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Okay 👁👁 I realized this, but magic is never seen being utilized for shipping food in Thedas. tbh this applies to a lot of fantasy worlds with magic. But specifically rn for DA. Could they possibly be using winter magic to make pseudo refrigeration?
ELLIE. I AM SO GLAD YOU ASKED. (I have thought about this and its like a big thing in my dnd setting but that's not what you're here for.)
So, I really dug into this for Dragon Age (and later my dnd setting) when I fell down this rabbit hole in the early days of working on Thedas Cookery - and its also in my milk meta as well as the whole meta/headcanons I have about Orzammar's importing of food but those are entirely different posts.
Food preservation in shipping food and the possibility of some form of refrigeration in Thedas: there is a simple and a complex answer to this.
Simple answer is yes, there is magic that could be used in food preservation and shipping of food. However, it isn't strictly winter magic. The other option is the preservation glyph in the creation school of magic (this comes up in the ttrpg). If you stick with just winter magic, the creation of ice that will slowly melt naturally and sticking it in a root cellar, basement, shipping box, etc. is a possible use of magic for preservation.
Now the complex answer. Sort of, in a very yes it is possible in theory but logistically for most of Thedas it cannot be utilized because it is so expensive and people are both rationally and irrationally afraid of magic.
But for the most part the main barrier would be cost. Hiring a mage from a circle is expensive, and really the only people who would be able to do so regularly are those in Tevinter, Rivain, the Crows, Dalish, Chasind, Avvar, or those with the means to do so. And if they don't get a mage and instead spring for dwarven enchantment (or circle enchantment), that is also prohibitively expensive and limited in availability.
In The Masked Empire, Celene has a tea pot that keeps her tea at the right temp constantly. It is a dwarven enchantment that while common in Orzammar's nobility and higher socioeconomic castes, it is so expensive Celene notes that if she were not empress she likely would not be able to enjoy such a thing.
Enchantments in general are expensive and are a display of wealth and power. Which is why Tevinter and Orlais use it for a lot of public spaces to show off the wealth and power of their countries. But it isn't just the specialized labor that makes these expensive, but also the rare/dangerous materials.
So what about the glyph I mentioned? Well, the creation school of magic is one of the hardest schools of magic to learn and master. So already it becomes another specialized skill that has a limit on who can perform it. In the ttrpg, the glyph has this description:
You draw a faint glyph on the surface of the subject, which can be any piece of dead organic material. The spell arrests the process of decay for the material, keeping it as fresh as it was when the glyph was inscribed for a month. A glyph of preservation can be renewed during its duration, which extends its affects for another month. When the glyph expires the process of decay begins again from where it left off. The spell is used to preserve foodstuffs, to preserve corpses (for lying in state or dissection), or to protect valuable items made of wood, paper, or leather.
So, the ttrpg does specify that foodstuffs counts as "dead" but on a technical level unless it is meat or other animal byproducts we know this isn't true. (See the potato you put in the dark and forget about and you come back to it having arms and legs.) But lets just say for the sake of this that plant based foods are also "dead". This means that you can preserve a crate of tomatoes or a cluster of mushrooms, etc. Unless of course it only applies to dried/preserved food stuff and animal byproducts (meat, dairy, eggs, ect.). But this is my quibbling.
All that said, the fact only a mage skilled in creation magic can do so decreases the availability of its use. It means that while yes, Tevinter or Rivain could easily use this to ship to other nations. Dalish, Avvar, and Chasind could also use this glyph - or even have a modified version of it since they do not practice circle magic and all magic we are exposed to is either circle magic or enchantment/lyrium based.
(Except for the Dragon Age Multiplayer (DAMP) where we get to see a skill tree of non-circle magic aka "hedge magic".)
So non-circle mages may have access to a different methodology or be barred from that vein of magic due to the inherent differences of circle magic and non-circle magic. (This brings up a whole other conversation on the magic lore of Thedas that the game doesn't quite go into outside of codex and I think it is some of the best lore. But I'm weird.)
So TLDR:
Absolutely there is preservation magic for foodstuff. It just is an actual handy glyph. BUT you could use winter magic as a way to make ice out of season to increase the viability of food and create a sort of refrigeration.
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When the withdrawals hit, Anders nursed him through aching joints and fever until he could get his next fix.
My gift for @bowiebond, for the annual Handers Gift Exchange hosted by @handers-time! His handsome Hawke had such deliciously angsty lore, and I enjoyed angsting over the withdrawals 👀
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Stories in the Dark (2604 words) by Fiber_Punk
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age II
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Anders/Hawke (Dragon Age), Anders/Hawke/Justice (Dragon Age), Anders/Male Hawke (Dragon Age), Anders/Male Hawke/Justice (Dragon Age)
Characters: Anders, Male Hawke (Dragon Age), Varric Tethras, Fenris (Dragon Age), Justice (Dragon Age)
Additional Tags: Mage Hawke (Dragon Age), Blue Hawke (Dragon Age), Deep Roads (Dragon Age), Dragon Age II Quest - Finding Nathaniel, Anders' past head canon, Trading Stories, Farm boys, Comfort/Angst, Regret, no beta we die because I said so, Safety, 2026 Handers Gift Exchange, Gift Exchange
Series: Part 23 of Warden Tabris World State
Summary:
Written for the 2026 Handers Gift Exchange.
Anders hates the Deep Roads. Garrett wants to try to lift his spirits. Justice is there too.
Younger people, one thing I want you to understand about Millenials is that, overall, our parents taught their daughters to aim for careers and employment, but they didn't teach their sons to keep house. This causes a whole lot of Situations.
My brothers are my half-brothers; they spent summers and some holidays with us. I love my brothers.
Their mother picked up after them. They were not required to take plates the kitchen or do the dishes or anything like that.
My mother, who would tell you she is for equality, came home one day, sighed at the mess of dirty dishes scattered about, and said, "Gayle, help me pick up."
"Those aren't my dishes," I said. "I picked up my dishes."
My mother sighed again. "Just help me pick up."
"No," I said again. "I didn't make that fucking mess."
She never approached my brothers and said, "Boys, in this house, you take your dishes to the kitchen." She did not tell our dad, "Hey, tell the boys they need to pick up after themselves."
It was, "Gayle, pick up the dishes."
And when I refused because it was not my fucking mess, I got lectured about being difficult.
See also: My brothers--in a classic dick-move of all siblings--figured out they could pop the lock on the bathroom door and throw it open, and I would freak out because I was in the shower and trying to get five fucking minutes of peace.
Guess who got yelled at for being "unreasonable"? Not the boys. Because a lot of moms of millennial boys still said shit like "boys will be boys" when they should have said "Boys, if you got body-slammed on the concrete, I'm not taking you to the hospital."
It was similar for Xers. I spent a lot of time in my 20's teaching romantic partners and friends basic household skills and having to be really hard ass about them carrying their weight.
It is stupid and infuriating and I hate that the "Boy Mom" trend is setting yet another generation up for unfairness and domestic strife.
One time when I was in high school, my mum came home w/ groceries. She needed help bringing all of them in. Did she ask my brother who was already outside playing basketball? No. Did she ask her husband who was sitting on his ass watching TV in the living room? Nope. She walked past both of them, through the house, and into my room where I was doing homework and yelled at me for not immediately coming out to help her.
I have been told that I am "the last of the millennials" or that I'm a "gen zer" or that I'm "on the cusp" by so many different people that I am 100% convinced this is not a generational problem. It is a societal problem. And millennial parents are not immune to raising their kids this way just bc they're younger than x'ers and boomers. Same goes for gen z'ers and every generation after us so long as misogyny remains the bedrock of society that it is.
Also maybe slightly off topic but… girls are always blamed for boys’ behavior. Mothers and fathers but especially mothers who should know better excuse boys behavior and punish the girls.
When I was curled over in pain from endometriosis and just needed to be alone, my brother would intentionally bother me and literally prod me to cause a reaction. Of course, eventually, I’d react and cry and scream. I’d get in trouble for yelling and he wouldn’t get in trouble at all.
When my brother would say horrendous shit about women being inferior and that we shouldn’t be able to vote, and I argued back (often emotionally because why would my own flesh and blood say this about me?) I would be labeled dramatic and a bad person when my brother would get off free.
To this day, my family considers me dramatic and crazy. Cause I get upset when people say things like “you shouldn’t be allowed to get married, live, have healthcare, exist honestly, should be a slave to a man who should be able to do what he wants with you.”
And when I get upset and say that shits not okay, I am the one who gets labeled difficult and a bad person and not nice to be around when the men in my life who say this shit get away free.
Even if they don’t murder and rape us, they will subtly make us go insane while they only benefit.
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One time when I was a kid a group of girls and I had to treat another student for hypothermia by ourselves because she had so many invisible health issues that the adults we asked for help didn't believe us. The student in question was actively hallucinating. When I finally ran for help the people I grabbed were slow as shit to respond, casually joking about how "dramatic" the person in question was.
The kid was picked up by an ambulance 30 minutes later.
Now as an adult working in security I get SO MANY folks- upper-middle aged mostly- coming to me to 'rat out' people they think are faking it.
I was once sent into a bathroom because a client demanded that the "fucker won't get out, so go drag them out"- I was NEVER going to do that, so I did a wellness check instead. You know who it was? A person recently released from the hospital after a car accident. They had a hole in their skull and major hearing loss. They couldn't answer the owner because they couldn't HEAR the owner.
Another time about a homeless man who got around town by kicking the ground from his wheelchair. "You know he doesn't actually need that thing, his legs work fine, it's just for pity points"- Oh, so he's not paralyzed, his wheelchair is performative? Funny story Dale, I actually know that guy, he was backed over by a truck and has chronic pain from his shattered pelvis. But sure, let's make him stand up and walk everywhere so nobody feels too bad for him and tries to help him or something.
"She doesn't need that scooter, I've seen her get out of it."
"Look how fat he is, because he just rides around and refuses to get up."
"She doesn't really need that cane- she comes here without it all the time"
Sincerely, truly, from the bottom of my heart- as someone who isn't physically disabled but hears this shit all the time- fuck off
One of the most annoying genres of people on the internet are people who act like they believe science is one single monolithic thing. Like, you'll see an article saying something like "scientists studying the movement of tectonic plates", and then in the comments there'll be several smug people saying "smh why are scientists doing this instead of finding a cure for cancer", like. Why would a geologist be doing that.
With of course, its natural concequence being "if a scientist says it, it must be true" and sure why shouldn't you trust what an astronomer said about cancer. The disease.
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ohhhh shit. target is recalling their up & up baby wipes (fragrance free & fresh cucumber scented) because they're contaminated with Burkholderia cepacia complex and Burkholderia gladioli, multiple people are reporting discoloration & infections. i just got a call about it cuz i had purchased those but i've already gone through them 😅 so no refund for me. but im fine. if you have these they're saying you need to immediately stop using them and bring them back to target for a full refund. this bacteria can cause life threatening infections in children/infants and people with compromises immune systems (ESPECIALLY cystic fibrosis!!) and i know lots of other chronically ill people follow me!!!!
What about the final version of the flag by the original creator?
Gilbert Baker added a 9th stripe shortly before his death, with the new stripe representing diversity. He added this stripe in reaction to the 2016 US election. It’s unfortunately not as well known as the 8 and 6 striped versions.
Here’s an image of him sewing together the 9 striped rainbow flag.
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