From the look on Leliana’s face, she had reached that very conclusion herself. “And that is why the Comtesse’s words wounded her so badly?”

“Naturally. The numbers match. Six sent to the Conclave, five sent to the First Enchanter.”

“The sixth being Lady Trevelyan.”

“She was the only survivor.”

And he could not let that be for nothing. She had trusted him with this. Her survival, for her own sake, had to be more than a matter of luck. It had to mean something.

Leliana paused. “Are you all right?”

Cullen did not know why she was asking. “I’m fine. Why?”

“It sounds... too familiar.”

Mages, Templars, Circles—the only survivor. Cullen shut his eyes, and shook his head. It was a thought his mind had, so far, protected him from. At least consciously. For he could not deny the quiet anger brewing beneath the surface, or the crawling sensation under his skin. Sick poetry played out, in the annals of time.

“I know,” he muttered. “I am trying to keep my focus elsewhere. I thought about telling her, at the time but—she was already too upset.”

“I think you made the right decision,” Leliana told him, adding gently: “if there is anything you need…”

“I know.”

But what he needed, right now, was a change of subject. Fortunately, she provided that: “Was her Ladyship able to tell you anything else?”

“Yes. A disparity, in the reports from Ostwick Circle. The Templars who killed the mages of the delegation were not their own.”

“What?”

Cullen half-expected her to have already figured it out. It was almost a relief that she hadn’t. Lady Trevelyan needed this. She needed to be the one to clear their names.

“The claim of responsibility appears to have been forged, to frame the delegation’s Templars,” Cullen explained. “Lady Trevelyan told me that, in fact, a rogue band attacked them—and the Ostwick Templars died protecting the mages.”

“But if that is the case, then Ostwick rebelled…” Leliana’s discomfort repeated tenfold, as the sheer wretchedness of the tragedy settled upon her.

“I know. Lady Trevelyan believes it is her fault,” Cullen said, causing Leliana to turn from horror to confusion. “The First Enchanter would have known she was missing from the dead, and would have been able to confirm this with her phylactery. She believes he was concealing it until she returned, so that he could hear the truth.”

Leliana hummed. “Possible. But if he was waiting, he should have told someone. It was his own fear that condemned Ostwick, not Lady Trevelyan’s survival.”

“Exactly. Though I said I would tell the Grand Enchanter, first. She will know how to break the news.”

Leliana nodded. “She wants it known?”

“She wants to absolve the Templars who died trying to save them,” Cullen told her. “I asked if we could send an agent to where it happened, see if we can find any evidence, remains—anything.”

“Doable. Where did it happen?”

“Sudton. The scouts weren’t far off.”

But this news brought Leliana no sense of ease. “The scouts said the villagers in Sudton claimed not to have seen the delegation.”

She did not need to tell him. He knew. Maker, he knew. And the thought of it troubled him greatly. Perhaps the villagers were lying out of innocence, out of a desire to be kept hidden from the wrath of the Chantry, or the Inquisition, or whoever. Perhaps. And yet...

“I am… worried that those Templars didn’t find them by accident,” Cullen confessed.

Leliana’s voice turned deadly. “We will find out.”

With a curt nod, Cullen made a request: “Tell me what you find. But make sure it stays discreet, and do not inform Lady Trevelyan. She has asked to be left out of this.”

“Of course. How was she, when you parted?”

“Better, I think, for having told someone.” Even if the memory had been painful, the relief of extracting it from herself, like pulling an arrow buried deep in one’s flesh, may have been worth the agony. “But… she was still troubled, naturally.”

“Poor woman. It is a lot to bear.”

Too much for anyone. He would know.

[isbelevans]

Most of the 2024 shows haven't even aired yet what do mean gmmtv are already prepping for 2025 😭

[icewindandboringhorror]

Lineup of all of the characters that appear long enough to need a visual representation of them in the game lol

[scarefox]

Is the rumor that Inn Sarin has a boyfriend true? Apparently they have a business together. I need to put him on my LGBTq in the QL industry list if it's true.

Did he ever talk about his sexuality? I mean I know there once were rumors about him and Tul being exes but I don't trust rumors especially not in the BL fandom 🙃 I need sources or statements before I put him on the list.

Hate that I had to find out about it in a comment that was like "But does his boyfriend allow him to be with another man in a drama? I can not watch this if I am not sure his bf approves..." Bitch I swear, those are moments I want to reach through the phone and shake people.... yall need to relearn what acting is. But it's extra "funny" that those comments only come up whenever an actor is in a m/m relationship. People wrote the same about Newyear and Bruce. Yet I never see these comments for some of the actors in recent airing BLs who openly have / had a potential gf. NOT THAT THEY SHOULD. But ya know what I mean. The double standards.

[kanerallels]

The Kanera fae au I'm writing just took a decidedly Gilmore Girls-ish turn, stand by for updates