The old school lack of transparency on tumblr is amazing because you assume the people you follow must all be equivalent to you and then you see someone write “I brought my youngest to college today” and someone else write “my mom wouldn’t let me listen to Ariana Grande when I was a kid” and then your head explodes

and we need that! keeps us humble. 

Then I'm just like WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU’RE AN ADULT

It goes the other way, too, because WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU'RE A CHILD?!!

I'm 16, that's like, barely a child

I'm in my 30s. You are baby

I'm older than both of you in a trenchcoat.

honestly one of the best things we can do for ourselves is realize that people of different ages than us can still be the same kind of person as us. it's humbling and it gives everyone involved a sense of continuity, and it busts those stupid generational stereotypes media is so fond of.

when you make enemies with one of the two unofficially assigned chefs in the groups

babygirl

@azems-familiar

A garden, a sky, and a man

—Flame Eternal, Sylvia Feketekuty

if you turn emmrich into a lich, he cries alone in his room because he misses manfred:

i want to gather my own thoughts here, too, a bit because this made me think more about The Decision(tm) and it's a heavy one: emmrich's entire life's work and his own fear of dying being put behind him (although not ever acknowledged or dealt with in a healthy manner) vs bringing back a companion, whom he had loved as a son and who gave his life for him.

personally, i think this, coupled with the reaction to rook's possible death in the final fight or even in the far away future as evidenced by the argument they have prior (both on the human and on the lich path, though i am only showing the lich path here as it is relevant to the discussion):

i also always think about this line by emmrich's parents' graves:

the very first condition is that he must be able to let others go. he’s not nonchalant about his own death, not about manfred's, and not about rook's. he doesn't want to be alone.

i think in conclusion for myself, i came away from all of this very much believing that emmrich is not built for what lichdom requires of him and entails over the many, many centuries to come.

i wish the game offered more romance / character scenes to actually meaningfully address and discuss not only the argument with emmrich, but also his fear of dying.

(disclaimer: i want to clarify that these are just my own personaly thoughts. choosing lichdom is a valid path, depending on how you rp your rook, your backbackground and how you engage with emmrich. i am only looking at this through the lens of myself experiencing the game and emmrich's character.)

so we have moved on from 'my adopted son is better than your adopted son' to 'i genuinely appreciate you and what you do and create -- but i will also rat out your adopted son and him misbehaving to you personally in an underhanded way.'

amazing. 10/10. love them.

meeting the inquisitor in dock town when it's been fully occupied by the venatori is so funny. you ask for political help and they're like "tevinter hates me, the venatori made sure of that." bestie why are you here then?? we couldn't have met in treviso instead? "the anonymity a city requires" morrigan you have access to & knowledge of the crossroads. what are we doing in tevinter

WAIT i forgot she does actually show up in the crossroads library later. rook’s like “how did you get here 🤨” and she’s like “wouldn’t you like to know. anyways.” GIRL BRING THE INQUISITOR TO THE LIGHTHOUSE. and get them out of those tevinter pajamas!

i love seasons 16 and 17 of classic who because on top of the usual nonsense of classic who and the usual nonsense of the fourth doctor you have the nonsense of romana, the nonsense of having two time lord main characters, the nonsense of k9, the nonsense of robert holmes losing the will to live, and of course the nonsense of douglas adams both as writer and script editor. the show is often funny but the levels of clowning around in this part of the show are frankly lethal

Your work is done.

↳ Dragon Age: The Veilguard (2024)

Lord, grant me the strength to throw away this box that i'll never use, the courage to throw away this box that i'll never use, and the wisdom to throw away this box that i'll never use

i think this is vague enough to be left up to interpretation..... but it seems very deliberately meant for interpretation. lol

I've seen it said that Rook is a better romance option for Solas because unlike Lavellan, they know who he is from the get go. So let me make something clear:

Rook does not know Solas better than Lavellan does. They know his history, his crimes, even his regrets, but what he shows when they talk to him is very much a mask.

Fen'harel is not who Solas is. As dishonest as he was about his past during his time with the Inquisition, he also came the closest to being himself ever since he took a body.

In sappy terms, he hid his deeds and plans from Lavellan, but not his heart. With Rook, it's the opposite.

Who we see in Veilguard is not some kind of "Solas unmasked", it's Solas who has returned to wearing the mask he was allowed to shed for a little while and hide the fact he'd ever worn it.

The raggedy apostate who plays mental chess with Bull, trolls Sera, beats Blackwall at diamondback, who nerds out about magic with Dorian and approves of helping every single hinterlands peasant you encounter, that's the real Solas. Keeping his past a secret is what allowed him to stop being what his service to Mythal and his people made him into, even if for just a little while.