#should i tag

[septiseph]

I still find it amusing how pkmn breeding in SV happens in picnics... like, the implication of pkmn doing the do there? right in front of my salad?? and the way u can accidentally do the breeding when u just want to chill in the picnic?

[bedforddanes75]

im not american but some of you guys are just fucking stupid ong what do you MEAN youre not gna vote because you disagree with like one part of what youre voting for. like okay me when im fucking thick

[gabigarden]

Two angels meet.

[fisheem4mmal]

This is "love"

[toorumlk]

oh, to be loved, to be loved, to be loved

[pimsri]

Romanced Lucanis broke my heart. He become like this when you romance him, it's making me insane in a good way.

[elitetrinetrash]

As much as I love short king Starscream.

I’ve been chewing on the idea of Starscream being the tallest of his trine.

The trineleader being the biggest to protect the smaller trinemates. Starscream being a meter taller than both Thundercracker and Skywarp. Them not being too small because of their outliers, but Starscream can throw them over his shoulders if he pleases.

I am feral for this concept.

[ventique18]

It is he

Seaslug-senpai ( •͈⁠ᴗ⁠•͈⁠ )

[bluesantee]

So artificial insemination via lettuce was the least of ancient Egyptian craziness

When fighting for the throne of Egypt, Seth (god of the desert) tried to show his dominance over Horus (god of the sky) by ...cumming on him. The attempt was thwarted, and Horus instead made Seth eat lettuce leaves on which he had ejaculated.

When they stood before Thoth (god of wisdom) to decide, once and for all, who should the ruler of all Egypt be, Horus claimed that since he had impregnated Seth and thus dominated him, Seth wasn't fit to rule. Seth disagreed (my man wasn't aware of the lil' lettuce gag his nephew had pulled).

Thoth then called out to the semen in Seth's body to show itself— the semen came out as proof of Seth's subjugation, and Horus was crowned king.

BUT it gets wilder.

Apparently when Thoth asked Horus' semen to exit Seth's body, the semen took the form of a golden disk— which Thoth put on his own head???

I'M CRYING 😭😭😭

Source: Lettuce and Kings: The Power Struggle Between Horus and Set, by Morgan Jerkins in the Michigan Quarterly Review

It makes me wonder if this is why certain pieces of literature refer to Thoth as Seth and Horus' son xDD

[lvcidreamss]

blasphemous thing

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dnd brainrot has NOT ceased

[rosemaryreality]

[oobbbear]

My ass playing edit templates at 1am look at my shark bb out of all the sunmoons I drew him the most

[invinciblerodent]

I was originally piggybacking off another post, but with just how long this rant got, I feel like I don't want to burden OP with it, but it bears for me to repeat it yet again- at least once more, until I stop coming across so many takes that fall exactly into this trap.

One of the central features and core themes of the Dragon Age franchise (which I think is a very clever way of approaching a series that encompasses such a long time, both in a real-world sense and within its fiction), is that people are imperfect, and eyewitness accounts are unreliable.

Ambiguity has always been a feature, not a bug: every event (except for what we see with our own eyes, which is informed by our own character's perspective- that's the very premise of Origins) is told to us by someone with a (conscious or unconscious) agenda, or an imperfect memory, or is filtered through centuries of imperfect accounts littered by a series of paradigms that stem from people's own backgrounds and upbringings, or all of those things at the same time. Even the codex entries are canonically all written by someone in-fiction, and that gives the writers a lot of purposeful wiggle room with the facts of the setting's history.

As a very good example that illustrates exactly this (one that's a bit more easy to observe throughout the series than ancient elven history) is "contemporary" Tevinter: Which is a story roughly about how a debate, allegedly over Andraste (a woman who may or may not have existed, and maybe was either a prophet, or a liar, or a general, or a mage, or possessed, or a spirit, or had or didn't have visions from the Fade or the Maker) (who btw also may or may not exist; with fact pointing towards “may not”), and Maferath (who may or may not have betrayed her) and Hessarian (who may or may not have shown her mercy) caused (through a long succession of convoluted and vaguely connected events) a Chantry schism, and a clear and volatile split between the North and the South of the continent.

Over time, the animosity that to this day exists between the North and South of Thedas turned into a very clear-cut, harsh split, which then informed, among others, the perceptions of Ferdinand Genitivi (a respected scholar, but a Fereldan man, and a laybrother of the Southern Chantry at that), resulting in him writing literally the most cited and most widely read publication until "Hard in Hightown" overtook it: "In Pursuit of Knowledge: The Travels of a Chantry Scholar".

In that book, which is quoted dozens of times in the series, all over the South (which is where we've been all this time), he wrote that Minrathous is “buried in the layers of filth that the Imperium's decadence has accumulated over the ages” and that the Imperium as a whole is “little more than a dilapidated old slattern [...] drunkenly cursing at passersby to recall her faded beauty." (which, c'mon Ferdinand, tell us what you really think).

Then, with that perception placed purposefully into our minds, we met the slavers in Denerim, and later Fenris, who both present two perspectives that show us the worst possible goddamn facets of the county that we can see. Then we met Maevaris, and Dorian, and Krem, and Alexius, Felix, Marius, Miriam and Nadia, Rezaren and Elio, and many more, who all present different faces of the Imperium- all before we would get to go there ourselves!!!!! in Veilguard, and see it both with our own eyes, and through Neve's perspective, which puts yet another spin on it all!!!!

And just like that, we are proven to have been wrong, Genitivi is proven to be wrong (inviting the question, what else could he be wrong about? he "wrote" most of the reference books too after all!), and the truth exists somewhere in-between the experiences of these handful of characters, who all have their own reasons for saying what they're saying.

See what I mean? Yes, it's a narrative device, the ambiguity is used and stretched by the writers on purpose, but it being purposeful doesn't change that I could go on a same type of rant about the ancient elves, the Qun, and the Crows, the Circles of Magi, and so many different parts of the story that wouldn't be even half as compelling, imo, if they really just gave us the cold, hard facts in a play-by-play of the exact events that went down.

I don't know about you all, but I genuinely do not recall anything in Veilguard that stood out to me as an objective, egregious change of an event I knew to be a true fact. I've only really seen characters lying, concealing their motivations, or misremembering things, presenting a different perspective, or learning that history they thought they knew to be true was wrong.

And that doesn't make me upset, it makes me giddy. It makes me excited to learn how much of this world I love is not what I thought it was, because -same as the characters- I believed what was told to me, and there are so many things and plotlines that illustrate that very same feeling: Solas obviously, but Jaws of Hakkon and Ameridan's entire story are probably just the clearest and most obvious ones, and there's also Morrigan, Flemeth and Mythal, Bellara's and Harding's whole storylines are ostensibly about this, the whole of DA2 beats you over the head with it all being filtered through Varric, and even the whole Urn of Sacred Ashes questline in Origins- it's always been about subjectivity. The Inquisitor's entire persona is said, canonically, multiple times, by multiple characters (Sera, Varric, Dorian, Vivienne, Josephine all come to mind), to be a larger than life figure that people misrepresent, and misunderstand, misremember, and see as both more and less than a person because of that, even in their own time- which then also is echoed by Rook themselves idly remarking on how they had their own preconceived notions about the Inquisitor. (at least my Rook remarked on my Trevelyan's nobility, cleearly not knowing how little power his name actually holds now, which I thought was a really nice touch.) (But that, I've been going on about for god, who even knows how long, that's its own post lol.)

Just imagine what we might turn out to have been wrong all along in the next game. How can someone not be excited?

[fascinationstreetmp3]

there's added dark urge specific lines when you enter the iron throne

1: You shouldn't have got mixed up with a Bhaalspawn. I am going to sack you for all you're worth. (If you formed an alliance) 2: You're mine to take from, Gortash. I am going to pillage you for all you're worth. (If you didn't form an alliance)

[mixyyyx3]

I finally made the the.m........the dorks..........

fan looked too childish so i gave him a stupid mustache do we fw it

[talkshowboyluvr]

waiter!!! waiter!!! ten more of lamina and tanner kissing on the mouth please!!!