#and then make this face -> 😐

[bestworstcase]

My biggest hope is that, at some point, Ruby calls Salem out for her systematic genocide towards the people with Silver Eyes, and that just completely spoils all of Salem's plans to present herself as the injured party.

Because no matter how Salem tries to spin her reasoning behind it, Robyn's Semblance would reveal just how cruel, petty, and POINTLESS the millenia of slaughter were.

The Brothers definitely wronged Salem, but that does NOT make it okay for her to take out her rage on completely innocent people, just because they MIGHT be related to her ex husband.

i think salem kills silver-eyed warriors* for exactly the same reason humans hunt grimm

(*distinct subset of silver-eyed people)

because irrespective of whether normal grimm are sentient beings (and i think they are), salem is a person who’s spent the last several thousand years living in forced exile—it is ozma’s explicit goal to get rid of her—with nothing and nobody to turn to for companionship except grimm, and from his stated interest in silver eyes and his recruitment of both summer and ruby we know he’s made use of silver-eyed warriors for this purpose whenever he can find them.

meanwhile salem to all appearances… did nothing, because ozma absolutely could not have kept her a secret if she’d been acting in kind all along and we know now that even as little as twelve years ago that ozpin’s war was all smoke and no fire.

so yeah no assuming it is what it looks like—that salem took out silver-eyed warriors who either worked for ozma or looked like they might, during the very long period of his one-sided crusade—i think she has a leg to stand on. her general has silver eyes, it isn’t like she hates them on principle.

the most important question here is what the hound’s deal was, where and how she found him and what circumstances led to using his (reanimated?) corpse as the core of a grimm. because that’s new—an experiment, probably something begun after beacon fell—and we have zero context. in a story that is all about things never being as simple as they seem! in a story where we’ve already had a huge in-character assumption about the hound shown textually to be wrong! in a story where we know salem has or had two more agents we’ve not met yet, and one of them is obviously summer rose.

[alukaforyou]

undecided on the hair 👽

[hollytree33]

She gets a little blood magic. As a treat.

[katabay]

johnnnnnnnnn constantine!

I usually watch constantine 2005 sometime during the last couple of months of the year. sometimes several times during the last couple of months of the year. sometimes I even get around to doing a full re read of the vertigo run and find some time to draw the man the myth the legend while I'm on a train.

[halorvic]

[vigilskept]

Throwing my hat into the elves and culture discussion, I think one of the things that I find most... upsetting is _what_ Bioware took from Judaism to make their elves. Which is to say, not a lot. What they took was Jewish history - ghettos, diaspora, and blood libel. The bad parts. Stuff about our oppression. Not stuff from Judaism as a religion or Jews as a culture. We don't get to see elves celebrate any cognates to Jewish holidays. There's no equivalent of kashrut or Yiddish or Ladino (despite that not making sense with the Dales being around for four centuries). The two most defining features of Dragon Age elves, the vallaslin and the Evanuris, directly contradict Jewish teachings. Jews started writing down our history and laws as soon as we lost our homeland and independence to Babylon, but it's written into the fabric of Dragon Age that the elves didn't, and their story is one of obtaining a lost past, not preserving a remembered one. It's even indicated that the city elves largely worship the Maker.

In thoughtful hands this could be a story about how Jews are seen as a religion when it's convenient to oppress us one way and a race when it's convenient to oppress us another, but it's not. Instead the impression I am left with is that in the mind of Dragon Age, Jews are defined solely by our oppression.

thank you for sharing!!!!

this came up earlier when an anon asked about making an elven oc from a (marginalised) cultural context they themselves aren’t from and i think it always comes down to a question of whether oppression and suffering are the only things you’re interested in or whether you care enough to learn about community, family and joy. and bioware seems to fail to clear this bar every time it comes to the elves.

i truly think some of the most incredible work in this fandom has come from fans putting those things back into the setting.

[sweetlullabyebye]

Confession attempt n°1 dearly beloved (scene under the cut)

[clumsypuppy]

THATS WHY YOU LOOK CONSTIPATED ALL THE TIME?

[karnpuffs]

the risk of DOING NOTHING

song: tsundere twintails - waiting

[sehnista]

[roychewtoy]

shots from simons flickr account

[letsgetitblog]

This first episode was so gay I'm sorry.

[lostsyren]

the anon that said “not looking hard enough at sofia and rafe but leaning towards riara more” said everything i need to know😂😂😂😂 these ppl istg

Yeah…😭I just focused on saying my piece on rafesofia tbh and they were nice so idrc

That whole ship is based on their “kook year”… like yeah sureeee that happened. Before Sofia was introduced, like s1-2 time, I tried to get into the ship, like edits and fics, since I kept seeing them come up. I was never convinced. And the kook year theory is definitely a stretch– like we all can agree on that right?

Like all of Rafe’s scenes with Kie is just him being a dick. And not even in an enemies to lovers way, he’s just contemptuous and icky. And the screen caps of them looking at each other with this supposed tension– like yall are reaching. He’s not secretly in love with her, he’s not obsessed with her. He only considers her when she can be of benefit to him.

[loumandivorce]

😐 is such a versatile emoji. so many uses all of them beautiful and distinct

[rueclfer]

ruueee i wanted to ask… were you inspired at all by the little bit of lore dropped for the lov? that they buy their groceries/ ready made food while wearing their disguises… i just feel like touya would hit up the same konbini right before it closes to get the stuff on sale, and reader who works there sees him so often that they strike up conversation… he tries flirting to get it for free and reader tells him she might consider it if he’d drop the ski hood … sorry im just musing in your ask box now!!

if the whole lov go on the grocery runs together, touya would definitely stand in the back and let shigs handle the transaction and pretend like he doesnt know u like doesnt even LOOK at you but if hes by himself theres a complete 180 (doesnt ever bother going in if he doesnt see you at the register). STUPIDLY flirty and i can imagine y/n throwing out so many snarky comments like "oh wow sunglasses indoors arent you cool" and hes just like "yeah gotta protect my eyes from your stunning self" LMAAAOO OR SOMETHING CORNY AS FUCK LIKE THAT

[strawbnetwork]

i really dont feel anything for haru because the games approach to the okumura arc is so antithetical to my own. im sorry your dad is trying to force you into a marriage you dont want, that sucks, and i understand still loving/caring for him despite that. however, he has also been putting hits on people and committing numerous workplace violations or whatever for years atp. idgaf about him and i dont think i should have to be nice about it.