Anders Was Right

honestly whoever at bioware had the idea to connect the brosca and aeducan origins via rica and bhelen was so genius. playing aeducan and finding this redheaded woman in your brother's room who's title in game is 'mistress' only to then go play brosca and learn that woman is your sister and rica mentioning she potentially caught someone's eye but not saying whom but you know its bhelen, and then how that later affects the bhelen/harrowmont option on a more personal level for brosca. great stuff

if u didnt romance anders so u r not running off with him into the sunset (and he’s alive and everything) then i assume since nathaniel showed up to the final battle in the last straw that you just give him back. it’s only fair

the warden-commander said its MY turn with the anders youve had him for SIX YEARS

actually i specify anders being alive but since we’ve established the whole “i am not of mortal men” bit. and since i believe hawke just leaves the body there. i think if justice managed to hang around for a second and he spotted nathaniel he would simply make them get up

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one thing that i love in good historical fiction is well-chosen weird period detail. like subtly weaving in small things that are unexpected or don’t mesh with the audience’s perceptions of a particular time and place (either because they’re contrary to the received cultural narrative about an era or because they’re not often talked about in the period drama zeitgeist etc) just enough to be a little bit jarring, thus increasing the audiences’s sense of strangeness and distance which in turn increases the buy-in? a dedication to and a deftness with historical detail that alienates and fascinates the reader at the same time? i don’t know that it makes or breaks a given piece, i think some authors skip this all together and others go too hard and end up with the “redolent with spices” problem but its a craft thing that i always appreciate when i notice it in histfic

in some ways it's neat to feel when my capacity to write is drained and to know that it's bc i did a decent amount of writing. but i'm also like aw ): but i was still playing ):

Watching the premiere of North of North and screaming every time Helen says anything because I have absolutely worked with white women like her in the non-profit sector.

they should invent activities for sleepy people with no energy

if any of you fuckers put that new Harry Potter show on my dash I am blocking your ass