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Anti Cimex

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“What is the old dalish curse? May the Dread Wolf take you?”

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Arthur Trevethin Nowell- Captives, 1887.

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- "Where'd you learn those moves?" - "I was just following your lead."

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Always look your best! 💜💚🖤

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birds are together now

am I going insane or this is just crow au brainrot affecting me....

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i hate that so much dark/horror art is just fucking. ai

anyways look at my art that is DRAWN and NOT AI

plus a wip under the cut

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glad i fagged out

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"The eyes of St Lucia" by Marcella Ferrera in Spring 1999

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Dolce & Gabbana | Fall/Winter 2018

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trapped in the fade

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I spoke to the moon and she already knew all about you. She said my heart beats to the same rhythm as yours btw.

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da2 isn't the best dragon age game *because* it's openly a tragedy, but being a tragedy forces a level of narrative coherence that the other games in the series don't have, and *that's* what makes it a better game.

okay, so. dragon age 2 runs on nested foreshadowing and a limited set of themes that almost every character and plot beat fall into: love is not enough, wealth is not enough, power is not enough, good intent is not enough. the problems you run into are structural, rather than individual, and your ability to resolve them as one person is strictly limited. the arishok is a central figure for this, because he prefigures every other tragedy and makes the game's thesis statement as clear as possible. he doesn't want to be in kirkwall, but he is compelled to remain until he gets back what was stolen. he doesn't want to lead a coup attempt, but he is compelled by qunari codes of justice to act. he does not want to die and fail his duty, but but he is compelled to by the other two impossible demands. every tragedy in kirkwall is the result of too many people with wildly different definitions of justice crammed into one place specifically designed to maximize human misery and suffering, and so you get a wonderfully nested narrative onion where each quest reinforces that idea, where there are no good options, just positions you can take — even the affinity system plays into that, where constantly gassing up your friends or constantly pushing them to change are equally correct ways to go, but ones that won't ultimately make a huge difference in their lives or characters, because no matter how much they like you, they're not under your control.

this coherence is even justified by the framing device. of *course* the moral of the game is "insisting on a dogmatic, narrow idea of justice destroys individuals and societies," it's a yarn being spun by varric the con artist to a chantry cop!

neither origins or inquisition play with that sort of narrative complexity. origins is a jaundiced hero's quest, certainly, but it's still basically a hero's quest; inquisition has a number of characters who question what you're doing and why, but the multitude of voices pulls the game in too many potential directions. DA2 was so constrained in its production that it pulled on decidedly ancient theatrical traditions, and it worked so, so well

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Rot Lord

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Its crew are still onboard. It takes us time, in the dark, in the moonlight, to see just how thoroughly they have been changed.

One is attempting to scramble up the mast.  Another is bent halfway over the prow on his back, his mouth hanging open upside-down like an awful inverted figurehead.

well. i said i needed to draw some gore, didn't i? the diptych is now the donetych (< stupidest joke of my stupid baka life sorry) and i think im back in the saddle as it were. thank god wahoo !!