fuck the chantry

shan/beep - 30 - any pronouns - Ao3 & Ko-fi

[antivaan]

hello, i'm shan/beep! here's a pinned post where i'm linking my Ao3 and my Ko-fi now that i've set one up! any support is incredibly helpful and appreciated 💛💛

[thedragonagebigbang]

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[sunlight-shunlight]

Inside BioWare's Narrative Design: Interview with Sylvia Feketekuty - RPGamer

Austin Langer was able to interview former BioWare narrative designer Sylvia Feketekuty. She discusses how the teams tackled exposition, pla

there's not a lot in this article but this made me laugh (despairingly)

(One thing I’d like to mention: there was a misconception going around at one point that I wrote all of the codex entries in Veilguard. This is not the case! They were split evenly among all of the writers.)

so. the writers were all responsible for secrets are lies that are true, and golden tevinter scissors, and fahrenheit recipes, and the noble anti-imperialist elf ally antivan crows.... and also none of them could use a string variable for the inq or rook's names :')

[meglosthegreat]

The passage that made me the most insane was this:

There’s things you can do to make it more inviting. When I was working on the Lore Glossary with editor Cameron Harris, we discussed with the rest of the narrative team how many terms we actually wanted to define. We limited it to a maximum of thirty. Throwing a bunch of new, setting-specific jargon at people can really overwhelm them. So thirty basic terms to define some of the most important parts of Dragon Age, with descriptions that never went over three sentences, seemed like a good limit.

You're telling me they picked... thirty??? lore terms for ALL of dragon age??? the game series built on lore terms??? THIRTY??? And you made sure to never describe them in more than THREE SENTENCES???

[magicvicky2]

“Your mother was a fiery woman. She would have made an excellent Grey Warden.”

[evilsoup]

the cultural object of the black hole is kind of remarkable. It's almost an anti-God in a sense, a negative infinity. Yeah there's this kind of dead sun that's collapsed into an infinitely dense point, and if you fall past its event horizon you're fucked. Every schoolchild knows this. A black hole can be introduced in a superhero blockbuster without any explanation except for its established look and the name "black hole", and this will be understood as the ultimate natural disaster, which even superman could not hope to defeat. truly S-tier cosmic object

[not-terezi-pyrope]

If there's any proof we need that our reality is made of math, it's that graph function singularities exist as physical features of our world. Undefined algebraic points exist, we can see them, they float around space touching things and fucking them up beyond all recognition, and they look like marauding black death wrapped in a spherical gradient of tortured spacetime.

Like, words literally cannot describe how cool black holes are. If they did not actually exist, I doubt that the world's 100 top rated sci-fi writers locked in a room for a month brainstorming could come up with anything nearly as good. When do you ever get something that is as top tier psychologically impactful as it is so deeply rooted in fundamental scientific truth about reality?

[persephones-domain]

Physicist here!

Black holes are the ultimate astronomical phenomena. They are regions where the very structure of reality is contorted into something alien. Defined not by substance but by the warping of spacetime, a black hole is a solution to Einstein’s field equations wherein the metric tensor collapses into a singularity—an infinitesimal point of infinite density, where curvature diverges and our mathematical descriptions disintegrate. The event horizon, delineated by the Schwarzschild radius , marks a boundary beyond which causal relationships cease to propagate outward. Nothing—not matter, not light, not information—can escape. From within, the geometry of spacetime becomes so distorted that all paths, all timelike geodesics, inevitably lead inward, like water down an infinite drain.

Time bizzarelt dilates near the horizon; a distant observer would see infalling matter slow, redshift, and fade, asymptotically frozen in time, somewhat like a hologram eternally flickering at the border. Simultaneously for the falling observer, however, the descent is finite and inexorable as space collapses inward, and the singularity looms in a finite proper time. Should one hypothetically remain on the event horizon itself, a null surface traversed only at the speed of light, the geometry becomes especially... strange: light emitted tangentially could orbit indefinitely along the photon sphere, forming a closed loop. So in this scenario, were you to gaze precisely forward, the curvature would distort light rays around the hole to the point you'd witness the back of your own head—an optical recursion born not of mirrors but of warped topology.

Even the notion of mass becomes disquieting here. A black hole's presence is encoded in the curvature it imposes, describable via the Einstein tensor and its coupling to the stress-energy tensor , yet the interior contains no structure! No matter, no surface, only the singularity at , where predictability ends. The laws of physics as we understand them yield only silence in response. And yet, paradoxically, black holes are not immutable. Quantum field theory on curved backgrounds predicts Hawking radiation: virtual particle pairs near the horizon become real, draining the hole of mass over unimaginable timescales, leading to eventual evaporation. What remains, if anything at all, is unknown. In this way, black holes are less objects than they are boundaries of comprehension: blind spots in our cosmology where mathematics hints at truths too extreme, too indifferent, to be made fully human.

[stonesense]

second blight starts within a decade of them founding the orlesian empire and chantry and nobody took that as a sign or anything

[stonesense]

blights are bad enough when there’s been a few and you’ve sort of gotten used to the idea that there’s one per archdemon but imagine being alive the first time everyone realises there’s more of these things

[pentacass]

“Life is grand. You know that. The more experienced a person is, the deeper they go into life, the less black and white it is. And that incredibly interesting shade of grey gets to be played. But within that shade, there are infinite varieties, right? So I think that’s just her. The black is the bad guy, white is the good guy. But we all know the true parameters of life lie in between those two. And Flemeth is the absolute exploration thereof.” - Kate Mulgrew, in “A Shade of Flemeth”

[the-cryptographer]

god there is reeeeeally something about how Shartan is one of if not the most popular cultural images of an elf in Thedas and his part of the Chant is dissonant because it’s considered too dangerous and subversive and he famously did not actually have his people convert to Andraste’s faith and allied with her in order to independently establish a free state in the Dales and all the cultural imagery surrounding him STILL portrays him as subservient to her.

[lunarprincessanni]

I have another entry for today cus I love me a guilty man. And I think we don’t have enough Loghain x Surana arts.

Day 3

Guilt trip

@dafuckedupshipsweek

[zevzevarainai]

>>I've always thought that myself. People with power never fail to abuse it. Even those with good intentions.

[vampyr-squid]

Based on a very sweet vintage illustration 🖤

[ryrycouch]

He's been thinking... Again?! It's been a while! I've really appreciated all the love while I've been away too. I love going through the additional tags and comments ;-; it's very cosy. My boyfriend saw me drawing this and was like 'here we go again' (in a supportive, loving way).

[featherfangart]

The foolish little girl, the witch, the mother, the goddess

Finally my own tarot card for my dearest witch of the wilds! Hoping to make this one golden later!

[ashillayn]

Think we should settle this once and for all

Who is the best dressed mage in the Inquisition?

Dorian

Vivienne

Solas

Voting ended onApr 18

[sun-marie]

when your short girlfriend's tall boyfriend's back is starting to hurt but y'all don't want to stop kissing 🥰

[wickedsnack-art]

i never understood what made your lips on my neck such an intimate affair, until your teeth grazed my pulse and i realized: you could tear open my throat and make me bleed out in your arms. but instead, you chose to kiss.

feat. dhavihal lavellan (she/her)

[refrainee]

Sera we need to lock in

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