#and was like whelp thats 100% happening

[allylikethecat]

Gatty and 32!! I love these so much

Hi! Thank you so much for sending this in! I hope this is what you were looking for! These prompts continue to be so much fun! I have a few more in my inbox that I am also working on and can't wait to share. Sorry these are taking me a few days to complete! Thank you so much again!

❤️Ally

Kiss…to wake up

Matty came to slowly, his head felt heavy and fuzzy, like the static of the car radio when you searched for the correct station or the rainbow hum of the television screens of his childhood when there was no station selected. He let out a soft sigh, unsure if it was in contentment or annoyance at being woken up. His mind didn’t feel clear enough to decide, still in that sweet in between haze of awake and asleep. He could feel that someone was behind him, hovering over him, kneeling with his legs on either side of Matty’s own, though keeping his weight off of Matty’s back. Matty shifted his own weight, bumping his hip into George’s knee. 

“You need to wake up and roll over love,” said George softly, pressing a kiss to the back of Matty’s neck. Matty hummed in acknowledgement but made no effort to move, causing George to chuckle and press another kiss to his back, lower this time, followed by another and another, tracing the curve of his spine.

“I don’t want to,” Matty slurred, pressing his nose into the crook of his elbow, eyes still squeezed shut. George chuckled and kissed the small of his back, just above the curve of his arse where the waistband of his swim shorts cut across his skin. Matty involuntarily found himself lifting his hips to press back against George’s mouth. George bit down lightly on Matty’s love handle, the elastic waistband digging into the soft flesh of his sides, before nosing his way back up Matty’s spine, tracing the dip of his spinal column with his tongue before nipping again at the base of his neck. Matty gasped, shocked at the sting. 

“You need to roll over Matthew,” said George again, “your back is burnt to a crisp.”

Matty groaned. 

“I put more sunscreen on for you,” said George, “but it’s too late, you’re burnt and it’s only going to get worse.” He pressed another kiss to Matty’s neck. “You need to wake up, love.” 

Matty let out an exaggerated sigh, but rolled over, and propped himself up on his elbows and arched his neck to look up at George who was straddling him with a grin. 

“Happy now?” Matty asked, his mind still felt syrupy and thick, his thoughts moving slow and sluggish, like honey tipping out of the bottom of the bottle. He was sleepy and sundrunk, he wanted George, a beer, and to go back to sleep, in that order. 

“Very,” said George, leaning down to kiss Matty deeply, biting at his lower lip before licking into his mouth, suffocating him with his love. Matty whimpered, falling back onto his back, his hands coming up to dig into George’s shoulder, pulling him off balance and all the closer, their bare, sweat slick chests sticking together, their skin dragging together as George moved above him. Matty dug his toes into the sand curling them as heat pooled in his lower belly. He was wide awake now.

His sunburn ached as it rubbed against the terrycloth of the beach towel had was laying on, and he had sand in his hair, his curls already matted together with the salt from the ocean he and George had frolicked through earlier, Matty laughing as George picked him up and tossed him into the waves. 

George kissed his jawline, moving to mouth at his neck, sucking and licking and biting and making Matty’s already foggy head spin with desire as he tried to swallow back the sounds desperate to claw their way from his throat. He knew he was loud, that he was vocal with his pleasure, but he didn’t want to break the stillness that had settled over the cove they were nestled in, didn’t want to draw attention to the way he was thickening in his swim shorts, heavy where he was trapped against the hard planes of George’s body. He wanted to stay lost in George’s mouth forever, anything else was too much effort.

George pulled back, mouth slick and swollen, Matty was sure his own lips looked the same. He let out a soft grumbling sound, unamused that George was no longer kissing him within an inch of his life. 

“You should put some sunscreen on your chest,” said George, looking down at Matty, his weight settled over his hips, effectively pinning him to the sand. “You’re looking a little pink.”

“I’m fine,” Matty said, blinking up at George, if George wasn’t going to kiss him, wasn’t going to grind against him, he wanted a cold beer and then to go back to his nap. He was thirty four years old, he wasn’t as desperate for physical attention as he had been in his youth. 

George raked a nail across Matty’s chest, making him gasp with pain while a shiver of arousal worked its way down his back as he struggled to keep his hips from bucking up involuntarily. Maybe he wasn’t as immune to the physical aspect as he had thought. George just smirked, clearly feeling like he had won. He reached over Matty’s shoulder to the backpack that was nestled in the sand by his head, containing their phones and wallets for safe keeping. 

George pulled out a bottle of sunscreen, and poured a generous amount of the thick creamy white lotion into his palm. He rubbed his hands together, distributing the lotion, before placing a hand on either side of Matty’s neck, causing him to take a shuddering breath as he dragged his hands across the column of his throat bringing them together and down over the bump of his clavicle. George’s smirk grew as he massaged the lotion into Matty’s chest, taking care to work it into the ink of his tattoo, skimming his nipples and tickling his sides. Matty was breathing heavily now, trying to seem unaffected even as George purposely shifted his weight, and dug his fingers into Matty’s flank trying to get him wound up, trying to get him to break first. He wished he hadn’t slept through George reapplying sunscreen to his back.

Matty couldn’t take the teasing anymore, he reached up and wrapped a hand around the back of George’s neck, tugging him back down for a kiss, grinding his hips up against George’s own. He could feel George rock hard and leaking against his stomach, the fact that they were rutting against each other like teenagers making his stomach tingle.  

“You awake now?” George asked cheekily, as they panted, breathing into each other's mouths.

Matty didn’t even bother giving him a response.

[themanicgalaxy]

SPN 5X3 Free to be You and Me

huh oh right they're split up

boy I'm curious to see what's gonna happen

huh open on Sam

like yes, protagonist, but

JESSICA

man she hasn't aged

boy it's nice she's remembered tho

poor Sam and the constant violation of his bodily autonomy

see it's shot like that one lucifer thing

Oh simple man, ok wow

O H CUT TO DEAN

I like this one

Great American Loneliness

Dean canonically knows about twilight

goDDAMN THIS IS GOOD THO

OH MY GOD SAME WAY OF DEALING WITH MUSIC AND THE RADIO OMG

Bedlund started it and they all just liked it so much

CAS!! CAS CAS CAS!!

WHEN DID THEY TALK ABOUT IT

SKSKS HE CALLED BOBBY

O H RAPHAEL

teenage mutant ninja angel

OHDFSAO OH MY GOD

“are you flirting with me” “I’m fucking trying to”

IT’S A TROPE IT’S LITERALLY A RELATIONSHIP TROPE

Cas and his complete sincerity vs. Dean and quips :)

K E I T H ?

o h world peace oof

Sam the Slightly Off kid is SO GOOD

CAS THATS NOT A PLAN

AW HE’S TELLING HIM HUMANS LIE AWWWW

HE FIXES HIS TIE

A W W W W W

the president quip also feels pointed at the times

cas *stares*

THE BADGE THING AWWWW

IT’S THE DEMONS- no no it’s not

aww their dynamic is so good I love it

actual humor just by virtue of people oh my god I love castiel

BOBBY YOU SARCASTIC FUCKER

I do like the dichotomy of like…Sam liked hunting the most but has to give it up(established in the office au) like he’s growing into it

he fucking LOOKS ethereal

“you do” jesus cas

“last night on earth” I’m going feral what the fuck was this

NO HE’S FLIRTING HE’S 100% FLIRTING

S H Y C A S

they’re so fucking funny oh my god I’m cackling

BERT AND ERNIE COMMENT W H Y WHAT WAS THE POINT W H Y

listen…I get it…but also…apocalypse

Sam b ru h

although to be entirely fair, he might be more of a liability

aw I like Lindsay although she’s gonna be…dead probably

CASTIEL OH MY G OD

THE GAY PANIC

HE HAS BLUESCREENED SO HARD

HE IS CHUGGING THE BEER

THE FEAR IN HIS FUCKING EYES OH MY G O D

THIS IS FUCKING HILARIOUS OH MY GOD

HE LOOKED HER DEAD IN THE EYE AND BROUGHT UP HER ABSENT FATHER AHAHA

oh we’ve got themes of world weary in one way vs naive in one way and also knowledgable of the Universe vs the whole GED thing that gets brought up in fic and AAA

“years” oh no Dean :(

I do like the wandering archetype for him actually tbh

Aw she’s three years sober

“come and get me you little bastard” damn I LOVE HIM

WHELP IT WORKED!

IMAGERY WAS SO COOL

Also Dean hunches over they’re about the same height now

he deflects so Cas is ok aw

THE COMPOSURE CRACK! THE COMPOSURE CRACK!!!!

“It was his idea” * B I T C H *

gOd iS dEaD anD we have kIllEd Him

ah there we got to the lindsay death :(

the ages old “what do when god is gone, would he let this happen”

oH VERY NICE ABANDONMENT ISSUES WITH DEAN

“just cuz shit’s fucked up doesn’t mean you make it more fucked up” VERY NICE

“godless universe” and yeah it be like that

post office sksks

ooo it being lucifer is a Nice Touch

it’s not true but still cool

MY LITTLE BITCH

WHAT HE SAID AHAHA

ah JEEZ HE GOT FORCEFED THE BLOOD N O

and he does hulk out but like…human hulk out

AW DEAN CHECKED ON CAS

MISSING FATHERSSSS AW

“you gotta do what you believe” AWW

“we’re not so different you and I” type beat AW

Dean being happy without Sam is Ouch but also

it’s different with not being responsible for someone

aw he’s happy

nO CAS COME BACK NOT THAT ALONE

PEOPLE CAN CHANGE IS IMPORTANT MESSAGE

Ah it’s luci

whelp that must have been violating

heh vessel bros

“and I’ll just bring you back” IS H O R R I F Y I N G, and worse, it’s set up

sincere villain is so interesting though damn

okok wrap:

1. straining against budget. listen it’s painfully clear that Supernatural wants to be more than it is. Like the fact that they burn through a lot of really popular songs(budget) at the beginning is like. there’s a vision, and it can’t be reached. Although in some cases that constraint ends up for the better(I think my fav example is Misha’s crazy hair), other times it ends up well. But the idea that it wants to be more than it is? I go Feral, I want to Eat Glass

No wonder this is like the Most Fanficced Show

2. simple man. I really liked the mirroring montage. They lean TOO heavily on the radio gag(have it be a tape, have it be SOMETHING else so it’s not the same thing two episodes in a row) but I thought it was a good time passing/show the dichotomy montage

actually speaking of

3. dichotomy!! like we know from the office ep/season 4 Sam is down to fight(always more like John, always more taken in by revenge and pain and power etc etc), and Dean has been reticent, wants a normal life, in both Yellow Fever and office ep, and they had to do the other things. And “Weirder” still, Dean is happy! like yeah Sam is Burdened, but Dean is happy to just…vibe for the first time in his life

ok see it’s different cuz a younger sibling is still responsibility, it isn’t technically equal, so Dean was never able to relax because John’s an absent father. the younger sibling thing

but their dichotomy here was very good, and I liked the simple man was highlighted. Once again, Sam being miserable in a normal life(like he always prolly would have been) but Dean finding himself way from his family.

3. Sam I REALLY liked the wandering archetype for Sam. Him actually going to figure shit out would be interesting, but they never actually have the time, or leave the time, for people to go through with it and it’s a shame! Weird Kid Sam would be so cool to see around in a story

also sidetone, but once you notice how little agency Sam has like…ever…like wow, this kid never had a choice thanks to destiny, and that SUCKS

slowly getting more on the Sam Hype Train tbh

4. Cas listen. Not only is Cas’s grapple with his absent father cool, he’s genuinely funny to be around! Like him and Dean have a fucking fantastic dynamic, he Acts Different than Humans(thanks Misha Collins holy hell) so it’s incredibly clear something’s off and it’s just

like it’s so good to have a character like that, he’s just so cool.

Also…Dean was flirting. that was flirting. THAT WAS LITERALL-

WHY BRING UP BERT AND ERNIE LIKE THAT UNPROMPTED

THE CONSTANT LOOKING AT HIM

See I thought people were exagerrating! Like even Merlin I can kinda see what they were going for sometimes!

WHAT WAS THIS!? IT WAS SO CLEAR OH MY GOD

5. absent fathers. Ok listen. Dean sympathizing with Cas because of trying to find an absent father(ties into the beginning of the show, dad’s on a hunting trip etc) and giving him hope to find him is SO CUTE! Like Dean giving Cas hope because of similar situations! Cas letting Dean finally relax! GOOD

Also I mentioned it, but their dichotomy of like…I think streetsmarts(Dean) and booksmarts(Ig universesmarts tho, he knows a lot of Weird Things) IS SO INTERESTING and COOL and AHH

ALLONS Y

[redcopperdove]

Upset For No Good REASON

It was my birthday.

Woke at 6:30. 

“whelp, I guess it’s my birthday. Fuck I woke up late.”

Meets up with friend/coworker at their house. She walks out the door and says that they “hate everything”, then they catch themselves adding “everything except you, because it’s your birthday.” 

The day is starting off great. Ready to quit the day and go back to sleep.

7:15 to 1:15 is work. 

Binge listening to podcasts and random music to have the day not pass so slowly. There is only a handful of people at the warehouse, all trying to work and get thru the day. 

It about 30min before we all clock out for the day. My friend tells everyone it’s my birthday and they all sing me happy birthday.

“aww, thanks guys.” I guess that was sweet. Feeling less shitty about it being my birthday. 

Head home after work with my friend and they say “I think we should leave for dinner at 5:30. So Chris have time to relax after work.”

“yeah, that’s fine. I’m excited for dinner. Where are we going?” This is going to be part of the day that I’m going to enjoy. I love trying different foods, especially sweets. 

“A Mexican restaurant. If you want to go somewhere different we can.”

“No, i haven’t had Mexican food in a long bit. I want to see the if the salsa roja is good or not. A good sauce makes you cry and asking for more.”

-----

My dumb brain made an appointment with a new psychiatrist on my birthday for 4pm. 

Please, don’t be shitty. Please don’t be shitty.

The assistant calls 5 minutes before the video call and well my tone changed real quick when I was told that the appoint would be an extra 100 dollars. Was not expecting that considering I thought I already paid for the consultation. 

Fast forward and it’s almost 5. Pissed off and ready to give up. It feels like I’m not being listened to and I’m sounding like a jerk. 

“I would like to focus on my ADD because that seems to be the source of my anxiety. I can’t finish tasks and emotions are hard because they come at me too fast and I can’t seem to sort them out.”

“We should focus on the anxiety first and than sometime later we can go back to the ADD once your anxiety is better managed.”

But how can you focus on one if it’s directly related to the other. Damn her face is so easy to read. Yeah, I get that you don’t agree how my current/primary psychiatrist is doing things. I get that that you don’t think I should be taking certain medication. But, FUCK! i actually can tell you what I’m mad about right now and before I wouldn’t even know how to express that. 

Why, do I feel like I shouldn’t be trusted?

Am i making the wrong choices?

Who should I being listening to?

“Look I’m mad because you are telling one thing and they are teling me another. I am paying for medication that you are telling to stop taking and this appointment was 200+. I’m not upset because about the medication change and the reasoning behind that, I’m upset because it is costing me alot of money and that stresses me out.”

“You have to choose what you want. I would like to see you in two weeks. Its your choice to stop the medication or not.”

I guess I’m going to see them in two weeks. 

----

Dinner was the best thing that could happen.

Like so good that describing the food is not a thing I can do. It reminded me of LA and my friend gave me snacks as my birthday gift. 

For some reason explaining that moment in detail isn’t something I can do, but it made me happy. 

I guess my birthday wasn’t that bad. Who me mad at food and snacks?

----

“Hey, skype call at 8:30 with me and mami?”

“Didn’t we have one yesterday?”

Umm, no we had one on your birthday a day ago.

Oh, right. Yeah, 8:30 is fine.

Okay, see you than.

8:30 and it seems like they forgot.

Called my mom asking if we are still video chatting.

“so...are we stilling doing skype?’

“oh, nena. I forgot. I’ll be ready in a bit.”

Sister is in a bad mood and Mom seems a little bit involved with something else. 

Fuck, this sucks. I don’t want to lead this conversation. 

Mom sings happy birthday and my sister doesn���t. Why does that detail matter so much? Its not that important. 

Awkward small talk and silince. YAY

“okay, well this was fun.”

“you can say stuff too you know.”

yup not in the mood. My mom tries to save the conversation. Is only kinda successful. 

Finally end the call.

---

Tried texting my sister for help about a purchase of something I want. 

She’s still in a bad mood and I’m so done.

What am I doing wrong? Why are the little moments annoying me so much? I’m mad that she didn’t focus on me on my birthday? How fucking stupid.

Crying. 

Feeling like because we already did the video chat, already kinda celebrated on her birthday that it wasn’t something we should do on mine. I know I was in a bad mood, but I wanted that to change with seeing my family. I’m asking to much.

She was stressed and so was I. So why am i expecting her to try to make face to make me happy. So, I’m selfish. Thats cool. 

Cry some more feeling like my choices and wants are useless. That I want things that are not really attainable or is it I get a version of it that I’m not satisfied with. 

Hard to make choices because the consequences might be something thats negative, something I could’t account for.

Hard to want things because it feels like I want too much and I’m not worth the energy. 

----

“Yeah, but you hate your birthday.”

Thats true, but was I really did try not to. it might have seemed like I didn’t try, but I did. 

I think what I want and what I get are sometimes so different that I just get upset that my ideal want wasn’t achieved. 

I should still appreciate what the good moments, even if the annoying moments are invading those thoughts. 

Being upset for no good reason.

It was my birthday. And I’m sad and mad that my sister was upset with her day and couldn’t be happy with me. I’m mad that I can’t seem to know what I want my medication to do. Confused that the things that I want seem to have check-list of worry and doubt so I end up not getting anything. 

Crying in bed, eating Carne Asada Fries, and drinking agua fresca.  

[cloudidiot]

uhhhhh

WHELP, TIME TO GIVE Y’ALL SOME RANDOM FACTS ABOUT ZETA SO YOU DONT HAVE TO READ DEPRESSING STUFF TONIGHT

okay so living up by herself gave her too much free time, so during all that free time she either 1) took a lot of naps or 2) went out into the village to look for doggos that needed some love

she probably took better care of the dogs than she did of herself (she would always feed the doggos)

okay so this might be a little funny, but since she WAS a guy when she was out of her house, some girls from the village would send her love letters and she would always be like “y’all sweet and all but i dont want a relationship with ANYONE right now” (we all know that’s a lie now that she’s an adult)

she would do ANYTHING for 1) Tilith, 2) Dogs/Cats, or 3) free food. except maybe murder....and other things i wont mention

okay i know she is a HUGE IDIOT THAT DOESNT KNOW HOW TO DEAL WITH HER EMOTIONS, she is actually really smart at times

she was really good student (even tho she never thought of herself as a “good” student)

HER COOKING IS HEAVENLY????? LIKE YOU WOULD EAT IT AND BE LIKE “IS THIS REAL OR AM I DREAMING?????”

since she ALWAYS has her hair in a braid, she doesnt really brush it that often. i mean, her braid is just a big mess everywhere and her hair is always sticking out

she doesnt really mind that tho, unless she is bathing, then her hair is an even BIGGER tangled mess

she often looks like she’s looking into space, but she just might be daydreaming most of the time (that’s why Seria often calls her out on that)

she is a HEAVY sleeper. like you would have to slap her 20 times or dump really cold water onto her to wake her up

even if she is a heavy sleeper, she wakes up EARLY in the morning (most likely to just start preparing stuff for the day)

doesnt listen when ANYONE tells her to go back/go home.

the list of people she WILL ignore if the tell her to go back home/to go away: everyone in the entire game

she will kill gods, demons, and other people if the threaten to hurt her friends. if they say anything mean about TILITH, you’re dead on the spot my dude, no one messes with Tilith

Zeta and Seria always have fights about who cares about Tilith more (and Tilith is so happy to see people fighting over her)

she is secretly planning Seria and Tilith’s wedding for whenever Seria proposes to Tilith (we all know they’re gay for each other, they cant hide that fact)

if that ever happens, Zeta will take the spot of both Maid of Honor and Best Man (there is no way of stopping her from doing that)

okay so i know i said that her cooking was heavenly earlier, but dont trust her with fires. no like seriously, just don’t, thats the whole reason as to why she doesn’t really use fire type units

a while back i said that her and Selena act as if they were sisters, it would sometimes get out of hand

Zeta: hey Selena, did you ever notice how much of your dress disappeared when i evolved you into an Omni?

Selena: yeah why????

Zeta: is there a reason behind that or are you trying to impr-

Selena: *freezes Zeta in a block of ice* im sorry what did you say??? i couldn’t hear you.

Selena has most likely froze Zeta about over 100 times by now

Zeta doesn’t realize how half of her team are Light types and the other half are Water types

all she sees are a bunch of pretty ladies/one (1) boy destroying everything in there path

suffers with the fact that she is WAY too lazy to gather Karma and just lets her team go out and get it for her

Big Winged Lady helps her out with her lance training

she wants to get to apoint where she can defeat Grahdens in a 1v1 battle with the lance that she uses

also the only reason she uses a lance is because she thinks swords are overrated

Seria: why aren’t you using a sword???

Zeta: 99% of the people in this world already use a sword, that and i think it’s overrated

she almost always drops the lance on her feet, she’s lucky enough to still even have her feet tbh

if you REALLY want her to do anything (as mentioned before), first ignore the order the list was in, and secondly, tell her that you’ll by her food

y’all what to know why she defeated all of the fallen gods???? she was promised free food. free food = Zeta actually doing something useful

she has a LOT of money and she doesn’t know how she got it

Zeta: *laying in a pile of money* Selena, how did i get all of this money?????? did i do something important?????

Selena: i dont know, why are you asking me? you’re the one with the money

Zeta: yeah, i guess you’re right. oh well i guess i’ll keep it. .....how many dogs do you think i can feed with all of this money????

okay going onto the topic of her wings, they may cause a lot of pain to her, but they are BEAUTIFUL. IT’S LIKE YOU’RE LOOKING INTO THE NIGHT SKY

also the best way to describe how they look like is think of Deva wings and Demon wings mixed together.

also when she uses the wings, her defenses go up to Big Winged Lady defenses, which means it is MUCH MUCH harder to even deal damage to her

but since it causes her too much pain, she can’t really use that power to it’s full extent

as MUCH as she didn’t want to let go of that *magical* necklace of hers, she doesn’t regret letting it go

also she replaced the gender changing magic, to a protection type of magic, you know to keep the person that is wearing it safer in a really tuff situation

as much as everyone is mean to her, she doesn’t really mind it

she cares about all of them as friends either ways because they accepted her as someone capable of doing the things she needs to do

also she tries to not be a jerk to the ones that ARE mean to her, but sometimes she just can’t help but to be rude to them

honestly this is all i’ve got so far

I HOPE THIS IS BETTER THAN HER DEPRESSING PAST

also i just want y’all to know that i can give her a break......at times

I MAY ADD ONTO THIS LATER IF I CAN THINK OF ANYMORE RANDOM FACTS ABOUT HER

[skelimagines]

Uhm if your not busy can you do uf/sf/fs/and ut skelebros reacting to their s/o finally trusting them enough to show them the necklace they were wearing has a hidden reset button over a piece of metal? Like but the button only resets a week back? If thats too many you can take off sf and fs thanks!!

Whelp. {also, we only do one SF/FS type, which is kinda hard to explain} ~Mod Feral

UT Sans

His eye lights are gonna go out. He’s 100% going to almost demand in his question that you don’t ever press it. Ever. He doesn’t care if it only goes back a week and never further. He’s kinda glad to not have to worry about reliving anything anymore, so don’t… don’t take that away from him.

UT Papyrus

First, you’re going to need to explain to him what it is. Then, he’ll actually be more curious than anything. The thought of you being able to go back a week to stop something bad from happening is neat! Have you used it before? Who all have you saved with this power? It’s fascinating, and he’ll want to know more.

UF Sans

Yeah… He’s going to likely try to take and destroy it. He has terrible, terrible memories and experiences related to a reset. Even on the explanation that it only goes back a week, he’ll still want it gone. A lot can happen in a week. He doesn’t need that.

UF Papyrus

He’s not sure what to think of this. The whole idea is surreal to him. He’ll probably want you to prove it to him. Don’t try it; he won’t remember anything about this conversation if you do.

SF Sans

He’s going to want you to use it a little too often. He’s not aware of the fact that he doesn’t even remember the things that happened in the timeline pre-reset, he just knows that you can go back a week. Ergo, something bad happened to him that he wants to correct, no matter how small, he’s telling you to reset. Don’t give him the opportunity.

SF Papyrus

He’s gonna look at it, look at you, and then simply ask that you only use it if absolutely necessary for him, his brother, or your safety. No other time.

[cheesedoodlesurprise]

Dragon Age 2 Rant

Someone brought it up in some random Facebook Group and it got me thinking that I should finally just put it down in words.  

Dragon Age 2 is so horribly underrated that it hurts.  

The game gets so much hate that people didn’t understand what it did right

–BUT let’s get this out of the way fast: The below rant does NOT include the Level Design.  The same 4 locations used over and over.  There is no excuse for that.  It is bad and it should feel bad for it.  However much the points i will make can also be transferred over to this failure as well, that is just warping a point to excuse lazy or rushed design.

The people I have spoken to tend to cite one main example of its failure as a Role Playing Game(barring the above shit level design) and that is simply that it fails due to its action-style gameplay when compared to the original Dragon Age:Origins.  And I understand that.  There’s two radian wheels(unless you have a computer) and you’re running around and there’s not really much Party Maintenance like it had in the original.  It is not what a traditional RPG should be, and the party direction system was not the best(it reminded me way too much of Kingdom Hearts and Donald’s proclivity to use mega-elixers every time he loses one bar of mp unless you jump in there and hit him with the no-no can) especially when you realize that capitalizing on Condition Statuses is a main feature in felling your enemies.  It is just a gross departure from what a Role Playing Game should be, compounded by the fact that this was the Second Installment and it was already deviating so much from the turn based-lite party management norm.

The answer to this is simple.  Think back to the beginning of the game.  What happens?

The Hawke family gets attacked by a big fuck-off dragon and the story immediately cuts to Cassandra giving Varric shit for telling her something as stupid as “A Dragon Appeared” and you see that this whole game is now a narrative work; a retelling of events by someone being interrogated.  

Not just anyone, A FUCKMOTHERING BARD!!!!

Have YOU ever played a tabletop with someone rolling a bard?

You can’t believe a word they say, because the truth is boring and never makes for a good story.  So when asked what they did when separated from the party, instead of ‘Oh, there was a goblin so i stabbed it in the back” you’re told of a daring battle with a Bugbear King, where after felling the horrid beast, you found the princess he was holding prisoner and after releasing her from her bonds, she then had you free her from another trapping: that of virginity.

The point is this: Bards Lie.

If you take nothing else out of not just this long, badly punctuated, rant, take that.  Bards Lie about everything and anything.  It is who they are.  The story is all that matters.  So what is a Bard to do when being tortured by a bunch of Zealots, demanding knowledge on what to expect when they track down and try to kill one of your best friends?

Punch. That. Story. Up!

You make what originally is just a standard-if not slightly above average-fighter look like a whirling dervish of death to any who would cross him.

That’s what makes the story so well, this isn’t just an unreliable narrator, it is THE MOST unreliable of narrators.  One that tells you, right off the bat, that a lot of this never even happened.  You never know what really happened to Hawke and his Band of Merry Murder.  So, yes, the gameplay is a lot more action-oriented and you don’t have nearly as many combat options(especially if you are a mage) but it’s punched up to 11 the whole time because the person conveying the story is giving it all a nice sheen of ‘this is what happens when people cross them.”  You are not watching the Story of Hawke in this game.  You are watching VARRIC’S story of Hawke.

But that only answers the main issue people have with the game.  The change in controls.

What I never got is this: How can you rip on an RPG about its controls?  They are just mechanics, nothing more, and I have to say Bioware games always kinda sucked at their Turn-Based-But-Not-Really Mechanics.  KOTOR had a lot of issues and the crux of it was the clunky interface and squad controls.  I would love to have a party on a set it and forget it mechanic and not having to constantly pause the gameplay to switch over to one of the characters because they chose to not move out of fire.  How is that better than a little bit of AI that will give your party even SOME autonomy?  Because if you wanna talk about immersion, a character who is, in the narrative of the story, talked up as the quickest cutpurse on this continent and can never be caught by anyone but for some reason can not even fathom the idea of moving away from a giant spike pile he can see on the ground and instead walks right through the damn thing and kills himself is example 1:3 under the definition of Ludonarrative Dissonance.

….My point is this: Combat in Traditional RPGs is kinda trash to begin with and the main reason you play them is not combat.  It’s story.  The story is the big pull.  And this game has story falling out its ass.  It suffers in some places, sure, with what you can tell is rushed design and you are pigeon holed in a lot of places.  Case in point:I was a Mage who hated Blood Magic but put a lot of faith in the Apostates, so when every time you choose to help runaway mages and they come back and, whelp, looks like they are Blood Mages now I was so VERY angry at the game.  Livid.  I honestly don’t think people who played Rogues or Warriors and got DEEP into their characters(@meonlyred, I’m looking at you) can really match that level of anger and disappointment in the story of a game.  No matter what I try, these people just kept failing me.  

But that is the point.  I got so invested into this story that I was disappointed in 1s and 0s.  Here I was, trying to change the whole of Kirkwall by action alone: proving that having Magic does not mean you will become a monster(and, yes, i HATED the goddamn teaser trailer because in it, HAWKE USES GODDAMN BLOOD MAGIC JUST BECAUSE THE FUCKING BULL MAN WAS TOO MUCH FOR HIM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) and yet every one I was putting faith and and having others trust my judgement on have been utterly betraying that faith and trust.

Because this land never functioned on the same as me.  I was the outsider.  The Fereldan immigrant, assuming that this world will function the same as the one I left.  Granted the land I left also had a jihadist attitude to my way of life, this new one in Kirkwall had a civil and social structure completely Foreign to me.  There was no way to change the way they viewed the world because I was just one person.  One Outsider, no matter my lineage, who couldn’t change anything.  This land was going to burn itself no matter what I did.  

And that was the point of Varric’s Story.  Hawke wasn’t the cause of the things that doomed Kirkwall.  The Expedition, the one that found the artifact that corrupted everyone?  Hawke just helped with the last leg of its setup.  They would have got it together eventually.  They would have found it.  Bartrand would have found it regardless.  And Anders still would have…. You know what, let’s save that shit til the end because I don’t want to upset myself early.

Anyway…. All of this would have happened no matter what(maybe a few things would have changed slightly, but not by much) Hawke did, but he was still in the middle of it all.  I know a lot of people like their stories to be centered around them, but those can get boring. Let’s use Fallout as an example: The Sole Survivor, wandering the wastes of The Commonwealth? When you spend your first 100 hours farming Duct Tape instead of finding your son, you come out to be an asshat.  But The Courier?  NOPE!  He was just a guy living in this world.  He isn’t the center of any story, really.  He is just a guy out for revenge, but he has no idea where to get it so him wondering around and dealing with random crap isn’t nearly as a disconnect as the game before or after it.  They are really fun and enjoyable protagonists.  Heck, one of my favorite Final Fantasys is 12: the one where you are NOT the main character of the story.  Thats the Sky Pirate and the Princess.  You are just tagging along for the ride, experiencing their story like a good audience surrogate.  

The only reason you are always being thrust into the middle of everything is because the Powers of this Town are throwing you at them.  The Qunari menace?  You are asked(told) to go deal with it, and it all blows up in your face because of someone else.  Hell you even tried to STOP the hellscape to be with Anders(that motherfucker) by being a good person and talking to him.  But nope.  He had his crappy agenda and nothing you could do would stop it.

….you know what, sure let’s talk about it now. That whole ending arc just pissed me off to no end.  There is Anders killing the ONE person in this whole city trying to hold everything together and treated people with even an ounce of trust and faith JUST TO PROVE A POINT THAT SIMPLY BY DOING IT DISPROVED HIS GODDAMN POINT!  

“Mages aren’t evil so I’m going to kill the beacon of peace in this whole shitty city which will lead to EVERY GODDAMN MAGE to just flipping a ‘whelp guess i’m an abomination now, time to murder everyone, weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee blood magic is fuuuuuuuun!’ switch and I guess completely dismantle my entire point.  It’s a good thing Hawke stabbed me for being a fucking idiot” and then you come across the Mages who are holed up to protect themselves but, wouldn’t you know it, their leader turned himself into a Tentacle Death Monster and now you have to kill the one mage who had your back and was a beacon of not being a dickhole.  

All of this just constant “Mages are all evil dicks, lets torch them all’ just upset me so much.  I was playing the entire last part of the game with a giant grimace.  Angry at this whole damn city and making me kill all these people I tried to make better.

Yes, me.  I got so deep into this game(if you read up, I dropped the possessive pronoun a bit when talking about the story) that I was upset that they were betraying MY expectations of them as people.  Not Hawke.  By this time I got way into the game and imprinted.  

No matter what faults it has, in the end its story caused me to become so engrossed with it that even when it took a turn I did not like, I was so invested I was still hooked and responding to it as if it were happening to me.

I know it was a long rant that just sort of cut off, but Anders will do that to me.  Hell, I hated what he did so much, I even tried making a toon to romance him so I could see if there was more dialogue options or how it would shape with him actually having a loving relationship and nope! He still acted the same.  Just pleaded more for me to understand.  

I STILL had to gut him.  I was still so damn pissed off at him I had to kill him even as a character romancing him!

[nothe: wrote this up at work when I was bored so there is a very good chance I have odd stops and idea changes due to the nature of writing something while also having to work  on projects so it may be updated frequently]

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tagged by: @ijustwantyoucaskett-always thank you kers :) 

Name: sierra

Nicknames: mostly cici, coco or cecil (that one is all chelsey)

Zodiac Sign: capricorn yo

Height: 4′11″

Ethnicity: white/american

Favourite Fruit: um there’s alot but proabbly strawberries

Favourite Season: fall

Favourite Book: and then there were none

Favourite Flower: water lily

Favourite Scent: uhhh i love clean and/or fruity/flowery scents but like tbh anything but warm smells like vanilla or cinnamon..

Favourite Animal: hedgehogs!

Coffee, Tea, or Hot Chocolate: tea and iced coffee

Cat or Dog Person: dogs 100%

Favourite Fictional Character: oh damn... im going thru a Jo Wilson and Lexie Grey stint and loving them again right now, along with Sam Morgan 

Dream Trip: um, roadtripping the States with my besties @only-freakin-sunflowers and @unicornshepherdess

Blog Created: uh no fucking clue? i know it was 2013...maybe june? idk...

Number of Followers: currently 1,066 and counting :)

What Do I Post About:my writings and screamkings about fandoms, the stupid things that happen in my life and thats it

Do I Get Asks on a Regular Basis: no and this really should change, where those asks at man?

Aesthetic: visual: anything that is organized or color coded... senses: the smell of freshly baked breads, baked goods or brewed coffee on a cold morning

Favourite Band: lady antebellum 

Fictional Character I’d Date: whelp that’s hard to choose just one lol same with fav fictional character but I guess alex karev because he is a wholesome dude and hes the best

Hogwarts House: im a hufflepuff apperently

I tag: @only-freakin-sunflowers @unicornshepherdess @deadxrosess @regal-misfit @monicaaaaatje @magicalpostface

[broke-ass-twat]

ALLLLLLL THE NUMMBERS

Fuck you.

1. Do you ever doubt the existence of others than you?

When I was younger I sometimes sorta would

2. On a scale of 1-5, how afraid of the dark are you?

Like a 2 on a bad night

3. The person you would never want to meet?

Um. Hitler? Idk anyone who would straight up wanna kill me is pretty much someone I wouldn’t like to encounter

4. What is your favorite word?

Um. I don't believe I have one. Eh maybe

5. If you were a type of tree, what would you be?

This is difficult. A redwood would be cool but I sorta wanna be a Japanese Maple

6. When you looked in the mirror this morning what was the first thing you thought?

I didn’t look in a mirror this morning?

7. What shirt are you wearing?

I’m not wearing one ;)

8. What do you label yourself as?

I don’t really tend to label myself as anything. Perhaps odd

9. Bright room or dark room?

Bright room but with natural sunlight

10. What were you doing at midnight last night?

Talking to my girlfriend I think. If not lazing on a couch

11. Favorite age you’ve been so far?

Like 8 or some shit

12. Who told you they loved you last?

Take a guess

13. Your worst enemy?

Myself

14. What is your current desktop picture?

Typical mountains desktop the comp came with though I have actually changed it twice

15. Do you like someone?

Yah

16. The last song you listened to?

Clip of On Yr Side by Slow Magic

17. You can press a button that will make any one person explode. Who would you blow up?

Oh fuck. Thats hard. Perhaps Mike Pence and just let Trump do dumb shit till he is hopefully thrown out of office.

18. Who would you really like to just punch in the face?

Trump

19. If anyone could be your slave for a day, who would it be and what would they have to do?

A billionaire and all they'd have to do is give me $100 million and then we’d just chill and buy expensive shit (just food and stuff I’m not an ass) until the day is over and then I’d pop a bottle of nice dessert wine (I was thinking champagne but I like dessert wine infinitely more) and thank them for their money and maybe say sorry for sort of stealing it.

20. What is your best physical attribute? (showing said attribute is optional)

Cheek bones I suppose

21. If you were the opposite sex for one day, what would you look like and what would you do?

Slim, Moderate bust, above average ass, above average looks bordering on but not quite hot and I would definitely try and bone and I’d try on a bunch of different outfits in stores.

22. Do you have a secret talent? If yes, what is it?

Um. Probably just folding big pieces of paper into more complicated smaller pieces of paper

23. What is one unique thing you’re afraid of?

I don’t have anything unique I’m afraid of

24. You can only have one kind of sandwich. Every sandwich ingredient known to humankind is at your disposal.

I mean I’d fuck with a nice BLT with mayo and a bit of avocado. Maybe have it on nice toasted garlic bread.

25. You just found $100! How are you going to spend it?

Probably food tbh

26. You just got a free plane ticket to anywhere in the world, but you have to leave immediately. Where are you going to go?

Florence, Italy

27. An angel appears out of Heaven and offers you a lifetime supply of the alcoholic beverage of your choice. “Be brand-specific” it says. Man! What are you gonna say about that? Even if you don’t drink booze there’s something you can figure out… so what’s it gonna be?

Inniskillin Vidal Icewine 2014

28. You discover a beautiful island upon which you may build your own society. You make the rules. What is the first rule you put into place?

Don’t be a fucking dick

29. What is your favorite expletive?

Fuck

30. Your house is on fire, holy shit! You have just enough time to run in there and grab ONE inanimate object. Don’t worry, your loved ones and pets have already made it out safely. So what’s the one thing you’re going to save from that blazing inferno?

My computer

31. You can erase any horrible experience from your past. What will it be?

Ummmmmm. Blacking out on Bourbon street is an experience I didn’t exactly enjoy tbh. Nothing else really comes to mind and this one only does cuz it’s relatively recent.

32. You got kicked out of the country for being a time-traveling heathen who sleeps with celebrities and has super-powers. But check out this cool shit… you can move to anywhere else in the world!

I suppose I’d fuck off to Luxembourg or something (cuz theyre rich)

33. The Celestial Gates Of Beyond have opened, much to your surprise because you didn’t think such a thing existed. Death appears. As it turns out, Death is actually a pretty cool entity, and happens to be in a fantastic mood. Death offers to return the friend/family-member/person/etc. of your choice to the living world. Who will you bring back?

My Chinese Grandfather

34. What was your last dream about?

An incredibly odd sort of house party where I almost broke a guy’s thumb cuz he was petting my head without permission.

35. Are you a good….[insert anything you’d like here]?

????

36. Have you ever been admitted to the hospital?

Annoyingly enough yes .-.

37. Have you ever built a snowman?

Probably

38. What is the color of your socks?

Not wearing any but theyre mostly black

39. What type of music do you like?

Dude I like a lot of fucking music but mainly electronic

40. Do you prefer sunrises or sunsets?

Sunrise

41. What is your favorite milkshake flavor?

Chocolate

42. What football team do you support? (I will answer in terms of American football as well as soccer)

The New York Giants despite the fact that they are admittedly pretty ass

43. Do you have any scars?

I have at least 5 I can think of that are actually major

44. What do you want to be when you graduate?

Be a fucking therapist or psychiatrist

45. If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?

My lack of discipline/self control

46. Are you reliable?

Depends on what you ask me to do but as a friend I am very reliable

47. If you could ask your future self one question, what would it be?

Are you happy?

48. Do you hold grudges?

Like a motherfucker

49. If you could breed two animals together to defy the laws of nature, what new animal would you create?

Cuna (Cow/tuna) or like, a Kogle (Komodo dragon/Eagle) or a Pow (Pig/cow). Obviously two of these are for food curiosity purposes

50. What is the most unusual conversation you’ve ever had?

I’ve definitely had many and I remember none of them

51. Are you a good liar?

Not really

52. How long could you go without talking?

To anyone at all even electronically maybe two days

53. What has been you worst haircut/style?

Bald

54. Have you ever baked your own cake?

I’ve baked at least 7 if I had to guess and definitely actually baked more I think

55. Can you do any accents other than your own?

Not well

56. What do you like on your toast?

Butter

57. What is the last thing you drew a picture of?

No bloody clue

58. What would be you dream car?

Teslas are pretty chill tbh

59. Do you sing in the shower? Or do anything unusual in the shower? Explain.

Sometimes sing in the shower. Don’t do anything else though I do just take really long showers despite actually just taking a shower and not doing anything... extra.

60. Do you believe in aliens?

Not really but sure why not

61. Do you often read your horoscope?

Only if someone tells me to

62. What is your favorite letter of the alphabet?

A for no reason other than I felt like choosing it right now

63. Which is cooler: dinosaurs or dragons?

Dragons duh

64. What do you think about babies?

Fat loud meat sacks

65. Freebie! Ask anything interesting you can think of.

Whelp this obviously wasn't meant for me to answer