FUCK THE TEMPLARS

No longer an RP blog. These days it's mostly just screaming about Dragon Age stuff, occasionally Les Mis and AtLA/TLoK. Fuck the Chantry. Fuck the Maker, too. Romanced Anders.

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something to think about

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[michiferangst]

imperfectwriting:

norwegianblues:

THE most underrated scene in the entire movie. It was perfect. And do you know how often I see gif sets of it? This is the second one I’ve seen since the movie came out (It’s been over 5 months, now).

So let’s just pause for a moment from reblogging gifs of Tony’s sass, Loki’s sex appeal, or Bruce’s fluffiness and just appreciate this nameless, old, German guy and how, even though he knew he would probably die, he stood up to a tyrant to prove that the human race wouldn’t give up their freedom so easily.

Friendly reminder that it’s implied that he’s a Holocaust survivor.

let’s bring this back

[officially-tilly]

Last Chance

[michiferangst]

dollhouse:

ladylokiofmidgard:

the-gay-lantern:

ladylokiofmidgard:

Ok Folks, listen up. The electoral college doesn’t vote officially until December 19th. It is extremely rare and almost unheard of for them to vote against the majority of their district BUT IT CAN HAPPEN. The Electoral College was made for exactly this purpose!  Remember, prior to December 19th, we have:

Court Case against Trump University Court Case Against Trump for accusations for rape and sexual assault If we pull together, we can swing this. We will have to be tireless. We will have to be unyielding. We will have to write, call, and march on every swing state that can have their electoral vote differently. We have to make our voices heard. Hillary WON the popular vote which means more of America wants her to be President than Trump. There is precedence for this to happen. There is cause. There is hope. With no state law against Pennsylvania voting against their popular vote, that’s 20 to go to Hillary. If Florida or any three other states swing, SHE WINS.

If we get them to vote different, we don’t have to worry about Trump or Pence because Hillary will have won. Until she hands over the nomination, she is still saying she is waiting for the official electoral votes to be made. 

We can do this. We can win. LET’S SPREAD THIS LIKE WILD FIRE ON HERE AND FACEBOOK! 

Dear god, someone tell me what to do

Find out the swing vote state’s Electoral College Representatives and phone, mail, email, share, and march on their offices. We have just over a month to get this together. If the Electoral College decides to change their votes for Hillary on December 19th, we will have Hillary as our President. The reason why so many people aren’t talking about this is because it’s very rare for the Electoral College to vote differently than the districts. Some states even have laws preventing that, such as Ohio and North Carolina. But, Pennsylvania does NOT have that law. Florida is tricky, but it can be done. NH is also another one that can swing it as well. If we get just a few of them to switch, we will have won.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_presidential_electors,_2016

[michiferangst]

Toni Bevell is about as annoying as Mother Petrice. Which is quite a feat, because Petrice (tied with that whiny Orlesian moron Isolde) is the most annoying cunt on Thedas.

I hope she gets kicked in the smug upper-class face. Preferably by Mary. 

Thankfully, Mary and Rowena are awesome.

[imaanhammamofficial]

[birdsy-purplefishes]

My first thought was “is that Hermione?” 

And then: “#behold your new hermione headcanon”

[ladypandacat]

same ^^

[michiferangst]

definitely Hermione

[misterwiggums-deactivated-deact]

i think velanna would actually get along with everyone in the kirkwall crew

except aveline

she’d hate aveline

this would be especially apparent after the incident with the elves during act 2, when aveline and her guards did nothing to give them justice

[michiferangst]

that’s pretty much where Aveline lost all my respect

those elves had every right to kill that rapist fuck and the Arishok had every right to take them in

[michiferangst]

I barely use this blog anymore. If you want something, here are my RP blogs.

@wearevengeancenow Anders

@songoflyrium Cullen

@knightinbloodredarmour Samson

[gifsboom]

[tastefullyoffensive]

The ultimate cat toy. [video]

[michiferangst]

Anders vs. Dorian

[skunkbear]

[teamrocketing]

i’m so glad i live in 2016 so i dont have to deal with these massive terrifying animals except the blue whale, but shes gentle and good

[michiferangst]

HELL PIG

[incorrectdragonage]

[michiferangst]

Loghain fucked up a lot but he did have a point

[dalishious]

Why The Treatment of the Dalish is Personal and Not Okay

“The Dalish started off as the wandering Rom (or g*****s, if you prefer) but evolved into something more akin to North American Natives (and, really, the Native situation is also a good analogy for elves as a whole).” - David Gaider

Right there. Said from a writer himself. The Dalish mirror First Nations. I saw a connection right away, and hearing it confirmed makes me both happy and very angry.

I’m happy because holy shit, it’s nice to see something relevant to aboriginal peoples in media. It happens so rarely. To see a reflection of my people in a huge game franchise such as this is frankly awesome. I can connect with that, and it builds passion. I personally think that anyone who is a minority in some way can probably connect to the Dalish. 

…Which brings us to why it is totally not awesome, and makes me angry. You say the Dalish are influenced by a minority group. You admit yourself that the Dalish are a minority. You then proceed to do your best to retcon a lot of lore and change things to try and remove sympathy and produce victim-blaming, all for the sake of forced grey morality. (I say forced, because Dragon Age was already pretty grey, a good amount of grey when it was unintentional.)

Because here’s the thing: You created a world built on racism and fear of that which people did not understand. But you could have the chance to play as a hero who can be a beacon of representation to their people! That’s what it seemed like in Origins, at least. But does a Dalish warden who asks for land for their clan actually change anything? No. In DA2 we see zero change, as if it never happened. Then there’s a Dalish inquisitor “setting an example for all elves.” Yes, an example of assimilation, where people are constantly belittling their culture, or flat-out trying to erase it from them. Perfectly exhibited with the case of Ameridan.  DO YOU KNOW HOW FUCKING HARMFUL ASSIMILATION IS?! DO YOU KNOW HOW LONG-LASTING ITS EFFECTS ARE?! Honestly, I think THIS makes me angrier more than anything! Because if you did, you would not choose to assimilate a fictional race based on a real race that knows more about assimilation than pretty much anyone!

Ugh… I need a sec.

I understand your goal was to try and make the oppressors more sympathetic. But you should not have gone about it by making the oppressed seem less so. You could have instead chosen to have the racist repent, and even work to help reverse the effects of the long history of tyranny, because words are only as good as the actions behind them. It would have been harder, yes, but it would have been worth it. It would have been an actual redeeming story-arc. But no.

The Dalish are indeed a great analogy. That has never been made more clear, if this is what you think First Nations deserve as representation.

…This is the part where I’d normally apologize for getting angry, but I don’t feel like it this time.

[tishinada]

I hadn’t realized Gaider had come out and said as much. But I noticed from the beginning that the Dalish and City Elves represented different survival strategies by an oppressed group, particularly indigenous peoples who often end up divided between those who try to maintain complete separation and those who try to survive within the oppressive culture. I thought Rom and Jewish ghettos might be the models they used too, minorities resisting destructive assimilation.

And yes, the victim blaming they have done since DAO, creating incident after incident in which they seem to justify the treatment of both Dalish and City Elves has been infuriating. They even made it easy for people to blame the Exalted March on the Dales on the Dalish elves. And while I love Solas, his intentions basically justifies all the horrible genocidal acts likely to happen now to people who will be as much his victims as anyone else.

It’s also one of the reasons I have major reservations about them moving to Tevinter. They’ve already demonstrated that they’re drawing their ideas about how slaves think and view their enslavers from long discredited narratives written by the enslavers. Fenris’s sister Varania complaining that life as a freedwoman was harder. Orana who is written as witless and completely helpless. And other examples. Frankly, if they continue mining such biased sources, I suspect their foray into Tevinter will be the end of my interest in DA. There are a thousand ways they could demonstrate slave resistance while they present a face that will avoid punishment or retribution. But they won’t. They’ll make those public, protective faces their real ones, just like they don’t give you the chance to really call Dorian on his statements about slave conditions in Tevinter…

[michiferangst]

Also: not nearly enough elves look like actual POC. It’s ridiculous you need a mod to make DA2 Merrill brown again. 

Solas looked much better in his concept arts.

Qunari too went from Sten to Iron Bull.

Have I mentioned I want to have all Chantry fucks and Orlesians nobility guillotined? Oh, and most magisters too. And Celene.

And then your Dalish Inquisitor doesn’t even have the option to say “shut the fuck up, shemlen bitch, you don’t know shit” to Morrigan.

[michiferangst]

Me: I will build Merrill right this time, she will be powerful

Me when Merrill betrays us in the Fade and KO’s Anders in one hit: fuck

Me when I have to take a health potion, me, the barely-takes-damage-warrior: FUCK

like

the pride demon went down easier than her

what have I unleashed

[julian2006]

listen……i fucking hate bacon culture SO much……..bacon isnt even that good please calm down

[michiferangst]

the shitty American bacon sure isn’t 

behold 

the TRUE bacon 

the szalonna

and that’s just a few types

damn, now I’m hungry

[lemonvore-deactivated20190305]

name a more iconic trio. ill wait.

[michiferangst]

Luke, Leia, Han

[michiferangst]

Ok I’m trying to make sense of my Evil Hawke, RP-wise

- first he kisses templar arse to be on their good side and keep them off Bethany

- once Bethany is taken to the Circle, he kisses even more templar arse since she’s pretty much their hostage now

- he hates demons and is afraid of all Fade stuff

- not a fan of the Qunari but hates Petrice more so he grudgingly takes their side

- he really loves the murderknife

- red af

- he has a Frollo-like obsession with Anders and he’s jealous af at Justice

- eventually starts to believe the templar bullshit

- after All That Remains, he goes full Lawful Evil

- he takes out everything on Anders and Merrill

- Maker, he’s such a dick

- I hope the Inquisitor leaves this fucker in the Fade

Once I’m done with him, I’m doing my canon run, which will be a purple pro-mage Hawke who curls around his apostates and hisses at templars.

[michiferangst]

So I’m thinking where in Dante’s Inferno would Dragon Age characters go...

1. Limbo (Virtuous Pagans) - not much to go on with. Perhaps Ketojan?

2. Level 2 (Lustful) - Isabela, Zevran, The Iron Bull, desire demons

3. Level 3 (Gluttons) - Oghren, hunger demons

4. Level 4 (Prodigal and Avaricious) - Javaris, like 90% of Orlais, Envy demon

5. Level 5 (Wrathful and Gloomy) - Fenris, Anders, Velanna, wrath demons

6. Level 6 (City of Dis - Heretics) - if you asks the Chantry, probably all Qunari and Tevinter. Also, Morrigan.

7. Level 7 (Violent)

violent against others - pretty much everyone could go here, but specifically: Sten, hardened!Leliana, Meredith, most of the smite-happy templars, Zathrian, Gaspard, Celene, Quentin

violent against themselves - Maddox, Caridin, Orsino

violent against the Maker - the seven magisters (if they are dead), Samson and red templars, pride demons, Nightmare demon

8. Level 8 (the Malebolge - Frauds, Thieves, Hypocrites, Simonists etc.) - Elthina, Petrice, Blackwall, Irving, Vivienne, Isolde

9. Level 9 (Cocytus - Traitors against god, country, family or benefactors) - Arl Howe, Loghain, Bartrand, Florianne, Bhelen, Branka, maybe Solas?

Satan is probably chewing on Maferath :D

Feel free to add more!

How about X-men? I feel like it fits the whole mage-templar theme very well

[therealmnemo]

oh gosh yes, it definitely pushes the same buttons. i refer a lot to the comedy of those shows and the shenanigans of the da2 crew, but that would be an awesome crossover too :D

[michiferangst]

as someone who supports Magneto just as much as I support Anders FUCK YES