#wrong answers only tho

[theunknownpoetssociety]

writing a fic with a character with my deadname

so fun.

[sketchy--akechi]

I GOT THE SILLY LITTLE GUYS

[felassan]

Random question. I read that 'Pelledia' was originally considered as a name for Thedas before it was finalised. Is there any mention of why they considered it, like is it supposed to mean anything? I'm writing some fanfiction and considering using it as a call back but I am assuming they just thought it sounded nice? Any help is appreciated :) Also apologies if you aren't accepting Asks atm, I'm new to tumblr so admittedly I don't know the etiquette!

hello! ◕‿◕ welcome to tumblr and no worries at all, we have a toggle where we can set 'let people ask questions' to on/off and mine as u can see is currently on ^^ [here] is a post which contains a summary of some interesting factoids and insights pertaining to the development of Dragon Age from the book Bioware: Stories and Secrets from 25 Years of Game Development, it briefly mentions the Pelledia factoid. the full mention of this factoid from the book itself (in case the context/quote helps) reads:

"The name for the Dragon Age setting came about another way. “Thedas” was shorthand for “the Dragon Age setting” on the forums and internally, and the design team fully intended to name the continent something else in the final release. James [Ohlen] initially floated the name “Pelledia”. But the team figured there was no rush. “Thedas” would work well enough temporarily. Enter David Gaider’s first rule of naming: if a temp name has been around long enough and is not actively terrible or offensive, after six months, people won’t be able to think of it by any other name. That’s what happened with Thedas. The team had a big meeting to try and come up with a better name for the continent. But in the end, nothing sounded right except Thedas."

And yes!! there is a bit more info on this!! David Gaider did some dev commentary over a playthrough of Dragon Age on a Twitch stream a few years ago and in that commentary was a lot of different bits of insights and information. I think the original videos aren't available to watch anymore unfortunately, but at that time I took notes on them all and what was said (the following quote isn't a direct quote/word-to-word transcript, but it is notes on what was said):

"One of the original names for the setting, Peldia, was pronounced Pel-DEE-ah. This name came from a homebrewed world James Ohlen had made. He was keen to call it this, but David Gaider wasn’t keen on it and so in every document after that first one, he just referred to the setting as “TDAS” (The Dragon Age Setting) instead. When they spoke about the lore on the BioWare forums after the game was announced, they would often refer to it as “The Dragon Age Setting”. Someone on there abbreviated this to “Thedas” and the devs started using it. About three quarters of the way in they were like “Can we please just give this realm a name”, and at this point James was gone. They had a list of other names but nobody really liked any of them, and they’d been calling it Thedas for so long. Eventually, Sheryl Chee suggested “Can we just call it Thedas?” and it stuck."

as you can see in this I mis-spelled "Pelledia", and that "Pelledia" was the name of a homebrewed world that James had created himself at some point. :) that quote is from [this post here], and [here] is the link to the first post in that series, which itself contains the links to all of them.

(you might also be interested in this article and the maps and early worldbuilding of Thedas info that it contains. for example, who were/or were going to be the "Shaelan" race and the "Olvenene" race?? what was the apparent forest city of "FaeFran" etc?? :D there's also "far-away Noathen", some place where the first iteration of the DA themepark ride's story blurb mentions. hh, just in case that's of interest or you need more names to make callbacks with or something)

I hope this helps and best of luck with ur fanfic. ʕ •ᴥ•ʔ

[inadvisablebutinevitable]

what time period accurate songs do you think jeremy would be listening to in tsc? 👀

Miss California by Dante Thomas

Anon I love you so much because you have no idea how much I ask this to myself on a regular basis. A couple weeks ago I was walking to work whilst brainstorming Jeremy Knox music headcanons and almost died to the tune of Believe by Cher while crossing the street. (Embarrassing, but also, what a way to go)

after changing my mind about 700 times, I decided that Jeremy, at least on a surface level, will dance/sing to literally any popular song with a good beat, (whether or not he actually sings the right lyrics is always 50/50) but he does love to sing. This comes from a tumblr post I saw like years ago saying that Jean takes a video of Jeremy singing Kylie Minogue’s “Your Disco Needs You” at 3am, and now that’s just canon Jeremy to me.

Jeremy was a kid in the 90s so TONS of 90s nostalgia stuff, all upbeat. Song 2, All star, What is love, Baby one more time, Tubthumping, all the catchy earworms he would hear on the radio and belt out as a kid. (It’s @kevinsdsy’s fault song 2 was the first on this list. The Jeremy Knox blur brainrot is real)

Jeremy, having heard these songs as a kid, knows all the lyrics just by memory. Even he doesn’t know about this until Cat plays Ricky Martin on her boombox and all of a sudden Jer is on the table with a solo cup microphone.

(“isn’t he only attracted to men?”Jean whispers to Cat as they watch Jeremy belt out ‘She Bangs’ in the most enthusiastic way possible.

“Honestly, l didn’t even think about that. I’m just pissed that they’re only playing the English version”, Cat whispers back)

Jeremy is also notorious for dancing to other team’s entrance songs when they walk on the court. The Breckenridge Jackals, for example, walk on court to Who Let the Dogs out, and Jer unironically uses that as pump up music. He aggressively nods his head to the beat of Let’s Get it Started when Penn State walks out. This leads to many (many) YouTube compilations titled something along the lines of “10 mins straight of Jeremy Knox shaking ass to his opponent’s anthems”

BUT also, privately, on his little 2006 iPod Mini (lol remember those), Jeremy listens to more alt rock (modern-day dad rock), like Muse, The Killers, Queens of The Stone Age etc… (this is based on a lighter version of the style of music Nora assigned to Andreil in the EC, and also my personal taste from that time period). I think it’s what he listens to on bad days, either bc he needs to drown out his depressing thoughts after seeing his family, or bc he isn’t quite mentally ready to fully process the insane truths Jean reveals on a day to day basis. Also days where he’s feeling more in-tune with his emotions and stuff.

anyway, I’m sorry, this got really long. I guess the tl;dr would be: imo, In TSC Jeremy loves to sing and dance to literally any popular 90s/early 00’s song bc that’s just who he is but privately on bad days he likes 2000’s alt rock.

[milkbreadtoast]

[skyloftian-nutcase]

For the ask:

Hyrule+ your choice + Racoon in a bow tie

(And I got my blood test back and it was normal. More testing needed but at least that's okay.)

"Hey, Rulie, mind giving me a hand?" Wild called from off the hiking trail.

Hyrule slid down the embankment a little, wandering further into the woods where his friend was sitting. It looked rather like he was wrestling with something with the way his torso turned, and--

Was that a raccoon he was holding?!

"What... are you doing?" he asked as he stared at his friend struggle to hold the creature. The raccoon, for its part, wasn't too upset, but it certainly seemed perturbed enough to wiggle.

"I convinced him over with some food," Wild explained. "Because I always thought it would be great to get a picture of a raccoon wearing a bowtie. Twi said it was ridiculous and impossible. Do you mind taking a picture?"

Honestly, the first question that came to mind was why did you even think of this but it was pretty funny. And Wild was bribing the raccoon with more snacks, calming it. Hyrule shut off the part of his mind that was over analyzing and saying injuries/rabies/wild animal and laughed, grabbing his phone to take a picture.

[altruistic-meme]

HIIII ABRAM SEASON 3 UPON US😭😭😭🤧🤧🤧💖💖

My unhinged prediction is that suddenly everyone is curling their hair in Hillerska because the Crown Prince's boyfriend and best friend both have curls and it becomes the new trendy thing and sorry but i just started imagining Vincent with curly hair and lost it😭😭😭😭😭

~heartbreakprincewille

HIII BHAKTI ARE YOU READY CUS I SURE AM NOT 🧡🧡😭

and why WOULDN'T they!!! look at these fashion icons!!!!!!

vincent's short ass hair would be so funny curled i can attest bc of accidentally curling my short ass hair too tight once shfskdhfks

[ send me yr3 theories - wrong answers only ]

[wedielike]

he lied, like a liar.

[necrotic-nephilim]

hi hello i think im in love with ur brain, thank you for being on the internet

hello!! aaaaa this is SO sweet thank you so much anon you're too nice to me. i am so terrified of existing on the internet with my thoughts and opinions especially about DC stuff, so this is very reassuring of you to say. so thank you for caring about the things that come out of my brain <3

[sundung]

tag game

tagged by @adamfaulknerstanheight

favorite color: PURPLE (It seems.)

Last song I listened to: RANDOM STUFF FROM SPOTIFY

currently reading: ONE PIECE...CHAINSAW MAN...in some ways, Homestuck

currently watching: Monogatari

currently craving: THE TOFU FRIED RICE I JUST ATE; I WANT MORE

coffee or tea: BOTH, I love Beverages

@himejoshikomaeda @communist-ojou-sama

@therepudiatedimmortals @mmmmalo @panvani

@meteorherd @friedbreadfast @jeannie-youre-a-tragedy

[unexpectedbrickattack]

my friends keep drawing peppino butt booty ass naked

what the hell am i supposed to do??? do i join in or admire them from afar???

[minimoll7]

List 5 things that make you happy, then put this in the askbox for the last 10 people who liked or reblogged something from you! ^^ (Optional ofc)

Brooo I'm so sorry on how long it took me to get to this! I wanted to think my answer first, since I can honestly list more than just 5 things and then I just forgot Dx

Going to church more and hearing my pastor preach about God!

Petting and hanging out with my dogs, they mean so much to me

Investing into my characters. I recently dropped a lot of characters I had and started over, so its been a lot of fun doing all of that! Someday I'll draw art for them (but lets see how long it takes lol)

Thinking about my favorite character of all time >:)

Playing games like Pokemon, Palworld and Slime Rancher and getting really into the fictional animals in those worlds. Since June, my special interest has been constantly shifting between those 3 series/games, so I'm not worried about getting burnout from them

(probably not gonna send this to the last 10 people in my notifications but I may send it to friends lol am very shy)

[void-chara]

ohh so itz one of Those days for me today huh.

[sideblogformentalhealtshit]

Hm. So am I the only one who 'likes' having ARFID?

Like don't get me wrong it's horrible it's caused so much damage to me but also like. I've had it my whole life I can't imagine a version of myself without it and I wouldn't want to not have it.

It's as big and fundamental a part of me as my autism. Sure there's bad parts but it's what makes me me, and without it I would cease to be me and become a whole nother person.

I've always found it a 'fun' part of me, a unique thing I was completely alone in most of my life, something that made me different in a funky way.

[orcelito]

Also I got my essay exam back today. Full points!!! Which was a surprise bc my 4th essay was definitely lower quality than the other three (bc I rushed it), but still good enough to get full points!!!!

Makes me wonder what that other one I spied being a 1 was like 🤔🤔🤔 bro was NOT good at writing I guess.

[baldandgay]

Wyll?

Straight energy???

You mean...

Wyll "I am not immune to your charms and beautiful hair, Astarion" Ravengard??

Wyll "Halsin is such a delight... and a thick hunk" Ravengard?

Wyll "Hey Shadowheart, have you ever read that one smut book?" Ravengard?

Wyll "I danced all night with the ladies and gentleman of the gate that one time" Ravengard?

That Wyll Ravengard?

How??? 😭

/lh

Tru, you have a fair point my friend lol I did literally just make fun of his line about Halsin for being fruity as hell the other day I take back my statement about Wyll having straight energy you are very right