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I finished reading The Lord of the Rings for the first time in my life. With all of *vague gesture at everything* this going on.

I Am Not Okay

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I finished reading The Lord of the Rings for the first time in my life. With all of *vague gesture at everything* this going on.

I Am Not Okay

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New gender-neutral bathroom just dropped

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99% of repressors give up right before they successfully don't feel anything. Don't stop shoving it down. You can get through this unscathed

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My grandma’s on and off again boyfriend that she cheated on grandpa with died today.

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TBH maybe more people would rp with real humans instead of chatbots if we sat them down and taught everyone proper roleplay etiquette

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reblog if your name isn't Amanda.

2,121,566 people are not Amanda and counting!

We’ll find you Amanda.

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i think the near-extinction of people making fun, deep and/or unique interactive text-based browser games, projects and stories is catastrophic to the internet. i'm talking pre-itch.io era, nothing against it.

there are a lot of fun ones listed here and here but for the most part, they were made years ago and are now a dying breed. i get why. there's no money in it. factoring in the cost of web hosting and servers, it probably costs money. it's just sad that it's a dying art form.

anyway, here's some of my favorite browser-based interactive projects and games, if you're into that kind of thing. 90% of them are on the lists that i linked above.

A Better World - create an alternate history timeline

Alter Ego - abandonware birth-to-death life simulator game

Seedship - text-based game about colonizing a new planet

Sandboxels or ThisIsSand - free-falling sand physics games

Little Alchemy 2 - combine various elements to make new ones

Infinite Craft - kind of the same as Little Alchemy

ZenGM - simulate sports

Tamajoji - browser-based tamagotchi

IFDB - interactive fiction database (text adventure games)

Written Realms - more text adventure games with a user interface

The Cafe & Diner - mystery game

The New Campaign Trail - US presidential campaign game

Money Simulator - simulate financial decisions

Genesis - text-based adventure/fantasy game

Level 13 - text-based science fiction adventure game

Miniconomy - player driven economy game

Checkbox Olympics - games involving clicking checkboxes

BrantSteele.net - game show and Hunger Games simulators

Murder Games - fight to the death simulator by Orteil

Cookie Clicker - different but felt weird not including it. by Orteil.

if you're ever thinking about making a niche project that only a select number of individuals will be nerdy enough to enjoy, keep in mind i've been playing some of these games off and on for 20~ years (Alter Ego, for example). quite literally a lifetime of replayability.

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Can I be honest for a sec ?

Solas’ vow “What I feel for you will never change” in his letter to a romanced Lavellan in Veilguard just destroys me…

Just like when he tells her “I will never forget you” at the end of Trespasser…

Solas has existed since time immemorial ! Words like never and forever definitely don’t hold the same meaning for him as they do for mortals, and as a manifested Spirit of Wisdom, he certainly does not use them lightly. Also, because of our short lifespan, we cannot possibly fathom what eternity actually feels like, not in the same way an immortal does… like our man (gender ambiguous) Solas, who has literally seen it all.

So considering that he probably thought he would never be reunited with Lavellan when he wrote her that letter, and how sincerely he claims that his feelings for her are nothing but eternal, she who has "changed everything" in the first few weeks only after they met… he sounds so awfully resigned, KNOWING for a fact that, even if he achieves his goal of tearing down the Veil, he'll still be haunted until the end of times by two immutable things : his love for her, and the pain of their separation.

It’s such a fucking tragedy and it kills me ! 😭

(And for that reason, let it be said that I am personally ever grateful for Veilguard’s atonement ending with a romanced inquisitor… otherwise I’m sure I would have remained broken forever... that damned “bellanaris” kind of saved my soul !)

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The greatest solavellan thing bioware did in datv (intentionally or not because story doesn't change depends on romance choice) is reverse Solas and Mythal' drama so it can bite him in the ass.

Solas begged Mythal to leave the evanuris, stay with him, right the wrongs. Tried to remind her she was the one who cared for the People (and might even still). She didn't listen, she was too prideful, she chose to do it her way.

And then Solas takes her place.

Lavellan begged Solas to stay, to abandon his plan to destroy the Veil because it will cause deaths and suffering. Tried to remind him he's not some monster of dalish stories but the man she knows and loves. He didn't listen, he was too prideful, he chose to do it his way.

When Solas said to Mythal he'll follow her anywhere, he wasn't lying. She allowed him to believe she needed him but didn't allow to become more than a "lapdog". She didn't want him to be equal. The crown is heavy but she wanted to wear it as a goddess supposed to.

When Lavellan said she'll follow him (optionally in dai), she wasn't lying either. But Solas didn't let her because he remembers him said those words long ago and he knows what comes next. He "doesn't want her to see what he will become". Because he once saw. And dinan'shiral is not for her, he must protect her from it. That "crown" is heavy too, but he didn't want to force Lavellan walk his steps.

Solas took Mythal' place for a while and put Lavellan on his but those roles aren't meant for them.

Relationships between Solas and Lavellan were different from the beginning. It is based on respect, full of sincere care and love. She never wanted to change him to make him match the fictional image. He never used her trust to make her useful for his goals.

That's why Lavellan didn't give up and kept trying to bring him back, while Solas let Mythal go. That's why Solas was never able to leave Lavellan behind and turn his back away from her for good, while Mythal walked away with no hesitation.

It's the different kinds of love. One is demanding and transforming into something you don't want to be, whereas another is healing and helping to stand tall again.

I really like to think he understood the mockery of fate in the end. Understood their story with Mythal is going in circles now. I also like to think it's not only Mythal' appearance and her saying she frees him from the duty made Solas stop but also the understanding of how close he stepped to the abyss. And he's not Mythal, he's not a dragon and won't fly; jumping to that abyss will simply corrupt his spirit permanently.

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I've finally finished my Dread Wolf tarot embroidery from Dragon Age Inquisition! Clocking in at 64 hours of work, it measures 11.5 X 19.5 cm and I've been chipping away it during my downtime at work. My fellow community council members on Dragon Age: The Veilguard may have been biased while helping me choose which character's card to do, but I'm so grateful they did because it was so much fun to work on, and so different from the previous ones.

This is my fourth large Dragon Age character card project, and the first one I started since I uprooted everything to train as a costumer. Having a portable yet elaborate project was comforting while travelling for new experiences.

Now, who's excited for the new game later this year?!

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It's almost like something happened in 2020-now that is causing these problems.

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basically the plot

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The only reason I know what this is!

Everybody give it up for columnar jointing

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The trope where people don't recognize each other because it's been so long since they last interacted and they've both changed so much that they're basically strangers UNTIL one of them does their Signature Thing™ and the other just stops dead because oh. It's YOU. All at once it's so clearly you

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lest we all forget:

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Modern vampire who has spent the last 70-ish years of their immortality primarily being slutty in nightclubs and non-lethal snacking on hookups shocked and uncomfortable that most vampires older than the lightbulb are really into torture and cruelty and eating babies alive. Super excited to finally meet his own kind and then oh no. oh fuck. time out wtf are they doing. this is profoundly unsexy they bit that guy’s arm off and are letting him crawl around screaming and crying. there’s not even any kissing or grinding or club music. is this normal?? i am Going to throw up i’ve gotta get these poor ppl out of here. askjeeves how to smuggle 30 naked prisoners (assorted genders) out of vampire mansion time sensitive.