#kind of

[just-joeja]

Jazz, Prowl, and Arcee are having a gossip about D16 and Orion 🤯

I'm struggling to draw their bodies help

[skeptiql]

The joys of a holiday quarrel

[spineless-lobster]

“Kill them with kindness” WRONG‼️ wooden horse

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[noratheelk]

Star Trek lower decks text post memes part 2

(part 1) (Part 3)

[corseque]

Hi! I've been following you for ages for your great Solas takes and immaculate taste in sad men. I've been thinking about this because I have a Dragon Age Inquisitor who is an abomination, what do you think Solas would think about abominations/do you recall him ever talking about them? Both Anders/Justice and the more demonic unwilling variety.

Personally I would assume he'd be initially horrified because that might seem like a violation of consent for both parties, but after learning more about them he might grow more curious/respect actual unions a mage might have as an abomination. I am basically just workshopping an OC and hitting a wall and you're the local Solas sage, so... XO

Oh, that's so nice..

Solas is more chill with willing abominations than you might think. And he seems to know all about it already. In Jaws of Hakkon, in the quest called “In Exile” you meet a young mage named Sigrid Gulsdotten who had been willingly possessed by a friendly spirit in order to teach her magic. Which is what the Avvar do culturally to make mages safer.

Sigrid was getting old enough that it was time for her and the spirit to part ways, but she didn’t want to give it up because she didn’t want to lose the spirit as a friend/confidant. Solas has a surprising amount to say in Jaws of Hakkon in general about how the Avvar interact with and relate to spirits, and he talks a lot in this quest too. He is very gentle with her. Let me look up exactly what he says. When you find clues about the mage's failed ritual to part with her spirit, Solas says (a mage in your party always speaks here):

"Residual magic. Someone was casting a spell, and was interrupted. Or stopped."

"If a mage was performing a ritual to part with a spirit, she may have needed to replenish her strength."

Then later, when you talk to her, the conversation goes like this:

Sigrid: "I could not do it! I have no close companions in the hold! No kin! I cannot lose my only friend!"

Inquisitor: "You're friends with this… spirit?"

Sigrid: "It has taught me with patience and kindness since I was a child, frightened of the fire I could suddenly call down."

Solas: "A great comfort. But you are no longer a child."

Sigrid: "Some mages need the help of a god all their lives."

Solas: "Very well. Perhaps, however, ask yourself if it is help you need, or companionship."

Sigrid: "I do not wish to lose the one who loves me."

Here is a playthrough that has this dialogue:

At the end of the quest, if you recruit Sigrid for the Inquisition, Varric, Sera, Vivienne, Iron Bull and Cassandra have strong negative feelings about it, while Cole approves. Solas doesn't seem to approve or disapprove, as far as I can tell. He doesn't say anything, at least. When talking to the Shaman about this Avvar practice, you get this conversation:

Inquisitor: "You let spirits possess your mages on purpose?"

Shaman: "What better teacher than one woven from magic? The spirits in the hold have helped us in this way for hundreds of years. Once a mage masters their powers, their teacher departs, duty ended. Unless the mage is weak."

Inquisitor: "What happens to these "weak" mages?"

Shaman: "Their teachers stay with them and the other gods watch them both, so neither soul turns sick. If one does sicken, or the mage stands in risk of harming the hold… One day, they do not wake in their bed. It is very sad. It is what must be done."

Solas: "It is kinder than what happens in many mage Circles."

So Solas seems to understand the reality that abominations become corrupted more easily, and that it's probably best for abominations to separate willingly.

Solas offers to separate Lucanis and Spite, and says their forceful combination was "a crime against [them] both" so I can only assume that it's the willingness factor that he gets upset by, along with him always being upset at the thought of spirits becoming corrupted.

[brainrockets]

I thought this was from Burrow's End. Lmao.

it's that time of year again

[the-archivists-left-eye]

*Odysseus voice-over while camera zooms out to show the palace* "Well, that was my story! Guess you could say it was pretty... heh... Epic!!"

*owl flies past Ithaca, pauses, winks at the camera, cut to black*

*pop version of Legendary playing for credits*

*Odyseuss voice-over while Troy slowly fades into view* "Oh... you're still here? Well, that was only the last half of the story... and the first half is just as crazy as the second-"

*opening seconds of the horse and the infant while Ody and soldiers come into view, cut to black right when you see his face*

THANK YOU, THANK YOU, ILL BE HERE ALL NIGHT

[love-and-books320]

the "he would not fucking say that" trope except it's a mind reader reading someone's else's fantasy of them and they're like...i would never say that

[askblueandviolet]

Awww, it's nice to see you two actually sitting down and communicating like adults! This was long overdue.

[titaniumshortcake]

They did so little to explain who she is or her significance to the story, it actually made me angry. She doesn't mention working with the Inquisition either, even though she was one of the cameos in Inquisition's multiplayer. Sure she works as an agent and as far as we know never formally meets the Inquisitor, but still. Varric and Hawke had to have put them in touch. She should have had more to say about both of them. There is a story there that was never told.

Idk how others in the fandom feel about this, but to me, Isabela's presence in Veilguard is frankly bizarre.

Isabela has wildly different endings in DA2, depending on Hawke's decisions and relationship with her. If you didn't form enough of a friendship or rivalry with her, she fucks off with the Tome of Koslun and never comes back. If Hawke decides not to defend her, she gets given up to the Arishok and Qunari. (It is implied she escapes regardless, but that's still a pretty significant thing to brush aside!) If Hawke romances Isabela and follows through on her quests, they stay together at least semi-permanently (barring whatever happens to Hawke in Inquisition).

Except, when you meet her in the Lords of Fortune - she can never mention any of that. She doesn't explain her new philosophy around the finding of cultural artefacts and how her Tome of Koslun debacle shaped that. She can never mention Hawke in any capacity, which is especially weird if your Hawke romanced her.

She does makes comments like "Kirkwall taught me a lot about family 😌" which makes 0 sense if your Isabela absolutely hightailed it out of Kirkwall or got thrown to the Qunari. What was the lesson she learnt, exactly? "I was right the whole time, fuck emotional vulnerability and fuck caring about anyone else?"

She's also one of the few characters who make an appearance other than the Inquisitor and Harding who has a close connection to Varric from previous games. You're telling me she has absolutely nothing to say about his death?

Her return strips her of any complexity and sidelines any of her past relationships because Veilguard just completely refuses to engage meaningfully with the stories before it.

[boxwearssocks]

Yeh

[6-and-7]

the TARDIS better have a chair in it this next season, that's all I have to say.

[celestefox13]

It's actually kind of funny that like half of the Lords of Fortune's few rules are explicitly the result of Isabela's dealings with the Qunari and Kirkwall.

Freeing slaves they happen to come across: That one really bad job that followed her into Kirkwall personally, her bad time in Qunari custody, and her becoming friends (ish) with Fenris

No taking cultural relics: Specifically, and almost explicitly, because of stealing that Qunari book that 1 time that not only followed her into Kirkwall, but also burned down half the city

Isabela really is just out to put as many defenses around herself as she can to keep from being the target of another specific manhunt while still doing at least the main pirate things: loot, drink, sail, and enjoy a bed in every port

[missnight0wl]

Oooooh, this is nice! :3 Thank you for tagging me, boo! 🖤

I'm tagging everyone because every moment is good for a cosy drink, so you should know what to pick (even if you don't want to post it).

GUYS I JUST FOUND THE CUTEST THING EVERRRR

what's your cozy cabin drink?

TAGGING SOME PEOPLE BC THIS IS SO CUTE

@toooster @glxsyymads @theodditylacey @junefl0wers @auntiejohn @stranger-detective @justafanbutcurious @daystarpoet @your-mommy-ems + anyone elseeeee

[fifiophobia]

Something I noticed after watching The Lighthouse