#redapeshades rambles

[redapeshades]

I'll do my best with a spoiler free summary. It's about 18 year old Max Caulfield, aspiring photographer, that has recently moved back to her hometown to attend Blackwell Academy. She suddenly discovers the ability to rewind time. How her new power relates to other mysterious things going on, like the disappearance of Rachel Amber, you'll have to play to find out. Btw it does get dark but I figure you can handle it as fan of PLL.

Oh, psychological thrillers/horrors are my jam. I’m a huge fan of the twisted recesses of the human mind. I was actually really disappointed PLL didn’t go darker. Now I’m even more excited for Life is Strange lol. Thanks for the summary!

[redapeshades]

Listening to Silhouettes by Of Monsters and Men and getting Leliana feels, so I wrote whatever this is:

A bard, a Chantry Lay Sister, Left Hand of the Divine, Spymaster, Nightingale of the Imperial Court, Seneschal of the Inquisition. So many names and titles. Leliana is all these things, yet in being all these things, who is Leliana? She is a woman who lets her faith and beliefs guide her, yet she is also one who can become lost and is often at war with her own morality. The path she walks is a dark one indeed and it can consume her.

She is a woman who fights for the greater good no matter the cost, though she may need a kinder soul at times to remind her of herself. To remind her of the girl who loves to sing and laugh and tell stories. That girl becomes forgotten when the weight of a woman's duty smothers her. Take care to remind her of that girl when you lose sight of her. She's counting on you.

Leliana has always been influenced by others, whether good or bad. The one that sent her down this path, the one who taught her so very much, the one that hurt her dearly, is still a shadow that hangs around. Still a fear in the back of her mind. Whispered voices uttering "My pretty thing" haunt her. Is she just like Marjolaine? These tumbling emotions need to be quieted when she begins to falter. Remind her that she is better than that. Marjolaine was selfish. Leliana is selfless to a fault. But that is another issue to be addressed another day...

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I think you'd really enjoy Life is Strange

OMG I WANT IT SO BAD. I’ve seen stuff about it everywhere and the more I see, the more I want it. I want to go all out and do my typical study of a game since I’m not sure when I’ll have the money to buy it, yet I don’t want to with this game. Life is Strange seems really amazing and the whole point is it’s story. I don’t want to spoil it anymore than the internet has already spoiled. It pains me lol.

Could you maybe give me a spoiler free description? I’m afraid that everything I come across is either really vague or full of spoilers. I want a happy medium lol. No pressure though if you don’t want to!

[redapeshades]

as one of your idk how many followers i really like the way you talk and approach things when you're explaining your opinion or theory or whatever. i'd enjoy reading any post you post no matter the fandom

I think that’s one of the sweetest things anyone has ever said to me on here. I’m not even sure how to respond. Thank you so much! Perhaps any future rambles may even get somebody interested in a new fandom (I know I was pitching Steven Universe to anyone who would listen for a bit there lol)

Losing more followers, and I am currently down to 666 and laughing hysterically over it.

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I completely understand, friend! I just didn't know whether to except a reply to my previous ask. Are you looking for some TV show recs??

Hmm, I’m not entirely sure to be completely honest. I’m several episodes behind on OUAT as it is… I have trouble keeping up with shows that are currently airing lol. And PLL is actually really different than anything I normally watch. I suppose it’s kind of like a crime drama?? But not really… Crime drama themed shows I like are like Criminal Minds, Bones and Castle.

Though truthfully, I’m a huge fantasy nerd. The stories I love most are fantasy. Stories full of magic and feels and interesting characters and MY GOD, CHARACTER PARALLELS ARE MY GREATEST WEAKNESS. I love Steven Universe, Avatar the Last Airbender, Harry Potter, I’m steadily falling more and more in love with Dragon Age…

I’m not even sure what to ask for in a rec lol

[redapeshades]

Heeeeeeeeyyyy, are you alive?

I live! Sorry, I tend to disappear as my mind wanders. I’ve been indulging in various different fandoms as I’ve truly lost a lot of interest in PLL. I feel bad that there are so many questions in my inbox that I just don’t feel like answering. I feel like I just don’t care anymore. I thought perhaps taking a break and losing myself in whatever I felt like in the moment would maybe make it so I’d come back to PLL, but it hasn’t worked thus far.

I’m truly not much of a social person and I’m actually a bit relieved to see that a handful of my followers have left. There’s a certain pressure when people are watching and waiting for you to speak. It’s both thrilling and terrifying. I never intended to really gain any followers. It just kinda happened lol. Heh, in truth, this blog started as nothing more than reblogs of Adventure Time gifs…

I feel like my love of PLL has run it’s course and I’m not sure where to go from here. I don’t know if I’ll want to really talk about it anymore as it’s simply lost it’s appeal to me. So, what do I do now? As I said, I didn’t start this blog to talk about PLL, it just somehow morphed into that because it interested me. There are tons of things I’d like to talk about. But I fear it’ll end up taking over my blog as PLL did and the number of followers will cause me to feel a certain pressure once again.

So I don’t know what to do. This indecision is the main reason I haven’t really done much on tumblr in a while. I feel a bit directionless now. There are lots of randoms thoughts floating around in my head, many other fandoms I enjoy. But none I wish to focus on.  Even if there was one, would I even enjoy it? It was fun, what I did with PLL, though it became less fun the more I wrote. It became tedious. So… yeah. I don’t know what to do.

On a side note, my best friend introduced me to Halsey and I am in love. Control is addicting. And Ghost messed me up. You know it’s supposed to be a kinda sad song, but it’s one of those ones that doesn’t really bother you until you watch the music video. It’s so freaking beautiful I got all emotional watching it and I was like “WHY. I HAVE SEEN SADDER VIDEOS. BUT THE FACT THAT IT’S SO BEAUTIFUL IS MAKING IT HURT WAY MORE THAN IT SHOULD.”

Reminds me of the first time I watched Doesn’t Remind Me by Audioslave. It was another “WHY” moment, though it was more “WHY. THIS SONG USED TO MAKE ME HAPPY IN A CHILL WAY. NOW I’M CRYING DAMMIT.”

Like, anyone who’s ever heard Blue October’s Hate Me knows that one’s sad. Then you watch the video and it’s like “OH GOD NO. IT’S WORSE THAN I THOUGHT.” And I cry every single time I watch it.

Sooo… yeah. I hope they make some of you cry too lol

[redapeshades]

leliana's great. watch this highly trained spy and master seductress woo you by awkwardly complimenting your hair hahaha

EXACTLY! She goes on and on about how good she was at “the game” and how easy it is to manipulate people, particularly men, and get what she wants from them. Then she’s there fumbling over her words and playing with her hands talking to you like ‘shit, I actually like this one, play it cool, you’re a bard, Leliana! you’ve got this!’ and it’s just so awkward it’s endearing.

And her thing with Marjolaine. You feel so bad for her. Leliana had genuinely been in love with her and Marjolaine was… a master at the game, I suppose I’ll say… Which in a way makes it all the sweeter if your Warden romances her. You find out that under all the words of the Maker, the countless dirty deeds she did as a bard including seducing and killing people, she’s actually a die hard romantic.

I guess that’s why she’s so awkward with the Warden though. With Marjolaine, Leliana was young and naive. Following the older, more experienced woman around much like a little puppy, hanging onto her every word. Marjolaine used it to her advantage. Every other experience Leliana had was part of the game. She had never experienced anything genuine so then she’s not sure what to do and it comes out as something like “… HAVE I EVER TOLD YOU I LIKE THE WAY YOU STYLE YOUR HAIR” ‘nailed it’ lol

My favorite though is her little speech when she’s trying to essentially say that she’s falling in love with the Warden and she rambles on and on and then she’s all flustered and swearing she’s not embarrassed and pouting that the Warden had not said something sooner and instead allowed her to awkwardly spill her guts.

[redapeshades]

you play dragon age?

yES. I am poor and all I own as of right now is Origins and some of the DLC for it. I’m nothing if not obsessive though and I’ve looked all into the second game and Inquisition. I’ve read a lot, watched a lot on youtube, etc. A lot of games I want to play I first study and watch playthroughs and such since I have no idea when I’ll have the money to buy it. Then after learning all about it it’s easier to determine whether or not I want to spend money on it. AND DRAGON AGE IS DEFINITELY WORTH IT.

Leliana is easily my favorite character. When I first met her in Lothering I was kinda like “Oh, a religious fanatic. Great. Sure, whatever, you can come…” I have never been so pleasantly surprised by a character. She’s adorable and hilarious and actually mildly intimidating.

It’s so great when Alistair kind of defends her in the beginning when you mention that she seems a little.. out there. “Yes, but she’s more like ‘Ooh! Pretty colors!’ than 'Muahahaha! I am Princess Stabbity! Stab, kill, kill!’” Which is ironic because she is Princess Stabbity. Stab, kill, kill. So many… I love her.

It’s so hard to romance anyone else. She’s just there and I’m like ”… yes’’. She’s so interesting and the most diverse character imo. Killin’ bitches, tellin’ stories, singing to you, talking about the Maker, forgiveness and mercy, talking about her life as a bard “Dying while in the company of a lovely seductress… tell me that isn’t a good death.” And the nug. She thinks they are so cute and I’m just like “no they are not, but you swooning over them is adorable so I’ll get you one”. And how she rambles, her love of the fashion in Orlais…

She certainly makes the game more amusing.