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lucanis + the infamous grocery store text post

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Watching creators across the internet yap themselves into hating this game for no reason is actually so sad
I'm really dedicated to focusing on the positive, but your tags are so moving:
I feel this way, too! Internet culture as a microcosm of American hegemony pushes us to hedge everything we feel strongly about behind a masque of cynicism. The only emotion I am encouraged to express is RAGE, and only if my rhetoric (although not necessarily my argument) is strong enough to pull half of a polarized audience alongside. This will also make people angry with me, moreso if I have any marked traits, such as being a female, non-white, or queer person.
Collectively, we're pushed toward never making a statement about what we love, about what we enjoy, without adding qualifiers to showcase how we definitely do have good taste. We don't want to be criticized, and we're being bombarded by hundreds-of-millions to literally billions of dissenting opinions, so we literally can't escape it.
If we accept what we're being pushed toward, then the "light leave[s] our eyes" as we lose that connection to the things we love. Enjoying things is a skill, and it atrophies! Our focus actually does determine our reality! Suddenly even if we do want to leave off and enjoy looking at a painting, we find ourselves on autopilot, "comb[ing] through the paint to find the fibers the brush left behind", and we literally can't just shut off and have fun.
And what does this create? What joy or value or cultural progression does this encourage us toward? When we shut ourselves off from the vulnerability that artists showed us in sharing their work with the world, when we start by not sitting down for the dinner that they prepared for us, but instead start saying that the appetizer should have been pan fried instead of oven-roasted because that's the only valid method of preparation, what journey are we creating for ourselves and the people around us?
This is the dominant culture. This is the world that advertising and its endless hunger for engaging, polarizing content has created.
Let's counterculture, y'all.
Reblogging bc YES you’ve said this better than I ever could!
I love that we are discerning with our art and our consumption of that art. I understand why this tendency toward hyper vigilance and being almost afraid of enjoying things that are secretly Bad, Actually began. We embraced Death of the Author until the Author started being a bit of an asshole and we needed to resurrect them so we could tell them to stop shouting slurs from the grave. This is normal and good.
However, the moment we start using art not as a vehicle for humanity and feeling but rather as a puzzle we must solve to find the Problem within (and, critically, disparage others for not finding the Problem, slinging moralized rhetoric and demands for shame), we lose the purpose of art. We’ve lost the plot, literally.
It’s exhausting to feel like the nay-sayers are right by virtue of their cynicism alone and those of us who still enjoy things are silly or vapid or plain dumb. “Oh you sad stupid little baby, if only you knew that the things you love are garbage! If only you knew how to pay attention, you’d see how terrible it is and how terrible you are for liking it,” they cry, and so we must disclaim our own joy with “no no please, I am smart, I do pay attention!” and then we fall willingly into the trap, finding the nuggets of hate we can find, even if those things never bothered us in the first place, just so we can prove we have “earned” our right to enjoyment. This stinks especially when, in many cases, I find that people who talk the most shit have willfully misrepresented or otherwise ignored key aspects of the thing they claim to understand better than me.
It’s not shameful to like things. On the inverse, it’s also not shameful to DISLIKE things. What’s shameful is acting like some dude standing in front of a painting in an art gallery scoffing at every person who stops to admire it. “You know the artist used the wrong shade of blue for the water there. Didn’t notice that? Ha. Yeah, didn’t think so. You seem like the kind of person who’d like this garbage.” That’s…weird! What’s the “right” shade of blue, and why do you get to decide? Are you the artist? Do you work for the gallery? No? Then leave me alone! Let me derive my own meaning from things that were designed to be interpreted, and refrain from falsely attributing more value to your negative interpretation than my positive ones. It fails to be any kind of meaningful discourse and only succeeds at making us both miserable so you can pat yourself on the back for being smart enough to submit yourself to cynicism.
Anyway Veilguard is a good game 😊
i am a love at first sight rookanis truther. when rook stormed into the ossuary to save him lucanis felt like he was living out the opening scene of one of his romance novels and he was the blushing damsel. except he was doing spin blade attacks
Lucanis Dellamorte, the guy who avoids sleeping at all costs out of fear, tells Rook to talk to him as he falls asleep because their voice is a comfort and people say "his romance isn't good."
Lucanis, the guy who trapped his mind in a prison of his own making because he was afraid of the vulnerability of freedom, asks Rook to keep talking as he rests his head in their lap because when he's with Rook he knows he's safe in their arms and they're safe in his, and people say "he doesn't even seem to like Rook" BE SO FOR REAL WITH ME RIGHT NOW
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I remember when I first heard that Hallelujah was Solas' unofficial theme song I saw a lot of people trying to make this segment relate to Solas' feelings on Lavellan
And I always thought it sounded a bit too brutal for his relationship with Lavellan. These lyrics are so destructive. Lavellan isn't cruel to him like this. It doesn't make sense
But since Veilguard came out I realized. These were never about Lavellan
They were about Mythal
the lovers and death for the rook asks!
AH! Tysm for the ask :) The Lovers: Who is your Rook's most significant relationship within the Veilguard? How do they help Rook feel seen and understood?
My (most recent) Rook is a spirit of Change who discovered an abandoned elven baby in the lower levels of the Necropolis and somewhat accidentally took on its form (Cole you will always be famous). She doesn't remember ever being a spirit, but she has still always had a connection to the Fade and spirits despite having no inherent magic.
That said, she is closest to Emmrich. His wonder and love for the Fade is something she echoes, and his compassion for spirits + eagerness to test the limits on what a spirit can be in this world feels healing for her in a way she can't quite describe.
She does also feel close with Manfred, Spite, and Solas, for opposite reasons. Spite and Manfred feel familiar to her somehow, and she's compelled to guide them through his new world, though she has no idea why she's qualified to do so. Solas on the other hand, is so very old, and a part of her (the part that was once a spirit of Disruption who died and fractured during the fight against the Evanuris) still respects him and looks to him for guidance even when she knows she can't fully trust him.
Death: What part of Rook do they need to kill to become the best version of themselves?
As Change, evolution was the only goal for my Rook. Letting the past die and forging a new future. Even now, without her memories of being a spirit and having lived for some time in the waking world, she carries that proclivity for change within her in ways that get her in trouble and can make her blind to the benefits of remembering/honoring the past. It's definitely made it tough growing up in the Necropolis, a place where the dead continue to have a say beyond the grave.
Part of her journey in Veilguard is realizing that change has to be purposeful and informed by the lessons of the past, and that sometimes change is as simple as the laying of a single new brick on a foundation built long ago. She has to shed the aspects of change that brew chaos so that she can be an agent of real, lasting change for the benefit of her friends and allies.
thanks so much again for the ask!
from this post
Extremely funny to me how many of Davrins companion quests are some variation of “do you want to go take a walk” yes king I absolutely do thank you I love you
Rook Tarot Card Ask Game
Some in-depth character development questions for your Rook, inspired by the major arcana tarot cards
The Fool: Where did Rook's journey begin? What were they doing before joining the Veilguard?
The Magician: What are Rook's thoughts on Solas? Do they change as the story progresses?
The High Priestess: Which does Rook obey more: their head or their heart?
The Empress: What does family mean for Rook?
The Emperor: What does Rook's leadership style look like?
The Hierophant: Is Rook religious? How do they feel about the religious organizations that impact their life the most?
The Lovers: Who is your Rook's most significant relationship within the Veilguard? How do they help Rook feel seen and understood?
The Chariot: How does Rook fight? What are their preferred abilities and damage type?
Strength: What gives your Rook courage? What inspires them to keep fighting?
The Hermit: When Rook is alone with their thoughts, what do they think about? Is solitude a blessing or a curse for them?
The Wheel of Fortune: Describe an interesting character moment for your Rook. What made this moment stand out to you?
Justice: How does Rook feel about the circumstances that led to them leaving their faction? What does returning feel like?
The Hanged Man: What does Rook do when their hard work doesn't pay off? How do they cope with failure?
Death: What part of Rook do they need to kill to become the best version of themselves?
Temperance: What does Rook do to deal with the stress of their situation?
The Devil: What type of demon is most likely to target Rook? Why?
The Tower: How does Rook respond to unexpected catastrophe?
The Star: When things get dark, what gives Rook hope?
The Moon: How does Rook's past impact their values? Does their past come with any biases or blind spots they have to account for?
The Sun: What is Rook passionate about? How do they fuel that passion?
Judgement: How does Rook approach difficult decisions? How do they cope with the consequences of those choices?
The World: What does happily-ever-after look like for Rook? Is it attainable, or just wishful thinking?
The more I think about him the more I want to just write an entire rookanis fic from Lucanis’s POV
I have the most diabolically corny idea for a first kiss scene for these two but it's so perfect in my mind I don't know if I'll ever be able to write it lest I tarnish the vision

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Lucanis invented pumpkin spice lattes in thedas send post
Hello it is 12/21/2024 and it is BW fic comments Saturday again!
How it works:
Reblog this post with a link to your fic (or a fic you think is underrated) from the DA or ME fandoms (you could do the others, too, but I’m not as familiar with KOTOR, JE, BG, Anthem, etc)
I will reblog your rb so people can see it
I will go and read your fic
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I start with whoever posts first, and go down the list from there
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Thanks for sharing your work!
This sounds like a lovely way to find more fics, I'll definitely be lurking the reblogs 👀
I recently posted a short post-Veilguard Solavellan oneshot called Wisdom Wept, and Hope Replied if it strikes anyone's fancy! Also on tumblr linked here :)
I was gonna make a glib shitpost like "Veilguard didn't let us have a pet dog in the Lighthouse 0/10 I hate this game" then, right as I was about to hit post, I thought, with utter seriousness:
"Oh. Solas."
The crazy thing is, Lucanis' character is so well established. I reread The Wigmaker Job the other night. I was like damn, he sounds exactly like this in the game. Same dogged determination. Same priority of action over thought. "I'm fine". Self sacrificing. Speaks shortly and matter of factly. Willing to put himself through incredible pain to finish what he started.
Like, I wish we gave the writers more credit with how consistently he's written. Over a number of years of game development hell. They knew who he was, his motivations, his speech, his internal landscape. Dude literally recites a childhood assassin's nursery rhyme to himself as he kills 7 guards in the Ambrose's palace. That's why his emotions recalling the wyvern book to the lighthouse was like, not surprising to me at all. dude's inner child has been so compromised and destroyed this entire time.
Anyway I wish that someday I could write a character this outstanding. That's all. I'm just here to glaze.
what a day lucanis is having during his recruitment mission. welcome back from your year at The Horrors camp man. your grandma is dead (you missed seeing her again by hours), your hometown is under brutal occupation, the demon situation is going to be permanent I'm very much afraid, and incidentally the reason everything seems to be on fire is that the world is actively ending. yeah you've heard about the blight? we're at double blight right now. how did his day start at 'I'm in hell' and get worse from there I'm crying

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Watching creators across the internet yap themselves into hating this game for no reason is actually so sad
When they called Veilguard the most romantic Dragon Age, they were talking about Evka and Antoine by the way.