#and you're like uh huh. uh huh. uh huh.

[vimbry-moved]

disclaimer that I don't like the idea of openly assuming things about strangers' identities or their personal lives, especially when you're catching a glimpse of only one part of them they choose to share in the public eye. but it Is very funny when you're reading or watching some interview with a famous person, and they say things that make you do this one comic:

[casualavocados]

Learn from who? Learn from you?

Chen Bowen as CHEN YI & Chiang Tien as AI DI KISEKI: DEAR TO ME (2023)

[brainrotcharacters]

I'm going insane for this old man's voice

[lafaiette]

Gods I feel you I'm only 10 hours in after having received the game as a gift and I REALLY try to like it but it just ... doesn't feel like Dragon Age. Characters know stuff they shouldn't know about, the game keeps talking down to me, nothing I did in the previous games mattered, the tone is completely different, the mature storytelling of the previous games seems to be missing so far & what I heard so far of how the lore and the characters from previous games have been handled is honestly the worst part and breaks my heart. idk even if i wanna finish the game at this point anymore, I'm just kinda ... sad.

I'm so sad and disappointed, too, I remember our conversations, fics, and headcanons about DA! We were so excited and happy, because Inquisition, DA2, and DAO were genuinely well-made and aimed at pleasing the fans, despite their faults.

DATV is a good action game, no doubt about that. The combat is fun, there is a lot to explore and discover, and many locations are beautiful, even though some are terrible to navigate (Dock Town's structure makes no sense). But that's it - it's a good action game with the name "Dragon Age" pasted on it. It doesn't feel like it's part of the series, it constantly treats the player like an idiot, some references to past games and characters are literally hidden in the brief descriptions of the mementos, and there is even a Glossary to make sure the new players don't get frustrated.

Everything is safe and aseptic, cleaned of every deep piece of lore that could have scared new fans into buying or continuing the game. Even the banters lack the depth of the previous games.

A good game company should lure new players in not by rejecting their past entries, but by making them look even more interesting with their sequels.

Bioware wasn't afraid of offering piece of lore after piece of lore in Inquisition - it was a game set in a precise moment, whose prologue was directly tied to the events of the previous game, and new players had to accept this if they decided to buy it and play it. If they liked that premise, all that information and those details, then they were more than welcome - they were encouraged! - to go back, try the older games, and see how it had all started. It was a game made for the fans the company had already managed to win over, not for possible fans who may or may not bring new money in.

In DATV the new players can jump right in after quickly learning who Solas is and what he's trying to do, and old fans are left with an empty shell, with minor references that are supposed to make us feel happy and accomplished peppered here and there, while all our past choices and our favorite characters are forgotten or brought back with a terrible case of amnesia. It's lazy, infuriating, and very sad, and it smells of reboot, because the new devs probably realized they couldn't keep up with the amount of lore and choices the series contain, and they needed to start anew.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

He's the biggest kid here. Large and In Charge.

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[clonerightsagenda]

IDK how they're going to salvage casting Laverne Cox as the mastermind behind a sinister government conspiracy to brainwash your children into having mutilating surgery but I am wondering what the trans experience is like in the Uglies universe. Gender confirmation surgery should be pretty simple given their technology, and pretties get costume surge all the time. Can uglies request gender reassignment as part of their pretty surgery? Or, given that iirc it's mentioned the surgeons ignore most requests anyway, would the surgeons just give them brain damage to make them forget they're trans? I feel like the former, tbh, as one more incentive to keep people desperate for the surgery. Trans positive nightmare surgical brainwashing dystopia. You can get temporary top surgery for a costume party.

[gayofthefae]

Throwback to when they blocked Lucas in the middle of the lingerie store scene and the men in the sauna scene so that being the most scared and quickest to run away was something Mike and Will were in together and being grossed out by the men was something Lucas was in alone 💀 I just remembered that part of the masterdoc/slides

[sillyfudgemonkeys]

Still wild to me that the Avatar team saw a guy write a love story between a stick and a monkey and were like "This is the guy who we need to write Rangshi and Yangvik" and then he ended up making two of the best couples in all of the Avatar-verse TT0TT

[princeofsparkles]

Blatantly reposting this without OP's very self-righteous condescending language that sure would alienate anyone I know who's on the fence!

More than 100 Arizona Palestinian, Arab, Muslim, and progressive Democrats and community leaders have signed a letter making the case for those reluctant to support Kamala Harris against Donald Trump.

More than 100 Arizona Palestinian, Arab, Muslim, and progressive Democrats and community leaders have signed a letter making the case for those reluctant to support Kamala Harris against Donald Trump.

“We know that many in our communities are resistant to vote for Kamala Harris because of the Biden administration’s complicity in the genocide,” the letter, published Thursday night, reads. 

“Some of us have lost many family members in Gaza and Lebanon. We respect those who feel they simply can’t vote for a member of the administration that sent the bombs that may have killed their loved ones,” the letter continued. “As we consider the full situation carefully, however, we conclude that voting for Kamala Harris is the best option for the Palestinian cause and all of our communities.”

The letter describes an “awful situation where only flawed choices are available.”

“In our view, it is crystal clear that allowing the fascist Donald Trump to become President again would be the worst possible outcome for the Palestinian people. A Trump win would be an extreme danger to Muslims in our country, all immigrants, and the American pro-Palestine movement,” the letter states.

You can read the letter in full and add your name to those who have signed.

[magistheir]

i think i'm going to say that after alexius is judged, dorian ends up inheriting a lot of his former mentor's research. he'd deliberately not allowed direct contact with alexius, unless it's a (closely supervised) social call, but he's the best equipped to understand all of alexius' research notes. some of them are helpful, some are just personal notes, but there's quite a bit of theory on time travel and manipulation that dorian isn't sure what to do with.

he spends quite a bit of time studying the notes, completing some of the work, and turning it into a functional school of magic--chronurgy. it's highly experimental. when he's not doing anything else for the inquisition, whether it's research or field work, he's working on refining the magic and his technique, even going so far as to pass his notes over to solas for review before practicing himself.

the results? he adds the following spells to his spellbook, things that only dorian can cast:

haste - able to speed up the actions of his party

slow - slows down up to 10 enemies

reality crunch - a singular target suffers madness as they see infinite alternate timelines

time break - rapidly ages a single target to near death

[masterfuldoodler]

girlbossed too hard.... unless...

[kuromi-hoemie]

something something top shortage but you only let like 5 types of tops exist and call everyone else a bottom

[blackmagictrait]

this isn't gonna win me any friends but I won't pay a dime to see movies made by/starring people who signed the petition to free convicted child rapist roman polanski, and that includes guillermo del toro and wes anderson. you can love their movies all you want but paying to see them puts money in the pocket of people who publicly support rapists going free. 🤷🏾‍♀️

[caluupin]

Father!!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥

[rivilu]

Thorne x Davrin is wonderful for many reasons but one thing I can't stop thinking about is. Do you think. Antoine and Evka might've linked you with him on purpose.

[fishymedic]

Him being very sex positive/shameless (even post arrest, just has some more things to keep in mind like getting to work on time) and also just not overly bothered by nudity. It's really about circumstances+situation and he does his best not to stare/not care unless it's specific undertone circumstances.