Author: kirkwallhellmouth

octopuscupcake:

awayfromjays:

Difficulty Level: Easy>Medium>Hard>Expert>Asian

OMGGGGG

They’re beyond awesome *clapping nonstop* (*0*)

MY EYES WAS ON THAT ONE GIRL THE WHOLE TIME.

HOLY-

Tell me these guys have a tv show where they fight crime with the power of dance and martial arts. Please.

Awesome

THIS IS AMAZING. DDD: 

MIND = BLOWN

Wow.

Random info on my Warden(s)

This started out as a reblog for this daconfessions post, but it turned into being more about my Warden than about Alistair, so I decided to give it it’s own post.

Alistair expresses doubts about all of the other companions, with varying degrees of implied negativity. Probably partly because none of them are Wardens: they are random rag-tag people that the Warden dragged along for the ride of trying to save Ferelden.

Now, I’ve only finished the game with two Wardens: an fCousland who did her best to be Lawful Good and managed to be friends with everyone (albeit sometimes with the use of sweets as bribery) and romanced Leliana, and an fTabris who was blunt and generally not a happy camper who just really wanted the whole Blight business over with who romanced Zevran mainly because he was a fellow elf. 

I do not remember how fCousland reacted to this conversation, as that play through ended about a year ago. When it popped up with my fTabris, she saw it as an attack on the members of her party she’d ever really done anything resembling bonding with.

Here follows Aeren Tabris’s general thoughts on the companions (though Alistair gets multiple sections, as he triggered the write up):

Aeren Tabris really would have preferred not to have to hang out with Alistair, though she did grow to find him tolerable. It was a case of Alistair not realizing he had human male privilege that might not sit well with a female elf (Aeren didn’t like humans much to start with; Shianni’s rape put her firmly in the feelings-of-hostility area when it came to human males in general).

The Mabari (I named him Sam on this run, after Sam Gamgee) made Aeren feel safe. The dog was bonded to her and she spent most nights sleeping beside him.

Morrigan was human, but she was like the shem Aeren was used to. It was refreshing. And Morrigan didn’t like Alistair either, which gave them something additional to bond over. They became best friends, and Aeren was sad to see her go at the end.

Leliana was…strange, and a bit preachy, as Aeren saw it. She was initially bristly toward Leliana, but gradually warmed up to her after delivering a few doses of education about the lives of elves. Aeren liked her stories, especially the one about Shartan, and she liked her hair. Leliana’s hair reminded her of Shianni (Aeren had something of a crush on her cousin, though she never said anything about i). Aeren and hardened!Leliana ended up sharing a kiss.

Zevran was an elf. That was Aeren’s initial interest in him. He started out as a way to feel the hole she felt from being torn from home, a way to make the nights more bearable, someone to hold her when the nightmares came. She cared about him, and could tell that he cared more than he let on. She was never exactly in love with him, though, and felt bad about that, even though she did ask him to stay with her for a while after she became Bann of the Alienage.

Wynn was a nosy old woman, but she meant well, and she had her own regrets to live with.

Shale was an oddity, but she and Aeren respected each other and had fun being snarky together.

Sten was a comrade and respected Aeren as a warrior. His initial confusion over her status was with her sex, not her species, which she found sort of refreshing. They were both outsiders in Ferelden, and Aeren felt comfortable around him.

Oghren, well. Oghren was a drunk who lost the woman he loved, but was willing to try moving on with his life. In a bizarre way, it was a little inspiring. Aeren liked him, even if he was kind of a boor.

And back around to Alistair (there was a moment, just a moment, where Aeren considered sparing Loghain before his excuses on why selling elves into slavery wasn’t an issue to him echoed through her mind). Alistair, to Aeren, made too many assumptions. She treated him decently and gave him trinkets, and he read more into than she meant. Aeren never considered him a friend, even though he considered her one. So when the conversation about all the other companions came up, Aeren bristled. And if slapping him had been an in-game option, it would have been taken.

tuchanka:

goddessofcheese:

I’m pretty sure it’s flat up canon at this point. XD

HAHAHA YES.

All of my Shepard’s have the driving philosophy that says, “If I have a vehicle that can handle terrain that prevents most vehicles from going from Point A to Point B in a straight line, by golly I am going to drive that thing in a straight line, 85 degree hillsides be damned.” This can get very interesting.

Also I jammed the Mako into the ramp to the ExoGeni scientist on Feros. Had to WALK to the ExoGeni Headquarters and BACK. There was a lot of dieing, and i never did that again.

Confession time!

flutiebear:

So, it seems like a lot of the confessions that get reblogged are the negative, gross, fandom-ur-doin-it-wrong ones. Which is fine, I guess. But I kinda just wanted to toss out some positivity there, too. So here’s some happy ones:

My List of Happy, Positive, Hopefully-Not-Shamey-At-All Dragon Age Confessions:

  • You know the Circle-Fade-Circle sequence in Origins? The one everyone hates so much? That’s my favorite part of the entire game. FUCK YEAH SLOTH DEMONS. FUCK YEAH SHAPESHIFTING. FUCK YEAH FADE.
  • Dragon Age made me re-examine my sexuality. For real. It sounds so obvious to me when I hear it now, but I remember first listening to Anders’s line about “I’ve always believed people fall in love with a whole person, not just a body” and feeling it was a fucking revelation. The discussions I see on my dash every day have only reinforced this. I am a more open-minded person than I once was specifically because of Dragon Age 2.

  • Along similar lines, I feel like Dragon Age — specifically Feynriel & Isabela’s storylines — has really helped me come to terms with how I felt about my mother’s outing, her leaving when I was a kid, and how I feel about her as a person now. (More on that here and here.)
  • I joke about 30 Seconds To Mars’s This is War album being a Dragon Age concept album—except I’m kind of not really joking.
  • Also: Florence & The Machine. “Never Let Me Go”, I swear to god this is about Orsino. It even has his word-for-word line about not giving up, but giving in, and the idea of blood magic as an ocean you can drown in wait why are you backing away from me where are you going I have so much more—
  • I specifically looked up how to make sure Alistair wouldn’t dump me before the endgame, because after the way Anders treated me post-“Justice” in Act 3, I couldn’t bear to have another NPC break my heart. Oh, that should get its own confession—
  • Yes, Anders broke my heart. Like, I had random crying jags over the whole end of DA2 for days. I even bought some Ben & Jerry’s and wrote angsty poetry over it. For a week, I was 14 again. It was pathetic.
  • I never once considered making Alistair king. Actually, while I was playing Origins, I thought that was the writers intended me to take away from the whole storyline: That our choices, not our blood, make us who we are.
  • I love, love, love Nicholas Boulton’s voice, but Jennifer Hale’s (Jo Wyatt, of course. STUPID FINGERS ARE STUPID) voice work on Aggro!Female Hawke is the greatest voicework of all time. OF ALL TIME. When I’m feeling a little blue, I’ve tried visualizing what makes me sad and saying “shut up” to it, just as she says here:

    It never fails to make me giggle.

  • I stopped writing about games professionally in part because I found myself writing and talking about Dragon Age 2 all the time, and I didn’t want to turn what I loved into work.
  • Once I tried to explain to someone why I loved Dragon Age 2 so much. “So, okay, there’s this hooker, right?” I said. “And he’s really busted up about his missing girlfriend. So then, if you like, you can sleep with him. And afterward, you can steal the toe of a dwarven god he secretly keeps in his nightstand.” Yeah, sounds like cheap laughs, right? But the thing is: I meant it completely seriously.

    Write Jethann’s story in your head — why he offers to sleep with you (his body’s the only thing he has of value), why he vanishes so quickly afterward (because Hawke basically exploits Jethann’s grief for his own momentary gain), why he keeps a Paragon’s Toe in his nightstand (a city elf with no history of his own keeping safe the relics of another race’s past) — and tell me that doesn’t break your heart, even just a little. 

    So, basically, that’s reason #457 why I love DA2: You can play this same game with every NPC ever. What you see on the surface can go as deep as you let it, and I can’t tell you how much I love all the wonderful stories people come up with for even the minorest of the minor NPCs.

  • I can’t play any of Saemus Dumar’s quests anymore without immediately thinking of “Wayward Son”. And Kansas.
  • These days, when I’m staring off into space, I’m usually either thinking about sex, Dragon Age 2, or both at once. Don’t tell my husband.
  • I don’t think I’ll ever love another game quite as much as I love Dragon Age 2.

Wow. That got… kind of long. Anyway, feel add your own in the replies/reblogs!

I am so glad I discovered this corner of the DA fandom on Tumblr. I, too, am more open-minded because of DA2 discussions. I can now celebrate other people’s acceptance and confidence in their own bodies even as I still work at accepting my own.

And seeing positive discussion of Sebastian’s chastity as a valid life choice has also made me feel better about my own current life choice of not dating and not having sex when so much of the media says that that makes me either a prude or abnormal.

cesontdesmots:

caboodledoodle:

stophatingyourbody:

KILLING US SOFTLY 4 (in FULL)

CLICK HERE for Part 2

“I think this series is incredibly important. A big part of stopping body hate is to be aware of the manipulations that effect your self-esteem, it is so important to ask yourself questions about why you think the way you think. You may want to believe that the media has no effect on how you feel about yourself, maybe you’re right, but maybe you’re wrong. It’s important to study our surroundings, study ourselves, and learn how to shield ourselves from these negative influences” –Annie

This is a MUST WATCH for anybody. – Media Literacy is such an important topic, especially in our time, when the media seeems to be come more aggressive and intrusive with every year. – They als grow bolder, to be seen, to gain attention. They create images that contradict themselves and thus create impossible ideals, which are harmful, not only for women but also for men.

We all should be aware and should speak up against it.

This is worth watching and sharing. Please follow the Part 2 link above to watch this in its entirety.

Definitely worth watching the full thing. I especially loved the section in part 2 where Kilbourne discussing how traits that should be viewed as “human,” traits that can be possessed by both males and females, are artificially separated and constructed as “feminine” or “masculine” with those things constructed as “feminine” being defined as somehow innately weaker or lesser when they are not weaker or lesser.

(Source: http://cesontdesmots.tumblr.com/)