I GOT A FUCKING RAISE THE POTATO WORKED WTF
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I GOT A FUCKING RAISE THE POTATO WORKED WTF
This potato works. Every. Fucking. Time.
Reblogging because it’s a damn potato and I want to encourage people to assume potatoes are magical.
Even the littlest blessing matters. 💚
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“ 𝚃𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝚒𝚜 𝚗𝚘 𝚏𝚊𝚝𝚎 𝚋𝚞𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚕𝚘𝚟𝚎 𝚠𝚎 𝚜𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚎 “
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I've been wanting to finish this one for a while and capture the dynamic between Silea and Solas. They're broken up but like,,, not really.
You want to know why Inigo Montoya remains such an iconic and beloved character even 35 years after the Princess Bride came out?
It’s because he’s one of the few characters in fiction who has a story where he has dedicated his life to revenge, his whole motivation is about getting revenge….and he gets it! and then he isn’t empty or despairing! he doesn’t regret it! he’s totally satisfied!
because so many stories about revenge or rage are about characters “seeing the futility of their actions” or learning “their desire for revenge has only made them the monsters they hated” FUCK THAT.
Inigo Montoya kills the man who kills his father, is allowed to live in the narrative after and be happy about it and it is so satisfying. it’s fantastic. it’s iconic.
let more characters rage against the world, bring it down with bloodied hands, and let them be FUCKING RIGHT about it. Let them celebrate their success with sharp grins, and let them live happy, full lives where they always remain proud/fulfilled for what they’ve done
Another thing that set Inigo Montoya apart from other characters with vengeance arcs is that Inigo’s vengeance drove him but it didn’t consume him. He was wronged and wanted - needed that injustice to be corrected - but his vengeance was focused. Rather than taking his pain out on the whole world, Inigo was a charming, pleasant, good-humored person that treated everyone respectfully, even folks he was fighting. He even asks politely to people he meets about any extra digits they may have.
Would a bitter, angry, vengeance-consumed man swear on the life of his father and help a guy he was planning to duel, then give him time to catch his breath? Would he hand his sword over to his future opponent to lovingly show off his late-father’s skill as a swordmaker?
“You seem a decent fellow. I hate to kill you.”
I think part of what makes Inigo so iconic and beloved is because while vengeance was his story, it wasn’t who he was, so when he achieved his vengeance it was less an emptiness and more of a satisfaction, a story completed, a wrong made right, and a man suddenly baffled at the possibilities before him, not sure what his next story would be.
Good book. Even better movie. And the scene on top of the Cliffs of Insanity is a thing of beauty.
“I swear on the soul of my father Domingo Montoya you will reach the top alive.”
“…Throw me the rope.”
Then the duel. The choreography here is ~chef’s kiss~. Inigo isn’t necessarily fighting to kill and be done with it; that’s not his style, not with a worthy opponent. He tests the man in black first. Look at those phrases!
But yes, there was more to Inigo than his need for vengeance against the six-fingered man, although that arc is a vital part of his story.
cell bio professor closed out today's lecture on free-radical oxidation in mitochondria and programmed cell death by saying "you've probably all seen those commercials for fruit juice that says it's got antioxidants, which are said to prevent this sort of thing from happening, or at least slow it down. well, they don't work. this is an inevitable fact of life— this process that lets us live is also the thing that kills us, and it's why all of us will die someday. there's no escaping that. it's been with us since the dawn of eukaryotic cells; our pact with mitochondria is to the death. anyway, enjoy the rest of your friday, and remember, exam four is next week!"
ultimately the truth about frankenstein is that we are all grotesque amalgamations of the best and worst parts of everyone who came before us. and sometimes the people who are supposed to love us because of and in spite of this will not. and we can kill them with hammers for that. and i think that’s beautiful
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variants of pride
One thing I always found really interesting about DAI Solas was that while he was clearly prideful, his pride was always of a very different kind to the obvious villains like Corypheus, the Evanuris etc.
In Inquisition he is in many ways the exact opposite of Corypheus. He hates the idea of being worshipped, he's quite happy playing the part of the humble apostate and being overlooked, he's eager to personally pitch in to do the hard unglamorous work of helping people, and he's willing to be the butt of the joke. It's very clear that Solas' pride is not about his own personal aggrandisement: he has always genuinely wanted to help people and do the right thing, and he's willing to be forgotten or reviled for it if necessary. Rather his pride seems to be primarily manifested in his tendency toward self-isolation: thinking the burden of fixing things falls on him alone, thinking he sees how to fix things more clearly than anyone else, and being too proud to ask for help.
And that was interesting! It was a fascinating contrast to the obvious kind of pride exhibited by Corypheus, Elgar'nan etc. For me it was really thought-provoking, because being self-reliant and solving problems yourself rather than burdening others are often seen as positive qualities, but from Solas' story we learn that taken to extremes this kind of stubborn self-reliance can become harmful to yourself and to others.
Whereas in Veilguard, there's a definite attempt to make Solas just the same as all the others in terms of his pride. Such as when you walk past a golden wolf statue and Rook&Co assume Solas put it up and say it's just like him, even though anyone who paid any attention to his character in Inquisition knows that's very unlike him. Or at the end when they have him say 'I am a god' even though he's built his whole identity for thousands of years on refusing to be called a god.
I guess, giving the benefit of the doubt, you could say there's an attempt to argue for the thesis that in the end these two types of pride converge. But I just think that is untrue: being proud in the sense of excessive self-reliance does not at mean you are also proud in the sense of seeing yourself as godlike, and in fact it is often the opppsite, since the self-isolation is often linked to self-disgust and becomes a way of hurting oneself. So in practice I think the attempt to erase the differences between Solas and the Evanuris just ends up losing all the interesting nuance we had previously in examining different manifestations of pride and how even genuinely good intentions can go wrong through this kind of self-isolating pride.
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Third card set of the companion ideals / fade fears series! This one was all about the gestures, especially for the ‘fear’ card intended to have to some amount of ambiguity
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Bro some of those arms are the Advisors…
WELL
(all of the arms belong to the advisors) (all save for the inquisitor) (I feel guilty) (but also happy it was noticed)
I remember seeing somewhere these early sketches from veilguards artbook about the inquisitor`s choice in a story a few month ago ??? and they didnt let me rest in peace. So i had to finish the idea
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Long boys from 2022, I LOVE these statues on Inquisition and I'm so happy they mean so much on Veilguard!
So I found this Codex entry and I haven't seen anyone talk about it yet?
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