I will be tagging everything with this (gameplay, character info, etc.) aside from fanart, trailers and theories, so people who want to go into the game blind can block it too
Letting y'all know so you can block this tag too if you want
inadequacy
I find it so funny how Blackwall, when unguarded, is like, "fuck, balls, tits, whore." But 5 minutes from getting to know the lady Inquisitor, especially if she expresses interest in him, he's like, "My lady, I am but your humble servant, undeserving of your care or attention. Indeed, my sword-arm, nay, my whole being is at your disposal. I shall lay down my life at your word, or mere gesture, a look, even. I am but a stool ready to be stepped on."
recently we were out on a hilltop taking photos of the comet and suddenly some car's headlights blind us from across the bay. literally four miles away.
who the fuck is out here with these nuclear fusion powered headlights. who puts naval searchlights on their fucking toyota tacoma.
Sodus Point, east of Rochester, NY
mystery solved
no I will be talking exclusively to my four gay little friends who play the game as we obsessively pass around the pickle jar containing all of our rooks, giggling and shaking it vigorously while writing each other angst and smut and completely ignoring the rest of the world AS GOD INTENDED
the old guard, the IMPORTANCE of this one random person showing human kindness and care to a stranger, and she never shows up again! because that’s the point! she’s not doing it for reasons she’s doing it to h e l p, and this old old old old warrior who has lost faith in a better future and who doesn’t understand the point of trying to help any more, receiving help from someone who gently points out that the POINT of trying to help is helping even ONE person a LITTLE, that’s it, don’t need a higher purpose, just a little bit of human empathy and love, she is so humbled in this moment and this french goth girl is so good i just, i love this, i loved this, that’s real paladin/cleric hours right there that’s, hope.
Fun fact about Tobi: I have a blistering personal hatred for Alex Jones. Mostly because he was my mentally ill, brain damaged mother's (I'm not being cruel she literally has a hole in her brain from cancer) introduction to the world of conspiracy theories and alt right bullshit.
So for years, every now and then, I put a curse on him. Curses are fun because they let you feel like you're hurting someone without ever actually doing anything illegal that could conceivably harm them. My curse was in the form of a drawing- Anubis, the Egyptian god of death and judgment, as a jackal, eating the heart out of Jones' chest.
Today I wake up to the news that Jones' stupid fucking Infowars channel was bought by the Onion, who intends to gut it out and use its corpse as a puppet to mock the ignorance the channel once espoused as truth.
I'm not saying there is or is not a god. But I have a sneaking suspicion there might be an Anubis.
Drew another one to celebrate why not. Suffer and die you stupid motherfucker.
Ok gotta talk about it.
As a Jewish historian, I fucking hate Israel in ways most probably will never be able to comprehend. I'm going to try and explain it anyways. The central creation myth of Israel is that it is Jewish, and then consequently, that Israel is a part of Jewishness. Its easy to simply state this is false, but fully comprehending this and putting it into practice in thought and deed seems rare to me.
The evil at the heart of this violence predates the recent acceleration of genocide. Israel is a colony, and more than that, an antisemitic fraud itself. After WW2, when Israel was being founded, the Jews of Europe generally did not wave goodbye to their neighbors and head to the promised land. Many were expelled from their homes. Zionism itself, as an action, was a false choice at the time. A mere excuse to place an ally in the middle east, and an excuse to complete the expulsion and destruction of the European Jew. The Zionist Jew is more than complicit in this, they actively seek the destruction and assimilation of all other Jews.
Many fail to realize, and largely because of Israel, that Jews are not inherently white, Ashkenazi, European-descended people. Our faith and culture has an immense variety that is spread all across the globe. Jewishness, in population and volume of culture, exists more so outside of Israel than within it. Israel is for a very specific kind of Jew. The kind that lets Yiddish die, that attaches themselves to European things, that makes themselves and their practices as white as possible.
And they have the nerve, the fucking belligerent GALL, to frame themselves as the necessary saviors of our people. To the Zionist, questioning Israel is to question Jewishness itself. They bake adoration for the colonial machine into their very prayers, and push them on us even as children. To *not* oppress, to *not* kill, to *not* genocide, is to invite death. This is the core of fascistic thought, of course. "Kill them before they kill us." And they KNOW this too, they really do. The truth of that irony does not matter, because as is true for all fascists, the truth itself does not matter to them. They wanted this, they wanted this even before the British saw it in their best interest to give them the land. Any excuse to RETVRN, as the neo-nazis say of Rome, or the German Empire, or whatever the fuck stupid country they want to poorly animate the corpse of. Some select Zionists even *sided with the fucking Nazis* in agreement they should abandon Europe to colonize Palestine. (Haavara Agreement)
My people have proved time and time and time again you don't need a nation state to have an enduring culture. We have protected ourselves for thousands of years without the help of these spiteful, doom-saying maniacs. I was going to post something like this on Passover, but that would be hypocritical. The state of Israel doesn't actually have shit to do with Jewishness. שְׁמַע יִשְׂרָאֵל יְה Vi tsu derleb ikh im shoyn tsu bagrobn. [my best translation] Hear Israel (beginning of a prayer in Hebrew) I should outlive him long enough to bury him. (an old Yiddish curse)
Free Palestine. Donate what you can, they need it right now.
what’s with the fic trope where varric handles hawke’s fortune
varric openly mopes about his brother having had all the business sense, actively doesn’t answer letters in regards to his own property and interests, can’t reliably answer questions about what the merchants’ guild even does, and spends cash wildly on his friends. hawke is a zero-to-hero mercenary who spent years counting every penny, who is trusted by their friends (many with serious need to be careful about cash!) to manage all the money spent on adventuring gear, and who on their own steam became one of the richest people in kirkwall. you think varric is handling the hawke fortune? be serious
there’s a much funnier and more realistic switch on this where hawke in the background of the plot has been running house tethras like the navy since the deep roads expedition and varric just doesn’t mention this because “tale of the champion” sells better than “story about my accountant”
that's why varric is so ride or die for hawke, if something happens to them he has to go back to managing his own finances
Dragon age fan type 1: I'm so happy party members say encouraging things when I'm in the fight
Dragon age fan type 2: I miss when my party used to tell me to kill myself
there’s gotta be an audience for m*cbeth fanart on here
