#if he was playing a game. and was hungry

[beebopurr]

I heart daydreaming (but evily)

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

All he knows is flirt with men and lie.

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[vaguely-concerned]

tiny animation detail from this scene I really like: rook glances towards the locations of lucanis and bellara's rooms (and possibly where they're most likely to be found in this moment?) respectively when they deliver this line!

(honestly I expect that lucanis is hanging out somewhere other than the pantry during this to give everyone in this unfolding catastrophe some space, but consider: it's so much funnier if he IS sitting in the pantry hearing this all go down on the other side of the wall like

taash stomps in with thunder and trepidation in their eyes like 'hey. I need vegetables. can we make vegetables happen.' and lucanis already handing them a lettuce and tomato like i gotchu fam this is literally the only thing I know how to do for you in this situation go with the maker and these salad ingredients I resignedly already know you'll just put on a plate with no dressing no spices no nothing. just the most sleep deprived caffeinated to the point of vibrating gently in place awkward-yet-painfully-well-meaning man in the world standing there before his friend about to have one of the most difficult conversations of their life like '...can I offer you a turnip in these trying times' while rye desperately treads social water out in the dining room to buy time. amazing. our lives really all do touch each other. headcanon passionately embraced)

[biscuit-munchies]

I'm on my stupid shit again people ;; Had an idea of a Harpy Jimmy Z cause bro NEEDS a creature power suit. How he got like that is Chris and Martin (mainly Martin) wanted Jimmy to get used to the creature power suits seeing he's the only one that doesn't really have one. Jimmy isn't all too keen on getting his own suit right away, so they use Martin's as a test. Chris shows him the basics of proper use of the CPS and which disks to use and what exactly to touch to activate (using chris' animal bits collection or whatever he calls it). They probably start off with 'easy' animals (like songbirds or small mammals) and Jimmy starts getting used to it, maybe even a bit more confident.

So these idiots boys keep cycling through different animals probably faster than the CPS is used to until BANG! The suit malfunctions! (as suits do) and Jimmy comes out as a mashup of different kinds of birds! (mainly a Harpy Eagle (hah), a heron, a vulture, and a hummingbird). Martin is amazed, Chris is like "huh?", and Jimmy is like "?????? WHAT THE FUCK????" and so hijinx ensues, or whatever

[k-kaez]

thank you to pearl for getting joel smallishbeans playing hungry hermits on live, its all ive been wanting

[lizzybeeee]

The Lucanis vs Illario story would have had greater emotional depth/intrigue if the writers didn't water down how fucked up the Crows are as an organization.

Just some thoughts about how, out of all the side villains, Illario had some great potential to be a really interesting/tragic character in my opinion.

TL;DR: Zevran Aranai has a knife with Caterina's name on it for good reason and Lucanis/Illario need therapy...or whatever the Thedas equivalent is called...talking to Rook, I dunno

Going into DATV as a new player, or even as a returning one, the whitewashing of the Crows has a lot of the potential complexities of that life simply ignored or barely touched upon. The entire 'Illario vs Lucanis' boils down to: Illario seething in the shadows about Lucanis being the 'best boy'™ of the family while Illario is an after thought - which he is.

Let's be real, Illario is not subtle and immediately comes across as the Scar to Lucanis' 'Mufasa'. It's a questline with a very straightforward villain who has pretty lackluster motivations from what info we're provided - being 'I want power and to be the First Talon'. The game does very little explore what motivations he may have beyond being jealous of Lucanis/wanting more power.

However, if you play the quest line knowing what previous games have set up about the Crows - about how cutthroat and brutal the life is behind the glamour - then you can see that the entire Lucanis vs Illario conflict has amazing potential to be a dramatic tragedy.

We've seen how the life of Crow can affect Zevran - someone who was sold into the life through child-slavery. How interesting would it be to see how the life of a Crow can affect someone who was born into it? It's pretty clear in-game that Caterina intends for her grandchildren to carry on the family tradition - despite the fact that this 'family tradition' has likely led to the deaths of most of her grandchildren and however many children she had.

If there's banter about how Illario's/Lucanis' parents/cousins died specifically I haven't heard it, but the impression I got in-game was that it was likely linked to the Crows/politics in some way? Feel free to correct me! Still majorly fucked up that she pushes her grandsons into this life regardless!

Lucanis/Illario's situation was not like Zevran's - who was sold into the Crow's through slavery, with no one to speak up for him. Caterina was a woman who had power, who knew what the life of a Crow meant, and who still pushed those she 'loved' into it because is consolidated her place in the system. For all the Crows talk of 'family' Caterina doesn't seem to give a shit about them unless if they're contributing to the family business in some way - not to mention the whole 'you fail and we kill you' clause of being a Crow in the first place.

In the 'Wigmaker Job' from Tevinter Nights Lucanis talks about how Caterina hit him [also Illario] with her cane for mistakes and had him spend days without food/water. How he used to hate her but now 'realizes' that it was her way of ensuring he survived the life of being an Antivan Crow. Did it end up protecting them? It likely pushed them both to refine their skills out of fear. It's likely that simply by association with her they would be targets and thus needed to know how to take care of themselves and fight.

But why have him as a Crow in the first place? Why not simply train them well to defend themselves? You can't deny that she doesn't benefit from having her grandchildren in the family business - intentionally wanting Lucanis to take over her position as First Talon. The Antivan Crows are a force to be reckoned with and being one brings a whole lot of power in Antiva - being part of the elite of that group even more so.

If the game showed us the ugly reality of the Crows - the brutality of the lifestyle and how cutthroat the organization is, it could have really added some depth to Illario's betrayal - having it be more than "I want more power/respect" to "this is the result of what you taught me was valuable in life."

Warden: "Do you actually enjoy being an assassin?" Zevran: "And why not? There are many things to enjoy about being a Crow in Antiva. You are respected. You are feared. The authorities go out of their way to overlook your trespasses. Even the rewards are nothing to turn your nose up at."

Illario, bitter about Caterina favoring Lucanis - resentful of the fact that she has already decided that Lucanis will be her successor, being offered power by the Venatori (at the expense of the Crows) and accepting because why not? How different is it from what the Crows do? Isn't power and status the whole point of working yourself up in the Crows? Getting into a relationship with Zara because why not? Isn't sex part of the allure of being a Crow? Why can't he have this? Why shouldn't he have this?

Rook: "When we met, it didn't seem like Illario and Caterina were close." Lucanis: "It was hard to be close to her. Even for me. And...I was her favorite."

Why would he have connections to his family? Why should he? Caterina certainly never seemed to value 'family' beyond what they could do for her and their family legacy. Most of his family is already dead, and of those that remain the only parental figure he has obviously favors Lucanis. We don't have a lot of evidence in-game to show that Illario ever really cared for Lucanis, but the prequel story 'The Wake' and Lucanis' own banter imply that they were practically brothers, best friends. Perhaps he did care and then ceased to at some point, perhaps he didn't at all, or perhaps he accepted that an early death for them both was inevitable like everyone else in their family. Dead now or later - what was the difference? At least if Illario sells him out now to the Venatori then he'll get something from it instead of another dead family member to bury.

It's the tragic result of raising a child in an environment where he was taught and experienced the need for self-preservation at all costs. Constantly threatened, punished, and made well aware of that fact that his life was an expendable commodity. Then, when things in the world went to shit he picked the only option that made sense to him. To save himself.

The irony of the potential fall of the Crows, the fall of House Dellamorte, coming at the hands of one of their own - not because he had a change of heart but because he was taught too well by them. The Crows view those that fail them as disposable, someone to be discarded - if the Crows fail Illario, what is to stop him from applying that mindset to them?

But this would require the writers to acknowledge how messed up the Crows are and we can't do that to our 'Noble Freedom Fighters'™. They'll also need to address Zevran's existence and what lore was established in past games...and we can't have that either lmao.

[tropicalcontinental]

Stilll ttrying to think about Swap!AU Zander and AwesomeG... At this point they're just, well, swapped, but I still think there needs to be a bit more of a twist to them

In the mean time though, art

[keii]

sushi rags on me bc i play love and deepspace in english, but i don't know man... caleb's voice has been growing on me and i will love that white man for who he is!!! LOOOL

[danielnelsen]

so if you romance and ascend astarion you can kick him in the balls when he tries to turn you and it’s just very funny, he’s so pissy about it. so much for the most powerful vampire of all time or whatever, he stamps around like a toddler and then leaves forever

[6okuto-moved]

hai nia :3 hope u are doing well

idk if you listen/know svt but akaashi gives me the same vibes as wonwoo..and exo’s d.o.

guh. don't play w me rn. WONWOO WITH GLASSES. 0LEASE DON'T PLAY WME

2nd pic keiji's long hair in mytehad. PLEASE MY GOD PLEASE 😭😭😭 and kyungsoo Omg. i never really watched exo content, only listened to their music a lot but,, kyungsoo... I Rock with this. thank u friend. i'm gonna be thinking about this for the rest of the day now.. oghmygod..

[skinreflectsthesun]

I miss my baby, I’m at work and he’s at daycare but I miss him so much

[gilfrespecter]

Listening to coinstar by the growlers and thinking about mel so hard I get nauseous

Ridiculous stream of conscious in the tags apologies but not really

[thunderheadfred]

Astarion, IMMEDIATELY after Tav finds him on the beach: Hey we’ve only known each other for like. 2 partial rests. but what if i drank ur blood and we both really really liked it???

[flovverworks]

five yrs in forgotten valley would help akira tremendously

[ginnyrules27]

It's been announced that Matt Milano, one of the best Defensive players and All-Pro player for the Buffalo Bills, fractured his leg in the game against the Jacksonville Jaguars yesterday. There's also talk that he might have torn his ACL which no one has confirmed but Sean McDermott has said the words 'It doesn't look good' and I just gotta ask...

WHY DO THE GODS HATE BUFFALO? WERE THE FOUR BACK-TO-BACK SUPERBOWL LOSSES NOT ENOUGH FOR YOU? OR EVEN LAST YEAR, THE SEASON FROM HELL? IS THIS DELAYED KARMA FOR OJ SIMPSON BEING A FORMER BILLS PLAYER? OR EVEN OUR FORMER COACH MARV LEVEY BEING PICKED TO COACH UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-BERKELEY FOOTBALL BY OPPENHEIMER HIMSELF? OR IS IT BECAUSE MY GREAT-GRANDFATHER WAS A FAILED BOOTLEGGER FROM BUFFALO?

(I honestly don't know how those things would impact Buffalo's karma but it's honestly the only negative things Buffalo has produced that could have turned the scales of the universe against the City of Good Neighbors)

Just to recap everything the Bills had to go through last season:

-The Tops grocery store shooting

-Dawson's Knox' brother died from a fight with cancer

-Losing to Miami and having players collapse from the heat (not the biggest obstacle but it's the Dolphins so losing to them will always sting)

-Losing Micah Hyde in week 2 due to a neck injury

-Losing Von Miller on Thanksgiving (the same game we got Tre White back from his ACL tear last Thanksgiving)

-Having to play three road games in 12 days because of the snowstorm the week before Thanksgiving

-Damar Hamlin collapsing

-Having the number one seed stolen from us because Gods forbid the Chiefs be less than first

-and finally, that shit show of a Divisional Round game where our Quarterback ran in our only touchdown which started the whole offseason 'Stefon Diggs wants to leave' mess!

...and yet I watch football every year and wonder why my doctor thinks I seem stressed.

[mikeybee]

the ace attorney to danganronpa pipeline is so real

phoenix wright fell through a burning bridge so nagito komaeda could win one blank roulette