mikkeneko:

There are so many things I *could* be writing about and instead all I’m thinking about is the desire demon from the Circle Tower quest who absconds with a Templar (assuming you don’t attack them, killing them both)

Call it sappy, wishful thinking but I like to think they make it okay

I mean – succubus form aside, desire demons aren’t vampires. She’s not actually *feeding* off him or really hurting him in any way. All she wants is to experience the mortal realm, a mortal life, and she can do that through him. And in return, she makes him happy.

I like to think she takes him off to some remote mountain cottage, with breathtaking scenery and a nice cosy hearth laid in the fireplace, a garden full of fruits and flowers, until some time later he looks at her and says

“Darling, can you believe our son will be turning fourteen this spring? He’ll be a man soon.”

“Mm, has it really been so long?” she sighs, wrapping her arms around him and leaning into his chest. “It feels like only yesterday.”

“Darling, can you believe our daughter will be ten years old in the autumn? That means we’ve been together for, what, fifteen years?”

“Something like that,” she agrees, since time is still a hazy concept to her.

And he’s quiet for a moment, then turns to face her with a smile and says:

“Darling, it’s been fifteen years; don’t you think you can be rid of the illusions now?”

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exhausted-archivist:

inquisitor-julia:

inkinthepen:

crystal-grace:

persephonechiara:

thegreatfoxking:

simp-for-leliana:

hardinginhightowns:

Mine are

Warden Aeducan: Norah

Hawke: Miriam

Inquisitor Levallan: Illyyn 

Oooo this is cool I love talking about my pcs a lot so here it goes:

Warden Tabris: Nadia

Hawke: Gareth

Inquisitior Lavellan: Adaia

Yisss.

Warden Surana: Heulwen

Hawke: Marion (male)

Inquisitor Cadash: Meridis

Warden: Rhiannon Cousland

Champion: Desideria Hawke

Inquisitor: Drusilla Trevelyan

Warden: Nyssa Mahariel

Champion: Ghaliyah Hawke

Inquisitor: Kethryllia Lavellan

Warden: Liri Brosca

Champion: Reveka Hawke

Inquisitor: Saellea Lavellan

Warden: Elsanna Cousland

Champion: Serafina Hawke

Inquisitor: Nayeli Trevelyan

Warden: Brynne Tabris

Champion Elizabeth Hawke

Inquisitor: Isala Revassan Lavellan

Warden: Aleandria Cousland

Champion: Erin Hawke

Inquisitor: Lanil (Surana) Lavellan

prismatic-bell:

cricketcat9:

mllecosettefauchelevent:

annaveriani:

mllecosettefauchelevent:

“Authors should not be ALLOWED to write about–” you are an anti-intellectual and functionally a conservative

“This book should be taken off of shelves for featuring–” you are an anti-intellectual and functionally a conservative

“Schools shouldn’t teach this book in class because–” you are an anti-intellectual and functionally a conservative

“Nobody actually likes or wants to read classics because they’re–” you are an anti-intellectual and an idiot

“I only read YA fantasy books because every classic novel or work of literary fiction is problematic and features–” you are an anti-intellectual and you are robbing yourself of the full richness of the human experience.

“you are functionally a conservative” is such a good and clarifying insult

Literally right after I saw this post, I saw another post in a discord chat for BOOK EDITORS in which an outspokenly liberal editor talked about how Nabokov should have never been published because he wrote about p*dophiles and described women’s bodies in ways that made her uncomfortable. She described his writing as “objectively terrible” and said she wanted to burn his books. And other editors were bringing up classics they didn’t like and talking about how they wanted to throw them in the trash. This wasn’t like a light “unpopular opinion!” conversation. This was actual book editors talking about how books should be destroyed and censored.

There is something so scary and toxic in global culture right now. The revival of fascism is influencing everyone’s mindset and approach to art, regardless of where they fall on the political spectrum.

I see far more books being censored today than when I was a kid. Librarians handed me The Catcher in the Rye, The Sexual Politics of Meat, and Animal Farm when I was literally 8-11. My mom would never have taken a book away from me. I read everything from the Tao Te Ching to the Qur'an to atheist texts under my desk at school. Teachers thought nothing of it or encouraged it. Books seemed universally acknowledged as sacrosanct to me.

Now I can’t find any adults who don’t hesitate or want to make exceptions when it comes to censorship. Even the most liberal social activist librarians I know go, “well except for book X…”

Functionally conservative. It’s so important to have the language to express that.

Thank you for this addition!

And, following up on the previous post …

“This makes me uncomfortable” is NOT a valid reason for censorship

These fucking book editors should remove themselves from the profession ASAP 😡

The only reason a book should be removed, the ONLY reason, is “we are keeping it in the restricted section for research because its only intended function is to cause harm.”

And to be clear, when I say this, I’m talking about shit like To Train Up A Child and The Protocols of Zion. One is a text responsible for the deaths of multiple children because it’s an abuse how-to, and the other is entirely fabricated “protocols” from a group that never actually existed but is claimed to represent all Jews, and it’s basically one long antisemitic screed.

And even these should be available. Just. Not where they’re gonna be used to start a white supremacist cult.

emperorsfoot:

biowho:

digital-magus:

foone:

digital-magus:

foone:

I just saw a story on AO3 tagged “pet p!ay”

TIK TOK MUST BE STOPPED BEFORE IT DESTROYS LANGUAGE

Ok, unless something’s going on I’m not aware of (extremely likely), I gotta point out the term “Pet Play” is significantly older than Tik Tok, or most of its userbase for that matter.

Yeah, I’m not mad about using the term “pet play”. That’s a perfectly fine term. I’m mad because they didn’t use that term: they used “pet p!ay”, a censored version

Oh. Oh gawd I missed that. Objection withdrawn, that is objectively terrible.

To anybody who is new to posting on ao3, if you’re using a tag you have to use the correct spelling of that tag. People aren’t going to type in every version of a censored word to hide or look for your content 

For everyone new to tumblr, the same rule applies to tumblr too.

You cannot censor your tags! Censored tags cannot be block or filtered. Censoring tags HARMS your audience, it does not protect them

duckytree:

here is the song version for those who care

comic: here

topcatnikki:

whitmanic:

Here’s another one of these gems

this is high fucking art pls for the love of God everyone watch it