#~tbd

[skulandcrossbones]

"stop commenting on actress's bodies" nah actually I think I will continue to comment on the fact that since the rise of ozempic every second actress looks like she's about to blow away in a strong wind because I lived through heroin chic and normalised eating disorders and insane body expectations the FIRST fucking time and saw the damage it did so I'm personally not going to stay silent and let choice feminism make extreme weight loss "acceptable" just because tiktok has convinced some of yall that any choice a woman makes is Valid just because she's a fucking woman like are you all fucking serious right now

[soracities]

happy "everyone forgets that icarus also flew" monday. i want to throw up !

[mysterycitrus]

bring back the creatures

[kimquatz]

process of drawing an OC: - you design them - you get attached to them - their hair gets bigger without you realizing it

[maadrut]

hello svsss fandom

[retquits]

original set vs new...?

what do we think chat. should i do some winter versions

[orpheuslament]

"im so tired of dog/cannibalism/religious metaphors" then write something different & share it with the world. do it. if youre so special & so talented. at least the ppl writing cliché stuff are writing

[emahriel]

my mortalitasi oc – refs so far!

(name tbd)

[v-arbellanaris]

my fav part of origins is the fact that it's a love letter to "the end does not justify the means". the entire game, in almost every quest, this is the constant question that's thrown at us. everyone in the story tells us that they did what they did because it would achieve the best outcome. from uldred's uprising in the circle tower, to zathrian's cursing of the werewolves, to bhelen's coup. loghain himself uses this as justification for the retreat at ostagar - that it was the morally correct decision to abandon the field, because it guaranteed some of the army would survive and could regroup for a new assault on the darkspawn in ostagar. and it's so specific that loghain, as the primary antagonist, loghain is the one arguing that the ends justifies the means because he is either your parallel, or your mirror.

to be more specific, my favourite thing about origins is that you, as the player character, are faced with the exact same choice. you will always resolve the circle tower uprising. you will always resolve the issue between the dalish and the werewolves. you will always settle the secession crisis in orzammar. you will always fight the archdemon and win over it. but how? what are your means? will you murder a child to spare redcliffe? will you slaughter cornered circle mages trapped in a tower with no escape? will you kill innocent werewolves who had nothing to do with a tragedy that happened hundreds of years ago? will you support a king that has his own family's blood on his hands because he wants change or a king that's more committed to culture & tradition over justice?

does it matter? to you? to anyone? why does it matter, if you're going to get to the same place in the story at the end?

and the story tells you. again and again. it matters. it matters because the ends do not justify the means. to roughly quote ursula k le guin, it matters because there is no end - you start the awakening dlc as your own warden if you survived, or as an orlesian warden if not. so, all you have left is the means.

it's very clumsy in a lot of places, and there's obvious issues if you look at each case in closer detail (e.g. the ideas around social justice re: dalish elves & mages), but overall, this is the kind of story that makes origins so special to me tbh. it really holds up a mirror to this kind of cold, utilitarian morality that's so often rewarded in "dark" fantasy genres. like idk it's very good to me.

[nepeteaa]

🎶 It's the most wonderful time of the year 🎶

[enden-k]

serving dinner

[soracities]

losing my mind what do you MEAN mr. brightside is 20 years old

[mysterycitrus]

the idea of preptime ruined comicbook discourse. bruce ‘terminal back pain’ wayne is not winning a 1v1 against the league no matter how much homework he does. his contingency plan for diana was to try brainwashing and pray. ‘oh he has kryptonite—‘ that he keeps locked in the batcave. clark kent can fly faster than the speed of sound and will fold him into an artisanal flesh pretzel. green lanterns ring can only be removed by hand decapitation. zatanna is going to turn him into a hamster. i am going to kill u

[nexahexagon]

The Realm doodles of Sneeg and Ros!!

[ophernelia]

skipped ahead to summer already- my bad.