No stranger in your dreams

Natalie | lvl 38 | Leo I don't know what I'm doing here and really don't know why you're here.

[hi-jinkx]

I will always have a soft spot for Anders.

[tuherrus]

you don't even have a dog

[braveryinsong]

I read Project Hail Mary as my vacation book during my long plane and train travels then watched the movie yesterday with my dad. As someone on the aroace spectrum, I feel very seen with Ryland Grace.

Also hi I’m back on this site again, I can’t stay away.

Amaze. Amaze. Amaze.

[aerwinzel]

welcome to our rpg fandom, we have:

a sassy white haired elf with background of slavery who is driven by idea of revenge

an ✨️explosive✨️ mage with a ponytail and puppy eyes (and a massive cat lover)

a local hero with royal blood that for certain reasons is not welcomed within own family

a walking religious guilt and a dark horse of the camp

and a senior supervisor of that kindergarten

[emmg]

I like Veilguard, I do.

But I miss when BioWare companions were unhinged.

Anders: terrorism

Fenris: woke up every morning, chose violence, and then chose Anders specifically

Dorian: HR violations

Blackwall: barn abandonment + fucking off to France to die

Iron Bull/Sera/Blackwall: banned from polite society

Shale: bird genocide enthusiast

Oghren: being Oghren

Solas: bald

Now everyone feels like they’ve completed workplace sensitivity training.

[rosieofcorona]

the watcher at halamshiral (2026)

[fuckthisbloganditscurses]

Happiness Will Come To You.

[12goblins]

when tho

[fuckthisbloganditscurses]

When You Least Expect It. Probably Late March

[wizardshark]

reblog for happiness to come for you in late march!

[wizardshark]

I am the only survivor on this post REBLOG FOR HAPPINESS IN LATE MARCH AND TO SURVIVE THE MARCH OF TIME!!!!

[ravenclaw-jedi]

[ficauthor]

[crokitheloki]

everyone say thank you ao3 volunteers you're the best ao3 volunteers ily ao3 volunteers

[raisedbylibrarians]

[rjdaae]

Fun facts with Wishbone

[gweywarden]

"Like dogs, shianni"

[kosmogrl]

how it feels when one of your hyperfixations comes back and stronger than ever

[ilynpilled]

how it feels when one of your hyperfixations comes back and stronger than ever

[spyndylle]

[freakoutgirl]

the internet seems like a distant dream

[freakoutgirl]

whatever we are on rn is not the internet. It's ads

[clytemnestraaa]

i'm going to say something insane. i think the overall pronounced fandom cultural slide away from complex plotty violent work and towards kidfic and coffee shops AUs and cozy domestic romcoms is a symptom of fascism.

[clytemnestraaa]

okay actually this is a great phrase for it

[thelibrarybat]

Reblogging this for the term "neopastoralism", because I think that's fantastic.

Coffee shop AUs are, like... fine. They're not my thing, but they're hardly going to end the world. We don't need to have a moral panic about people enjoying coffee shop AUs. I'm also not about to come for anyone seeking escapism in the current hellscape.

However, I do think it's interesting to examine the tendency within these AUs to project a sort of idyll onto the coffee shop: here is a whimsical place where you can spend time with your friends and potentially meet your true love; here is a world where the greatest dilemma you may face is choosing the right coffee syrup for a new beverage or sneaking your number onto that to-go cup without being obvious.

The fantasy of the coffee shop AU is divorced almost entirely from the reality of an actual coffee shop. There are no abusive, creepy customers or bosses; there is no mention of the barista's wages; we don't see the dishwasher sweating at their station, the cashiers' aching feet; the person whose job it is to clean the (customer-only?) toilets. These topics are Political and Depressing and Must Be Avoided, because Political and Depressing things are antithetical to this kind of escapism.

The coffee shop AU exists, not in a world without capitalism (because this is a setting where commerce is actively happening) but in a world where capitalism has no teeth: a world where capitalism somehow works. In order to be convinced and soothed by this fantasy, you must suspend your disbelief and avert your eyes. You must filter the coffee shop through a neopastoralist lens.

To me, there's something very uncanny about it.

[deadlovedonoteat]

neopastoralism is the word of the year

[braveryinsong]

Snoopy of the day (yesterday)

[deadlovedonoteat]

everything about solavellan makes me gag. the implied conversations ("haven is familiar. it will always be important to you" "we talked about that already"). the casual touches that imply a comfort and familiarity that only so many other casual touches could build (the hand on the small of the inquisitor's back at the winter palace, the hand holding in crestwood). solas' slightly gleeful tone when he retorts at sera for teasing them about their relationship ("only one of us is looking sad and foolish, sera"). the hints of how obvious their relationship is by their companions ("i've seen the way you look at him" / "have certain lingering looks passed between you and our solas?"). solas tongue-kissing inky and getting embarrassed about it when teased ("i did no such thing!"). the! implied! sex! slash sleeping together, joking about getting each other into bed, the "i would not lie with you under false pretences" of it all. the respect and tenderness they continue to address each other with even after crestwood. even after ten years apart. the yearning in their kisses. the yearning in his veilguard letter. the eagerness from both sides to understand, the curiosity about what sort of person their counterpart is to make them feel the way that they do — to make them feel that everything changed. put me out of my misery pleaaase pleeeeaaaaseeeee