under water

hi i'm alexander and i never fucking got over in the flesh

[covertleathers]

I find it fascinating that while DATV deals with regrets, people obsessed with what could've been, "restoring" former glories or potential victories, there are SO many people obsessed with "fixing Veilguard" or mourning the loss of Joplin.

[ravioliage]

the way this man looks at rook

[diabolik-tiefling]

Y’know what seriously shocked me as people started talking about Veilguard? The immediate hate Taash got within the fandom. Like not even looking at the people whining about them being nonbinary but talking about their personality. They cracked me up when I first met them, no one else found it hysterical when they smash an antaam then just say “Hey”??? The absolute blunt unhinged things they say to the other companions??? Everything Taash said to Emmrich had that man baffled and yall didn’t think it was hilarious?? Incredible

[ampervadasz]

[rosslynpaladin]

imagine being on your little dried peapod shell of a boat with your fragile little human self and then

out of the depths below

the Divine

God-Beasts

come right up to YOU

capable of crushing you without even noticing you

and ever so gently

so gently

roll back and forth around the dried leaf you're sitting on

just to maybe examine you and see what you're doing in their world.

[loubatas]

[shadowlecter]

finally finished veilguard. man what a game

[berensreverie]

Spite, a home-making demon

[toritelling]

Another hidden detail that you can see only with fly cam: Rook comforting Lucanis while Illario makes his "Scar speech"

[lelianaslefthand]

Lucanis Dellamorte, Dragon Age // Kendall Roy, Succession

[heliomanteia]

Shadow Dragon!Rook losing Minrathous is the worst scenario in this game and the tragic consequences of it follow me through the narrative.

[mrgabel]

Not even Varric's chest hair can save him from this one.

Bonus Neve:

[cognitohazardous]

at the mariners bar: sorry mates i cant go out today.. My boat's transmasc now. He's more comfortable with he/him. He just went through top surgery to get his sails removed and he's recovering. Bluebeard-and-Pronouns the woke pirate: arrg so he's gotten a mastectomy. well i'm glad that he's discovered himself.

[vaguely-concerned]

can you even imagine what a fucking horror show the early game is from spite's perspective, though. not only is this funky forcibly severed little slip of the fade having to deal with the reverse cosmic horror of physical reality as perceived by a spirit and being trapped in it against its will -- existentially confused and disoriented and hurting and nothing makes any kind of sense, at the mercy of human cruelty at its most deliberately sadistic. and then the one source of comfort and compassion and some kind of safety and clarity that lucanis surely must have been to him in the ossuary despite everything just goes and shuts himself in his room inside with a seemingly passive aggressive number of locks between them and no explanation and won't speak to him and they're STILL in the fucking ossuary. rook came and found them and they could be free now (rook is here!) and still lucanis keeps them in the ossuary even though he PROMISED he promised they'd get out of there together!!! what the fuck DO you think at that point? like did he trick me that whole time??? he wasn't like zara before, so why is he doing this to me now? why isn't he saying anything? 'he won't move. I can't reach him'. at least in the ossuary they had a deal, a goal, a hope -- each other. at least he wasn't entirely alone, before.

this poor poor poor little spite spirit really was ferried into the real world like 'hey welcome to reality! as your first introduction to it you're first getting horrifically tortured and then getting to vicariously experience one of THE most distressing and harrowing psychological conditions the human brain can cook up for itself (a fully fledged and deeply entrenched freeze response flaring up with catastrophic severity due to an unbroken ongoing and unlikely to let up any time soon chain of Unfortunately... Recent Events). I think spite is being extremely reasonable and patient about the whole thing, when you put it into perspective. I'm not saying let him eat the self-lighting candles or anything, but he's got some extremely valid points along the way lol. spite is not only child-like, the metaphor work going on is a lot more pleasingly flexible and complex than that, but he is also helplessly existentially dependent on lucanis in a way that, if anything, is a heightened version of the way a child (or child part) has to depend on a parent to navigate the world and survive.

tl;dr: we truly don't give enough sympathy to spite for having to live in the head of lucanis dellamorte. a place even lucanis dellamorte would prefer not to be. to be fair to him I think lucanis would be the first person to agree with this lol

[kppigpen]

Rumble Feature

This was supposed to be a quick joke comic but I got all up in my feels about the first panel so

[snarkspawn]

a blorbo and a leyendecker study? name a more iconic duo

[trashwarden]

my shadow dragon rook is the biggest maevaris and dorian fan and i think it’s beautiful

[songvs-moved]

hearing them geek out over a serial.. i love them

[kittyoperas]

the siege of weisshaupt if you bring lucanis and davrin:

( original idea by @ swampbaconplays on tiktok! )