#no one is irredeemable

[thiswillbenostalgic]

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💥A court of Silver Flames Spoilers💥

Speed draw of one of my favourite moments from A court of Silver Flames. Nesta is my girl.

I managed to not record the most satisfying part. Annoying but oh well here’s most of the process!

They’re just sexy, both individually and together. Nesta is my girl.

[antarcticajoy]

The SNL 50th was pretty good but I'm so sick of seeing John mulaney

[duckysprouts]

aren’t you just so tired of it all?

[lauraisakilljoy]

“we need more complex characters!!” if Lost were released today all of the characters would be cancelled immediately

[crypticscarecrow]

Who I'd Be

@starteas and also @lizaluvsthis because you caused this

[dewwshi]

The people demand more Minlach. ( please more we are desperate and your art of them is so good 🥺🥺🥺)

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my beautiful yuri... sooo critical to me that minthara 1. fell first 2. fell harder. something abt the idea of this self-avowed villain being utterly and inexplicably smitten with the sweetest nicest golden retriever girl in the world

[florida3exclamationpoints]

House MD + text posts pt. 48/?

[farosdaughter]

If Coryo was solely looking out for himself throughout TBOSAS and never had genuine feelings for Lucy Gray, then explain this passage

He could’ve landed in one of the districts closer to the Capitol, but instead chose to exile himself to District 12 hoping to be reunited with Lucy Gray. The mere possibility of their reunion is the only thing that keeps him going. And that’s love.😌

[bedupolker]

I've complained before abt shows getting canceled prematurely (and I'll do it again) but it's a kinder fate than whatever the 4th season of sex education was

[anartisticnerd]

I've watched The Carnival Job so many times that I've started noticing tiny mistakes in the backgrounds and stuff, so I've stopped myself from watching it repeatedly so I don't ruin it for myself but THE ENDING KILLS ME.

He just holds her. One arm around her, the other cradling her head, hand tangled in her hair. We've seen it in many other episodes, but this is my go-to example of Eliot's heart. He's built a fortress around his heart, but a kid in danger breaks that down in two seconds. It's his greatest trigger.

[treatsformeeko]

This dialogue has always baffled me. It is locked behind a 30 cunning check, which I think may be impossible to reach without cheats at this early stage in the game (?) but its implications are INSANE. Entirely too long tirade below the cut:

How could the darkspawn possibly know the plan? Does it have anything to do with darkspawn showing greater signs of intelligence (re: the Architect, the Messenger)? Awakening was being written before DAO came out — was this meant to tie into that?

Many people online have discussed that it may be a remnant of abandoned plot threads that paint loghain as more of a mustache-twirling villain, working with the darkspawn (either willingly or perhaps under their influence?) to make sure the signal fire doesn’t get lit. David Gaider explained at length that the Ostagar plotline and the Cailan/Loghain conflict were subject to numerous rewrites. And while it is true that there is no further dialogue to suggest that Loghain was working with the darkspawn as this dialogue implies, my next question is what were his men doing in the tunnels underneath the Tower of Ishal?

Even before I had seen this exact line, in my first playthrough I operated under the assumption that Loghain had purposefully sabotaged the Tower in order to place blame on the Grey Wardens (an already easy scapegoat given their very recent return from exile) once he inevitably quit the field. I never once thought that his decision to retreat from Ostagar was made in the heat of the moment — after all, why would Howe already be making moves on Highever if he thought that Cailan would be alive after the battle to punish him for it? And if it were the case that Loghain planned for Cailan to die at Ostagar, why would he allow the signal fire to be lit on time and still quit the field knowing that some of his men would see this as betraying the King, regardless of how good he was at being a leader? Was it just a very happy accident that the darkspawn overwhelming the Tower and delaying made him look less villainous to his own army? Why would he leave this up to chance when so much of his plan before this seems to be so carefully crafted?

Frankly speaking, much of the deeper DAO lore seems to be happy accidents — constant rewrites and abandoned plot threads coming together to create a genuinely interesting story where the truth is not easily identified. And honestly, I think it benefited greatly from this! The truth is messy, especially when there are this many players vying for power in some way or another.

Personally, I’m of the mind that dev-lore comes secondary to what actually makes it into the game, even when the devs had better ideas than what we got. Which is why it is so fascinating that this line still exists in game and yet is nearly impossible to obtain! Why does it still exist? Why is it so hard to obtain? What implications does it have on the greater plot?

I don’t necessarily have an interesting conclusion beyond the fact that I am still in awe at the reactivity of this game that is objectively pretty clunky and ugly by today’s standards. I love Loghain as a villain in part because he is so human, and as much as I enjoy the sequels I really think that he is one of the best antagonists of the entire series. I find it really interesting that his reputation is not entirely shredded to pieces by Inquisition, as some Ostagar vets still sing his praises, which just further drives home the point that he has the capacity for good AND evil! I mean hell, the whole game is about making sacrifices for the greater good. Couldn’t you still argue that that was what Loghain was doing (or at least thought he was doing)?

All of this being an entirely too-long wind up to say: fuck you Quartermaster Threnn. I know what I saw.

[bigmoon-is-bigwife]

I think Bad killing Ros may be the thing that causes him to finally get killed. People have voiced their dislike for him for awhile and some have mentioned wanting to kill him but it's always been a more passive goal. Zam was the only one to actively put in the work to plan to do it and even then that was extremely recent. People have been calling Bad dangerous from the start but were willing to be civil with him even if they didn't agree with his actions.

Now that he's killed Ros, I think many of the people have upped their priority of killing him. No one understands why he did it, they all think he's cruel and this was just another one of his needless kills. If Bad was willing to kill Ros, someone everyone was sure he had a soft spot for, surely he must be too far gone. This is the act that I think tipped people into seeing Bad as a complete monster who needs to be slayed.

The tragedy though, is this is the one kill he didn't want to do. This was the one kill that was a genuine act of kindness. He's not a complete monster and that's why he did it. He knew it would turn everyone against him and put a target on his back but he did it anyway because he cared about Ros enough to not want her to suffer.

[maydays2]

Hansry guys (gn) I don't know if I ever asked you this but do we collectively believe that the karolina Hans presumably banged in the forest in the second game is made up. Like, Henry himself comments over the fact that she shares a name with the butcher's daughter of the dlc in the first game. like, she doesn't exist

and if she does, hans literally fucked a girl in the forest whilst taking in the scenery, decided he really liked the place and that he really needed to take his squire there

I guess that whatever your headcanon is his level of queer yearning is just off the charts

[jean-meowreau]

can you imagine trying to villainise a character who, despite the world and the legal system supposed to protect him actively trying to kill him, coming out on top? whose murder charge is killing an abuser? I'm ??? like what the fuck is your damage you cretin

[pvtpunsart]

fuck it we ball

this is my separated donnie AU bullshit

Subject 3. △

Splints thought he lost him to the fire in the lab but Draxum scooped him up.

[hikaaa-bi]

seriously though, can we stop associating redemption with forgiveness? redemption isn't about being forgiven, it's about trying to do better and be better, even if you're not forgiven.

sometimes you make mistakes that people can't forgive and that's okay. the important thing is to remind yourself that you're on the right path, and you're going to be a better person regardless of whether they want to forgive you or not. that's their decision and they're entitled to it.

sometimes people forgive you and sometimes they don't. but you shouldn't stop working towards being better just because someone refused to forgive you. because you shouldn't be trying to fix your mistakes solely because you want that person to forgive you, you should be fixing them because it's the right thing to do.