#solas dragonage the guy that you are....

[tortoise-teapot]

hold my hand. come with me on this headcanon journey (open for debate btw there might be lore etc i missed)

ancient elvhenan had no ritual directly equivalent to a marriage. a ceremony to join houses, but that's more about assets. a celebration of union, to announce a significant relationship of any kind (but mostly just an excuse to throw a party). but no i promise you forever.

it just doesn't strike me as something that would be culturally applicable. a lot changes all the time always and forever is a very long time and i feel like they had that figured out

something something

being monogamous or ~forever devoted~ (not the same thing but can be) was seen as the queer identity

[a-drama-addict]

not caring too much about a fandom’s favourite guy is the worst. you’ll think “oh i’ll look into the tag see if anything new and cool’s there” and it’s just that fucking guy again

[heliomanteia]

Maybe it's just my perception of romance (which, safe to say, is not the cishet allo idea of romance at all) but I think there's more to Solas than just being an archetype in a romance storyline. There's so much to solavellan and the concept of the ship is beautiful but damn like every good thing it falls apart in the hands of some fans who, paradoxically, just don't seem to like Solas all that much. Like, as a standalone character.

[bunabi]

My problem with fandom's favourite guy (Solas Dragonage, Cullen Dragonage, Astarion baldursgate etc) isn't the guy themselves, it's the absolute rabidness of their fans and the insistence that they are the best guy.

Like I love all those guys but it's in spite of the Girlies (gn) and not because of them. I'm feeling the same way about Lucanis Dragonage, I am sure I am going to love him when I get a chance to play the game but all the drooling fan obsession around him is annoying as hell and it makes him harder to like. You know?

I get it 🥲

Though I do think there's a point where you've gotta be self-secure & not let other fans impact your experience too much. Most of it's completely harmless fun that's over-magnified by popularity.

It's only when folks impose fanon onto others, or start operating off an us-versus-them mentality, that its over the line imo.

Basically if someone with ar lath ma vhenan in the bio is chillin' minding their own business I will kill whoever bothers them whether I like or agree with their visions or not lol

[vancalox]

giving myself whiplash going between photos of taash and solas dragonage like yeah these are my types btw. whatever solas and taash dragon age have in common thats what im into. those two guys. bc thats bisexuality for you i guess

[avvidstarion]

1, 6, 8, 12, and 17 my hater in arms 💕

The character everyone gets wrong

OKAY this is niche and OUTTA LEFT FIELD but my favorite book of ALL TIME is we have always lived in the castle by shirley jackson and the HATE i see for its protagonist is ALL WRONG. It's in the same vein as like Chara undertale hate (another of my fave characters of all time) where peoples see a CHILD that clearly has a lot going on and are like. this person is irredeemably evil. no they're traumatized

6. Which ship fans are the most annoying?

bloodweave sorry bloodweave like. for why. why is it so popular why is it everywhere. like yeah every origin ship is valid and can be canon but like they both have much more interesting dynamics with other charactes. where is the gale/lae'zel art. hwere is the aslach (ass lack) or the aswylllach (ass will lack) art. why is bloodweave the most popular origin ship

8. common fandom opinion that everyone is wrong about

okay this doesn't exactly fit bc i dont think it's super popular per se but it's on my mind today. i hate seeing fanart of kakashi and gojo together. people always twinkify them and alwasy draw them like they're about to fuck. 1) kakashi is not hot (dont get me wrong i want to fuck him but not cause he's like. physically attractive.) 2) they are not the same person 3) gojo will never be kakashi gojo wishes he was kakashi 4) kakashi would kill that man

OH OH ALSO THAT REMINDS ME I'LL THROW THIS IN HERE TOO. i don't like kakashi/iruka i think it's unfounded. they hardly ever talk. yeah they both love naruto but like can just be his mentor figures separately they don't have to be married. kakashi is married to guy like they are MARRIED. i feel like kakashi/guy would be way more popular if guy was a prettyboy twink (like iruka)

12. the unpopular character that you actually like and why more people should like them

i wanna say wyll but like that shit actually makes me fucking angry and not in a silly haha way so i am going to instead say sera dragonage. now. i know there are a lot of sera dragonage haters out there and there are some things about her that i do not like. however i overall love her and i think she is a tragic case of bad writing and wasted potential. why did they have a straight white guy write a lesbian whose character arc revolves around internalized racism. why does the game literally talk shit about her during her romance arc. literally one of her romance quests is "you love sera and wanna get her something to show her how much you care. go ask your friends for gift advice" and EVERY SINGLE COMPANION OR ADVISOR IS JUST LIKE. I HATE SERA SHES SO ANNOYING WHY ARE YOU DATING HER. UGH. ALSO. the game makes you be so mean to her!! so many times the only dialogue options with her are like "stop talking weird i dont understand you'". also the fact that YOU CAN LITERALLY KICK HER OUT AT ANY TIME??? LIKE NO MATTER WHAT THERE IS ALWAYS A DIALOGUE BUTTON TO KICK HER OUT?? here are reasons why you should like sera:

she is fun trickster! solas fucking wishes he was her.

her subclass is just super fun!! throw jars of bees and fire and shit at your enemies!

she is so genuine and cares so much about what she believes in. i wish that was explored more but as i have said the game literally hates her so.

she loves you so much!!!! she marries you!!!!!!!!!

i actualy really like her voice and the way she talks. shes just fun!

she's autistic <3

17. there should be more types of this fic/art

more people should be drawing gale and halsin and karlach fat, for one. also everyone else in the party but like especially those three. larian the fact that you have zero fat people in your game sucks supremely and you should feel bad about it.

actually draw more characters as fat anyway.

[seeker-ophelia]

But wait there's more.

Forewarned,

#Long Post, and also a (bad) Literary Analysis by an Electrician.

Okay, I've been in angst for so long I re-watched a much of older Jane Austin moves on Netflix and... you guys... they're all solavellan.

Solas & Predjudice

A slew of miscommunications and “prejudices” cause a kerfuffle for the Bennet family. The main couple, Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy, eventually find love after throwing away their pride, and the prejudices they heard about the other from untrustworthy sources. All of the attraction between the two is conveyed without them touching, halted broken voices, the infamous “hand,” etc.

Austen is thought to have taken her title from a passage in Fanny Burney's Cecilia (1782), a novel she is known to have admired: "The whole of this unfortunate business," said Dr Lyster, "has been the result of PRIDE and PREJUDICE. ... if to PRIDE and PREJUDICE you owe your miseries, so wonderfully is good and evil balanced, that to PRIDE and PREJUDICE you will also owe their termination."

The American novelist Anna Quindlen observed in an introduction to an edition of Austen's novel in 1995: Pride and Prejudice is also about that thing that all great novels consider, the search for self. And it is the first great novel that teaches us this search is as surely undertaken in the drawing room making small talk  (hello, DragonAge Dialogue) as in the pursuit of a great white whale...

Next is Jane Eyre, in which the male Protag, Edward, might be the best comparison to Solas I can imagine.

Jane (well spoken, soft, witty, good, kind) falls in love with a loner but rich landowner (Edward). There is something fishy about him tho, we are led to believe there's something dangerous/off about him, if he is housing a demon/animal, or is in fact a demon himself. They attempt to marry, but the ceremony is stopped. Its discovered "the demon" is his wife, a mentally unstable woman who Edward married to save. He literally calls her “My own demon.” He wants to protect this deranged woman (out of duty? misplaced duty?) but loves Jane deeply. Jane runs away, makes a life for herself, feel guilt, then goes back to him to find his house burned, the woman dead, and Edward blind. They kiss, you assume happy ending.

Edward thought to protect Jane by NOT FUCKING TALKING TO HER Bro like come on what are you even... like you should have fucking told her. Gods damn it Solas Edward just use your outdoor voice and talk to the pretty lady.

They do end up together, but only after Edward has gone through great physical and emotional strife, pretty much of his own doing, I think we can all agree.

And I'd be remis to not talk about Persuasion, because the scene is set so perfectly for Veilguard.

In Persuasion, the book starts up several years after protag Anne breaks off her Engagement with Love Interest (TM) Captain Frederick Wentworth.

Once AGAIN, through NOT FUCKING TALKING TO EACH OTHER, they think the other has moved on, and they try not to intrude on the others life. But (in the movie), Wentworth writes her a beautiful confession letter, which I will put here with some *minor* modifications:

Dearest Inquisitor Levellan, I can listen no longer in silence. Vhenan, you pierce my soul. Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I am half agony, half hope. I know too much time has passed, and you have moved on, but I will never forgive myself if I do not tell you this. You alone have brought me to heel. For you alone, I think and plan. But of course, you have not seen this, how could you? Because your love has not lasted as long as mine. Vhenan, I have loved no one but you and I don’t think I ever will. I have thought many times about how to tell you this. But the pain of a love unrequited (except for Soals it’s the pain of perceived duty/guilt) rendered me silent.  Tell me not that I am too late. My love for you has never faltered. Yours, eternal, Solas Fen’Harel What is even your real name just tell me cuz its NOT FUCKING WISDOM YOU DUMB EGG

Solas is so ANCIENT, and GDL voices him SO WELL, with that welsh-tinge, its so hard NOT to put this love story in with the romance classics. Especially with the main theme being JUST TALK TO EACH OTHER YOU FUCKING IDIOTS.

I am just hoping and praying and huffing that copium that we get a happy ending, and not a sad one.

Or even better, through our interactions with Solas' memories, that we get to choose.

remember recent posts about that scene?

it was mostly about a solavellan reunion

it suddenly hit me and unblocked a bonus fear: solavellan ending just like in the movie/book. like a bit melancholic yet happy ending in which love wins and future seems much brighter than before and... then you found out it isn't real, it's just a story told by someone else as a try to make things right for them and bring a happiness because they deserved it even if the reality was never kind to them.

Varric, a storyteller, if you will try to make this Atonement thing to me, I will find you and I will kill you.

Movie: "Atonement", 2007

Book: "Atonement", Ian McEwan, 2001

[boo1a4]

Get to know me tag!

I was tagged by the other 2/3 of the newly named wonhankwan?(is that what we’re going with??) squad @sambashua @s-lay-ing I love you guys sm it hurts 💜❤️🖤👩‍👧‍👧👩‍👩‍👧

rules: answer the questions and tag 9 people you want to get to know better.

relationship status: Single forever bb favorite color:  Corn flower blue is perdy but I like all colors! lipstick or chapstick:  I used to be really into makeup but not so much these days (I can't be bothered honestly) so I'm gonna have to go chapstick, I dont wear it either though lol. last song you listened to: Snuper - Its Raining last movie you watched:  I never watch movies lol Idk why??  so I have literally no idea... So I'm just say one that I've been wanting to rewatch! The 2005 Joe Wright Pride and Prejudice I fucking cry. if you think p&p is lame you can exit. top 3 characters:  Ive answered this question in a few other tags so I'm gonna do some different ones! Honestly any character from The six of crows series, Steve Rogers (im still salty about that hydra shit),  Solas from Dragonage Inquisition snarky hot elf yep thats my shit. top 3 ships: Ronan and Adam from The Raven Cycle!! my beans!!!, Elliot Alderson X Happiness/Stability/Sanity, and my very favorite pair Verkwan/Boonon I love this friendship it hurts me. books you are currently reading: Lol what is reading? I really need to get back into reading that like all I ever used to do... its so sad! 

top 5 musicals: Sweeny todd, Grease, Across the Universe, Hercules, Aladdin ?? I dont really watch musicals honestly lol

Im tagging : @yooncheoly @junhee-didthat @kae-popx (lol you guys are probably flooded with tags I'm sorry your my go to’s lol) @grapefruitshua @kingofjeju @insecure-trash-bag I can't think of nine so if you wanna do this go ahead! also if you dont want to do this you dont have too!

[im-a-creator-im-a-sandwitch]

oh...my...god... Kaz mf Brekker (idk how his surname is spelled) every time I look up #wesper THERE'S FUCKING KAZ AGAIN WHY IS HE HERE

not caring too much about a fandom’s favourite guy is the worst. you’ll think “oh i’ll look into the tag see if anything new and cool’s there” and it’s just that fucking guy again

[cipher-of-the-round-table]

I know he’s cool, and with Sonic 3 and Sonic x Shadow Generations.

But he’s just a bit… oversaturated at times.

not caring too much about a fandom’s favourite guy is the worst. you’ll think “oh i’ll look into the tag see if anything new and cool’s there” and it’s just that fucking guy again