#dragon age is always there

[you-didnt]

as annual tradition i worked through my likes and put it all in my queue

I made it all the way to April before the queue was full but it was fun to see all the things I've been obsessed with this year

[pickled0ctopus]

my dear comfort zone

[askfordoodles]

Jesus fucking christ, Emmrich 💀💀💀

(continuation of this banter, text-only paraphrasing srry)

[quibbs]

NO questions 🫡. she gets what she wants

[postmanlee514]

Spite did a favor for Lucanis

I love Emmerich talks with Rookanis

[snarkspawn]

he's on a very important Mission*

[arcane-gold]

death • rebirth

[timethehobo]

“Immortality isn’t living. Immortality is everybody else dying.”

[bishicat]

you are as beautiful as the day I lost you

[bingsoo-jung]

my funny controversial veilguard opinion is that while i get why people are saying the 'sexy lof' armor is orientalist and i do think there's a convo to be had there... that armor is also based off of actual clothes people historically wore in southeast asia. like this

is absolutely based off of these

and while these are stylised forms of the outfit it's not because of the skin being shown. the women wearing shirts underneath are not wearing it as thai people wore tabengman historically. because historically we didn't really wear a lot of shirts, shirts were not legally mandated clothes until the 1940s. my thai grandmother is older than that. in fact a lot of asia didn't get around to stigmatizing and sexualizing breasts until the 1800s or later (like you can find photos of korean women in the 1900s with their breasts out and that was fine and normal culturally). the reason these are stylized though is bc they're made of silk and they're wearing brocades. most people would've worn this in plain fabric without gold brocades bc silk and gold are expensive.

and, to be clear, a lot of both the LoF and qunari armors and fashion is based off of historical southeast asian fashion. isabella is straight up wearing a hmong necklace.

the qunari ropes are also almost certainly based off of muay boran kard chuek which is this old way of binding your hands with hemp ropes in thailand for boxing. you can also see that in qunari concept art they've drawn them with intricate knots that are very chinese in origin, they're wearing armor in rattans weaved patterns. (i'll also point out that it was explicitly said in the past that people from east tevinter, which is closer to seheron, look like dorian, and dorian's va is half indo-fijian and half malay. that man belongs to the south pacific.)

and yes, we could have a whole conversation about specifically choosing to look at these armors instead of other southeast asian armors. but i think a lot of people think the armor is based off of western fantasies of belly dancer costumes... which while may have played a part, it's also very clear to me that the devs have used a lot of southeast asian inspiration for seheron, rivain, and part of tevinter.

[corseque]

I automatically sorted the lines of every Dragon Age character from DA: Inquisition and DA: Veilguard into their own text files, and uploaded them to google drive.

Dialogue Separated By Speaker for 1500 Different Dragon Age Characters ↗

This comes with my:

ORGANIZED INQUISITION SCRIPT

ORGANIZED VEILGUARD SCRIPT

If you are confused about a line you've never seen before in your favorite character's file, you can search for it in the full scripts (organized by scene and with speakers labeled) I made, and it will give you the context! It could be a deleted line, it could be something that was cut but they recorded dialogue, it could just be a really rare line! There seem to be many secrets left to find, even about Inquisition after 10 years.

Anyway, feel free to use this for whatever you like. I personally love these kinds of files and think they're great help when writing fanfic to get a character's voice right! I hope you find something interesting.

[mourn-and-watch]

it's so funny how da2 is widely considered to be the disgrace of da games and was also made like in a year or something but it still managed to create one of the most popular characters in the franchise. varric literally became da's in-game official narrator. anders has a wikipedia page with a controversy part highlighted. everyone is talking about solas now and for a good reason but his importance to the lore & plot is literally off the charts and he's also a god. fenris made people go crazy like that while being just a guy from a side optional quest you can accidentally skip

[wardensantoineandevka]

[preztee]

Solavellan this, Rookanis that. Can we please talk about how funny it is that Dorian is an absolute husband guy for a romanced Inquisitor. [Dorian voice] I miss my husband, Rook. I miss him a lot. I'll be back.

[elvyn]

Taash!

[biggay-hatemachine]

This post is soooo real and the decent dlc was a mistake on biowares part because what do you MEAN the dwarves use the fossilized blood of their creator-gods to write their histories with and. What do you MEAN there's a lost culture/religious sect of dwarves in the deep roads so old and isolated that they don't even speak the same language, and have dedicated their lives to the protection of said creator-gods.

And they just never bring this shit up again.