#Same-age-friends

[humans-are-tasty]

[fanfic-gremlin-ft-trauma]

Hugs bc these boys deserve one

[x-letsbreaksomerules-x]

is this something

[kana7o]

All they have is each other

[creatively-cosmic]

submas designs

[xiaojuun]

xiaodery during on my youth era ♡

[diviedrawn]

The way we were robbed of the milfication of Jill for death island

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

alright ill admit it. popstar is pretty cute

[sillydegu]

Welcome home Laurel

[smilesrobotlover]

Small Revali’s for anyone who needs it. This guy has me in a chokehold

[lesbianfakir]

I love introducing new people to princess tutu because you have to be completely poker face yeah this fakir guy sucks and he has zero redeeming qualities 🙄👎 like you are not about to watch him go head over heels for a duck(!!) in real time

[send-me-a-puffalope]

do u think baby nessa had any friends or did pops not let her have any

i uh. i think those are her friends, anon.

i think pops put her friends in fursuits, anon.

[carrotkicks]

the power of friendship wins!

[shittysawtraps]

When I first met one of my friends I mentioned that I liked the movie Saw and their reaction was to gasp and ask if I was the mod of this blog

the opposite situation happened to me recently actually. i teach at an elementary school and i had a girl come up behind me and ask me what my favorite horror movie was, and when i said saw she got very excited and talked about how she loved saw, and chucky, and the shining, and what did i think about saw x, and who my favorite saw character was. and i realized i couldn't tell a fourth grader that i run a blog called "shitty saw traps." it's just. i can't.

[blind-alchemists]

the thing with Solas is that he's proud, and wise, and clever, and cunning, and regretful, and guilty, and honest when it'd be so much easier to lie, but while canon tells (and shows) us all of that, it doesn't tell us that the other deep-seated emotion that drives him is shame.

shame about what he did, shame about what he's going to do; shame about what he was, shame about what he is; shame about killing his friend; shame about viewing the people of the current Age as shadows; shame about not knowing better; shame about not wanting to know better; shame about a befriended/romanced Inquisitor, shame about the friends he made; shame about hiding in plain sight, shame about not telling the truth; shame about making the same mistake twice, knowing how it'll turn out; shame about his outbursts, shame about not being good enough; shame about feeling attached to the current Thedas, shame about not feeling attached enough to stop; shame about not having anything to be proud of anymore.

I was recently struggling with a scene that didn't go the way I thought it would, until I realized that neither pride nor guilt nor regret nor wariness was the the real motivation; they were just the result, the display, the cover: the real motivation was the shame.

and then everything kind of clicked into place, precisely because pride is such a focal point of Solas' character - if shame is a deep-seated emotion, it contradicts his pride, his wisdom, his intellect; if shame is a deep-seated emotion, it fuels his regret, his guilt, his determination; if shame is a deep-seated emotion, it's the one thing he's actually managed to conceal. (then again, I wonder if he's even aware that what he's feeling is shame.)

and, as I kept thinking about it, it kept making sense: to be ashamed is a grave sentence for someone like Solas, who's entire character revolves around his pride and his wisdom and his regret. he regrets enough of his mistakes to be disappointed, unsatisfied with himself, to be uncomfortable with what he's done; he's wise enough to know that he has no logical reason to feel ashamed for half of these things and yet even more reasons to feel ashamed for the other half; he's proud enough to loathe admitting to this shame. he gets wary if you poke at him, defensive if you manage to get to close to this sore spot, upset if you keep at it. his pride won't allow him to admit to his shame, and his wisdom won't allow him to not admit to it, and his shame won't allow him to speak about it, and that keeps him stuck in this vicious cycle.

[kenas-artstuff]

loser ass teenage captain and his swag crewmate <3