#sorry I have this unpopular opinion

[lagunapoint]

Dragon Age: The Veilguard | dev. BioWare

I finished the game twice, back-to-back, oh yes. I’ve seen a lot of positive reviews for Veilguard, but I’ve seen even more critical ones. I also felt some difficulties regarding the plot, the narrative, the characters, but, I didn’t want to leave critical posts here. It seems I broke down once, haha, but, I accepted Veilguard for what the game is. I love this part of the series with all its chaos and detachment. Just, you know, Veilguard became a kind of safe zone.

If I want to play as a grumpy villain, I’ll launch DAO. If I need to understand once again that sometimes circumstances don’t depend on me, and shit happens anyway, I’ll turn on DA2. If I need to save the world, experience the influence of a religious system, drown in the codex, and try to live through a story where the self is erased, I’ll start Inquisition. And when I get tired again in the new year, I’ll turn on Veilguard, and my brain will get the dose of endorphins it needs :)

I love Dragon Age I love Veilguard And let’s stick closer because there’s so much crap in the world. And also, I’m hooked on the hair in Veilguard it just gives me some kind of aesthetic pleasure. xoxo Amen.

Now shall we go have tea? Intriguing coffee? What do you like? And we'll read your new chapter or look at the art together💗 

[wishfulsketching]

Some not so serious doodles about the idea where Silco survived and Warwrick!Vander found him. I did these as fanservice for ME! Especially the clothes thing

(have fun trying to figure out the reading order of the third sketch dump)

[alpacacare-archive]

day twoe ah haha

[slybluehologhost]

NITRO CHiRAL fair Purchase Bonus Postcards [2024]

Figured I’d take a minute to scan the postcards that came with the merch I had preordered from eeo! If I’m not mistaken, I should only be missing the café one… which is likely because I didn’t order any of the café designs, haha. I love how cute all the new outfits are — I’d probably buy them all if they ever released official versions someday! These scans are available in better quality (along with their backs & front/back PDF sets) here.

[mothmanavenue]

can i confess something else that will absolutely get me stoned in the town square since im dropping my unpopular opinions. I don’t like altean broadsword Lance. i already disliked red paladin Lance. the broadsword was like rubbing salt in the wound. why couldn’t he have his own niche. why was his character development just making him keith. i understand that it was like “he accepts that he doesn’t have to be a leader and excels as a co-leader and you can find happiness that way yada yada yada”. but you could’ve done that without making him keith. also now give him something unique, cool, that falls in line with his sniper bit. i’m not saying just give him another gun, im saying give him something quiet and lethal. like a garotte. yeah i want garotte lance.

i yap a lot more in my notes by the way if you were interested in other unpopular opinions. don’t send me hate messages or comments i won’t read it and will block viciously i also will not be debating this this is my hill to die on <3

[dollypopup]

look, y'all can all gleeful cancel me for this #unpopular opinion if you want, but even IF Nicola wasn't nominated for the comedy section and it was her and Luke head to head in best drama?

I'd still vote for him

because I genuinely and truly think his acting is INCREDIBLE. and I think he's one of the better actors on Bridgerton full stop. I love the nuance he brings to Colin as a character, I love how he so fully embodies him as a character and that Colin has similarities to him, but is fully different at the same time. Colin does not talk like Luke, walk like Luke, even fidget like Luke. He has his own character beats and yes, sometimes parts of Luke bleed into him, such as with the head tilt, but the voice is different, softer, the movements of Colin as a character are distinct to me, he delivers humor well ('you'd already be dead?') and his decisions for Colin as a character are ICONIC (I'm never forgetting that dress adjustment with specific fingers was all him). Colin had a harder go of it than a lot of leads because his story isn't as loud- he doesn't get a lot of big, dramatic moments to have big dramatic acting, and honestly the show didn't give him a lot of screentime in the first place. But when he does have poignant emotional moments? They feel REAL. He isn't given as much time with the audience as other characters are and he doesn't go for the broad strokes with his acting, so sometimes I think he can get lost in some of the louder acting, but that doesn't negate the fact that he's GOOD. He's a good ass actor. He plays Colin like Colin is an actual person.

And for me? For me, that hits home. Even with truncated time on his own season (yeah, I'm still bitter), he delivers every single time. Anger, betrayal, longing, heartache, silly awkward humor, heat- and he does all of those emotions BELIEVABLY. I watched Luke Newton depict Colin falling in love so beautifully and so realistically, I HAVE NO CHOICE but to give him his flowers. Just because he's not as heavy in the hustle as other actors are (please remember this is a neurodivergent actor with anxiety and dyslexia, mental health is important and it's good he took a break ) doesn't mean he's not a fantastic actor. And if you've ever seen his depiction in The Shape of Things? The man is excellent.

I think Bridgerton has a lot of 'big moves' actors. And that's fine. Many people prefer that. But I prefer the nuanced moments and the softer beats of it all, and I think if the camera had allowed us as an audience a longer glimpse into moments with Colin, we'd all be even more floored. I can watch gifs of his scenes over and over and over again and find something new every time.

So y'all can sit there and accuse others of a 'pity vote' but idgaf. Luke Newton is one of the best actors on that show. And I stand by that. Eat me.

[dreamspring]

chose not to speak on this at the time but actually i truly despise the bbc ghosts ending. im sorry it was so dumb and made the entire previous episode feel absolutely pointless. alison CHOSE to STAY because that’s her FAMILY!!! there is no reason they couldn’t have continued to live in the haunted manor pls

[captainjonnitkessler]

I'm going to become extremely anti-AI but for digital art

"You don't even mix your own colors? The computer just generates whatever color you want? Don't call yourself an artist if you aren't going to put in the work to make your own colors."

"So you click this button and it automatically fills in the whole area with color? Look at this painting and how the brushstrokes are layered so carefully to create shading and texture. A bucket tool can't replicate the human intention that goes into a real painting."

"I can't believe the internet is so flooded with all this digital "art". You can't even find a real oil painting or a pencil sketch anymore, it's just all this computer-made bullshit that people just threw together in Procreate"

"You drew a picture of SOMEONE ELSE'S character? That is LITERAL THEFT! They didn't consent to you using their art like this! I can't wait for the government to crack down on using other people's IP, it's absolutely disgusting that you can just steal someone else's work like this. Only a talentless techbro hack would think that plagiarizing someone else's character could be art."

[luvevee]

Getting into Mouthwashing is awesome until you wanna autistic babble to others about it only to realize most of the convos discussing the game are 95% about Jimmy and nobody else, please I want variety

[eriexplosion]

It's incredibly stupid to still be thinking so much about that Death Note post but I think it's just made me sooooo fucking aware of how tired I am of how common dehumanization tactics are on the internet. And how much people don't even seem aware they're doing it. Literally cannot count the number of times I've seen a post about how we all need to care about each other that if you click on OPs blog it takes like 10 minutes to find something about how X group of people deserves to be flayed alive or what the fuck ever. We should all care about each other! No one deserves to suffer! Except the Bad Group of course. Don't feel sorry for them, or we might have to assume you're also Bad.

(Ironic that a site that hates cops so much will wallow in the same dehumanization that said cops are indoctrinated with btw.)

Like sorry, I don't actually think any group of people deserves to suffer or die. Zero exceptions. Don't care what variable gets filled in. Suffering is 100% of the time something that should be minimized, in all cases, with all people. Even when you can't bring it down to zero, because circumstances don't always let that happen. No group of people is collectively guilty, no human being ever loses their personhood, and no one deserves suffering.

[zukkaoru]

Saw the beast chuuatsu fanart and now i need your opinion on them (beast and in general) because hmmmm that's interesting 👀

honestly.. the idea of beast chuuatsu interests me more than canonverse chuuatsu. canonverse chuuatsu is like. i want them to interact i want them to be sparring buddies or something i think that would be fun. but i don't think they would be interested in dating each other

beast chuuatsu is like.. finding some semblance of light in the darkness you're trapped in. it's having someone to lean on even when you know such attachments are dangerous.

and then, it's helping each other heal. learning how to outlive someone who made themself your entire life only to use you and then throw themself away without sparing a thought to how it might affect you. it's atsushi learning to live without the collar that suppresses the tiger, always afraid of hurting someone. and chuuya, who no longer has a way to shut down corruption, knowing that he holds the power to destroy both himself and the world around him with just a few words. it's the two of them learning to accept the potential for destruction that resides inside of them, and learning how to move forward together

[the-rat-eatery]

I’ve seen some outrageous takes in fandom but some helluva boss fans truly have a way of shocking me

[ducksinspaceadventure]

Unpopular opinion, but I kind of prefer Huey, Dewey and Louie from the DuckTales reboot when they become teenagers and then adults to all wear pants. I'm just embarrassed to see that no one is wearing or that one is wearing and the others are not. It makes me cringe. Sorry.

[rius-cave]

would Adam even mind having kids? with a specific person? that specific person who's the ruler of hell? that one specific person?

The concept of Adam and Lucifer having children in the first place is a mixed feeling for me, anon. On one hand, yeah it's hell and almost anything is possible for Lucifer, but I really don't think he would have any more children period gjsjfBDBS. He's been. With Lilith for centuries and only had one child. As for Adam, I doubt the possibility has even crossed his mind.

That being said, don't let my opinion stop you, I know Lucifer (or Adam) getting pregnant is a huge meme in the fandom and people love making fanchilds lol so keep on rocking

[slooshee]

Oh… that’s Sunday’s ENG VA doubling down on his support for Chris Niosi

[maslows-pyramid-scheme]

Can you explain more what you mean when you say “an identity based framework is inconsistent with material analysis”?

I'm incredibly critical of the idea that simply having a particular social identity renders one 'oppressed' or 'oppressed enough' to speak on particular issues; if your biggest grievance is how people speak to/about you and not your material reality, then you're doing comparatively well.

For context, I think there are four main forms of structural disadvantage that we should structure our discourse around:

being institutionalised on the basis of one's group, e.g. imprisonment, confinement in certain places like residential schools, confinement in mental health facilities;

being subject to violence on the basis of one's group, e.g. domestic violence, conversion therapy, forceful removal from family/culture;

being impoverished on the basis of one's group, e.g. living in poverty (not just being poor), being prevented from earning or owning money; and

lacking institutional representation, e.g. in politics, in administrative decision-making, in planning decisions.

I find that a lot of online 'activists' can't actually describe what they believe without relying on an identity framework; they'll say that [x] is oppressed, but they won't be able to explain how [x] fits into any of those categories (or whether there should be a fifth category) - they'll just assume that material consequence follows group identification.