buried deep between the dark and the dawn...

Niru | she/her | California | Dragon Age, Fire Emblem, The Locked Tomb, Socialism, general historical fuckery. I write overly complicated fics and complain a lot in my tags!

[rt0no]

[miikpal]

chapter 5 is blooming…… one last fun adventure with friends

[tennesseewillams]

idk i always kind of roll my eyes at all those posts that are like “people used to be ugly in movies” like….. well☝️i don’t think that’s true. i think male actors have always had more leeway to look a bit imperfect. we’ve had average/weird looking male actors in every generation, including this one. but people have always needed to be “hot” for movies. and they did crazy shit for it!! marlene dietrich getting teeth extracted to hollow out her cheeks, carole lombard undergoing her (non-cosmetic) facial reconstruction without anesthesia because they thought it would look better, etc ad infinitum. do you know the kinds of diets they had women on to keep them skinny…. not to mention beauty standards for women of color tryna be in movies. like there’s a reason the three biggest black actresses of classic hollywood decades were josephine baker, lena horne, and dorothy dandridge: all pretty lightskinned with smaller mouths and noses -> approximating whiteness (no shade i love these women sm). i think the difference Today is that there are simply way more procedures you can get done since cosmetic medicine has evolved so much. so people can change more of their face with better and more reliable results than they could in the 1930s. point being that people have definitely always needed to be conventionally attractive to be in movies but given the physical scope of what could be conceivably changed about your appearance there was simply more diversity in like facial structure and features

[zipsunz]

i am my father's child

[sillyzlaurr]

DARK SANCTUARY

[asepriterico]

[magentasnail]

Roots

[hellspawnmotel]

thought bubbles

[hikes-and-moans]

UNPOPULAR OPINION: A lot of "mental health issues" disappear when bills are paid, rent is secure, and the fridge is full. Peace is expensive. And pretending money doesn't affect mental health is privilege.

[jellogram]

I should be doing more to appreciate the lack of marvel movies in today's popular culture. I once yearned for marvel movies to have this level of irrelevance. They used to feel almost ozymandian, like an empire that had no beginning and no end. and now tony stark iron man is naught but two vast and trunkless legs of stone.

[stivkagall]

Anders | Dragon Age

[thirdity]

“You write the beginning and then you go back and rewrite the beginning, and you never got off page one. It’s kind of a syndrome, and I have a rash piece of advice which is — Go on, page two, page three, and never look back. Get something finished, no matter how lousy it is. […] Perfectionists cannot get going unless they kind of do violence to their own instincts, and just blast ahead.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin, The Last Interview and Other Conversations

[japaneseaesthetics]

Artist: Kawase Hasui Title: Karikachi Mountain Pass (Karikachi toge) Date: 1922–1932 Medium: Color woodblock print; oban Credit Line: Gift of Oliver Statler

[nyantara]

When the Heat Steals Your Smile

After I suspected a climate connection to tooth decay, I conducted systematic saliva pH testing across my patient population and documented

agricultural workers in punjab who have to labor in 45°C (113°F) plus heat are losing their teeth as their bodies prioritise cooling through respiration and minimise saliva production.

(h/t @stylo-90)

[maltedcreams]

I think that writing a story about the relationship and love between two women who have so many interesting reasons to be mad at each other, only to make them fight over a man should be illegal and the eighth deadly sin.

[ikarons]

ok wait. ask. horrific fandom controversies surrounding your oc as a canon romanceable companion?

[ikarons]

ok wait. first of all obsessed with everyones ocs. second of all May I Add... can u all tell me about the saw traps you guys are designing as romance routes for your ocs. the madness people have to accept and play through to romance them. the aspect of this romance that u think makes fans fully justified in sending death threats

[dragon-age-tournament]

There are a few more controversial characters (or just characters I'm curious about) that I sort of wish I'd included in the survey, so instead I'm just going to post a series of bonus polls to see a general range of opinions nowadays. Feel free to elaborate in the notes!

To start: how do you feel about Bianca (the dwarf, not the crossbow)?

I love her

I like her

I'm indifferent

I have mixed/conflicted feelings

I dislike her

I hate her

I don't know this character

Remaining time: 2 days 14 hours

(If there are characters you'd like me to poll on, feel free to request via ask! Characters already covered in the census survey won't be re-posted here.)