Oak father preserve you.

Grab prints here.

DR SOLAS WOLFF (with two effs); MD, PhD Fanart of Doc as per The Blighted Butcher by @psykergirl, described in Chapter 1, to go with fanart of Ellana.

Those 2 are insufferable, I love them so much

They're drunk and mean.

I've been putting these thoughts together for a while now, but while there's discussion going on today about so-called 'toxic positivity' as well as some of the other Veilguard critical takes, I'm finally going to write it down.

I liked The Veilguard. A lot. And I'm not going to qualify that with some statement about the things that could have been done better or even about the development hell it went through. Because "I liked The Veilguard" is a complete sentence, and in fact maybe I'll start saying it more, just like that. (:

Something about me is that I like Taylor Swift (I'm making a point) and I have liked Taylor Swift since I was eleven. And for 90% of that time, people have laughed at me for it, or told me that she isn't even a good singer or that she dates too much or that her music is immature. My own sister brings up how much she hates Taylor Swift constantly without prompt. And guess what?

I don't care.

I Do Not Care.

That may be your opinion. And believe it or not, that's fine!

It is, however, very weird when I am asked my favorite artist and I say Taylor Swift and people feel compelled to tell me how much they hate her/her music/that she's not talented. And then I am expected to argue and somehow try to justify why I like her/what her music means to me/why i connect with it.

Spoiler Alert: it never ever matters what I say.

And it's actually fine if you don't like the same things I like!! What's weird is to come into a space where people are talking about how much they like The Thing and you feel compelled to tell them they're wrong!

And admittedly, it's a little funny to me that the same Veilguard critics who say that DATV is "too black & white" also can't seem to see that they're doing the very thing they're critiquing!! "I am good and smart for disliking this game and you are bad and stupid for liking it" is just a silly opinion to have on a video game and some of them say it with their whole chest.

So if you're a Veilguard critic and you're coming into the replies/reblogs of VG Positive posts just to talk about how we're stupid and wrong that's really odd!! And then, when we participate in the discourse you created, you call it 'toxic positivity'! It's almost like you're starting a fight you know we can't win because you're unwilling to change your opinion and you just want us to feel bad about ours!!! Which is, in my opinion, a strange way to spend your time.

In conclusion: You're weird for that, knock it off.

we need block appeal on this site i need to be able to argue my merit to people who hate me for one (1) thing i said so that i can reblog their good posts

me, kneeling before the person who blocked me: please, god king, ruler of these sacred lands, i do not even know your quarrel with me, but i humbly request the ability to reblog your joke posts once more

the person who blocked me: your takes on solavellan displeased me.

me: twas mere frustration! a criticism of those unhinged few, liege. i have no quarrel with the likes of you, and wish only to show fealty by reblogging your meta posts with the tag "scrumptious", or perhaps even "SOOOOOOO TRUE!"

the person who blocked me: alas, this is a sin that i cannot forgive you for. leave these lands and never return, for your ilk are not welcome here.

me: very well. then you understand i must reply to your slight in kind.

the person who blocked me: aye. such as it must be.

me, hitting the block button on the way out: may our paths never cross again, warmonger.

this is the funniest possible outcome of this post

Dragon Age Origins camp.

That Fade kiss will never not make me absolutely insane.

Like Solas gets the slightest taste of Lavellan and just absolutely fucking loses. it.

He snatches her hips and crushes her body to his while grinding her right up his thigh. He bends her over so far she has to cling to him to keep from tumbling, and he just devours her.

For a moment, he slams that accelerator all the way down and there are no breaks anywhere to be seen like god. damn. My girl is probably moments away from completion, and then...

...Wake up

The fucking nerve.

What a legend.

Today I’m thinking about how much I hate business travel, but I’m also thinking about the concept of toxic positivity in the DA fandom—especially regarding Veilguard.

First things first, I find it kinda fucked up to expect people who enjoy a game to start all their posts with some disclaimer that they acknowledge the game has flaws. It’s like there’s this unspoken rule that before you’re allowed to be excited about something, you have to preemptively apologize for it. I find that annoying both on a human level and on a game level. Obviously, every single game has flaws—every piece of media does. Nobody is out here demanding that people who love BG3 or Elden Ring start every post by declaring, “Just to be clear, this isn’t a perfect game.” So why does that standard apply here?

At the same time, I find it interesting that people talk about a supposed culture of toxic positivity in the fandom when you can just make a completely unhinged post about how Veilguard is an unredeemable disaster—without playing it, without playing any DA games —and get hundreds of notes. Are those ten people who actually enjoyed the game and write Tumblr posts about it really making others so uncomfortable that they feel the need to push this idea that there’s an oppressive wave of positivity? Or is it just easier to frame any enthusiasm as naive or delusional because it challenges the dominant narrative that Veilguard must be bad?

It’s like there’s this weird pressure to “correct” people for not being negative enough. And that kind of thinking doesn’t just affect how people talk about the game—it affects how they interact with each other. I’m not saying people can’t be disappointed, skeptical, or outright critical. But at what point does it stop being about the game itself and start being about controlling the way people are allowed to engage with it?

Taking Davrin on the Zara mission was a good choice. I am a sucker for how much these guys love to bicker but absolutely hype each other outside of it. Very 'only I can call be an ass to him' energy on both of them.