Always Kill Anders

This is archdemonblood’s Anders hate sideblog.

[hawkesmurderknife]

Honestly, I have a whole headcanon about how Tevinter schools have what is essentially a D.A.R.E. program for demons!

But honestly, we not only have Fenris’ word on this, we also have Dorian’s! If you take Dorian into the Fade, he’ll tell you about the first (implying it’s not the only) time a demon tried to possess him! You can’t expect me to believe that all Tevinter mages are inherently smarter than all demons.

[hawkesmurderknife]

Oh no. Clearly, everything I do is about convincing some random asshole whose existence I wasn’t aware of until this reply to change their mind about a fictional character. Now my whole life was for nothing.

Anyway, as always, I do not engage in bad faith arguments, and I would strongly recommend you all do the same. If you would like to discuss the finer points of why Anders is a piece of shit, join us on the discord.

[hawkesmurderknife]

What’s that line of Fenris’? “Of course! Nothing bad ever comes from good intentions; especially when demons are involved!”

It’s like that. Except Fenris was being sarcastic, and the Mage Activists believe this without a trace of sarcasm or irony.

[hawkesmurderknife]

I actually first learned about it from @gothic-princess-witch.

And yeah, it’s unbelievably awful.

[hawkesmurderknife]

I’ve been off my meds for like a month (will go back on soon, dw. Life just... happened) and my intrusive thoughts are starting to come back, and those have a Hell of a way of fucking with my memory. Why is this going on this blog?

Because one time someone condescendingly explained to me that Anders accepts guilt for the Chantry attack because of ~mental illness clouding his thoughts~

So. Hello, future Ariel and all of their followers! This is Ariel’s mental illness, checking in to remind you all that that is not how this particular mental illness symptom works, and that is not how Anders would be behaving if he had this symptom!

[hawkesmurderknife]

Anders is responsible for the College of Enchanters in the way that Jowan is responsible for the slaying of the archdemon.

[hawkesmurderknife]

AntiAnders August is over, but it’s okay! You can hate Anders during all twelve months of the year! Here’s a looping, slow-mo gif of him falling over dead in my last DA2 playthrough to prove it!

[templarappreciationlife]

Templar Appreciation Month, September 2019!

Due to the low amount of pro-Templar content on this website, I’ve decided that we need a Templar Appreciation Month! September of 2019 will be our first Templar Appreciation Month! Post all of your pro-Templar content under the tag #Templar Appreciation Month, and I will reblog it here!

Feel free to post any pro-Templar content you want on any day, but here is a day-by-day list of themes to explore, if you want guidance:

Week One (1st-7th) Favorite Things

Sun 9/1: Favorite Pro-Templar Quote

Mon 9/2: Favorite Templar Moment

Tues 9/3: Favorite Templar Lore

Wed 9/4: Favorite Templar Headcanon

Thurs 9/5: Favorite Templar Skill

Fri 9/6: Favorite Templar Character

Sat 9/7: Favorite Templar Quest

Week Two (8th-14th) Individual Templars!

Sun 9/8: Cullen Rutherford

Mon 9/9: Delrin Barris

Tues 9/10: Carver Hawke

Wed 9/11: Thrask

Thurs 9/12: Meredith Stannard

Fri 9/13: Gregoir

Sat 9/14: Other Templar Characters

Week Three (15th-21st): OC Week!

Sun 9/15: Templar Wardens

Mon 9/16: Templar Hawkes

Tues 9/17: Templar Inquisitors

Weds 9/18: Wardens who SIDED with the Templars

Thurs 9/19: Hawkes who SIDED with the Templars

Friday 9/20: Inquisitors who SIDED with the Templars

Sat 9/21: OCs who romanced Templars (canon or headcanon)!

Week Four (22nd-28th): Get Creative!

Sun 9/22: Hopes/Theories for Templars in DA4?

Mon 9/23: A Templar-related quest you wish had been in any game

Tues: 9/24: A dialogue option you wish you’d been given, but weren’t, during any Templar-related quest

Wed 9/25: Templar art!

Thurs 9/26: Templar fic!

Fri 9/27: Templar playlists!

Sat 9/28: Pro-Templar memes!

Week Five (29th-30th): AUs!

Sun 9/29: What if any canon Templar character was a full-time companion?

Mon 9/30: What if any canon Templar character was the PC (e.g. warden Carver, Inquisitor Barris, etc.)?

[yikes-aubs-blog-deactivated2024]

september will be kind. september will be kind. september will be kind. september will be kind. september will be kind. september will be kind. 

[dollopheadedmerlin]

I have … a tip.

If you’re writing something that involves an aspect of life that you have not experienced, you obviously have to do research on it. You have to find other examples of it in order to accurately incorporate it into your story realistically.

But don’t just look at professional write ups. Don’t stop at wikepedia or webMD. Look up first person accounts.

I wrote a fic once where a character has frequent seizures. Naturally, I was all over the wikipedia page for seizures, the related pages, other medical websites, etc.

But I also looked at Yahoo asks where people where asking more obscure questions, sometimes asked by people who were experiencing seizures, sometimes answered by people who have had seizures.

I looked to YouTube. Found a few individual videos of people detailing how their seizures usually played out. So found a few channels that were mostly dedicated to displaying the daily habits of someone who was epileptic.

I looked at blogs and articles written by people who have had seizures regularly for as long as they can remember. But I also read the frantic posts from people who were newly diagnosed or had only had one and were worried about another.

When I wrote that fic, I got a comment from someone saying that I had touched upon aspects of movement disorders that they had never seen portrayed in media and that they had found representation in my art that they just never had before. And I think it’s because of the details. The little things.

The wiki page for seizures tells you the technicalities of it all, the terminology. It tells you what can cause them and what the symptoms are. It tells you how to deal with them, how to prevent them.

But it doesn’t tell you how some people with seizures are wary of holding sharp objects or hot liquids. It doesn’t tell you how epileptics feel when they’ve just found out that they’re prone to fits. It doesn’t tell you how their friends and family react to the news.

This applies to any and all writing. And any and all subjects. Disabilities. Sexualities. Ethnicities. Cultures. Professions. Hobbies. Traumas. If you haven’t experienced something first hand, talk to people that have. Listen to people that have. Don’t stop at the scholarly sources. They don’t always have all that you need.

[dollopheadedmerlin]

I … LOVE reading the replies and tags for this post! I’m happy that, out of all my posts, this is the one that’s blown up so quickly. 

I love the people who are a part of a minority, that are gushing about their favorite fics or books that seem to have done this and offer proper representation. 

I love the people who are bringing up the toxic mindset that is very popular on tumblr, the “you can’t write about it if you haven’t lived it” ideology that makes writers feel guilty for providing representation.

I especially love the people who are mentioning how they should start doing this. I love the people who are probably young or inexperienced writers that are seeing this and thinking of doing this for the first time. I love that there are people who read this and then think to better their writing because of it.

[leonleonhart]

dai writers: the mage-templar war was ultimately set off by the events during asunder where they discovered that tranquility can be reversed

dai writers not 2 minutes later: i cant believe anders did this.. this is all because of anders… anders killed so many people.. what a monster

[hawkesmurderknife]

... Have you guys read Asunder? Because both of those things can be and are true. The events of Asunder were set off by Anders’ terrorism attack. That is literally stated repeatedly and in very clear terms throughout Asunder.

Also, people in the real world often disagree about the root cause of a problem based on their politics. Ask a Democrat and a Republican what caused the Recession and you will get wildly different answers.

[anders-is-a-terrorist]

[hawkesmurderknife]

I decided to just do (almost) all of them.

[hawkesmurderknife]

My cat is not allowed in the Deep Roads, because I am a responsible pet parent.

[hawkesmurderknife]

Well, this is charming.

[anders-is-a-terrorist]

[gothic-princess-witch-deactivat]

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