#shining beauty

[gayestclarinet]

Non-name ship names for bllk

Isabachi missing monsters

Rinsagi green eyed egoists

Isabarou egoist dads

Ryusae demon's home

Kunigiri (post wild card) anti-princess

Kunigiri (pre wild card) shining beauty

Reonagi schoolyard treasures

Isagiri princess egoist

Kaisagi caged taunters

Kainess rose dog

Let me know you think and please add your own

[k3llysstuff]

[aliengirlx]

[fiercebitch]

[parisiannightss]

The loveliest Shelley Duvall photographed in 1970 – this is right at the beginning of her career.

Photo credit to @shelleyduvallxo on Instagram.

[allura-raine]

[speakofcompersion]

231216 Metamorph Black Rose Fancam

[98chao]

my pitch for a season 2 of last cookie standing

[pocketwei]

Strange as angels dancing in the deepest oceans

[babooshkart]

“hey there, sugarlips”

read Not Quite Shining by @senseoftheday on Ao3 (this is the modern renfaire griddlehark fic of my dreams and i have thought about it every day since i read it a year ago)

[windywhistler]

I still have not quite mastered using my art tablet, but I have been itching to draw this trend for SO long, so here’s the beautiful bride and her ugly ass groom!

[star--nymph]

Vivienne's fear being 'becoming irrelevant' isn't something that's linked explicitly to her pride, no matter what Solas says about her (and the irony of Mr.Pride himself saying that should not be lost on you), it reveals what and who Vivienne truly is.

She's a survivalist.

Because we don't spend as much time in the Free Marches or Orlesian circles, we don't get to experience what being a mage is in these cultures. In Ferelden and Kirkwall, a mage is a lesser being without freedom no matter what they do--but in the Free Marches and Orlais specifically, mages are commodities that are given freedom so long as they play an entertaining enough role. They can explore the world if they have a noble patron, if they catch the right person's eye. They are, in a way, two sides of the same coin--refusing mages agency and forcing them to relay on higher powers. Vivienne lucked out, as sad as it is, when Bastion fell in love with her; she found someone who was contrarian enough to recognize her as a full person and also someone with power that could help her rise through the ranks. This is not to say that Vivienne on her own wasn't an exceedingly talented and intelligent individual--by nineteen she was already the youngest full fledged mage in Circle history and she was skilled enough to make herself an enchanter. But, I can not emphasize this enough, none of that matters if she didn't also play the Game and impress enough people.

Vivienne could have been the most brilliant mage in the history of Thedas and it means nothing if she was overlooked by nobility.

So when Bastion made her his mistress, she gained not just a lover but also a means to an end. Now she can use her magic to protect herself. Now she can roam where she wants and not be question for it because she's Madame Vivienne. Now, she can walk into the Orlasian court and belong there.

And what happens? Celene notices her and makes her the Court Enchanter, a position that has always been the equivalent of a jester. Vivienne took that title, ignored that it was essentially a glorified insult to who she is, and made it a position of power. She made the Court Enchanter into an advisor, a political rank. She had done the impossible and made mages an actual political entity in the Orlasian Court, something that wasn't seen outside of Tervinter (not counting what players can do under very specific conditions if they made mages in DAO and DA2).

All that, however, only continues as long as the court recognizes her as something worth their attention. Vivienne needs to maintain her act as Madame De Fer, The Lady of Iron, the Court Enchanter, The Jewel of the High Court, because the second she just becomes Vivienne, it's over for her. The assassins coming raining in, her name gets devoured by rumors and gossip, and she'll be found dead at bottom of the stair case with a dagger in her back if she's lucky.

So of course when the Circles fall apart during the Rebellion, she clings to that Loyalist Mages to maintain that structure--of course she moves her pieces to the Inquisition, knowing that if the Circle DOES fall, she at least as another place for herself and mages latch onto--of course when she hears that Celene replaced her with a new Court Enchanter that appeared out of no where, she grows to resent Morrigan.

Like, Morrigan literally pops up out of thin air, makes herself invaluable to Celene, and then plants herself in the place Vivienne had to claw her way up to and create so she could survive. Would you not be resentful when your life's work is usurped by some random witch of the wilds because she happened to charm the Empress? Everything Vivienne strived for all whisked away because the court find a gem who glimmers ever so slightly more than Vivienne.

So yes, Vivienne fears becoming irrelevant because the world has made it so that irrelevance for an Orlesian mage means death.

[quinns-art-box]

SAIMATSU WEEK 2024 DAY 2: MUSIC/PUZZLE

i have had a vision of paradise / and you're playing the piano there

i just wanted to draw them lookin fancy and dapper hehe and something something "when we get out of here i'll play it for you, on a real piano"

[parisiannightss]

The Texas Twiggy, Shelley Duvall, pictured in 1970 💋

Credit to @shelleyduvallxo on IG (aka me)

[herewegobebe]

Minho always thinking of Jonghyun even at Waterbomb 🥺💞💞 [x]

[speakofcompersion]

240831 Ephemeral Gaze - 'Heaven' intro [x]