greater things

carter, 20, he/him. i love cats and fantasy stuff (dragon age currently).

[pauvre-lola]

absolution

[lorain90]

Practices. Some doodles were done months apart, and my style has changed.

[transsexualgriffith]

i love sibling estrangement as horror. Only one person in the entire world has been through what youve been through and they deny it . Awesome

[bleedthebeat]

🔥 Zevran 👀

his past with doing sex work under the crows heavily colors his feelings on sex as a whole, how he offers himself to the warden out of self-defense. he enjoys sex, but it’s important to remember that in the past he’s had sex because he was ordered to and/or because he, as an elf, was seen as desirable by humans and inherently sexualized and objectified due to that. he explicitly says that that’s why the crows like to recruit elves. there’s a lot of baggage tied to his relationship with sexuality. reducing him to a “slut” or a “whore” as a joke minimizes his character and also comes off as biphobic.

also everyone who romanticizes the crows in vg needs to go back to origins and exhaust zevran’s dialogue again. a) it’s extremely unlikely that, as the game states, rook de riva “chose” to join the crows, and the hardships of crow training being referenced as a joke at most is appalling. b) if he had a kid they would not be a rook de riva. he would never let anyone he loves anywhere near the organization that abused and destroyed him. and zevran destroying the crows isn’t just getting revenge for what happened to him, it’s because they’re a deeply corrupt institution that participates in illegal slavery, abuses and kills children, and treats elves like objects. he wants to destroy the entire institution so no one else goes through what he did

that kind of got off track from zevran specifically, so. i’ll just also add that zevran “reforming” the crows or becoming their new leader is immensely out of character

[gonegravesillus]

🐦‍⬛🩸

[bloodsky]

Gender Troubles: The Butches (watch it for free until March 29th)

[catholic-women-near-you]

[ID: A Black butch woman, seated, says, “I know I am a woman. I know I am butch. I know that there is nothing wrong with that. And I know that within the confines of the word ‘woman,’ there is plenty of room for me.”]

[shelternmberone]

Marvel at perfection, for it is fleeting

[limpstella]

I have some grievances with veilguard

[desert-palm]

[captain-acab]

Catch me being a modern-day cyberpirate screaming up alongside you on the 405 in my mad max car with half a bitcoin farm's worth of RAM in the backseat as I hack your Bitchless Towyota™ device and steal the boat you're towing right off the back bumper of the tesla your dad bought you

As i roar into the sunset you have to swerve* to avoid the small flotilla of hacked Towyota devices trailing behind me

(*in fact you do not swerve because you're on hands-free driving to go along with your hitch-free towing so you can only watch helplessly as your tesla mistakes your stolen booty for a small child and accelerates crashing into it and killing you instantly)

[draconym]

i would rather see the information for an event handwritten in sharpie on a paper towel than see another AI generated flyer

[leliwardens]

honestly the more i sit with sten's backstory in dao the more it kinda pisses me off how little it matters.

[leliwardens]

it really has to do with the fact the big reveal of why he is both in ferelden but also in the cage specifically: he murdered an entire family including children. and this fact, only EVER comes up with sten himself, and no where else. this is DESPITE the "murdering a family" aspect is "known" to the party because you are told it in the overworld. it's not like zevran's history with rinna or wynne's failed apprentice, which are only told directly to the warden/player. and no one.....feels any strongly about this? it makes sense morrigan dgaf, but not leliana who likely knew the family?? alistair who reacts so strongly to a dead connor??? this should set him at odds with nearly everyone in the party but it's pretty much a footnote???

and later games establish the qunari use propaganda of slain tamas and children to instill fear of what becoming tal-vashoth is and what they do: indiscriminate slaughter of vulnerable members of their society. and sten doesn't grapple with this? at all? he accepts the blame, yes, and says there was no reason for why did that, and only finds atonement through the warden's intervention. but like, you're told the youngest child only survived because they hid, otherwise they'd of been murdered too. and this is just feels like it should impact more of every part of sten and it just. doesn't.

(and i'm not advocating for some catholic constant punishment type of writing, far from it, but i'd want it to you know, matter.)

[tacticaljorts]

every piece of media would be better with a butch in it

[sevibun]

the grey warden’s joining

[lazariiuss]

goth gf + golden retriever gf

[patrochilles-or-bust]

I will never take serious or pity the Great Replacement fears of white people, no matter how "academically" or "accurately" they put it.

Ain't no way my people had to survive the complete and purposeful destruction of our own cultures to be assimilated into one Color and slave class, to create and be stolen from and erased from our own creations to this day, every day. Ain't no way Native Americans were genocided in every way possible and are still fighting the good fight to maintain their cultural norms and practices.

Ain't no way we survive ALLA DAT... And I'm supposed to take someone seriously because they think not seeing white people in their media or in their governments, as if we haven't seen them everywhere all the time by force, means they're being culturally and physically eradicated as a people. Shut the fuck up 🤣 "multiculturalism" and it just means "I will consume you and you will allow me to do so, but there will be no real cultural exchange".

[andhumanslovedstories]

look I'm not gonna pretend I know anything about electronics, but sometimes a plug is so big it blocks another socket, and I'm always like "who the fuck do you think you are"

[stonesense]

the way that even if u are the most easily possessable mage in the world mouse only gives u some advice and does not possess u is honestly very charming. it’s like he was just trying to give you a scare so you would stop being like this

[stonesense]

mouse: [in his best angry demon voice] the REAL DANGERS of the fade are PRECONCEPTIONS. CARELESS TRUST. PRIDE. which you have to REMEMBER FOR THE FUTURE. i’m saying this because i’m a scary demon okay. are you scared. are you taking notes.

warden: ... so you don’t want a lift home?

mouse: no hope for you at all.