(icon desc: tarot card for the darkspawn from dragon age: veilguard. a corpse-like figure emerges from the ground.) chronic overexplainer. was commanderofthegrey/iovaras
fiadh/hawke/v but call me whatever i don't actually care lol / 21 / it/its + any neos / white
this is the main blog that i use but it is a sideblog
if you feel inclined to check out pillars of eternity because of me or others posting about it, please pirate it; there's a boycott
i try to describe any images i post but i am very tired these days. if i do add an ID to your post, please put it on the og post, i do not care about credit.
i will no longer reblog/respond to screenshots of my own replies/tags if it doesn't already have an ID on it. the copy and paste function exists.
contrary to the rest of this post and my entire blog, this is not actually a dragon age blog i just never shut up about it. other interests include rpgs, bnha, and mediocre tv dramas
be warned i overall dislike dai and davg (though i think less of the latter than the former)
i do not tag crit, spoilers, nsfw jokes/art/etc, or content/trigger warnings
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Main DA Worldstate OCs
Origins
in-depth post here
Paz Amalda Surana - The Hero of Ferelden, Chancellor of Ferelden, Commander of the Grey, Arlessa of Amaranthine / born 9:10 / Mage / Arcane Warrior, Blood Mage, Shapeshifter / Protagonist of Origins and Awakening.
Seran Aeducan - Follower of the Architect / born 9:02 / Rogue / Duelist, Legionnaire
Hav Amell / Opportunity - The Dark Wolf / born 9:07 / Mage / Spirit Healer, Blood Mage
Whilternia "Wil" Cousland - Teyrna of Highever / born 9:07 / Warrior / Guardian, Spirit Warrior
Aedlin Tabris - The Dark Wolf / born 9:08 / Rogue / Duelist, Assassin
i still haven’t recovered from finding out that the option for hawke to tell anders “if you had told me i would have understood” is only available for a hawke that has 75%+ friendship with anders. you have to have played a character who would say that. which to me implies that anders’ response to that, “i wanted to tell you,” is him telling the truth, since he would only say that to a hawke who. yeah. you get it
trying to explain to a 50 something criminal profiler that suicidal teenagers are people responding to internal logic with root causes rather than mindless droids who catch social contagions via rock music and tiktok
“but they seemed so happy!” yeah that’s the oldest suicide cliche in the book. it’s called hiding things and the more you act like suicidality is some irrational external contagion that can be prevented by taking away freedoms the more you train your kid to hide things.
This plant, we tell children, has a one in ten-thousand chance to have four leaves. You can search through a clover patch all day and never find one. But if you do, and you pluck it and keep it, it will bring you luck.
And this flower, we tell children, if you let it bud and bloom and age from sun-yellow flower to moon-white seed, you can then pluck it and blow its seeds away to make a wish.
And this flower, we tell children, can be woven into a hat
What the heck! As of this reblog, this comic has 21 notes. Apparently a little reblog chain happened, but I don’t really remember noticing. Much higher numbers than my usual 0 or 1. My first taste of success, and I totally missed it!
[ID: image one is a four panel comic. a ball of yarn in the foreground and a cat trotting in the distance. the cat sees the yarn. the cat bounds over excitedly. the final panel is the cat knitting with half a scarf on their needles.
image two: tumblr tags #investing under 100 notes. end ID]
We have been so desensitized by a hundred and fifty years of ceaselessly expanding technical prowess that we think nothing less complex and showy than a computer or a jet bomber deserves to be called "technology" at all. As if linen were the same thing as flax — as if paper, ink, wheels, knives, clocks, chairs, aspirin pills, were natural objects, born with us like our teeth and fingers — as if steel saucepans with copper bottoms and fleece vests spun from recycled glass grew on trees, and we just picked them when they were ripe...
— Ursula Le Guin, from the essay "A Few Words with Visitor from Outer Space" in "The Wave in the Mind: Medieval Studies, Writing on Writing". (Shambhala Publications, 2004) (via @PatrickHeizer)
