Vick || they/them || 20s
extremely normal about caves
currently descending into dragon age madness
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big fan of rocks, birds and other creatures, music, languages
opera enjoyer (go listen to reri grist and grace bumbry and olga borodina)
I queue a lot of things but don't have a queue tag
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feel free to dm/ask for discord!
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icon: dragon age inquisition tarot card for lavellan hunter
header: the sun and moon and five peaks (night) by kate oh
title: from "non rifugiarti nell'ombra" by eugenio montale
#opera - for more general opera posts, specific operas will usually get tagged with their name
#weh und wunden - stuff related to healthcare (in the middle of a strange and unexpected possible career pivot but we persevere) (tag not only for career stuff)
#da - catchall dragon age tag (used to use dao, da2, dai, dragon age)
dragon age worldstates & OCs:
worldstate 1 (one must imagine sisyphus happy):
#seredaposting - warden sereda aeducan
rogue, romanced leliana, crowned bhelen in orzammar and anora in ferelden, executed loghain, did morrigan's ritual, still alive in DAI
leliana is elected divine later on in this worldstate and Oh Boy does their relationship get rocky
spends a fair amount of time with the legion of the dead between DAO and DAI, adopts an infant whose parent was in the legion but killed in a darkspawn attack (she does not mention this to leliana beforehand)
#margaretposting - margaret hawke
mage, purple, romanced isabela for a while but ended up with anders (for better or for worse), left anders alive, did not get trapped in the fade in DAI 🎉
gets the hell out of dodge with anders and flees to tevinter post-DA2
#iscaposting - inquisitor isca lavellan
warrior with templar specialization and two-handed weapons, had alistair stay in the fade, allied with both mages and templars, drank from the well of sorrows, romanced blackwall and solas, dissolved the inquisition, wants to save solas
#tamsenposting - tamsen "rook" ingellvar
mourn watch mage but is just kind of whatever about necromancy, romancing neve, saved treviso, punched the first warden, close friends with davrin and bellara
worldstate 2 (mages can't catch a break):
#edwenaposting - warden edwena cousland
warrior (weapon/shield) with berserker and champion specializations, turned over fereldan circle for annulment, romancing zevran, supported harrowmont, killed connor
#eirikaposting - eirika hawke
red>blue, dual weapon rogue w/ assassin specialization, pro-templar and pro-circle, only in act 1 but already making varric hate her and fenris love her, increasingly pissing off bethany
proooobably romancing fenris but I am being bewitched by merrill rivalmance and isabela (again)
#nicolasposting - inquisitor nicolas trevelyan
mage, pro-circle & will side with templars
very early in playthrough rn, planning to romance cassandra and dorian
i really like the da2 qunari the most so i tried to capture their essence here for taash. the smooth barbiefication of qunari is devastating to me personally. didn’t change much, just gave her black scleras, a more defined brow ridge and a shorter nose :)
"warm, shallow seas" is one of the most beautiful phrases in paleontology and it's everywhere... these mollusks lived in warm, shallow seas... scientists think that photosynthetic life evolved in warm, shallow seas... in that era the Earth was covered by warm, shallow seas...
I wish I was resting by an antediluvian warm, shallow sea
my friends held an intervention for me to "stop asking intimidately specific questions". i tried to explain that i am just a good listener but there is apparently "a line between follow-up questions during small talk and interrogation tactics that gets crossed sometimes". turns out my curious nature is "scaring the hoes"
when i asked for examples i was told that "do you think your tendency to show appreciation through restoration is part of a greater life philosophy or is that coincidental?" and "is your communication with allied forces satellite or radar based and is it vurnerable to cyber attacks?" are apparently "inappropriate questions to ask someone you just met at a club". but i disagree. as if you wouldn't be a little bit curious about the answer? yeah that's what i thought
[ID: question by anonymous: did they answer the question though ///end ID]
the navy officer i asked about cyber attacks did answer my question very thoroughly. he also answered other questions such as "when refueling on sea, which boat is the primary course holder?" and "would switching to another government branch affect your retirement benefits?" and generally provided a lot of information over the course of a fascinating hour that as a former government employee myself i am pretty sure he should not have told me. but i also think he would have told me his social security number if i asked nicely (i didn't, I was busy learning about the tactical advantages of speedboats).
the guy obsessed with boat refurbishment that i asked about his tendency towards preservation gave me a really haunted look, said "holy fuck" and then after a moment of consideration "i think i am too drunk. i'm going home" and proceeded to leave. in my defense, it was well and truly meant as genuine curiosity and not as the attempt at psychological warfare it turned out to be. he unfortunately did not answer my question.
...he was also the catalyst for the intervention i received.
OP your friends are 100% wrong and “that person at the bar who asks you the question that makes you rethink your whole life because they Actually Listened” is a long, storied and honourable place in the pantheon of strangers you will meet. Sounds like you’re doing a bang up job, well done.
My life improved so much when I started forcing myself to do things: forcing myself to exercise, to cook from scratch; forcing myself to go to the movies or to museums alone, to wear that really cute outfit just to run errands; forcing myself to read a book, to strike up a conversation with a stranger, to ask for a raise.
Once you begin forcing yourself to do the things that you had been too scared or too lazy to do, you feel a sense of accomplishment that gives you momentum to do even more. It gets easier to get out of your comfort zone & to do hard things.
