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[sabrebash]

Celebrity Lookalike

[forgettable-au]

CHAPTER TWO | The Scientific Method

FORGETTABLE-AU (page 73-77)

* His brother is annoying.

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[0ccuria]

Saw a tag on my post about low approval Halsin that said he sounded like Gordon Ramsay when angry and, well... 💀

[todaysbird]

the way my jaw actually dropped when i heard someone in our work zoom meeting refer to a customer who had sadly committed suicide as ‘unaliving himself’…we need to stop this…do you truly think this is the best way to address situations like this

[thehavster]

cat thing

[theweeweecreature]

“the missing childrens incident” is such a stupid fucking name, is that even canon?

[unhappy-sometimes]

the most important stuff

inspired by @dailytwiyorprompts prompt “time traveler au”

unso remembers how to draw traditionally, not smudge, and take decent photos challenge (level: impossible)

[ask-the-pioneer]

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[sundial-bee-scribbles]

[redysetdare]

Ppl will say being AroAce is boring but personally I think the fact that I'm not like a majority of people and have a different experience of the world than them makes me rather unique and interesting.

[lizzybeeee]

DATV explaining the 'Regret Prison'

A REGRET PRISON IS STUPID AND I'M TIRED OF PRETENDING THAT ITS NOT

TL;DR: a prison can serve as a metaphor but it shouldn't be entirely comprised of a metaphor.

From what I understood from what the game gave us: Solas has made a new prison to move the God's too - since bringing down the veil would free them from the Black City. This new prison is separate(?) from the fade or so far removed/contained that bringing down the veil would not compromise it...apparently. We interrupt his ritual, Solas gets sucked into the new prison he made, and the elven gods are free.

When Rook gets kicked into the fade they're physically there - which means it's a physical place in the fade, like how it was a mixture of physical/thought when we entered it in DAI. Which makes sense - the gods are real and living beings, they need to be in a place, there must be some aspect of physicality to it.

Alright, cool, it's a Black City 2.0 - I assume it's better defended to prevent people breaking in/out again?

NOPE.

We get there and it's a 'regret prison'?? It's tied to the regrets of those within it? Composed of regrets??? Solas had to wait for the right moment for Rook to be sufficiently 'full of regret' that they could switch places?

So is the prison tied to Solas's regrets? If so, how can Rook escape? The prison seems to work around the idea that it relies on the regrets of the person it's holding to work - which is how/why Rook was able to be trapped and later free themselves (along with whatever remains of the team apparently being able to do something on their end, not that we hear about it).

WHICH IS STUPID!

Are you telling me the prison intended to hold to megalomaniac elven gods was going to imprison them based on their own regrets? Is Solas assuming that Elgar'nan and Ghilan'nain are as self-pitying as he is? They'd break out quicker than Rook did! He made a time out corner for the elven gods to sit in and gave them an out if they reflected on their emotions/regrets or decided that they don't regret what they did. Elgar'nan, a spirit of tyranny, is not going to 'regret' his actions - he is going to justify them by telling himself and others that he knows what's best.

We can come across some of Solas's regrets in the prison if you run around a bit and explore:

Remnant of Failure - talking about the orb from Inquisition.

Remnant of Parting - talking about Mythal

Remnant of Reflection - more vague, talking about the Titans I believe.

So maybe he altered it - maybe he intended the prison to be 'locked' with his own regrets because after a millennia of having a pity party he still can't bring himself to self-reflect and look to the future. But what if Solas died? Or if his guilt lessened - would it diminish the strength of the regret prison?

We already have pre-established lore (though DATV has shown they don't really give a crap tbh) that once the being that has claimed/altered an area of the fade is slain, it's influence diminishes both in and outside of the fade. So if the prison was tied to his regrets then it would require Solas to basically live forever to keep it stable - especially if he brought down the veil and removed the one barrier that kept the world and the fade apart.

Rook and Solas needed some assistance to exit - but it doesn't seem like it was much! Solas used his dagger and Rook just...got out through a fade tear? This is Solas's 'more secure' second prison? It has a worse track record than the Black City! If Rook - who is not an elven god - managed to escape the regret prison what is to stop anyone else from breaking in and out of the prison?

And what did Solas intend to do with the blight - the bulk of which is apparently in the black city?? If bringing down the Veil would free the gods in the black city doesn't that mean that the blight would also be released?! Did he have a plan? Why does he go fully ahead with bringing down the veil at the end if the black city is still there and filled with blight?!

I get it: the 'regret prison' is a metaphor for how Solas holds onto the past and how Rook can move past their regrets and grow. He's trapped by the past - it's a prison. Cool. But this prison is supposed to by a physical place to contain the gods - not just to solely contain Solas. The mission is literally called 'A Cage for Gods'.

The Black City is an actual place that's so far out of reach of anywhere else in the fade that no mage can ever reach it while in dreams - let alone physically, which was only done once and took tremendous effort/blood sacrifices. It made sense - it was cool to see floating in the sky in DAO!

Though it's not said specifically, it's strongly implied that Arlathan is the Black City. You can see in the concept art that floating elven city is exactly the same as the black city in DAO! It's this foreboding thing just lurking in the sky - a constant reminder of the sin that led to the horrors of the blights and darkspawn. A real place with lore and history that also serves as a metaphor for the hubris and destruction of those who call themselves gods and act as tyrants -> for both the evanuris and the magisters.

I WANT TO UNDERSTAND THIS BIOWARE!

WHAT IS THIS KINGDOM HEARTS NONSENSE???!!

[ropes3amthoughts]

I decided to look up the meaning of the Thistle flower and one of the things was it was believed to have magical properties and I was all like “haha Ryoko Kui named the elf with magical powers after a flower believed to have magical flowers how silly��� and then I see this.

You’re fucking kidding me. The flower is a symbol of protection and that’s all Thistle wants to do. The fact the article says “lovely little flower” too is flooring me because holy shit it’s him. Thistle is a little elf just trying to protect everyone.

Wait omfg the people who bought him named him. He was meant to protect everyone that’s what they expected of him that was his purpose. He was yelled at when he couldn’t protect everyone and he was praised when he did and that’s why he gets so stressed he was conditioned to protect them 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

He was meant to protect them and only that that’s why he was named that ough I am gonna be ill 😭😭😭 Thistleeeeeee 😭😭😭😭😭

[sunanthonyz]

fellows what to do when your furry @bluepatt friend is kinnie of walking fluffy marshmallow hippo-

[corviiids]

ok i don't know how to say this in a way that doesn't sound nuts but i have the two mini nendo L and Light figures and consistently since i have owned them, when i am not in the room and absolutely nobody has been in the room let alone touched anything near them, L will fall over

this has happened so many times now and it's almost always L. it was Light like one time. but every other time has been L. he is seated perfectly stably, it never happens when im watching, and it always happens when absolutely nobody has even been near them all day. i have put them in different places in different configurations next to each other and without fail L will tumble over when im not looking. i just don't know what to make of this

[a-star-is-here]

Jayvik is an example of fate v free will

They were both meant to die but these (gay) mfers refuse to let go of one another and death always finds them eventually. Viktor is repeatedly killed and revived against his will and each outcome is worse than the last.

Jayce was meant to die as a child in that snowstorm but was saved by viktor, who could’ve chosen not to save him to break the loop, but ultimately did. Jayce goes on to almost being killed by the missile but only survived because of mel’s ARCANE MAGIC. He is hexcorized later on and infected by the anomaly which many have pointed out meant the man was dying already anyways, or would transform into smth like viktor.

Death keeps running after the two, but is it because that fate wants them to die or is it a result of their own choices of not being able to let go of each other, ultimately resulting in their ambiguous fate?