#The Foundation Crumbling

[rottingraisins]

vanguard blues

[witsserviceablesubstitute]

Fenris and Anders dynamic is best when it's not taken too seriously. It wasn't thought through well at all (something the devs have admitted to) and so building it into an all defining characterization for either of them engenders mischaracterizations. In my headcanon Fenris and Anders use each other as a whipping post to lance their wounds and it's something they'll eventually grow past. I personally like how honest they are with each other sometimes, neither feel like they need to sand down their edges with the other and it can lead to these hauntingly sincere moments.

A romantic relationship between them during DA2's timeline, though, has only two extremes from my interpretation. I could see them sleeping together with no forethought, a release of tension (as Fenris does do with a rival mage Hawke), and then that spiralling into a very tumultuous romance. If I'm remembering right these are characters who say things like 'there's no place you could go where I wouldn't follow' and 'I'll drown the world in blood to keep you safe'. All that intensity turned on each other... They're two sides of the same coin and both sides are blinkered and passionate. At their best they'd join forces and work through their issues to become this badass force of nature with a singular purpose— tearing down systems of oppression together. At their worst they could destroy Thedas and each other. I can appreciate how epic that potential story would be but I can also understand wanting both characters to find more peace than they're likely to find in each other.

No, my DA2 enemies-to-lovers ship is Aveline and Isabela. It wouldn't work and it's not epic but it is hot.

[camilo-makesyousmile]

@letitrain-letitsnow-letitgo

Things were all out of sorts in la Casa de Madrigal.

In some ways, Camilo was glad for this. They had been worried that every time Abuela looked at them, they would feel like she was looking right through them into their black and tarnished heart! That she would know immediately that they had been up to nefarious, no good deeds!

But--Casita had done them a solid by falling apart and putting itself back together. Thank God! (They were pretty sure God had nothing to do with it, She wasn't gonna do them a solid like that after everything.) It was probably some great harbinger of Doom and Camilo shouldn't be grateful for it.

It made them feel even more guilty.

Especially because they could see how upset everyone else was. Especially his Mamá.

"Mami?" Camilo knocked on the door to his mother and father's room. It swung gently open on its own and he stepped into it. "I brought you some tea! Just how you like it."

[outfit]

The Foundation Crumbling :) [Pepi]

[whizzinpast]

Maturing is realizing how many levels of fucked up IvanTill is and still writing fanfic in which they relearn who they are and through their self-discovery find each other halfway.

[phatcatphergus]

Sunny waking up in the bunker without her Pa and knowing he’s somewhere dangerous and could get hurt and maybe not come back from and crying because the only parent that she has might leave her without wanting to

[archivalofsins]

Wild take but I'm kind of spent on people using moral ambiguity, being morally grey, or the concept of nuance as an excuse to give characters they are partial to more leniency. Like can we stop conflating being lenient about a characters actions to said characters storyline being morally ambiguous, them being morally grey, or treating the matter with nuance.

Honestly, it's just led to people going well,

"Person a said character y did insert bad thing here without bringing up the emotional motivations as to why and made them look worse. They didn't treat the topic with any nuance or even grasp that the character is meant to be morally ambiguous."

When what's meant (usually) is they didn't take into consideration the character's emotional motivations when they did objectively bad thing. Despite concepts like nuance, moral ambiguity, or a character being morally grey usually not solely swinging in a positive direction. If someone keeps saying where's the nuance when discussing a topic and their nuance ammounts to things that only make the topic of discussion look better.

That's not nuance. That's this.

A person's feelings don't negate the impact of their actions. Just because something has nuance, is morally ambiguous, or morally grey does not equate to the bad thing no longer being bad. Because in that ambiguity in that grey is still the undeniable fact that something wrong occurred here, and it is the fault or direct result of the topic being discussed. Like characters who do bad things can be empathized with even without their actions being justified or excusable under their circumstances. Like saying an action taken is objectively bad regardless of if someone I empathize with or like does it is not an incorrect mindset to have. I don't believe that's a bad thing to be able to admit.

Simply because not being able to admit when someone one sympathizes with, empathizes with, or likes did an objectively bad thing is unhealthy and can lead people to getting taken advantage of.

I think there's actually more nuance in being able to admit,

Yeah, I like topic z, but the thing done here was objectively bad.

Or even that as individuals, we're willing to show more leniency to someone who does x bad action based on our personal views and beliefs instead of doing mental gymnastics to justify/excuse the bad action itself. That ultimately amounts to did anyone think about their feelings when they did x. All while equating taking that into consideration as being nuanced, morally grey, or morally ambiguous when it's just as biased.

[chapinii]

all the qsmp update accounts changing their pfps, the admins granting players who can't be online tomorrow their own slot to be a part of future lore... Everything is about to change on the QSMP tomorrow, we're truly entering a new era of the server...

[ssaalexblake]

13 x dhawan!master x yaz is a god tier dumpster fire ship

[kill-vonkarma-again]

im only on ch2 and im already being tortured by how deeply interesting the contrast btwn phoenix and kristoph is

[keirametzbrassknuckles]

I can not tell a lie, I am a simple woman and I like when fictional men who have been trained all their lives to be unbreakable finally fucking SNAP.

[sleepygh0stt]

life alone, again .

[liu-yu-xin]

Why did no one inform me of the breakdown that dreamzens had march-april of this year when they started to see the dream members visibly age out of the high schooler/feasible high schooler looks and concepts in that cb. I had to stumble across the videos myself on bilibili where they were screaming and crying about them being hags and getting fillers and not hitting their notes and slacking in their dances.

[solardrink]

I hate it I hate it so much when people make kindness and hope and gentleness into foolish naivety and well-meant idiocy. I hate when people turn love into something to be scorned and mocked and scoffed at . As if it’s not the mark of the strongest people, of the most powerful and brave, to be kind to a fault.

And what an awful sentence that is, kind to a fault. True kindness, not just niceties, is nothing but strength

[stuck-in-the-ghost-zone]

whats the move for convincing my mom to let me play creature feature songs at her halloween party

[merrysithmas]

so disney is 0 for 0 is making dynamic female characters (Rey who they failed unspeakably, Terrorist 'Princess' BaitnSwitch-Katan, baby Leia who was precious but had no development and was just a carbon copy of adult Leia)

do we even want to speculate on what they will do to our main girl Ahsoka?

[ranger-kellyn]

love that because two idiots decided to fuck during an ice storm instead of playing a board game or doing literally ANYTHING ELSE i get to be forced to live during the decline of the us empire