#kinloch

[kesara]

Sunset at Kinloch, Taupō [IMG_2514] by Kesara Rathnayake Via Flickr: Kinloch Beach, Kinloch, Taupō

[on-partiality]

I heard we were drawing Kinloch

(very rushed)

[mdmdusol]

Maybe there'll be part two tomorrow! I'm sure it's the one you'll be most interested in! (Everything I know about the De Végobre-Laurens relationship)

[ukdamo]

Today's Flickr photo with the most hits: the Billiard Room, Kinloch Castle, Isle of Rum.

[resvarie]

is it weird to kiss the statue of ur 8 month situationship that happened a decade ago

for dragon age kiss week - day 4: famous landmark

[elsmaster]

Going through all of Anders' party banter for fic-writing-purposes, and

Anders, baby, they had you locked up in solitary FOR A YEAR. That is not, in fact, fortunate. That does, in fact, count as torture.

(Also: oh how I miss the horrifying, straight-to-the-point dialogue from DA2)

[my-deer-friend]

(All of these from Francis Kinloch's letters to Johannes von Müller)

[john-laurens]

Laurens going from Kinloch to Hamilton really feels like the "you vs. the guy he tells you not to worry about meme"

Hamilton:

Small, delicate frame

Almost drowned in the Schuylkill River

Illegitimate child, effectively orphaned

No connections in the colonies

No money

Some distant relations in Scotland maybe?

Kinloch:

6 feet tall

Saved Lord North's son from drowning in a river

Two loving, married parents

Son of the indigo king of the colonies

Set to inherit one of his father's plantations, money is no object

Definitive relations in Scotland, has visited the family estate

Laurens's gay awakening

[inquisitorismone]

ok so the point i was going to make re: the circle tower and ferelden geopolitics was that the fact that all of ferelden only having one single circle, is CRAZY. orlais, a country of similar size, has FOUR; each(!!) marcher city has their own. antiva and the anderfels also have 1 circle each and they are respectively #1 a nation the quarter of the size of ferelden and #2 a barren wasteland of a place. and this is pre-blight! and i can believe that ferelden has a lower population than orlais, but i struggle to accept that ferelden has a quarter the population that orlais does. even nevarra, by all accounts an old and dying state, has 2.

there are clearly templars stationed at many chantries throughout ferelden, but the idea that they could possibly find every single mage in the country and send them to the tower is preposterous. ferelden simply does not have the infrastructure for that, neither to spread out over the whole country to hunt apostates nor to contain them all in one place. (how many people can that tower handle???)

this suggests that ferelden is generally more lax about apostates than elsewhere, which is reinforced both in da2 and inquisition when we get word that alistair (in da2) offered refuge to escaped kirkwall mages in ferelden and that alistair and/or anora (in inquisition) allowed the mage rebellion quarter in redcliffe. you could argue that alistair's decision might have been influenced by the events of dao but anora is (i say this lovingly) a bit of a hardass! rather than being moved by mage assistance in dao i would suggest instead that she is reflecting a larger ferelden attitude towards mages, which is less harsh than orlesian or marcher attitudes

we know that mages in the circle can be called upon in times of war to assist their country's army (i think that was mentioned in dao but it's stated several times in the novels). something to consider, then, is that circles are not only for containing mages and protecting people from them; but they are also for the consolidation of magic as a military power. orlais and the marcher states are creating armies. ferelden, with its sort of implicit acknowledgement that the tower doesn't hold all the mages in the country, lacks that military resource. even in the stolen throne there's only one single mage working on the ferelden side in contrast to quite a few on the orlesian side

which is why it's #1 crazy that the fereldens successfully liberated themselves from orlais #2 crazy that they defeated the blight and, most importantly, it's why you should NEVER UNDERESTIMATE A DOG LORD!!!!!

[ixis-stuff]

dusts off tumblr. coughs. Laureloch… ahhhhggghh

Why is John Laurens extremely impossible to draw. I hate 18th century speculated homosexuals

[kesara]

Evening at Kinloch Beach, Taupō [IMG_2503] by Kesara Rathnayake Via Flickr: Kinloch Beach, Kinloch, Taupō

[jhoca]

Francis Kinloch

Here's my depiction of the notorious Kinloch, in vaguely blue/purple because indigo! Thanks to @john-laurens for your expertise and references - the portraits of Kinloch and his paternal family, and the context on the wealth of the Kinloch family (and Kinloch's irresponsible spending habits).

[pinayelf]

Asma and Amihan in gay love . Retweet

So correct. Happy aapi month to Asian sapphics let’s gooooooo 🇵🇸🇵🇭

[ukdamo]

Today's Flickr photo with the most hits: Kinloch Castle, Isle of Rum.

[sadmages]

Rotting my brain again

[inquisimer]

is it even a dragon age fic if you haven't spent hours hunting down every scrap of canon from which a timeline can be extrapolated