#solas apologist and I will die on this hill

[freesidexjunkie]

"If the Dalish could raise someone with a spirit like yours... have I misjudged them?"

This isn't blind flattery towards the Inquisitor. It's not "I'm questioning my whole plan of world ending because I have a crush" (if you romanced him.) "Have I misjudged them?"

He woke up and saw a hollow, empty, husk of a world with husks of people walking around, bickering and fighting over everything and nothing. He didn't expect to find beauty here. He didn't expect to find friends to care about (and he does genuinely care about them, in his party banter and dialogue). He didn't expect to find someone to love. Has he misjudged the Dalish, in his haste to write them off as a pale imitation? Has he misjudged the worth of this world?

The implications of that are staggering though. Imagine you have a house with your family. The house is rotten through and through; mildewed and molded, rotten floorboards, leaking ceilings. Doors and windows don't close, holes in the walls, termite-riddled supports. But there is no other house to live in. What do you do? Do you let your family keep living in that house, cold and wet and sick? Do you try to fix it? Where do you start? How much work will these renovations take? When do you start to consider that you could just tear the house down, and build a new one? You don't want to leave your loved ones with nowhere to live, but look at this house. It won't last like this. They deserve better.

So you do it. You start to tear down the house, even though it's a big risk. The biggest you've ever taken. But now, in this transitional period, where you're finally free to build a better house with sturdy walls and strong supports and a watertight roof and windows that shut - you lose your whole family. They can't live without a house.

You can't live without one, either. But imagine you come back, decades later, to find the house even more run down and destroyed. And there are people living in it. People who don't seem to care that the house is in such a sorry state - it's the only way they've ever known the house. And even though it's so ruined and rotten, it's far better than no house. They can't live without a house, either. But these squatters, these primitive, unrefined, barely grasping at how to live people. They are still in the house. The house you tried to tear down to build a better one. And maybe if you can just build a new house, a really good house, your family can come back. Or at least you can start to reclaim what you lost. And this miserable, dilapidated, sorry excuse for a shack is nothing but a sore on your memory now. The people inside are nothing compared to your family.

So you knock a giant fucking hole in the side of the wall. Didn't help, but you didn't get caught, and the people inside welcome you with open arms. You say you can help them, you know a lot about the house. Your nature isn't cruel and callous; you took these big risks in the first place because you can't help but care about people. So why does it surprise you so much when you start to care about these people? They're little more than children rooting around in the dirt, struggling to understand the house. They don't even know how bad the house is.

The house can't be left standing the way it is. That's very clear. But tearing it down, to make way for the house you dreamt of building... wouldn't that doom these people too? But can you let them keep living like this, in this filth and muck? You hate this house, this house that's taken everything from you. You want to destroy it and build a better home for all of you. Maybe even your family; if not them, you can build something new and reclaim what you lost trying to fix this house. But the house isn't a blight to the people here now; it's home, as horrid as it is. It's where they've loved and lived and wept.

Do you still try to repair what you can, piece by piece? Hoping your hands can replace the rot faster than it spread? Do you leave the house the way it is, pretend it's better to have this than nothing, even knowing how soon it could be nothing? The people here are sick, cold, dirty - just like your family. They're suffering, even if it is home. How do you handle this?

There are no easy or right answers. If you ignore the rot, it will spread; the effort it will take to fix the house might be more than building a new one, and people will fight you every step of the way to preserve their image of the house's wonky beauty. If you do tear it down, the people here now might die of exposure. If you told them you wanted to tear it down, they'd fight you tooth and nail; if you didn't, they'd still be inside when it came tumbling down. You'd lose more people. How much do you care about these people? Can you even reclaim your family, even if you do build the new house?

There don't feel like any right answers. The only wrong answer feels like inaction. But what action can you possibly take?

[veritaserumrpt]

i decided to compile a list of faces that should be considered banned in roleplays. i used a few different resources in order to help with this list that include helpersofindie, duskrph, and dear-indies as well as plenty of research! under the cut, you will find categories describing the reason why the face claim is banned. 

last updated: 5/15/2017

abuse

alex pettyfer

ashley frangipane ( halsey )

austin carlile

austin kerr

camila cabello

carter reynolds

chris brown

die antwoord

donna hylton

emile hirsch

emma roberts

ian watkins

jai brooks

james franco

jared leto

jason viohni

johnny depp

lena dunham

matt prokop

mark salling

marilyn manson

michael clifford

michael fassbender

nash grier

oli sykes

roman polanski

ronnie radke

sam pepper

sean penn

stephen collins

woody allen

abuse allegations

casey affleck

christian bale

cole sprouse

david jesus torres ( dahvie vanity )

evan peters

jake mcelfresh

jamie campbell bower

jason viohni

justin bieber

kalel cullen

matt prokrop

michael fassbender

nicola peltz

deceased

anton yelchin

brittany murphy

carrie fisher

christina grimmie

cory monteith

heath ledger

paul walker

ANYONE WHO IS DECEASED

doesn’t want to be roleplayed

alicia danielle medina

andrea russett

ashe maree

ashley osborn

baek sumin

bård ylvisåker

bertie gilbert

byung-ho park

cameron ugh

ciara bruce

dajana rads

david ghost sola

david henrie

devin sola

emerald gordon wulf

feryn suicide

hiroki narimiya

ian nelson

jarrod alonge

jayde pierce

jenn cino

justine skye

kalani hilliker

kristina pimenova

lara jade

lena muir

lisa ruocco

no yooho

mark eshleman

mary thomson ( supermaryface )

mckenna grace

mia hays

micahel kuza

morgan joyce

oh ki taek

olivia culpo

orion carolto

plum suicide

sarah urie

shin dong-ho

stephen gomez

sydney sierota

taylor nichole dean

thylane blondeau

trey defranco

twiggx

zoe kimball

underaged

amanda steele

aramis knight

auli’i cravalho

bailee madison

caleb mclaughlin

cameron boyce

camren bicondova

david masouz

finn wolfhard

gaten matarazzo

griffin gluck

jazz jennings

kiernan shipka

kristina pimenova

louis hynes

malina weissman

mia talerico

millie bobby brown

millie ramsey

natalie alyn lind

noah schnapp

quevenzhane wallis

rowan blanchard

sabrina carpenter

trey defranco

willow smith

ANY AND ALL CHILD FACE CLAIMS

supported/defended abusers

adrian brody

amy schumer

benedict cumberbatch — ableism, sexist

gael garcia bernal

harrison ford

laurie holden

meryl streep

mickey rourke

natalie portman

paul bettany

penelope cruz

scarlett johansson — calls dylan farrow “irresponsible” for coming forward with her story of molestation

taylor swift

tilda swinton — whitewashing, defends her actions

racist

azelia banks — homophobic

bella hadid

camila cabello

colton haynes — blackfaced

courtney love — murder conspiracy theory

dylan sprouse — islamphobic

gigi hadid — blackfaced

hailey baldwin

harry styles — sexist, blackfaced

heo chanmi

jennifer lawrence — ableism

kwon jiyon — cultural appropriation, ableism

liam payne — sexist

lily macapinlac 

louis tomlinson — sexist

machine gun kelly

mel gibson — anti-semitic comments, homophobic

taylor marie hill

tyle oakley — transphobic, believes in reverse racism

cultural appropriation

doug young-bae

emeraude toubia

kylie jenner

miley cyrus

selene gomez — uses slurs

vanessa hudgens

other reasons

bella thorne — racist accusations

chris colfer — ableism, fat shaming, sexist

daria sidorchuk — homophobic 

donald glover — rape jokes, sexist, racist, abelist

felix kjellberg ( pewdiepie ) — racist, anti-semitic comments, believes rape jokes are okay

floriana lima — whitewashing 

holland roden — defends colton hayes, rape jokes, supports blackface

iggy azalea — animal abuse accusation, racist and homophobic past that she has since apologized for

lauren emma cook ( felice fawn ) — animal abuse accusation only found on wiki page

lorenzo henrie — whitewashing

martin freeman — uses slurs

megan trainor — uses songs against body positive

michelle rodriguez — transphobic

rena lovelis — rape/pedophilia apologist

robert downey jr. — blackfaced, yellofaced, homophobic, defended mel gibson

theo rossi — whitewashing

tom hardy — whitewashing

uriah shelton — sexist

zayn malik — defends gigi hadid, used STD as an insult