#I WAS WROOOONG

[explosion-town]

gay bully

[corvus-frugilegus]

The way my heart drops every time I visit Minrathous after saving Treviso. The sorrow in Rook's voice, the destruction, the way the resistance has been so brutally dismantled. The absolute horror in the streets of dock town presented so matter of factly by the game. They don't need to put a spotlight on it or show us a cut scene of the brutality because it's everywhere. You're immersed in the sheer scale of violence every step you take in dock and hear so much about the atrocities in the ambient dialogue. Walking the streets of Venatori controlled Minrathous feels awful.

The very obvious rise of facism that has been simmering beneath the surface in the magisterium all along. The dragon gave the magisters a chance to throw off the veneer of civility and stop acting like finding a middle ground with dissenting voices was something that mattered to them. Finally, they had concentrated power to an extent that they could inact their vision for Tevinter out in the open. (Probably if it weren't for Elgarnan taking over, reclaiming Tevinter from the Venatori would have been a monumentally difficult task).

If this isn't an Excellent social commentary and reflection of the increasing polarity in Western Politics I don't know what is. The rise of hard right leaning leaders epousing a return to traditional values when really their priority is the interest of capital and the ruling class is exactly what the Venatori represent here.

A criticism I've seen of the games writing a few times now is that the problematic elements of each faction feel either defanged or glossed over. And while I don't disagree that there are definitely some deep tensions and polarities in each of the groups Rook works with, I don't necessarily think it's poor writing to not talk about them here. It's just not the scope of the game- and I think actually underscores a very real issue we have in real world organizing and progressive spaces. If the Crows refused to work with Rook because they work with the Wardens who happen to keep terrible secrets (and so on and so forth about every faction and their tensions with one another) the gods would never have been stopped. In the case of the gods the people representing these factions and Rook's comapnions all recognize that their common cause is more important than their disagreements. Not working together because the Veil Jumpers rightly have qualms about the Lord's of Fortune pilfering elven ruins only lets the gods win. Working with someone who see's the world differently is a tension everyone in the veilguard has to hold. And it's a tension real-world progressives / the left very often struggle to hold.

Realizing that the common cause is more important than individual differences is a very real theme in Veilguard.

[bardicinspired]

My toxic trait is that I will instantly DNF any TMA fic that spells Jon as 'John'.

[backfliips]

my body has mostly recovered now from getting T boned and my car getting totaled with me in it, my leg is just a little sore and so is my collarbone from my seatbelt, but my neck has stopped being sore and I don't have any whiplash symptoms, so that's good.

in the meantime, insurance is really dragging its feet investigating my car (it's definitely totaled, repairs would cost way more than my car is worth) and getting me a rental, and the rental place is closed on sundays so I can't figure it out today... hopefully tomorrow I can get a rental and return my mother's car that i've been borrowing....

i'm definitely going to have to spend a good amount of money on a new car even with whatever money they give me for a new one... my poor prius............ raahhhhhhhhhh.........

[year2000electronics]

the best characters in paper mario are always the ones with Big Ass Devices

[melonnexus]

Uh yeah

[pirateriot]

mother revoking my autism privileges this time because I'm fixated on rich dead white tech men

[deputyrook]

my fav type of character is always the guy that has people in the tag going “oh you know he’s a god at fingering, he gives incredible head” when the reality is he’s the type of character who couldn’t find the clit if it had a neon sign pointing to it

[purpletyrant]

⚠ this action will have consequences

great pains are taken to ensure that the lady orchidee never encounters her offspring in public. that doesnt mean slip ups never happen, though

[shurara-gundan]

anniversary countdown day 1 - keroro platoon member "Strength" doesn't mean what you once thought it to.

[ellie-ramune]

Just started playing hsr again and this mentally ill blonde man has captivated me

[the-jam-to-the-unicorn]

So, I just looked into Trump's "plan" for Ukraine.

Turns out it can get more idiotic.

[lifesver]

one of my favourite things is taking a canon with very little information and characterization and using the groundwork to build up smth absolutely oc adjacent. i also love seeing how my friends take their own characters in unique directions. they become the canon interpretations to me, just like this is true for how anyone who borrows a canon to write for rp or fanfic thinks of those characters. i may not always agree with other peoples takes on leland for example, but i try to just kind my business at my big age ykwim? we just playing toys on a busted blogging website

[newsies-united]

jason schmidt please sing la jolla hopeless war i would die

[aliceyinh]

you know ever since joon, tae, jimin and jungkook enlisted - so ever since all of them are gone - I've felt this weird emptiness. and I know what you're about to say "Girl we all feel this way" and while I mean that as well there's a different kind of emptiness for me personally. See, when I first realized we weren't going to get ot7 until mid 2025 I told myself I was going to get fit, work out, learn a new skill yk? sth to pass time with while they are gone. I wanted to look in the mirror in 2025 and be like: look what you accomplished while they were gone, you did well! and i was sooooo determined with going through with it until... enlistment day, where all of my motivation, drive and confidence just exited the second I saw the last pictures of them. Ugh and I know it's so dumb and weird and I didn't even expect it to happen like?? c'mon I had a whole plan to become the best version of me wtf are u doing?? :')

[johnbottoms]

frankly i just hope this guy shows everyone else how much he sucks so he gets like. fired or smth. i hate being the only one dealing w his bullshit bc it feels like im just being dramatic... he literally doesn't listen to a single thing i tell him despite me being assigned his trainer and it feels like he has absolutely zero respect for me. LMAAAOOO