#how the fuck do you even pronounce that???

[flamsparks]

Can we talk about tattoos?

In Veilguard. For context.

First shock after actually opening the game came already in the character creator.

Choose your species

Go directly to customisation

Choice of the background comes later

Q: How does the game know which tattoos I can wear and which I can't? A: ... I didn't understand the question?

I had decided long before the game release to play, given the chance, a city elf from Tevinter. I had specifically decided not to go for a Dalish origin to roll-play a different kind of relation with the game's villain(s?).

But of course, the game didn't care that I was no Dalish. I could choose to wear vallaslins, because! Dorian said that the Dalish always kept well away from Tevinter, but apparently I had found a way to get a vallaslin nonetheless.

So, the character creator allows me to choose my looks, regardless of my background. But I had chosen my species before. That will limit the choice some, right?

I chose to be an elf? What's stopping me from wearing a vitaar? Or the mark of a casteless? Or that of an important family from Orzammar? Not the game, that's for sure. Because apparently vallaslins and dwarven tattoos are given away these days. And then they have the Lords of Fortune make cheap statements about "cultural appropriation = bad".

But you know what? I’d take it. I’d take the appropriation this possibility clearly is, if it came with consequences.

I wear dwarven tattoos as an elf? Let the dwarves of Kal-Sharok despise me for this. Did I know the tattoos on my face have a meaning? Did I know at all they are dwarven tattoos? Give me reactions and make me understand I fucked up and see what I can do fix it. If I want to.

And what about the vallaslins? The symbol of slavery to the Evanuris? Made with blood? The wasted potential of using ancient elven symbols made with blood, linked to specific Evanuris! Think if they were used for blood magic to control the elves who had unknowingly bound themselves to a powerful and ruthless mage who can and will take control of anyone wearing the blood pattern they had carefully devised to turn their then slaves into puppets!

And instead... is the word "vallaslin" even pronounced in the game? Like, ever? Let alone mentions of it being a symbol of slavery - Maker prevent us from using the s-word in the whole game.

[ratatatastic]

maffhew who refuses to say runebergin torttu because he knows hes gonna butcher it so bad he might be kicked out of the country the second he tries and staunchly avoids that by going "the one dessert that barky is going to have to explain 😃"

sasha who gets faced with the most generic description of everything hes ever eaten in his life so far because of maffhew and going "???... oh you mean runebergin torttu!"

"he did good he liked the food and he likes the finland so far so its good" sasha says with so much pride now that all the anxiety has left his system that his husband teammate is enjoying his country and doesnt hate it

media availability | 10.29.24 (x)(x)

the smile of a man who knowlingly doomed his husband and said husband using all his brain power to context clues his way to whatever the fuck he just got asked that his brain is running hotter than a mid 2012 macbook air thats somehow still alive in the year of the lord 2024 but girl does she chug along shes louder than a fighter jet

[the-trans-man-with-no-plan]

priests are kinda weird because who tf says "you" like "husband and wife" smh

[falling-feels-like-flying]

just learnt to differentiate Chiron and Charon in pjo and am now being rained down with praetoria principalis probatio Penthesilea Periclymenus in HoO. Gonna cry myself to sleep coz wtf

[karineverse]

wait crap i misread 'utmv" as "utdr" aaaaaaaa

Swatch and Seam are from Deltarune.

Uhhhhhhh 3rd times the charm draw Bowser /j

Could you draw Grilby maybe?

Lmfao this is so fucking funny- But I'll just draw already cuz you suffered too much 💔

I tried so hard not to accidentally draw Suco...

[camellcat]

you ever realize you never properly learned how to say a character's name, so by the time you finally HEAR it, you have no idea who they're talking about? cause I feel like I keep doing this and it's very confusing to keep being corrected like that

[bishonenspit]

sorry i do think that if you are a youtuber who speaks in depth on japanese pop culture and web media et cetera you should figure out how to pronounce names and places and words correctly

[tamaharu]

the thing abt toothless and hiccup is that toothless is just as obsessed with hiccup as hiccup is with toothless. if their roles were reversed toothless would also have drawings of hiccup above his bed.

[bidokja]

okay i know i said yeseo is dense but manages to make it endearing. but over 130 chapters in with him still being this like...not even dense really its more like he's refusing to learn or change his biased preconceptions about cedric, now im starting to wanna strangle him a bit.

[jackredfieldwasmyjacob]

my worst enemy are catalan words that end in -ny. i simply cannot seem to properly pronounce them i'm afraid :(

[nostalgia-tblr]

For anyone keeping track (no one), I have started watching the first Avengers film (MCU not the 60s TV show) but only while eating lunch so it's gonna take a while. So far Nick Fury has been assembling the Avengers (the film was initially released in the UK as Avengers Assemble - because of that 60s TV show - but it's not called that on D+ so I'm calling it what the Americans called it, just FYI) even though there's not yet anything for them to avenge as That Suit Guy (j/k I know his name too!!) isn't dead yet, and now they're on THE FUCKING VALIANT FROM DR WHO and I assume we're gonna continue assembling for a while as they're not all there yet.

MEANWHILE Loki (who is neither an alligator nor a woman in this???) is in a SECRET UNDERGROUND LAIR with a bunch of his stans who are... idk something technobabble that involves irridium and anti-protons. He is there looking for the tesseract on behalf of ???? who I know will be revealed 47 films from now as... no, wait, it wasn't, was it? That was just announced on a website or something? So it could be LITERALLY ANYONE. The Avengers (in-progress) also seem to be after that thing, but I have already forgotten why everyone is wanting it, assuming it was mentioned (it probably was).

Thor hasn't shown up yet, but Arrows Hawkeye is working as a Loki Stan and there's Steve Rogers and THE HULK and The Only Woman One, whose power is that she's a Cold War assassin (??) and I think this one is the film where she gets called a cunt (!) and honestly I am not sure which of the men she's getting officially shipped with, I think Arrows Hawkeye though? Fairly sure, as the alternative is that a man and a woman like each other as people but not in a lusty way, which would never happen obviously. (Hey I may ship mostly het* pairings but I don't always like it!)

Based on the Valiant (if u don't know who she is get da hell out of here!) I am guessing that the film ends with Loki dying in Thor's arms romantically but then I remembered that I know it can't because one of Loki got kidnapped from... either the end of this film or the start of the next one or POSSIBLY just from a later film's time-travel bit (???) but like... maybe they've edited this film secretly and I was right after all? But nobody else has watched it on Disney + recently so nobody knows yet? IT COULD HAPPEN.

Not sure what to make of this film so far, a lot's been going on yet also not much has been going on, and the one I like best so far (Suit Guy) is gonna die (NOT EVEN IN THOR'S ARMS ROMANTICALLY) and god Iron Man really hasn't aged well now that we have that one tech billionaire being a twat in public all the time to remind us what such people tend to be like. WHERE IS THOR????

*I say het but everyone in everything is bisexual, I know this because I thought of it and announced it on tumblr and will now say "I don't make the rules" to make it an objective FACT. I don't make the rules!!!

[www-jungwon]

enpen / eyepen devoured 💀 enhypen who

like who is enhypen ? i only know

[harbingerofwhump]

Also hot take but making fun of and mocking people for not knowing the Correct Pronunciation of something --- regardless of how "easy" it should be, or what language it's from/commonly used in, or if it 'follows the rules', etc. --- is uhhhh shitty!

[undyinglantern]

when you’re so shit at Spanish that it literally doesn’t even occur to you how to pronounce this word until looking at the wiki 👍🏼

[majorshatterandhare]

Apparently my brain really hates when names have A, U, and R in them, because without fail, every time I go to type Arthur my brain wants to spell it “Aurthur” or perhaps “Aurthr” and every time I go to type Marius my brain wants to type “Mauris” or maybe “Maurius” or maybe “Maurias” its unclear because I *usually* notice my mistake by the end because it’s clear to me those ending are wrong. Brain just really wants “AUR” together.

[camellcat]

hey guys. whouffaldi. what the fuck