#i'm cool either way : )

[freedomfireflies]

remember when u were gonna write a f*sting blurb for infinite you

HAHAH OH MY GOSH YES!!!! That's so funny, I honestly didn't even remember 😭😭😭

........do we actually want that bc...........it can be added to the list

[defygrav1ty]

🌷 @paralyziingfears (dan); continued.

it was funny: serena had lived in new york her entire life, and yet, she'd never imagined there'd be a whole new world waiting for her in brooklyn. dan might be the one that most often recognized herself as an outsider, but, right now? standing amidst humble decorations, listening to cheesy christmas songs, surrounded by the warmth and love of the holidays she'd always heard of, but never actually lived first-hand?

serena was the happiest fish out of water alive.

the blonde takes the garland with a smile as luminous as the colorful christmas lights, ready to follow dan's movements as she playfully responded, ❝ well, you heard it here first, humphrey: i'm a uno virgin. ❞ she was content with just helping out and having an excuse to spend time with dan ― serena wasn't expecting to extend her stay past his initial invite. or the thrill in her heart at the possibility. ❝ that'd be great, i'd love to! i doubt my mom will even notice i'm gone anyway ― are you sure rufus is okay with sharing his secret chilli outside the family, though? ❞

[somnimagus]

My page for @sheikahzine; about Impaz's duty to her village, empty of people and full of memories.

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[domirine]

ever seen a man so beautiful you ram your bike into his flowers?

my full piece for the retrouvailles zine! i had a lot of fun painting it. hope you enjoy looking at the lil details, plants, and the only character who has his shit together (the dog)

[lizzybeeee]

DATV explaining the 'Regret Prison'

A REGRET PRISON IS STUPID AND I'M TIRED OF PRETENDING THAT ITS NOT

TL;DR: a prison can serve as a metaphor but it shouldn't be entirely comprised of a metaphor.

From what I understood from what the game gave us: Solas has made a new prison to move the God's too - since bringing down the veil would free them from the Black City. This new prison is separate(?) from the fade or so far removed/contained that bringing down the veil would not compromise it...apparently. We interrupt his ritual, Solas gets sucked into the new prison he made, and the elven gods are free.

When Rook gets kicked into the fade they're physically there - which means it's a physical place in the fade, like how it was a mixture of physical/thought when we entered it in DAI. Which makes sense - the gods are real and living beings, they need to be in a place, there must be some aspect of physicality to it.

Alright, cool, it's a Black City 2.0 - I assume it's better defended to prevent people breaking in/out again?

NOPE.

We get there and it's a 'regret prison'?? It's tied to the regrets of those within it? Composed of regrets??? Solas had to wait for the right moment for Rook to be sufficiently 'full of regret' that they could switch places?

So is the prison tied to Solas's regrets? If so, how can Rook escape? The prison seems to work around the idea that it relies on the regrets of the person it's holding to work - which is how/why Rook was able to be trapped and later free themselves (along with whatever remains of the team apparently being able to do something on their end, not that we hear about it).

WHICH IS STUPID!

Are you telling me the prison intended to hold to megalomaniac elven gods was going to imprison them based on their own regrets? Is Solas assuming that Elgar'nan and Ghilan'nain are as self-pitying as he is? They'd break out quicker than Rook did! He made a time out corner for the elven gods to sit in and gave them an out if they reflected on their emotions/regrets or decided that they don't regret what they did. Elgar'nan, a spirit of tyranny, is not going to 'regret' his actions - he is going to justify them by telling himself and others that he knows what's best.

We can come across some of Solas's regrets in the prison if you run around a bit and explore:

Remnant of Failure - talking about the orb from Inquisition.

Remnant of Parting - talking about Mythal

Remnant of Reflection - more vague, talking about the Titans I believe.

So maybe he altered it - maybe he intended the prison to be 'locked' with his own regrets because after a millennia of having a pity party he still can't bring himself to self-reflect and look to the future. But what if Solas died? Or if his guilt lessened - would it diminish the strength of the regret prison?

We already have pre-established lore (though DATV has shown they don't really give a crap tbh) that once the being that has claimed/altered an area of the fade is slain, it's influence diminishes both in and outside of the fade. So if the prison was tied to his regrets then it would require Solas to basically live forever to keep it stable - especially if he brought down the veil and removed the one barrier that kept the world and the fade apart.

Rook and Solas needed some assistance to exit - but it doesn't seem like it was much! Solas used his dagger and Rook just...got out through a fade tear? This is Solas's 'more secure' second prison? It has a worse track record than the Black City! If Rook - who is not an elven god - managed to escape the regret prison what is to stop anyone else from breaking in and out of the prison?

And what did Solas intend to do with the blight - the bulk of which is apparently in the black city?? If bringing down the Veil would free the gods in the black city doesn't that mean that the blight would also be released?! Did he have a plan? Why does he go fully ahead with bringing down the veil at the end if the black city is still there and filled with blight?!

I get it: the 'regret prison' is a metaphor for how Solas holds onto the past and how Rook can move past their regrets and grow. He's trapped by the past - it's a prison. Cool. But this prison is supposed to by a physical place to contain the gods - not just to solely contain Solas. The mission is literally called 'A Cage for Gods'.

The Black City is an actual place that's so far out of reach of anywhere else in the fade that no mage can ever reach it while in dreams - let alone physically, which was only done once and took tremendous effort/blood sacrifices. It made sense - it was cool to see floating in the sky in DAO!

Though it's not said specifically, it's strongly implied that Arlathan is the Black City. You can see in the concept art that floating elven city is exactly the same as the black city in DAO! It's this foreboding thing just lurking in the sky - a constant reminder of the sin that led to the horrors of the blights and darkspawn. A real place with lore and history that also serves as a metaphor for the hubris and destruction of those who call themselves gods and act as tyrants -> for both the evanuris and the magisters.

I WANT TO UNDERSTAND THIS BIOWARE!

WHAT IS THIS KINGDOM HEARTS NONSENSE???!!

[mangosaurus]

sketch request for @unnecessary-dinosaurs! she asked for brooklynn teaching darius how to skateboard 🛹 aftermath down below 👇

[joyfuladorable]

An Abundance of Angels (I'm so hyped for Tales Angel, she's already so important to me)

[canisalbus]

The Hawaiian language doesn't attach gender to pronouns, but it does have a complex set of relational pronouns, so you can use a particular pronoun to note for example "all of us (except for that guy)"

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[iirulancorrino]

The Green brothers are doing effective altruism better than maybe 95% of people who identify online as effective altruists.

[phierie]

Cypher stuff

[deoidesign]

Well here's an Art vs artist meme with some art from this year!

I don't think I've ever done one of these before, but I really like this jacket. It's a marlboro jacket but I don't smoke and I already feel bad telling people I don't have a light and that will be bad x100 when I'm literally wearing a cigarette jacket so I tried to cover the patch up with one I made. cause I really like this jacket

[ingo-ingoing-ingone]

If y'all haven't seen, there's a bit of beta info for submas from the leaks going on rn!

I can't guarantee they're 100% real but I figured it would be fun to share them anyways!

Putting them under a cut in case people don't wanna see, but it contains a beta sprite for each of them and a twitter thread explaining that apparently the battle subway was a pain to code and had some wild glitches during beta.

Beta sprites! Originally they had red ties and hat badges, and open mouths

And the twitter thread! I'm putting screenshots of it for people who don't use twitter

Thread courtesy of @/Submassived on twitter

(The last post in the thread was just one saying they'll continue to look at the files soon)

[fivewholeminutes]

As much as i adore vessel's current get up and tbh, wouldn't like him to change anything, if we do actually get something deer themed, especially deer skull themed, i will become ungovernable

[angryducktimemachine]

Would love to add the quote here but I only have the German version at hand. Anyway, canon event of Holmes climbing on Watsons shoulders my beloved.

[ID: a digital drawing of Holmes and Watson. They're standing by a wall with a window and Holmes is halfway up on climbing Watsons shoulders, with one leg on Watsons hands and the other on his shoulder. /End ID]

[restinsodaroni]

There's a trailer for Secret of the Mimic!! 👏🏻👀✨ I can't wait! It looks so cool!!

I'm still holding onto the belief we're gonna see Sun and Moon again in this game since there's a lot of evidence of them being older than we thought and plus all the sun and moon imagery in that recent HW2 update lol.

The chances are very slim, but who knows haha!

[t-errifier]

sending anon hate to people & then admitting you did it - acting like you still have the moral high ground? brooo, go outside. i don't understand the mindset, i really don't.