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What Was, What Could Yet Be (2024)

Pls just let lavellan have the wolf necklace bioware and my life is yours

I completely accept the fact Solas is powerless to deny Lavellan when she touches him.

Thats why, in the breakup scene, he backs away and holds up his hands to ward her off when she reaches for him. He knows he can't resist her when she touches him.

Btw you can be intensely critical of the Democratic party and recognize that it is full of aged out of touch moderates who are refusing to meet the urgency of the moment,

and also recognize that voting for Democrats is extremely important because it allows things like the confirmation of Justices and prevents the literal fascist party from gaining more power and that harm reduction is an important end in itself

These things can coexist

Politics is a long game. Being disappointed and angry today does not obviate your responsibility to participate

Well, why the hell not :)

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Watching the new Heartstopper season and just oof. The scene in the first episode where Isaac comes out as aroace to Charlie. That was so real. The hesitancy. The nerves.

The way that Charlie didn't seem to know what to say. He stumbled over his words a lot going 'do you think....do you think you might be..." and let me tell you I was holding my breath because I though for sure he was going to say like 'ill' or 'hormonal imbalance' or something. Like that and the way he didn't know what aromanticism was. So fuckin real. Because even within the queer community its normal for people to not know what aromanticism or asexuality is.

And just that, the lack of joy in Isaac's coming out was also super real. Like, I feel like most of the time on the show, when a character comes out to somebody, the character is recognising it as a moment of joyful self expression and claiming one's identity. But Isaac didn't get that, because there is a lot of baggage that comes along with coming out as aroacespec even amongst queer folks. Felt really seen xx

DISCLAIMER: I have a Lavellan with white hair and this is just bc I'm curious about why people chose to go this route for one of their Lavellans (if any) since this gets talked about so much.

Thinking about this poem I wrote two days ago.

Arcane character studies

“No one wants to look at art of OCs” I don’t think that’s true at all…I follow people specifically to see their OCs literally all the time. Bring back being curious about people’s OCs, asking questions about them and hyping them up like we did when we were teens

I know this isn't going to happen but I need the reverse of the balcony scene in DAV (or just fanfic). Where it's Lavellan who turns away from Solas and he catches her arm with a soft "don't go".

i drew the DA:O LIs as little kids once a long time ago and i wanted to do it again because sometimes the very thought of it makes me wanna cry

my hof was born to be a griffon rider, if they could've given him a griffon at the start of dao the blight would've been over in a week

I'm thinking about the Dalish conversation with Zevran and how he tells of the circumstance of his birth in the most matter of fact way and calls it the oldest tale in the book. If the Warden says it was horrible, Zevran plays it off with a nonchalant "Is it?" and says it's normal, especially for the boys he grew up with. But! He approves of you acknowledging that his past has been horrible to him. He keeps diminishing his own problems and trauma, and it's interesting because there are so many little aspects of him that show themselves in that tiny bit of dialogue.

Zevran, as a crow, is trained in the art of seduction and it has been one of the reasons he's still alive to this day. He knows it's typically unsexy to lament on how terribly your past has been affecting you. If you tell Zevran you're sorry for him, he immediately turns the conversation into complimenting the Warden.

It can be read as a test of character if one so chooses. Obviously Zevran isn't going to show a weak point to a person he just met, but, he is telling about himself, on a deeper level, and it's up to the Warden on how they react. Also, It's a good way to scope intentions and such. Zevran is still sharing information on himself, but on his terms. He chooses to tell the Warden about his childhood when all they asked was a question about the Dalish. And he sets a neutral tone to it.

Zevran's childhood is not a pleasant subject and he distances himself from it. It's far easier for him to talk about it that way, and it doesn't force him to process what he experienced and how it was horrible.

But he does enjoy someone, an outsider, reaffirming that what he went through was horrible, and it wasn't okay just because others have gone through the same and worse. Was there a moment in his past, where he even mildly suggested his childhood might have been less than ideal, and gotten back the reaction that it's no different from his peers? Or that he is lucky to have been bought by the crows?

"My first victim, as it were." Is that what the crows said to him? How they reassured Zevran time and time again how he was meant to be an assassin, it has been so since his birth.

Tomorrow Corypheus wiil fall

There's not enough I can do in this lifetime to make up for that.

Melancholy

Oh look, it seems like there's a Republican-led movement to purge voter rolls in the lead-up to the election! It's almost as if your vote matters and they don't want you to vote! Anyway, I whipped up a quick map (based on this) that shows when the voter registration deadline is in each state. There are a few deadlines coming up in the next week or so.

If you live in a state that regularly purges voter rolls for infrequent voters (the orange ones in the first map), or if you moved recently, it's good to check if you're still registered to vote.

Vote.org makes it super easy to check your registration: https://www.vote.org/am-i-registered-to-vote/

Just put in your address and DOB and they'll tell you whether you're registered. (And they give you a quick link to register online if it turns out that you're not! Only the 9 states in white on my map don't have online registration, and for those they provide instructions on how to do it via mail or in person.)

So yeah, give yourself peace of mind -- do a quick check. :)

Being not American is fun sometimes. Because somebody will bring up Robert Reich, former US secretary of labour, longstanding and influential leftist politician. And I go "oh yeah, isn't he Sam Reich's dad?"

And I think that is really beautiful.

Sometimes I want to bring Morrigan but then I remember I play as a face-tanking rogue and I bring Wynne. Warden Cousland, Morrigan, Wynne / Dragon Age Origins (c) Bioware

I have a headcanon solaveallan child! She's called Shirala. Although, to be fair it does kind of make things awful.

My Lavellan, Ghilara, realises she is pregnant after the breakup, right before the final battle against Corypheus. They had been taking precautions, but its not modern birth control so its not 100%. Because its just before the battle, she decides to tell him afterwards, so as not to distract him from the fight. She does go try to tell him at first, but she chickens out (mirroring the vallaslin scene).

Solas leaves not knowing she is pregnant, but does find out afterwards and feels even more guilt. Ghilara considers aborting the pregnancy, but decides to go through with it because she always wanted kids.

However, her actual labour is really long and hard, and afterwards she develops post partum depression/psychosis. Especially since her clan is dead. But she decides to let the child ward with Merrill. Partly because of her own percieved inadequacies, but also because she doesn't want Shirala to be targeted by her enemies. There is also an element of not feeling Dalish enough.

Its a real point of shared guilt for both her and Solas. But Solas keeps an eye of his daughter, and makes sure that Kirkwall stays safe. Eventually, Ghilara trusts herself to start involving herself back into Shirala's life. Though with her continued work in the inquisition she still feels it safer to stay away from her daughter.

So uhh this probably doesn't answer your question because um it is a very big point of angst/tragedy/trauma in their story. But I do think both parents are doing their best in a bad situation, and Shirala definitely has a happy childhood. And, if nothing else, having a daughter absoluetly give Ghilara more of a drive to save this world. Because this is the only world that has her daughter in it, and even if she failed her before, she'll do her damned hardest to protect her from what she can.

But feel free to DM me if ya want more info, or even if you want to bounce ideas off me :D

i've never given any of my ocs children but i'm toying with a solavellan baby... but in canon it would make things so awful 😭 solas leaving at the end of da:i while knowing myla is pregnant (bc let's face it, he'd Know, or at the very least find out very quickly), leaving her to deal with pregnancy and motherhood alone... she wakes up one day and there's a little halla toy on her bedside table and she'd be so mad and feel so betrayed, he's having an agent sneak in to leave her a toy instead of showing his face...

if there's anyone with a headcanon solavellan child, please let me know how you deal with this!!