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I think The Locked Tomb fandom would enjoy the Taltos series by Steven Brust, even though there's no lesbians. Why?

Houses, lots of Houses, you like the nine houses of The Locked Tomb, we got Seventeen Great Houses! More house per house for your series.

Sarcastic bastard quotient fulfilled. You get the same kind of sarcastic banter, but replace the memes with communism.

Fencing, it's a whole thing.

Giant broadswords, they're a whole thing.

You like god being a character? We got lots of gods, we got people so powerful they turned down being god because of the limitations. More gods is more better and yes they are getting bitched out by mortals.

Fantasy. In. Spaaace! The whole setting is about humans kidnapped by extradimensional quantum aliens, genetically messed with, and dumped onto an alien world to see what happens.

POV-a-go-go, once you hit book six, get ready for a radical change in the perspective of the storytelling for each new novel. And that's not even getting into the other series in the same setting.

Let's be real, you need something to do while you're waiting for Alecto. There are seventeen of these novels which are all short and readable. Two of them were published since Nona the Ninth came out and there's a chance the Taltos Series finishes before the Locked Tomb. Why not kill some time with a wisecracking murder hobo, his terrible decision making skills, and the thorny question of what happens when marxism runs up against a literally magically controlled cycle of power.

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Dragon Age Inquisition: "Canon" Choices Survey Results!

Tell us about your personal "canon" Inquisitor who will make an appearance in The Veilguard? What were their choices? Answers to this short survey were collected via a tumblr post between June 11th and June 22nd 2024. I have since found out which of the choices mentioned will and will not affect DA:TV but I will include all questions anyway. Text version and tags under the cut!

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1. Who is your "canon" Inquisitor and are/were they in a relationship with another DAI character? Female Adaar/Blackwall - 1% Female Lavellan/Blackwall - 1% Male Lavellan/Josephine- 1% Male Lavellan/The Iron Bull- 1% Male Trevelyan/Cassandra - 1%

Female Lavellan/Josephine - 2% Female Trevelyan/Josephine- 2% Male Lavellan - no romance - 2%

Female Adaar/The Iron Bull - 3% Male Adaar/Dorian - 3%

Female Trevelyan/Blackwall - 4%

Female Adaar/Josephine - 6% Male Trevelyan/Dorian - 6%

Female Lavellan/Cullen - 7%

Male Lavellan/Dorian - 12%

Female Trevelyan/Cullen - 13%

Female Lavellan/Solas - 33% Added headcanon comment from @spiders-scribbles: Male Adaar/The Iron Bull "Kas is played with the female model cause I hate how bulky the male Qunari body is and also trans reasons" <3 And another one from @doves-wing: Female Cadash/Josephine "i think they have an open relationship and so my quizzy has dated iron bull though that relationship ends before trespasser. she is still with josie though." <3 2. What combat class and specialisation apply to your "canon" Inquisitor?

Warrior/Two-Handed/Templar - 0% Warrior/Weapon and Shield/Templar - 0%

Rogue/Daggers/Artificer - 1% Warrior/Two-Handed/Champion - 1% Warrior/Weapon and Shield/Reaver - 1%

Warrior/Two-Handed/Reaver - 3% Rogue/Archer/Tempest - 3% Warrior/Weapon and Shield/Champion - 3%

Mage/Necromancer - 4%

Rogue/Archer/Artificer - 5% Rogue/Archer/Assassin - 5% Rogue/Daggers/Tempest - 5%

Rogue/Daggers/Assassin - 8%

Mage/Rift Mage - 30%

Mage/Knight-Enchanter - 32% 3. Did the Inquisition form an alliance with the Mages or with the Templars?

Mages - 86%

Templars - 14% 4. Who was left behind in the Fade?

Alistair - 5%

Loghain - 9%

Hawke - 29%

Stroud - 57% 5. Did the Inquisition give the Wardens a second chance?

Yes - 89%

No - 11% 6. Who rules Orlais?

Gaspard - 1%

Celene - 10%

Gaspard as Briala's puppet - 14%

Truce between all parties - 32%

Celene and Briala - 43% 7. Who drank from the Well of Sorrows?

Morrigan - 48%

The Inquisitor - 52% 8. Who becomes Divine Victoria at the end of DA:I?

Vivienne - 7%

Cassandra - 18%

Leliana - 75% 9. What happened to the Inquisition at the end of Trespasser?

The Inquisition continues in the service of Divine Victoria - 17%

The Inquisition was disbanded - 83%

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Doom Prompt 20" Stargazing

A reverse Prompt from my Doom Discord, I yeeted, but also did. Based on the Garnets Story, have some more doomdad.

20: “Your Slayer getting a chance to star gaze will their smol”

“Promise not to let me go?” 

John looked down at who he held and then smiled, and nodded firmly, rumbling in what he hoped was a reassuring tone. He would never let his flower go if she did not feel safe. Then made a questioning tone as he stopped at an opening door. “Hm?”

Lily looked up at him, then down to the ground and the path the open doorway led to the bridge between the main Fortress and the offshoot. The ‘king’s retreat’ they found the Argenta survivors. The young woman shifted in the arms holding her, “I'll be okay, as long as you promise to not let me drift off into space, yay?”

John chuckled, ducking to press his head against the girl before walking. Still a girl to his age, maybe not a child but still young. There was a pause before he huffed against Lily with a play growl, getting a yelp.

“Rude!” Lily laughed, trying to shove at the big head, then as a hand was caught in a gentle, mock bite, “Ruude! No eating me!”

“Garrr–rrumph?”

“No eating people!” Lily squirmed as they were now in the wide open space. Feeling as much as hearing the thunder deep rumble of John laughing at her. Shifting what he held as John stopped in the middle of the bridge, looking around as he let Lily pull her wrist out of his mouth. 

This was a good spot. 

The Demigod glanced to the side, just about to see the curve of the earth, took a step to drop the large, colorful cushion he was holding. The stooped to plop Lily on it, and offered a hand as John kept his left on her back. Lily blinked, trying not to look up just yet as she gripped his hand with both of her own. The Demigod settled on the ground beside her, keeping a firm but not painful hold on his human as promised. 

“...spaaace,” Lily whispered as she dared to look up at last while the Fortress was slowly rotating into the shadow of the broken moon. She felt light headed and dizzy but thought she could see her own small puffs of air. Lily gripped tighter to John’s hand as she remembered the last time she was on this bridge, the mummified demon chasing her. 

The not quiet man beside her took a deep breath, letting it out in a long sigh that looked like a stream of smoke almost. John’s body always ran hot, but he was focusing on making his body temperature even warmer to help fight off the chill. Lily, bundled in her old platform jacket and warm pants, tilted her head watching him now. Watching the next slow breath and was able to calm herself down.

“You look like a dragon,” Lily blurted, and smiled again before flopping gracelessly down against John’s left side. She sighed herself, just a little puff of warm air compared to the demigod. 

John gave a play growl back shifting to keep his left arm wrapped around Lily as she let go of his right hand. Holding onto the side of his dark green shirt instead, the argenta cloths were a bit too big. Comfortable though as they were not restricting like a lot of human made things were to him. “Mm?”

Lily stopped trying to peek over his chest at the horizon of the earth. Her eyes tracking across the vast… openness of the dark sky now that they were in a part of the shadow from one of the larger chunks of the broken moon. The heavy arm shifted and Lily was comfortably squished against her guardian's side. Like a weighted blanket that held her secure.

Lily knew that they were safe in the Fortress still. Vega taught her how to check that the two layered shields were working.

It still felt like she could fall up if she was not careful. Maybe it was childish, but she did feel safer while being held by John. Slowly the tension eased and Lily was able to look away from the moon's broken parts and finally watch the stars themselves. With a giant living heater holding Lily it was not so bad now.

Much better than the last time.

John lifted his free right hand. Flower?

“Hm?” Lily hummed back, shifting to watch the moving hands. 

Feel better? John carefully touched her middle where she had been scrapped from the fall. 

“Yeah, I think so.” Lily pressed against the Demigod's side, smiling as John rolled over. Almost on her before pulling the smaller human against him in an attempt at cuddling. Lily giggled as she was inadvertently squished again. “OY! Big guy, I won't be if you roll anymore!” 

John gave a mock growl, but after a moment rolled mostly back onto the stonework head still on the cushion and held Lily's arm in one hand. Still not letting go as promised. Lily settled down again, not as scared it seemed as she rested her head between John's and his left shoulder. Adjusting to hold the larger hand now instead.

“Is that Mars?” Lily asked, pointing up at a glitter of red in the expanse of lights.

John looked and hummed with a nod. That was Mars, so far away now, and a little over a decade later, he wondered what happened to the colony after he stopped the first wave of hell there. The not quite man blinked, trying to look at Lily as he wondered if he would have been able to meet her fifteen years ago? How small would she have been then? 

The Demigod, not for the first time, wondered if he could have saved more people if Hayden had not tried to banish him to Hell. 

He sighed, humming a low note and rubbed his head against Lily's. Grounding himself back into the present.

“Dad used to serve on Mars, years ago, before he retired from service.” Lily noted, back to watching the stars. She pointed out a large dot, “see that? It's an old station that used to be the halfway point between us and Mars. I wonder if people are still there.”

Lily felt the slow shrug from John. “...I'm glad Dad came back.”

“MmHm,” John nodded again, from what he understood of the timing that was before he woke up. His free hand dropped to trace the Last Gift, grateful not just for the crucible but that the man had been around to protect Lily for as long as he could.

The demigod paused and lifted the hand holding Lily's, pointing to a star in Orion’s belt. See there?

The human tilted her head. “Yeah?”

Carefully, with one hand held firm, John slowly sighed. Been there. Argenta colony. Pretty purple rocks, crystal. Digging home? Digging colony. 

“Digging colony… mining colony?” Lily guessed, getting another nod. “Neat!”

John nodded, thinking of the families there, and their fortress-like, small city home. Sort of remembering that there was mention of them finding ruins as the Sentinel group he had been with at the time were leaving. 

“Have you been to other stars that's visible from here?” Lily asked softly, feeling John perk up and look around. One could almost hear him think before pointing out another spot. Using the held hands, pointing at another point above the railing. Happy to sign slowly and explain the colonies. Argent D'nur was out of sight for now. 

It was a few hours later that John realized Lily was dozing. He smiled and rubbed his head against her own again. If only that his human was dozing did he stay to rest, just shifted so Lily could be against his side again. Never breaking his promise to keep a hold of her, just in case.

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obi wan is just so incredibly gay. limpest wrist in the galaxy

It’s why he keeps dropping his lightsaber

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baby yoda is complicit in anakin's mass murder of the younglings for being in the literal same building and not even TRYING to stop him

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I was mildly interested in the Sam and Bucky show until I found out the villains are going to be an anarchist group called the Flag Smashers...

hello everyone this is my new antifa gang the Private Property Dislikers

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every time I see this picture it gets worse

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concept: Din is very much aware of who Han Solo is but he’s never taken a bounty on him because the price was always too low and Han is extremely annoying to catch

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Oh man yeah that scene in Rebels where Saw is like

"I hope, Senator, after you've lost, and the Empire reigns over the galaxy unopposed, you will find some comfort in the knowledge that you fought according to the rules."

is one of my favorite parts of the whole show but I do get the feeling we're supposed to disagree with him lol

literally saw fucking rules

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Who is the best star wars character and why is it din djarin

he’s the best because he is LITERALLY just some guy. like he’s wearing the most Wanna Start A Fight? suit of armour I’ve ever seen in my life but his anxious background NPC energy balances it out

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have u seen the video of the spongebob and patrick voice actors dubbing the revenge of the sith scene where obi wan leaves anakin in the lava

I HAVE NOT

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the kenobi show should show us obiwan sadly flirting in the desert

I want to see him get shot down by a girlboss. a win for feminism

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obi-wan being called ob’ika in fics involving mandos >

the only thing mandos call obiwan is this

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obiwan is not my poor little meow meow he's the dude who keeps eating my leftovers and then when I confront him about it he says that "everything in the universe has its place, it was simply meant to be eaten by me" instead of apologizing. fucker.

instead of addressing his actual textual crimes in canon I think we should just make stuff up about him like this because it’s way funnier

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Thoughts on the line “Jedi cannot help what they are. Their compassion leaves a trail. The Jedi code is like an itch. He cannot help it”?? Personally it’s giving good non-Filoni vibes 🤌🤌

sorry lol this is gonna be rambly because I feel like my brain is a cold car battery when it comes to star wars. I gotta warm it back up

but anyway yes that’s a GREAT line. Like on the one hand there’s an element of unreliability to that line because it’s being delivered by an Imperial, so of course they’re going to essentialise the characteristics of a Jedi. Framing Jedihood as this ingrained thing that they just “are” and cannot help but “be” takes on a distinctly sinister tone when it’s being said by an agent of a fascist empire. The particular bit “their compassion leaves a trail” is itself supposed to sound sinister imo. “Leaves a trail” is a hanging sentiment. They leave bodies behind, they leave their compassion like a disease wherever they go. Obviously that’s a bad faith and hypocritical criticism coming from an Imperial, but it’s also maybe not an entirely incorrect observation given how gruesome the war was. There was a fatal ideological contradiction present in the final days of the Order, which is that they were supposed to be nonviolent peacekeepers who were also generals leading the war effort, and I think “their compassion leaves a trail (of bodies) behind” is a very succinct summary of that contradiction.

But on the OTHER hand it’s also a good summary of Obi-Wan! He’s always slouching towards something greater. He cannot help but be present in the middle of things and to make himself known wherever he goes. He is a true believer in the Jedi as an institution, and even after O66 and the fall of the Republic, which proved to him that the Jedi’s involvement in the war and their broader involvement with the Republic as a political tool was a massive mistake, he still wants there to be an Order of some kind. He’s an institutions guy, he likes norms and structure and he likes the formal guidance that the Order provided Jedi. That’s a more political/utilitarian perspective on his worldview but I think he is genuinely a big believer in those things. Which then feeds the moral/religious aspects of his worldview, which is that those big institutions are necessary because they are mechanisms for good in the world. Like I think Obi-Wan wants to do good (obviously) and relieve suffering and prevent injustice, but the way he wants those things to happen is, again, via institutional structures like the Order.

So like he’s doomed by his own beliefs to leave a trail. He cannot help but be what he is because it’s the only way he can justify who he is. Obi-Wan has always played the role of executor, arranging the affairs of the dead, whether those dead be the people he loves or the order he serves. He literally leaves bodies behind him because his role is to live on after they’re gone and continue, always, to turn towards something better.

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what are your thoughts on kylo ren? do you like him?

I think he is an honest expression of a modern fascist, which is to say: a whiny entitled white dude who LARPs in armour he bought off the internet, throws tantrums the moment something doesn’t go his way, and worships a fictional version of history that serves his own self-aggrandisement