Just for fun

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[dewdlepies]

And here are the DA 2 Boys.

Hawke is bare here. Sorry, 'bear'.

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[valtsv]

i can’t talk shit about the pirates of the caribbean films as if elizabeth swann becoming pirate king didn’t hand my entire ass to me and make me the gay i am today

these 2 looks basically defined my sexuality and i’m not afraid to admit it

things pirates of the caribbean got right:

1. will and elizabeth’s love story

2. elizabeth becoming pirate king

3. avoiding sexualizing elizabeth or the other female pirate characters in the first 3 films by allowing them to wear period-accurate pirate outfits that aren’t tailored to be revealing and impractical for ‘sex appeal’ just because they’re women

4. hans zimmer’s entire score but especially the iconic ‘he’s a pirate’ main theme

[prismatic-bell]

5. When the movie came out, morally-gray characters like Jack were actually not really a thing yet in pop culture, and it’s not Pirates’ fault that there are a ton of stupid shitty copycats out there.

6. I run a corseting panel at cons and literally use Elizabeth’s lace-up scene as a video clip of what historical corseting was actually like, because the only thing they got wrong in this scene is that tightlacing wouldn’t be a thing for about another 200 years (and you couldn’t tightlace with the corset style Elizabeth is wearing anyway). It’s one of the most accurate corseting scenes I’ve ever seen.

7. Will’s hat.

8. That scene with all the pirates on the gallows where that little boy starts singing Hoist the Colours? Yeah, that’s fucking legendary. The rest of AWE was kind of a trash fire, but that scene gave me goosebumps.

9. There’s this great shot in the first one where they really drive home the class differences inherent in this time period by having the governor talking about progress and civilization to Elizabeth in their carriage, and then they cut to a shot outside the carriage where a beggar gets splashed by mud from the wheel. It’s a perfect way to underline that everything is not, in fact, a nice little upper-class fairytale, and to give some weight to Will’s storyline, because he has a lot more in common with that beggar than with the governor.

10. For its time, the CGI was fucking amazing.

11. And let’s not forget the work of the makeup department, which had to actually invent new ways of putting on makeup for this movie.

12. The governor’s death scene. Holy shit.

13. They could have gone with a Jack/Will/Elizabeth love triangle, but they didn’t. There are some hints Jack is in love (or at least in lust) with Elizabeth, but he recognizes that she loves Will, and that’s that.

14. You’ve got to admit that wedding was unique.

[math-is-magic]

15. The introduction of fantasy elements to historical fiction outside of Tolkein-esque fantasy, and how it contributed to and expanded the Fantasy Media boom we’re still enjoying today.

[paddysnuffles]

1. They had a woman of colour play a goddess.

2. They had a woman pirate right in the first film, when the tradition is to only show male ones (hell, the PotC ride at Disney had a wench auction scene until recently). And it was a female pirate of colour at that!

3. Elizabeth may not have known how to fight in the first film, but she wasn’t helpless either. Her first instinct was to fight, but she also had the brains to recognize when it was best to hide instead. Plus when given the chance she stabbed Barbosa that one time.

4. Elizabeth’s lack of fighting ability was not simply because she was a woman, it was clear it was due to her societal circumstances, since we saw other women of different socioeconomic backgrounds being able to fight (and when given the opportunity to learn Elizabeth took to fighting like a duck on water).

5. The Hoist the Colours scene where we see pirates of multiple ethnicities and their varying flags, reminding us that pirates came in all shapes and sizes and weren’t just white men.

6. One of the Pirate Lords being yet ANOTHER woman of colour. She may not have had much of a speaking role if memory serves, but even her presence is already a big deal.

7. The pirates accepting their King is a woman without much fuss.

[chubbyooo]

Pirates is amazing I will not here a bad word

Davy Jones CGI is legendary and a ton better than some of the stuff done today 😄

[the-unnecessary-commentary]

I’m pretty sure that female Chinese pirate was a nod to a real, documented female pirate king who was Chinese and had a whole fleet of ships at her disposal but I can’t remember her name rn

[kintatsujo]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ching_Shih

[real-jaune-isms]

My favorite part about the Bretheren Court voting wasn’t that they were against Elizabeth for becoming King as a woman and newcomer. They were pissed at Jack for being a chaotic neutral who broke the decades long tradition of an egotistical stalemate by voting for someone besides himself.

Also, the deleted scenes from Black Pearl and At World’s End that divulge more of Jack’s troubled past, like how he was branded as a pirate by the East Indian Trading Company because he stole a ship full of slaves and freed them.

[mistermaf]

[supercalifragilisticosteoporosis]

“People aren’t cargo, mate.”

[cawareyoudoin]

Love these movies.

[ginazmemeoir]

OH OH OH AND ALSO : INDIAN PIRATE LORD SAMBHAJI ANGRIA

Indians almost never get any representation - it’s either poor savages or audaciously rich royalty. And even though the accent was ridiculous, I love the fact that the creators knew and showed Indian pirates (given we’ve had a historically rich history of piracy)

[cat-parlour]

[dashbeardconfessional]

the plant has a question

[arinharin-appreciation]

Even Dan himself agrees

[wilwheaton]

I said it on Twitter and I’ll say it here:

I’m shocked, and I’m sure you’ll understand that before I’m ready to make a public statement about my best friend to 3 million people, I need some time to process what’s going on and put words to my thoughts. Thanks for listening and understanding.

[altared--state]

He is your “best friend” but you were completely unaware of him being abusive??? 🙄

[blustersquall]

The thing about abusers is that they keep it hidden from everyone else, except the person they are abusing. In front of others, with friends and family, they can turn on the charm and they’re the nicest people you’ll ever meet. Behind closed doors, it’s the opposite. Abusers are chameleons. 

If the person in question didn’t want anyone else to know about their behaviour, then they can very easily make it that way.

[seksipomminpurkaja]

The true dragon age inquisition experience no matter how many times you’ve played it already

spending at least half an hour choosing your race/gender/class/speciality

spending an hour actually making your inquisitor

overexposured Leliana face (how did they get it that white)

*herald ate a very sour lemon while running towards the bridge and fell*

unnecessary loud bridge collapse

“the magic here is unlike any i’ve seen” r u sure about that Solas

i just want to secure some horses to the inquisition and need to kill the wolves i don’t wanna deal with that level million rift

find a passage to the wolf cave from the witchwood and realize your life is lie

I JUST WANT TO GET THE FINAL CAMP ON THE HILL AND THERE’S THREE BEARS

“we just opened them up, with äxes”

why are you greatly disapproving me i’m right mages should be free

“i can’t come in unless you open” aw cole

*montage to killing templars and failing to save anyone in haven because you have a bad eyesight and didn’t notice the woman under all the planks*

“wow i didn’t remember corypheus was that tall”

*causes and avalanche that busies all of Haven* they did that

unnecassarily long slow walk through the snow

the legend says once you gain the quest “to lure a dragon” all quillbacks and phoenixes disappear from the world in matter of milliseconds

where ht e  F u CK IS THE LAST TRAP

HOW THE FUCK IS CLAREL STILL ALIVE W HT A THE FCKU

the fact that you can’t accidentally walk in a dragon fight

except the one in crestwood please i just want to seal the rift

[dalishious]

Continuously pressing the skip button through the unskipable 20 minute long segment of singing, finding skyhold, then becoming Inquisitor

Wasting money on a ton of schematics you will never use

Ditto for mounts

Collecting all the elfroot (and iron) every time you visit Haven so you don’t have to worry about it for the rest of the game

Playing The Floor is Lava in The Fallow Mire except the floor is water and the lava is unlimited zombies

Except your companions don’t know the rules

Spamming these bad boys when hiking cross country

And using them to launch yourself off ledges to see how far you can fly

Saving your super abilities for when you really need them and then end up never using them

Bull is out again

Cole is out again

Parkouring your way up to horribly placed shards

“Fuck that shard”

Forgetting this isn’t Skyrim and insisting your mount can climb a mountain

“This should hold back the darkspawn” …You sure about that

Wondering if you’ve got the banter bug and just when you’re getting on a mount your companions start talking before cutting off

Sighing deeply as you run forever and ever through the whole lot of nothing in the Hissing Wastes

Playing Hide and Seek with giants in the Emerald Graves

Accidentally hitting brontos when fighting said giants and now you’ve got two giants and seven brontos and all you wanted to do was to grab some landmarks damnit

Taking advantage of the no fall damage at Skyhold

Ignoring fall damage everywhere else

Travelling across the Waking Sea all the way to Kirkwall to adjust the opacity of your eyeshadow because holy shit it was definitely not that strong in the CC

[tirsynni]

So I hate to make this request, but today has been, ah, rough. In a timespan of two hours, my phone, which I NEED for work, and my car battery, which is also a necessity, both died. As I’m now in desperate need of funds, I’ll do fic requests, drabbles, etc. I use both Ko-Fi and paypal through [email protected]. I just paid my rent yesterday, and I’m currently sitting with my dead car in a parking lot, waiting an estimated 30 to 40 minutes for my insurance to send help. Any help, even if it’s just sending luck, is appreciated.