lordgoretash
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Tumblr veteran, old enough to have been told to never give my age on the internet but also old enough to vote drink and run for congress, here for Dragon Age and Baldur's Gate. 18+
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look i love headcanons and have plenty of them, but perhaps when actual textual canon is being discussed, bringing those in as a "counterpoint" is not. the best practice.
#i had a conversation where someone told me that the way i described shadow dragons leadership#“wouldn't work”#i had described the leadership we actually see on screen in dav
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You know what I think its grossly under-rated in fandom? Second loves.
What it's like to love and lose and then love again. To suffer through either the death of a loved one or the death of a love you used to share. To know that loss, to know that hurt, and to still make yourself vulnerable to someone again. To love scared, to love wounded, to love anyway.
#nell/anders#second love for anders because he loved karl#third love for nell because she loved jowan and alistair
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Just a reminder that, in the middle of a darkspawn horde, danger everywhere, Wesley still intends to try doing something to Bethany until Hawke, Carver, and Aveline step in. Bethany who had just helped save Wesley’s life. So yeah, fuck the templars, and Wesley deserved to die.
#wesley critical#circle bullshit#i really should write zuzu's thoughts on that situation#because she mercy killed him#but i'm not sure mercy was her reason
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Got inspired by @/andrewknightley's Inquisitor Maddox Au so here he is!
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Emerges from a cave to post a Hawke fanart in the year of our lord 2023 (I’m replaying Dragon Age again and I LOVE HIMMmmmm)
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Since we never got an answer to what happened to our HoF in DATV, how many people headcanon if their Hero survived/fought in the Final Blight or not
#kalira fought in it but not formally#she was still working on the cure#and the change in the blight was an amazing opportunity#but studying blight during a blight#definitely resulted in some fighting#nell probably does fight in it formally#she's fought in every war since she was in her late teens#including the ones that were absolutely not the wardens' business#so i can't imagine her skipping that one#she's probably still defending amaranthine#with her suspiciously large number of mage wardens
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i genuinely do just think it's transparently regressive in a weird turnaround way that the only way the people of this website enjoy a het ship is if the ENTIRE focus is on how awesome and hot and perfect and unstoppable a woman is and how the man is like there to make googly eyes at her and get like nonspecifically dommed-by-implication and we never get ANY thoughts about what she sees in him or what emotional needs are fulfilled for her besides the implication that what every woman wants is someone whos obsessed with her. you people love to find new creative ways to ignore womens interiority
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if you ask me, this is where anders's years long crush on elizabeth began
#this is when zuzu's crush started#first person she's ever met who thinks her sister is a real person#who deserves the most basic of rights
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like it's a joke. it's a joke. but if you think about this for more than 5 seconds it becomes deeply disturbing.
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I always draw him like :-) sometimes u gotta go back to the source... Anyways Maddox dragon age my beloved
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too many people taking that article and saying “this is why i won’t listen to anyone who has any criticisms of veilguard, it’s not the devs’ fault” you can still have issues with the writing and tone and inconsistencies even knowing that there’s a reason for a lot of these things. the dev cycle being a horrendous nightmare does not mean that the game is immune to any and all critique
#and some of those critiques can and should still be about the writers#the racism from previous games that they doubled down on#was not a result of the dev cycle#veilguard critical
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Its the fact even Spite says Rook does not close doors, they open them
Its the fact that Rook is supposed to be the first guard you meet in Lucanis' mind and even Spite says it could never work in any shape
Its the fact that even as low as Lucanis is feeling about himself, he cant in any part of his head or heart put Rook in a place of keeping him locked in somewhere
Its the fact they he knows that Rook will ALWAYS be the one busting the doors down to get to the people they care about / to save others and even his self loathing cant make him see Rook as anything but that
Someone who opens doors
someone who saves him every time from himself and others
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"OP do you mean that ironically" I never mean it ironically. That I acknowledge that a lot of my favourite media is shit doesn't mean my appreciation isn't genuine.
#art that is too good doesn't inspire me to fandom#this is why i'm in the dragon age fandom#and not something objectively better in every way#da2 is the perfect blend of wonderful and absolutely awful
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