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still percolating on my annoyance on how not only is there not a single elf in the shadow dragons leadership, not only is there not a single former slave, but three of the four prominent members we meet are able to own slaves . which historically is not really how abolition worked

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guy who has chronic pain and fatigue: man why can't i do more stuff

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"Solas is so evil for thinking the people of modern Thedas weren't real people" Apart from the fact that he changes his mind in a High-approval run (and I could argue that by the beginning of DAI he was already falling in love with the people of the new world, whether he realises or not, but that's another post)... None of the non-spirit companions in DAI consider spirits real people at the beginning. One could argue that the evolution of their relationship with Cole through the party banters shows a change in that, at least partially. But they do not think of them as people in any way at first, and even loving, caring Varric outright says that spirit route Cole is not a real person. Solas argues for the personhood of spirits in part because he's arguing for his own personhood, in a world were the immense majority of people would systematically deny it, because that's what they know, and they haven't had the occasion to be exposed to spirits long enough to change their mind. In the face of Solas arguing for the spirits' and his own personhood, the Inquisitor may double down and basically say no, you're not real people and you cannot change my mind.

Are the DAI companions and an Inquisitor that's not sympathetic to Solas intrinsically and irredeemably evil? Are most people in Thedas, with the exception of the Avvar, the Rivaini seers, and the kindest among the Mortalitasi, fundamentally evil?

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sometimes I think I'm putting too many sex scenes into something . and then I look at what's happening in the world and I'm like oh yeah there's a massive puritan shift and censorship wave happening. why on earth am I feeling guilty for writing self indulgent fanfic lmao. I think I will make the characters do it sloppy AGAIN !!!!!

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my further opinion is that: god. it is SUCH a missed fucking opportunity that the inquisitor never came back as a pc after trespasser, because... the well of sorrows geas? INCREDIBLE potential to integrate it with the gameplay.

like, how do rpgs usually work? you get quests in your log, and you can't progress until you do them! you can decide the order, maybe as you do one, another gets locked out, etc, but fundamentally your character is following a list of options and checking them off. that's... also exactly how the geas would work, haha.

like you suddenly get "gather 5 flowers and put them on mythal's shrine" as an unavoidable quest marker. you can't progress the plot until you do it. you can put it off, but it's always there! seems innocuous at first. maybe you get one that just says "go to sleep" and when you interact with your bed, you get a creepy nightmare vision of arlathan. then you get more and more specific quests - like during another quest, you get a popup to, idk, break into a specific room and take an artifact. and then go drop off the artifact somewhere else later when you get to a new region.

and the inquisitor does not have the option to say anything about this. and perhaps npcs will start to comment on them acting weird, and you start getting [leafless tree symbol] dialogue options, that you can select if you want, that allow you to speak elvhen fluently/do weird magic shit/bypass various problems/etc. maybe you avoid them completely, maybe you start relying on it a bit to deal with ancient elf stuff, up to you.

and then, at a certain point, flemythal decides to actually pull the strings. you've arrived at... idk, solas' ritual point, or some really valuable thing, and you and your companions' goals do not align with flemythal's there. so you pop into a conversation where your companions go "hey, why are you looking so strange? everything ok?" and then ALL your reply options are [leafless tree symbol]. and then it initiates combat. your inquisitor is now briefly hostile and fights the rest of the party as a distraction, as a dragon swoops overhead, does whatever flemythal wanted, swoops away again, and then drops the control once she's done.

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FINALLY got around to dumping Spotify after their CEO continued to prove he's a fresh turd. (As if being a billionaire, not paying musicians, shoving AI garbage at us, and having an atrocious carbon footprint wasn't bad enough, he's now the chair of a AI-based weapons manufacturing company.)

I used TuneMyMusic ($24 annual fee you can cancel immediately, effectively paying only once) to transfer almost every single song from our Spotify account to Tidal. Tidal already has much better sound quality and they pay their artists much better. It migrated over 99% of our music, too, so there wasn't a huge loss.

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Boss makes a dollar

I make a dime

I'm writing Solavellan smut

On company time

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The documentary is called A Cursed Man and it has 8/10 on imdb & 95% on rotten tomatoes btw

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//slides this over//

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saw this today

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The Inquisitor and The Dread Wolf made a home for themselves in the Fade. Eventually, the Inquisitor passed away of old age, but the Wolf didn't have to walk alone for too long.

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the way these two are literally married its kinda crazy actually!

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"a soul can never be forced upon the unwilling, you were never in any danger from me" is, I think, emblematic of Mythal in a really juicy fucked up way.

We know that possession in DA requires a 'yes' in (most) circumstances. But we also know that that consent can be coerced; coerced consent is actually how 99% of demons operate.

It's probably true that Morrigan would have to say yes. But the way in which Flemeth raised her was designed to give her absolutely no choice in the matter. We see, consistently, that Flemeth emotionally abused Morrigan over and over. She kept her purposefully isolated from her peers, consistently needled and put her down, and with Morrigans mirror literally shattered a symbol of Morrigans individuality. Flemeth even has special robes for Morrigan (robes of possession) which reduce her willpower. In the fade, Morrigan says the spirit pretending to be Flemeth is acting more like her mother only when it physically slaps Morrigan suggesting a level of physical abuse.

In DAI, just before she says the famous 'you were never in any danger from me' line... Flemeth literally gives a horrid little ultimatum to Morrigan that proves just how manipulative she is. She literally says; I will take your son from you forever OR you can have him back but you'll never be safe from me as long as you live. And Morrigans response 'i will not be the mother you were to me' also points at the abusive Morrigan suffered under Flemeth.

The way in which Morrigan was raised then, was designed to create a person who would say yes, who had been groomed and emotionally (perhaps even physically) manipulated all her life for this one purpose.

Mythal seems to be characterised in a similar way; she is benevolent, the 'best' of the gods, and she believes herself to be compassionate. And yet, she kept slaves. You can drink from her well but once you do your bound to her will and will do anything she says. She sees herself as the good one, good to the people, but she's still willing to use them.

To reduce Flemeth down to a loving mother who never meant anything bad for Morrigan because of a single line she says (which itself is a manipulation) is to deny a lot of depth to Flemeth, Morrigan and Mythal.

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practicing drawing kisses with these freaks

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solas lumbering beast walk saturday

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Pleas and worship 🖤

IT'S FADE TIME BABY ~ NSFW version is [ Linked here ]

Unfortunately it immediately was flagged on tumblr which is a shame, so I have to go with the cropped version for now. Whateveeerrrrr...

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