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you have GOT to be able to admit when you’ve believed something bigoted in order to improve as a human being. like you NEED to be able to handle that if you want to act in line with your values

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if she’s your girl then who am i? what year is it? why cant i remember anything…

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bro you gotta relinquish that shit. surrender it bro. it serves you not bro just cast it away.

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the herald

my inquisitor as a card :)

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this is pretty much exclusively headcanon/supposition but given that the Sabrae eluvian was tainted, and only living things can be tainted, i wonder if there is also lyrium in the glass of the eluvians themselves? the elves knew how to alloy lyrium and metal—

This ancient elven-forged blade vibrates slightly to the touch in most people's hands, but it stills in the grip of a mage. Crafted with lost techniques for alloying lyrium and metals... (Description of Spellweaver)

—so it doesn't seem too much of a stretch to say they knew how to combine glass and lyrium as well. if the lyrium in the eluvian were tainted, that would explain what living thing was infected (and some of its other properties....). i know veilguard says it's "a single lyrium crystal, split perfectly in two" and that would also work with this! it would just mean that said lyrium is then liquified, mixed with glass, and then re-solidified, instead of in the frame—which i do not believe is ever outright stated.

this would also give us a potential method for merrill cleansing the mirror shard she has and a clearer reason beyond the power needed why repairing the eluvian would require consistent use of blood magic. if she is removing the tainted/red lyrium from the eluvian shard and replacing it with blood (as well as lacing the rest of the fresh glass with her blood as well), that would require years of work and large amounts of blood, which would track with the everything going on in her questline

(of course with the eluvians working the way they do, it's possible merrill's eluvian(s) would all connect to each other on their own network? and work slightly differently to the originals)

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Im good at being strange and ignored

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i know i’m joining the war on thedas sexism on the side of thedas sexism again but i think it’s a bit of a leap to say that, like, andraste was a woman so sexism definitely cannot make sense in thedas. andraste wasn’t born at the dawn of time she was born into a pre-existing misogynistic society that, however much they believed in this one specific woman, wasn’t going to completely restructure itself overnight. and after all it was a man who used her legacy to establish his own power & the chantry & the orlesian empire. i definitely think sexism would be different in thedas and that the way sexism operates in thedas doesn’t make sense 90% of the time because the devs didn’t think it through at all and they carried through a lot of assumptions from their own worldviews abt how gender definitely always universally works. but you can’t even talk about that because people don’t engage with it in any interesting way they just say over and over again “yeah because thedas should be matriarchal because andraste!” i really don’t think sexism existing in thedas is all that illogical—not to mention it being so baked into the plot & setting that you’d have to tear half the games to shreds to cut it out—and i don’t know why people always parrot that same point. like trust me i’ve heard already that the dao CC says men and women are supposed to be equal and i know why people are annoyed about that i’m not mad people are annoyed abt that but can we please ever just move on and talk about the games & world they actually made

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lot of people dont realize this but when theres a battle you can get all kinds of free shit from all the #deadbodies

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tumblr users’ obsession with self-reporting (especially as a weird form of penance) needs to be studied

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sten!

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i circle around to this topic constantly but i want to know what is in the west of thedas so so bad. thedas is clearly curious; we know they're sending expeditions there and that's where the hof purportedly goes to search for the cure to the calling, so there is literally no reason for them not to have some idea.

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i stand by this btw. a smaller game set in seheron before returning to the veil plotline could have saved dragon age❗️

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i dont think usamericans rly understand how prevalent their culture is. english is taught in schools. we hear about usa news, watch usa shows and movies, know usa actors, read usa books, listen to usa music, have usa brands. i have a shirt somewhere with some usa flag motive from like 15 years ago. cant remember why i even have it. why were they even selling that in croatia. your books and culture are everywhere, you dominate social media, and then come on here whenever someone gives even a middle criticism and act like spoiled children because someone wants you to open an atlas

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THERES A GHOST IN MY LUNGS AND IT TAAAAALKS IN MY SLEEP

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Mutuals are a lot like cats in that you kinda have to harmlessly pester and annoy them sometimes

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toying with the idea of an ambitious/political hawke because i think it’s really funny if they’re pissed off that varric didn’t care about any of that and cut it all out of their biography

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i cant lie i thought this shit was so funny i was like So dak-wai wouldn't bother dragging out this conversation but I need to keep this guy talking so he can say more insane things to me. What are you talkin gabout. maybe this really is like Metaphysically possible in the context of dragon age but its just so. it cracked me up. (describes a feeling) oh you don't have a name for it? that's because the emotion which i just described to you was Destroyed even though you clearly understood what i was talking about you just didn't have a specific word for the concept. what? that doesn't make any sense king. but i love your bullshit. continue to manipulate me i'm having fun