#multi faceted

[clambatch]

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[dinosaurwithablog]

Barbara Hale is gorgeous!! 😍 I love seeing her doing something different than portraying Della Street because she's so multi faceted. I love Della. I love Barbara. I love this photo!! She's a very beautiful lady inside and out!! ❤️

[wheredidthe80sgo]

the west wing is the best show ever because you wouldn’t expect to come out of a hard-hitting, critically acclaimed political drama with the ultimate found family trope, right? and yet the president is a complete nerd, his wife is scary and the top in their relationship, the president and his chief of staff are Dad 1 and Dad 2, the deputy chief of staff and his assistant are in a years-long emotional affair and everyone knows it but them, the communications director is grumpy as hell and you love him so much, the press secretary is tall, hot and awesome, the deputy communications officer is the gay son and the president’s aide is the human personification of a pleasure to have in class. and they’re all family and love each other very much :)

[brawlmetaknight]

i think about this constantly because it's just so cute. i lovbe meta knigth

[statementlou]

I feel like usually when a celeb goes viral for something they do in their downtime/ not for the press or stage it's gonna be embarrassing (at best), but I never worry about that with Louis, only laugh when the whole world is amazed by how he is. Yeah! We know! He's always like that lol, isn't it fun!

[mildcrow]

Yearning…

Now available as a print on my InPrnt!

[mister-eve]

shadow: *rambles amongst rambles, super pissed* sonic: *has been listening for a long while* sonic: *puts hand on shadow's head* alright, deep breaths now, shads. shadow: shadow's brain: hands... shadow: shadow: *gay panic* apol-apologies. sonic: *pat pat* it's all good.

[sserrafeim]

People that are mad Feyre had a child will always be weird to me.

“She said she didn’t want a child!”

Yeah. And she changed her mind. It’s something people do but judging by how most of you behave in this fandom I’m confident you believe that something like that can’t happen and it should be punishable by law.

“Her whole arc in acomaf was about how she didn’t want to be a breeding mare for Tamlin only to become Rhysand’s in the end.”

I need you pro-Tamlins and anti-Rhysands to step back for a moment. She had one child. ONE. If she had stayed with Tamlin in Spring, having kids & hosting parties would be all that she would be able to do. Look at Lady of Autumn who had seven (six, technically) kids with Beron and tell me that that wouldn’t be Feyre’s fate with Tamlin - you can’t. She chose to have a child after thinking about it and having a conversation with Rhys. It wasn’t seen as her “wife duties” or her “duty to her court and husband”. It was her choice through and through.

I understand that you wanted her to remain a one-dimensional badass female warrior and you’re upset that she made her own decision to have a baby but bffr.

“She was sidelined because she was pregnant/had a baby.”

We learn in acosf that her pregnancy is already dangerous due to the baby having wings and yet you wanted her to go search for the trove and put herself and her baby in even more danger? The IC hiding the severity of the situation from her wasn’t a good idea, yes, but it wasn’t an unreasonable decision to make on their part and we’re literally told why they did it - you just love to hate them and turn them into the bad guys every chance you get.

Hofas takes place, what, 3 months after acosf? Five? Nyx isn’t even one year old and you wanted Feyre and Rhys to leave him with a nanny so they could deal with the girl that fell from the sky? What if they died? They’d leave a baby behind all alone. But you don’t care about that. You don’t want to realise that they aren’t just rulers now, they are parents too and they went through an ordeal not that long ago. Of course they’re going to send two of their most powerful people to deal with the problem instead of going themselves - it’s what rulers do.

I love that we’re treating child-free people with more respect and kindness as a society but that doesn’t mean that we should hate and shit on people that choose to have kids. Calling a fictional character a breeding mule because she had a kid… what kind of message does that give to young women in this fandom who are also mothers? You’re supposed to be a grown adult, act like it.

Also, we’ve seen so many posts and headcanons about how great of a dad Rhys would be but Feyre gets all this hate and criticism? It’s reeking of double standards and misogyny in here.

[sbd-laytall]

[gothsuguru]

gojo writers i now Formally understand the joy you all feel when writing about him

[quinn-of-aebradore]

Today’s a good a day as any to give a semi-gentle reminder that Essek is a multi-faceted character and him being bitchy and canonically Neutral Evil for a portion of time does not preclude him from also being sweet in other moments. Like his whole character arc was about growing from being the aloof Shadowhand who didn’t care about anyone or anything but himself and his research. Depicting him as caring about things and people other than that is fine and good actually.

Or, in the wise wise words of Brennan Lee Mulligan…

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[sundogsandrainbows]

Hi, I'm sorry to write to you out of the blue, but Of Elves and Humans was the first DA longfic that got me hooked back in 2011 when I, as a dumb teen, happened to pick up DAO. Ever since then, the DA universe has been a constant fixation of mine and my admiration for you as a writer as well as someone who isn’t afraid to call out the franchise's flaws has never wavered. Now that Bioware decided to take a massive shit on everything pre-DAV and their oldest fans specifically, I'm really devastated and feel like a fool for having been so invested in DA and its lore for those past 13 years. It’s incredibly encouraging, however, to see you keep on keeping on. "So since they spat in my face like this I ignore this atrocity of a game even exists" is where I hope to be at soon, too. Thank you.

(First of all apologies for the late reply, I put it in my drafts when i was too tired to complete it, and then my adhd brain forgot it existed due to being distracted by new shinies 😂☠)

But aww omg i cannot believe i was the gateway drug into dragon age, or rather the old version of my story on FFN was. I am so very honored <3 And nonnie, I feel you. I am invested in DA as a series since DA:O's release in 2009, like I bought it on a whim for XBox because I liked Mass Effect 1 sm. So that is 15 yrs of my life i spent loving and discussing a thing while still being critical of the thing, but now i feel so very protective of the world, lore and its characters that "New Bioware" has decided to take a massive dump of shit on, and not only the games but the old fans I feel are treated with disdain too and do not matter to them any longer.

Long, subjective rant about current bioware aka the shambling corpse of its former self and talent incoming. Spoilers for Veilguard bc i don't give a fuck to avoid them :D You (general you, not you in particular dearest nonny <3) should use your time better than to play this shit anyhow 😂

It feels like calculated malice of new Bioware to apply the scorched earth tactics to offscreen destroy everything that old fans and fans of the other games in general held dear, and was supposed to suck out the enjoyment of DAO, DA2 and DAI. Like it is obvious they plan to create a sequel on DA's scorched bones, but jfc, you can do so story-wise without spitting everyone loving what old bioware has built in the face after dropkicking them. But to me that is part of the problem, since if i remember correctly and i wish i could find the bit... they praised Veilguard as "The best Dragon Age game ever", with the most interesting companions and best most improved combat system, comparing it to the other three games in a near smug fashion. There is marketing and there is putting the other games down to prop up your most favorite and only child mattering and they were definitely doing the latter. And don't get me started on the whole "Who is Zevran" debacle or we are gonna here all day.

Bottom line is new/current devs and writer do not give a shit about and very possibly have never played any other game than Inquisition, and you cannot tell me otherwise. And since a lot of devs/writer have left since the start of this project that would become this abysmal game, I also have the impression that there is a lot of underlying resentment toward what these former colleagues have created and so they piss on it in order to make it fully theirs now. Like dogs marking their territory, and well that did not work out, imo. At all.

Ever since they announced respecting our past choices by ignoring them (????) it was clear to me that I would not play Veilguard but just watch a playthrough and all spoilers and then move on. And everything i saw before release was shocking... like i was flabbergasted at how baaaad the dialogue was, which as a writer myself is super important to me in my story. There was no subtext, characters just blurt out everything they think and feel, like a lifeless doll you squeeze and words tumbling out and just as natural. It is stilted, awkward and 80% of it exists for info dump or info dumb rather as they keep repeating the same shit they just told you a few seconds ago as if you as the player are braindead. Here is a good example of what i mean.

Jfc, who edited this crap? There is so much superfluous dialogue that adds nothing to a scene but annoyance for the player and says nothing at all. Just pure senseless yapping in the most cringy way. Why was no one there to trim this nonsense as you should as a writer/editor? Hell, they really disregarded every simple and basic writing rule (everything is told never SHOWN for example especially in dialogue) which really made me question their competence in what they were doing and thus the quality of the upcoming game but i still held out hope for it to not be that bad.

Well shit, it was even worse. In all regards. Especially the writing that cringed this writer into a new dimension with its incoherent incompetence. Jfc. they got paid for that? I'm convinced the majority of fandom writer can do much better, even unpaid. Hell my cat just by walking over the keyboard can manage a better draft and script...💀

But I digress. That is a rant for another time. Point is, nonny, despite my defiant words, I struggled too for days after i got to know the full extent of Bioware's spiteful fuckery to even look at anything da related, in my case my Alistair/Mahariel longfic. I was really down for a few days, ngl. Then again, there is nothing better than spite fueling my creativity to prove "i can write better" soooo in the end and with the help of the much better first version of DA4 in the artbook, I was able to exorcise the demons and feverdream-mindfuck of mediocrity sold to me as a turd with gold-glitter that is this game.

I have successfully now rejected its existence, filled the void with the version that should have been from the artbook and vowed to give no fucks what bioware is doing or saying and infinitely more fucks when writing my own version of thedas and the version of DA4 that should be. REWRITES BBY hell yeah. So OEAH:R is just the beginning of a verse-wise rewrite. But if you need a pick me up, nonny, you are very much welcome to take a trip down memory lane to Dragon 9:30 and see how much this iteration of the story differs from my first one back in the days. Because in this house of mine, we grow and learn as writers, unlike bioware where writer ego reigns surpreme (oh boy and does it ever show in VG) aka eating their own turds and tell themselves it is the finest chocolate 💀

There is still a lot of good about DA out there, but we have to accept it does not come from Bioware any longer. Instead it came, comes and will come from the fans and creators of art and texts and words defying their bullshit with their love and respect for the world, its lore and characters. Also very unlike Bioware.

As we should <3

[icarusbetide]

my favorite thing in the world is reasonable delusion? or honest delusion, i suppose?

one of my acquaintances is a history professor. a few weeks ago i asked him about hamburr, and this man looked me straight in the eye and said "aaron burr and alexander hamilton were products of their time. they both went into the duel not knowing what to expect, and burr especially did not anticipate the aftermath of that outcome." only to immediately follow it up with "but FAWK aaron burr, he's a little shit and he burns in hell for all i care."

i spent ten minutes trying to wheedle out the logic behind this and he goes "of course, burr did not deserve all the vitriol he received. but he also 100% deserved it, because he's aaron burr."

this is the person historians should strive to be. don't try to make yourself sound convincing if you know what you're saying isn't convincing. don't manipulate quotes or context to justify your misleading claims. just lay out all the evidence, acknowledge the reasonable take, and only after you have done your ethical duty, express your true feelings happily and proudly. no one can blame you then.

[suckishima]

okay this is so small but makes me really happy. taketora just got done talking about how much he admires tanaka and how cool and "manly" he is, which like makes sense right, both tanaka and taketora are always being shown as these like loud "boy's boys" archetypes who do everything with power, talk about girls, and emphasize "guts" and "manliness," so obviously taketora would respect tanaka

but then he immediately turns to also think about how much he admires fukunaga in the same way—fukunaga who doesn't display any of those same qualities that taketora was just admiring about tanaka. fukunaga is quiet, fairly low-key and doesn't flaunt anything ever. dude just goes around making weird puns that 1 people often barely even hear and 2 apparently seem to baffle everyone. but taketora sees all of that and sees how fukunaga still shows up and gets the job done more than successfully—he's one of the top point getters on the team—and taketora respects him for all of that, still calls him a "man's man" and tbh more than respects him, he admires him and sees him as a rival

and idk that just makes me happy, like 1 it's a nice small way of furudate saying that yeah "manly" is a thing that's important to taketora but it doesn't just mean one stereotypical thing—like it's showing that taketora isn't as one dimensional as we would have thought and that he sees things from multiple perspectives (we also saw this from him back during the whole "guts" thing with kenma and how he respects him too)—and it's also an example of seeing fukunaga from another perspective too. it's because he's so low-key that even we as readers have probably barely noticed how much of a rock he is for the team, but if you got back through their matches you can see how often he does score—he's quiet but he's always there. and i just like that furudate takes a moment to not only acknowledge fukunaga but to do it from taketora's pov in order to really hit it home to us how true it must be

[madizenmadi]

its not practical at all but i like to imagine that Gilbert, at one point, lent his voice to be used for the announcements for the public transit in Berlin, but then into the 2000s it was replaced by the electronic voice today.

Anyways, after Gilbert died, Ludwig asked to reinstate Gilbert's voice to be heard over the intercoms so that he can hear his late Father's voice everyday as he takes the S-bahn or the U-bahn. It took him a while to get accustomed to the grief, but it then became a comfort.

Sometimes, he takes the U-bahn on sleepless nights so that he can close his eyes and listen to Gilbert's voice, imagining he's still here with him, just like he promised he always would be.

[f1-birb]

the duality of Lando