#Irving Think

[vaguely-concerned]

the fact that irving canonically survives through the end of asunder to be at wynne's funeral is so fucking funny to me. nothing but love and respect for MY unstoppable cockroach morally grey machiavellian mage dad!!! he's survived in his position through multiple attempted rites of annulment and blood mage plots popping up left right and center around him. the chantry keeps trying to stamp him out but his dodge game is simply out of this world, divine. civil wars, political machinations and minefields, chantry atrocities, this wily old motherfucker is dodging and weaving his way through it all, not-quite-no-hits-taken-running-it-but-honestly-close-enough-under-the-circumstances style. if solas does succeed in tearing down the veil I would fully believe that one of the like three people still alive at the end of it all would be a very weary 90 year old first enchanter irving going 'oh this shit again huh'. the maker has cursed him for his hubris and his paperwork is never finished (affectionate, it's fine he canonically loves paperwork)

[leadandblood]

Jirving is thinking about gay sex here actually. And that's a fact because a few days before that he saw Hickeygibson in the hold and he STILL hadn't told anyone. He's literally thinking about gay sex this entire meeting

[representative-democracy]

everyphoto of Edward Little i have saved to my computer is tragged with 'sad' or 'pathetic' in some kinda way

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+ Jopson and Gibson friendship supremacy

[xavier616]

"Don't forget, this is your first day at school. The worst part is you'll get used to all of this."

Welcome to Korea pt 2 || Episode Two || Season Four

[tricoufamily]

they are l and light to me

[erythriina]

rip john irving you would have loved getting a little too drunk and cuddly with your coworkers at the bar on karaoke night fridays

[spiderbitesandvampirevenom]

shoutout to afro-indigenous folk. y'all are an extremely underappreciated part of the native community n i hope this reaches some of you :)

[kinloch-warden]

I've always wondered why the Harrowing seems so very easy for Amell and Suranna. Like, if you really think about it, Mouse does such a half hearted job of trying to possess or tempt them. He gives up really easily. You say "i don't think that other demon was my test" and he's like haha no! Oh, okay, fine. You got me. Well anyway, here's a cryptic warning, bye!

And then that's it.

And like. I always thought maybe Mouse did this bc he had some sort of long con planned- like he'll try and worm his way into your good graces as you continue to live and dream in the tower as you age.

But!! Now I'm having another thought! What if Irving set the whole thing up so you'd have an easy Harrowing. Someone had to bind the demon for the Harrowing right? And he was the only mage there. It stands to reason that he'd be the one who picked the demon to bind. So what if he summoned a demon who he knew would be less dangerous? He clearly cares about Amell/ Suranna and wants them to succeed, so what's to stop him from rigging the system a little?

Because Amell/ Suranna gets to look good to the Templars bc they resisted a pride demon. They get to show themselves to be a mage who's "safe", and who the templars won't have to worry about as much and maybe that's exactly what Irving wanted.

Irving is already putting books on blood magic in places where where apprentices can find them so he can weed out the undesirable apprentices from the Tower to "keep the rest safe". He has no problem gaming the system to see apprentices fail if he thinks they'll be a danger to the circle as a whole. So what if he goes further than that? What if he also manipulates what demons are faced by which apprentices and thus rigs the Harrowing a bit too?

So the mages who are bad at magic get made tranquil, those tempted by blood magic get handed over to the templars for punishment, and those mages who are maybe skilled enough to pass a Harrowing in theory but who he worries will be a problem or a danger later on get given dangerous demons. If they succeed anyway well hey, maybe he was wrong about them, but if not he keeps the tower safe. And then those apprentices with skill who have the right temperament or the makings of a good circle mage or whom Irving's taken a special shine to get easy demons.

Because you can only have so many apprentices become tranquil before people get suspicious or angry. And if every mage passed the Harrowing every time the templars might also get suspicious. So Irving walks a delicate balance.

[the-worms-in-your-bones]

Brax’s comprehensive guide to caring for Theta Sigma

1) Don’t kill the loomling

2) Don’t let the loomling get himself killed

[vigilskeep]

after 12 years indoors spending your first trip outside in the darkspawn infested korcari wilds like actually maybe towers are for the best

[slickricklj]

Jill Valentine + Chris Redfield - When you know, you know.

Bonus:

[representative-democracy]

gotta know one thing about the HMS Terror which its got three flavours of lieutenant: dandy, homophobic homosexual, and the saddest, wettest man you have ever had the displeasure of seeing

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[xavier616]

"A living American actor."

The More I See You || Episode Twenty-Two || Season Four

[irvingcoded]

morale is low to middling as far as my art book / patreon progress goes but at least i be cooking on these last few commissions...

[bossybigeyes]

started making very basic major arcana, got fixated on the terror lieuts,,, bon apetit

pt. 2, pt. 3, redbubble

V. THE HIEROPHANT (Irving) religion, conformity, morality

IX. THE HERMIT (Hodgson) soul searching, introspection, solitude

XII. THE HANGED MAN (Little) sacrifice, waiting, hesitation

XIV. TEMPERANCE (Jopson) moderation, purpose, patience

[erythriina]

I do kind of wish Irving had lived to see the conversations abt cannibalism begin in earnest. I cannot find the quote for the life of me but I remember reading smthn that talked about how when you’re a kid and you don’t really understand sexual attraction yet, and you end up translating that feeling through other feelings you do know, like, do I want to eat you ?? … I just think it would be really interesting to see how the guy with multiple god-honoring Christian alternatives to being horny would have reacted to being presented with a new and uniquely horrific way to have someone inside you