(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
My liege im sorry to break it to you but your advisor that's actually evil and wants you dead turned out to be straight. I know you really wanted to have an enemies to lovers situation with him. Yeah I'm afraid the poisoning didn't hold any romantic intent behind it. The king of the enemy kingdom is bisexual though, I could send him a letter? Yes, I'll make sure to include multiple threats of homoerotic nature. You will have your toxic yaoi, my liege
seeing news about the fallout remaster announcement feels like cruel irony to me
microsoft games are a bds boycott target, and because both bethesda + obsidian are owned by microsoft, this includes the games published by them.
microsoft is gonna further profit from a new virtual playground of ~post-apocalyptic bombed out towns in the desert~ while contributing to creating bombed out apocalyptic conditions in gazan towns, by collaborating with israel on so many fronts that bds calls microsoft the most complicit company in palestinian genocide.
and nostalgia-baited fans will still buy it bc playing pretend in a virtual world thats a knockoff of what real life people are currently facing – a virtual world funded by that very suffering of those real life people – is more important to them than simply playing a different game
I have grown to realize a lot of you severely underestimate just how much antiblackness we have to swallow for the sake of our personal peace and our livelihoods. I'm not saying that to be mean or to make you go into a guilt spiral- that would be a useless reaction anyway- but I do want you to consider it. That what you believe to be peace is not just because it "is".
"Well if it was important why didn't anyone say it sooner?" "if it was important, why didn't they say it was racist?" peer, a good 75-80% of what I might say to the white and/or nonblack people that offend me directly goes swallowed for the sake of my paychecks and running water, or God forbid to avoid a bullet. Or if I'm online (where that number shrinks significantly), to be left the fuck alone 🤣
Y'all are very used to not having to hear that feedback bc we've been forcibly socialized into accepting that you won't take it well and often have the power to make it not worth our while to speak. Retaliation is common. That's why it's perturbing to folks when Black people DO speak up. Interrupts the status quo 😅
Are we actually fr right now. No way are we still arguing that Black cis women are transmisogyny affected. The word you are looking for is misogynoir. But nice job erasing the experiences of Black trans women because you got all up in arms about TME/TMA
Don't get me wrong, there is a large amount of overlap between misogynoir and transmisogyny (such as the hypermasculinization of both groups), and of course there is the intersection of transmisogynoir which targets Black trans women. But misogynoir and transmisogyny are not the same and to treat them as the same erases the way misogyny intersects with racism and transphobia. It treats racism and transphobia as the same when they are not.
A Black cis woman is transmisogyny exempt because she is cisgender and can therefore exempt herself from transphobia and transmisogyny, a privilege that Black transgender women do not have (on the other side of the coin, white trans women can exempt themselves from racism through Just Being White, something that a Black woman cannot do).
What people call "collateral damage" when trying to make the claim that Black cis women are TMA, is misogynoir. To call it transmisogyny is erasure of the real reason, which is racism (antiblackness specifically).
Thank you, Black people in fandom spaces. Thank you, Black creators and Black lurkers. Thank you Black artists, Black writers. Thank you, Black bloggers, Black influencers. Shoutout to those Black characters, both canon and original. Thank you, Black people, both queer and cishet.
Your perspectives matter. Your representation matters. You are not bothersome for demanding equal treatment in fandom. It is not your responsibility to make fandom more welcoming and inclusive to you. It is not your sole responsibility to create all of the Black-centered content. You are not "ruining" anyone's fun for demanding better for yourself, and anyone who says otherwise can go fuck themselves. Any fandom worth being a part of should have no room for racism in it.
Black people in fandom, you are wanted. You are needed. You are loved and appreciated. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
And since they don't get told it near enough, thank you, Black women especially!!!
You are not "ruining" anyone's fun for demanding better for yourself, and anyone who says otherwise can go fuck themselves. Any fandom worth being a part of should have no room for racism in it.
me being mutuals with someone but not talking to them is the same as a cat existing in the same room as a person and considers it socializing. me liking and reblogging posts is like the cat purring
being as i am an idiot, and having been one my whole life, i just wanna say that i find it very easy to do nothing, and go nowhere. i eat chocolate late at night in the dark. i stand in the garden also. and i’m often waiting for something to happen. and i’m stupid.
white women are always like “more strong kickass female leads!” and when i say i want to see a black female love interest who is allowed to be girly and fall in love they give me weird looks and say that i’m supporting gender stereotypes and heteronormativity but what a lot of white women don’t get is that black women we’ve had hundreds of years of having our femininity ripped from us, of being deemed unworthy of male (especially non-black male) attention. black women in media are never allowed to be the “cute” ones or the love interest, we’ve always been the “strong kickass street smart woman” trope that white women want so badly. so basically if a black girl says she wants to see another black girl fulfill the role of “love interest” there’s absolutely nothing wrong with that and it isn’t a hindrance to feminism
you can't say "hey has anyone noticed that M/M fic outnumbers F/F like 100:1” or “it feels racist that only 3/202 characters on the ao3 top 100 ships list are Black and two of them are Alastor HazbinHotel” bc some ppl will start going like “oh so you think we should FORCE people to write about things they DON’T CARE ABOUT for WOKE????” and you’ll be like “no, i’m pointing out that the conditions that created this disparity are informed by racism & misogyny” and ppl will say “it’s not BIGOTED to only care about WHITE MEN” and then the gargoyle king appears
so the crows are an assassins' guild. grandmasters are sometimes called guildmasters. fledglings are apprenticed to masters. there is a hierarchal structure that's v strict abt who gets to do what and when.
there are historical inspirations to draw from for this, namely that an apprenticeship was a contract that began around ages 10-15 and you could achieve master status, depending on your trade, after 2-7 years of apprenticeship. typically, a seven-year apprenticeship ended w the apprentice becoming a journeyman or freemen who could become employees or masters running their own business, respectively.
so TO ME, that means that the crows are in training until around age 12/13, at which point they get apprenticed to a master crow (bc there's no point in apprenticing someone who might be dead by the end of training). obv you don't have to be a master to complete contracts — it seems like you're expected to complete contracts while a fledgling/apprentice, but it would make sense for that to happen the way an apprenticeship happens, gradually so you can pick up skills as you go. your master bids on contracts for you, and you go where you're told.
zevran had completed 17 missions prior to isidora's death in 9:24. if he's apprenticed almost as soon as rinna arrives in 9:16 (maybe after a few months so that the higher-ups have enough of a chance to go wow these kids work well together) — like best case scenario, zevran is completing those 17 contracts in 8 years. that's 2ish contracts a year assuming they Immediately start giving zevran contracts, and i don't think they do.
his second ever contract is the mage who broke her neck. previously, i've wondered if that took place prior to the murder tripartite being formed. i don't think i stand by that now, bc it's too fucking bleak for me, but it does still point to zevran having been prob 15/16 best case scenario (so it's rly only marginally less bleak, but i'll take it).
it also ig adds layers to the mage thinking she'll be able to manipulate him. mage understanders correct me if i'm wrong, but harrowings seem to typically happen around ages 18-19. wynne was almost 17, and she was considered 'years ahead of her peers' — the way a young mage might have been were she the type of mage who could leave the circle and travel, a mage who was targeted for 'meddling in politics'. that, to me, puts her on the younger side, but she was most definitely not 15/16.
I love that Ketheric simply did not tell Orin and Gortash that he was no longer immortal.
Like he is very much Not the undying one at this point. He is very much Aware that he's mortal, and that the group of adventurers who a) hold the prism protecting them against Absolute control and b) destroyed his immortality are on their way to kill him. He very much does not mention this to his coworkers.
And then Gortash has dialogue telling Orin, "neither of us expectedthe prism bearers to kill Ketheric." Like yeah, no shit. Can you fucking imagine hearing the news that your invincible coworker who immediately regenerates from every wound fucked up so badly that he's somehow dead? I mean honestly Ketheric's lucky because he'd never live this one down.
EXCEPT
It's even Better
Because Gortash talking about how fun it would be to see a fight between The Slayer and The Undying One??
This line is the same every playthrough. Including if Durge has slayer form. In which case, Orin does not have slayer form at this point.
So either she hasn't actually been granted slayer form at the end of Act 2, or Bhaal did gift it to her, and then take it away again in favour of her shitass sibling, and she is also very much Not Admitting This To Her Coworkers.
So anyway it's entirely possible to get Gortash here goading on an Undying vs Slayer fight where Ketheric is not undying and Orin is not the slayer. I also think it would be fun to see them fight here. Though not for the reasons Gortash does.
i think we can all agree on that i suck at fulfilling resolutions, (cue my posting recently) but i’m back with a post of my sketch i did while i was catching up on a show, love yall xoxo
sometimes i see an opinion i disagree with, and from a combination of wanting to keep up appearances, avoid flak, and cut to the heart of the issue, i draft a series of increasingly abstract responses, eventually culminating in typing out "falsehoods aren't true", which, in a perfect act of autofellatio, deletes itself
You read Wretched of the Earth and how the colonizer has PTSD from torturing the colonized and the former has a panic attack upon seeing a former victim while the latter desperately tries to kill himself to avoid recapture and I think it's right to ask: Am I really supposed to pity the former?
[Speaking slowly, gently, as though trying not to scare a startled horse] Now. Consider. The US military
To be clear I am not saying Fanon is attempting to elicit sympathy for the colonizer. I mean "Am I supposed to feel sorry for them" in an aghast way because the colonizer, who is suffering, feels he deserves sympathy. You see it again and again, all throughout history, and even now people complain about how traumatized they are from murdering civilians. How even in the end, in their eyes, the true victim is the perpetrator who lives rather than the dead person who is "at peace." As though any number of extenuating personal circumstances is supposed to make your guilt weigh more than the actual harms other people have experienced at your hands. As though people overseas wouldn't also like to go to college, would like to afford a house, would like to escape poverty. It's infuriating!
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