#laced with confusion

[queermasculine]

it's a hard knock life looking like a lumbering teenage boy as an adult woman

[himbopunk]

yuvan follow up to this lucanis comic / his reaction after The Pantry Scene

theyre made for each other and being so pathetic about it

[timethehobo]

Soft what-if pair. Having naps after going on long scouts tgt, and Emmy helps Harding research her newfound abilities.

[poissond-avril]

"And did he ask you to wear that, or did you just nick it?"

GAAAH i’ve been obsessed with @conkers-thecosy ‘s fic Backs to the Wall… this story is literally everything and took me through so many incredible twists and turns, i wanted to draw one of my favourite moments as a thank you 🙈 everyone go read it NOW!!!!

[lizzybeeee]

DATV explaining the 'Regret Prison'

A REGRET PRISON IS STUPID AND I'M TIRED OF PRETENDING THAT ITS NOT

TL;DR: a prison can serve as a metaphor but it shouldn't be entirely comprised of a metaphor.

From what I understood from what the game gave us: Solas has made a new prison to move the God's too - since bringing down the veil would free them from the Black City. This new prison is separate(?) from the fade or so far removed/contained that bringing down the veil would not compromise it...apparently. We interrupt his ritual, Solas gets sucked into the new prison he made, and the elven gods are free.

When Rook gets kicked into the fade they're physically there - which means it's a physical place in the fade, like how it was a mixture of physical/thought when we entered it in DAI. Which makes sense - the gods are real and living beings, they need to be in a place, there must be some aspect of physicality to it.

Alright, cool, it's a Black City 2.0 - I assume it's better defended to prevent people breaking in/out again?

NOPE.

We get there and it's a 'regret prison'?? It's tied to the regrets of those within it? Composed of regrets??? Solas had to wait for the right moment for Rook to be sufficiently 'full of regret' that they could switch places?

So is the prison tied to Solas's regrets? If so, how can Rook escape? The prison seems to work around the idea that it relies on the regrets of the person it's holding to work - which is how/why Rook was able to be trapped and later free themselves (along with whatever remains of the team apparently being able to do something on their end, not that we hear about it).

WHICH IS STUPID!

Are you telling me the prison intended to hold to megalomaniac elven gods was going to imprison them based on their own regrets? Is Solas assuming that Elgar'nan and Ghilan'nain are as self-pitying as he is? They'd break out quicker than Rook did! He made a time out corner for the elven gods to sit in and gave them an out if they reflected on their emotions/regrets or decided that they don't regret what they did. Elgar'nan, a spirit of tyranny, is not going to 'regret' his actions - he is going to justify them by telling himself and others that he knows what's best.

We can come across some of Solas's regrets in the prison if you run around a bit and explore:

Remnant of Failure - talking about the orb from Inquisition.

Remnant of Parting - talking about Mythal

Remnant of Reflection - more vague, talking about the Titans I believe.

So maybe he altered it - maybe he intended the prison to be 'locked' with his own regrets because after a millennia of having a pity party he still can't bring himself to self-reflect and look to the future. But what if Solas died? Or if his guilt lessened - would it diminish the strength of the regret prison?

We already have pre-established lore (though DATV has shown they don't really give a crap tbh) that once the being that has claimed/altered an area of the fade is slain, it's influence diminishes both in and outside of the fade. So if the prison was tied to his regrets then it would require Solas to basically live forever to keep it stable - especially if he brought down the veil and removed the one barrier that kept the world and the fade apart.

Rook and Solas needed some assistance to exit - but it doesn't seem like it was much! Solas used his dagger and Rook just...got out through a fade tear? This is Solas's 'more secure' second prison? It has a worse track record than the Black City! If Rook - who is not an elven god - managed to escape the regret prison what is to stop anyone else from breaking in and out of the prison?

And what did Solas intend to do with the blight - the bulk of which is apparently in the black city?? If bringing down the Veil would free the gods in the black city doesn't that mean that the blight would also be released?! Did he have a plan? Why does he go fully ahead with bringing down the veil at the end if the black city is still there and filled with blight?!

I get it: the 'regret prison' is a metaphor for how Solas holds onto the past and how Rook can move past their regrets and grow. He's trapped by the past - it's a prison. Cool. But this prison is supposed to by a physical place to contain the gods - not just to solely contain Solas. The mission is literally called 'A Cage for Gods'.

The Black City is an actual place that's so far out of reach of anywhere else in the fade that no mage can ever reach it while in dreams - let alone physically, which was only done once and took tremendous effort/blood sacrifices. It made sense - it was cool to see floating in the sky in DAO!

Though it's not said specifically, it's strongly implied that Arlathan is the Black City. You can see in the concept art that floating elven city is exactly the same as the black city in DAO! It's this foreboding thing just lurking in the sky - a constant reminder of the sin that led to the horrors of the blights and darkspawn. A real place with lore and history that also serves as a metaphor for the hubris and destruction of those who call themselves gods and act as tyrants -> for both the evanuris and the magisters.

I WANT TO UNDERSTAND THIS BIOWARE!

WHAT IS THIS KINGDOM HEARTS NONSENSE???!!

[er-gl]

HARDING MY LOVE MY GURL WITH THE LYRIUM STONE MAGIC THE TITANS ARE WAKING UP

This is defo Lyrium based ability - dwarfs CAN DO MAGIC - but its just not fade based, it’s lyrium based and it’s stone related because they are children of Titans

LOOK AT THOSE BEAUTIFUL LYRIUM VEIN ON HER HARDING THE HERO OF INQUISITION

[gongziyus]

There's no need to plead for me, Marshal. I made a mistake. I failed His Supreme Majesty's education and let my colleagues down. ...I also did her wrong.

[littlesapphicraccoonguy]

Devious feline who’s up to no good

[quantomeno]

(Based on this)

Luke: Look Professor, that gunman ghost is enormous!

Layton: Wrong again Luke.

Luke: What do you mean professor?

Layton: As I suspected, what appears to be a ghost gunman is actually a hologram projected from an orbital satellite.

Luke: ...Huh?

Layton: The dozens of people we've met claiming to have been shot by the ghost are actually paid actors.

Luke: But WE got shot by the ghost too!

Layton: Only because our tea was laced with powerful hallucinogens, in concert with hypnotic suggestion.

Etc etc then it turns out Descole was Gunman Joe the whole time.

[ornstein]

W h a t

[theres-somethingaboutroxanne]

Roxanne had been spending more time at rehearsals than she needed to be. She liked to watch her other castmates doing their scenes and was in awe at how much talent was on this stage. Her parents were happy that she was getting out the house so they didn't mind that she wasn't around to help with the farm.

Roxanne was watching a scene with Mim as Rizzo and she couldn't take her eyes away. She was such a good Rizzo and she didn't think anyone else could compare. She hadn't really spoken to Mim since bumping into her that day and still felt awkward about that.

She went to grab her bottle of water from her bag and on her way back, she ended up bumping into Mim who must have been finished with her rehearsal. "Oh, sorry Mim." She looked anywhere but Mim, "Are you alright?"

[outfit] @madmagicmim

Laced With Confusion || Mox

[musicfeedsmysoul12]

Harding: Rook, I have a question.

Rook: Yeah? *cough*

Harding: Why are you called they?

Rook: I’m nonbinary.

Harding: What’s that?

Rook: I’m not a man or woman. I'm me.

Harding: Huh.

Rook:… also it's been a year since we met.

Harding: I didn't know if it was polite!

[princemick]

I remember one dude once told me I'm not actually adhd bc he works w adhd/austistic kids n I knew how to hold a conversation and I just stared at him in shock for like half a minute

[ostatnirobak]

Another puppy??? Today Jake Jr. Am trying to collect them all

[jeffbiblesupremacy]

Favorite Jeff outfits (15/?)

[journeyman-tier-fibercraft]

It's a Wednesday WIP round up day. Not 100% of my works in process but all the ones I've actively been working on recently.

Shawl 16 (Pattern | Yarn) bind off is going slowly, just hit the half way point. It's been really hot here plus the bind off is really boring so I've just been chipping away at it bit by bit.

Blanket 11 (Yarn 1 | Yarn 2 | Pattern) is also being chipped away bit by bit. This is a present for my mother and she's been making noises about how sad she'll be if she can't use it this winter, but it's just a Little Too Warm to really hit it hard.

Shawl 17 (unknown 100% cashmere yarn, used part of this pattern) been doing the strategy of one repeat per day and it's going well so far. The repeat is only 20 rows so it's pretty easy to pick a youtube video and go to work. I think my math was wrong for how many repeats I'll get out this yarn (in that I'll get more than I thought) but I'll wait until I'm at what feels like a good halfway point before reevaluating. Extra photos to show just how small this project is. Itty bitty baby (1.5 US needles!!).

Shawl 15.5 (i accidentally named two shawls 15)(Yarn 1 | Yarn 2 | Pattern) needs the needles from s16 so it's put on pause. This has been my "knit while reading" project but it's just too scrunched on the needles rn, so instead I started a new reading project.

Sweater 9 (Pattern) is my answer to all the acrylic yarns I bought for the great swatchening. I'm not going to relist all the yarns for it but they're in this post, plus a few and minus a bunch. I'm not 100% on this project but I got a wild hair to knit a cardigan and I couldn't justify buying a bunch of yarn for it when I had all these bits. Hoping the different gauges work out and I don't run out of yarn! (I am NOT buying more yarn for this, if I run out of a colour I'll just suffer)