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If all 4 of your canon LI had to break out all 4 of your PCs (like the Fort Drakon mission) would they be able to pull off a successful rescue mission or is there no way they’d work together?

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Davrin Week Day 4: Fatherhood

A follow up to this art <3

(While I drew this with my Rook and Davrin’s daughter in mind, feel free to interpret it as your own DavRook baby 😌)

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hi so very random but I've just been mulling over how for me Veilguard kind of encapsulates a lot of the failings of modern liberalism in a fascinating way.

What I mean is that advocating for things like the use of people's correct pronouns and diverse representation is of course very important. However, for an economically privileged liberal that kind of advocacy costs them nothing: they can advocate for all this without giving up any of their economic privilege or power. They don't have to consider whether the structure of their society as a whole is deeply unjust and should be radically changed; they don't have to consider whether the global world order is deeply unjust and should be radically changed. This kind of advocacy becomes a way of telling themselves that they are doing good things and making positive change, thus salving their conscience about their privilege without ever having to face the possibility of significant societal and economic changes that might make them less privileged.

And Veilguard feels so very much the essence of that. It refuses to so much as look at any politics that is about structural inequality or oppression; it puts all its politics into 'representation' in ways that don't challenge anything or demand change. Indeed, its narrative is built around an explicit and foundational opposition to change! In Tevinter we just need to put someone nice in power and solve all the problems within the existing system; no one is ever even allowed to contemplate any genuine systemic change. There is diversity but the diversity is largely aesthetic; the characters are of a variety of races but race (either in a real-world sense or in the human/dwarf/elf/qunari sense) is almost never dealt with explicitly in the plot. In just the same way as modern liberalism more generally, Veilguard really wants to claim that it is doing good things and making positive change by presenting a superficial kind of diversity while trying extremely hard to stay away from any suggestion that the world might need more radical change.

I love that it's queer; I enjoyed Taash's story, and the explicit pansexuality of the other characters. But its queerness ultimately feels quite hollow to me because genuine queer rights movements are radical; they are about demanding real transformative change, they are about overthrowing systems of oppression. Veilguard does not want to touch any of that, and instead focuses entirely on individual personal issues, in just the same way that modern liberalism has been trying to do for a long time. So it bothers me to see it being held up as a triumph of queer media, because it seems very much in the tradition of liberals using queer people as essentially political stage-dressing as a way of not having to confront the issues they don't want to face.

one of the best and most concise analyses of the game's politics i have ever seen wrapped up in a lovely bow and put in my inbox <3 thanks for sharing!

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More older Kieran!! He’s still figuring things out 🥹

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man you all were not kidding abt the therapyspeak in veilguard.

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dragon age dashboard simulator

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literally DNI if you think shipping the champion with their REAL LIFE friends is okay. i can't believe i have to explain this to people. RPF destroys lives.

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"RPF is fine." - Varric Tethras

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op is mad because i said hawke and seneschal bran fucked btw

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I want to go to Ferelden.

I will spell couleur as colour and work on a farm. I would spend all night in The Pearl while drinking ale with my mates. I'll have cheese every day that's worth 1 silver. I would go to war and die. I am also more likely to meet bandits, The Hero of Ferelden and The Queen.

I wish I was Fereldan. :(

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sick and fucking tired of mutuals putting this on the dash. yeah haha funny joke. fereldan stereotypes are so fucking harmful and irritating, you realise cheese is actually one of our major exports? that op is joking about working on a farm, a hard and painful line of work, whole being orlesian nobility? if someone made a post like this about kirkwall i know people would be shitting and crying lmfao

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Fereldan.

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Need to get dicked down again :-/

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This was his last post before blowing up the chantry btw. getting dicked down in your honour tonight king 🫡

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what no dick does to a mage

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Heritage post.

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She dark on my spawn till i hurlock

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i hurlock on her taint til she enters my deep roads

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situationship with the girl in my alienage going really bad everyone like it's literally over for me 👍🏻

#can we get another blight soon or something i cant do this anymore

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What the fuck happened to this poll .

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i think i hauve the blight

#thought about the cycles of violence in hard in hightown again #varric tethras when i GET YOU

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one sentiment abt veilguard that i wholeheartedly share with a lot of people who like me got into dragon age very recently is . thank gd i didnt wait 10 years for that

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jumping on the bandwagon >:] I did cheat a little and swapped "song" for "scent" since i suck at choosing songs lol, but this was a fun exercise!!

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The Lovers

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The second poll in the series:

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"If I were a gambling man, and I am, you'd be my best bet-"

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TWEWY style Lilian! This style takes me ages but it's a lot of fun~

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i keep these longings locked in lowercase, inside a vault — ✧ i keep recalling things we never did messy top lip kiss how i long for our trysts

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i don't think this is a good way to write autistic characters lol

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Well, it seems the “Hero of Ferelden” has fallen unconscious. Again.

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Does anyone else’s warden pass out every other battle, or do I just suck at this game?

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Kirkwall

That was part of commish for one DA fan. I was inspired by image of this mighty city from DA:2, towering on a great mountain, at the foot of which splaches Waking sea...