#tas talks

[queenaeducan]

i'm writing the breach closing chapter of my fic and having just read the datamined files (spoilers in the link) i'm

You respect him, and are there to help him with whatever he needs - especially when he needs guidance about being the face of a resistance. (General Felassan)

it's not 1:1 but felassan acting as a guiding figure to solas while he's grappling with the burden of leadership/near-worship vs solas offering the herald advice for how to do the same??? i'm crying?????

[tasberry]

So....what do you guys think their transformation/detransfomation phrases are gonna be?

Listen, if Trash Moth got a milquetoast edgy one like "Dark Wings Rise/Fall", Shadybug and Claw Noir need new ones.

Please Zag, I need the cringiest ones ya got. I need my soul to leave my body from the cringe.

[jordanshenessy]

I’m also thinking about how Hennessy literally dreamt up a version of her without all the trauma (or at least the biggest trauma) and watched right in front of her eyes all the potential she had and lived with it for years :)

[queenaeducan]

Tags from this post. (minor spoilers in the post)

I'm sure most of us have these scenes burned into our brains, but at :38 you can hear him strongly imply he's been in a situation like this before (just that it happened in the Fade, for some reason, don't think too hard abt it, Lavellan)

underappreciated moments: the ability to apologise or affirm solas’s interest when he’s hesitant in the wake of your first kiss.

[lauradonnelly]

JOE LOCKE & KIT CONNOR BTS of Teen Vogue

[backwzzds]

AND IF U KICK OUT ALL BLACK WOMEN IN THE COUNTRY, THEN WHO IS GONNA RUN AOT TUMBLR, @tumblr ????

oh that’s not—IN THE SENSE THAT

[queenaeducan]

I got tagged, so I'll do my best to help!

Admittedly I mostly feel it out myself. He doesn't speak in it as often as ppl assume, typically in conversations that evoke the Fade/dreams. So in regular dialogue, the best advice is to just listen to all his dialogue/banter. Cole's dialogue is helpful, too, as the two share enough in common that in banter they're sort of speaking a second language that the other companions can't parse.

A lot of the musical quality of his cadence when he's not speaking in iambic tetrameter is owed to his Welsh accent (Merrill also sounds quite musical for example) and slightly archaic manner of speech. Literature like LOTR can be helpful reference for expanding that speaking pattern. Having his accent down in your head can also go a long way to making otherwise normally written lines sound a little musical.

As for when you do want to write with iambic tetrameter, you can toe the line between natural-sounding dialogue and poetry when he gets in that mode. "I lay in dark and dreaming sleep" for example might have otherwise been written with an "a" in front of "dark," but it was omitted to keep the meter.

But the best advice I can give is to just count syllables and say it out loud. This is decent advice for all dialogue, but when you're approaching poetry/lyrical stuff it's all the more important as it is meant to be performed/spoken.

Actually you know what

For folks who have been writing Solas for a while (in fanfic, rp, etc) could I get you to share some tips on how to write his cadence? I know it's Hallelujah, I know you can try to match the words to the song, but I feel like I often write myself into a corner on the last two lines.

[spaciebabie]

sun: my bad dawg.

[queenaeducan]

Ppl saying mournwatch rook and emmrich are freak4freak but non-mournwatch rook who has no background in necromancy still sees a man turn his head into a light up skeleton and decides they can't not fuck him so they're not beating the freak4freak allegations either

[queenaeducan]

There's plenty out there! It may be harder to find but it does exist.

For Solas/Cadash I know @crackinglamb has written stuff! @manka-on-main is no longer active, but their AO3 cartadwarfwithaheartofgold has Solas/Cadash.

For Solas/Trevelyan I know there's actually a fair amount out there but I know @plisuu specifically has an M!Tevelyan/Solas ship.

@shaykai has Solas/Adaar stuff

As for non-f!Solavellan ships! There's @oxygenforthewicked and @neonteeth, I love both of their works and their create for non-binary!Solavellan and m!Solavellan, respectively. @ringneckedpheasant creates for other fandoms now, but has some great m!Solavellan, too. Also, there's me. You can find my non-binary!Solavellan easier over on @queenaeducan-writes.

This isn't a comprehensive list btw, but somewhere to start for anyone who is reading the notes and is interested!

I am kinda surprised that on tumblr people stick with straight Solas x cisfem Lavellan and nothing else.

Like it's tumblr! It doesn't matter if it isn't canon, I'm just surprised people aren't interested in any other race, in exploring Solas's knowledge and his impact on those races too.

[tasberry]

You know, watching all the volumes I missed out on in one go has been really interesting.

Initially, I thought Ruby being with Oscar was maybe just gonna be a one sided ship on Oscar's behalf?

I thought it was cute as heck, and I loved the idea of two kids, with such extraordinary pressures put upon them, just... being normal dorks with each other.

Maybe that's boring, but that was kinda why I liked it, you know?

They're both two characters that have so much to live up to, and their circumstances are the furthest thing from boring....aaaand yet the relationship they could have would just be the epitome of the "couple that gets nervous to even hold hands" trope.

On my way to get caught up, seeing everything up until last weeks devastating cliffhanger...I don't get people saying they can't see the Rosegarden implications?

It's not subtle about it at all. Hell, even people I know ship Ruby with someone else (or no one at all) have pointed out that there has been a spotlight on how important Oscar and Ruby are to each other.

Even if the characters don't totally get why that is themselves, the narrative and animation choices keep drawing back to it, you know?

Sure, you could point out Oscar and Ozma merging and the can of worms that that argument brings. That's fair.

That being said, however, I don't think they're going to end up being merged.

Even if they come close to it, I don't see it being permanent or that Oscar would lose himself or become a second wheel with Ozma taking the reigns.

With all the emphasis put on Oscar being his own person and Ozma genuinely not wanting the incarnation process to continue....why would the story pull a 180 and seemingly go against its own messaging? Being your own person and breaking toxic cycles seems to be an important theme here. Especially with what we've seen in V9 so far.

[jordanshenessy]

I didn’t have energy to write it out when it happened like weeks ago but I turned around for TWO SEC to help another student and another one of my students comes and goes “look teacher, I cut my hair!” and in my head I was like WTF WHY DID U DO THAT HOW DO I EXPLAIN THIS TO UR GRANDMA but she was like “my hair was bothering me in my eyes so I just cut it” and I was like ohhhh “okay cool, glad ur feeling better, but next time you wanna cut ur hair or you feel it bothering you come tell me and we’ll figure something else out okay?” and she was like okay! And walked away like she didn’t just messily chop off her front hair pieces

Like props to her for exercising her autonomy and everything but I’m pretty sure her grandma had a heart attack that day when she came home from school <3

[damniteggs]

a re-read of Friends Like These got me emotional and decided to throw my (somewhat benevolent) rottmnt oc, Charlie, at Timothy for human friend/machine shop TA support.

Timothy is @pinetreevillain ‘s son and was only abducted momentarily for another doodle with heavy duty machinery.

PS: dealing with CNC ghosts is a mechanical engineering right of passage (and so is having a kooky TA that claims to hear the voices in their head). Might do more of Charlie later?

[jane-trademark]

tails got doom to run on belle

[thebusylilbee]

les ami-es... JE JUBILE !!!

[aro-culture-is]

aro culture is getting really annoyed with the relationships unit in your sociology class because the whole thing is just 100% amatonormativity.

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if think your teacher, professor, and/or TAs might be interested in discussing the concept, I have some idea of bringing up the topic?

I'd personally say something like, "Hi, During our section in sociology around relationships, I couldn't help but think it would be interesting to discuss how a sociological theory called "amatonormativity" might relate to these lessons. I gathered a few sources from the professor who coined it, a thesis written on it, and a law review written about the connection between it and laws in the USA. There's some connections between its use in feminist thought and in queer theories, and I'd love to know your thoughts about it. I personally was thinking of when [specific statement] was said, and how I would apply this theory. I hope it's as interesting to you as it is to me."

Coiner's current webpage: https://elizabethbrake.com/amatonormativity/

Thesis: https://vc.bridgew.edu/honors_proj/330/ (click download in upper right hand corner for the PDF, depending on the individual it may be worth downloading and sending that rather than a link)

Law Review: https://uclawreview.org/2022/06/09/amatonormativity-in-the-law-an-introduction/