#age order in my head is:

[rere9500-18]

Mayday literally has 5 older siblings (3 brothers and 2 sisters). Idk what to tell you 🤷🏾‍♀️

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

A new challenger approaches (slowly)

[First] Prev <–-> Next

[re-bogwitch]

Wait hang on

Hang on

Someone put Charles next to Wade, my man would need a step stool to see him

[fullbattleregalia]

I’ve been reading a lot of Star Wars prequels time travel fix-its, and I really want one now where it’s Anakin and Trilla (aka Second Sister), who get sent back. Anakin from right after he finally kills Palpatine and Trilla from right after Vader killed her. Just two semi-kinda-maybe reformed sith jammed back into their teenage bodies and being like, “Well, that was an absolute shit show - let’s not do that again.” Only Anakin had just started his redemption arc when he died and Trilla had only just gotten the closure to maybe consider a starting a redemption arc when she died, so they have no idea what they’re doing. Aside from killing Palpatine - that is the one thing they definitely agree on. How? Not sure. Still working on that.

Anyway, Anakin is around 17; Trilla is almost 14. They’ve snuck out of the Temple and are on the run on Coruscant, so that they can complete their plan of “Murder the Supreme Chancellor with Extreme Prejudice” and also because Trilla maaaaay have reflexively kidnapped an initiate on their way out of the Temple. Listen, teeny Initiate Cal Kestis was right there, and he’s the one thing Trilla has roundabout positive associations with at the moment, and the sudden reintroduction of teenage hormones is hell on impulse control. So she’s keeping him. This is her tiny initiate now. Cere can’t have him. Neither can Anakin - go kidnap your own initiate if you want one so bad.

Cal thinks this is all an exciting adventure, though he doesn’t quite understand why Padawan Suduri and Padawan Skywalker keep arguing over whether just blowing up the entire Senate building is worth the effort. Maybe it’s an inside joke?

[aceedoodles]

listen. LISTEN. LISTEN TO ME. these four mean the world to me. they're all different brands of fucking idiot and i love them all.

(Atsushi and Akutagawa have a bet going about their superiors. Atsushi is about to win. Thanks Chuuya.)

[noctilu-uca]

CAN I SEE THE SLIDE PRESENTATION

yeah sure keep in mind this was made DAY OF announcement so i literally knew nothing all i knew is that i had to put my thoughts on a google slide for my friends who literally could not care about the reboot

Jyushi hutcherson is real in my heart

[thegoodceai]

many thoughts about how warden!rook and davrin's shared faction makes their dynamic and relationship so much more compelling (for me) than the other same-faction relationships in the game if only because the grey wardens are always. tragic, i guess. and just the commonality of 'we both willingly joined an order dedicated to stopping a threat that most of the world cares very little about, even when considering the fifth blight was so recent, and we knew from the start our lives will be forfeited sooner rather than later and yet we're both willing to fight and sacrifice for the greater good with no expectation for recognition or reward'

the game makes rook into a hero, so i doubt they got conscripted, joining the wardens feels like their decision, plays into rook's heroic main character trope. especially with some of the choices you can make (saying rook was completely right when saving that village when they ignored direct orders and not regretting it and reiterating that fact when you meet the first warden for the first time, talking the first warden down, even punching him but still having the order trust rook enough to know they have their back etc)

also rook telling davrin multiple times "i'm a warden too" sounds so much like "you're not alone in this, i know what you've been through, i've been through the same things myself, i know what others see when they look at us, i know what fate we brought onto ourselves when we drank from the joining cup, i made the same choices as you, like recognises like and we're both of us both monster and monster hunter." it also adds another layer to every interaction when davrin asks for rook's advice, or just picks their brain, cause rook knows. they know what it's like. we share the same family, the same purpose, the same cursed blood.

also something something the parallel between the warden and alistair in origins (young, inexperienced, one of them conscripted, fighting a seemingly hopeless fight against a country and a blight) and warden!rook and davrin in veilguard (older, capable wardens, here of their own volition, knew the early death sentence they signed up for, fighting a seemingly hopeless fight against literal gods and the blight to end all blights) and it feels like no matter how you play it their epilogues always feel like "we survived but at what cost"

anyway. many thoughts. love creating some "history is a circle and it will inevitably repeat" type narrative with my game characters

[valkyurii]

it’s funny how things have gone full circle with malenia. she was so hated when the game first came out, but then people grew to like her. then the dlc came out and now people hate her again lmao

[thefellomen]

☾ The Age of the Stars ☾

Upon the order I envision. Mine will be an order not of gold, but the stars and moon of the chill night. I would keep them far from the earth beneath our feet. As it is now, life, and souls, and order are bound tightly together, but I would have them at a great remove. And have the certainties of sight, emotion, faith, and touch… All become impossibilities.

Which is why I would abandon this soil, with mine order. Wouldst thou come to me, even now, my one and only lord?

[oathkeeper-of-tarth]

Also I quit my job of what would in about a month or two have been 10 years, and perhaps now I will get to actually be a human being again.

[talkfastcal]

i love being a collector btw<3<3

[dungeons-and-dragon-age]

forever mad about how dirty they did aveline from act 2 onward

[spookyc]

Having watched Nimona recently, I feel it's important for me, as a trans person, to discuss a certain criticism I've seen regarding the movie. A criticism I take great issue with, and one that I think needs to be addressed. And that is the supposed issue of Nimona being "too blatant" about its queerness, that its message is "ham-fisted" in nature. And that bothers me. It bothers me that people think that something that is blatant is inherently bad. It bothers me that people think its message is ham-fisted simply because you don't have to go searching for it. Something being obvious isn't inherently negative and I'm tired of that sentiment being thrown around like it's fact. Because subtlety isn't an inherent good either, neither are good or bad entirely. And frankly, when it comes to queerness in media, the only way it will have an impact is if it's blatant. Especially regarding transness.

Because, if you'll allow me to be completely blunt and candid, we don't live in a society where subtle queerness can be appreciated. We live in a society that wants people like me eradicated for simply existing. Laws are being passed continously that discriminate against us and prevent us from living comfortably. We live in a world rn where we either have to suffer in silence or fucking die. That is the reality trans people live in. So if those that hate us are given any indication that they can disregard us, ignore us, pretend we don't exist, they will take that opportunity everytime. We've seen this with Across the Spiderverse, where even trans flags and trans colors splashed across Gwen will still lead to people denying her transness.

Because at the end of the day, Spiderverse is still about Miles Morales, and it's still about Spiderman, and Spiderman's story isn't inherently queer. So they'll make every excuse to ignore Gwen's transness, or they'll simply ignore her story to focus on the rest of what ATSV has to offer. Ultimately, it can still be overlooked and enjoyed without acknowledging that aspect. But that isn't the case for Nimona. Nimona is a queer story with queer themes and queer characters, queerness is baked into the very core of what Nimona is. To not acknowledge those aspects is to blatantly misinterpret the movie, you cannot divorce Nimona from being gay, and trans, and nonbinary, and genderfluid and everything that falls in between. It is blatant, and really, I think that's what we need rn. We need something so unapolegetically queer that people can't ignore it, they can't disregard it, and they can't look away from it. Because then that means they have to acknowledge us, that they can't wipe us out, that we are here and we are loud and we WILL make our voices known. Being quiet helps no one, but being loud is what inspires change, it's what makes people uncomfortable, and I say we make them as uncomfortable as possible.

For every bigot that wants us dead, that thinks we're monsters and unfit for society, you will have the bigots who understand that they're wrong. You will have the bigots who change the way they see us, and might even recognize how harmful they were being. You don't get that by keeping your head down and hinting towards a vague metaphor that a character might be trans, because with how things are right now, it won't be enough to make an impact. You do that by making a metaphor so obvious it bypasses subtext and becomes the text, you do that by having characters like Nimona, who simply wish to exist without everyone pestering her about who she is, she's Nimona, and that's the only answer she or anyone should have to give. You do that by intiating a rallying cry, to inspire trans people, kids or otherwise, and to state plain and clearly that we see you, and that you aren't alone.

So yeah Nimona is very blatant in its queerness, and I wouldn't have it any other way.

[apathyfairy]

i always said that once i stop caring what other people think about me it’s over for you bitches and it’s finally happened i’m literally untouchable

[lucyskywalker]

Man, Im doing mental gymnastics to get the timeline of Star Wars correct with all the calenders.

We have:

CRC - Coruscant Reckoning Calender

BBY - Before the Battle of Yavin

ABY - After the Battle of Yavin

LY - Lothal Year

AFE - After the Foundation of the Empire

BFE - Before the Foundation of the Empire

My condolences to all Star Wars Fanfic Writers setting every date right, guys.

[born-to-lose]

Double shift last weekend and this is the only picture I got (which my coworker actually took with me for her Facebook story RIGHT when I looked like shit and it was low effort makeup day because I had to be there early to open the bar)