Dalek_Thal

Point of fact, it's not the news I needed to hear. This job search has been awful, and the constant rejection of it has been doing wonders for the mental health. Doctor Who was one of my few sources of comfort that stayed very consistent - the knowledge that, no matter how bad it got, it'd be there on the other side.

Apparently, that's not actually been certain. Doctor Who got me through much of middle - high school, where I was being badly bullied and really considering whether this whole life thing was worth it. It became my blanket where I could hide from how fucked the world really is - it's such a hopeful text, that I could deny the world through its lens.

I really find myself wondering what the fuck I'm supposed to do. Shit I care about keeps getting taken away by capitalist bullshit, and that kind of fiction is my coping mechanism - escapism is a great way to deal with the darkness of our world. Job search is harder when you don't have an out to look at when things get grim.

That said, I'm sad, but not depressed. It's grief, but it too shall pass. There will be other works of fiction, but a forever show is kinda irreplaceable.

Point of fact, it's not the news I needed to hear. This job search has been awful, and the constant rejection of it has been doing wonders for the mental health. Doctor Who was one of my few sources of comfort that stayed very consistent - the knowledge that, no matter how bad it got, it'd be there on the other side.

Apparently, that's not actually been certain. Doctor Who got me through much of middle - high school, where I was being badly bullied and really considering whether this whole life thing was worth it. It became my blanket where I could hide from how fucked the world really is - it's such a hopeful text, that I could deny the world through its lens.

I really find myself wondering what the fuck I'm supposed to do. Shit I care about keeps getting taken away by capitalist bullshit, and that kind of fiction is my coping mechanism - escapism is a great way to deal with the darkness of our world. Job search is harder when you don't have an out to look at when things get grim.

That said, I'm sad, but not depressed. It's grief, but it too shall pass. There will be other works of fiction, but a forever show is kinda irreplaceable.

i've found my little zone in fandom that i'm comfortable in, but it occurs to me that others are still struggling to find the people who actually enjoy this game! and who talk about it!

You are clobbered by the OGRE!

So, "okay" is a word that doesn't appear much in DA dialogue through the first three installments, though it's become quite common by Veilguard.

Likely not an intentional evolution, but a symptom of the fact that the language used in DAV is generally more contemporary than the other installments. Still. Let's play in the space. Because it's not that no one uses "okay" before then. It's actually a relatively common Varric word -- he says it in both DA2 and DAI.

Obvious conclusion: "Okay" is dwarven slang.

(Corollary headcanon: Increased contact with the surface has spread dwarven slang more widely. Perhaps even helped by the popularity of Varric's books...)

Over my breakfast this morning I stared into space wondering what the origins of "OK" could be in the dwarven context. Orzammar is the obvious O. So... Orzammar Kingdom? Orzammar King?

Of course. "OK" is the seal that Orzammar's king uses to express that a document has his approval.