Absolute Chaos

i dont feel comfortable with most dark fiction stuff like incest or rape and want to set a boundary on this without sounding rude. i used to say "proship dni" just to avoid accounts who post darkfic stuff interacting with me but i realized thats inaccurate. i dont want to say "darkfic dni" either because that also sounds rude. unfortunately most people think being on someones dni means they personally hate them but i dont hate darkshippers at all, i just dont like that content and dont want people who post it following me.

would it be fine if i just said "darkfic posters dni" or "dni if you post dark fiction"? i dont want it to sound like i hate darkshippers or something but i genuinely get triggered by that content and need to set a boundary even if most people wont listen /gen

You have to actually ACTIVELY unlearn all that shit. You can actually be trans AND hold TERF and racist beliefs, it is in fact very easy.

You have a jar of pickles (unopened) and access to each of the Shards of Adonalsium. Surely they can help you open this jar, if you only ask!

1. Devotion

Devotion: I would love to open this jar for you, sweetie.

Pickle jar opened!

2. Dominion

Dominion: Sure. I can open this jar for you, weakling. Dominion: But if I do this for you, then I own you. You: For...one jar of pickles? Dominion: Do you want a good hot dog experience or not?!

Pickle jar...could be opened??

3. Autonomy

Autonomy: You're asking...for my help? Autonomy: Gross. Autonomy: Be a gender. Open it for yourself. You: Be a...gender? Autonomy: I don't care to get to know you.

Pickle jar not opened :(

4. Valor

Valor: Open a jar?? Ha ha! Easy! Valor: The last time a jar defeated me, it was made by dragons and sealed in a cave guarded by enormous beasts! You: Defeated...? Valor: Here's your pickles!

Pickle jar opened!

5. Cultivation

Cultivation: Of course. Here you go. [Opens jar] Cultivation: Oh, by the way-- Cultivation: These pickles will now have a faint aftertaste of liquorice. You: But why Cultivation: [shrugs]

Pickle jar opened!

6. Endowment

Endowment: Even better--I'm going to give you big, meaty hands so that you can open your own pickle jars! You: Big, meaty hands? Endowment: You are so welcome.

Pickle jar...can be opened?

7. Virtuosity

Virtuosity: Look at the way the light from the kitchen window shines through this jar... Virtuosity: Endowing even these humble pickles with an ethereal glow... Virtuosity: Hold on--art moment! Virtuosity: [grabbing her drawing utensils] You: P-Pickles...

Pickle jar not opened :(

8. Reason

Reason: Do you have one of those jar gripper pads that makes opening jars easy? You: No :( Reason: [handing the jar back] Sounds like a "you" problem then.

Pickle jar not opened :(

9. Mercy

Mercy: Do you have one of those jar girpper pads that makes opening jars easy? You: No :( Mercy: Well....poor planning, but I guess I can help you anyway.

Pickle jar opened!

10. Honor

Honor: I Agree and Promise to open this jar for you! Honor: [straining] Honor: [straining] Honor: [straining] Honor: Oh no.

Pickle jar not opened :(

11. Whimsy

Whimsy: Help you? What's the magic word? You: Please? Whimsy: What's in the jar? You: Pickles? Whimsy: Ah yes, something to whet your...what's the word? You: Palate? Whimsy: What color is Santa's suit? You: Pink? Whimsy: Don't be silly--it's red! Whimsy: [jingles sadly away] You: ...

Pickle jar not opened :(

12. Odium

Odium: Plain bread & butter pickles? Odium: Really? Odium: You couldn't spring for something interesting? Some spice? An unuusal vegetable? Something with a little passion? You: Please, my hot dog is almost done micorwaving

Pickle jar not opened :(

13. Ambition

Ambition: Don't shove that easily openable jar at me! Ambition: Look at the lid! It has grippable ridges! Ambition: I won't accept anything other than a true challenge.

Pickle jar not opened :(

14. Invention

Invention: You know, all you need to do is pull the side of the lid away from the jar, which breaks the seal and makes the lid very easy to take off. Invention: Hmm...I bet if I could make a device that would fit between the lid and the jar's lip... Invention: But how to produce leverage....? Ivention: [wanders away] You: M-My hot dog is getting cold...

Pickle jar not opened :(

15. Preservation

Preservation: Open it?? Preservation: But it lasts so much longer and stays so much fresher when it's closed! Preservation (weirdly intense): Can you commit eating all of these pickles over the next 17 days, the time of Peak Pickle Freshness?? Preservation: Can you??? Preservation: Yeah. Preservation: I didn't think so.

Pickle jar not opened :(

16. Ruin

Ruin: Oh sure. I have a trick for jars. Ruin: You just tap it against the counter, and... [The pickle jar shatters] Ruin: Perfect.

Pickle jar...opened??

17. (Bonus!) Harmony

Harmony: Wax! Somebody needs help with a jar!!

and then the haven chantry in inquisition, next to an orthodox christian church

once they got good enough at those, architects could increase the weight capacity of their structures and pre-plan art out of the stone itself, leading to a new architecture, personalized style. irl this lead to gothic, the main style of the medieval ages, but for thedas this can be something else, and that's likely the style we see in denerim.

the only hiccup is that bioware used real gothic architecture for tevinter ruins in dao. but we can pretend the first ever blight set architecture back a few centuries because dwarves couldn't do it all for the humans anymore. so the romanesque was a reset of sorts.

for quick reference: romanesque 10-13th century, gothic 12-16th c, renaissance 15-16th c, baroque 16-18th c. with my clothing post I put thedas in roughly a 15th, 16th century. which is great for both val royeaux looking baroque and denerim looking older within a decade of each other - orlais has the money to be ahead a style or two.

meanwhile, the oldest surviving structures are either tevinter ruins, or romanesque strongholds. romanesque did have the problem of their square corners were very easy to break in a siege. but if you are clever enough with the placement, like say a forgotten village in the mountains or a tall, defensible cliff, your enemies can't get at the corners to destroy them. hence haven's chantry and redcliffe's castle still having that antique style all this time later!

some more lil rotomikus they make me happy ⚡️💙⚡️🧡

I’m nonbinary and disabled

There’s no punchline or anything funny about this which is making it not a joke because there’s no elements to it

This is transphobic and it’s ableist to those who are nonbinary with disabilities

We live in a world full of hate, but love and care are more powerful than the hatred