#Present: The Andromeda

[pleiades-cabin-talk]

((tw: Sh))

Rose is swaying with the effort to stay on his two feet. His body aches as if his bones are trying to break through his skin, as if his flesh was a cage, his ribs holding in the songbird turned beast.

Rose finds that he has always been a deer. Bright eyes staring into headlights, frozen in place and awaiting death. Rose had always been meant to be small, docile. Rose was always meant to be gentle. Rose was always meant to be sweet and graceful and clumsy all the same. Rose was always meant to be the sacrificial lamb placing it's own head upon the cool stoned altar.

Yet with time he was forced to grow fangs, forced to bite back because the hand that feeds was rarely gentle. He was never meant to make others bleed, never meant to snap and bite like a frightened dog, cornered and shaking with blazing fury in its eyes. He was never meant to leap for the throat, tear it apart.

Rose sees the blood on his hands. Watches it drip to the floor beneath his feet until his knees give in beneath him, sending him crashing to the ground.

Rose watches the blood dry like paint upon a canvas, watches it change color until it is sticky and brown. Rose stares at his hands until they stop shaking, Rose stares until his eyes slip closed, when his vision is too blurry to keep staring.

His arms give a dull ache as he collapses, thrumming through him like low embers, the flame in his eyes long gone, snuffed out.

Claw marks rip through the skin on his arms, splitting the flesh upon them apart.

Rose is reminded he may be a beast now, but deep inside, he is still just frightened prey.

[legionofpotatoes]

I know the discourse well is poisoned and no one hates bioware games more than bioware fans, but I am just 🫠 having so much fun with veilguard it's unreal. It is selfishly the dragon age game I always wanted. with less emphasis on cRPG, a more focused story, curated mission based design that spotlights the high fantasy stuff, slowburn structure with companions, significantly less sidequest bloat, and a fully real-time action-oriented combat system that isn't riddled with the growing pains of previous titles. when I first played origins I imagined something almost exactly like this as my ideal version of a sequel; and it was one of those dirty, selfish thoughts that I knew was disrespectful to the then-established DNA of the thing, but I can't help but feel giddy about having it here and now. like down to the shift away from the childishly dark tone and to something more inherently flexible with a baseline aspirational quality. I hate aesthetically depressing games so much. am I not alive right here and right now already

When I say "aesthetically" there though I do mean it. I'm fully on the opposite side when it comes to tone and positions expressed in the story itself. I am just not including that in my analysis because I am not done yet - so please no spoilers! I think I am where most people consider to be the second act, and I definitely have my gripes with the narrative framework and some of the optics, but I won't put the cart before the horse and will see how it wraps things up first. Above that level, in terms of how it presents itself, of how it plays, of how it balances its core pillars - it is such a bioware-ass game and I could not be any cozier in it. So grateful it exists

[too-many-lavellans]

Tabris

[sarafangirlart]

Some Apollo stans are really getting on my nerves acting like the Daphne myth is is the only story where their little meow meow assaulted someone and blaming Eros for it when the way Eros’s powers work is way more nuanced than that and Eros is involved in literally every couple falling in love,so blaming him for Apollo’s own horrible actions is bs. Apollo is responsible for how he reacts to Eros’s influence.

[bellwood-qudditch]

Whose y’all’s faceclaim for some of the family members of the noble and most ancient house of black.

[c2-eh]

what made me happy ♡

day 31: I JUST CAME BACK FROM THE OBSERVATORY WHERE WE WATCHED STARS 🥹 i learned a lotttt and it was so beautiful 🫶🏻

[lesbiancosimaniehaus]

Ouch….

[loveydoveylex]

hello!!! i;m afraid that i don't have much to ask, however i've been watching you two from afar for a while now , (maybe also . i dont know . planning to create things too) (i'm so nervous) but, god, i cannot put into words how sweet yall are together, and i wish only the best for you and rayman in the future/ seriously . you two both deserve the world and everything in it ,

just, nothing but sweet dreams and sweet wishes <3

OHHHH, MY GOSH. YOU ARE SO VERY KIND. I cannot even put into words how much that means to me! please do not be nervous at all, I am incredibly happy!! AND I LOVE YOUR ADORABLE LITTLE DRAWING! thank you so, SO much! ❤️❤️❤️

[lovesick-level-up]

Disability Pride Month Challenge Day 2

day 2: character(s) that are vision impared or hard of hearing (blind, deaf, etc)

the characters we picked for this are: rui kamishiro ((headcanon) hard of hearing), qiqi ((headcanon) blind) + hizashi yamada ((implied) deaf)

flag credits: hearing aid user flag (could not find a specific deaf/hoh flag), vision problem flag

feel free to use with credit as long as you aren't on our dni, but don't claim as your own! like/reblog if you saver or enjoy!

[pleiades-cabin-talk]

Rose is sitting at the foot of his bed, rocking back and forth as he hums to himself through the sobs that break his voice and tear out of his throat in an ugly display of vulnerability and hurt. Big round tears roll down his cheeks and onto his lap. Snot is sliding out of his stuffy nose, though he barely had the energy to wipe either away.

His hair is a dark, oily mess cascading down his back. His vision in blurry in the dark room. It is night, he knows it is night, it had to be, for it was silent outside of his quarters. The ship rocked with him, taking just a little of the weight off of his shoulders. The sea sings soothingly to him, her call ever present as it prods at the back of his mind, nudges, carefully, tries to remind him he is not alone.

And still he feels complete and utterly alone. His room lays empty aside from him inside of it. It feels so big and he feels so very small. He's stopped trying to push the fog away from him as it curls around his arms. His movements are slow, mind hazy. He's starting to loose control in his limbs, bit by bit. The rocking lulls to a stop until he is sitting there, motionless, voice long dead weight on his tongue.

He remains there, all alone, forgotten, for the rest of the night.

[storyofmorewhoa]

At this point I have to acknowledge that I am obsessed with the interactions between Trance Gemini and Seamus Harper on Andromeda. Laura Bertram and Gordon Michael Woolvett are fantastic actors on their own, and they created an incredible dynamic between their characters. I really wanted to make this post about Trance calling Harper by his first name. I know that other characters call him Seamus, but I wanted to focus on these moments between the two of them.

This is from "Fear and Loathing in the Milky Way" (S01E17), written by Ashley Edward Miller and Zack Stentz. In this scene Trance chastises Harper for his insensitivity by using his whole name, Seamus Zelazny Harper.

This next scene is from "The Eschatology of Our Present" (S05E05), written by Larry Barber and Paul Barber. I've mentioned this before, but Trance and Harper barely directly speak to each other in season 5, so Trance calling Harper "Seamus" here gets to me.

Harper even has a little reaction to Trance calling him Seamus.

Harper before Trance says his name:

Harper after Trance says his name:

The last instance of Trance calling Harper "Seamus" that I know about is from Robert Hewitt Wolfe's Coda (2005). It's a one-act play that lays out Wolfe's original plan for the characters-- and it's done through Trance speaking to a simulation of Harper.

[justdealingwithsomeissues]

Andromeda is about to show back up in Namor so they are 100% doing this to be like "Hey, remember this lady?!"

[thomine]

🎧 - Mimikyu

( from send a🎧 and i'll give you my favourite verse! requested by @andromeda-nova-writing )

favourite verse from this song is:

i don't know just yet who you take me to be / and i don't want to spoil your impression of me

things have gotten better over the years, but i do notice my tendency to "morph" and become someone who the other person wants me to be. i tend to avoid people i can't "read", and by "read" i mean i don't know how these people view me—what they want from me, what they see me as—so i have no "form" to take in front of them.

i feel these lyrics are quite fitting for a person like myself, lol.

[bezogonek]

trying real hard not to be a hater but the new dragon age sucks so fucking bad

[husband-steve-cortez]

Just say it you cowards