#the Paladin speaks

[wearepaladin]

I have never liked bringing up politics here. Even as I look this over as I write it, my choice of language lacks names, parties and associations beyond emotion and ideals, because it’s where I live, and how I can connect with reality and my own heart. Whether that’s a strength or a weakness, you can decide for yourself.

For all my love of running this blog as I have for nearly ten years now, I generally don’t get into the fray or to put forward my thoughts. I value privacy for myself and others, and I l feel I don’t need to expose who I am as a person to encourage others find ways to better themselves or to find ways to tell stories about people doing their best against the darkness with whatever light they can find.

But there are times when the light is hard to find, and I am afraid of the more immediate future and its consequences than I care to admit. My choices and my encouragement of others to live a virtuous life feels hollow in the face of a humanity that will forever conflict with itself over what these even mean or if they even matter in the face of more basic day to day needs or the promise of fortune. Or that the very real consequences that will permanently affect lives or end them are not something that we can wait out with grace for the days things get better, when there are people who will not share those days with us.

It’s hard to find light in the face of that. By its nature, it illuminates but cannot be held. We need only close our eyes to it and it is gone. And if enough doors are closed, and shutters slammed shut, we can even block out the sun. But these are things we choose to do to ourselves and others. We can just as easily choose not to do them.

In the face of that, I can only decide to keep reaching for light and encouraging others to do the same. In the immediate, this is a small consolation, even for me. It’s hard to see history repeating itself and not despair. But in the long run, we do more good by continuing the fight regardless, both to ourselves and the world around us. To the world beyond, it’s because absent our efforts, things can only get worse. To ourselves, it’s the quiet fire that can sustain against any winter darkness. The soul deep assurance that you were true to our better selves in the face of it all.

Travel with the light, friends. Don’t close your eyes to it.

[vaultboyenthusiast]

what it feels like romancing any male fallout 4 companion

[sosorryjack]

Does the game really expect me to believe that not one person in the CommonWealth even TRIED to get with this guy?????

WHAT Do yOU MEAN he’s never been asked out??? Or at least attempted???? LOOK AT HIM!

[twinsunsintatooine]

maybe the early june was the friends we made along the way

[caemidraws]

yea...

[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

[recongladius]

guess my favourite fallout: new vegas character, EXTREMELY hard edition.

[ heart pin, sticker, and charm (RIGHT) from byChunklet, charm (LEFT) from lelelegowares ] /etsy

MTG card is official material

Ignore the tape marks on the table ^_^

[localfanbaselurker]

I watched s5e2 and was shocked to find out how bad you guys (I suppose I am now part of you guys) were robbed of black paladin lance

Look at him leadering all over the place

[yourlocalbeetle]

fallout is regularly sending me through all five stages of grief

[sleepless-in-starbucks]

thinkin about all the ways that xenk and edgin parallel/complement each other

like. theyve both suffered terrible loss. edgin's is what drove him away from the harpers and 'doing the right thing'. xenk's is what drove him towards that very thing. edgin found a family despite his loss. every time we see xenk, he is doing his work alone. edgin and his family defeated the same evil that tore xenk from his. xenk brings to justice the man who nearly tore edgin's family apart. they are different sides of the same coin do you see

[jellisdraws]

So I’ve made a new DnD character.

He’s a noble treeant Vengeance Paladin/Swashbuckler rogue multiclass.

As a young sapling his parents were cut down before him leaving the opera. Now he seeks Justice in a world that denied it to him.

His name?

Spruce Wayne

Aka

The Boughman

[wearepaladin]

Out of curiosity: have any of you ever run into or know anyone that is averse with other DnD classes like some people are with paladins? You know, the paladins are just cops crowd, etc etc.

[vaultboyenthusiast]

as someone who is a fallout 4 fan the writing falls incredibly short with every companion at many points throughout the game so I want to know who you think got it the worst!

[sosorryjack]

Danse always had shit to say, dude 😭 curie was being excited and whimsy and he pulls this out of his power armor

Like why would you say that

[manebioniclegali]

I had to lol, this would never work on Twitter (too few options and literally nobody would see my poll anyway, I just can't make my way into the algorithm to get recommended in the topic). Unfortunate that there's 12 slots but 13 songs, so I had to make an executive decision as to who would share the same slot. If that one somehow outpaces other ones, I might do another poll ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[sevvys]

⠀⠀⠀⠀┄⠀girlsband && wifeguy 。

⠀⠀⠀⠀❜ ⁔ an identity related to being a girl husband (girlsband) and a guy wife. similar to girlhusband and malewife. ♡

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