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@teresiel / teresiel.tumblr.com

She/her, and 'they' is fine as well. Psych/CJ grad. Socialist & anarcho-syndicalist of the non-individualist flavor. Posts original art occasionally. Reblogs art, horror and history otherwise. Dishonourably out of touch with media but thinks Star Wars, Dragon Age/BG3, vampires, and pirates are pretty neat.
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Love replaying Origins so that I can find little nuggets and wonder if they'll make anything of enigmatic details that potentially lacked context at the time. Bioware is particularly skilled at this!

Anyway, not saying Lake Calenhad is definitely a Well of Sorrow's-esque place of worship and consolidation of power for Dirthamen, but I'm not NOT saying that.

That's why the Lake is so big, it's full of secrets. ( or knowledge? perspective? mind altering intuition? hidden knowledge that accentuates one's ability to harness magic, perhaps?)

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“Sometimes, I wake up, and the Demon is still there, in the waking world. I cannot move. I only have a small flame casted from my finger, all the power I can muster, I suppose to elude myself that I have some form of defence. 

And Mouse still watches me, mocking me with imagery derived from my deepest fears; the form of me, of what we both will become, eventually.”

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dwarven wardens share the nightmares broadcast out by the old gods, right, but also, after the joining oghren has a real, weird, normal dream, right? dwarven wardens dream?

every night you go to bed and a few hours later you wake up as if no time has passed, and that's normal. and if you've never met any surfacers who might talk about their dreams, maybe you never question if your experience is universal. but there are dwarves who lead lives that bring them into experiences not shared by their kin.

a dwarven inquisitor dreams, because the anchor tethers them to the fade, and perhaps as well because the veil is so thin in skyhold. dwarves, too, can be pulled from consciousness directly into a dream realm inhabited by a powerful demon of the fade, and there they can dream.

everytime one finds oneself in the fade, does it wear down that barrier a little bit more?

does cadash still dream, even after the anchor is removed? has varric found himself in the fade so often that sometimes he might dream? does he sometimes sit up late at night with indigestion, rubbing his chest and knowing that he's about to have one of those strange dreams again? did bartrand dream, plagued by the terrible tainted song of the idol? when he slipped into unconsciousness, were the visions there waiting for him, with no reprieve in sight?

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A 3 AM thought: Wynne's dynamic with Alistair vs the Warden really is so much crunchier if you're playing Surana/Amell. With the former Templar Wynne is every inch the doting grandmother: she nags him lovingly, she mends his clothes, she fusses over him, he can get basically anything out of her just by acting pathetic until she gives in. She comes across as... for lack of a better word, harmless in a way that's a little uncomfortable when you remember where she grew up. There's an element where I get the sense she's trying to manage Alistair and keep him on her side the way a Circle mage might try to manage a Circle Templar to keep themself safe.

But with the Warden she's very different in a way that doesn't make sense with most Wardens, given that at least on paper they and Alistair hold basically the same position? With the Warden Wynne is harsh, demanding. They have to get everything right, no distractions, no missteps, no fumbles. They can't fall in love, they can't hesitate, they must in short be the fairytale, knight in shining armour image of a "perfect" Grey Warden. Which... y'know, isn't how the Wardens work? But if you're playing Surana/Amell and looking at their conversations with Wynne through the lens of a senior Circle mage speaking to a much younger and less experienced Circle mage... that's basically the advice that that senior mage would give in the Circle. If you want to live, be perfect. You can't slip, you can't fall in love, you must be the very best you can be to the point of inhumanity (for lack of a better term in a setting where not everyone's human) because anything less is unforgivable. No one wants you to be a person, just a tool; that's a feeling that I think both mages and Wardens would understand. The way Wynne treats the Warden makes the most sense with Surana/Amell by a mile, because she is in a way treating the whole situation like being in the Circle!

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Finally (FINALLY!) continuing my Dragon Age as Trainers series. This has been a few months in-progress after a CSP subscription glitch that left quite a bit of progress unsaved. Still not as happy with it as I could be in a less stressed capacity, alas!

Anders is a belaugered philosophy-scholar-turned-caregiver-and-anarchosyndicalist who provides assistance (and lectures) to people who cannot afford service otherwise. His weather-protected trench-coat will have to suffice as a not-quite biohazard safe lab-coat and a sufficient marker of his willingness to prioritize subtlety and safety over a barely-suppressed desire to destroy and tear down a deeply corrupt system of healthcare and access to everyday necessities.

When not attending to people with ailments, illness, and unfettered class resentment, Anders often spends time near universities, attempting to share his manifesto ideas as well as stay up-to-date on the academic journals he lost access to when booted from his prior University. He can't assure access to the campus library, but when he can, he prides himself on his capacity to convince students to conveniently leave their computer and/or logins unattended. He needs that good good peer reviewed data. Not to toot his own horn, but charisma, humour, and cat photos can get you quite far with college students!

Team under the cut!

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Finally (FINALLY!) continuing my Dragon Age as Trainers series. This has been a few months in-progress after a CSP subscription glitch that left quite a bit of progress unsaved. Still not as happy with it as I could be in a less stressed capacity, alas!

Anders is a belaugered philosophy-scholar-turned-caregiver-and-anarchosyndicalist who provides assistance (and lectures) to people who cannot afford service otherwise. His weather-protected trench-coat will have to suffice as a not-quite biohazard safe lab-coat and a sufficient marker of his willingness to prioritize subtlety and safety over a barely-suppressed desire to destroy and tear down a deeply corrupt system of healthcare and access to everyday necessities.

When not attending to people with ailments, illness, and unfettered class resentment, Anders often spends time near universities, attempting to share his manifesto ideas as well as stay up-to-date on the academic journals he lost access to when booted from his prior University. He can't assure access to the campus library, but when he can, he prides himself on his capacity to convince students to conveniently leave their computer and/or logins unattended. He needs that good good peer reviewed data. Not to toot his own horn, but charisma, humour, and cat photos can get you quite far with college students!

Team under the cut!

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Finally (FINALLY!) continuing my Dragon Age as Trainers series. This has been a few months in-progress after a CSP subscription glitch that left quite a bit of progress unsaved. Still not as happy with it as I could be in a less stressed capacity, alas!

Anders is a belaugered philosophy-scholar-turned-caregiver-and-anarchosyndicalist who provides assistance (and lectures) to people who cannot afford service otherwise. His weather-protected trench-coat will have to suffice as a not-quite biohazard safe lab-coat and a sufficient marker of his willingness to prioritize subtlety and safety over a barely-suppressed desire to destroy and tear down a deeply corrupt system of healthcare and access to everyday necessities.

When not attending to people with ailments, illness, and unfettered class resentment, Anders often spends time near universities, attempting to share his manifesto ideas as well as stay up-to-date on the academic journals he lost access to when booted from his prior University. He can't assure access to the campus library, but when he can, he prides himself on his capacity to convince students to conveniently leave their computer and/or logins unattended. He needs that good good peer reviewed data. Not to toot his own horn, but charisma, humour, and cat photos can get you quite far with college students!

Team under the cut!

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idiomatically It’s been a hot minute, but I’m finally back to working on my Dragon Age as Trainers series!

Loghain was a chore and a bore, appropriately (sorry Loghain, the novels can only absolve you to such an extent and with such flimsy aplomb as to be awash with even MORE problems rather than anything cleansing). BUT this was nonetheless fun to adapt into a Pokemon-world concept. I envision him taking more of a crooked general/advisor/pseudo-tactician role amoung a military-tech-state complex. He was once an okay person if you could ignore that he was a bit of an incel after a fling with whom he had chemistry left him for an admittedly sick (affectionate) dude from a sick (derogatory) patriarchy/hegemony/whatever-the-fuck-Fereldan would be in contemporary times, toward which he could never quite stomach acting coniliatory.

ANYWAY team under the cut 

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idiomatically It’s been a hot minute, but I’m finally back to working on my Dragon Age as Trainers series!

Loghain was a chore and a bore, appropriately (sorry Loghain, the novels can only absolve you to such an extent and with such flimsy aplomb as to be awash with even MORE problems rather than anything cleansing). BUT this was nonetheless fun to adapt into a Pokemon-world concept. I envision him taking more of a crooked general/advisor/pseudo-tactician role amoung a military-tech-state complex. He was once an okay person if you could ignore that he was a bit of an incel after a fling with whom he had chemistry left him for an admittedly sick (affectionate) dude from a sick (derogatory) patriarchy/hegemony/whatever-the-fuck-Fereldan would be in contemporary times, toward which he could never quite stomach acting coniliatory.

ANYWAY team under the cut 

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