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end of the year meme

sorry it took me so long to get to this!!! but here, have a long-ass look back at 2022:

1. first things first, did you have a good year?

abso-fucking-lutely. i still can’t believe all the good things that happened this year. i did what i did last year for this meme and went through my google photos to bring you the highlights:

*cries in elven* OTL i love u AND THANK U?? ? 

2. before they met their party, what was their main goal? Help to stop the Blight or find a way how to mobilize Dales in joining the war efforts. The leadership of his nation refused to fight the darkspawn, thinking they're safe in Dales. So he left to make sure the horde never gets to Dales and they’d be right :')

3. what is their goal right now? Unsure?? He feels very sidetracked, there's smaller goals but the closest he got to the big goal of stopping the Blight was learning of the Archdemon and that you can't kill it unless you're a Grey Warden : ))) So his priority rn would be to aid the wardens in any possible way, which is not what we've been really doing lately. Recently we heard of a lost Warden Commander that may need aid in the mountains, so he's very eager to help with that for now.

10. how often do they lie? what situations cause them to be dishonest? FUNNY YOU ASK because Virghil used to lie pretty often (mostly just to give people answers they wanted so he could go on and do his own thing). He can come up with a story of how he's a lost ancient elven noble on the spot to get access to an important NPC, but ever since he joined team with Brynn ( @petardaaaa ‘s chasind archer), he sorta can't lie anymore. Because they consider it a very fkin dirty sin so sometimes it gets funny because he forgetskjfnl

28. who would they kill? who would they kill for? Virghil isn't the type to kill people out of hatred. He has a lot of people that did him dirty, people that hurt him and took his life from him, but he doesn't take it personally somehow? He just shrugs it off like "they had to do what they had to do". He'd def kill for his daughter tho. And Brynn, he sorta owes his life to her so it would probably make sense to him. Definitely not an executioner though, he prefers to let the people who were hurt solve it themselves and be the support.

30. what do they seek out from others? He'd love to know he can count on people. He doesn't need personal loyalty, but loyalty to getting things done. Common goal and equal devotion to it.

32. do they seek control, or do they want less of it? More. He's used to having things clear and under control, knowing what to do, but right now absolutely nothing makes sense, rules don't apply and he's lost in the motion just being dragged along the events.

51. what is the most beautiful thing in the world, for them? Whenever he came home from months of guarding the borders of Dales, without a fail, every single time, his daughter Ira would yell happily and drop whatever she was holding when she'd see him. He doesn't think anything can top that really, especially because he knows he wasn't a very present dad :’)

im big enough to admit ive been reading all the tags you've been adding to my gifsets and i should be thanking YOU for them 💖🥺💖

ive been trying to appreciate gawain like he DESERVES bc he's sad rebel uncle whomst i love. will be continuing to do this until i find smthn Else to hyperfixate on so

tagged by @paladinical to post nine albums i’ve listened to recently!! two of these are very short and none of them are very new but i’ve been taking a break from listening to music & also i usually don’t listen to albums all the way through anyway. i’d like to give myself a pat on the back for not including six albums by the killers, or either of the westworld s1/2 soundtracks. realistically that’s all i listen to

anyway here: @logandelos @adrianicsea @horaetio @suburbangothic @seafucker @horseshoecrabs @dabide @beyblaiddyd @sam-giddings and everyone else who wants to do it/who i forgot. no obligation ofc!!! music under the cut

i went digging around in my old journals bc i knew i had written about it and sure enough, in the entry for june 23, 2006 (so i was 13):

what this journal entry does NOT mention is that i was so goddamn starstruck by this dumb boat that i spent like an embarrassing eternity just video taping the ship as it did nothing, i was just so fucking psyched to be seeing it in real life, completely unexpected.

OKAY SO obviously this is based on the movie as i have not read any of the m&c books, here we go:

first up we have stephen maturin. why does he look like that. scrungly. i would carry him across the galapagos in a little handbag.

jack aubrey and i have the same initials which i find fun, but he qualifies for Very Little in terms of blorbo bingo, sorry jack old boy

now you wanna die? because i DID do the h.m.s. surprise and