#i also feel this way about dorian
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Do you ever have characters where you're like...I totally love this character...but the fandom loves them too and they have a group of vehement supporters so you don't feel the need to discuss them at all? And you root for these marginalized characters that somehow get loads of hate and you become more fond of them because somehow so few others are?
#i feel this way about gwyn#i love gwyn but she gets so much love from the gwynriels that i don't talk about her very often#gwyneth berdara#i also feel this way about dorian#he's more popular than even rowan (for good reason)#so even though i love him i barely speak of him#dorian havilliard
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Orym is giving very "I have fallen in love again and that feels like a betrayal to my dead husband" energy.
He's also giving "I care so much about my friends and I have to protect them but the love I have for one is so strong that it's distracting me AND it's not fair to the others"
Like there is so much love contained in the Orym and also so much guilt.
#dorym#cr 3#orym of the air ashari#i promise ill watch the campaign eventually#i cant not#but im just sittitng here wildly speculating#because i havent seen them#i miss my boys#dorian storm#i also dont know if orym knows how much he means to everyone?#like i know the crown keepers at least love him so much#and im sure the bells hells adore him just as much or more#and he just seems like he doesnt know#i saw a thing about how sam was crying in cr 1 because he couldnt save liam and like?#the caption was like “liam not realizing anyone was trying ti save him” (or something) and thats just so orym#he doesnt let other people protect him#thats why dorian is so special#dorian has always been focused on orym#whether he knew it or not.#like truly that “orym doesnt know is doruan feels the same way” when thats literally all dorian has been showing him#i thought it was so obvious in exu prime.#more obvious than oryms feelings#and orym is just like “he couldnt possibly”#ORYM OF THE AIR ASHARI YOU ARE LOVED#YOU ARE LOVED SO FUCKING MUCH#okay ill shut up the tags are longer than the post#silver sending stones
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If Dorian ever writes a love ballad about Orym, it will be over for me
#i need it to happen#that blue boy has so much love in his heart#and so many feelings#robbie please#think about it#it would be a great way to let his feelings out#but also because I really liked bertrand’s song#robbie write more songs king#you're super talented#dorian storm#dorym#orym of the air ashari#orym
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There's something weirdly...disingenuous in all the posts questioning why Orym might want to talk to Dorian specifically and not the others. Like, this post is really good and covers the non-romantic reasons why this makes sense, and I agree with it entirely! Also though, it's not like Liam hasn't pretty consistently made it clear that Orym has feelings for Dorian. You do not need to like this (I think it's abundantly clear that I think you can openly dislike a ship) but you do look kinda dumb if you're like "why would he want to specifically speak to someone he's known longer than anyone but Fearne, who's slightly removed from the current tragedy, and whom he has repeatedly messaged whenever he's feeling upset?"
#rosie lmk if you want me to delink your post but it is really good#but yeah like. among other things. worth noting he does this AFTER having a great conversation with imogen#like trust. he is aware that the rest of bells hells are there. he specifically wants to talk to dorian. he did not forget his other option#i have. feelings too long for the tags re both the weird way orym and dorian's past is elided by those who don't do that for others#and also i think orym is such a hotbed for discourse bc he brings a lot of uncomfortable truths about the party/campaign to light#and makes them impossible to ignore by fans who are desperately trying to ignore them#cr tag
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if they Tamlen solas' ass, that might just be IT for me
#weak! lazy!#o hhe's doomed! he's doomed! death flags all around!#GOD FOR ONCE I WOULD LIKE A GOOD FUCKIGN REDEMPTION ARC#ITS BEEN 16 YEARS SINCE ZUKO#do NOT message me about loghain i swear to GOD#i will be SO pissed if nothing the inquisitor/rook does matters wrt solas' fate#like if he dies no matter what#and the ''good option'' is your inquisitor is just?there? so he's not 'alone'?? bc they want a tear jerker#its like okay so alllll my choices in dai and trespasser didnt matter. again.#like i am just praying they use any of the cool shit available in the narrative#we canonically have time travel. we canonically have been able to the cure the blight. like#are u telling me. dorian pavus. mage who co-invented time travel#wouldn't be able to think of another way to remove the veil safely?#bullshit.#i just have this nagging feeling in my gut#that weekes thinks a 'hopeful romance ending' is akin to like. some stupid dr who shit#like i will also fucking throw my keyboard if its like. 2 solas'.#get out of there w that shit#like what if love changed everything? hmm? what then?#and i KNOW they said they're trying to give closure to all the various attitudes towards solas. problem?#i have never and will never trust a goddmn thing any bioware employee says.#tamlen was my first love so you see this is where the problem started
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They sanitized being queer so much in Veilguard and for what. Your Inquisitor still needs to be binary, and god forbid if they transitioned between games. And for what, Cullen and Solas? Girl, dump him and take his gender. It won't fix you but it'll make shit funnier.
IF more than one romance actually mattered id understand it being too complicated to allow for transition, but seriously? only solas gets more than a codex entry afaik, how hard it would have been to have the m inquisitors record voice lines and have gareth david lloyd record alternate versions of like..any gendered lines which i assume there aren't many of. they should have dropped the illusion that romances had content and just done a 'did you romance solas?' toggle that any inquisitor could turn on lol
#ask#anonymous#sanitised really is the word. when ive finished the game maybe ill properly collect my thoughts on it#im just personally a fantasty homo/transphobia enjoyer. i know some people prefer escapism jn fantasy but#i think it's a good and interesting/safe way to explore feelings and dynamics surrounding being queer#and having veilguard be as surface level as it is wrt transphobia just feels like it isnt fully capturing feelings surrounding being trans#relatability isnt everything but how do you make a trans character feel real when they face none of the struggles#the average trans person faces?#ofc. may be a product of being made by middle class-ish canadians in a liberal city but i think it may be due to ea / sensitivity readers#veilguard spoilers#also im mad about the dorian romance because it feels like they dangle it in front of your face. but also no sera or josie????#theyre literally alive no matter your worldstate. they could have so easily thrown a bone to gay and lesbian players lol#bull's whole deal being butchered is another thing let's not even get into it. weekes you CHOSE to do that.#sorry these are tipsy rantings. but. i get my dissertation results back this week and wrote about negative emotion + transness#in fiction so if i get a good result maybe ill be able to write something real about dav#as it is im too scared to properly think about the topic bc im nervousdjwjdjwjej
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Something something the idea of a character all about death and the dead and the fragments of previously living beings spirits. A character who finds passion and care and respect for the end of life and the small bits that remain after life has finished. Someone who finds humanity in someone needing to find their rest and going out of their way to help them get there regardless of gaining nothing. Meanwhile, the antagonist of the game essencially has many of his actions driven by the guilt and regret of in some ways creating death and dying. Because what could be more terrible than nothingness. And how could it ever be forgiven that he created the end of an existence that was supposed to be endless?
#Ahh solas im so sorry buddy#He didn't create death but his actions let to not only the extinction of the original version of his race but also#As a consequens of the fade seoerated death by time and natural causes#Emmerich is such a kind necromancer who unlike Dorian doesn't really use the spirits the same way it's seems#The little bits of book stuff I read about him was absolutely heartwarming#Basically he and others bury two seoerated corpses together as one fo them pleaded of not finding piece without the other and#They were supposed to be burried together#Emmerich doesn't care for titles he just seems to care for people and he seems to find some reverence in being a Mourn watcher#It's such an interesting thing in a game all about guilt which I feel like connects much to death.#Solas line in the trailer and his reaction to Varric being nine years older ah.#If I remember correctly Emmerich can speak to the dead#So there seems to be something#I wonder#Dragon age 4#The Veilguard
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i've just been thinking about how many times this group has been forced to change shape. seeing the differences at the table shot by shot really made it sink in for me.
#named themselves after someone they knew for a few days.#always include the one who got pulled away after barely a week.#three of them dead. one made to choose who to bring back seconds after being brought back themselves.#split from the person they've been traveling with for months or longer.#feeling totally normal about it all#also i cheated w dorian and didnt do the episode immediately after he left but the way they all deflated in ep 59 still gets me#long post#so many pictures because i still havent made myself sit down and learn how to make gifs. someday. maybe.#k watches cr3#critical role#bell's hells
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Okay cool so this is was me all of this and last week fretting years off my life about the episode and I guess it's gonna be me next week fretting years off my life about next episode coolcoolcoolcool
#critical role#critical role spoilers#cr spoilers#c3e90#cr3#cr3 spoilers#bell's hells#I mean we know it was gonna be tense and chaotic but we have multiple episodes of this tension and chaos? I only have so little sanity#but yeah now I got more days to fret about it in different ways so thanks Matt I guess?#god what is ep100 gonna be like? I kinda want Dorian to return for 100 but at this point who knows? Maybe sooner? Maybe later?#what are we even gonna talk about on this month's 4SD? Like what do we pick?#we need off the moon asap now only Chetney's been having a decent time here giving toys to people#Liliana is pissed and on the warpath and I feel we ain't healed enough or levelled enough for this!#also I'm gonna need a clip of Fearne and Ashton hugging for Callowmoore reasons and all the fanart we can get#Ira did at least save Fearne before bolting which was nice even if we didn't get to kill Athion and steal his dragon for her (yet)#but 'don't let me float away'? Clutch at my rapidly beating heart why don't ya?#we all agree though that this should be the permanent table format right? The Imodna and Callowmoore roleplay demands physical contact!#I need to lie down but I also need to work because office hours freaking time zones and all...
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I‘m currently rereading the ToG series by listening to it as an audiobook and right now I’m on CoM and I have a confession to make : I don’t trust anyone who did not kinda ship chaol and celaena (at least in the beginning). Their relationship and development together in the first two books is just everything. And he was the first person to feel like home to her!! And Chaol who built his life around friendship, loyalty and a very specific set of morals and beliefs is questioning all of that because of Celaena!! Like you don’t even have to ship them to admit that their relationship is so well written and tragic. They just make me feel some kinda way.
Also I now understand why in the original story Dorian and Celaena did end up together. Since even now there is some kind of foreshadowing for that, a connection between them and them ending up together would just have been the perfect full circle moment. Like ToG and CoM are so underrated as books, when they are so important and you get to see how everything gets put into motion. The character development for our main trio in these two books alone is mind blowing. Also the importance of Nehemia!!! I just can’t.
#throne of glass#crown of midnight#celeana sardothien#chaol westfall#dorian havilliard#com is actually my favourite book in the series#I just feel some kinda way about the original trio and their friendship#also feel some kind of way about how sjm seems to forget about their friendship in later books
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have i mentioned i finished The Path We Walk here yet?
#critical role fic#this may not be the ideal way to announce it but i enjoy the meme#anyway if u like the crown keepers and were curious how#they got from the end of exu prime#to orym dorian and fearne leaving for marquet#this is the fic for u#featuring dariax being an oblivious himbo with confusing feelings for dorian#opal wrestling with wanting to go home but being soso scared all the time#cursed-by-the-spider-queen dorian (he is having a bad time at the jungle)#fearne honestly straight up vibing mostly#and a very slow burn 'orym tells everybody about will' with (i've been told) a very satisfying emotional payoff#also tetrarch umejii (aabria if ur seeing this. i see ur blorbo who u never got to show us and i have stolen her)#(she's my blorbo now.)#like 98% canon compliant im sure i missed a couple of tiny things#and extrapolated a hell of a lot more#anyway. i worked so fucking hard on this fic and it's really good#if you've ever enjoyed any of my writing and u care abt the crown keepers or even just the exu trio at all#u will enjoy it
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daewen has gone from getting cassandra's low approval cutscene to a begrudging form of respect forming between the two 🥺
#daewen has slowly tamed herself a little (a LITTLE) and is more willing to consider the perspectives of others#and while this doesn't salvage her relationships with viv and sera#it does with cass + dorian + iron bull#she finally sees them as just trying to grapple with the faiths/homes/attachments they have#and - IMPORTANTLY - doing so in a way that she approves of (which is where she still can't get accept viv/sera)#this is also helped by daewen being completely shaken by blackwall's revelation and shifting cass into her main party#'at least I know who cassandra IS.' she says bitterly#anyway we're feeling emo about daewen and her growth post-haven lately#daewen lavellan#jessica plays dragon age
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Rewatching Absolution and hope cast crops up in future games 🥲 I would love Qwydion to be a companion eventually 🥺 also the plot is interesting and ends on a cliffhanger so I hope it has some sort of follow-up in Veilguard 👀
#le whiny text post#also didn't catch that Lacklon was a Lord of Fortune my first watch either so hopefully he crops up 👀👀👀👀#also very sad about Fairbanks he was so charming 😭😭😭😭#the animation is just so pretty too dhdkdhdjdbdjdhdh#also Tassia is a very interestingly positioned character#has potential companion material but as far as story goes she feels like she would fall somewhere within Dorian and Maeveris' attention#maybe not to the degree of abolishing slavery bc she doesn't seem too pressed about that??? but she is against blood magic#could be a long stretch of development#and she's also a templar in Tevinter. really interesting#I'd love to see the others too bc Roland and Lacklon are funny cute#and Miriam is a very interesting character#but idk somewhere down the line Qwydion and Tassia maybe companion material one day?????#I hope the Absolution plotline crops up in Veilguard the way The Masked Empire did. I do want a follow-up of that but idk if#they would drag it all back to Kirkwall just for Meridith/if they would give her enough time to idk get mobile#last I checked she was rocks#also belatedly realizing Hira upholds tradition of Mages Who Lie to the Protagonist#it's always a mage and it's always an apostate
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Has anyone ever asked you what your favorite books are? I am always so curious what you read because I love what you write :)
okay a) tysm!!!!! and b) i dont know if ive been asked before but i can give a list of my favourites for you!!
my number 1 flips between the picture of dorian gray and stephen king's the stand. dorian gray shaped who i am as a human being and i 100% would not be who i am today had i not read that book as a teen, but the stand is objectively The Book of my life and i don't think anything will ever usurp it. it is the most perfect deep dive into humanity and the ways in which goodness can and will prevail over everything so long as we don't lose sight of what is important: OTHER HUMANS!!!! it is So incredibly moving and not really (imo) horror in the overtly gore-horror way.
other favourites (just based on my bookshelf to my side):
middlemarch, for obvious reasons. a little life (i am a little life defender tho i know it's a very controversial one!). john halifax, gentleman by dinah mulock craik (one of the best classics i have EVER read - imo a queer-coded book about lifelong friendship!!!!!). we are the ants (heavy and fucked me up for a while). private peaceful (incredible childrens/early teens book about ww1). the song of achilles (duh).
also other stephen king favourites (because he's a league of his own lol):
11/22/63 (a book we all should read), IT, the green mile, the long walk!!!!
#these violent delights is very much probably on this list as well but i need more time to process it#but it made me feel the way that dorian gray and middlemarch did so its definitely a favourite#i also have the secret history on my favourites shelf as well as TSITP so that really says all you need to know about my reading habits#ask
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“I don’t think it’s silly at all,” he smiled, delighted to know that she had enjoyed the show (even if it was simply the orchestra) as much as he had, as well as admiring her desire to see what he and the rest of the audience saw during a performance. “It’s wonderful to watch-I-I would enjoy watching an opera with you, were we ever afforded that chance.”
What with her being the leading lady now (and would hopefully be the leading lady in many, many productions to come; he had a feeling her future as the opera’s star was within reach), the opportunity for both Randall and Emily to sit down and watch a show together seemed not quite in the cards at the moment (not unless Emily could be in two places at once), but he still liked to imagine that, someday, she would be afforded that chance. Under what circumstances he did not know, but it was a day he liked to think was possible.
And what a day that would be! The two of them, seated in Box Five together, watching and enjoying the show in their own private box in their evening best...perhaps he would see about getting them some fancy chocolates to enjoy during the show, or something to drink (he wasn’t a fan of any of the alcohols available in the café; he’d tasted a few out of curiosity and decided very quickly that they were not for him, instead favoring sparkling, non-alcoholic ciders and the like instead)…she would have the best seat in the house, and he would have the best company...
(He wished most of all, however, that Emily could see what he saw on opening night, when she made her grand debut: He wished he could see how magical she would be onstage, how she would wow the audience with her beautiful voice and emotional performance...she could see how amazing she really, truly was, how gifted she was as a performer!)
“What opera would you most like to see?” Randall asked her curiously, brows raising in interest behind the mask.
#((you make a great point; and i agree! i don't think that randall would be nearly as enamored as he is here))#((were he to have a normal; more stable upbringing; but i also feel like he'd still be very keen on music))#((enough to want to pursue a career in it-i see wilhelm as being fairly musical himself; as he plays the harpsichord))#((and so it just gets me thinking about that fondness for music rubbing off on randall and inspiring him! it might not be the same passion))#((as he has here in this 'verse but i feel like; in a kinder world; he'd still love music; enough to seek out the opera))#((and meet emily as a result!))#((as for his face...i'm not sure! obviously june and wilhelm would work hard to make randall feel confident in himself))#((and not let anyone get him down because of how he looks; but i could see him wearing something when out in public))#((maybe some sort of prosthetics a'la that one-shot we did; where he devised a makeup/prosthetics to wear))#((so that he could go out with emily and the twins? i'm just spitballin' but maybe that'd be his workaround!))#((and true; it is kinda funny! but honestly emily will ALWAYS bring out the pace's parental sides; regardless of how old she is))#((or what she is! vampire? yup! siren? yup!))#((...actually now i'm thinking about little emily meeting little randall at gracey manor when june was working there))#((and june feeling just as maternal towards her as she does towards dorian!))#((don't know if that's an au we would ever do but it just popped into my head and i just imagine little randall being smitten))#((with little emily; just the way little dorian is smitten with little elizabeth!))#outofhatboxes#beatingheart-bride#V:Phantasm of the Mansion
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What's your favorite bird 👀
This is a difficult question… my favourite living birds are the Hooded Pitohui and Luzon Bleeding Heart. Actually, some scientist by the name of Alderson began breeding them here only a year or so ago!
But you asked about my favourite bird and I think the answer to that is the Dodo. Yes, I’m aware that they’re extinct— hyperaware, even. They were such kind birds! Kind birds who loved their flock members, and all they got for it was ridicule! When they got caught in traps they cried out, and their flock members came running to help— and the hunters thought that made them stupid! But they weren’t, they just wanted to help!
#dorian gray answers#<3#so sorry… I didn’t meant to get so worked up about this#I just wish they were still around is all#(mod note; hey. hey Dorian. do you think there’s a reason why you feel so strongly about a creature that has a reputation for being dumb—)#(—but actually isn’t?)#(also guys I’m so sorry but I needed to write about dodos and now Dorian is the way I will do it)#(consider this an extra deleted section of That One Chapter)#(events in 1893 being referred to as ‘a few years ago’ yet theres also phones. I apologize to anyone who thought timelines exist here)#(hello scribe!!)
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