#faith is beautiful actually

[grandwitchbird]

Cassandra Pentaghast. We meet her first because she’s actually the beating heart of Inquisition. Her inability to do anything but face the truth head on makes her a foil to… just about everyone. She forms the inquisition. She stands beside the Inquisitor as their shield. When the inquisitor worries that she blames them or judges them for an impossible decision, she’s quick to reassure even if she doesn’t agree with their choices. She reads the story at the end.

Cassandra is a true believer, a woman of faith. The kind of faith that requires you to actively and honestly struggle with yourself and with your god. She’s a shield not just against the world but against the Inquisitor losing themselves in the title. She offers grace when they can’t offer it to themselves. She never loses sight of the Inquisitor as a person and she fully believes them to be the herald of Andraste. She accepts an Inquisitor who does not believe as she does, acknowledging that it troubles her, and she never stops believing. She accepts every challenge to the history she knew, and she works hard to change without once losing sight of what matters to her. She doesn’t need to be right. She has faith.

[whimsys-malevolent-brainrot]

Blindfaith my beloved…

Inspiration: The fall by Allen Stephens Foster

(edit: i flipped all the images so john’s hand is on arthur’s left 😭)

[wistfulwatcher]

in an era where every show without record-breaking ratings gets axed immediately, i would just like to say how deeply grateful i am that crazy ex-girlfriend managed to air for four whole seasons and tell one of the most beautiful and moving stories of self-acceptance and love i've ever seen.

i just finished rewatching it (yet again) and every time i do i just think what an absolute shame it would have been if it had been cancelled after one or two (or even three) seasons. because, while it was clever and fun from the beginning, rebecca's mental state required the show to be so boy-crazy that it was a little tough to believe that the show would end up seeing the story through to where we eventually end up. the audience certainly got hints as to its final message early on ("love doesn't need to be a person, it can be a passion"). but because rebecca was rejecting those messages, the audience sort of had to, too. and if the show had been cancelled while rebecca was obsessed with josh? certain that her only path to happiness was romantic love and validation from a man? if we had never seen her truly understand and acknowledge ghost!akopian's words? i'm sure there would have been articles speculating on where the series could have ended up, acknowledging with resigned tones that the show had potential, with the seeds that had been planted.

but god, discussion of "the potential" of the show would have paled in comparison to what we got. because hot damn, did cxg end up doing character growth better than the vast majority of other series. (and not just for rebecca! almost every character in the large ensemble got to grow in a very organic, subversive, and meaningful way!) for a show that was consistently in danger because of their extremely low ratings, it was pretty ballsy of cxg not to rush through rebecca's story to prove its intention. for them to let rebecca be as frustrating and unlikable and unhealthy as she was for so many episodes, simply because they knew how necessary it was to show us the depth of rebecca's mistakes and struggles before she finally sought help and began to heal and grow. and the story was so, so much better and poignant for it. rebecca's season four growth feels very earned, and her end of series resolution to pursue her passion (her true love!) is so satisfying because it feels realistic. the audience has spent four years seeing her love for theater (and how it got tangled up in josh/the idea of romantic love) and when rebecca eventually realizes the same it's such a satisfying sense of finally.

it's an experience that has become painfully rare lately; too many series feel as though they're trying to cram as much into the first season as they can for fear of cancellation, and allowing no room for characters or relationships or story to grow naturally. they don't allow for anything other than the bare minimum plot. their characters can't breathe.

cxg didn't do that. they continued to tell the story they were telling, at the pace at which it needed to be told. and the series was truly phenomenal because of that choice. because of that trust in its own story and characters. cxg is a perfect example of what television can be, how powerful it can be, when it's allowed to be treated like the long-form storytelling medium it is. and i am so grateful for that.

[yashley]

Say something true!

[gurggggleburgle]

People complaining their skinzun is pregnant with new skittens again and it's like gurl 🙄 he's a skinzun. He's supposed to be fat and pregnant. Like yes, you have a skinjiu, and they usually lack the same intrinsic motherly instinct, but like, bruh, I guarantee He's also ovulating and going out at night when you're not looking. He's just eating the babies before you see them.

It's like a thing. And no it's not immoral. Skinjius will give birth to nonsentient balls of meat 9/10 and then eat them back for nutrition. It sounds more gross than it is.

Just let your skinzun be fat and ready to pop a new litter ok. Stop judging. It's literally healthy for them.

And if you're going to be one of those guys whose like but I didn't even get to keep the skinhe! He was gone hours after being born. Dude, the pillar told skinzun to carry him to his place in the world. He's fine. Like I understand that outside the neighbinghood creatures aren't divinely placed by a pillar of flesh for some reason but seriously man get with the program.

Are you even drinking your allotted skinzun milk for ascension?

[camellcat]

I love spuffy as much as the next guy but ohhh my gawddd I really kinda wish it had been buffy wil and xand to finish the fight. they started it together, and while they've always had outside help, I just think it would've been so good if each of them had their own big important parts to play since this was the last we get to see of them

[juniperhillpatient]

I’m gonna be so for real right now I really genuinely think my favorite brand of “ship” has always been & will always be the kind that’s always building & never stops because it’s not like they could ever be endgame but it’s also not like they could ever stop caring. Like. I can think of many tv shows even just off the top of my head that lost any & all appeal once my otp got together. Like the best relationships in fiction are always gonna be in a constant state of friendship slash “hey was that romantic?” slash drama or discord & conflict slash “platonic love isn’t a downgrade” slash “buuuuuut…. Still. maybe just maybe it is romantic after all” slash “if they ever actually become a couple & get happy & stable I’ll be immediately bored I don’t even exactly want that also it’s so unrealistic & would never happen” like. Give me that insanity before giving me a stable romance any day of the week babey

[zhansww]

[pandoricpies]

You wanna know something funny

SSE casually trying to recruit its (majority being minors, mind you) players to create fan music and submit it to be used in game.

Ha ha because they fired all their freelance artists and now want to exploit their fans for free ha ha good joke SSE…

…. it’s a joke right?

Oh- n-no, o-ok

[ephemeraltea]

murderbot manages to be the Absolute Unit of imposter syndrome, which is funny in the most horrible way from its perspective, because it deliberately does not want to be perceived as a person, even though that's completely what it is. it's a grumpy, autistic, tv show-binging person.

[sinnettini]

are you catholic? i wouldn't have said so

anon 😭😭 i'm not trying to make fun of you and i'm taking this as a compliment actually but i don't know how to tell you this... i'm literally italian 😭

but seriously, i've grown up catholic yeah, but i don't believe in god and haven't taken part in anything religious in many years. i would say i'm like culturally catholic tho. and technically still catholic to the eyes of the church bc baptism and all that

[sachermorte]

Have you ever thought about looking into BPD?

ye gods it's my ex on anon in my inbox. telling me I have Beautiful Prince Disorder. don't you have a mountain to climb uphill both ways to work

[kingshai69]

i need ppl to leave the whole aqun-athlok term behind as a gotcha to discredit taashs story bcs they're missing the pointttttt. just like how some nb ppl consider themself trans n use that label, as well as nb, n some dont, taash clearly dont feel like its a label that describes them.

i know the literal translation of aqun-athlok is "one who is born as one gender but lives like another" which yes i guess could be interpreted as any other gender, but from my understanding of the qun n how jobs/roles r very binary n gender associated, for taash that would just mean they would have the social role/gender of a man instead of a woman.

screenshot from the wiki of how aqun-athlok isnt rlly equal to our term of transgender or non-binary, as its also used to refer to women in the antaam since the role of a soldier is male, socially under the qun, the soldier in question would then be recognized n treated as a man. i know not everyone has played origins, but we literally went over this w sten n a female warden n how he doesnt understand that she is both a warrior n a woman, bcs under the qun she would not be considered a woman anymore, but a warrior, n therefore a man (i dont remember the exact phrasing it has been years since i played it last, but i recall it going something like that)

anyway, that is ... not how taash feels. maybe its phrased different depending on ur rook, my rook is nb as well, but this is how the conversation went w my rook.

like i dont see them talking abt how they wanna be seen as a man instead of a woman, i see them saying that they dont feel like theyre either

shathann isnt evil bcs she doesnt understand, she is clearly trying to understand taash through her own lens, n she clearly loves her child n shes trying in the way that she knows of. its just not what taashs means or what they need, n considering their entire relationship w her, they understandably get upset. like theyre not upset just bcs of this one thing, have none of u ever had ur frustration build up until u reached a limit? especially w a parent?

also there isnt a "right" way to be non-binary. i dont relate to most of their journey but it doesnt make it a bad one, just a different one from mine.

anyway this is just my thoughts as a nb person who love taash n can see parts of my own experiences in taashs story as well as parts of my own mom in shathann

[larriescompass]

(reblog to reach more people💗)

[natewallace]

Just finished Buffy the Vampire Slayer for the first time and let me tell you --

[mobius-m-mobius]

OWEN WILSON as CARL NARGLE in Paint (2023)