Pride became our downfall

Main, whatever blog but overwhelmingly Dragon Age • I'm also @elvstel (Solas/Solavellan specific) • PSA: I post both positive and critical DATV content, but I always tag 💜

[professional-rat-eater]

Lestat: and then Armand appeared out of nowhere and started reading me a gay little notes app apology. He would not shut up about my vibrant personality and beautiful golden locks and so I got bored and I took a blood shower (I had a blood setting installed on my tour bus shower!!!) which is a practical and sane thing to do. I whipped my dick out in front of him and he was sooooo into it. Then I threw my hair into a messy bun and told him to kill himself.

Whoever is listening realising they went bankrupt so they could listen to this shit:

[alethialia]

At a time when Netflix is getting roundly criticized for forcing its shows to treat the audience like we have all of two brain cells to rub together, The Vampire Lestat is out here volleying everything from 70s gay references to 1700s Dutch Republic references at the speed of light while saying, "You don't get it? Well, that's a fucking you problem."

And I love that for us.

[solas-him-var-dinnan]

Why are people still looking at IWTV characters as moral examples and being selectively outraged at things that happen in the show/book?

All the characters are rotten by human standards. All the characters are abusive or unhealthy in some ways. Being a vampire screws you up. It exhacerbates the flaws you had as a human and then you macerate for decades and centuries into those heightened feelings, trapped in this static version of yourself that you can't escape.

That's the point. Oh, Molloy said something racist or made fun of Armand's trauma? Yes! He's a POS! Louis is stalking a teenage girl? Yes! The man has issues and is a self-pitying loser. Weird (more or less) ambiguous incest stuff is happening? Yes! Attachement and bonds in vampires differ from those of fhe mortal world and it's ok to be uncomfortable with that.

I LOVE every character of that universe since I first saw the film and read the books in my tweens. But I haven't thought of any of them as good people in decades (sorry Louis).

If you want positive queer representation, or any representation for that matter, the IWTV world is NOT where you should be looking.

[pjharvey-moved-deactivated20250]

i am an ally to all embarrassing and uncool women forever and ever

[nevver]

Drain the pool, Andrés Gallardo Albajar

[meanbuddhist]

*turns my attention inwards* mmmmm. no *turns my attention back outwards* oh god

[jennelikejennay]

turn your attention to The Character

[solas-him-var-dinnan]

I started playing KCD2, might even unblock the hansry tag one day

[polaeart]

The boys are back!!

Part 1 and 2 of 9 👀👀👀

[cosmonautroger]

[thefiresontheheight]

Please Stop Blaming Us For Your Strange Behavior is a mnemonic to remember the planets in the universe where they're named Plercury, Stenus, Blearth, Urs, Fupiter, Yaturn, Streptune and Buranus.

[stqff]

We here at Tumblr have noticed everyone has very strong feelings about every post on this site being changed to a picture of Lex Luthor from The CW's Smallville with the words "Lex Get Bald Tonight" over it. To this we say: we're listening. we hear you. and we couldn't give a rat's ass what you think. Get out there and start balding.

[mimi-maru]

Val Royeaux by @luzial for Solassan Week

[idkovskikh-n]

oh power couple

ref

[future-bog-body]

my dialogue may be cheesy and this chapter may be taking a while but at least im not taking 10 years to write dialogue of Inquisition scout Harding criticizing a literal religious figurehead, prophet, herald, and defacto leader of the largest religion organization in Thedas, for... not interacting with "the little people" when you spend half the fucking game do random side quests that the leader of the largest religion in the world should not be doing.

at least my characters arent suggesting turning a former refuge for people escaping enslavement into a capitalistic hellscape wedding venue or joking abt an enslaved man who is a victim of manipulation "DoInG iT" with his abuser, the woman who enslaved him, and then manipulated him for centuries upon centuries.

maybe a plot point didnt get properly hinted at ahead of time (or as much as idve liked it to be), but at least i didnt spend 15 years building up a marginalized population using the real world suffering of Indigenous communities and peoples that i have no right to, only to then immediately betray the memories of every person i cannibalized for success by making them Unapologetically And Totally Definitely Actually Evil AND Responsible For All Evil Ever In The World Actually.

i may not be a perfect writer. but at least im not fucking Trick Weekes saying "yah we didnt spend any time on "uwu slavery bad" bc we didnt think we needed to. btw heres my entire essay on Actually why we shouldnt abolish chattel slavery in this specific fantasy country."

At Least I Am Not Trick Fucking Weekes

[henk-heijmans]

Island cat - by Hans Silvester (1938), German

[henk-heijmans]

The yellow scale, ca. 1907, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston - by Frantisek Kupka (1871 – 1957), Czech

[maia-beans]

Another comm featuring Felassan <3

[ovid]

it’s psychological horror to YOU. to me it’s a romcom

[allbuthuman]

it's a romcom to YOU. to me it's psychological horror