#ekky im in love with you

[angelalxx]

Been having this epiphany about how GORGEOUS ekky is 😭 like I cannot stop STARING at him

Like r u KIDDING ME

[ratatatastic]

Complete Chaos: The Cats pick their band members 🎸

matthew: finns (good music taste but the best energy)

kuli: sasha (dj), maffhew (singer to which he refutes and insist hes a hype man), and himself as director/manager because hes bad rhythmically

ekky: maffhew (hype man/lead singer), benny and reino (guitar and drums), forsy (pure eyecandy quite literally just there to take his shirt off 😭😭)

swaggy and benny: sasha (dj), swaggy (singer/guitarist), benny (guitarist), ekky and gadjo (no other role than to look like "bandguys")

reino: also finns lmao (popular choice)

sasha: himself as dj, and swaggy (singer, his karaoke insistence proceeds him)

roddy: forsy (guitar), benny (drums), himself (no role whatsoever lol), reino (second guitar) and sasha (cymbals, girl what kinda band 😭)

mikksy: sasha (dj) just sasha no one else just him actually :)

BONUS: sasha finally revealed his dj name to which last time he staunchly refused to do so and its DJ Layz!!!!

[puckpocketed]

01/04/2024 - SEA @ SJS

smoothest Shark alive Willyek bumps the puck free, speeds into the neutral zone to catch our Goonwag's feed, and protects the puck long enough for everyone to get set up. extended thoughts under the cut!

This will never make a highlight reel but it's inchresting TO ME!!! so, expanding gif by gif:

1. Ekky (SJS #72) gets his body in and uses his reach to interrupt the pass from Ryker Evans (SEA #39), giving our Goonwag (SJS #11) a chance! None of this entire sequence happens without Ekky's play here.

2. Goonwag follows up on the loose puck and starts the rush. He passes it up to Ekky as Shane Wright (SEA #51) is applying pressure on the backcheck - and if you go back you’ll that Ekky was already sprinting deep into the neutral zone to receive the pass...!! he even fumbles it a little but his recovery is so good!! he gets low and extends his whole arm, digs deep and catches up even though he's behind. he WANTS that puck...!!

3. auuuhh.... just really good job keeping the puck safe.. (garth baby also keeping such a tight gap on him..!! love you!!). Ekky, he just is the KING of cutting back in that specific corner of the ice... changes direction and gets the puck on his backhand… he is ALWAYS doing this!! he loves to do this!! also what the hell is his trailing leg doing ..! look at it a few times. whys it whipping back and forth like a boat rudder <3 lol!! HOW does he not fall over even once making this play..?

SIDEBAR okay I don't have gifs or clips on hand so sources: trust me bro BUT often in this exact scenario, he will execute a backwards pass to whoever is standing in the slot. the sharks are somehow 9th overall in the league for behind-the-net passes and I fully believe that stat is on Ekky:

4. So Ekky has cut back here, Evans has peeled off and rotated, Wright is back on and hounding him for the puck...! Ekky almost looks bowlegged here (?) skating to keep his body in position.. the puck is protected between him and the boards. As Brian Dumoulin (SEA #8) pushes him up along the boards he sends off a pass with perfect timing to Bails my perfect metroid bounty hunter (SJS #90)!!

Beyond the gifs, I just like how he absorbed all that pressure. Not that I've watched That Much hockey but ...worse players would've passed the puck much earlier feeling that sort of pressure, turning it over with no one else around them in position to receive it (i have seen this happen!!!).

Ekky is growing so much and he's been thrown into the deep-end with this rebuild... he's the remnants of a past regime, he's the first piece in this new one, and he's not quite the "star-material" that the rebuild and the media and the fans are demanding from him. but. god!!! he's done so well given the circumstances!!!!! he's learning and getting better every game, he's so hungry to win and succeed and he remains determined despite being engulfed in a season worth of losses...!!!

in conclusion nobody cares about the Sharks and no one is paying attention to them. i get that. watching a losing team is hard. but in all of this.. Ekky is sooo fun to watch! I love to see his spinoramas, his zone entries, his schmooves!! i am so charmed by his grittiness and tenacity… he’s just fun no matter what is happening!! ekky im ur biggest fan <3

[losersroom]

(me rereading take it for the team for the nth time) okay but in your research did you happen to come across how the ABBA museum is right near Skansen. there is KARAOKE. there is OPPORTUNITY TO DRESS UP AND DANCE NEXT TO HOLOGRAPHIC ABBA. I feel like Brods could/should be goaded into participating in this in one of his and Brock's future sojourns to the homeland. maybe if Ekky accompanies them. something something how can you say you play for Sweden if you won't do this etc.

(first of all, thank you!! always love to hear that my stuff has reread value)

secondly oh my god that is... a lot. listen i have no proof that brods is an abba fan but he publicly likes taylor swift (sidebar: there's a brock interview clip floating around somewhere where they ask him if he likes tswift and he says basically "she's just alright but if brods asks that answer might be different" and that makes me insane) so. maybe. how can you not like abba.

anyway this is definitely something ekkie is involved in. he finds out that jonas didn't take brock to the abba museum and it's now one of his life's goals to get them there. you GOTTA take the american tourist to the abba museum. what, you took him to see the royal palace instead? lame. waste of time. go sing "take a chance on me" together, it'll be a healing experience. anyway by the next summer or whenever they go jonas is no longer trying to impress brock and feels free to be his silly goofy inner self around him, so they have a great time. or like. maybe during the team trip to sweden in 2023. that international series was depressing, they need to invite some levity into it

actually now im just thinking about them all going to stockholm for a weekend trip or something and ekkie third wheeling the entire time, like that tumblr post about the couple taking their friend on their honeymoon. if anyone asks why ekkie's there brock and jonas are both baffled. why wouldn't he be? it's joel! joel's great!

[sergeifyodorov]

favorite current player from every team?

>:]

BOS - pasta (love hate relationship) (only bruin i can fully embrace when leafs arent playing them tbh)

BUF - i have few strong feelings towards most sabres but i think ras dahlin. because he sucks <3

DET - moris.... alex lyon close second tbh

FLA - sergei bobrovsky. see boston

MTL - slaykovsky (or arber maybe?)

OTT - claude.

TBL - this is a difficult one but my beautiful eyebrowless mother steven stamkos probably numero uno

TOR - auston (virgo)

CAR - seth jarvis, who is great because unlike the deep jock bro attitude that permeates seemingly every other hockey boy, or even the slight self-importance of the various and sundry catholic school types, he possesses the good-natured self-deprecation instincts of a right proper Normal Bitchass Gen Z

CBJ - i am a patrik laine shooter forever and always

NJD - nico. he's hot

NYR - igor because that man is both an elite goaltender AND a man with some of the most beautiful eyes on the planet. sympathies to my fellow only child of divorce artemi panarin also

NYI - barzy...?

PHI - if i didn't say teekay id be rounded up in the streets and shot. good thing it's teekay though

WSH - class of 15 instincts say dylan first overall pick disease and my dick say ovi

ARI - SOOOO hard to choose because i need firmly for alex kerfoot to know that i want him to come back to leafland but also clayton keller is out there... clay. picking clay

CHI - bedsy obviously. eyebrow twins <3

COL - good stick lehky the universe may be committed to making ppl forget about you constantly by making you get injured all the time. but EYE have not forgotten

DAL - wyatt johnston my english classmate <- before you ask. no i have never actually met this man it's a joke about him being my age and torontonian

MIN - flower

NSH - difficult choice... ror and evangelista both delights but juuse saros... juuse saros my beloved

STL - vladik tarasenko. he's still a blue in my HEART ok actual real answer is brayden schenn but i wish the blues tanked for and successfully got celebrini or bedard or something because like. their current Narrative Relevance is being "jordan binnington's team" and that's not a fate any hockey team deserves

WPG - i think we should ask hockey players who the most underrated player in the league is again but we should tell them beforehand if they pick sasha barkov they get pepper sprayed. anyway if im a hockey player in that situation im answering nik ehlers

ANA - that adorable child with the stutter leo carlson

CGY - naz

EDM - connie

LAK - kopi

SJS - it USED to be duke but now we can't have nice things (loving happy family etc) so purely because of various sharks and sharks-adjacent mutuals i have, im taking a hard turn into creaturehood and picking ekky

SEA - who is on this team

VAN - quinnifer always forever no doubt about it

VGK - the spiritual and transgender bond i share with jack eichel cannot be broken

[stanleyoff7th]

tagged by @bsaka7, thank you tetra this was a fun one! if you had a spotify wrapped but for which hockey players you talked about the most, who would be your top 5?

i think i have to be in the top 1% of jonas brodin appreciators worldwide by this point

brock faber. IN MY HEART he and brods are still a set so they come up together a lot. also im love him.

kirill kaprizov. the goat. heart and engine of our team. first hockey player whose jersey i bought. give him everything. at least 45% of my game experience is just shouting "KIRILL!!!!!" at people in the DMs when he does something good (which is often)

"probably marco rossi but not because im a fan of him but because again i like to look at the comparisons for centers on the wild and with kirill lol and his performance on various lines." <- stealing this answer wholesale from tetra because it is probably true for me also

uh. hm. this is making me realize i don't really have a lot of Special Little Guys on this year's incarnation of the wild. past entries would have included zuccy, ekkie, maybe marat at the tail end of last year. actually i'm going to guess ekkie still. swedes <3

i've got the social anxiety. please feel free to do this if you want.

[bbirdy]

thanks to you for replying💕

If we go in medical terms(?) Tyme should have died from those two shots to the chest 😭😭 there is no way the ambulance and den would have arrived so soon I'm afraid.

This series is so good I love it🤲🗣️💖

Would you like a special episode of 4M?

Hahahaha so true !! two shots im sorry he is DEAD😭

i also love this series! i’ve not been this excited about a storyline in a while honestly 💕💕

i’d love a special episode of maybe just some cute moments or some more insight with other characters because i felt a little confused about everyone else whilst watching.

what about you? what would you hope for from a special episode ?

thanks for sending the ask!

- ekkie

🫶🏽🫶🏽🫶🏽🤍

[fortunetellersdilettante]

you gon get alllll my love .. no negotiating

SOS, hún er í dulargervi Það er úlfur í dulargervi Að koma út, koma út, koma út Tam stúlka, það er allt sem þú biður mig um Elskan, þetta er ekkert grín, þetta er lycanthropy Tunglið er vakandi núna, með augun galopin Líkami minn þráir, svo gefðu hungruðum að borða Ég hef helgað mig ykkur mánudaga til mánudaga og föstudaga til föstudaga Að fá ekki næga hefnd eða almennilega hvata til að halda mér við það Mér er farið að líða eins og ég sé bara örlítið misnotuð eins og kaffivél á skrifstofu Svo ég ætla að fara eitthvað notalegt til að fá mér elskhuga og segja ykkur allt um það Það er úlfur í skápnum Opnaðu og losaðu það Það er úlfur í skápnum þínum Hleyptu því út, svo það geti andað Situr hinum megin við bar og starir beint á bráð sína Það gengur vel hingað til, hún mun fá sínu framgengt Næturverur eru ekki svo skynsamar Tunglið er kennarinn minn og ég er nemandi hennar Til að finna einhleypu mennina fékk ég á mig sérstaka ratsjá Og neyðarlína slökkviliðsins, ef ég lendi í vandræðum seinna Ekki að leita að sætum litlum dívó

also importance of timing, annnddddd when i want somethi g i want it now or whenever iwant it also, yallssz can fight for and with me i did my time im readyt o relax and let yallssz take charge now and fututree

[ratatatastic]

the things ekky has done or said that i cant stop thinking about. the 4 minute cut.

[lokorum]

Hi! I really love your art. There's a certain haunting beauty about it. I was wondering how you got started in art and maybe what inspired you. I can't stress enough the hauntingly beautiful aspect of your art. Some pieces terrify me but they're really just so beautiful to look at 😅

hey!!! ahhhh thank you so much for your kind words, anon!! its a relief to know that im not the only one who finds my silly draiwings scary phphp

i've started to draw just like most of the folk i think?? by filling my university notebooks with super funny-looking and super anatomically incorrect sketches of my beloved oc phph i tried to work with oil but zero waste movement quickly got me and since then im drawing digital stuff only.

missing the feeling of paint on your hands face clothes and sometimes eyes tbh but also wow oil is expensive!! Σ(-᷅_-᷄๑)

phphpt my memory is bad. like bad bad. i remember having that burning feeling when i looked at something beautiful and i wanted to like...eat it? make it myself and no one elses? not very practical reply phphp sorry! i also really loved to watch film that i've already mentioned before - macbeth (2015) - its a treat for your eyes and ears trust me!! trailer still giving me a goosebombs!

zdzislaw beksinski live in my head rent free since i was a pre-teen and im 1000% sure i'll die thinking about one of his paintings somewhere at the back of my mind. just look at this! man knew how to use a brush like no one else (´ ˘ `).｡oO ( ♡ )

sigur rós music and video clips are definetelly changed a lot in me. watching ekki múkk and all alright made me choke from tears and be speechless for days!

later in life i accidentaly went on the concert where at night - jambinai was part of the perfomance and their music hypnotized me just like all the moths around were hypnotized by the stage lights. i dont even remember what i was doing! just standing there absolutely still, looking at them playing phphp i probably looked like a creppy stalker (◞ꈍ∇ꈍ)◞⋆**✚⃞

but they make incredibly beautiful and sad music, and their connection song, if i get the meaning of it right, about people with disabilities and it always was important theme for me ♡

from lately discovered sources of inspiration can reccomend little games i found on itch!

2:22 AM, how we know we're alive and NORTH!

they're all pretty short from 20 minutes to 2 hours, but use every minute of their time!

ahhh hope it wasnt too much of an info dump and maybe someone find a familiar name here or discover something new for themselves! thank you again anon for your super cute and nice ask!! and thanks everyone to reading all this mess! have an awesome day!! |´･ｖ･)ﾉ♪

[puckpocketed]

truthfully the sens are mostly my enemy due to the red wings loyalty, i honestly have nothing against most of their guys. unlike the rangers. although most of my enmity towards those guys is for on ice behavior, they seem not that bad off ice. i’m glad you will take care of walman, honestly i’m relieved he at least went to the sharks. i like the sharks. they’ve got a lot of my boys now. wennberg, toffoli, walman. but yeah it’s a bewildering trade, would love to mind read stevie on that one

ouh dw dw i was being lighthearted <3 if our houses are divided so be it!! im friendly with plenty of people who dont like my teams, a side effect of. liking many teams . LMAO. theyre all beating the hell out of each other and so are all my mutuals who are not mutuals... the beaugtiful game.......! (<- guy who watched most of playoffs rooting for whatever was funniest at the time while many on both sides were Losing it) by the by i support any and all undying hatred as long as it's not like, being blasted in the main tags or in the reblog tags of my posts. which is to say, you don't have to qualify a team rivalry to me as long as we, as two people, are copacetic; and u aint like... making me read whatever negative things you have say by going into my teams spaces 👍

on the topic of your guys!! wennberg....!! its kinda weird to see him here after following him on the kraken and grieving his trade at the deadline. hes here on one of my teams but its not quite the same! the tenor of my appreciation is also wildly different, im finding the casual affection i had for him has morphed into an ardent hope he disrupts the san jose swedish mafia hierarchy. been very fun to reframe him in this team context, like im RIDING this high, putting wennberg in a salad spinner, hoping he tortures ekky with stories about his dad (they played together on djurgardens) and unseats him from his throne. Do you ever think about how fans will love the same player in different ways? ive been thinking about it. this reply is getting way too long so, ill stop it there. <3

[incorrectpredators]

a summary of what personalities i give the boys

The Dumb Boys

kevin fiala - the slutty dumb boy. usually flirting with someone else. young, dumb, and full of You Know ;) has been essentially adopted/taken in by kyle turris

juuse saros - not so much dumb as he is clueless. he is like a little baby whom needs someone to tell him what to do essentially adopted/taken in by pekka rinne

ryan johansen - the greasy dumb boy pt 1

craig smith - the greasy dumb boy pt 2

The Fathers

pekka rinne - the most mischievous of “the fathers”, most likely to joke around with and prank his adoptees, still loves taking care of them though, most notable children: juuse saros, eeli tolvanen, miikka salomaki, patrik laine, sebastian aho, mikko rantanen, and Possibly connor brown (based on photographic evidence i have). someone please stop him

kyle turris - the new father. he’s new around here and he has already adopted a child. he’s a little messy with it bc he’s so new to it but is the most organized of the fathers. most notable children: kevin fiala

dan hamhuis - hammer is technically new here, but he really isn’t. he may be just over a month younger than pekka, but is the oldest soul of the fathers. he is wise and the most responsible of the fathers. notable children: none so far, but that may be because he just got back to nashville and is having to take care of Everyone.

The Pretty Boys

roman josi - viewed as the prettiest boy, but is he?, the Dumb pretty boy. he literally admitted he never read a book. thats very concerning to me. he is the residential dumb pretty boy, but kevin fiala is definitely coming for his role. “can we talk? one ten to another?”

pk subban - the answer is no. jos is not the prettiest boy. i love josi but pk just came in and not only took his spot as prettiest defenseman but is also the prettiest player in general. he’s the pretty boy who is just here to have a genuinely good time. he’s also pretty smart, do not doubt him. he is regina george if regina george wasnt white, a girl, and a complete asshole. he is possibly the nicest on the team. “i’m an eleven but continue”

The Cryptids

ryan hartman - hartsy just got here from chicago and he is still a mystery to me. my profile may say filip forsberg is secretly the grunch road monster but hartsy is definitely the most likely to be an actual cryptid. i think it’s possible he’s the goatman. so watch your back shane madej bc hartsy is coming for you.

dan hamhuis - listen, i may not like the fact that we signed him but i do love hammer. im a little disappointed he’s never played for the sharks though, as i really want to call him a hammerhead shark. but hammer is a cryptid, perhaps simply because i have no idea what he’s been up to since he left nashville. how well will he mesh w our d core this year? is he happy he finally got his number five in nashville? does he like beets? i know nothing about him.

frederick gaudreau - i was tempted to put him in the final category of this post but i just couldn’t. freddie hockey is a pretty boy, but he isn’t around enough to be classified With the pretty boys. he’s definitely a cryptid though. who is he? does he like his nickname? does he have any pets? did he ever get his damn locker? these are all questions i may never get the answer to.

The Inbetweeners/Other

note: this is a category that is a combination of players who 1. had traits of at least one category, but not enough to be put in it 2. players who are alone in their own categories and 3. players who technically probably shouldn’t be on this blog, but are

eeli tolvanen - exhibits cryptid traits, but isnt used in that role on here. tends to hang out with the younger guys (juuse and kevin most often) but is a bit of a wildcard. he is usually being flirted with by kevin or being paired of with his “boyfriend” (note that this is a joke blog, i dont actually believe him and the player who will be talked about later on are dating. it’s simply a joke and i tag posts that show hints of any of the players being in a relationship as “rpf” because i know even just the implication can make some ppl uncomfortable) is mostly known for being unskilled in the comforting/emotion side of things (“would a glowstick make you feel better?”) and tends to be a bit blunt or cynical at times, although he might throw around a joke or two if necessary.

filip forsberg - is both a cryptid and a pretty boy, but not enough to be put in those categories. is the meme loving fuck of the jofa line. known for fidget spinners and being put down for chicken (as he’s watching his figure)

viktor arvidsson - could be one of “The Fathers” but he really isn’t. he is just forced to be because JOEY AND FIL DON’T KNOW HOW TO BEHAVE THEMSELVES. but neither does he so it tends to be a big old mess when they’re together.

calle jarnkrok - calle is just tired ok. he’s tired and pretty grumpy. he’s a new dad and he’s surrounded by grown adults who act like children, so cut him some slack please. known for tearing up at a marshmallow rendition of himself and hanging out with ekky

mattias ekholm - ah the swedish elk himself. is also a new father and is usually just too tired to even show up in my quotes. when he does, he’s usually hanging out with calle. 

anthony bitetto - PROBABLY should’ve been in the dumb boys category but im not going back to put him in there. a flat earther? most likely. i really need the colorado avalanche to send colin back please he was the only smart one on the team now tony is lost. also im not entirely sure him and colton sissons are seperate ppl.

colton sissons - is the most normal of the group. but is also lowkey dumb. doing his best i think? i hope? once again im not entirely convinced him and tony are seperate people

colin wilson - one of two players who fall into the  “once a pred always a pred” tag. usually seen trying to help tony understand.... literally anything.... and being mourned by me. i miss him. colorado give him back to me :(

james neal - the other “once a pred always a pred” player. he doesn’t appear often but when he does usually something about hating himself is involved. he’s a greasy boy and used to be the pred’s greaseball but now that he’s gone craig smith has taken his place as Main Greaseball

sebastian aho - isn’t on here a lot, but he’s mentioned from time to time. one of pekka’s kids but their relationship is strained due to aho not being on the preds.

miro heiskanen - the Honorary Pred of the account. he may be a dallas star but he’s a pred in my heart. most commonly used as the goofy sidekick boyfriend of eeli tolvanen, which is taken from a commercial they were in together. i joked about them being forbidden lovers and now its just the role he plays on this account. all posts that (keep in mind, i mean it jokingly) refer to miro and eeli as being boyfriends is tagged with “rpf” so you can blacklist it if the implication of players dating makes you uncomfortable

[pristinepastel]

keep forgetting to update here. if you want to read this thing more reliably, i update it more frequently on ao3! had to change my usually typing style to fit the paragraph limit here. heckin tumblr

Chapter 5: Monologue Before the Storm

Again, I should emphasize how woefully unprepared I am to do this sort of thing. A list of my attributes are as follows:

-5’3” and 98 pounds. I’m literally bone, gristle, and prominent veins.

-Easily winded and not used to physical labor.

-Art student and introverted. I’m not ready to be a leader, I have no experience in politics and I’m barely able to hold eye contact for ten seconds without starting to feel terrible inside.

-Autistic, Anxious, and Depressed. I don’t know if I can keep up with the needs of the world without breaking down and making some sort of miscommunication or mistake, and all the inner circle have their own issues that I’ll have to help them with. I’m 99% sure I won’t be able to deal with that properly without neglecting myself, especially if my stuff didn’t actually come with me. If I don’t have those, I won’t be able stim or take my meds. That would Not end well.

-Lactose intolerant. The smell of cheese makes me nauseous. This probably won’t come into play as much as in the game, I doubt the easter eggs actually exist here, but there’s still a chance and if I encounter that I’m going to scream out of sheer confusion.

I’m not ready for this. I’m not ready for any of this. But that doesn’t matter because Cassandra has already told Leliana to place her men around the temple and I’m being given the scariest pep talk I’ve ever had and I need to breath help.

I come back to myself still staring at the breach and Shiloh rubbing my back. She’s so sweet. I love this kid.

.... These people have no idea I’m twenty one, now that I think about it. Huh. Oh well. Less important. I’m not really a drinker anyway, and even if I was Im pretty sure they don’t have a legal drinking age in Thedas.

I take a deep breath, and turn to face everyone. Jesus, Solas looks grim. And Cassandra. Ok I need to do this. I gulp again, and start to walk mechanically through the temple walkway. Soon, we’re going to here Corypheus. And... past me. Maybe If I pay attention, I can tell if anything’s changed.

“Nú er klukkan á sigri okkar.

Nunc est hora nobis victoriam.”

... Oh wow that sounded kind of cool. I always thought it was weird how he spoke modern fereldan in the game. Turns out he’s using a translation magic of some sort! Intriguing. It’s like a song where they have two tracks using different speakers.

We continue down the side path, and Varric stops short at what we see.

“Þú veist þetta efni er rautt lyrium, umsækjandi.” he says to Cassandra out of the corner of his mouth.

“Ég sé það, Varric.”

“En hvað er það að gera hérna?”

Solas intercedes. “Galdur gæti hafa dregið á lyrium undir musterinu, skemmt það.”

Shiloh pitches in with a question of her own. “Ég var að vonast til að rauða lyrium Hawke fannst eintölu mál. Þú ert að segja smitandi þess?”

“Hins vegar fékk það hér, það er illt. Hvað sem þú gerir, ekki ... snerta það?” Varric trails off, as he watches me hug the wall furthest from the outcropping of red lyrium and shuffle past it like I’m on the edge of a cliff face and terrified of heights. Which, I kind of am on the edge of a cliff, just facing the other way, and I definitely am terrified of falling in any direction but especially towards the corrupted blood of titans.

.... There’s a thought. What if the elder gods made the blight to fight the dragons eons ago and the only reason it spread to the surface was because of the ancient magisters? Thought for another time, avoid the bad thing.

The others finally follow me around the red lyrium to safety- Varric and Shiloh follow my lead with the wall shimmy actually, which is kinda funny to be honest. I’m doing this because I don’t know how it’ll affect a person who’s never been near lyrium or magic before, these two are a bit more prepared and stronger than I am.

When we get far away enough, Varric chuckles and pats me on the back. “Þú hefur góða eðlishvöt, Útlendingur.” Ooh, was that a nickname? I think I got a nickname! I feel happy now. Wonder what it is?

The nice feeling is interrupted by Coryphefuck.

“Haldið fórninni enn. Vertu viss um að spámaðurinn truflar ekki.

Tamen sacra facerent. Et quaedam non facit prophetam interfere.”

Feels like that was a longer line than it was in game. Something’s different?

“Einhver, hjálpa okkur!” That’s Justinia.

I finally take the small drop to the main chamber. The others are confused by what they’re hearing obviously, but I’m keeping my ears focused for the rest of the memory.

“What is this?! Let us go!” Oh shit! That was me!

Suddenly, the vision appears. I see myself restrained with some sort of bindings, watching Justinia be held aloft by the Elder One. I can see myself struggling against it to get free, and trying to get to her. Then, I somehow release myself and run towards the door. Probably to get help. Before I can though, I look back and hesitate.

“I- I’m getting help!! Hold on-!”

“Eftir þeim! Handtaka spámanninn!

Post eos! Capere consilium Prophetae!”

“Oh shi-“ I see a flash- the vision ends.

I was hoping for a bit more to go on, but I guess that will have to do. At least the rest of what happened I can guess at- Corypheus drops the orb, I catch it. But why was I there? How’d I get there? I mean obviously he brought me here somehow, but for what?

Lost in thought, I’m startled when Cassandra grabs my shoulder. I think she’s forgotten the language barrier again.

“Þú varst þar! Hver var þetta? Hvað gerðist við guðdómlega? Hvað erum við að sjá?”

I respond the only way I know how.

“Ahhhhh??” With confused vocalizations and a semi-panicked expression.

“Endurspeglar það sem gerðist hér. Blekið blæs inn í þennan stað.” Solas to the rescue. Good, I’m a little dizzy now.

“Hvað gerum við núna?” asks Shiloh.

“Þessi rift er ekki innsigluð en hún er lokuð, að vísu tímabundið.” He says. “Með merkinu ættum við að vera að sjá til þess að innsigla það rétt og örugglega.”

“Mun það ekki laða andann?” Asks Shiloh.

Cassandra stiffens. Calling out to the soldiers, she yells: “Vertu tilbúinn!”

Solas nods to me, and I gulp. Looking around, I see all the soldiers readying their weapons, and then I look back up at the breach. It’s time then.

Jesus christ in a basket this is not going to be fun.

I take a deep breath, nod, and stretch my marked hand to the rift. It’s resisting a bit more than it was with the others, maybe because this one is already closed. This must be what it feels like to open holes in the veil- Like simultaneously pushing opposing magnets together, and pulling apart velcro.

I’m even being pushed back a bit physically, and need to plant my feet and push forward. I’m used to that at least, the wind in northeast ohio is strong as all hells especially when you weigh as much as a stack of newspapers.

With one final pull-push, I wrench my arm bag and unplug the hole in the air. Like a comet, it rushes out and impacts in the middle of the room-

“Oh. So that’s why it was stuck closed.”

The pride demon was too big for the hole before I pulled them through it. That’s kind of funny, actually.

Only it’s not.

Because it’s a pride demon and it’s laughing ominously at me.

And I now have to survive long enough to defeat it and stitch the hole shut.

Fuck it bucket duck it.

“Núna!!”

———

Translations:

Nú er klukkan á sigri okkar.

Nunc est hora nobis victoriam. - Now is the hour of our victory.

Þú veist þetta efni er rautt lyrium, umsækjandi. - You know this stuff is red lyrium, seeker.

Ég sé það, Varric. - I see it, Varric.

En hvað er það að gera hérna? - But what’s it doing here?

Galdur gæti hafa dregið á lyrium undir musterinu, skemmt það. - Magic could have drawn on lyrium beneath the temple, corrupting it.

Ég var að vonast til að rauða lyrium Hawke fannst eintölu mál. Þú ert að segja smitandi þess? - I had hoped that the red lyrium Hawke found was the only one. You’re saying it’s contagious?

Hins vegar fékk það hér, það er illt. Hvað sem þú gerir, ekki ... snerta það? - However it got here, it’s evil. Whatever you do, don’t... touch it?

Þú hefur góða eðlishvöt, Útlendingur. - You’ve got good instincts, Foreigner.

Haldið fórninni enn. Vertu viss um að spámaðurinn truflar ekki.

Tamen sacra facerent. Et quaedam non facit prophetam interfere. - Keep the sacrifice still. Don’t let the prophet interfere.

Einhver, hjálpa okkur! - Someone, help us!

Eftir þeim! Handtaka spámanninn!

Post eos! Capere consilium Prophetae! - After them! Don’t let the prophet escape!

Þú varst þar! Hver var þetta? Hvað gerðist við guðdómlega? Hvað erum við að sjá? - You were there! Who was that? What happened to the Divine? What are we seeing?

Endurspeglar það sem gerðist hér. Blekið blæs inn í þennan stað. - Echoes of what happened here. The fade bleeds into this place.

Hvað gerum við núna? - What do we do now?

Þessi rift er ekki innsigluð en hún er lokuð, að vísu tímabundið. - This rift is not sealed but it is closed, albeit temporarily.

Með merkinu ættum við að vera að sjá til þess að innsigla það rétt og örugglega. - With the mark, we should be able to seal it properly and safely.

Mun það ekki laða andann? - Won’t that attract spirits?

Vertu tilbúinn! - Stand ready!

Núna!! - Now!!

[diolightful]

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[ratatatastic]

our catmin of course is having their fun and by that i mean try to get everyone in trouble with sasha by putting his face on a golf ball and giving it to them to catalogue their varying levels of fear and enthusiasm at the idea of hitting their captain

Cats Classic | 9.16.24 (x)

[ratatatastic]

"Did you get in trouble for taking the cup into the ocean?" "Yes. Yes." "Did Rodrigues? He took it in there too!" "Did he?" "Yeah!" "Well, I mean, I brought it under the water—looking back..." "What happened?" "You bring silver into the ocean, saltwater—no!" "Oh, I didn't know that." "I haven't slept! How am I supposed to know? Nobody told me the rules!" "You haven't slept!" "Yeah, but you're naughty—" "But hey! If I would've known about it... oh no, I still probably would've done it. Still probably would've done it!" "Dude, who cares! That thing has been abused all through the years!" "No, no! The cup guys understood, the cup keepers understood—they, you know, told me the rules after and I swear to God I didn't know before but, yeah. Great memories! Great pictures!

Cam & Strick Podcast | 8.27.24 (x)

oceangate evolves further the more we talk about it so if youd like to see the other previous developments in concerns to it...

and also because its funny here are some of the times the cup has been held near or above water both salt, fresh and chlorine alike since oceangate in no particular order

and i just think its very clear when oceangate happened because now everyones holding the cup high above the water/near bodies of water and not letting it get dunked

but pre-oceangate the cup was just dunked in maffhews pool hours after they won it (which was before they went to las olas and welp the rest is history)