#and i have nothing to blame it on either

[violet-phoenix-nebula]

I had the time of my life

Fighting dragons

With you

Nobody ask me why I did this (because I have no fucking idea either)

[cubbihue]

What does Timmy think of his little brother Peri growing up to have a neurotic personality?

Peri's always had severe anxiety. It sorta comes with being the first baby born in a 1000 years and constantly being kidnapped by everyone around you.

Timmy's just glad Peri grew up to be more confident in himself, and more assertive.

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[mythalism]

hmmm. thinking about how veilguard seems to subscribe more to the more traditional "video game as personal power fulfillment fantasy of heroism" than any other dragon age game, except perhaps origins, though origins does it more artfully.

[angerydome]

I told a friend to keep an eye on their banks/cards because people are getting caught up in that recent data breach, and their response was,

“This is all capitalism’s fault.”

And I … err … is it??

[everytaylorswiftsongisaboutcats]

[this-is-a-name-dont-worry]

btw. rambling.

with how it ends with peri doing a meta comment hoping they'll get a season 2. i think it's safe to assume the writers want a season 2. and with that in mind, it makes what happened with Dev something more similar to sequel bait than actual end of his character. i mean Peri's introduction was even through Dev, without him he'd be just. there. which would be a shame just in terms of writing. especially when the writer also clearly likes Peri since our man is the one having the final line of the season. in the same way I'm pretty sure the writers care a lot about Dev too, I mean, even in this finale at his darkest hour you had constant reminders of how he's just. desperate for his father's attention. So yeah.

Dev not remembering is likely not his intended final ending, just the logical one for this finale that also pushes you to want to see more. Hazel's friends and brother remembering is an opening for new situations in a second season (Hazel may get pushed to make wishes by them, even if sometimes involuntarily; Hazel may make more wishes directly involving them, allowing for newer stories that couldn't be carried by just Hazel Cosmo and Wanda); Dev forgetting is the bait to make you want a second season

[cryptdfish]

“white mourning.”

[jin-zixun]

Reasons Nie Mingjue tries to kill Jin Guangyao:

JGY saved his life (while being unable to do the same for others)

He didn't think working as a spy to win the war would actually include having to do bad things (unlike the killings NMJ performs which are always 100% justified because NMJ is 100% moral and has the right to make that call)

JGY won't kill himself

JGY won't perform extrajudicial murder of his shidi, favored by his father (which would also get him killed)

JGY won't die

JGY talked back to him and won't just completely agree with his assessment (that JGY should just die)

It's the only way for them to have peace (says the guy who suffers from extensive murderous rages and came back as a corpse to continue killing people against the guy who oversaw the biggest public safety project and expansion we know of and kept the peace for over a decade)

JGY tells their mutual friend/sworn brother that he's concerned about NMJ suffering from said extensive murderous rages

JGY bought nice things for NHS

Reasons Jin Guangyao tries to kill Nie Mingjue

Doesn't want to be killed by Nie Mingjue who keeps trying to kill him

[luna-the-cretar]

You’d think that, between Gideon and Kremy, Gideon would be the easier one to get a read on (in terms of feelings towards certain situations and party members), but no. I can read Kremy like a motherfucking book. The way he spins lies and half-truths like a spiderweb; the way his tone will shift subtly depending on who he’s talking to, what they’re talking about, his feelings on the situation/subject/towards the person, etc; all of it. Kremy is so fucking easy to read for someone who’s supposed to be a silver-tongued conman.

But Gideon? His tone doesn’t shift all that much. He generally has a happy, confused, or entertained tone in his voice, with the exception of when he’s angry, frustrated, or upset.

Idk, maybe it’s harder for me to read Gideon because I listen to the podcast (it’s just easier for me since I can listen while driving or working), so I have to rely on tone shifts and other verbal cues. That, or maybe it’s because all of my past blorbos have been emotionally constipated men, who would only express their actual feelings about a situation based on tonal shifts, body language, and reading into what they’re saying.

[scuorge10]

Y’all can like Eurylochus without dragging Polites down by the way, in case y’all need a reminder.

I genuinely don’t understand why a lot of y’all are dead set on dragging Polites through the mud just to try and make Eurylochus look like a better character. Just say that you like Eurylochus’ character better and that you wish he was appreciated more by the fandom as a whole.

[wonder-worker]

how did henry VII think of edward IV? how did he refer to him during his rule?

Personally, we don’t know what Henry VII thought of Edward IV. I think it’s likely to have been more complex and/or conflicted than black-or-white, given the situation, but we naturally can’t presume to know what Henry may have felt.

Publicly, Henry gave him all the respect that was due to a former ruler. Edward's status as king by right and by law was explicit and unambiguous: he was repeatedly referred to as ‘Edward, late king of England’ (in contrast to, say, Richard III, who was derided as an undeserving usurper). In letters and other official documents, Henry would only ever refer to him as ‘our father, the most famous prince of blessed memory’. This was probably a more conventional address than not, but it certainly wasn't necessary for Henry to publicly identify with Edward in such a way - it's something he would have had to have chosen to do.

One of Edward's symbols, the white rose, became one-half of the defining symbol of Henry's regime and that of his successors. But it wasn't the only one: Yorkist emblems like the sun in splendour and the falcon and fetterlock were also used very prominently in Tudor iconography, such as the gates of Henry VII's chapel at Westminster Abbey. Henry continued other dynastic projects as well, such as the foundation of a convent for the Greyfriars.

Most strikingly, it's clear that Henry prioritized Yorkist traditions for both his heirs: his eldest son Arthur was raised at Ludlow as the March heir with Mortimer trappings, and he invested his second son Henry (the future Henry VIII) as the Duke of York, following the precedent Edward IV had begun for his second son Richard of Shrewsbury. It was only for his third unfortunately short-lived son Edmund that Henry revived the traditionally Lancastrian-associated title of Somerset. Dynastic priorities are quite clear*.

Moreover, while Henry VII repeatedly highlighted his connection to Henry VI (his uncle who was deposed and murdered on Edward's orders in 1471), taking great efforts to rehabilitate and canonize him along with the rest of the Lancastrians, Edward IV was still not officially blamed for anything. His central role in the destruction of the Lancastrians was entirely omitted from formal parliamentary records, and even the blame for Henry VI’s death was officially dumped on Richard III instead.

None of this should be especially surprising. Henry was married to Edward's daughter, and it was Edward's Yorkist supporters who "launched" Henry as an active claimant in first place after realizing that the Princes in the Tower were dead during October risings (which were originally meant to restore them to the throne) - not because they supported Henry's technical claim but because they wanted to put Edward IV's line back on the throne via Henry's marriage to Elizabeth of York. They joined him in exile and remained his councilors after he won the crown. Moreover, a great deal of Henry's reign consisted of Pretenders who sought the throne claiming that they were the sons of Edward IV - in this context, it makes sense that Henry would try to highlight his own connection to him in a similar way. (I think there's a very interesting discussion to be had about how Edward functioned as the posthumous dynastic focus for all claimants to the throne after 1483 in the lieu of Edward III for the claimants in the lead-up to the Wars in the 1450s, but that's another topic entirely).

There's also the simple fact that, despite the ample controversies of his second reign (regicide, fratricide, acceptance of bribes from France, posthumous slander by his own brother, etc), Edward IV seems to have remained very popular and well-regarded by the people of England. Even if Henry wanted to ruin his memory - and nothing suggests that he did, not least because of how it would reflect on his own queen - I think it's rather unlikely that he would have been able to do so. After all, Richard III had already tried and failed. On the contrary, the popularity and positions of Henry's own sons were bolstered by the fact that they were Edward's grandchildren and identified as such by his subjects. At the very least, Henry seems to have accepted this. However, given how closely he followed the precedents of the Princes in the Tower while raising his own sons, he was likely actively leveraging it for his own family's benefit. This is partly why I dislike the idea that Henry viewed Elizabeth of York's claim and popularity as threats to his position: we already know that this is not true, as both actually helped Henry secure his kingship and ensure the succession of his sons.

*Sean Cunningham talks about this further in the chapter "A Yorkist Legacy for the Tudor Prince of Wales on the Welsh Marches: Affinity-Building, Regional Government and National Politics, 1471-1502" in The Fifteenth Century XVIII, if you want to read up further on the topic.

[katyspersonal]

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[designernishiki]

ever think about the fact that nishiki largely spiraled the way he did because of being considered incompetent and unfavorable in comparison to kiryu by everyone important in his life, and thus was constantly neglected and forgotten about. and then think about how the bomb would never have had to go off if kiryu and/or yumi just paid literally any attention to him after the showdown. talked to him. helped him to his feet. kept an eye on him. anything. instead of more or less forgetting he was there and allowing him the opportunity to do what he did. do you ever think about that. i sure do

[dazais-guardian-angel]

gotta say that if bram stoker is trying to convince me that Renfield isn't actually future Johnathan from another timeline, then he isn't doing a very good job at it

[johnentwistlesbassguitar]

I need to drop out of school or I'm gonna kms I'm so serious

[kshaar]

i did not make the post complaining about datv plot that i wanted to when i finished the game but one of the bullet points on it was 'where is the reckoning to shake the heavens that flemeth promised? we lost kate mulgrew for this?' which is a bullet point that might make one realize that one's complaints are very niche and specific and thats not what people look for in 10-year-later sequels and you nix the whole post

and then almost two weeks later d*vid g*ider makes a post about flemeth & morrigan & how they were always so fundamental to dragon age [which he begins by calling himself out for older women being his type- i dont want to talk about it] and another about how the scene between morrigan & kieran & flemythal was written and shot for here lies the abyss, morrigan saying she would never be the mother [to kieran] that flemeth was to her 🥺which is STILL the most impactful thing from inquisition

then you see the messy cowardly bullshit fucking story we got in veilguard, the way that mythal's fragment is in there ultimately to absolve this man for killing her, and morrigan is only there as her mouthpiece and the only way to convince this man that he needs to stop is if people tell him 'its okay man' because thats our priority right. making him feel better. fuck the dwarves dreams and the blight and the-

i don't know, i don't really have a point