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The Fool: When has your character been excited to start a new journey? The Magician: How does your character unleash their creativity or resourcefulness? The High Priestess: When has trusting their instincts paid off for your character? The Empress: Who has been a positive female figure in your character’s life? The Emperor: Who has been a positive male figure in your character’s life? The Hierophant: Who has served as a mentor to your character? The Lovers: Which of your character’s relationships has been the most positive? (Romantic or otherwise) The Chariot: What goal is your character determined to reach? Strength: On what issue is your character persistent? The Hermit: Write about a time your character did some soul searching. What did they find? The Wheel of Fortune: What are your character’s proudest successes? Justice: When has your character felt satisfied with the conclusion to a major dispute or concern? The Hanged Man: When has your character needed to step back and look at things from a different perspective? Death: When has your character had to let go of something in their life? Temperance: How does your character balance their life? The Devil: Does your character ever neglect their wild side? The Tower: When has your character lost an ideal or relationship? The Star: When has your character been most hopeful? The Moon: When has your character’s path been unclear? The Sun: When does your character sit back and enjoy themselves? Judgment: Has your character ever been given a second chance? The World: When has one of your character’s dreams come true?

Bonus: Major Arcana in Reverse!

Today I got a reply to a comment saying that the author had been so discouraged by the lack of response on the last two chapters that they had decided not to finish it, but that they had changed their mind and were now thinking of finishing. Just because I took 30 seconds to comment on each chapter.

It doesn’t matter if the fic is years old

It doesn’t matter if you don’t know what to say (“I loved this” is always music to an author’s ears, no matter how many times we hear it)

The author will not think you’re a creeper if you’re commenting on every single one of their fics

The author WILL cuddle your comments close to their hearts like the precious gems that they are, even if they’re only one word.

Comments and feedback matter. I’ve written in fandoms and for pairings that have very active, vocal fans who comment a lot, and I’ve written for ships that are not terribly popular and don’t get much reaction. The difference in my attitude is incredible.

Your feedback matters to authors. Click the kudos button, but please, take the time to leave a comment. Even if it’s just one word. If you like the writing and want to see more, let the author know

Human: ur basic

Cyborg: ur trying to be edgy but we all know its because ur bitter you dont have a subscription

Zabrak: u dont have a subscription and you’re mad about it and you want everyone to know OR you have a demon fetish

Miraluka: you would burst out crying if you heard the words “my life for yours”

Mirialan: you watched guardians of the galaxy and got sweaty whenever gamora was on screen

Twi’lek: the first thing you would do when aliens make contact is try to fuck one

Togruta: you spent years angrily reading forums about the game, swallowing false promises of their release date. you have the patience of a saint. OR you’re a relatively new player and you just picked the prettiest one

Rattataki: you’re always about three seconds from punching someone square in the face

Sith Pureblood: you still listen to My Chemical Romance

Chiss: you love villains and you’re not afraid to admit it

As a society, they straddle a strange and often conflicting line between respecting ceremony and tradition, and the drive for efficiency- but misogyny doesn’t appear to be among their fervently held traditions.

Xenophobia, species-supremacy complexes, extreme isolationist tendencies? Absolutely. They’re a flawed people with many myopic viewpoints. I just see no evidence of them applying to their women.

The notion that a bloodline is carried down the male line is purely a social construct, not a biological one. I don’t see any reason why they’d naturally fall into having a man at the head of every family for the sake of passing down a pedigree as often happens in societies here, especially as merit adoptives can hold great value, and they aren’t genetically related to the ‘ancestors’ of the house.

But as Cyan says, people are absolutely welcome to their own interpretations because to be frank, there’s no actual canon about any of it. Technically the Chiss aren’t even actual canon right now as far as I’m aware. 

Forcing your fanon onto others as though it’s fact is where I’ll draw my line. If you want to believe that Chiss are Patriarchal, that’s cool. I can work with that sort of thing and have my characters treat it as just that House being Patriarchal. As long as you don’t force onto me that your way is the right way, because I’ll never do the same in return.

I personally love the fact that it seems so open because it leaves room for a lot of Houses to operate differently based on every player’s personal views. I personally want to have a more Matriarchal structure for my Chiss’ House. Not because I personally believe Chiss are like that, but because that is how my character feels.

Without doubt, there will be different views, different cultures, different microcosms of power structure within their society. If people desperately want to have their house structured one way or another, there’s room for that- but then espousing it as the rule across the board makes it extremely difficult to play in the same sandbox as them.

Exactly the same thing applies to the Mando community, if I can take a tangent. There are some who get so het-up over their particular brand of clan structure and motivation being the de-facto society structure, then attack others who don’t adhere. Same sort of thing: ‘my clan are crusaders’ vs ‘all Mandos are crusaders’. Big difference.

xx. Dragon Age - Grey Wardens/Warden Commander