#it's the hill i choose

[frogsare-friends]

slut! is a jellyfisher song. i will die on this hill.

"Flamingo pink, Sunrise Boulevard/Clink, clink, being this young is art/Aquamarine, moonlit swimmin' pool/What if all I need is you?"

° being young and messing up is a really big theme of the show - jeremiah embraces belly's interests even if they seem "childish" and conrad makes her feel insecure for it and refuses his own young side, trying to act older constantly; belly and jeremiah's first kiss is in the pool and her moving on from conrad and realizing he isn't what she needs, jeremiah is

"Got love-struck, went straight to my head/Got lovesick all over my bed/Love to think you'll never forget/Handprints in wet cement/Adorned with smoke on my clothes/Lovelorn and nobody knows/Love thorns all over this rose/I'll pay the price, you won't"

° belly got so caught up with conrad (love-struck) and he hurt her (lovesick), she wants jeremiah to remember what they had together and take her back, and she knows she'll get shit for dating one brother then another and he won't. but jeremiah fell in love with belly (love-struck) and he got hurt by her (lovesick), he wants her to remember both what they had and what she did, and he knows that he was head over heels for her and thinks she only likes conrad, so it won't hurt her as much. also the smoke on clothes reminds me of the bonfire in s1/b1 where he was the only one that wanted her there

"But if I'm all dressed up/They might as well be lookin' at us/And if they call me a slut/You know it might be worth it for once/And if I'm gonna be drunk/I might as well be drunk in love"

° belly gets called a slut for dating both conrad and jeremiah, and jeremiah gets called a slut pretty much constantly. but if they're gonna be judged anyway, they might as well have fun and be judged together. also the drunk on love is like them at the party on her birthday in s1/b1 where he gets super drunk and is just obsessed with her

"Send the code, he's waitin' there/The sticks and stones they throw froze mid-air/Everyone wants him, that was my crime/The wrong place at the right time/And I break down, then he's pullin' me in/In a world of boys, he's a gentleman"

° They might fight but jere will always be there for her. everyone wants jeremiah, and so did she, but she went after conrad. and when conrad hurt her jeremiah was there, back to being her best friend (after their fight where they made up almost immediately), and he treats her well and makes her feel happy and secure

"Half asleep, takin' your time/In the tangerine, neon light, this is luxury/You're not sayin' you're in love with me/But you're going to/Half awake, takin' your chances/It's a big mistake, I said, "It might blow up in your pretty face"/I'm not saying, "Do it anyway" (Do it anyway)/But you're going to"

° when they almost kiss at the party in s2 (neon lights) and jeremiah doesn't wanna get hurt/belly hasn't really picked yet (you're not saying you're in love with me, but you will), and jeremiah talking to her in the hotel room and outside the morning after (might blow up in your pretty face), and he's not going to be mad at her if she picks conrad, but she picks him bc she wants him (not saying to do it anyway but you're going to)

[knightofleo]

Angela Orosco Silent Hill 2

[eliiyis]

head in hands sobbing profusely

[nadas-dirthalen]

I know it's been talked about to death already, but I want to talk about this response from John Epler in yesterday's AMA.

Why? Because this reminds me of the Inquisitor.

All through Inquisition, Solas creates this fantastic mirror for the Inquisitor, but one of my favourite parts of his storyline is that he also creates a parallel for us, the player. BioWare does something incredibly interesting with Solas as a mirror into our own psychology as players, and this is best exemplified in the quest 'In Hushed Whispers.'

IHW has us jump one year forward in time for a glimpse into a dark future. We, as players, have seen this in other media before. We, as players, know that we are 99% likely going to find a way out of the leap forward in time. The Inquisitor does not have these experiences. We, therefore, as players, treat this alternate future with an emotional distance: it's not real, according to us, when it is very real for the Inquisitor (even with Dorian's assurances).

This is a fantastic lens into Solas' psyche. The Inquisitor cannot imagine being ten thousand years old better than you or I can, nor can you or I imagine seeing our fellow humans as not real. But by letting us, the player, understand that an alternate future is fake and it'll all be over soon, we get a glimpse into Solas' worldview. The parellel, therefore, hits home even stronger: Solas does not feel, in that moment, like the Inquisitor does. He feels how we feel.

Why do I bring this up? Because this response explaining Solas' motives reminds me of how we, the players, view the disbanding of the Inquisition.

I have seen people incensed about how apparently the above post means Solas "doesn't care" about the elven people. That was never true. Solas does care about the elven people, at large. In The Missing comic and in DA:tV, he's seen freeing slaves and then deliberately not recruiting them. That never stopped being a thing.

But he, like us, does not take his individual agents' motives and situations into account when making large-scale choices.

At the end of Trespasser, when all of us were asked to choose between disbanding the Inquisition or handing its power to the Chantry, I would wager that no one spent hours and hours hung up on the future of Skyhold's cooks. But why? Those people gain their employment through the Inquisition. What about their families? What about what their goals are?

As players? We don't care. Those people, to us, aren't real. They're not fleshed-out characters in the same way as our companions. While we care about the large-scale welfare of Thedas, and I'm sure all of us have our favourite factions, we just don't care about every single one of the thousands of people in those factions. We don't even see most of them.

Just like Solas.

Solas appreciates good deeds. Solas even spends time helping the people he sees face-to-face. Solas has strong feelings about the freedom of the elven/elvhen people. But does he decide his course of action based on the wants of his every agent? No. Neither do we, as players, and that is who Solas mirrors most strongly in this particular respect.

So just like us, Solas considers the bigger picture. Let his agents go home. They've done all they need to do. Let them go be with their families, just like he tells the Inquisitor at the end of Trespasser, even if those agents are really SUPER loyal and really REALLY want to stay (just like some Inquisitors at the end of Trespasser).

He disbands his organization, just like we, the player, disband our organization (some of us, anyway). He "lays down his sword," just like Mother Giselle talks about, just like she insists we do for the Inquisitor.

So in my opinion, John Epler was not wrong to say this. This, to me, is all true of Solas. Every word. Just like the Inquisitor was (in most cases) a capable leader who was able to raise a strong faction in dire circumstances, so is Solas. But just like how many Inquisitors, despite being good and noble and righteous leaders, chose to disband the Inquisition the moment its forces were no longer needed (and in fact posed a risk)... so does Solas.

Solas is an amazing, complex character. I don't think that is any less true now than it was a week ago, a year ago, or ten years ago.

He is a gift to us, as players - one that I am still thankful to all of BioWare's writers for helping bring to life, as well as the entire world of Thedas.

[evviejo]

STAR TREK: ENTERPRISE - S3E15 Harbinger

[buckybarnesss]

@dear-massacre describing coach finstock perfectly

[thedevilsniki]

My roman empire is them.

[smilesabertooth]

The Pluto anime is the only true Astro Boy reboot, and any usurper will be completely rejected and disowned

[disabled-dragoon]

"You don't need a parking badge if you're not in a wheelchair. Your taking it away from someone who actually needs it"

Resident wheelchair user and qualified driver here to tell you that anyone who says this is wrong and and I will personally ram their kneecaps for you 👍 [thumbs up]

The issue is not that the spaces are being "taken away" from people who "actually" need them

The issue is that there's not even enough spaces in the first place

[tea-time-with-frogs]

unpopular opinion maybe but i don't really get the "sniper is unhygenic and never showers" thing. i know it's a joke and no one actually cares but it's just not true i think?? i mean besides them all running around in a desert all day and being sweaty and dusty but i don't think sniper is like. worse

he's brushing his teeth in his meet the team video showing a routine of sorts for him. like that's how he's introduced how did we forget that. i think he would use a 20 in one soap or something but he would use it. unless someone treats a full skin care routine and basic hygiene as the same thing in that case uh. we just live different lives ig

[eyelessfog]

Hide and Seek

[loudmound]

i think where people are losing the plot in terms of making james and jim characters that have suffered more than what is initially apparent in the narrative of sh2 is that it tends to absolutely consume how they see those respective characters and takes that shit to the absolute extremes. james and mary having a tumultuous relationship when she was sick turns into "mary was james' abuser when she was sick." conversely, for jim, it's entirely possible that she was institutionalized and sa'd while she was there, then that somehow turns into "none of what she experienced in silent hill was real and she's been locked in that mental hospital for 20 years, actually." it's deeply unserious.

[psalacanthea]

Wow, the SH2 Remake secret polaroid puzzle has been solved and what it says has me thinking about what if it's not about the GAME but about James and the timeloop theory. Stuck suffering this, over and over again, never able to get the 'good ending' or help anyone else because he's too trapped in his grief and own mental anguish, and...yeah. :(

[littlecrow4]

When you haven’t written anything in a few years but then someone tells you that you should so now ya just gotta do it

[always-just-red]

CRYING is Rafayel really just lying his ass off out here on his socials so Thomas won’t yell at him for not painting?? 😭

[wonder-worker]

Here’s the thing I need people to understand:

Even if we believe that the (entirely unproven and far too politically convenient) pre-contract story between Edward IV and Eleanor Talbot was true, it doesn’t actually matter. Even if it was hypothetically true, there was still no reason why Edward V – who was already King at that point and was referred to as such – couldn’t have been able to succeed his father regardless.

David Horspool (Richard's own historian) summarizes it better than I could, so I’m just quoting him here:

"[Richard also made] no allowance for any potential solution to the problem that might have re-legitimized Edward V and his siblings. These included securing a retrospective canonical or papal judgement of the invalidity of the pre-contract; an Act of Parliament legitimizing the children of Edward and Elizabeth Woodville’s marriage, as happened to Henry VIII’s variously tainted offspring; or even ignoring the issue and proceeding to the coronation of Edward V, which would legitimize him by making him the Lord’s anointed, and render allegations of his bastardy as newer versions of the old tittle-tattle about his father."

In short, even if Edward IV truly had a pre-contract with Eleanor Talbot, and even if all of his children with Elizabeth Woodville were supposedly illegitimate, it should by no means prevent Edward V from succeeding his father to the throne. If Richard truly wanted to support his nephew, he had a variety of useful and entirely workeable options to choose from. Instead, he officially declared his nieces and nephews (including a literal 3-year-old) illegitimate, kept Edward V and his even younger brother confined in the Tower of London, and declared himself King.

Why didn't Richard take these actions, all of which he would have been well aware of? As Horspool says simply: "that Richard took none of these courses was because he had no interest in doing so."

The ONLY conclusion we can come to based on Richard's actions is summarized most succinctly by A.J Pollard:

"The truth of the matter is that Richard III did not want Edward V to be legitimate because he did not want him to be king."