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[enden-k]

i cant believe thats his shy face.......baby looks like hes abt to cry again i need to eat him whole uhghhhh

[lighthouseshepard]

if you're considering top surgery and you're unsure because you're scared, or nervous, or don't think it will be worth it, maybe you've convinced yourself the dysphoria will never leave you and the pain of recovery will be too much. lemme say: it will be a year in october and this still remains the best decision ive ever made for my body. i kept thinking the exhilaration would wear off after a few months and i'd settle back into the same but the joy has only grown. it only grows!! it just gets bigger and more familiar, over and over again it's like coming home to the dazzlingly lit room of yourself. a few days ago i cried (CRIED. i'm a big sap) at realizing i was falling asleep flat on my stomach, and nothing else was there, and the feeling struck me as so content it travelled back to before i had any surgery at all and rendered that lack of comfort i felt in my body obsolete. it's like its always been this way. and ive had flus more painful than recovery. a week of being uncomfortable and irritable is nothing in the long run of the after. as soon as you wake up from anesthesia groggy and wrapped like a sardine in a tin can the dysphoria is gone, and can you guess what grows in its absence?

[silvermun]

hey i know him

[skulandcrossbones]

"stop commenting on actress's bodies" nah actually I think I will continue to comment on the fact that since the rise of ozempic every second actress looks like she's about to blow away in a strong wind because I lived through heroin chic and normalised eating disorders and insane body expectations the FIRST fucking time and saw the damage it did so I'm personally not going to stay silent and let choice feminism make extreme weight loss "acceptable" just because tiktok has convinced some of yall that any choice a woman makes is Valid just because she's a fucking woman like are you all fucking serious right now

[orpheuslament]

no one talks about how straight up painful it is to be the bigger person when deep in your soul you just want to be a huge bitch about it

[enden-k]

hmm

[soracities]

happy "everyone forgets that icarus also flew" monday. i want to throw up !

[mysterycitrus]

bring back the creatures

[v-arbellanaris]

my fav part of origins is the fact that it's a love letter to "the end does not justify the means". the entire game, in almost every quest, this is the constant question that's thrown at us. everyone in the story tells us that they did what they did because it would achieve the best outcome. from uldred's uprising in the circle tower, to zathrian's cursing of the werewolves, to bhelen's coup. loghain himself uses this as justification for the retreat at ostagar - that it was the morally correct decision to abandon the field, because it guaranteed some of the army would survive and could regroup for a new assault on the darkspawn in ostagar. and it's so specific that loghain, as the primary antagonist, loghain is the one arguing that the ends justifies the means because he is either your parallel, or your mirror.

to be more specific, my favourite thing about origins is that you, as the player character, are faced with the exact same choice. you will always resolve the circle tower uprising. you will always resolve the issue between the dalish and the werewolves. you will always settle the secession crisis in orzammar. you will always fight the archdemon and win over it. but how? what are your means? will you murder a child to spare redcliffe? will you slaughter cornered circle mages trapped in a tower with no escape? will you kill innocent werewolves who had nothing to do with a tragedy that happened hundreds of years ago? will you support a king that has his own family's blood on his hands because he wants change or a king that's more committed to culture & tradition over justice?

does it matter? to you? to anyone? why does it matter, if you're going to get to the same place in the story at the end?

and the story tells you. again and again. it matters. it matters because the ends do not justify the means. to roughly quote ursula k le guin, it matters because there is no end - you start the awakening dlc as your own warden if you survived, or as an orlesian warden if not. so, all you have left is the means.

it's very clumsy in a lot of places, and there's obvious issues if you look at each case in closer detail (e.g. the ideas around social justice re: dalish elves & mages), but overall, this is the kind of story that makes origins so special to me tbh. it really holds up a mirror to this kind of cold, utilitarian morality that's so often rewarded in "dark" fantasy genres. like idk it's very good to me.

[5un5]

the pair of fodder dragons that have been in my lair for exactly 30 seconds watching my trainer going apeshit peeling mire enemies apart like a banana while they do nothing except occasionally get punched in the back of the head 🧍‍♂️🧍‍♂️

[rainbowd00dles]

WIP

What I imagine Kathy would look like

[orpheuslament]

"im so tired of dog/cannibalism/religious metaphors" then write something different & share it with the world. do it. if youre so special & so talented. at least the ppl writing cliché stuff are writing

[enden-k]

rewatched the trailers w my friend and just noticed that its apparently a prosthetic???? which is rlly cool but also AAAAA

[sjoongki]

ramadan mubarak to all those who are observing. may this beautiful month bring an end to all of the pain and sadness plaguing your heart, grant you the strength and support needed to overcome whatever hardships you are facing right now, illuminate and straighten the path you walk on in life, relieve you of all of the burdens weighing you down, reward you for the countless sacrifices that you have had to make in order to survive, inspire you to become a beacon of light for others in desperate need of hope, and bless you with the glad tidings, relief, and security that you have been praying so patiently for.

lastly, may this ramadan bring forth the liberation of palestine, sudan, congo, and all oppressed people around the world.

[soracities]

losing my mind what do you MEAN mr. brightside is 20 years old