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WELL IT’S ABOUT FRICKING TIME.

Their so sexy together and there’s smut written already and I’m like

… Did I tag the wrong thing again? Cause I have no idea what the hell is going on right now. 

What AC fandom imagines when they see “Conner/Aveline”:

What DA fandom imagines when they see “Conner/Aveline”:

How many of you know that in DA:O you obtain the ‘Aveline, Knight of Orlais’ codex entry from a book in Connor’s room?

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was shot to death in Houston, Texas, USA, by ICE agents earlier this week, on July 7th. Araujo was 52, and was in the process of completing his citizenship authorization in the United States. He was family man who was deeply dedicated to his wife and three children, and supported his coworkers at their construction company without fail. He was assaulted by ICE during a traffic stop and, according to ICE, fled while using his car as a deadly weapon, justifying his murder. As there is currently little to no civilian footage of the murder and ICE has complete control of the narrative, holding ICE to the fire will be exponentially harder than the murders of Renée Good and Alex Pretti.

This excerpt is not, in fact, from the works of St. Thomas Aquinas, which Lestat would have studied in his brief time at the monastery! It is taken from the poem "We Are Fields Before Each Other" by Daniel Ladinsky, who published a collection of poems called Love Poems From God in 2002, in which he writes poems under the persona of various philosophers, mystics, and religious figures. There's a whole section dedicated to Aquinas.

Now this excerpt is out there on the internet falsely attributed to St. Thomas Aquinas, A LOT. Who can say if this is an error, or a deliberate bit of fun from the writers (the past and the present overlapping, rewriting one another, etc. - Lestat is speaking to a hallucination of his ten year old self after all). Either way, I'm pretty obsessed.

I'm including the rest of the poem below, for fun and context:

Next slide. “Brandon Sanderson is a member of the LDS”. The muttering has changed tone

“It’s not a very big amount of money though.” Someone in the audience pipes up. “His cut is only a small fraction of the cost of the book, and then-“ my next slide shows an income breakdown, it is titled ‘a small fraction of $10,000,000 is still a big number’

Amazon made their service worse, to force people to pay for Prime.

Nowadays, if you order from Amazon, there is a week long delay before your package is shipped. (on purpose)

I remember when orders would ship out the same day. (I remember - it was real)

YouTube didn't used to have ads. Now, ads play in the middle of videos. (it's worse than TV ever was)

The best can opener I have owned is over 40 years old. Modern ones just don't hold up as well. (The ones I bought new broke ages ago)

The bread machine my mom got for her wedding lasted 30 years. It's been replaced twice in the last 5 years. (How can you fuck this up?)

The cardboard tubes in the middle of toilet paper rolls have gotten larger. (This too?) Companies increasing the price of the product while selling you less. (REALLY?)

It sounds crazy. (it's the truth) When you talk about it, YOU sound crazy. (it's true)

Even when people believe you (do they really), all they can say is "it sucks". (it's too big) Because the problem is so big, so pervasive, what can we even DO about it???

To get the necessary laws written and passed, we need politicians, to get the politicians elected we need information campaigns, to fund campaigns we need money, and all the money is being hoarded by the people profiting from enshittification. (it sounds so fake)