#the warden holes

[thecourtofgraywaves]

Early 2000s red-headed Disney villains from Texas who look kinda gay.

[theminecraftbee]

i love how decked out has made me increasingly less afraid of things like ravagers and wardens, meant to be amongst the most menacing and dangerous of minecraft mobs. they're just dumb babies. it has, by contrast, lead me to believe the trident drowned should be the final boss of minecraft actually,

[lyss-sketchbox]

Op please I beg you can we have some content for this Knave Wrio AU ? Like what’s his relationship with Neuvillette ? How did he end up being the Knave ? Is Peruere now the Warden of Meropide ? IS PERUERE SIGEWINNE’S ADOPTIVE MOTHER ??

Now see the interesting here is, and im gonna borrow this quote from @thatonegreyghost because this is making me insane

BECAUSE BESIDES THE BLOOD MOON THING THEY REALLY COULDVE BEEN EACH OTHER

Im making the decision to pass over the blood moon lineage to Wrio since i doubt Arle couldve beaten Crucabena without it. Other than that they were both basically orphans taken into horrific institutes so..............

[aliciax3]

[bleue-flora]

Dream to Techno: “I don’t even sleep, but I do have a house.”

Dream to Sam: “I can sleep—I can sleep safely! I can sleep safely and soundly inside the walls of obsidian.”

Well Dream, which is it?

[howlidae]

wake up post transfem krisgav go back to sleep

(please do not tag as genderbend!)

[leliwardens]

I don't want to join the group of fans that reduce Veilguard's issues down just "retconning" because I truly believe it's a far deeper problem as a whole, where there is very little, if any at all really, attempting to engage the player in the lore and changes from that lore ie the Crow's philosophy. So what happens due to that with no acknowledgment of these changes between the previous games and now is old fans use previous knowledge as a framework to apply and when it doesn't match up, it feels wrong and bad and a whole slew of other things.

And knowing this, trying to keep this in mind, any time I think of how the Wardens were written by the narrative I start to whiteknuckle the sink because oh my god what did they DO.

[himbohimhoe]

Holding out hope that the writing in veilguard will get more bearable but rook saying to lucanis that it's "not nice that Spite hurt him" and he "shouldn't accept that it’s fine bc it wouldn't be ok if a person did that" like. That is a demon. Built off a single emotion called SPITE. Rook I am finding it really hard to believe that u have lived in thedas for more than 30 seconds.

[zimortythemeatwarden]

[gay-face]

Soooo let's just say I'm in love with her lmao. I watched Holes for the first time in 13 years cause I never cared for it as a kid and the fact it was so boring to me that I didn't notice her in the first place 🚶‍♀️I've done so many doodles of her (the other many doodles i can't post here unfortunately 😂) and wanted to try my hand at digitally painting her and......I'm astounded honestly, I'm very proud of it!!

[thecourtofgraywaves]

Sigourney Weaver in Holes gives the same vibes as Bette Midler in both Hocus Pocus films.

[magerightsmagefights]

On Ferelden Love

So I just found out that Arl Eamon had two dads, and as I’m replaying the games I’m getting the sense that Ferelden just has no stigmas around relationships that other nations seem to have. Like certainly LGBTQ+ people exist everywhere, and nowhere in Thedas do they seem to be actively persecuted/harmed on account of sexuality, but most places seem to treat same-sex attraction as more of a “character quirk” than anything. Tevinter and Orlais seem to be in the same boat that a person, especially in the higher classes, is to marry an opposite-sex partner first and then take care of “personal tastes” on the side. Orlais also seems to have the Social Status of “mistress,” i.e., “officially recognized extramarital female lover of a wealthy/titled man,” but it seems unclear if there is an official equivalent for the lovers of wealthy/titled women. In any case, Orlais certainly has Rules for How Things Are Done, even extramarital affairs; the role of a mistress has a certain set of behaviors and expectations associated with it.

Then, Ferelden. Kingdom of Dogs. At the very least, we know that exclusive, monogamous same-sex partnerships are not strange enough to remark upon; i.e., Wade and Herren in DA:O. Are they married under Chantry law? I don’t think it’s ever confirmed, but I don’t think they couldn’t be. I think it’s notable that Sera, being the only same-sex romance option you can explicitly marry, is Ferelden.

Back to Arl Eamon tho. So yeah he had one mom and two dads, who seemed to all be mutually involved, and he referred to both men as “Father.” The non-nobility father, btw, was named Connor and is the person after whom Arl Eamon named his son. All this leads me to believe that this poly triad was common knowledge, and, like Wade and Herren, was something no one considered strange because Fereldens just Don’t Care About People’s Business. There is even some evidence that King Calenhad, the one who made Ferelden into Ferelden, had a “special friendship” with his advisor Aldenon the Wise. So “special,” in fact, that Calenhad ended up abandoning his life as king and going off into the wilds to search for Aldenon, never to be seen again.

And let’s also note that Bann Teagan, Eamon’s brother, has the option to flirt with a female Warden regardless of origin. The way it’s worded seems to imply he is, at the very least, not opposed to the idea of marriage -- even with a non-human, even with a mage. While we tragically cannot pursue any romance, it does tell us something about the world: while Ferelden royalty is bound by obligation to marry opposite-sex humans of appropriate social caste, it seems that middle-nobility is a bit more flexible.

Since society is still society, and heads of government in a monarchy are expected to produce more heads of government, I would guess that Bann Teagan is expected/required to marry a human woman to carry on the noble line. I would also expect him to be fully aware of this, and so I believe that his flirting with a female Warden, even the playful inquiry about marriage, does not interfere with Teagan’s duty to marry someone else. He was, after all, raised by three parents just like his brother; the remarkable thing here is not the implication of a possible triad, but the implication a possible triad where the word “marriage” applies to multiple partners. Coming from a Bann. Coming from someone in line to be the Arl of Redcliffe.

Could Bann Teagan and his family be outliers? I mean, I guess it’s possible. But also consider, nobility is ALWAYS held to a higher standard than commoners when it comes to “official” relationships. They are expected to keep producing heads of state, after all; they tend to get married younger, have less control over who they marry, and their behavior reflects more on their family. Also consider that the Guerrin bloodlineis highly influential -- the previous Queen of Ferelden was Eamon and Teagan’s sister! While they certainly have the influence to sleep with whoever they like in private, Eamon and Teagan must absolutely marry within acceptable the acceptable social norms of Ferelden. And if the nobility can form triads, including common-knowledge same-sex relationships, that means commoners can probably do all that and more besides.

All this together leads me to believe that the Ferelden definition of love, and even of family, is much more flexible than most nations. While hetero, monogamous marriage is what we see the most of, I’d guess that it’s not the normal relationship type so much as the most common one. I’d go so far as to wonder if maybe there just isn’t such thing as a “normal relationship” in Ferelden; that there are just relationships, and that’s that.

[fandomlife-confessions]

[crows-of-buckets]

Okay this may be me just overthinking things to an insane degree but is anyone else like. Very concerned about future griffons.

Because!!!! They're all siblings!!! How are there going to be future generations? Will there even be future generations??? The gene pool bioware. How are we fixing that one. Please it has been driving me up the wall since last flight it's bad 😭😭

[arcann]

i have so many hopes for davrin and it's all gonna be smashed against the wall if it's kristjanson who really wrote him..........................

[leliwardens]

Less sad post-DAO hc: Tabris surviving the final battle but being very injured and exhausted, basically bedridden. She's safe but isn't allowed visitors outside of the party because whoever is ruler doesn't want her getting swamped with admirers or worse. In addition, her family is super worried about her because they don't know where she is, or if she's even alive, so Leliana sneaks Cyrion, Shianni and Soris into wherever she's resting up

i consume all hcs, great small, fluff or angst, rest assured my anon friend

i will say the moment leliana goes "i'll sneak you in" shianni would look at her and go "i'll get my bow and they'll let me in" because after all that they went thru she would very much threaten who's in charge with a pointed arrow at the face and state her cousin soris has experience storming castles

and i'll give a secret third option of did the dark ritual but legitimately on deaths door anyway because having a whole ass old god rip through you probably wouldn't be the most gentle on your body! <- my canon