#love the little rat man but solely as a fantastic antagonist and that's it

[girlbossblackbeard]

since I recently got back into my ~*~archery girl~*~ phase i am now proposing that the reason Izzy wears only one (1) leather glove is bc he's actually left-handed and uses his right hand to hold the riser (hand grip on the bow basically) which requires protection so the arrow doesn't cut it on its way out. he doesn't need any finger guards for his left hand bc they're super calloused at this point

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Dragon age and dishonored

Anonymous said: Dragon Age

bless u both 

DRAGON AGE:

Favorite Male Character: my boy FENRIS mr edgy elf w the white hair because i just love magical and reluctant amnesiac assassins i guess

Favorite Female Character: flemeth because she’s SO COOL AND BADASS and reminds me a lot of ursula from the little mermaid, tho morrigan is a close 2nd. honestly tho there’s SO many good ladies it’s like picking between children

Least Favorite Character: i don’t actually out and out DISLIKE any dragon age characters i don’t think? even complicated and controversial ones like anders/sebastian/meredith/loghain/etc…i can find something i like there…the closest i can come is solas, who i have extremely mixed feelings about, and then oghren and sera, who just…i don’t dislike them exactly but i don’t really like them either. Big Neutral.

Favorite Ship: i’m in rarepair hell over cullen/dorian…they could make it work…I Believe

Favorite Friendship: does isabela and aveline count…

Favorite Quote: nothing immediately comes to mind except like every word exchanged between varric and cassandra

Worst Character Death (if any): F L E M E T H >:( this is the sole reason i cannot feel more sympathetically towards solas tbh

This made me so happy you have no idea Moment: i forgot to fill this in when i first posted it but when hawke showed up in da:i i LOST MY SHIT!!

Saddest Moment: only those SOULLESS JERKS who leave hawke behind in the fade and make varric cry get to see the saddest moment :(

Favorite Location: after all this time i still have a soft spot for the hanged man…although the scenery in da:i is so gorgeous i can’t not name a few from there…the emerald graves, the hissing wastes, and oh yeah that one section of the dlc where you get to roam around inside a titan and the only light comes from those blue glowing lyrium veins and there;s a lyrium ocean below?? fucking bonkers. i’m not even that into dwarf lore but how can you not love that…

DISHONORED:

Favorite Male Character: corvo corvo corvo corvo we love a near-silent rat dad with horrible hair

Favorite Female Character: am i wrong to say jessamine when she got fridged basically instantly and emily and billie are both fine female protagonists and delilah is a wonderfully layered antagonist? if so, idw be right

Least Favorite Character: DAUD CAN EAT ME I HATE HIM SO MUCH

Favorite Ship: it’s corvo/jessamine LOOK I KNOW WHAT I LIKE OK

Favorite Friendship: billie & emily interaction is ABSOLUTELY fascinating and full of Layers

Favorite Quote: a few of the npcs lines are TRULY fantastic but i can’t repeat any of them here (one of them is on cathy’s bio). on a sadder note, “when you are near, my heart is at peace”

Worst Character Death (if any): ………..jessamine. i guess it kind of had to happen for there to be a game so 2nd worst is daud’s cause it shoulda happened WAY SOONER

This made me so happy you have no idea Moment: the first 20 minutes of DH2 where emily calls corvo father about 50000 times in a row i literally thought i was going to explode

Saddest Moment: i think the goodbye conversation you have with jessamine (as either protagonist) in dh2 is up there, but also all the little moments that shine a light on how shitty life is for the npcs - that guy dying on the corpse mountain in the flooded district level and that poor lady sokolov was experimenting on being told she’d get better when she was really dying. like, jesus, what a shitty world.

Favorite Location: w/o a doubt the area outside of lady boyle’s party because the clock tower is SO pretty. CLOSE SECOND is the dust district because what a cool and fascinating area and also corvo’s house is there

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Ernest Cline’s ‘Ready Player One’, A Review – Or: ‘I wish I knew more about 80’s pop culture’

Born too early to explore the universe, born too late to understand eighty percent of the references from Ernest Cline’s teenage years.

That opener might make it seem like I didn’t enjoy Ready Player One, but that couldn’t be further from the truth. No, Cline managed to grab my interest immediately by making his novel about A) Video Games, and B) Video Games.

We find ourselves in the year 2044 where poverty is rife, oil is all but gone, and jobs are so rare we don’t speak about the horrible things your mum does to get you that coveted fast food gig. We follow ‘poor-enough to make a compelling Protagonist’ Wade (five-)Watts as he lives life in the Stacks: state of the art, luxury caravans, clumsily and recklessly piled atop one another. Like the world’s best game of Jenga, but it’s gotten a little out of hand and everybody’s forgotten it started as a game.

But the fun doesn’t stop with oversized Jenga! Wade (ten-)Watts escapes daily into a virtual reality called the OASIS. Inside the OASIS, a person can be anyone or anything they want to be. So if you think the internet’s a weird place now, just wait until it replaces reality. There’ll be bountiful new ways to catfish your friends and family! The OASIS is a virtual reality created with the sole intention of giving every geek a raging, uncontrollable erection. There’re entire worlds dedicated to movies, or games, shopping or TV. Literally anything is possible inside the OASISand we owe it all to genius inventor, James Halliday.

That’s the setting and this is the plot: James Halliday–an eccentric recluse–is dead. In his last will and testament he states that ownership of the OASIS, including his personal wealth (billions of dollars), will go to the person who can solve his riddles and collect, in turn, the Copper, Jade and Crystal keys, and use them to open the Copper, Jade and Crystal gates, eventually finding Halliday’s revered Easter Egg. Halliday was notoriously obsessed with 80’s pop-culture, and in order to obtain the three keys and pass each gate, the players must be devoted to everything Halliday was interested in. Even passing interests. The man was so self-indulged that in his death he created a world in which everyone had to love everything he himself loved. To that end, 80’s pop-culture has again descended upon humanity. Joust your little hearts out.

I read Ready Player One in a little over a week and found it to be a thoroughly gripping experience. But this is Ernest Cline’s first book and it kinda shows. Whilst the concept is utterly unique–annoyingly unique–I had a hard time believing a lot of the dialogue. Many of the characters sound the same and they all see James Halliday as some sort of patron saint when every piece of trivia and anecdote concerning the man paints him as a socially inept, nasty piece of work. He once fired an employee for not understanding a reference…Haha! So quirky! What a guy! No…what a quantum spanner!

What sort of a man stages a worldwide contest to see who gets to inherit his billions, anyway? Why not donate it to a worthy cause? Let’s keep in mind that this is an incredibly poor future and in staging this contest he knows full well what sort of chaos he’s about to unleash. Children are straight up murdered for being further ahead in the game than others. Halliday, why not–I dunno–take all the effort you put into coding your competition, and instead put it into funding a sustainable future in the real world! Of course, there’d be no novel if he’d done that, and I can believe that James Halliday would be the sort of self-centred jackface who would rather usher in a half decade of chaos than try to use his massive fortune to actually make a difference in the world. If you ask me, Halliday is the real antagonist in this book.

Still, at least he wasn’t obsessed with 90s pop-culture. I’m not sure I could have read a novel with endless supplies of chain wallets, rat-tails and Spice Girls references.

I actually don’t have much more to say about Ready Player One. It’s a great read for anyone who was alive in the 80s and anyone with a passion for video-games/ old sci-fi movies. I’m the latter here. Do yourself a favour and pick up a copy before Spielberg inevitably hacks it to pieces because Dreamworks refuses to buy the rights to the entirety of War Games.

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Ready Player One is Ernest Cline’s first novel, it’s a fantastic concept that’s just a whole lot of fun to read. Cline has a second novel out now called Armada which I’m sure I’ll get around to reading. In the meantime, Steven Spielberg has picked up Ready Player One for adaptation onto the big screen and I’m looking forward to how the whole thing’s handled.

Ernest Cline: http://www.ernestcline.com/

Ready Player One: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ready-Player-One-Ernest-Cline/dp/0099560437