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But the beauty of the series’ portrayal is that it speaks to faith in the more general sense as well. Faith in a cause, faith in oneself, reaching into the darkness of the future and praying that history doesn’t bite your arm off. You must have faith to believe in any cause, and you must struggle with it, knowing you will never receive a final answer. Dragon Age is a highly theological series that nevertheless understands faith as a pillar of even the most thoroughgoing secularism. [...] Whom or what do you believe? And how do you wrestle with the doubts and contradictions thrown your way?[...] Dragon Age never made fools of the faithful. There was always somewhere for faith to live, and it was revealed to be the fountainhead of virtue as well as evil. For every zealous, abusive Templar, there was a true Champion of the Just; for every conniving sister, there was someone like Leliana or Seeker Cassandra, for whom faith was an inspiration to do good in the world. And there was something quite beautiful about the fact that your Warden, your Hawke from Dragon Age 2, your Inquisitor, could explore ancient secrets few were privy to, yet only find more mysteries than answers. This is a realistic and respectful reflection of faith—it’s a beautiful, lifelong struggle.[...] Veilguard, by contrast, is a parade of Final Answers that the game has little interest in exploring.[...] This is in stark contrast to something Solas himself said in Inquisition about the Fade—the realm of dreams and spirits where these memories play out in Veilguard. Your Inquisitor can ask him what he’s seen in the Fade, and he gives an example drawn from the series’ own history, such as the Battle of Ostagar, which opened Dragon Age: Origins. Teryn Loghain MacTir left King Maric (and your Warden) to die to a horde of darkspawn by calling an early retreat. You can excitedly ask Solas what ‘really’ happened. But, he says, there is no Truth to be found. Only the reflection of peoples’ experiences and memories. Thus, some view Loghain as a hero who saved the army from a vainglorious suicide march by a naïve king, and others view him as the traitor who condemned the king and the Grey Wardens to death. There is no truth, only perspective. The elemental stuff of history.[...] Dragon Age’s earlier games thematise silence beautifully. When the series presented you with mystery, it enjoined you to embrace the silence and think with it, to embrace the beauty of all you didn’t know and might never know. Veilguard is quite noisy, however.
katherine cross's writing on dragon age is always beautiful and insightful and this article on aftermath in particular gets at the ways that i felt let down by veilguard's many many many cosmic answers
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I'm not in the mood to colour this today, I like it enough as is <3
#see what I did there :3 nice#Mighty Nein#Critical Role#Critical Role fanart#Caleb Widogast#Veth Brenatto#Jester Lavorre#Fjord Stone#Beauregard Lionett#Yasha Nydoorin#Kingsley Tealeaf#Caduceus Clay#Essek Thelyss#shadowgast#widobrave#fjorester#brjeaus#beauyasha#polynein#fanart#danikunst#described#2025#4
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why cant characters be little freaks. why cant they be a lil weird. must all characters be nice and well adjusted? must they all have healthy emotional regulation and a firm handle on their mental health? can they not be a lil fucked up? a lil off putting? is it a crime for a character to be, dare i say it, annoying?
#personal#i also have this problem w my faves but like. they are so annoying. canonically my faves are little bastards.#i must embrace this truth.... only then will i be free......#this post was made abt dick grayson but it also applies to obi wan and like literally every other character i love to death#dick grayson was so annoying at 8 years old that he had full grown adults beefing w him like i MUST not forget this critical truth#bro HONED that shit. bro was distilling and purifying annoyance into a lethal weapon. he was HECKLING mfs professionally#AND HE'S STILL SO CHARMING 90% OF THE HERO COMMUNITY STANS HIM. IN SPITE OF HIS BITCHY NATURE. MAYBE EVEN BECAUSE OF IT.#HE IS GOOD AND KIND. BUT PERHAPS. NOT NICE......
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#critical role#critical role spoilers#bells hells#travis willingham#sam riegel#what a nice story. let's do it again.
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It’s been hard to motivate myself to do art for a long time, so I’ve been going back to basics which is binging dozens of hours of content and drawing traditionally in a frenzy.
Anyway, here’s Caleb, I really missed him ✨
#critical role#caleb widogast#traditional art#the arrival of ai art has been a huge knock on my motivation#on top of work and life of course#so drawing traditionally has been a nice way of taking back the joy#an ai might be able to scrape this drawing and turn it to mush but at least this picture is real#the texture and sheen of pigment on paper that was given to by my late grandpa#it’s just a silly fanart of my blorbo but#anything to get me drawing again#anyway I’m not dead I’ve just been Working (derogatory)#anyway have a nice day I hope I’ll post here soon again
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When you spend 20 years attempting to bring down the child slavery, murdering, human trafficking exploitation ring that stole your childhood, murdered your friends, and killed countless innocents only to have them rebrand as 'Noble Freedom Fighters™' off-screen.
#rip zevran's crusade against the crows >:(#when people said they wanted to be crows they didn't want devs to make the faction nice so we won't feel bad or conflicted about it#people wanted to be conflicted! they wanted to see the faction in all its glitz and glamour - then see what it hid beneath all the mystique#choose to play as a crow that loves the life/hates it/is undecided/etc...#but i'm sorry i forgot that this game doesn't want to do 'role play' options my bad#i will not stand for this zevran erasure!!!#they set up a schism with zevran's da2 codex entry - with other crows joining him!#have the antivan crows faced with a threat that challenged their outlook on why they fight#have the talons be the one to sell out antiva! in exchange for allowing their business to resume (have it be a sneaky reveal!!!)#their work has purpose and order to it so the antaam might agree! they're like 'babys first ben-hassrath!'#have Crows look around at their own home - see the vendor they bought fruit from disappear or the smiling old lady now cowed by grief#then have them decide to DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT#have a schism! have Zevran take in Crows who are unhappy - have them realize how shit the organization is!#boom! somewhat-noble freedom fighters! (they're doing their best okay)#if there were differences between different crow houses they needed to explain it better...let us talk to Lucanis! I want to know him :(#my art <3#dragon age#datv critical#datv spoilers#dragon age the veilguard#zevran arainai
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I’ve been losing my mind over these guys recently
#transformers#humanformers#decepticons#Starscream#skywarp#thundercracker#Soundwave#shockwave#wavewave#seekers#a lot of these are unfinished cause my iPad started overheating 😭#idk how actual pilot uniforms are supposed to look- tbh I just worked off one ref image + some from top gun#I don’t really want it the fits to look too similar to any existing uniforms cause I’m not trying to imply anything#anyway- thundercracker has honestly turned out to be my potential favorite??#I’m not sure yet cause I basically love all the main decepticons but fr it might be thundercracker#but it’s okay- I don’t HAVE to pick one fave I suppose#ughhh transformers has been such a nice change of pace from mk cause what is even going on over there??#I’m only excited for the t1000 and I’ve been DYING waiting for him to be playable#terminator 2 honestly in my top 10 movies and t1000 in top ten villains tbh#Robert Patrick did such a phenomenal job it just hasn’t been topped#but yeah wtf is even going on in mk?? like who the flying fuck asked for Conan??#but anyway I should probably actually draw either prime or tf one#I just love g1 so much plus the designs are literal squares it’s so much easier 😭#I’m also just attached to who whimsical it is? such simpler times#I think transformers tries to hard to be dark and brooding sometimes#which is my main criticism for how Optimus is in prime but that’s a whole nother conversation#I will say though prime did a good job of converting the dark bayverse designs#and making them fun an appealing to look at#doodle#my art
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be critical of yourself in a way that lifts you up, which means: catch yourself when you're thinking mean things about yourself / correct yourself when you're imagining what negative opinions others might have about you / encourage yourself to do better next time in a gentler and more optimistic way / never strive for more without acknowledging how far you have already come. it's okay to be nice to yourself.
#why does nobody ever talk about how very difficult it actually is to genuinely be nice to yourself?#we are so often taught to be humble and to strive to do better#that it blurs the lines between being critical of ourselves and discrediting our efforts#we all want to be considered kind and pleasant people#but completely tend to remove ourselves from that equation#be nice to you! consistently! always!#mental health
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#critical role#imogen temult#cr3#bells hells#campaign 3#critical role spoilers#my art tag#this imogen is from another piece but i figured she works nicely as a standalone too. so consider this a preview?
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cannot be stressed enough the horribly shady way bioware did their damndest to keep the shitty worldstate for veilguard a secret. like there's a reason why during those hype streams there was literally only one person who showed the inquisitor screen and it was an Accident. the guy that leaked the 4 choices thing said himself he thought it was actually abysmal of them to keep it from the public because of how much everyones hype was dependent on certain plot threads being resolved and he felt like it would have been too unfair and dishonest not to tell people. this was less than a month before the game was set to come out btw
#this is what i mean when i say i refuse to be nice to the devs particularly epler about the game#like the writing decisions i can forgive out of the horrible like straight up evil and unethical dev cycle they had to endure#but they went out of their way to Lie as much about the game as possible and when certain controversial choices were leaked too early#they only chose to comment on them because it was affected preorders LOL#datv critical#mine
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The funny thing with abusive misogynists is that however much they hate women who defy them, they always seem to find ways to absolutely loathe the obedient ones
#genderism#gender critical#‘can’t even call women c*nts anymore for being nice to you without them thinking you’re sexist! the world is so unfair to me 😢’
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What About The Kens?
I'm already seeing guys complain about the Barbie movie end, how they wanted Kens to be equal in Barbieland but were only given a small part on the Cabinet.
That's the point.
You're meant to feel bad for the Kens. Believe me, women aren't partying over the 'Returns to Matriarch' ending. Some will be, but the ones who also clocked the meaning behind it won't. Most women will also feel bad for Kens. Because it's an exact parallel to how women are treated in reality.
Men, you're meant to be upset. You're meant to question it. Because you're meant to feel it, and feel what that is like, so you can finally understand women. You're upset at seeing it in a movie, now imagine living it in reality. That's being a woman.
Kens were shit on so you could feel what it was like for women this entire time. Kens were being used as a placement so you could see yourself in a woman's shoes. A world dominated by the opposite sex. When Ken leaves, and sees male presidents (All men) for the first time, men being doctors and lawyers, etc, realising he is more than just a prop for Barbie, that was on purpose. Because that is the feeling that Barbie gave to women. It's why you cheer for him at first before he goes a little overboard.
It's exactly why the real world was an exaggerated Partriarchy and Barbieland an exaggerated Matriarchy. Neither wins. Neither is equal. None of them change for the better. It's why you should want women in the real world to be respected, and Kens in Barbieland to be respected.
The thing is, women also didn't win. Not in the real world. In Barbieland, yes, but not anywhere else. The real world didn't change. But you didn't notice, did you? That Gloria (The mother that helped Barbie) also didn't get a position on the Mattel board? It was still all men? Her idea was ignored until it made a profit, and the men will likely get the credit? She'll still just be the receptionist? The women representing the real world didn't get anymore opportunities, neither did the men in Barbieland.
I was hoping that Gloria would be offered a position on the board, and that the Barbie Cabinet would introduce another entire Cabinet to represent the Kens, but neither happened. They're complete mirrors.
But which one did you actually notice? Which did you actually care about? Now tell me again the ending was unfair. Because it was. For both parties. That's the point.
The difference is, Barbieland is fictional. You will walk out of the theatre with the reassurance that at least it's not real. Women won't. Women can't. Companies not giving women equal opportunities or voices isn't fictional, and that was just one example. There are no women presidents (USA at least) for us to go look at in the real world. We don't have somewhere to go to realise it could be different for us like Ken did. Barbie and make believe is all we had when we were kids, or even now.
You're supposed to be mad, just not at the movie.
#It's going right over people's heads#I've seen men complaining about the inequality. That's the point. Now you know how it feels. Apply that same frustration#And turn it into empathy for women in reality. Because it's not nice is it?#Please for the love of God people need lessons in analysis and critical thinking#It's not a 'women just hate men and this is a women only movie'#It's please realise that you've seen what it's like to be in women's shoes. Now be the change for women that you wanted for Kens.#Barbie#Barbie Spoilers
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BIG DICK IS BACK IN TOWN
#percy de rolo#critical role spoilers#vox machina#critical role#fuuuuuckkkkkk yall#YOURE SO HOT WHEN YOURE ANGRY#and in general#but especially the emotional anguish just adds a nice touch#my art
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and when I hurt / hurtin' runs off my shoulder / how can I hurt when holding you 💕
#lando norris#critical lando theory#blessing the lando norris tag with something nice to chew on#lando is sooooo loved and taken care of and brought up with affection#it's one of the best things about him it reflects in everything he does#nadia's things
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Essek doodles!
#i need to draw more fun expressions - it feels kind of nice to flex those unused skills sometimes#essek thelyss#critical role#rosemuse art
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I miss them T^T I miss the blue girlies
#jade draws#critical role#cr2#critical role fanart#beaujester#jester lavorre#beauregard lionett#please please be respectful under this post. i can read tags remember#im giving cr tumblr one last chance whether or not they can be nice on a cr2 ship#anyway. theyre one of the big reason i got into cr and met long time mutuals who some i consider a friend now#if you followed me since c2 days. you know im fixated over them
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