#so they refer to the rules of the 'game'

[a-model-of-propriety]

i can't stop thinking about the "game" motif in the Death Note musical i need to write an essay about it i swear

[goldensunset]

i’ve been thinking about the pokémon memes where it’s like playing off of that one quote that’s like ��truly strong trainers should try to win using their favorites’ and it’s like ‘ok well my favorite is [something blatantly overpowered]’ and it’s got me curious. how many people genuinely love pokémon that also happen to be really strong competitively?

so if you will. pick a favorite pokémon (for any reason! whether it’s cuteness or strength or nostalgia etc. no judgment) then go here https://www.smogon.com/dex/sv/pokemon/ and look it up

(you’ll see something that looks like this. see where it says tier and has some gibberish afterwards? don’t worry if you don’t know what that means but tell me what the letters/words are)

also if there are multiple forms and the distinction matters to you make sure you get the right one lol cuz the tiering can be different

edit: forgot to mention i mean specifically in SV! which is what comes up by default. rip every pokémon that either isn’t in SV (it’ll say ‘national dex’) or used to be better but has since fallen off relative to new pokémon

[bloomeng]

i will never be tired of playing dress up

[calamitys-child]

Reminded today that I will have to pick a derby name soon and honestly this feels higher stakes than picking my legal government name did

[vaguely-concerned]

Origins is of course the DA game most closely in conversation with and playing around with Tolkien (right down to the walking talking poetree haha) -- and even more so than most works in the larger western fantasy tradition derived from Tolkien's work that DA:O also hails from and owes a lot of its Stuff to, what makes the game so great to me is that it's doing so very deliberately, and is subverting and deconstructing those tropes and entrenched ideas in some very interesting ways without at all denigrating what it's commenting on. (it doesn't have the almost disdainful undertones of the vein of fantasy that seeks to make the world more 'realistic' ala the more tedious reactions to G.R.R.Martin's work, for example, despite having the darker fantasy bent to it.) among other elements it adopts, what I find the most fascinating is the choice to use the same literary device/conceit Tolkien did in ostensibly only having in-universe biased sources and works to deliver the world through (which I feel is an underappreciated thing about his approach but is part of what makes his world so enduringly compelling and real-feeling -- the feeling of real scholarship devoted/applied to a made-up world. the grounding effect of a good diegetic footnote about source criticism, truly).

many things to be said there, and I'm glad each following game has taken on different perspectives and lenses and traditions to view the world of Thedas through because if you stick with that one too closely for too long I fear we could teeter precariously close to Pratchett's famous and bitingly accurate accusation of most modern fantasy of that era just being about rearranging the furniture in Tolkien's attic lol. and while you could accuse DA2 (my perfect wife who has never done anything wrong in her life to be clear) of many things, that's not one of them, they are pulling on some completely different strings for that one and both the game and DA overall is better for it, to my mind. as so many things in this series: worth staying with and exploring for an installment even if it might get stale if all of it was like this! people are understandably sad about the elements from previous games that they liked which were lost along the way, but that capacity for reinvention is to my mind a huge strength of dragon age as a whole.

(I think Veilguard is coming in as a close second in Tolkien conversation-ness if only in outlining/revealing the worldbuilding that indeed may have been planned since DA:O around the animosity that SHOULD by all rights exist between dwarves and elves in this universe (as per Tolkienesque tradition standards). but doesn't really because you see: politics and the many pitfalls of conservation of knowledge over the ages. our ancestral enmity got semi-intentionally lost between the floorboards of history and you know what. maybe for the best. the humans are already up to so much shit you gotta keep your eyes on them at all times you can't be brawling with each other in the deep roads while they're still around getting up to their nonsense or they'll just pile up even more of it)

[citroncynique]

Uuuuuh an attempt at designing Meursault's mom I guess? She's giving perpetually jaded parisienne and that's all I need from her tbh.

I wonder how she died in LCB. or like. The circumstances. Esp for Meur himself to get in trouble for it. What if she was a big name in N Corp or something...... who knows......

[syntiment]

I'm making my statement now because I've already gotten a comment about it but I HC all of the Bishops as being non-binary with interchangeable pronouns.

Shamura is they/she/he, Kallamar is he/she, Heket is they/she, Leshy is they/he/it, Narinder is he/they

So I will be referring to them by varying pronouns in my art and writing

[misspickman]

very compelled by elsters gender both in a transmasc and transfem way bc well elster transmasc lesbian? beautiful wonderful 10/10. she is a robot whose body was made to fit the standards of what people consider a woman to look like, as is the case with most other replikas, so once she starts being treated more like a person of her own instead of just a worker robot, its fun to think of her chafing against it. on the other hand theres elster who was made to look like a woman/her neural pattern is copied from a woman, but is still treated like an object thats only there to do the job. shes referred to by others as 'it' in a dehumanizing way altho not purposely degrading bc they dont consider her a person enough to see this as cruel to her in any way. and slowly she ends up regaining her personhood and a concept of gender that feels right, as much as it can, considering the circumstances

[natjennie]

oh my god this is such a niche post but whatever it's my blog this clocktower game is driving me crazyyyy like everyone is pretty certain it's a vigor game and there's been an organ grinder in play the whole time so they do a little test nomination to see if votes are secret and say "well, organ grinder's still alive" LIKE. unless they've been vigor killed!!!!!! which is what happened!!!! but no good player is even SLIGHTLY considering anything close to that. what's wrong with yall did a year of botc knowledge get knocked out of your head. it's a vigor. the minion absolutely does not need to still be alive. what are you talking about!!!!!!!!

[anotherpapercut]

CORRECT THANK YOU FOR SHARING

[lovely-v]

found a gold ring underwater in Spiritfarer and I was like lmao One Ring moment? so I checked the description of the item and

[ajdrawshq]

oct2path has become real.........

[cultivating-wildflowers]

You're packing to leave your home in the apocalypse and can bring up to three books with you, depending on size/weight. Which books are you grabbing?

[t4tpumpkinduo]

fandom racism dsmp chewing a hole through my stomach fr

[rubbery-duckery]

Why is he blue.

Probably for reasons unknown. Maybe he likes blue. Maybe he can change color because he's light or ink or whatever thing. Maybe a kid scribbled a blue pen all over his card. Maybe he just doesn't matter and he never appears in any future chapters.

[seiwas]

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