#i blame this on elves

[wastelandcrown]

i dont think touching foreheads with someone like we are cats would fix me...but it couldn't HURT-

[mittthrawnuruodo]

i like him

[ayrennaranaaldmeri]

Deeply sorry (not really though) to say this but there is no way in hell EA told Bioware to put all the stupid shit they put into their stupid game or interfered to the extent that the game has all these aggressive flaws because EA.

[perenians]

oh merrill...

[butchvamp]

the thing that’s so maddening about this game is that there are good bones here under the mess. all of the characters have so much potential and in some cases it is very obvious that they were watered down during the development process… none of them are allowed to be fully realized in-game. and then there’s the racism,

[pseudohades]

WAITER. I ordered kinky porn without plot. there appear to be themes of religious guilt and repression and trauma and overwhelming, almost reckless trust despite that in here. What do you mean that's how it's made? Can't they just fuck? Can they not just slonk one another silly style like sloppy swag? It's not even kinky yet. This is twelve thousand words; Bard was supposed to be eating elf butthole and Thranduil was supposed to be begging Elbereth for forgiveness about it and losing his religion by now but instead I'm writing about Thranduil's chronic pain and Bard's childhood. Elven cultural Catholicism/sexual mores are tearing this marriage apart because they both have so much horny and very few things they're "allowed" to do with it. Thranduil is being Neurotic As Hell About Wanting Things. Bard is being Weirder about his hands than Thranduil is, somehow. And they're napping. They're napping and having morning cuddles and there isn't even any morning wood humping. In MY porn without plot. Tell the chef he's shit at his job.

[patfr8]

Stick of Truth changes my brain chemistry lmao

[stayatsam]

it's almost impressive how much Dragon Age continuously fucks up its own lore with each consecutive installment

[redbootsindoriath]

Fëanorian Week 2023, Day 5: Curufin (or Celebrimbor, rather)

I have a similar problem with Curufin as I do with Caranthir: he’s just kind of there a lot of the time and kind of the only description of him is that he’s a mini version of Fëanor (and I was already going to be drawing Fëanor).  The one very notable thing he did was be father to Celebrimbor, who did plenty of notable things, including having a striking and vivid death (as opposed to Curufin who just got killed without detail or ceremony during the same battle as the other two C’s).  Therefore Celebrimbor gets to steal his dad’s day of Fëanorian Week.  Sorry, Curufin stans.

[yarpharp]

Okay okay BUT it would have been fascinating if Solas slowly grew his hair back as time went on in Inquisition.

This is probably just a cultural thing that I know, but my culture believes in shaving their head as a grief response. You have lost your loved ones? Lose your hair. And then your hair slowly grows back as the grief passes. Some Natives still observe it. And the Elvhen culture was heavily inspired by Native culture.

The Solas romance implies HEAVILY that Solas was almost convinced to not go through with his plans.

Like... It would have been so wild if your romance with him meant he let his hair grow in. It wouldn't have been exceptionally long, but he would have enough shag you'd have an inkling of what he might have looked like back in his Elvhenan days.

But then Trespasser happens and THE FUCKER SHAVED IT ALL OFF AGAIN. HE WONT LET GO OF HIS GRIEF. HE HAS SHAVED OFF HIS HAIR AND TURNED AWAY FROM YOUR RELATIONSHIP AND IT'S ONE BIG SYMBOL.

Idk it would have slapped. And idk, there also could have been some interesting brief lines of explanation from Solas about head shaving and "the traditions of his little village to the north."

[katarrinskey]

The Queen and her son

Well, what do you know, I'm still obsessed with her. Been painting them while listening to art history lectures. Hope she brings me luck on exam tomorrow

[blujayonthewing]

hey it's been a really long time since I read LotR, are the elves actually taller than men or did everyone cumulatively gaslight each other into deciding that elves are extremely tall for no reason

[nerdsandqueens]

I think Mythal is right.

[theeryn-the-gold]

lotr is funnier if you just think about all unwed elves being the biggest virgins in all of middle earth

[rivilu]

ok you know. the Ellu in dav crossover au is very fun but i am a little bit enchanted by the concept of him AND Rynn at once. Best of both worlds in a sense.

[numbaoneflaya]

This convo w bellara after finding out the old gods were evil CEOS has me so baffled every time like… who da hell wrote this shit