#drunk rant

[fortheloveofsolas]

I love Veilguard, I enjoy it as I am a simple woman who will take any content with gratitude. I will replay, I did and will enjoy it. But I do have some thoughts and feel robbed.

Veilguard critical ahead;

I think what hurts the most as a Dragon Age fan is that they said they believed Veilguard to possibly be the last game. Yet, they fired so many, didn't have anywhere near as many reappearances of old characters outside of letters, and codexes and so much lore and issues were straight up abandoned and ignored. If this is the last, why didn't they go out with a bang? I know money is a big issue and ea being in charge. It really felt like a game MORE for new players than old, and that's just insulting and hurtful. Do you know what really gets people to play your older games? Having a game so immersive in the world you created that they want to go back and see what they missed, not a spoon-fed story. Wait, whose this Hero Of Fereldan they speak of? Whose this Hero Of Kirkwall? Whose the Inquisitor? I get to make them and hear their backstory?

I read an article recently about how the next Dragon Age game could potentially focus on the Players Choices and I straight up laughed. Veilguard really felt like nothing mattered because they have proven NOTHING matters when it comes to choices in Dragon Age games.

Am I the only Solavellan fan (hyperbole) disappointed in the lack of not only Solas as a character in terms of his power and lack of agents, followers but their romance boiled down to Lavellan being obsessive/dismissive. Spoiler below cut

I nearly wanted to give up on Solas altogether when it was revealed he killed Varric. I can't even begin to imagine what that would be like to my Lavellan. To reduce Solas into he killed Varric for asking him to stop (blood magic aside) to then bend to Lavellan almost makes no sense to me and probably makes no sense to my Lavellan at all. He killed THEIR friend. What is the difference that Lavellan asks him to stop and a beloved friend? My Lavellan would have been horrified and questioning their relationship, because I, as a player, questioned it.

I haven't yet watched the scene where apparently a non-romanced Inquisitor discuses Varric with Rook idk why a romanced one didn't

[sweetnbatty-blog]

Ask me thingss

Im drunk & lonely so whats the worst thing to happen?

[j-exclamationmark-l]

The thing I've noticed binging Aneurin Barnard films and such right now is that...

Well, before, out of respect for my (now ex), I had avoided looking specifically for his performances just for him. Didn't want to obsess, plus I was semi-certain even though Daniel Solace is probably one of the most unique and nuanced performances I'll ever see in my lifetime, I suspected if I delved into his work, I'd find a lot of films where he was just... the background character. Or he was just taking whatever work he was offered.

The thing I've realized is he's super fucking talented. Like, criminally underrated. And either casting directors know that or he is picky about the type of work he takes because he's usually the most interesting character in anything he's in. He doesn't always have to be the title character, but he'll pick the most interesting one, bring it to life with nuance and sparkle. He doesn't just deliver lines and embody a character, he has an entire aura about him that influences the entire scene he's in. I don't know how. Magic?

[chaussonsauxapples]

handing my heart to my bestie on a random Sunday night was the right thing to do

which means talking about the lore like a maniac and her nodding along like she understands why i'm screaming about an eye closing and randoms capitalized letters

I love that bitch

[d34d-d0ve-d0-n0t-34t]

language is so interesting. I have like three books on linguistics and they are amazing reads. I love how complex each language is and how we as humans are born ready to learn any language at all.

[snuff-out-my-heart]

no yeah I totes love that another yandere creator has made their yandere character an irredeemable rapist /j

Fuck comfort character yans, amiright?

Yanderes are dark romance blah blah blah.

I deal enough with dangerous men irl

I'd like a dangerous man who isn't going to be a danger to me in my visual novel.

[iamthetruenhaz]

Passing through the city center on a Friday midnight on my way home from work, seeing all those careless twenty somethings out and about, drinking and laughing, hanging out, getting together, kissing, being happy

I'm over 30, no time for that. As much as I love my job, it's work work work. Work, sleep, I barely scrape by as it is and I live with my mother

And when I was in my 20s I was too depressed to do what they do

Of course they aren't at fault but I still feel robbed

Like I let my most free years pass me by

I'm turning into a bitter old man when i never felt young

[dark-night-hero]

Fun fact:

Whenever I make an update on my story series, either I'm bored as f, or I'm drunk as f. Rn, believe me, I'm drunk as hell.

If I ever update on my TCF x Reader series tonight, you should know that I'm on my 3rd bottle of alcohol lmao. But since I'm bored af. I might update tom.

[blue-eyed-banshee]

So... here's a drunken vent... ignore this. If you do not wish to see it, just scroll over instead of blocking me. I had a really good friend on WoW whom I had known for months. She was one of those who I could really relate to an account of us both being hard of hearing. She said I could vent anytime, and she was there to listen... but that was a total lie. She hurt me in the worst way that still triggers me to this day since birth; abandonment.

Nowadays, I've been drinking ALOT, not giving a shit anymore. Because she always asked me to keep my drinking in check. But now, I literally have no reason to.

I'm now a shell of who I once was. I'm constantly depressed and wanting to drink.

This is what abandonment sometimes does to people, especially if it stems from birth!

It disgusts me how people don't consider that

If I've been a bad friend, know that I never meant for it to happen.

[kartoonatic]

I get that everyone's too good to care about celebrities or whatever but real talk I'm glad kids these days have artists like Doechii and Chappelle Roan and Bad Bunny who are vocal about their communities and hire people of those identities and genuinely work towards lifting them up.

Yeah cartoon watching adults have cringe discourse sometimes but I'd take that 3x over just so kids can see those cartoons with brown people and cannon queer characters and all that shit.

We have genuinely come a long fucking way from when I was a kid, when you had to pick the most racially ambiguous, brown haired, lightly tanned white character on screen and just pretend they were your ethnicity because you had nothing else. We have come a long fucking way from artists that represent you being doomed to suffer from their own success as excects demand they bow to the arena of white USAmericans demanding their taste and comfort be prioritized. Don't get me wrong that shit still happens but fuck it I can appreciate all that we have today too.

[fallengoldenapple]

Y’a know who I hate at 1am on a Monday?

Jessica Day

Fuck that bitch

[judaismandsuch]

So as an ashki who rejects the term 'orthodox' and perfers to be called 'religious' or 'ss/sk', I will toss in my 2 cents.

I fucking hate the concept of orthodoxy, and view it as an aberation from ashkenaz that causes harm.

In the 1700s there was no 'orthodoxy' you practiced, or you didn't.

Run along to that conference in the 1800s that spawned 'reform' and 'orthodox' was created as an opposing view (then along came conservative and the rest).

The existence of any 'stream' of Judaism that argues for a particular belied system rather than simply saying "You can practice or not practice as much as you want, I don't give a shit. But if you practice, the following is the baseline:" is abhorrent to me. And the term 'Orthodox' is a symptom of it.

So (unless directly requested) I would not call anyone who isn't Ashkenazi 'Orthodox' the same way I wouldn't call them 'Reform' or 'Conservative'. I would say 'religious' or 'practicing' or w/e.

So I don't use the term as a mark of respect, but I can understand why it'd piss people off.

Everytime I see people conflate orthodoxy and Ashkenazim I want to bash my head in the wall

[sweetpondduckling]

[nataniellullabypup]

oh, to be drunk at a Saturday's night.

I'll try to be active here as well since the bird app is kind of imploding.

[andromeddog]

bob requests 👍