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There's just a specific kind of emotion you feel when you relate to the stigmatized communities within the world of Dragon Age across some axis only for the devs to go like. You should kill yourself or get institutionalized. Now.

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No because you don't understand. Flemeth stole the golden MIRROR. she stole a symbol of Morrigans individuality and personhood, something that would allow Morrigan to look at herself and say 'thats me'. She smashed it on the ground and it fractured into a thousand tiny pieces, and her daughter wept over it.

The lesson was not about the futility and lack of use of shiny objects, the lesson was about control. It was about stripping Morrigan not only of possessions but of ways to identify herself. Because Morrigan wasn't being raised to be herself. She was being raised to act as a host, a body, a sack of meat, something that personhood could reside within, not a person with agency herself.

I'm INSANE

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Hey. Look at me. Please leave yourself a note somewhere you'll see it later that says "it is going to take years if not decades to get the United States government to the level of functionality it had in November of 2024." If we elect a democrat in 2028, we are not going to be up and running by 2032.

Please make sure you have a reminder in your phone reminding you to not look at 2028/32/36 Democratic candidates and say "why are they not promising/delivering Cool Shit?" because you are going to understand that to get Cool Shit we must have competent people running a decently funded government, and we are not going to have that.

We are not getting UBI. We are not getting single payer healthcare. We are not getting free college or free preschool. We are not redistributing wealth on a large scale. We are not getting free internet. We are not getting ranked choice voting.

If we are lucky, we are going to get an IRS that can collect taxes, qualified schoolteachers, research grants, Social Security, and a government that thinks maybe it should be a priority for people around the worlds to not have AIDS, malaria or TB.

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I forgot I drew these ages ago! Reposting them because I can: The Three Divines.

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Get off c.ai and find a tumblr blog who rps as a fictional character or read fanfic like a sane person

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at least the colour green exists

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What I dont understand is how people can claim that any of the writing or characterizations in DAV weren’t polluted by a pretty extreme bias when:

1–Epler openly admitted to hating Solas as character.

2–Epler also openly admitted he didn’t like that people found Solas sympathetic in DAI and Trespasser (which was the point???)

3–Epler ALSO openly admitted to killing off Varric for the express purpose of turning the audience against Solas, hence why both were acting wildly out of character in that scene (and for the rest of the game, honestly)

5–They put several scenes in the game that serve no other purpose than to have the protagonists talk shit at length about Solas.

6–They retconned pretty much all of Solas’ actual motivations (helping the Elves, helping the Spirits, restoring the natural world, preventing an uncontrolled collapse of the Veil, the inevitable escape of the Evanuris, etc etc) and replaced them with man-pain, the limpest of all motives.

6–They changed fundamental aspects of the lore to better accommodate this bias by not bringing up any of the shit that brought grey areas and nuance into the conversation.

7–They deadass retconned one of the most critical scenes from the end of DAI to—again—erase all nuance and make Solas out to be ‘The Bad Guy’ and I guess also so Bellara could bitch at him later despite her thorough lack of understanding on the subject.

8–Made it nearly impossible for the Player Character to interpret things for themselves or form their own opinions, despite it being both promised in the marketing and an overall staple of both the DA franchise and the RPG genre.

I could honestly keep going for a good while but I feel I’ve made my point….Epler had an axe to grind and it poisoned the whole project.

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i still can't believe they completely omitted 3 important elf characters (fenris, charter, and miriam) from the overall plot and then decided racism + slavery were over now.

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He’s genuinely so beautiful, I can't cope

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solas lumbering beast walk saturday

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I still can't believe Dragon Age Absolution, an incredible piece of storytelling with a nuanced and interesting antagonist who has a clear motivation and goal, developed characters with fun and well grounded dialogue, and a lore friendly story, setting and dialogue, came out just a couple years before the least thought out piece of dragon age media to have ever existed

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The Devs deffinetely didn’t intend this, let alone understand what it would mean, but I find it a bit poetic that the name and symbols of the DAV protagonist is, essentially, a tower. In Tarot, the tower symbolizes destruction, upheaval, chaos, and disaster. Which is essentially what Rook brought to Thedas.

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It's starting to drive me nuts how often I'm seeing the claim that the "southern" Chantry and its relationship with magic have zero influence in the north.

The Chantry schism created the Imperial Chantry vs. the Orlesian Chantry. Imperial because it’s only a thing in the Tevinter Imperium. That’s one country in the north.

Yes, we only get to see the Mournwatch in Veilguard, but have we forgotten the College of Magi in Cumberland? The philosophical heart of the Circle of Magi? Where they used to elect the Grand Enchanters? How about the Circle of Perendale? There’s an actual wartable mission about Perendale's mages who barricaded themselves in for fear of what the general populace will do to them!

Remember Zevran mentioning the Circle in Antiva and how the templars there were watching the mages like "a jealous husband guarding the chastity of a wanton bride"? Remember Josephine's line "little but the Chantry ties Orlais, Nevarra, Ferelden, Antiva, and even Rivain to a common cause"?

You think Brother Genitivi - a Fereldan Chantry brother - would call the Anderfels a nation that produces the most devout priests if they didn’t give af about the Orlesian Chantry? The place where they carved a giant statue of Andraste into a mountain?

Rivain, sure, the Chantry’s influence there has always been minimal (though ironically, the aftermath of the Dairsmuid Circle's annulment is the only time we actually see the Chantry’s influence up north in this game). But Nevarra, Antiva and the Anderfels?!

Sorry, no, there's an entire list of known Circles of Magi readily available online. Don’t freaking try to tell me that people everywhere were letting their mages cuddle wisps and shit, and it was only Orlais, Ferelden and the Free Marches that didn’t get the memo! Of course there have always been cultural differences, but "we're in the north now" is a piss-poor excuse for Veilguard's absence of any palpable faith.

It damn well should have mattered who we put on the Sunburst Throne.

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I do think one of the things that made me saddest about Veilguard was the sheer lack of continuity. And I'm not even talking about worldstates.

Where are the Varterral? Why is Arlathan forest guarded by magical robots instead?

Where are the merchant princes of Antiva? You know, the people who really run Antiva? Not the king, not the Crows?

Why does the Lighthouse exist? Wasn't it implied in the last game that Skyhold was Solas’s fortress? The place where the sky is held back?

Why was Emmrich never a member of a Circle? Why have we forgotten that Nevarra had Circles (although presumably those who managed to become Mortalitasi had much greater freedom than mages elsewhere, they would presumably also all be Harrowed mages from the Circles in Nevarra originally)? Why have we forgotten that Cumberland was home to the College of Enchanters?

Where is the Felicisima Armada? That Isabela was part of? Why does the timeline of Taash's storyline and their mother's work with the Lords clash completely with the Kirkwall timeline?

What do you mean, the Titans are done? Then what was going on with the Titan in the Descent? The one that woke up and started moving around and got soothed by reconnecting itself with Valta? It seems like that Titan was very much alive and well, where are the others? Given that lyrium is alive and the Titan's blood, I can only assume that anyplace where you have actively growing lyrium, you have a living Titan? Why can't the dwarves reconnect with them?

A lot of these are little things...but they all add up. This, combined with the fact that quite a lot of the characters don't seem particularly integrated into the world of Thedas either...

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I’m back in the fucking building again

She’s gonna be a knife main with pistols as a backup, likely doing Devil or Tower ending