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i can 100% understand loving solas for the complex character he is but i just cannot understand i CANNOT understand people seeing him go "hmmmm... dwarves are just severed limbs imitating life without a purpose... hmmm... qunari are savage barbarians... hmmmm... the modern elf might as well be stupid uneducated tranquils... and that's why i justify genociding them!!"

and be like

"omg you guys what if solas is right??? food for thought teehee."

think about what you are sayiinnngggggg.

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and like i'll need to check banters again. but it really is interesting that fenris holds more contempt for merrill for leaving her clan behind (and for being dalish) than for the blood magic. like he comments on the blood magic but i think he comments on those other aspects more

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with the disclaimer that this is an imperfect way to measure these statistics: here are the ao3 category breakdowns for each dragon age when you filter out the character tag for the protagonist.

dragon age: origins (left) & dragon age 2 (right)

dragon age: inquisition (left) & dragon age: the veilguard (right)

the ratio of f/m to f/f fics here breaks down as 3.6 to 1 for both da:o and da2, 3.2 to 1 for dai and 6.5 to 1 for datv. besides which you can see across the board that the f/f has category fewer fics than the f/m, m/m and genfic categories in Every Single Game.

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hawke would have been sentenced to execution for killing cullen with hammers if bethany hadn't explicitly told him not to kill cullen with hammers

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Wynona Ryder should've been Louis instead of stupid Brad Pitt.

New awakening today.

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listen, i've joked about wisps being basically spirit-infants but i just want my twilight reference and for solas to scream at emmrich the top of his fucking lungs, ok?

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No need to be shy, Commander.

Requested by Miri-lover anon.

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Silver Lining

--- Finally finished a tarot for Duncan. I didn't have any proper cards in mind but probably could be a King of Swords. :D

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'I always wanted to fuck him' caption under a picture of a dark room with nothing in it

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ALISTAIR 💀💀💀

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i'm always gazing into the distance thinking about city elves bc, despite bioware forgetting them entirely, there's stuff like this dagger from the tabris origin in dao:

elves are not allowed to own weapons in denerim to begin with. so this means that they went to SIGNIFICANT effort to keep this thing at all.

it survived hundreds of years from the dales collapsing to the present day thedas, with the name and story attached, despite the various displacements and woes the elves went through in between then.

the fact that it's named after fen'harel, and yet has this positive connotation of defending a home rather than betraying allies, is huge actually! like that's wild. not only did the city elves remember fen'harel at all As A Concept despite their forced conversion to andrastianism, they ended up with a very different view of it than the dalish.

i would argue that given how the city elves are always struggling under corrupt and brutal nobility, they might have retained a stronger cultural memory of the arlathan rebellion as a positive thing in their stories. and the dalish clans are technically descended from dales nobility too, so that would also have an effect on their ideology?

FURTHERMORE. if we assume there were multiple felassan-style immortal elves running around, with varying loyalties and agendas, then... i am once more on my "the dalish Historical Misinformation Nightmare has been fomented intentionally by immortal elf agents to keep them worshiping the evanuris" ted talk.

which also explains why the city elves didn't get affected by that! bc... the type of immortal elf who would be an evanuris partisan, would also see the city elves as hopeless and not even worth the trouble to influence.

THIS is how the city elves can still win-

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Continuing from my last post, I also love imagining Hawke's terrifying levels of self-sufficiency.

I can totally picture my man, Garrett, arranging a coop and a rabbitry in the Amell mansion garden—because that's what all Fereldans do, even the rich ones—and then walking into it a couple of times a week to butcher a few chickens and rabbits, much to the horror of his noble neighbors and the household staff.

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I guess it's an unpopular headcanon because I often see the opposite view in fanfiction and on this site, but I really like to think that Anders is quite self-sufficient in his daily life.

He spent at least half of his life on a farm, so he knows how to butcher and pluck a chicken and grow food.

He was trained as a healer, so he knows plenty about different plants.

A farm childhood also means he knows how to clean, cook, and do manual labor.

You could argue that he forgot all of that during his time in the Circle, but I'd counter that, as a trouble-making apprentice, he probably spent a lot of time in the Kinloch Tower's kitchen, helping the Tranquil cook, or in the laundry room, helping them wash and mend clothes.

Circle life also means he knows how to organize his personal and work spaces, and he's probably very quiet during sex, lol.

Anyway, more respect to my man. He deserves it.

upd: To think of it, the least skilled at being adults in the Hawke's merry band of misfits are Varric and Fenris, and I find it so very funny.

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Never Fade Away

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great graphics. 11/10

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VERY funny to get this banter in the blooming rose. sense memory triggered