#end of campaign thoughts

[rexdosethings]

I have even more thoughts about the campaign and it's possible ending. As were ever approaching the 100th episode it reminds me that no matter if this campaign spans a similar time frame to C1 or C2 we've more then crossed the halfway point and are approaching the final acr of them campaign. (Especially with this final stretch to Eiselcross)

What does winning look like? I understand stopping Luidy is the goal but after that, what happens to the bloody bridge? And the people on the moon? A whole society dreaming of Exandria do they cut them off? Keep the bridge open? But even with Luidy dead/gone/arrested/stopped there are plenty of people who knew of his plans and would jump at the chance to finish what he started so sealing away Rudis again makes sense banishing a whole world of people seems cruel. All they ever dream of finally becomes a place they can go to and we take that from them?

[tinkertytonkanddownwiththenazis]

thinking about Lawrence and Benitez's relationship after the events of the film. Both viewing the other as better suited for the papacy than themselves. Vincent leaning on Thomas during his rapid ascention to head of the church, grounding him through the chaos. Thomas leaning on Vincent as he continues in his responsibilites, a light in the madness of diplomacy he must navigate. Vincent restores Thomas' faith in God, but Thomas restores Vincent's faith in himself.

They will die within days of one another.

[luckthebard]

Ashton’s wholehearted and uncritical faith that the primordial titans deserve power and no one else does is. Well it sure is something.

[sisterdaniels]

🟦 fandom

she web on my stuff till i tag #phan

congratulations to the phandom for reaching the goal of being the #1 Ship! 🎉🎉🎉

but wait, there's more! the phandometrics aren't over yet. the year-end review is just around the corner, so keep up the good work! keep tagging #phan!!!

[a-very-cute-snake]

[ID: the epic handclasp meme where one side says "Caleb and Essek Critical Role" the other says "Jayce and Viktor Arcane" in the middle of the handclasp it says "doing reality-altering magic-science in the name of saving the world with the power of queer love" ID ends]

[somegurl8]

It feels so weird seeing my Tumblr and Twitter tls going crazy over the Riptide hiatus update and PD being on break still meanwhile I’m here like “the last thing Apotheosis related we’ve gotten has been the Thanny Nation shirt. While back they said they would do an Apotheosis bad ending What If but it has yet to exist. Omg Total Monster Kill soundtrack I still need to listen to that.”

[schrodingers-hoarding-problem]

cannot fucking wait for whatever the pay off of chekov's table doorknob will be

putting out my theory of it being a reveal once they get to zood

[arson-09]

this whole blake lively vs justin baldoni ordeal is extremely disheartening to witness. The lack of media literacy, critical thinking and the rise of misogyny is disgusting. I don’t care about blake lively really, shes just another celebrity to me. Until i see that people are blindly following a smear campaign because they cant think for themselves for a damn second. baldonis lawsuit is bullshit, hes a man who sucks (shocking) and a womans greatest crime is being ‘annoying’ in the year of our lord 2025

[criticalswoles]

I went to sleep around the three-hour mark, but from what I've gathered everything wrapped up fairly neatly and prettily.

I just...the implication that divine magic would only be affected if they got eaten, makes me wonder what difference it would have made if some gods ran? It seems it wouldn't have made a difference. Correct me if I'm wrong, please, but the Matron said their domains would disappeared if they *died*. So....what change is actually happening then?

And why does ludinus get to live? His goals achieved? Like what was the point of all this if everything is just fine actually.

And these aren't things that were decided by random dice rolls. Matt chose to let Ludinus live. Matt chose to preserve divine domains despite the gods being mortal. Those are story and structural world choices he alone made. So what was the point of it all?

[soren-apologist]

feh subreddit mfs will say “why are you shipping a child?” and the child in question is an adult man

anyway at this point i’m convinced that like 90% of the discourse circulating ike and soren as a pairing is perpetuated by people who’ve never actually played the tellius games lmao

[digital--devil]

GUESS WHO FINALLY GOT THEIR GRUBBY LIL HANDS ON THE WITCHLIGHT PLUSHIES!!!

(Sorry for the shit quality)

[flowersnax]

let me cook

[haniebnie]

And I can hear her sing And I know she's giving up And I don't know what to do, how to help her How to bring her home And I can hear him break And he doesn't understand And I wish that I could take his hand But where I'm going is for me and me alone [ inkpot gods by the amazing devil ]

i think a lot abt mythal and what is left of her. what we get in datv is NOT mythal, not actually her — merely her fragments, parts of her that were there but are NOT her. i think calling the 2 fragments we've got in datv the whole and completeness of mythal is too definitive and declaratory.

it's as if only your anger or passivity was remembered abt you after you. the tragedy of mythal — and the whole dragon age i'd even say — is of history. and what history remembers abt you cuz it's based in who writes abt you and who reads it. every codex is biased, not objective, but biased and political, made with agenda in mind. who mythal actually was is nowhere to be found as she is dead and nothing can be done abt it, nothing can fix it (but maybe time travel ig lol). we as the audience and players do make assumptions of her either that she was a heartless tyrant or a proactive player in the arlathan Game or that she was just passive and subjected to the command of elgar'nan. it shows our bias I'd say or more adequately our focus.

the fragment of mythal we got to know with knowing flemeth is not mythal as it's a fragment of her that flemeth found while angered, hurt, and vengeful after being betrayed. fragment of mythal is a spirit — a manifestation made out of the shattering of mythal's soul when the evanuris killed her (which accuracy should also be questioned cuz we're told she was killed and what if something else happened — we're told she was killed by people and spirits who were not there or who want it to be what is remembered) AND flemeth's anger and hurt. i think it was said in game that it was the hurt and anger that beaconed that fragment. and that's it — a fragment of what mythal was and felt ever. of course a part of her must've been angry and vengeful after being killed and/or dead, of course that part responded to feelings of anger and betrayal and all that might come from such a situation as being killed by assumed loved one. this fragment responded to the parallels of anger and betrayal. it is the most similar to what we have with anders and justice and that is so important to me as anders enjoyer and supporter. whatever you prefer to call it — the derogatory abomination or the neutral fusion of spirit and a mortal (or half-mortal cuz i don't remember if it was confirmed who made flemythal live that long, almost or fully immortal). so they fused and connected due to the shared values and of embracing them literally and more metaphorically as part of themselves. just that acceptance by Anders of his need for reaching justice and flemeth's acceptance of anger and hurt (or all the other possibilities that might've connected that spirit fragment of mythal and flemeth, there's so many things and i don't want to definitely say it was anger or vengeance or even empathy cuz it could've still be benevolence or something more trickstery or just that the point was that both flemeth and mythal were difficult to read as 100% one thing. i personally have not made my mind what feelings connected flemythal). i think what happens then with morrigan is the passing of the fragment that was with flemeth for all those years and flemeth's memories and feelings but not flemeth, i think flemeth died when solas took her powers.

recalling the all faded for her mission from dai — Solas says that spirit killed doesn't stop existing but basically returns, reseted, a blank, a tabula rasa of a spirit. i think it's not definitively said that they do have to return as the spirit of the same value as they died embodying. i'll return to this thought later on or in another post.

i personally believe that what is offered in the well of sorrows choice both is and is not a fragment of Mythal. similarly as we don't exactly know what is time exactly, we just created measures and ways to achieve a repeated motion that appears in that exact repeated measurement we've created for time, in the literal sense what we have in well of sorrows is not mythal nor a true fragment of her soul, her spirit. depending on how much of magical impact does faith have in the dragon age universe (is it like for instance of the jester & traveller situation from c2 of critical role or even the anime noragami — if the believers believe then you've gathered more power and if they stop believing in you, you loose power?) well of sorrows could be more metaphorical but made tangible or it could literally impact mythal and offer her power or even the faith of the followers had an actual impact on how she was and changed her with their power of communal manifestation. they literally made her be how they wanted and assumed her to be. i really loved the idea in the dimension20 fantasy high of the moon goddess who literally was altered due to the faith of the elven country that wished her to be ephemeral and soft, a perfect epitome of an elf, when she appeared first as chaos and wolflike and the two opposite sides of her fought inside her constantly. if they had such power over mythal with their faith and the shared manifestation they literally could've made her change herself as to reflect their strongest feelings, needs, and wants as the spirit she both was and wasn't at that point. and in dai it was said and i personally focus on this fragment that well of sorrows was the collective of mythal's most devoted priestesses and the power lies in that — in that they were so devoted and felt their emotions so strongly that it actually transcended and offered the power, not exactly the connection to mythal. maybe she felt responsible or devoted back to them to repay their credit of trust they gave her, that they believed, maybe she felt indebted to them as they offered her her power, maybe she literally cared for all of them or she wished to make them feel so strongly and to the extent of what a material being can and could ever possibly mean. maybe feeling every emotion to it's full extent and with layers and complications truly was what gave her magical power (cuz of the manifestation and nonexistence of veil back then tempering the power of magic and thus manifestation) or maybe it just motived her to act in their name, as their representative, just a political figure. or maybe she didn't know herself as she was both a spirit and material, maybe it was both, maybe it was all of it at the same time. all that to say, well of sorrows both was and wasn't mythal's fragment (imo).

The fragment we get in the crossroads also is not mythal. righteous and with short-temper, bitter and resentful, cold but slightly separated from the past. i have little to say here, i think we've got little of her in the game and i only played datv once so i might return to this fragment later on if i play through datv once more.

even if these 3 parts of mythal were to be connected into one like we've got in that one ending in datv with the 2 parts of her, we would've not gotten back mythal as she was. we'd get a spirit made of 3 other spirits, they could've created a fusion of the three of them (creating further questions of what is needed to create a fusion of spirits and what it'd offer etc) with some parts of mythal but the tragedy still stands — mythal is dead and nothing can be done about it. thus why i don't think the ending hits for me as solas would actually know that that isn't her. still he could've reacted very emotionally seeing her say that to him but at the end of the day he'd know mythal is dead and nothing can be done abt that.

this reminds me so much of the ending of c2 of critical role. spoilers ahead but when they defeated the threats of somnovem and the cougnoza and retrieved the body of lucien whom they knew as mollymauk tealeaf to return their friend to them — it all failed and they got another fragment of what once was the soul of the tiefling they knew who also just was a fragment of what was once a complete thing. unreturnable, irreversible, unable to make whole or get what they wanted. the tragedy of mollymauk was that they were never whole and nothing could be done abt it, i think even a wish could not return him but maybe it'd have made him whole but that'd be somebody they didn't know. who they got was kingsley. and i think this same thing happens to the fragments of mythal we've got. we should've been offered a new name for these fragments but maybe we already know it as morrigan — the 2 (or 3 if she was the well drinker) fragments and the soul of morrigan. just as we know anders as Anders which also isn't his actual name but it works for him and justice now.

[tepli-mravenci]

Me: *having oc thoughts at work listening to Vana*

The blorbo demon: Tinny and Melihard would so be into bdsm.

Me: (still at work) Oh my god they WOULD!

[andi-o-geyser]

“oh the gods are bad the gods are bad” i actually realized i dont give a fuck. crazy concept i actually realized i do not give a fuck lmaooo. people have lived not liking or worshipping the gods for so many fucking years its actually CRAZY like people honestly just go about their day to day lives. they believe or they don't! big whoop! they just care about the price of milk and if the world isn't ending!!

[nicky-jr]

as jarring as it is to know that theres only a few episodes left of the season. i definitely respect anthony's decision to just end it. hes been VERY vocal that he does not like how it all went and sometimes you just gotta end it and move on yknow. dont get me wrong, i have definitely enjoyed s2, but ill agree that it has felt pretty frustratingly aimless at times. personally i just cant really blame them for speeding through to the resolution recently, working on a project that you have no passion for/just isnt going how you wanted fucking SUCKS