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I miss being intellectually stimulated by someone. I don’t know if that says more about me or the people around me.

#just some thoughts #deep thoughts #thoughts #intellectually #deep #feelings #thinking

"maybe I'll talk to the poor after this" - girl who is about to take herself out with a bomb

#shitpost but this is so her lol #I mean yes she *is* busy right now but it's more the way it reads #her mind is in the right place #she tries to do right by people outside her class #she respects their personhood #intellectually #it's somewhat of a conceit (that's how I read her “woke boss” attitude towards zhuna when she was alive)#but I don't think she's interested in actually connecting with them #not at this point in her life anyway #it's more of a performance she puts on for herself #harsh?#mask of fear spoilers

Emotionally, I wanted to stay. Intellectually, I wanted to leave. As always, I seemed to enjoy punishing myself.

Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963 Susan Sontag

#susan sontag #Reborn: Journals and Notebooks 1947-1963 #punishment #self punishment #emotionally #intellectually #inner struggle #quotes #quote

Fenris’ Temper

So, with Fenris, a lot of the fandom focuses on how angry he can get in conversation and cutscenes. However. There’s good reason for it, and it’s nowhere near as bad as the fandom makes it out to be. His anger in cutscenes is a direct response to him being triggered by his trauma. In conversations, it’s a different thing.

When Fenris is angry in conversations, invariably, it’s because another companion crossed a boundary they shouldn’t have. And most of the time he simply snarls, instead of outright lashing out. When he lashes out, mostly at Anders but occasionally at Merrill, it’s usually because they crossed a boundary in a far too personal manner. (Anders does this with a lot of people) But most of the time, Fenris is simply snarling in response to his boundaries being violated.

And this is important, because Fenris is a man who is only now, in the time of the game, figuring out his boundaries, and starting to live and grow, instead of just surviving. He’s spent the grand majority of his life that he can remember as a slave who wasn’t allowed to express anything that his master would disagree with. So when we see Fenris in-game, we’re seeing someone who is figuring out that it’s okay for him to express emotions like anger, or happiness, or love. And he’s doing a lot of personal growth over the course of the game.

He’s learning to read, he’s figuring out his likes and dislikes, he’s making friends for the first time in memory. He walks away from a romance with Hawke because he doesn’t feel like he’s personally ready for a romantic relationship. And if Hawke is willing to wait, he will come back when he feels ready.

So of course when his boundaries are crossed, he’s going to defend them with all the snarling of a mother bear. Because he’s spent his life not even having boundaries to defend. And Fenris is so determined to hold onto every freedom he gets. And the freedom to be upset is a big one. So no. I don’t blame Fenris when he gets upset, because while he might not always say great things when he is, every time he’s angry, it’s for good reason. - Mod Alistair

#dragon age #da2 #fenris #slavery tw #this man is the most self-aware about his mental health #out of everyone in the game #he knows he's traumatized #he knows #intellectually #that magic in and of itself isn't the problem #but he still struggles with that trauma association #and he knows it #and when it's pointed out to him that he's letting it cloud his judgment #he accepts it

All men are intellectuals, but not all men have in society the function of intellectuals.

Antonio Gramsci, from Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1971

#antonio gramsci #intellectually #the prison notes #quotes #italian philosopher #cultural studies #marxism #representations of the intellectual #literary text #world literature #books and libraries #edward w. said #intellectual disability

Blanche really did tell Judith she was going blind before any other single person in her entire life 😩

#like i know this to be true #intellectually #and am #still shook every time i see it with my own eyes

While I know truten will never be canon, I can at least feel solace in the fact that neither of them had to revert 40 years younger and have an unexplained, complete personality change for them to make even a semblance of sense together.

Not that that ship even makes sense with that. Hmmm, a woman well into adulthood loyal and subservient to a mediocre villain (who also indirectly caused a mass genocide in the King Piccolo saga) and a guy 40 years younger than her that in childhood, in both timelines, had fought to protect earth. Yep... a perfect match.