#grace anders

[butchvamp]

also it is really funny even with the chantry basically removed from the game it still gets handled with more care and respect than any of the other religions, the fact that you get so many options to comfort the andrastians when it's revealed their maker may not be real, and you can even pray at the temple later with the viper after minrathous is attacked... every character is just assumed andrastian, and if they're not it's always used against them in some way (dalish elves are repeatedly punished in these games simply for being dalish and are depicted as being foolish for wanting to connect with their gods and culture instead of assimilating and "moving on from the past") it's always amused me in that way even when trying to be critical of the chantry, the writers still manage to always grant it and the andrastians so much grace because of their real world bias (white + culturally christian) and the obvious real world inspiration for andrastianism. even with it's absence in veilguard it's still There in more subtle and even insidious ways given that all blame is placed on the evanuris instead.

[germesthegenie]

Did some doodles of the Chicago Wards spending their time out of costume! Because they are still my favs despite not only Wildbow but the fanfic writers forsaking me on more content of them! So guess I’m filling the void myself!

Jokes aside, wanted to do some practice on character designs and a bit of background/foreground and decided to take the opportunity to do some more drawings of these guys. Designs and stuff are I think like 75% canon compliant and 25% headcanon / personal intepretation of the characters

[sky-fire-forever]

I was listening to a YouTube video of Dragon Age: Inquisition party banter and there's a bit with Cole and Varric where Cole describes Isabela cheating at cards while Anders is sulking and feeling angry and I just...

They were friends.

[crewofthecreek]

Jessica's Big Little World - Main Titles Created by Matt Burnett, Tiffany Ford & Ben Levin

Here's the high quality version of the main titles for Jessica's Big Little World. Check out the series when it premieres this fall! Art Direction by Benjamin Anders Composited by W. Scott Forbes Song by Grace Hayes

[aces-to-apples]

Crying and throwing up at the VG crew's reaction and treatment of Spite vs. the KW crew's reaction and treatment of Justice. I love their mean little asses but mean little asses they were...

[stereoversion]

Workaholics 7.02 Weed the People

[mournmage]

Must be said that I was willing to try and give Avaline a fair shake at a friend route mayhaps with my Hawke but the moment I heard her call Isabella a whore while were actively trying to help her with her weird little courtship gestures was the moment that stopped being a concern of mine.

[trevisos]

i think the funniest part of the isabela/allegra/fenris casual sex situation is that fenbela Do start catching feelings at some point and it evolves into a sort of unicorn situation with this couple fucking a bisexual girl but the unicorn started it. this was all allegra’s idea. she becomes a unicorn by association

[lightsbookreviews]

authors tag

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Elena Armas

Natasha Anders

Hannah Bonam-Young

Carian Cole

Mazey Eddings

Nichole Greene

Hannah Grace

Noah Hawley

Ali Hazelwood

Emily Henry

Ana Huang

Avery Keelan

Elle Kennedy

Rina Kent

Christina Lauren

Veronica Lancet

Becka Mack

Alex Michaelides

Meghan March

Eden O'Neill

Kennedy Ryan

Bryan Reardon

L.J. Shen

Sierra Simone

Gemma Weir

Brighton Walsh

Ashley Winstead

Julia Wolf

Mariana Zapata

[breadedsinner]

Like I really do want to lay off and be more chill, I don’t actually hate Anders, he’s fine to me. He does not resonate with me personally but I do see his value.

But it’s really hard to hear how Sebastian is the worst and everything about him should be re written, meanwhile I see posts like “it’s good that Anders is racist, actually,”.

[rosemariecawkwell]

My favourite Sci Fi and Fantasy 2024

[mel-rhodes-place]

MUSLIMS MURDER 12 PEOPLE, BEHEADING THEM WITH MACHETES

Beheadings in DRC are common. In Kinshasa, June 13 (IANS) there were at least 46 people were killed in an attack by militias on a camp for the displaced persons in the eastern region of Congo (https://www.sakshipost.com/news/46-killed-militia-attack-congo-198832) DRC:  Muslims murder 12 people, beheading many with hatchets and machetes “When you meet the unbelievers, strike the necks…” (Qur’an…

[grandwitchbird]

Dragon Age has been doing a really clever thing with its protagonists and the heroic power fantasy that only fully comes together when you look at the series as a whole, so let’s do another ramble. Under a cut to save your dash.

Origins is a traditional RPG power fantasy. It likes to tell you that it’s not by gesturing at Loghain and alluding to unreliable narratives, but what it shows is the power fantasy. No matter what your warden does, they’re the hero. Are you a casual genocide enthusiast? No problem you can still ride off into the sunset looking for a cure. Also hey you have a critical weakness/flaw (the calling) that kind of dooms you or gives you cause to vaguely ride of into the sunset. Very heroic indeed. There’s a layer of textual interest added by the presence of unreliable narratives, but ultimately it’s the hero’s choices that shape and determine the world and story, right down to very gamified relationships. The origins system itself, the fact that your warden could have been anyone, is the actual textual proof that this isn’t all that’s going on. It just only really gets paid off by later games, and that’s pretty important given where this franchise ended up.

—

Enter DA2. Hawke is a champion, not a hero. Hawke fights for those who can’t fight themselves. Hawke can’t save the world. They can’t even save their family or city. It’s a battle of attrition that sees them somehow worse off no matter what. The still-gamified but now more nuanced and challenging relationships become the focus because they’re really all Hawke has. Now the power fantasy is still lurking around the edges. It’s just challenged at every turn. You can free Kirkwall, but Anders is always going to blow up a church.

—

Which brings us to Inquisition. Somehow, you’re both as much of a nobody as Hawke and you’re responsible for more than the Warden. And it’s miserable. The power fantasy is constantly undermined. No matter who your inquisitor was, by the end of the game they’ve been completely subsumed by their role: turns out power has teeth.

In a move that delivers on the unreliable narrative throughline that Origins established and DA2 strengthened, the Inquisitor must play the hero and save the world. It doesn’t matter if your Inquisitor is a kind person doing their best or a racist power-hungry asshole, and that is now a systemic issue within the world itself. The erosion of your character’s personhood is explicit within the text as characters struggle to see you as more than your role and you’re asked to shape the faith of an entire world even if you don’t share that faith. The cost of this erosion is made incredibly literal with Ameridan’s story and then in Trespasser, where the anchor, both cause and symbol of the Inquisitor’s role and power, is killing them. Relationships become somewhat less gamified but more importantly, you’re given an explicit textual mirror in Solas. He’s there to reflect your behavior but also your loss of personhood to a role. It’s essential that he’s the one to save your life at the end of Trespasser. Even if you’ve never shown him a moment’s grace, here is your mirror to see you as a person one last time.

—

And then there’s Rook. Now we play a mirror to Solas, a character who has been the hero, Mythal’s champion, and a man subsumed by his role/s. He’s really the narrative gift that keeps giving.

We walk the dreadwolf’s path this time, and the dreadwolf is a classic tragic hero. He’s stuck in a story where he must save the world and where a critical flaw will always be his downfall. We’re Varric’s second who must step up to champion his cause after the events of the introduction. And we’re barely keeping ourselves together under the burden of leadership. And here is where Veilguard finally delivers everything this franchise ever promised. Because under all that we’re truly just some guy. Just like Solas is just a guy who got stuck in situations he never wanted. His response was to become the hero or play the villain (depending on the story) because that’s easier. But if Rook can truly choose the ‘hard truth’ that the world is never going to “stay fixed” (oh hi Inquisitor… and Hawke… and Warden) and that other people can have better ideas and make hard calls and their own choices? If we don’t have to ‘win’? Rook can reconcile the inevitable tragedies of this kind of story with their very human needs and escape the story altogether. The cost, of course, is the power fantasy.

[explodingchantry]

biased writing is Anders being called crazy several times during dragon age 2, including by a Hawke who romanced him. Biased writing is a Hawke who romanced Anders implying in Inquisition that Anders is a monster, and that those who believe him to be a monster are only partly mistaken. Only partly. That he is complicated in the way he is monstruous. Even a Hawke who romanced Anders. Even a Hawke who supported him.

Biased writing is Cullen being written as a beautiful, charming, big dicked commander in Inquisition. Biased writing is no one - not even Varric, who was there when Cullen said mages were "not people" - commenting on his negative bias against mages, or about him siding with Meredith up until she tried to kill Hawke. He sided with Meredith when she enacted the right of annulment of her own against the Circle of Kirkwall. He was okay with killing innocents because they were mages, and only questioned her because she tried to kill the Champion of Kirkwall. No one mentions that. No one questions it. Instead, people at the Winter palace fawn over him. Instead, he gets invited to wicked grace with the Inquisitor's entourage and is given an extended scene where everyone laughs at how funny he and his stories about being a templar is. Instead, the cunt gets a fucking dog. Even when you're given an option to say "Cullen is boring", what comes out of the Inquisitor's mouth is "Cullen is too dignified".

Meanwhile Varric openly vents about Anders. Meanwhile even Hawke denounces Anders' actions as extreme even when you specifically input them as supportive of his actions in the tapestry.

It's fucking . it drives me insane brother