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i hurd dragon age was cancel but ROOK!!

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i hurd dragon age was cancel but ROOK!!

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and right then a… feeling instantly flooded evie’s chest… it was a somewhat familiar feeling, not too dissimilar from how she herself felt towards her mother and brother… but this…

this was very different.

precise, thick…?? Smoldering… all encompassing??

No… whole… one… only…

… it was an emotion, she realized, that could only exist between two people who held two halves of each others hearts in the palm of their hands…

solas loved her mother

undoubtedly, so perfectly… eternally…

whole, one…

only

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#Want that because this is what bothers me about one of fandom's fave banters between Varric and Solas#And I kind of hate that this is the go to banter to show off Solas's worldview because every time I read it#I can't help but see Varric as a writers mouthpiece for some of the shit I see said IRL all the damn time#The good Jew I mean dwarf is the kind that doesn't mind loosing ties to his cultural roots#He thinks the culture he is forced to assimlate into is great actually#And everyone who cares about dwarven culture is stuck in the past and weird <- this is exactly what i was getting at yes!!!!!! it's present in da2's writing as well with bartrand's attachment to their dwarven heritage (and obsession with making money??? oh my god????) as the "root of evil" that causes everything to go wrong in their lives like it's WILD how people are so willing to give bioware a pass on this in the earlier games!

Yes!!! Thank you so much for that whole post honestly, this is something that has been bothering me about Varric's character for basically my whole fandom experience and it's kind of infuriating to see it be indentified as a problem in the writing with characters like Sera (who then get shit on by the fandom for it) when it's just as present in characters like Varric who are fandom favourites. And it hurts me specifically with Varric because like... this is the one dwarven prespective we get through all 2 games. And it sucks so bad, considering how games are all to happy to play fast and loose with a lot of more questionable worldbuilding of Thedas when it comes to dwarves (yeah I love how one major dwarven presence in all of DA games is Carta the dwarven underground crime syndicate that controls whole of lyrium economy/s) and Varric's character is not only never used to really offset all this, Bioware seems all to happy to play up the stereotype with him but like in a funny way. Bertrand was the bad greedy dwarf who only cares about money and dwarven things, Varric is the cool funny dwarf who mentions people owing him money but in a funny way so that's cool.

So when in Veilguard there are still elements that are deeply problematic (like the whole "the Time of the Titans is over" bit if you have Harding overcome Titan's rage) and people compare that conflict to Varric's whole shtic I get angry because... no you don't see? This is what got us INTO this mess. Varric's complete rejection of everything dwarven that never gets commented on by the narrative and is even shown, in opposition to Solas, as 100% correct way to approach the issue is why player comes out of DA2 and DAI viewing dwarven culture as something not worthy of saving. Because one character who is also not so subtly a creator's pet, sees it as regressive and unecessary.

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lord I can’t believe all the AI fic shit is STILL going on

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Commission for @tethrawke

A moment from a fanfic Hope & Dream

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all i’m saying is that the dao romanceables are stronger than me bc if i was alistair zevran morrigan or leliana and i had a fearless beautiful dwarven party leader who had been delicately deflecting all flirtations because her heart was elsewhere, and then her face lit up like the sun when she saw some guy in the marketplace, only for that guy to tell her that her father has died, horribly, and then immediately follow that up by revealing he (the guy, not her father) apparently never thought he had a serious future with her and has now knocked up and married some other woman he just met, i would have chosen violence. i would have eaten his heart in the marketplace

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i know some of u mfs get mad as fuck when u see i have anon off 💀💀😛😛😛😛😛😛😛😛

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no nuance/multiple ocs option for these okay. you have to pick one. if you can’t decide just go for the class you most enjoy playing whether it’s for gameplay or roleplay reasons

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Turn this TV off

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For scientific purposes, who was your FIRST romance in each DA game.

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datumblr is impossible to be in these days you cannot go into ANY characters tag without being jump scared with a hate crime against mythal

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I just noticed I had gifs with all three advisors lol

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Dwarf stuff I wish we could see more of

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dragon age fanfic discourse 2015: vaguely homophobic multichapter livejournal kink meme fic where inquisitor lavellan's magical breastmilk cures cullen's lyrium addiction

dragon age fanfic discourse 2025: two entirely separate people got caught brazenly using chatgpt for their smutty solavellan fanfic within the exact same week of each other and are now forming a coalition to stand up against perceived widespread anti-solavellan discrimination on tumblr and twitter alike