I'm just a lover of a lot of things, occasionally taken over by the need to share politics. I write, I beta, I teach! And then I lay down crying into a latte cuz I haven't slept enough. I published a novel! "The Coward's Emblem" by A.D. Guier. 😉 The sequel is in the works. For fanfics, I've written for Sterek (Teen Wolf), Harvest Moon, Eyeshield 21, and more. Currently working on: Dragon Age stuff. Absolutely obsessed with Dragon Age, it's a problem.
A bit more basic: cis, she/her, older than you'd think, and doing my best
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Profile: Lanil (Surana) Lavellan from DA:I
Chapter 7: Cast into darkness The light we had won.
Nearly the entirety Part One (if not the fic) revolved around this one scene where Lanil FINALLY meets Alistair. Fantastic set up (imo) for the subplot they'll embark on after this.
Chapter 7: Cast into darkness The light we had won.
Nearly the entirety Part One (if not the fic) revolved around this one scene where Lanil FINALLY meets Alistair. Fantastic set up (imo) for the subplot they'll embark on after this.
did i tell u guys i got into an argument on twitter bc i said foxes are dogs and someone tried to bring up their actual fuckin. classification or whatever and i just said “foxes are dogs cause they are fluffye” and they kept arguing with me. the entire time i was like “you will not survive the immigration to tumblr you are lucky we are not there right now”
You ever think how ironic it is that Anders let a benign spirit into his body, then his emotions corrupted it into a demon, then he let the demon drive him to acts of unspeakable terror? I mean, in reality he's like, a textbook example of what everyone was so afraid of that caused the creation the circles in the first place... It's a real bummer :(
Unspeakable terrors? You mean like running a free clinic for all the poor people in Kirkwall for 7 years and not asking for compensation in return? You mean like helping mages escape the most tranquil-happy Circle in Thedas; to get away from murderers like Meredith and r*pists like Alrick, despite being an apostate himself and risking being turned Tranquil or murdered?
Also, Justice is NOT benign and never has been. You friggin’ meet him when he’s holding a revolution outside a witch/demon’s domain in the fade! The entire drive of his existence is to find and execute justice, by any means necessary.
Everyone is afraid of mages because they’ve been fed the ���Maker hates his cursed children’ and ‘Mages are evil incarnate’ slosh over and over for nearly 1,000 years. The Chantry uses its power and influence to drive the ‘Darkspawn and Blights came from the magisters of Tevinter therefore they are evil’ rhetoric into the mass public to allow the continued discrimination and control of mages. Even if that story might be true, is it just to continue punishing people who aren’t related for a crime they never committed?
The magisters were awful people; ones who condoned slavery and the sacrifice of elves and non magic folk alike in order to gain more power for their rituals. They stormed the Fade to find the Maker out of hubris. Anders destroyed the Chantry (a decision that took him seven years and a threat of eminent death by Meredith to make, mind you) because it’s the root of the oppression and abuse that modern mages face. Chantry apologists and those who don’t care for mages will dictate his actions ‘just as bad as those that led to the creation of the circles’ because it is convenient to do so.
Now, does that make a majority of the deaths that occurred as a result of his action, right? Justified? No. And Anders knows it. That’s why he offers his life as justice for those who were disgusted and angered by his actions. If he was truly in it to cause “terror”, he would have killed any who tried to oppose him afterward, or gone directly to killing templars.
All he wanted was for people to stop looking at the Chantry as a solution when it was clearly the problem.
The only critical thing about Anders is that his intersectionality sucks.
almost none of the reasons why i support abortion rights have anything to do with babies. really it’s more about the fact that I think the government shouldn’t be able to force you to lend all your organs to someone else and change irreparably in the process. is a fetus a person? I don’t care! If it is a person, I don’t want anyone to be forced to host one against their will! If it isn’t a person, guess what? Nobody should be forced to host one against their will! What’s a soul? What’s a person? When does life begin? IRRELEVANT! A world in which the government can force anyone to manufacture an entirely new human body at the cost of their own is not a world I want to live in!