#i point you again to the dragons

[thereweredragonshere]

Listen there are a lot of things that piss me off about the hidden world (it's general existence being the main one) but the whole notion of 'Hiccup gave Toothless his freedom'

????

HUH

WAY TO MISS THE ENTIRE POINT OF THE FRANCHISE??? WHAT??? WHAT DO YOU MEAN??? HAVE YOU WATCHED GIFT OF THE NIGHT FURY??? HELLO???

And no hate to any thw enjoyers, everyone has an opinion. My opinion just so happens to be that it sucked and should be put to death (I will say the animation was amazing, if not a bit too polished)

[magicandmundane]

idk if this is anything but I feel like it’s so important that Callum’s first two dark magic spells were breaking chains on himself and a dragon, and the third one was to imprison an elf and it was the spell to give him a white streak but he didn’t even finish it

[taamlok]

people are already unironically saying that every sacked bioware employee should go work for larian and then larian should buy dragon age aisdghjk girl after the trauma of the veilguard development timeline the last thing any of those people need is to work for larian

[chiropteracupola]

"Are you finished with my portrait yet? Show me!" "Cipacton, I can't draw you if you keep moving!"

[whomstsnek]

Back by popular demand, the lovely Ms. Stiletta~

(@donethatbeforelong this one's for you <3)

[inquisimail]

guess who's playing inquisition again to prepare for veilguard. lol

[emmavakarian-theirin]

in todays "it's probably not that deep but--" lucanis post:

i'm gonna start this with a bold statement:

lucanis doesn't think about rook (much).

hear me out. in inner demons, when you are in his mind, we see these ideas of how he thinks he's perceived by everyone, and how he perceives people; family, contracts, enemies. all these people are conjured in his mind, in this prison he's yet to escape. his own mind is as dangerous as he is.

when you find him, he immediately asks "what are you doing here, rook?"

he immediately knows it's you. it's not an idea of you, not a trick or the mind, it's you. "rook can't be here." and with romance specific dialogue, he says "you should go. it's better i stay here than risk losing you."

so does he want rook out of his head to stop himself from coming up with reasons to keep rook away from him entirely? is he afraid the longer rook stays and learns his mind, the more rook will fear/distrust him?

and with that, does he then do his absolute best to just not think about rook when they're not around? not just because of the demon inside him, but himself? the culmination of the training and contracts and backstabbing and torture he's endured, leaving him to think he's too broken and messy and professional for friends or anything more? as a man that has little left to lose and is afraid to do so, he's just as - if not more - afraid to gain?

that rook is the one solid and neutral ground he has and therefore doesn't want them involved in a tortured mind? and that, if romanced, that's half the reason why there's an almost kiss because he panics, "i need to clear my head"?

and then tearstone island happens, and rook is gone for weeks. they're not around anymore. the only way to see rook is to imagine them, think about them. and all lucanis can think about is how he'll never see rook again. rook's lost despite his efforts.

at that point, what's left to lose but himself?

[violentdelightshavevioletends]

What if the fact Jesinia is the one writing the books and all these (concerningly “recovered” letters that are found and put in) isn’t actually a foretelling of a tragic future but a promise of one; one where history is written correctly, something that would only occur if they won the war…

What if… this is properly recorded history (which Violet would give letters for and want) and legends of the first or at least great heroics of dragon riders and this war. … So, even if they aren’t alive at the time of whomever gets all these, it could just be thousands of years later; after they lived a long happy life together… maybe this is just the history, the story, the legend and not some doomsday clock for our favorite characters.

[lunarharp]

played dragon age 2...just simple scribbles

[invinciblerodent]

well, that felt.....

worse.

that felt distinctly worse.

at least when I saved Minrathous as a Shadow Dragon, I had Lucanis to direct my character's anger onto (in the "I saved my home; where the fuck does he get off blaming me for making the exact decision he would have made" sort of way), but Neve and the Viper both being more tired and understanding, rather than pissed, and them diffusing even Tarquin's accusations to protect Rook.... that honestly makes me feel like a thousand times shittier than angrily/guiltily blasting through the Blight boils in the canals (with Lucanis nowhere in sight) did.

........... upside, at least my boy looked positively dashing the whole way through, and he got to yell at Solas again, that's at least something

[peachcat14]

truly the best moments in veilguard are the smallest and most hidden things. like what do you mean you can only defeat Despair Undying by bringing it flowers that managed to grow in blighted lands. what do you mean that small tangible sign of hope causes it to turn back to Hope Unyielding. i can't fucking do this

[scribeofmorpheus]

do you know what? no, i do not understand. no, i have no benefits left for the doubts. no, i will not adhere to voices of reason. i will rage. i will riot. and i deserve a moment of selfishness--you, have not, in fact, lived up to expectations, and i will not make any more excuses. i am entitled to this disappointment.

[chiropteracupola]

Martín Macuilmazatl, a young gentleman of the Ciudad de México.

[wanderingibon]

the viago-crow rook dynamic makes me crazy i fear!!! the found family!!!! the layers!!! the care of it all!!!! the 'i am afraid of losing my protégé who I've come to regard as family but I don't exactly know how to convey that so I have to be stern toward them, remind them not to abandon their contract, so they aren't eaten up by the antivan crows like I know the organization can do and has done time and time again' i am literally rambling rn but i could write a whole essay i fear

[vulpinesaint]

kind of unfortunate that so many fantasy epics are also war novels because i will be honest i just do not like war novels that much... the grand clashing of forces is compelling obviously but it requires characters to talk about so much practical battle strategy and while i can get my brain to comprehend all these fantasy maps and kingdoms and borders and battalions and front lines and army movements it takes up. so much space in the book. feels like i'm fighting a war of my own trying to get through it sometimes

[burningblake]

solas cannot break up with you if you never talk to him after the temple of mythal