#Where Dragons Dare

[the-zapped-part-timer]

[vaguely-concerned]

are. are you telling me that if the romanced mage warden dies and alistair is king, he deadass stares greagoir down over her dead body and grants the circle of ferelden its autonomy after ordering it rebuilt somewhere safer. first you have to deliberately leave him behind so he won't die for you and then he does that for you once you're gone, even when you're broken up??? absolute and literal king behaviour of the highest order????? the actions speak louder than words of it all??????? I think I hauve covid

[mastomysowner]

Moomin + other picture book characters by ネヲ

Illustrations of Moomin characters together with characters from other picture books, plus one extra.

[poseidons-lovechild]

my roman empire will forever be canon-compliant brunette rhaenys.

[tidetower]

More Mating Dance Than Battle

artwork by cch__0117

[backjustforberena]

While everybody else is melting down, she's kind of holding them all emotionally and holding together herself emotionally. She's got on the back of that dragon and she's gone out and she's been basically doing all the work! I feel like she's sort of coming back, she's absolutely exhausted, she hasn't had a bath for ten days, completely knackered, she's been riding around on this dragon, sort of not crying and just dealing with everything, dealing with it and getting on. She comes back to this group of total halfwits, who are all in pieces, melting down left right and centre. And seeing the world around her melt down too. She's carrying a very, very heavy load and I think she's absolutely shattered and emotionally shattered.

[raayllum]

They're so sick for this

& was gonna originally leave it in the tags but then I liked it so why not:

I do think this parallel helps contextualize why Claudia's offer is there in the narrative beyond just characterization "she knows this is a loss the boys have experienced, and there is possible room to convince them," or beyond "I doubt they're going to bring Harrow back fully (if at all) so why tease it" and well: I think this parallel is exactly why.

For starters, there's the sheer difference in presentation that help to contrast and compare Callum and Claudia as characters. More importantly for next season, I think, is that it ties together Claudia wanting to save her father is what led to her working with Aaravos in the first place versus Callum wanting to free Rayla's parents likely being something that is just going to put him further on Aaravos' dark path of destiny for him, if not outright lead to disaster. The road to ruin is paved with good intentions, after all - even if he's being selfless about it because it's not even for himself or one of his direct loved ones, but purely by proxy

[radley-writes]

I don't understand people who say things like 'but it doesn't matter if we don't pay artists/writers for their labour, or use free AI programs to replace artists/writers to improve our profits, because in a perfect world everyone would have UBI so it wouldn't matter xxx'

like. yes. but until we reach that perfect world, artists and writers need to eat?

why are you promoting AI replacement of creative people instead of working towards UBI? Until we have UBI, supporting generative AI in the creative field is no different to supporting supermarkets laying off all their till staff to turn to self-check out, or supporting factories who shut down and move overseas to exploit workers in countries with fewer human rights legislations?

Yes, in a perfect world, everyone would receive UBI. Therefore, people across the globe couldn't be exploited by corporations, and artists could create for the joy of it, in whatever way we desire - including with AI!

But we do not live in that perfect world.

Do you seriously expect this move towards generative AI to encourage people to support UBI, as opposed to people being forced into jobs they hate to make ends meet or no longer being able to support themselves financially?

Especially all the disabled people who make a living creating art and writing/editing, because that is, in fact, a career that is often far more available to disabled folks than a regular 9-5 or a retail job where you're expected to be on your feet all day (miss my disabled ass with the 'anti-AI = ableism' stance lmao).

This is not going to create your army of revolutionaries. This is just going to result in more independent creators being crushed under the boot heel of capitalism, as anyone who would've hired them flocks instead to the free alternative, and they're forced back into an incredibly exploitative labour market.

I agree that generative AI by itself is just a tool and is not inherently a problem.

But it is being abused, in ways that hurt creators.

If you support generative AI... what are you doing about that?

[cruciomee]

Daeron, my son, where are you? I need to complete the set!!

[the-zapped-part-timer]

[abyssal-ilk]

bioware where is the dao epilogue slide that has my warden going to par vollen with sten. where is it bioware.

[rubensmuse]

WAIT OKAY i need to talk about something before i forget. something that REALLY docks points from Veilguard until they fix it.

people have observed that a fat Rook is 1) not even fat really 2) basically the only "fat" character in the game. what i haven't seen referenced yet is that, uh, near the end of the game they give you cutscene lipo???

for reference, here's how she normally looks in this armor:

& even before that, when Neve and my Rook were having their cute little sex scene, during pillow talk the camera pulled back and my Rook (who had her boobs out due to the underwear i picked) suddenly had pecs??? i wish i had screenshots, but my lover who was sitting next to me noticed it too.

did this happen to anyone else? playing on PC btw

[flysafepapi]

"The Hightowers are marching."

If this doesn't mean Daeron, I swear to god I will swim the oceans, find my way to Ryan Condal's house and slash all his tires.

[addaerontruther]

"I clung to your hands so that something human might exist in the chaos."

Addam Velaryon and Daeron the Daring by @wweskywalker

Bonus sketch under cut —

[sud-scribbles]

time for more mlp expressions!

[greywardenmonkey]

at what point in the story are any of the companions even necessary except to yap in a gossip circle or die for shock value during the suicide mission. they feel so empty. take them away from the game and nothing would feel different