the lady of sorrow, armored in light

jay | she/her | a03/bsky: jkateel | profile pic by @artofmisi | currently obsessed with baldur’s gate and that damn squid | in dragon age hell and i love it here | will always ship dean/cas

[artofmisi]

commission of araniel lavellan for @jkateel ! ♥

[saessenach]

a moment of appreciation for bertha's dress at the dinner where she fucks lady sarah up please and thank you!!

it is such a contrast to what everyone else is wearing - she's absolutely bedecked in them geegaws diamonds, to the point where they literally look like armour. I dearly wish we had a better look at it because it's gorgeous, not only for its design, and the way it works within the dark sidmouth castle setting, but also for what it signifies - that's not a gown, it's a humiliation tactic. of course she's picking a fight dressed like that, and of course there's nothing anyone can say about it. it builds on exactly what she and gladys discuss earlier in the episode - when she encourages gladys to remind the duke and lady sarah of her worth and contribution to their livelihood. Coming down to dinner like that is the most flagrant, elegant and ostentatious way of saying, "hey remind me who's paying the bills here again? oh wait couldn't hear you over all these diamonds, could you repeat that??"

and if that weren't enough, it's also a delicious parallel to what monica tried to do earlier in the season at bertha's own table; it highlights such a fun similarity between the sisters, but also goes a step further in establishing bertha's absolute command over society power plays - no one's pouring coffee over that dress. No one would dare.

in short, bertha russell character of all time 😮‍💨

[jauffre]

PREY (2017)

↳ SCENERY

[pusheen]

[refinedstorage]

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[hellion-cat]

Day 1: Pumpkin

Starting off Suptober strong

[aesfocus]

[vhen-harel]

The Heavy Crown

"Every time you're 'more than just a person' to someone, you're also less than a person to them." - Lace Harding to The Inquisitor

Solavellan Week 2025 Prompt: The Heavy Crown

[stealingpotatoes]

commission for anonymous!

(commissions closing soon!)

[harlotofandraste]

imagine being a regular, poor kirkwall darktowner going about your day and then your doctor kills like 10 people right in front of you and no one even cares

[skoomabong]

[rkelspn]

run, castiel, run

[kirkwall-age]

Awakening is such a funny game in retrospect. baseline expectations for DA status quo is DA2 team being all concerned about possession and blood magic, and half of the Inquisition crew being suuuper concerned about Cole, and many people being outwardly antagonistic to him based on his spirit-in-a-boy's-body nature.

meanwhile back in Awakening the Warden goes: oh worm? you want to come fight darkspawn with me? sure, the more the merrier! and then the whole gang is just workshopping how to deal with Justice's dead body decaying, Oghren wants to know if Justice fucks, and Nathaniel is all: what if you [spins wheel] possessed someone who was alive? if both parties consent i think that's basically like fine.

👍👍👌👌 top-tier comedy

[kunosoura]

It’s a cliche that there are always rpg companions who disapprove of you dragging the party around to help random people out of the goodness of their heart but honestly I’d probably be one of them. Like if I was grouped up under some incongruously beat face CC’d ig baddy or worse, some fucking guy, because we had a job of world saving importance to do and they kept getting distracted by every sad peasant who lost their family heirloom, insisting we help and not accept a reward, you’d be seeing Nico Disapproves in the corner too. Bitch we have a job to do the darkspawn tadpole chip in our head is going to summon the reaper Sith invasion of Hoover Dam any day now get with the fucking program

[lengthofropes]

👴👴 old married couple all along

[calkestis]

#rebellions are built on hope alcohol consumption that makes the unbearable weight of a fascist regime somehow manageable 

[dailymarvelstudios]

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021), dir. Destin Daniel Cretton

[emily-e-draws]

Cobra and Marius for a friend 🫶