Reblog If You're Black Tumblr.

Man I could just play around in Warden headcanons all day. Like not needing to eat nearly as much but feeling hungry all the time regardless. Not needing to sleep as often, able to go days without food or sleep since they are pretty much ghouls without the peeling skin and dark blotches. Taking hits that could and should drop somebody but are able to just keep going and going and going.

Anders can sense other Wardens or darkspawn in the Deep Roads and has a hard time telling which is which. So Wardens can sense each other, and yeah it feels like darkspawn. They can tell the rough distance from other Wardens, and after a while if they work as a unit long enough, I like to think they can tell each person apart.

And the hivemind thing? Like Wardens probably fight freakishly effective as a unit. Like freakishly effective. The more a unit can fight as a whole, the stronger they are, so not only is a Warden a formidable force of nature by themself, a bunch of Wardens fighting is probably a near terrifying sight to behold.

Just Wardens being semi-monstrous is a thing I find fascinating and fun to roll around in.

"Davrin sacrificing himself is so tragic because Assan—" Davrin sacrificing himself is tragic because it goes counter to his character development. Davrin spends the whole game learning that he doesn't need to be a weapon, that he has another path before him (like the griffons, whose 'outcome' directly parallels the struggle Davrin faces regarding his own identity). He goes from insisting that he's just Assan's bodyguard to embracing his caretaker role to the griffon. He struggles immensely with surviving Weisshaupt and, specifically, killing Ghilan'nain's archdemon, because he has spent so long believing that he - like all Wardens - is just a weapon to be used until it breaks. His character arc is about learning that he can be more, that he can be something else. That his future doesn't have to include fighting monsters until one eventually takes him down.

And if he dies fighting Ghilan'nain, he never gets to see that future.

Don't mind me while I drown in my tears...

the russos said that That scene between peter and tony was an improv by tom and then you remember that the hug scene in hoco was ALSO improvised by tom and then you realize that your emotional well-being and over-all mental health is compromised because tom holland couldn’t stop sneaking hugs with robert downey jr. 

This may seem silly but this is what I needed to hear in 2016, so I’m going to say it now. It’s okay to feel hopeless or angry or scared or betrayed or even just mildly nauseous. However you feel is the right reaction for you. You’re just not allowed to kill yourself. You are too good, too valuable, too important for this to be the thing that takes you. Yes the world is a mess, but taking one good person out of it isn’t going to make it any better.

So take care of yourself. Wrap yourself in that blanket. Get that hug. Eat that mug cake. Find your life preserver whatever it may be and keep going. You are stronger than you realize.

Deciding to do something when you’re feeling defeated is hard. If all you can take care of is you today, focus on doing that. Tomorrow or a week from now you can look at what your community needs to do to weather the storm in the long term. Yes communities are hurting now, but having to grieve one more person isn’t going to make anyone’s life any better. Please keep going. Please don’t let this election take you too.

The nature of the Veil

I never post meta because I prefer to write it out, but Wikipedia has some really great animations of the harmonic series.  I saw it and thought… what if this is how the Veil works?  What if the Veil is the dissonance that disrupts the consonant, harmonic nature between the real world and the Fade?

Fundamental

First overtone

Second overtone

Third overtone

There are waveform animations over at Wiki, but this presents a few ideas to me regarding partial breaches of the Veil/thinning of the Veil.  I’m not going to go much farther than this conceptualization because I don’t think truly this is how magic works in Thedas, but when the Inquisitor says, “The Veil is more like a vibration,” this is what I think about.

my one braincell rotating da4 in my mind like:

fuck all philosophy except for whatever the hell Diogenes was trying to teach

“I want a gamer gf so we can fuck while playing games ;)”

unfortunately the landsmeet requires all of my concentration. it is down to me to ensure the throne of ferelden passes into safe hands

okay, yes, I know that comma isn't supposed to be there but I want the reader to take a breath! I want a pause! Stop trying to correct me, I'm trying to control the flow of reading