#...for now at least

[skrevel]

I really need to info dump about my rooks so badly. Idk if anyone else will read it but I run this blog for me so I'm making it. I'm doing three different playthroughs at the same time, because I'm crazy. I have my blind first time playthrough which I have done with all the dragon age games. I progress a bit with this one then catch up to it with my other playthroughs. Then I made my lavellan playthrough because I didn't want to make myself wait until I finished my blind playthrough to get more content for that. I didn't plan to make a third character but I loved the crows so much I NEEDED to make a crow rook and to my surprise it has turned into my favorite of the bunch.

Nyxi is my blind playthrough rook. She's a human, a Lord's of Fortune treasure goblin, and a mage. I like to think she's a real girls girl. She's romancing Lucanis and I like to think she makes Solas listen to how attractive she thinks he is before they discuss anything concrete about saving the world. She's a lot like Kelly from the office, if kelly wasn't as self centered. I think she's been a drifter most of her life and while she likes traveling and hunting treasure, I also think she's really jealous of people who have a place they feel like they absolutely belong.

Sorcha is also a mage, but she's an elf and a shadow dragon. She's very involved with the anti slavery movement. I headcanon that she had a brush with slavers herself and got help from them. Then, she realized later on she could do a lot more with her magic. She realized she could actually us it to do something worthwhile. She's romancing Davrin, grumpy man taking care of a cute animal was too hard to resist. She has less headcanons than the other two but I still really love her.

Finally, there's Acanita 'Nite' for short (named after aconitum which is the scientific name for wolfsbane and also poisonous). She's my crow, and the only non mage of the bunch. And honestly she REALLY wants to be able to do magic. Who wouldn't honestly? She's been fairly happy with the crows and her life with them. But there are things about being an assassin she doesn't like and has always wanted to do something more worthwhile. I think that's part of the reason she's sent off with Varric in the first place. I think Viago was at least aware of this to some extent. I think she's probably more lonely than she let's on. People rarely see her as her, they see a crow or more recently "Rook" but they don't see HER. If that makes sense. Which I think makes even more sense for her to be the character who romances Emmerich. He is a very warm person from the start and is very interested in asking rook if they would tell him stories about themselves and their travels. She's also absolutely DELIGHTED to help with any kind of rituals or rites. She loves magic and he's very open in including her in it tangentially and sharing about it, he's literally a teacher. She doesn't care that it's necromancy, she's a crow a dead body is a dead body it doesn't really freak her out.

[autumnal-prince]

Saying Goodbye

[bitchfitch]

writing advice for characters with a missing eye: dear God does losing an eyes function fuck up your neck. Ever since mine crapped out I've been slowly and unconsciously shifting towards holding my head at an angle to put the good eye closer to the center. and human necks. are not meant to accommodate that sorta thing.

[overcaffeinated-aro]

ok not to be that guy but like. labor rights and working class rights can coexist with 24h services and late amenities. its certainly hard to do so without worker exploitation in this political and social environment, it’s not a conflict likely to resolve overnight. but 24h services are important and especially valuable to those of us that are disabled or are on a different circadian rhythm. in fact more professional, health, and government services should be available or at least possible to work on asynchronously (if applicable) during late or odd hours, while workers also get sufficient pay for their labor and proper consistent scheduling. this would be much easier on the workers with night schedules if the entire professional world didn’t grind to a halt at 5pmEST

[kochei0]

I turn to Ares.

Thanks to Tyler Miles Lockett who allowed me to draw inspiration from his ARES piece for page 2! Look at his etsy page it's SICK

⚔️ If you want to read some queer retelling of arturian legends have a look at my webtoon

[carsonjonesfiance]

“This thing is legally dubious and therefore technically unenforceable.” Is not a “useless liberal gotcha” it’s how legalism works in this country. Tying up stupidly worded EOs in court is the quickest way to keep them from being implemented. It is the definition of “doing something.” But it doesn’t usually involve much tweeting so of course a certain type of leftist feels obligated to mock it.

[pallettown]

genuinely so scary that you can't access the page on the ssc website that guides you through changing your sex designation. so so fucking scary. they are already making our lives harder. they are already taking what little resources we have.

[thought-begone]

I guess the real glorious evolution was the homoerotic yearning we made along the way

[beaft]

it is legit bizarre to me how hard video game creators and film directors and showrunners try to pretend that fat people don't exist. can you think of the last time you saw a fat person in a lead role? god forbid a fat woman? i can walk down the street or go into a shop or restaurant and see fat people everywhere but then i switch on the tv and suddenly it's like a glimpse into an alternate universe where no one has a bmi over 24. insidious and weird

[batcavescolony]

Katniss is such an unreliable narrator. She says "Then something unexpected happens. At least, I don't expect it because I don't think of District 12 as a place that cares about me" girl you deliver strawberries to the Mayor, you hunt and trade for the district, when you fell at Prim being chosen someone caught you, when you went to Prim people parted for you, when you volunteered EVERYONE stopped. Idk how to tell you but I think you're a pillar of the community.

[humming-fly]

I love how Gerald was trying to keep Shadow from spoiling anything about the future meanwhile literally everything Shadow says and does around Maria is the biggest death flag ever

[hinamie]

trick or treat!

[heritageposts]

The Eurovision song contest is facing intense scrunity and accusations of discrimination after it rebuked Swedish-Palestinian pop star Eric Saade for wearing a Palestinian scarf in the opening act of the semi-finals. Saade, whose father is of Palestinian origin, kicked off the first semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest in Malmo, Sweden on Tuesday evening with a keffiyeh, a traditional Palestinian and Arab male headdress, wrapped around his wrist. [...] In response, the organisers of the contest, European Broadcasting Union (EBU) released a statement saying it "regretted" that Saade wore the scarf. "The Eurovision Song Contest is a live TV show. All performers are made aware of the rules of the contest, and we regret that Eric Saade chose to compromise the non-political nature of the event," it said. [...] Eurovision later posted clips of the performances of the other two opening acts on its social media pages, but did not share Saade’s, prompting social media users to share the performance on their personal pages to show support for the artist.

Waving Palestinian flags, wearing traditional Palestinian garments, or if we're being honest, just being Palestinian, is now officially "too political" for Eurovision.

Literally, all Saade did was wear a keffiyeh around his wrist—while being Palestinian—and that was enough to get a statement from the EBU, and have his opening performance scrubbed from Youtube.

If you're not already boycotting Eurovision this year, then what the fuck is wrong with you?

Below are two statements from Saade. The first one, giving his reason for participating, was posted a few days ago, and the other was in response to the EBU accusing him of 'compromising the non-political nature' of the Genocide Song Contest:

Reminder again to BOYCOTT EUROVISION 🇵🇸

[chloesimaginationthings]

FNAF movie Mike and Vanessa swapped vibes,,

[crowkip]

yeehaw, baby!

[paintedcrows]

The Mystery Twins all grown up!! I love them so much. 13 forever, yet always older than me