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Keep Gaza in your timeline. 🇵🇸

These innocent beautiful children are starving because not enough of us are demading Israel end their ethnic cleansing and genocide of Palestine.

Their children are our children. They way you treat children is becoming an obvious indicator of how you embrace authoritarianism.

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This take has a lot of nuance but I don’t think you should have a baby with someone who doesn’t want to have a baby. I think that is extremely unethical. Not just for the baby’s other parent but for the child themself. And this happens so fucking often like every other week I see a post that’s like “I told my hookup of 2 months that I’m pregnant and he’s not happy but I want this baby! What do I do?” I would say cop the ‘borsh. It is not about you. Genuinely, it is not. Hopefully you are financially and emotionally prepared to be a single parent and even if you are you’re going to have to look your child in the eyes and say “Your father didn’t want you.” which is fucking awful.

And of course there are additional factors that can come into play in this situation like abortion availability and reproductive assault/coercion. But like. Generally speaking it is a terrible fucking idea to have a child with someone who doesn’t want it.

Also if you broke up with a guy because he is straight up evil or his family is unhinged, SPEED TO THAT ABORTION CLINIC. That is NOT a good situation to bring a child into.

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I wonder how Emmrich's old relationships ended if his immediate reaction to possibly facing death is to sabotage his relationship with Rook.

There is no reasoning for what he did other than he was scared that he was either going to die or possibly lose Rook (but I feel like he really does think he will die) at Tearstone. So his wonderful solution (to me, of course. This is all interpretation) was to push Rook away (and in doing so, intentions were to hurt her. Because if her last memories of him were ones where he was mean to her and both downplayed her feelings while throwing the good old age card in her face- something that would piss anyone off. Like imagine someone you're in love with even hinting that they think you are less or not that smart or incapable of what they can simply because they are older. No one with Emmrich's emotional capacity would just 'accidentally' do something like that.)

I don't think he thought it out at all. I think he did have good intentions starting the conversation but he panicked. But he still hurt her. And he did so before a major fight. Where anything could have happened.

Which you know, sucks, but I really enjoy that he's not as perfect as he makes himself seem.

And while honestly, I can see this affecting my Rook quite strongly, I don't think this would be the end. Sure, it's going to make things a little painful (especially after the fight) but I think as scared as Emmrich is, once he realizes what he's truly done he would apologize and try his best to make things better.

Also proud of Rook for pushing just as hard as him.

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TikTok (asshole of the world, I know, I’m sorry I’m subjecting you to it) has discovered the term ‘lavender marriage’ and decided to shift the definition to mean a man sinisterly pretending to be straight and using his hapless oblivious wife to as a beard and also applied this term to any couple where the husband has any interest in interior design, expresses emotions or acts like a human being in a domestic partnership instead of a douchebag. I know I made a post about it but I’m astounded by the new wave of homophobia I’m seeing creep into the public consciousness.

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Last Chibi I did

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If you have not yet heard, starvation in Gaza is worsening and people are still risking their lives just to access aid--nearly 100 people were killed seeking aid on Sunday. A UNWRA worker stated: “Everything around people at the moment is death, whether it’s bombs or strikes, children wasting away in front of their eyes from malnourishment, from dehydration, and dying.”

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When the guy in ur head won't stop being mean to you.

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What I love most about Emmrich is the very heart of him: his softness.

He is tender in a world that tells men to be anything but. A gentle soul, kind and thoughtful, with a mind as rich as his heart is open. He honors the living, and he reveres the dead. He is sweet without irony, sentimental without shame. A romantic in the truest, quietest sense. He loves fully, without condition or calculation.

Emmrich wears his heart not just on his sleeve, but in everything he does.

He is an orphan who built a family from the idea of home and a pile of bones, who chose love and warmth when the world gave him none. He is what we’ve been starved of in stories for too long: a male character allowed to be openly affectionate, unguarded, kind. A soft man cast as a love interest, not despite his gentleness, but because of it.

He’s not brooding in a corner, growling threats, or pinning someone to a wall with a smirk and a “kitten.”

He’s knitting a scarf to keep Rook’s neck warm in winter. He’s making tea. He’s listening.

Once more, and this matters: he is soft. He pines, he longs, he yearns, he picks flowers.

And we need more men like him in fiction, because we need more kindness in the world.

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Idk it'd work on me

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Brb gotta do elf shit

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Imagine if right at the moment Rook and the team reach the ground after defeating Elgar’nan, Viago and Teia run up to tell Lucanis that the other Talons have gathered in Treviso and may be planning a coup while the three of them are occupied.

And Lucanis, who wants nothing more than to have Rook in his arms so he can start to believe that they did it, they won, looks at Rook, who offers him a sad smile and says, “Go. I’ll find you later.”

(Even if Rook is a Crow, they can’t go along to a Talon meeting. Viago forbids it. Rook will have an even bigger target on their back if the other Talons believe Rook is Lucanis’s weakness.)

So the three Talons return to Treviso, and Lucanis (and Spite) just get more and more pissed on the way. After everything they’ve done, after the Ossuary, after killing gods, they have to deal with this bullshit?

When they reach the place where the other Talons are meeting, Lucanis bursts in. Most of them have only ever thought of him as Caterina’s grandson (even after his spat with his cousin), but suddenly they are getting a glimpse of the Demon. He makes it clear in no uncertain terms (and with perhaps a bit of bloodshed) that they all need to go back to their respective cities and deal with their own damn Houses. He and Teia and Viago are spitting mad, spattered in gore, and still riding the adrenaline high of the battle, and the other Talons wisely decide that it is perhaps not the best time for maneuvering.

After they leave, Lucanis slumps into a chair. Viago is satisfied with his first performance as First Talon. Teia is delighted.

Lucanis just wants to find Rook, find a bed, and collapse with them for about three days. He stumbles back through the eluvian, through the Crossroads, to the Lighthouse, to the dining hall.

And Rook is there, standing in front of the fire. They turn to meet his eyes, and despite everything, despite the minor wounds littering his body, despite the exhaustion, despite the pressure of his new position, Lucanis has never felt so grateful to be himself.

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a couple months ago i got a job selling cheese and something about my work environment makes me come across noticably gayer. could not tell you why. something inherently faggy about the cheese business

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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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Day 1 - Coffee LucanisWeek2025

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Ren and Emmrich for @woodironbone! Thank you for commissioning me!

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