Blame it upon a rush of blood to the head

something something extremely sexy when magic users resort to physical violence. yeah i have the power of god and anime on my side but i also have THESE HANDS. i cast Punch You In The Face. i take my magic staff through which i channel the vast energies of the elements and the cosmos and i cast Severe Concussion And Skull Fracture. casting time for xenoglossy too long, chose the quicker route of Stab You In The Throat.

t-shirt with the words “high-functioning corpse” printed on it

The best example of Bioware keeping all their lore outside the games is Wicked Eyes and Wicked Hearts. Based off the only information and context you have in Inquisition you assume that Briala and Celene are just having a Dramatique Breakup, and maybe they should get back together. And then you read Masked Empire and find out they're separated because Celene has directly perpetrated mass murder and is complicit in genocide and also killed Briala's parents along with dozens of her other innocent servants just to prove a point

Hey you should totally recruit me. Yeah I've spent the last year in a solitary confinement cell hopped up on my own imbalanced brain chemicals and talking to cats about magic theory. I'm definitely not going to go monkey mode on the first templar who looks at me funny. I totally remember how to be a human. *grabs Warden-Commander's hand* I Love You.

Hey you should totally recruit me. Yeah I've spent the last year in a solitary confinement cell hopped up on my own imbalanced brain chemicals and talking to cats about magic theory. I'm definitely not going to go monkey mode on the first templar who looks at me funny. I totally remember how to be a human. *grabs Warden-Commander's hand* I Love You.

*dreamily* god it is so awesome that anders is a horrible nasty hypocrite

i need to write some serious sourced meta on this at some point when i have time but idk lately i think that jennifer hepler’s belief that being transgender is a mental illness is almost as inseparable from her writing of anders’ and justice’s relationship in da2, as well as her own viewpoints on the two versions of anders’ character arc, as her bigotry toward people with a bipolar diagnosis, which is more known as she has posted about it explicitly in relationship to her choices writing anders (not in a self-aware way). specifically in how she views identity.

like, her statements about how supporting anders’ choice to merge with justice, which leads to anders continuing to view justice as part of himself like he does at the beginning of da2, is “encouraging a delusion” seem nonsensical because justice the spirit is real, he is really possessing anders, he has all of anders’ memories and experiences the world through anders body so how on earth is it incorrect to say justice is anders? it doesn’t make sense until you realize that she has an essentialist view of identity.

writing a canon divergent fix-it fic while also shaking my head to show that i actually really like the canon's tragic narrative and am not trying to say i think it would be better if canon was like this