So The Cursed Sword Has Been Making A Lot Of Sense Lately

The nature of the Veil

I never post meta because I prefer to write it out, but Wikipedia has some really great animations of the harmonic series.  I saw it and thought… what if this is how the Veil works?  What if the Veil is the dissonance that disrupts the consonant, harmonic nature between the real world and the Fade?

Fundamental

First overtone

Second overtone

Third overtone

There are waveform animations over at Wiki, but this presents a few ideas to me regarding partial breaches of the Veil/thinning of the Veil.  I’m not going to go much farther than this conceptualization because I don’t think truly this is how magic works in Thedas, but when the Inquisitor says, “The Veil is more like a vibration,” this is what I think about.

Katniss's Narration vs Haymitch's Narration

"Davrin sacrificing himself is so tragic because Assan—" Davrin sacrificing himself is tragic because it goes counter to his character development. Davrin spends the whole game learning that he doesn't need to be a weapon, that he has another path before him (like the griffons, whose 'outcome' directly parallels the struggle Davrin faces regarding his own identity). He goes from insisting that he's just Assan's bodyguard to embracing his caretaker role to the griffon. He struggles immensely with surviving Weisshaupt and, specifically, killing Ghilan'nain's archdemon, because he has spent so long believing that he - like all Wardens - is just a weapon to be used until it breaks. His character arc is about learning that he can be more, that he can be something else. That his future doesn't have to include fighting monsters until one eventually takes him down.

And if he dies fighting Ghilan'nain, he never gets to see that future.

NET NEUTRALITY IS NOT. DEAD. YET.

it’s dying, but it’s NOT. DEAD. YET.

we can still save this old horse.

now here’s whatcha gotta do.

go to battleforthenet.com and call your house reps; a house vote on the cra is soon to come!!!

PETITIONS WON’T HELP, BY THE WAY. THEY’RE USELESS AND WON’T GET THE GRAVY TRAIN MOVIN’.

now GO!!!

you will feel so alive again.. like so incredibly alive. i dont know when that will be but it will be. u are gonna feel so alive that ur cheeks hurt from smiling oh man oh man i promise that day is coming. you do have a future, you do have good things coming, and you’ll survive everything that’s thrown at you until you reach that day

If you would be so kind as to reblog this if you feel insecure about your writing skills.

A small PSA to all those new to dealing with the porn bots that Tumblr now has a fresh wave of – I understand that when you go to report them, you want to report them as "[containing] sexually explicit material", but don't do that. Report them as spam instead.

These are spam bots flooding tags and the website in general with spam links. They often do not have anything sexually explicit on their blog (although they often have implicit material). Plus, these two reports get very different results. Reporting explicit material gets the bot slapped behind an 18+ wall, so minors can't check if they're a bot or not. Reporting spam gets the bot taken down.

Remember, folks: when dealing with a bot, report spam, not smut!

For @otheliame : Yes I’m still working on it haha XD !

Julian as Zevran (the Antiva Crow concept art outfit), it was requested by manyyyyyy ! Thank you so much for your interest and your support with this crossover, this is the best ^^

I’m thinking about keeping the casual Zevran outfit for Lucio because to me he also could make a good Zevran haha 😆 (or maybe a male Isabella ? 👀).

And Julian as Anders, for @xxdaughterofapolloxx and @heyitsmaat (and surely others but I got lost in the comments and tags argh), I really really love the idea ! I think Julian looks stunning with Zevran’s design but in my opinion Anders’ personality is very interesting for Julian, and they both have a dramatic side XD

I'm going to preface this by saying: if you aren't ready to regulate after what just happened with the election, keep scrolling! You don't have to rush your horror at what happened and immediately get back up and at em if you truly aren't ready. But if you find yourself falling into doomerism and your emotions AREN'T temporary mourning (or you're ready to hear something other than doomerism), maybe this post is for you.

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If you think this election means we're "past the point of no return", you haven't faced a lot of failure in your life, have you? You haven't read a lot of history about social movements and revolutions, have you?

Do you think we just started working for this election alone and now that it's over...the buzzer has sounded and the game's over? I know that's a minimizing comparison, but really, what other situation do you know of in real life where if the outcome you didn't want occurs, it's over, no coming back, can't fight against it?

Was there 'no coming back' for Germany after the Nazis took power? Was there 'no coming back' from the Trans-Atlantic slave trade? Did the oppressed and their allies just say 'well, we tried to make the slave trade illegal and it didn't work - how is everyone still working as abolitionists?? Do they not know how damning this is??' No. Well, probably some of them did, but the others - the ones who had been fighting before any sort of legislation was ever conceived, they took the hit but kept fighting.

Just because the fight is hard and you don't succeed every time you try something doesn't mean it's over. We just elected the first fucking trans woman to Congress! But because Trump won the presidency, that all of a sudden doesn't matter? You think you can just throw in the towel?

Grief and horror and dejection (yes, even plans to escape the country if you're part of the most affected groups) is 100% normal and good to feel. BUT never ever ever let that balance tilt to full-on doomerism that paralyzes you and makes you stop fighting forever. Take the time you need to process, but telling everyone that we're 'past the point of no return' is doing the work of the oppressors for them.

When I was getting my degree in criminal justice (criminology: law and society undergrad and full on CJ masters), I read enough history to understand that we're crawling up a mountain of shattered glass. Those before us bled to death crawling up that mountain so that their bodies could shield us and allow us to crawl up a bit farther before we start getting cut. Which allows us to crawl that much farther and lay down ours so those after us can be protected from the glass that cut us.

Is that inspiring to know that you're planting seeds in a garden you'll never get to see? Never knowing if those seeds will truly come to fruition despite the pain and horrors you faced? Nah, probably not. But the alternative? Giving up because you didn't get everything you wanted (and deserve as a baseline for being alive) in this one election - that doesn't mean it'll never happen. You know what's a guaranteed way to make sure it DOESN'T ever happen? Deciding we're past the point of no return and paralyzing yourself.

I'm not suggesting we wait till next election and try to get them then. I've been working outside elections a long time - everyone who ever made a difference in the cultural landscape worked outside elections. Maybe it's time you started, too.

You'll face a hell of a lot more failure than just one big blow every 4 years, but if you get back up after each failure and keep at it, you WILL make a difference.

he would not fucking say that but it would be funny if he did