rather be in kirkwall

she/her, bi, white, 40s. multishipper. expect chaotic reblogs & the occasional long-winded text post about fandom stuff. featuring a good blend of gaming and TV fandoms, including but not limited to dragon age, mass effect, trop, mcu, iwtv, hannibal. and now I guess bg3, too. won't follow back minors. no terfs or white supremacists. this blog is mostly just for fandom stuff but I'm not shy about reblogging leftist political content. expect long answers if you send me an ask (elder millennial with adhd and an english degree, i'm contractually obligated to turn everything into an essay). expect typos in the notes!

[androidtrashfire]

In this moment I feel oddly at peace; in perfect sync with my fellow tumblrites. We are but small parts of a vast, profound, interconnected human ecosystem. All experiencing the world and moving through it as one

[androidtrashfire]

Exactly like boops. But evil

[goayda]

Widow's Bay ep 1x08

Some innocent tourists ready to enjoy the island at the beginning of the episode:

They (the woman and one child at least) at the end of the ep in the hospital waiting room:

Quite a BEFORE and AFTER this ep, not only for the main characters.

I wonder what happened to them...

[smoothbrainwrinkledshirt]

The baddest bitch in town

[yepthatsacowalright]

I'm pretty sure the Widow's Bay coroner wrote 'B. BOGEY MAN' on the official death report. 😭

[riotvhs]

My Hannigram art : ig: riotvhs (like and subscribe!)

[catchaspark]

californians, consider calling your state assemblymembers in order to object to the current budget proposal stripping Medi-Cal (our Medicaid) from asylees and refugee applicants except in emergencies. also, they’re agreeing to reduce the asset limit for many Medi-Cal recipients back to $2000. That number means that the maximum amount a Medi-Cal recipient who is aged, blind, or disabled can have in the bank at any time is $2000. That figure is obscenely low, and it’s actually lower by about fifty bucks than the amount they’re allowed to get each month in income.* if enacted this policy change will vastly hurt thousands of seniors and disabled people and i’m not kidding. please speak up if you can.

[vaultkniqht]

They know they're the baddest bitches on this cast

[storm-of-feathers]

yeah yeah rainbow capitalism is bad and whatever but like. when I was a child, being pro gay was not the popular or lucrative choice. I'm happy that times have changed.

[storm-of-feathers]

I miss rainbow capitalism. I do. I miss when it felt like public opinion was still pro gay. I understand it was always an empty gesture, but it mattered in a sense of knowing how socially acceptable being queer is. If that makes sense.

[finnglas]

It was always a thermometer, not a thermostat, and I’m begging people to understand that.

[gigik33]

clea trying to get her family to get their shit together

[feignedremote]

If you look at the goodreads lists that Flowers in the Attic is on, there are some fascinating minds at work too. It's one of the top voted on "books with unnecessary romance subplots," which makes one contemplate the apparently real category of "person who did not realize there was going to be incest in the famous incest book."

[feignedremote]

This website is so good. Sure I'll read those back to back

[awkwardlyeverafter]

2026

[swinging-stars-from-satellites]

@the-song-not-sung-in-vain

[foodffs]

Black Pepper Tofu This easy black pepper tofu has pan fried tofu bites with bell pepper, onion, and celery in a savory, peppery brown sauce, ready in just 20 minutes. My vegan friendly stir fry uses soy sauce, Shaoxing wine, and freshly ground black pepper for a quick and satisfying weeknight dinner.

Recipe: https://omnivorescookbook.com/black-pepper-tofu/

[quasi-normalcy]

I've reached the point where cynicism is a major turn-off for me. You're not smarter than idealists, and you're not helping.

[quasi-normalcy]

Funny that the stereotypical cynic is an idealist who aged out of it. In my experience, the reverse is true. I was an extreme cynic as a teenager and then I noticed how profoundly limiting it was, and also that "cynics are cool and smart" was a message that was being constantly reinforced by corporate media for some reason.

[quasi-normalcy]

#yes! cynicism reads as very juvenile to me#and yes prev often stemming from teen pain

Yeah, like I see black-pilled people on here and my default reaction isn't "oh, these must be world-weary old warriors who've lost their faith in humanity", it's "these people are in their 20s and need a hobby"

[quasi-normalcy]

I also think that the present era has proven that authoritarian leaders don't actually want a population of wide-eyed idealists, they want a population of jaded assholes who are convinced that everyone is lying, any resistance is either a scam or doomed to failure, and nothing can ever get better.

[sunwingsunset]

MASS EFFECT 3 ↳ Scenery

[broodwoof]

Davrin and Assan: Their Relationship as a Parallel to Davrin's Arc

davrin is a shepherd. and davrin is a hunter. he is a protector, and a monster-slayer. he is a dork who carves wooden models of monsters and wants to create a real bestiary. he is way too young for all this shit but also fully on board. he sang to the halla. he keeps trying to throw himself into a glorious death. he is a central character in veilguard, absolutely core to the main plot of the game. he is dalish. he is a grey warden.

and he is father to assan.

assan is important in davrin's arc, because assan, too, is a hunter and a shepherd. is a fighter and a protector. griffons are viewed as creatures born to hunt and kill darkspawn, as if that is their sole purpose, as if their very existence, their every waking moment, is not spent living their lives in the many and varied ways they do, but in this singular pursuit. the reality is far more complex than the assumption, and although assan is a dedicated, incredibly skilled hunter of darkspawn, he's also so many other things.

he's exceedingly gentle. he's noisy. he's friendly. he's silly. he cares about his family so much. he cares about davrin so much.

through assan, davrin is shown that a being can be both hunter and protector. can be both hunter and shepherd. and, through assan, davrin is thus shown that he can be both the man who was once the boy who sang to halla... and the man who took an oath to fight for the wardens.

davrin's acceptance of assan is an externalization of his acceptance of himself. it is also about assan, for him, undeniably so: he cares so much about assan, he cares so much about the griffons. but as a narrative element, assan is a character, yes, but also a representation of that arc.

but i think another lens through which to view this is: assan is both monster and charge. to davrin's shepherd, assan is the wolf and the sheep.

i'm struggling a little to differentiate these two things, so bear with me, because they are different. in the first lens, davrin sees in assan behavior that is of both a protector and a hunter. assan's actions - and davrin's growing acceptance of this duality in assan - are ways that davrin can begin to accept his own duality. this view is based around assan's behavior.

in the second lens, however, assan is both hunter and charge. he embodies these things, not through his actions, but through what he is to davrin. it is that davrin is caring for a monster, in a manner of speaking. this view is based around assan's fundamental and inviolable nature and how davrin reacts to it. namely, that davrin, monster hunter, protects the "monster" and grows to understand it.

the relationship between davrin and assan is very, very important. and it is important for more reasons than i've listed here: for example, the griffons are a deeply contentious part of grey warden history so davrin, like bellara, is having to grapple with the way the history of his people - both the elves and the wardens - is complex and muddy and not always good or just. but i think the way assan is a path to davrin's own self-acceptance is one of the most crucial aspects of their relationship, and the one i wanted to really emphasize here

[broodwoof]

ppl who wanted to be tagged for my meta under the cut! (lmk if you'd like to be added/taken off the list at any time btw)

@fadetouchedlurker

@flawed---by---design

@sacredashes

@mindtrove

@jackals-ships

@guacamolleee

@griffongrey

@in-the-drowning-deep

@flowersforthemachines

@guard-dogbiscuits

@breitweisergallery

@sousukeaizen

[tigsbitties]

it makes me sad that the art of media criticism has been so thoroughly hijacked by people desperate to have a new lolcow that you have to put a million disclaimers about how you don’t want the creator to kill themselves when you critique their work

[softwaring]

bi pride flag, made using my own photography <3