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[bluebellhairpin]

QUICK!

We are going on a double date! You pick the place, I'll pick us some cute outfits okay!?!?

OHHHHH CAN WE GO TO THE THEATER. CAN WE GO WATCH PHANTOM OF THE OPERA. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE.

[rhaenyratargeryen]

PEDRO PASCAL The Last of Us Season 2 | Official Trailer

[thepatchycat]

Cody in the margin of my GIS notes to assist with map management!

[spaghettiandart]

I’m spreading my “ramb is the shadow mantle/owned the shadow mantle” agenda and you can’t stop me!!!

[lemongogo]

[siliconcat]

gayass purple wizard (and Alice)

more of them

[patchyworx]

That fucking tv that i hate

[shurinpat]

hug me please

[sunlight-shunlight]

putting it into an ask because I don't want to derail your post sorry

As someone who's culture lost their last L1 Speaker around the time they were born. This!! So much this!!

It is EXTREMELY difficult to learn endangered languages, and from experience the people who do know how to speak some of it are extremely protective of it even to others from that same culture! (something that makes me even more attached to the dalish as a peoples sigh)

I would die for the chance to speak my tribes original language but even if I could jump through the hoops to do it, a decade is decisively not. enough. time. to do so. Yet alone to adopt the native cadence of the language. Again even if I wanted too! Which I desperately desperately do!

Lavellan would have to jump through so many hoops that by the time she might be ready to start speaking it regularly (in the context of ancient elvhen) that Veilguard would probably be on the horizon already. That's also given the idea that there are even universities willing to put aside discriminatory behavior twords the elves to provide classes on such specific subjects. AND putting aside the whole 'wow that's straight up the herald of andraste in my Sociolinguistics class' with the problems that would cause.

I mean, I know its a fantasy universe and I'm really projecting on it here but like hear me out- I have a dictionary and a book of stories translated by scholars I will never meet, and a series of audio-files that I myself had to copy convert to a format I could have on my phone and listen to. I'm untrained and uneducated on how to go about it sure but even with my available tools it feels like an uphill battle with every new word I pick out to practice. I sing songs from that book fully knowing Im butchering it the whole time, and try my best to feel connected to something i know I cannot fully understand. And that's beautiful! That;s fantastic! There's something to truly love there! And veilguard doesn't even let us try to explore that idea!

The fact that we don't get to choose whether or not we drank from the well makes this so extremely frustrating. The game gives both the Inquisitor and Moriggan the benefits of the well without ever allowing our input. Because to me the only way that Lavellan could become even partially fluent in ancient elvhen would be if she drank from the well. But then Moriggan is also allowed all types of unlocked knowledge from her deus-ex-inner-mythal shes suddenly alright with having been provided from her mother despite her horror in DAI.

It takes away a huge part of what I think Solas really liked about a romanced Inky, as she was always so curious and open to learning new things about the past- Even when they would clash on certain subjects. It takes away this really lovely concept that even if they are going into the torment nexus together that he could at least be teaching her the language in there on top of it all. He would love her broken annunciations and he awkward cadence, and respond in kind ;w;

I'm super biased about the torment nexus ending because I love the mythological tragedy of it but there should have been so many more choices ugghh. While I would still choose this ending regardless I think the idea that the inquisitor should have been able to have at least an on screen spat between her and Solas, There is absolutely good reason for it all considering.

She should have had moments where she slips in and out of what she had learned from the ancient dialect, Where she goes from in canter to out because of how passionate she might be in that moment. Going from trade to elvhen and back. It would be glaringly obvious that she practiced what she did want to say to him in the final battle and he would be able to tell. It would mean so much more to him than her just magically understanding it all at once.

we could have one of his stupid chuckles with tears welling in his eyes and everything like damn you bioware *shaking fist at cloud*

At least give me some kind of 'a romanced inquisitor convened with spirits to learn' kind of explanation if you're going to magic it into her knowledge I mean please!

Anyway sorry for the ramble, I wouldn't have the confidence to share this if it wasn't for your posts so thanks for all of your lore-dives and analysis posts I do genuinely enjoy all of them.

♥🤝

yeah!! i very much agree. i'm very mildly bilingual (not good at it ahaha) and like... that language is not endangered in the least, half my family still speaks it, and it's still just hard to re-learn on a basic level! and to me there's always that degree of self consciousness and feeling a bit bad about not knowing, when it's a language i feel like i "should" know, as opposed to a fully second language that i'm just learning from scratch. and personally i get stressed and actively worse at it when people expect me to be fluent and get disappointed when i'm not. the social pressure alone removes some linguistic ability, haha.

so i found it sad that lavellan - regardless of the well - gets pushed into suddenly being 100% fluent. she can still be dalish and not good at it! or just not the type of person who'd think to speak in it in front of random people (everyone else standing there fdhjdgd). i thought of my inquisitor as a city elf who was adopted into the clan as a child, and tried REALLY hard to learn elvhen afterwards bc she wanted to fit in. but it's not "natural" to her to slip into it for longer or more complex ideas. and arguably if a lavellan got "woe, fluency be upon ye" from the well, they might actually be LESS likely to use it in speaking, bc it is also a bit of a mind control symptom at that point...

and imo it's actually really sweet that solas falls in love with someone who - at least in dai - is really different from him! on top of being a cringe fail mortal from the world he initially hated, and from a culture that doesn't like him, lavellan does not have to be very in tune with the language or culture as he knows it. he goes for their ~rare and marvelous spirit~ rather than anything else, and is happy to share with them, but it's never like a mandatory thing.

I mean, I know its a fantasy universe and I'm really projecting on it here but like hear me out- I have a dictionary and a book of stories translated by scholars I will never meet, and a series of audio-files that I myself had to copy convert to a format I could have on my phone and listen to. I'm untrained and uneducated on how to go about it sure but even with my available tools it feels like an uphill battle with every new word I pick out to practice. I sing songs from that book fully knowing Im butchering it the whole time, and try my best to feel connected to something i know I cannot fully understand. And that's beautiful! That;s fantastic! There's something to truly love there! And veilguard doesn't even let us try to explore that idea!

and this is exactly it!! i think that experience of slowly picking up things and figuring out how much you can learn is really important, and they just skipped over that entirely to "lavellan is now suddenly fluent in elvhen. yay!" which kind of elides how much work that is, how or why they would've done that, whether they would've wanted to...

like that's a whole character arc that seemingly just gets skipped offscreen and made mandatory! and it's not bc the writers are saying anything really deep and meaningful about cultural reconnection, but bc i think they were likely not ever in the position of having to think about those types of decisions themselves, and uncharitably, were like "ok. solas is super elfy, right. so to make it more romantic, make lavellan super elfy as well! yay! Problem Solved :)" when that was never a problem. ;-;

[kaijuyuri]

a compilation of the touhou horsies ive made on ponytown

[patchworkfox01]

Actually Major Deltarune Chapter 3 Spoilers Ahead

The Roaring Knight may or not be actually just the coolest shit ever. Hype moments and aura the character

[bluebellhairpin]

My darling, and lovely, Nemo! How wonderful of a little event you have going on - truly it is a work of love!

Perhaps I may be able to participate in such a sweet little event? If you are feeling generous enough to spread that love to me, I would adore nothing more than a love letter for my darling Sero (from MHA).

He is my one true love, the first I ever got in more recent memory, and would appreciate very much a token of said admiration

Much love to you as well, you are truly a delight above all else 💛

darling and lovely patchy! I think you'll find you're truly a delight, at the very least in my eyes <3

My Patchy, 

How’d you like it? I remember you saying these flowers were your favorite, the chocolate too - don’t worry about it being too much (at the very least I can help you eat the chocolates!). 

I don’t usually like going over the top for many things, but this once I’ll make an exception - you’re the love of my life after all! Really it’s the very least I could do. 

But no matter how much I love you and dote on you, you need reminders that I love you - what better chance to do it than Valentine's day! You are so amazing, and I couldn’t ask for anyone better to be in my life that you. Even your imperfections are perfect to me. 

I love you so, so much. 

I’ll let you know it every day, just like you tell me, and I’ll do anything I have to to make sure you believe me! My little pookie boo bear (Ha! That felt so weird to write, but you laughed right? I bet you did, somehow you always find my jokes funny.) 

And I’ve booked us in for dinner at that place you really liked last year (are we making a new tradition?), so dress up nice - I pulled out my waistcoat so it can get its once-a-year breather. 

Love from, Hanta

[mal1ntent]

I have a question for lifesteal viewers more knowledgeable than me, what exactly did Vitalasy mean when he said “I know that it’s different” in reference to Zam talking to Subz vs Vi himself? I was planning on letting this question possibly get answered naturally, but with the public server returning and Subz being fully dedicated to it I figured I might as well ask

[thepatchycat]

Commander Cozy (feat. Lieutenant Sunshine)

[colorfulnightszine]

We here at Colorful Nights are absolutely over-the-moon to bring you some guest announcements! Beginning with Patchie, who will be the cover artist for this project!

[nuclearregulatorycommission]

seeing a post about beckys fanon interpretation reminds me my rand interpretation too, is fanon. like wdym hes a twink with a baby face in his canon design. hes greasy and looks old and hes fat. surely you see the vision