phantoms on the highway

jay - 31 - they/them - white icon is art of my OC by esakris [ click for DADWC prompts ] i write, knit, read, listen to music, play video games, etc. but mostly i drag myself to and from work like phantoms on the highway after holiday, gritting their teeth racing to find a place for their soul or at least a place... that's less familiar

[driftdogs]

Welcome to Drift Dogs!

We are an upcoming pet site, designed for those who love dogs... and creatures that we're pretty sure are dogs?? Guess you'll have to stick around to find out what that's all about ;)

Planned Features:

Collect dogs! Breed them to look cool! Breed them for higher stats! Compete in dog sports to win medals! Acquire some weird not-quite-normal dogs!

Watch your dogs age as you play, and retire them to keep them around forever!

Play dress-up with your dogs! Train them to improve their stats! Take them out to the park or the beach!

Need a break? Play some sudoku or another one of our HTML5 games!

Take your winnings from participating in the sport leagues and spend them on special prizes from the Champion Shop!

Collect achievements!

And more....

Interested in learning more? Give us a follow!

[jukeboxindie]

finished veilguard.... anyway, back to andersposting lol

my hawke is somewhere out there reuniting with her sewer rat boyfriend

[cafeinevitable-deactivated20220]

[directactionforhope]

Not only is having intergenerational friendships literally not creepy, imho it's actually essential. You NEED friends who are older to do things like help you when there's a problem with your taxes, and give you job advice, and relationship advice, and especially if you are part of a marginalized group, and especially if you're part of a marginalized group and don't have contact with a ton of other members of it, you need older friends to show you that there IS a future for you, for people like you, and what it looks like, and the way it doesn't even have to involve turning into your parents

[hiccup-queen]

conversely, you need friends who are younger to help introduce you to new ideas. You need friends who are younger to drag you out to try some adventure because they thought it looked cool. You need younger friends to help you fix problems, because they may have faced something similar in the past! You need younger friends to keep you up to date on slang so that you can embarrass your teenage family members by intentionally misusing it.

Cross-generational friendships are not some weird sin. My best friend is nineteen years older than I am - im closer in age to her children than I am to her. She's still my best fucking friend.

[genderkoolaid]

having friends who are older than you helps inoculate you against ageism towards older people.

having friends who are younger than you helps inoculate you against ageism towards younger people.

you need to be able to see people of all ages as people you live in a community with, people who are similar to how you once were or will be, people you can learn from and people you can teach.

[through-thick-and-quinn]

It is also just a given of life. Those that are like "Why would a 40 year old ever even be near a 16 year old? Thats sus!" Have never worked a minimum wage job or gone to college, especially community college. My first year of school, I was friends with a 36 year old man with kids I was closer in age to. My senior internship was in a cardiac rehab unit and I made friends with people an average age of 65. I was often teased at being in charge of their workout plans when "I have shoes older than you". I had a 50 year old coworker last holiday season and she was great, I loved working with her.

Outside of forced association with only people your age and people much older than you like in K-12, you're gonna be hard pressed to find friends that are only in your age group. Its okay, and it honestly rules.

[decomposedmaw]

Chillin’ on the Bridge

[wizardarchetypes]

let me tell you about having unrestricted internet access as a teenager and becoming ‘tumblr famous’ and not mentioning it to your mom simply because it didn’t seem important until a stranger asks for a photo in public in front of your mom. like oh yeah sorry mom by the way i’m really big among other insane teenagers holding on by a thread.

[wizardarchetypes]

my mom didn’t care but she started telling random adults i was “famous on the internet” and i never knew how to stand when she said that so i always struck a gay little pose

[wizardarchetypes]

next they’d ask for my “website” so they could check it out and my mom was like (with genuine support) “my understanding is we wouldn’t like it ♥️”

[luubyart]

friday night at the hanged man

[madlizardwizard]

long time no see hehe

done in clip studio paint ex | tap for a better quality !!!

[jofish42]

[bob-artist]

My brain: You have so many tight deadlines. So many things on your weekly schedule. So many important jobs. You have to get important work done!!!

My hands:

[sky-fire-forever]

I think Anders' bipolar disorder should be talked about more. I think a lot of people tend to ignore his bipolar or handwave it away because it's "bad" representation, which!! Is fair!!

But also, as a bipolar person, his bipolar is very important to me. Yes, it's written extremely shittily, but it's still a fundamental part of his character. In my opinion, you can't have DA2 Anders without his bipolar disorder

[ocean-in-my-rebel-soul]

Peer reviewed tags from @lesetoilesfous:

Image reads:

"#I think there's something that makes me feel things about his circle escapes being the result of both manic and depressive episodes #and the manic ones always end up worse because when he's depressed he's not really trying #and when he's manic he's taking the most stupid risks imaginable because he thinks he's invincible"

[thedandiestoflions]

Local man

[weaselknievel]

giggled at something and my coworker comes out of the break room and goes "I just heard like, a haunted child laugh... so weird." and I'm like okay so it was a normal regular alive adult laugh actually

[kosmogrl]

[chaoticneutralwife]

the next day after exerting myself too much because i felt good for once

[silly-signs]

Official silly sign

[aropride]

why is getting the into the shower the hardest thing in the world. and once ur in the shower it’s fine but making the decision to take a shower and actually enacting it feels like you’re sisyphus with that damn rock

[shouty-y]

Lesbian knights ⚔️ - Prints

[vhen-harel]

Thinking about the Inquisitor and the sacrifice of their body time and time again.

The explosion of the orb forever marking them, changing them. Being forced in and out of the Fade physically. Solas grabbing the Inquisitor's hand by force to direct the power. The Mages or Templars channeling their power into and through their body (the Mark) to close the breach, the Anchor physically overcoming their body, slowly killing them, losing a part of their body.

This loss of bodily autonomy is so fascinating and so sad to me.

Their body literally becomes the battlefield and while they may be treated as a figure of divine will, what they actually experience is much closer to being sacrificed to sustain the world.

It makes me think of Solas who sacrificed his spirit self to take on a body - a body and mind used as a weapon. His body altered with the veil going up and then sacrificed once again to keep it up.

Both of them lose the same thing in different ways. The Inquisitor has it taken from them, their body and agency eroded by necessity and expectation. Solas gives it up, piece by piece, until there is no clear line between who he was and what he must become. Both of them, with their bodies, become a symbol of how the world is held together. And in the end, neither of them is allowed to remain whole.