where life is precious, life is precious

29 | they/them | i post about whatever video game i am playing at the moment

[thehypertuna]

Based on You're Always With Me (1942) by Al Parker

[shewolfofvilnius]

The difference a year makes: Romanced Miranda and Shepard

(Note: Post uses mods for both appearances as well as to enable a previously cut but voiced FemShep/Miranda romance, but these mods do not alter dialogue.)

In one of the first dialogues between Miranda and Shepard in Mass Effect 2, Shepard can try to get to know Miranda - but she rebuffs you coldly, noting "I'm not looking for a friend, Shepard. Stay focused on the mission.

The first time you meet Miranda on the Citadel in ME3, if you romanced her, the conversation could not be more different than your early days in ME2.

After taking a few moments saying hello and wanting to know if the Alliance has a plan for the Reapers (already a massive change), a romanced Miranda becomes the most vulnerable we've seen her so far.

Tenderly wanting to know...is there still a place for her in Shepard's life? Is she part of the plan?

It's here that something very interesting happens. If you say yes, Shepard all but proposes to Miranda. "You're the only one I want. I'd like to spend my life with you." It's the closest thing that a soldier in an apocalyptic war against the Reapers can offer - and it's one of a small number of Bioware romances where either party is already talking lifelong commitments - and it happens with nearly a full game to go.

Conversely, dumping Miranda is different than most others. Two VERY specific things happen if you break up with her.

While her voice tries to put on a veneer of stoicism and the previous 'coldness', Miranda is sobbing. We see it on camera for just a moment before the mask comes back on...and she immediately excuses herself.

She refuses further meetings with Shepard, resulting in her death later in the game. Formally breaking up with Miranda so thoroughly breaks her heart it leads to her death.

Because of how Miranda is perceived in general (both because of her early-ME2 coldness and because of the combination of early 2010s gamerbro marketing and persistently online gooners), one of the most devoted romances in Mass Effect is sitting just under everyone's nose. (and yes, BroShep's dialogue is basically the same.)

If you commit to Miranda Lawson, if you truly mean it she will love your Shepard with such unfaltering loyalty she is willing to tell The Illusive Man to go fuck himself, even if it means risking Oriana's future safety (which happens when TIM starts working with Henry Lawson). She will stand there and wish with you about the future even as the universe burns to the ground.

She'll love you so much, so hard, she literally can't stop smiling while teasing you to stop too.

And if you go back on it, if she opens the vault door to her heart to you and you force her to close it, it will so thoroughly break her spirit it leaves her open to the agent of her eventual death.

She is the only Mass Effect romance that cries if you break up with them. She is the only Mass Effect romance whose death is caused by a breakup. "Ice Queen"? Hardly.

[troldengel]

i'll miss you...

[sapphling]

let's all have a fun time looking up new words when we encounter them to see what they mean before incorporating them into our vocabularies

[wileycap]

[lobotomyscars]

"everybody experiences that" says mother who has the same symptom of the same mental illness

[ruffboi-mags]

So apparently, over the summer, Quibi (the shortest-lasting streaming service ever lmao) did a quarantine project called “Home Movie: The Princess Bride” where a bunch of celebrities recreated The Princess Bride in tiny chunks at home.

And like there was no permanent cast, all these celebrities seem to have gotten a scene or part of a scene to do (i’m not sure exactly, I did not ever watch Quibi and thus haven’t seen this yet), and then they just… recreated it as best they could. At home. Under quarantine.

So like, you had Jennifer Garner in a blanket cape playing Princess Buttercup AND the Booing Old Woman with a crowd comprised entirely of stuffed animals:

Or Taika Waititi paying Westley off a badly-drawn Inigo on a piece of cardboard held in front of someone’s face:

And it’s all just delightful.

But my absolute favorite part of this thing that I’ve sadly never seen but assume is probably absolutely hilarious and a treasure and I want to find it some day and watch the whole thing… is that Carey Elwes is in it.

As Prince Fucking Humperdink.

[movebackintime]

https://youtu.be/lR8pA_WV9QI

Here ya go

[laziestgirlintown]

In case you need a comfort watch and because Youtube search nowadays sucks rancid farts, I remind you of the Princess Bride Home Movie from the lockdown, starring everybody

[ladiesonscreen]

SEPIDEH MOAFI as BARAN AL-HASHIMI THE PITT (2025 – ) | SEASON 2

[songsomi]

Wander on, my love.

[stan-wlw]

[chosominous]

like pretty much any fandom or internet things, the pitt doesn’t really escape discursive polarization. i’m not saying anything new or revolutionary, most people notice it, in one direction or the other. and yeah, i get that it’s annoying.

but if you call yourselves politicized (and left‑leaning) and you want to stay coherent with your blog’s editorial line, you’ve gotta realize that characters like robby (or whitaker or langdon) or what they stand for, aren’t politically urgent causes that need defending. mental health topic or not, especially since he's not the only one it concerns.

yeah, men’s mental health can be an issue. but robby isn’t the one in a precarious position. robby isn’t the one already facing multiple structural discriminations. robby isn’t the one who has to think through every single thing he does or says just to be taken seriously.

i get why people love him, why they get attached, why they relate. i like robby’s character for several reasons too BUT he’s not the hill you should be dying on in your political fights. i used to think he was, back when i thought the show was still gonna deliver sharp, relevant critiques. that didn’t happen.

the end result of S2 is that the white man got prioritized, narratively and even outside the narrative.

and from that point on, it’s not about robby or langdon or whitaker anymore, even if you love them. that’s not where your energy should go.

[leliwardens]

leliana's endless loyalty to the chantry to the detriment of herself and everyone close to her is fascinating in the context of a divine leli worldstate. she's never been More entertwined with this horrific oppressive system while at the same time she's wanting to completely gut it and rebuild it as a force for good but like... the structure is still there. she's building on a rotten foundation. she's still a symbol of an unbelievably powerful regime, and in taking on this role, especially with how radically she's trying to reform the religion, she's just about sacrificed all that's left of herself. there can't be room for leliana anymore, only divine victoria

(context sorta)

That's pretty much why I call Divine Leliana a tragic ending for her. Because she truly is something the Chantry needs to even begin moving into the right direction of change and undoing the harm they cause, but to do that, she needs to give up literally everything, including her self of self, safety, and any sort of normalcy in her relationship with her warden. And she doesn't realize that yet. And thinks this is good and fine for her. <3

[ettadunham]

thinking about how indignant leliana gets if you ask her about just how close her relationship to divine justinia was early into inquisition, because god forbid you force her to make the connection between her and marjolaine, or accept that the woman she idolizes now failed her in so many of the same ways as the woman who groomed her as a teen

[ettadunham]

woman who is so normal when asked if she was 'more than friends' with someone

[persephoneinthegardens]

it was so much worse for me when I played origins for the first time (inq was my first dragon age game) and when i heard justinia say "tell leliana 'i'm sorry. i failed you, too'" i always assumed she meant that they failed eachother, like leliana told her that she failed her before her death. but when i learned about marjolaine, i was like wait. what if justinia meant "I failed you, too" in a 'i know marjolaine failed you tremendously, and i am sorry i was no different" and not in a "we failed eachother, and i'm sorry for my part in it." which means she KNEW what she was doing, and doesn't even bother apologizing to leliana for being the other side of marjolaine's coin. she just dies and leliana gets little to no closure, just a too-late unsatisfactory apology from something that she has to trust was actually justinia. it just. makes me mad. leliana let me hold you baby </3

[scout-spaeny]

need that.

[babydeermand]

Baran Al-Hashimi come home I miss you

[scout-spaeny]

baran al-hashimi with grey hair…baran al-hashimi salt n pepper grey hair…

[in-finitesuns]

@scout-spaeny like this???

[theocseason4]

Everything is embarrassing if you live your life through the eyes of others btw

[in-finitesuns]

sometimes i think it's really funny (especially if you are a jin/yuna and atsu/oyuki shipper like me) that a lot of the game is

"oh no i (jin) (atsu) have to defend my shinobi wife (yuna) (oyuki) from my family member (shimura) (jubei) who really detests their methods (or distrusts them)"

i know the subtlety is there for the people who believe in the platonicism of both (which i respect) but especially for me, a shipper, it's fucking hilarious