#imperial highway

[lairofdragonagelore]

Imperial Highway Columns

A compilation of what we know and what we can speculate about this pair of statues that I tagged as Female Kossith/ Desire demon /Tevinter Warrior in the lore blog.

[This post belongs to the series “Analysis and speculation of Statues”]

Where do they appear?

These statues appear few times in DAI:

In the Fade, aligned with the colossus statue of Andraste [check The Raw Fade - Part 1].

In the Hissing Wastes in what seems to be a very old ruin that we don’t know its original purpose for sure, probably as old as Fairel’s Thaig [check Hissing Wastes: Venatori main camp].

In the Emprise du Lion, where it is explicitly said that it was conserved from the original design of the Imperial Highway [check Emprise du Lion: Pools of the Sun and  Sahrnia and surroundings]

And the Shattered Library, in particular at the entrance of the Inverted Ward [ check the Shattered Library; Inverted Ward]

Why they appear in those places?

If we remember the codex The Laws of Nature in the Fade, we can understand that the objects with the purpose of connection will appear in the Fade reinforcing such purpose. If the Imperial Highway helped to connect cities, it seems natural to have a reflection of it in this Shattered Library which also had a connection purpose: according to The Archivist’s words, cities were connected through records and elvhen through shared memories [let’s remember that the Shattered Library was originally too entangled with the Fade and may have some Fade-propierties such as reflecting parts of the Waking World]. 

That these statues appear in the Emprise du Lion is only natural and obvious: they are decorations of the ancient Imperial Highway that crossed this region.

However, the presence of these statues in the Hissing Wastes is not that clear. The map of Thedas with the Imperial Highway seems to suggest that it reached deep into this zone but somehow, it disappeared [probably due to the same event that turned this green, forest-like zone into a barren desert, more details in Hissing Wastes: Venatori main camp]. Only a small bifurcation that dies soon into the region can be seen in the map. Considering that the Fariel’s dwarves developed a surface Thaig here, and were a house focused on runes [which were used in the construction of Kirkwall, read Kirkwall history and design for more details], potential trade relationships with Tevinter may have been established, and therefore, makes sense for the Imperial Highway to reach this place. For reasons unknown, it disappeared. Or as we see it in the game, they are underground, covered by sand.

Lore and design

I think that a reliable piece of lore we can grab for these statues is the one presented in Emprise du Lion: These statues are Tevinter-made, and are, in fact, the columns that have been decorating the Imperial Highway since a long time ago. 

It’s true that DAO showed to us a different Highway, a lot simpler, but I guess we can agree that the engine limitations worked against them. 

So, if they are Tevinter-made, this means that the iconography they show belong to an ancient Tevinter perspective. This gives us the context in which we should be placing them: Ancient Tevinter, even though we know very little about it.  Let’s try to analyse each of them.

The man holding the sword

The statue of the Tevinter Warrior has the following details:

Thanks to World of Thedas and Art of Inquisition books, we know that this figure--and that helm in particular--represents a Tevinter Warrior. There is also a chance for it to represent a Venatori warrior in particular. Since Venatori are extremist nationalists, their symbols are deeply entangled with Tevinter iconography so it is always difficult to separate what’s Venatori from what it is national design.

His helmet has a spike that reminds Andraste’s helm as well. In the Fade they are aligned in a way that the game suggests the player to make that connection. But we also know that Mythal and Andraste are linked in the same fashion through a single-spiked helm, so the fact that a Tevinter warrior wears this helmet has equal chances to represent him as honouring Andraste or an Old God/Great Dragon as Mythal was.

A snake surrounds him.

His figure rests against a structure which is filled with thorns or spikes similar to the object I called “Tevinter artefact with spikes”.

On his back, he has more or less 10 skulls and long bones aligned as if he were resting against a backrest chair made of them.

He holds a sword which hilt looks like a face in a triangular shape. It is not clear to me if this figure represents the Archon or something else. It may also be related to the dragon-like single face we find in Nation Art: Tevinter.

In fact, that sword is the representation of Hessarian’s sword with which he killed Andraste out of mercy. We can see it in detail in the triptych I analysed in Andrastian Design: Tapestry and Tryptich. That the Tevinter warrior is holding the same sword related to the death of Andraste, may relate him to the Archon Hessarian, but also to the conversion that Tevinter had in that old time to the Andrastian’s Faith. If this Tevinter warrior represents a Venatori, as the books of Art and World of Thedas seem to suggest, it would be used as a symbol of the sword that killed Andraste who put in danger the faith of the Old Gods [we spoke about the context of Andraste’s Exalted March on Tevinter in the post “The Chantry and the Mythology of the Chant of Light”]. What annoys me of this interpretation is that we are assuming this sword is related to Andraste in a time when Andraste was still not born. The Imperial Highway had been developed long time before she began the Prophet of the Maker, so this sword should be related to Tevinter ancient symbols and not recent ones. So I’m assuming it may represent a national symbol of power of an Archon, or his hierarchy, therefore, it makes sense for Hessarian to use it during the burning of Andraste. What a I mean is, maybe this sword is an Archon symbol of power [as it is his rings] and it is as ancient as Tevinter itself.

If this sword represents the power or the hierarchy of an Archon, the fact that it is present in these statues implies that the Tevinter/Venatori Warrior is, in fact, an Archon. Or may represent the military power at the hands of the Archon in the Ancient Tevinter. As we can see, it’s not clear why this sword, with such a strong symbolism, is here and what it represents.

It’s also curious that the replica of this sword in DA2 [ Blade of Mercy], has nothing to do with this design.

The horned woman, or female kossith or potential desire demon

She has horns. They don’t look like the same kind of horns we have seen in desire demons, which are longer and go backwards and then forward and have some complexity in their design. In fact, the base of her horns look more similar to Qunari’s [look at the Arishok]. These horns also look a bit similar to the ones we saw in the Viddasala or in the Tamassran in the comic. This is one of the main reasons why I always tended to think in it as a Kossith, and not a demon.

She has pointy ears, which again, it’s not the design of the desire demons. I like to highlight that the fact that desire demons have rounded ears is not only present in DAO, but in DA2 [check the visuals of Xebenkeck, who shares their design]. It was in DA2 where the qunari began to show pointy ears. And it became a fact since in DAI and comics we have the reinforcement of these ears. Of course, Sten never had this design because DAO struggled with the design of the Qunari, their horns, and helms.

On her chest and solar plexus there are thick lines that look like veins (of lyrium?). The symbol on her chest resembles the symbol on the chest we found on the main Old God statue in DAO during the Dalish origin [of course, we have to consier the limitations of that old engine]. To me it looks like a sketchy dragon shape. It may, potentially, have some relatinoship with the design of some Vallaslins [specially the ones related to Dirthamen and Falon’Din, which makes sense if we remember that this statue in DAO represents Falon’Din. More details in Dalish Camp and Dalish Origin and Humanoid Dirthamen]

Her neck, head, and left shoulder show some tendrils or texture similar to the one that chastely covers her breasts.

The "thing” around her horns and ears look very similar to the red cord that the Viddasala wears. To me, it is not clear if the statue has some decorative cords there, or it’s part of the strange textures attached to different parts of her body, or it’s a relief that belongs to her horns.

There is a long object that comes out from her legs. It seems to be a snake with a rhomboid scale pattern. It’s not clear if that snake covers her or is being born from her.

Her figure rests against a structure which is filled with thorns or spikes similar to the ones in the object I called “Tevinter artefact with spikes”.

Elements common to both

They are not two different statues put together, but one; each of them resting on the back of the other and wrapped with the same snake. Both rest their backs against an element with spikes [a thorny thick vine?] that resembles a lot the spikes of a Tevinter artefact I called “Tevinter artefact with spikes”. I never could speculate its function. 

The snake keeps them in place and wrapped. The snake seem to come out from her groin, so there is meaning in it: she may be giving birth to the Snake, which wraps and keeps in place her figure and the Tevinter Warrior’s. A potential interpretation is that she represents the “Mother of Tevinter”, as important as the military army of Tevinter in the development of the Empire. Or she is deeply “entangled” with the military army of Tevinter [bound spells? Sacrifice for Blood Magic? Slavery?]

Since the snake comes from her and restrains both figures to one another, another interpretation is that through her, Tevinter may have acquired the ability of “binding spells” for military, expansionist purposes considering how much this magic is related to demons, Kossith, Tevinter, and blood magic mixed with Dragons and/or reptiles [check the implications of Tevinter having potentially created the race of the Qunari in Tevinter Mosaics, or the potential of having bound Hakkon to a Dragon in Frostback Basin [DLC]: Ancient Tevinter presence, Speculation].

Both figures are only directly associated with the codex Judicael's Crossing in Emprise du Lion: “Judicael's Crossing's structural supports bear architectural and decorative elements that mimic those of the ancient Tevinter highway it replaced. One can see their like several miles away in the archways rising above the village of Sahrnia. The Andrastian statues that decorate the walkway, however, are entirely Orlesian in style.”  This is the main source I use to assume these statues belong to the Imperial Highway as decorative columns that support it. And I trust that the resconstruction of the archways preserved the statues since their reflection in the Fade are exactly the same.

Thanks to the excavation in Hissing Wastes: Venatori main camp, we can relate this pair of statues to the lids of Razikale Ceremony lid and the Horned warrior holding a sword lid too. I already did a long analysis of these lids, and related them to elvhenan in the post Razikale Ceremony and Dumat’s Warrior tablets. They seem to coincide with the hypothesis I’ve been working on for a while in the comic section of the blog, where I have the impression that Tevinter worshipped their own version of ancient gods which Elvhenan worshipped before becaming divine through the stealing of power from Dragons and/or Titans.

Thanks to the Shattered Library; Inverted Ward, we can see their base: they seem to stay onto a small mountain/hill decorated with skulls.

Speculation section  

Considering we established already that this pair of statues are of Tevinter origin, more precisely, related to the Imperial Highway, we should be able to develop speculations within the context of the Ancient Tevinter. My goal is to explain what they may represent that gave Tevinter so much pride to repeat it in each column that decorated the Highway all across Thedas.

Two things are of importance to keep in mind when we analyse this: 

This is from the time of Ancient Tevinter. The construction of the Imperial Highway was made a long time before the First Blight. We know that part of the stone used to built it was mined by slaves in Emerius [the old name that used to have Kirkwall, details in Kirkwall history and design].

The Highway was used to deliver supplies to far away Tevinter outposts [like in Frostback Basin [DLC]: Razikale’s Reach], as well as to extend their imperial power over the South and to favour businesses with Dwarves.

Speculation 1: She represents a desire demon or a Forbidden One, and the snake that she is giving birth is a representation of how deals with demons helped Tevinter to become an expansionist empire [ check the myth of the Chantry in Threonides 6 from Chant of Light - Part 1, and codices found in Kirkwall, detailed in the post Tarohne, the Fell Grimoire, and Xebenkeck], but also “restrained” or locked it into the deal that was made. The snake may also represent the powerful magic of binding demon that Tevinter used to have and abuse. This magic can be seen in Corypheus and his deep knowledge of how to bind demons to Grey Warden and control the Wardens in the processs.

The Tevinter Warrior represents Tevinter military power, which became more powerful as they added the knowledge of the blood magic school that these demons taught them. It was also thanks to this magic/deal that Tevinter developed into a sucessful expansionist empire up to the First Blight.  The Tevinter Warrior may also represent a Venatori, implying that this radical group existed since ancient times [I don’t think we have lore to support this interpretation, however]

PROS

The man in the sculpture represents a generic Tevinter Warrior, mostly a symbol of the military power of an expansionist Empire. We must remember these sculptures appear in the Imperial Highway which was a construction that allowed Tevinter to expand and conquer the South and deliver supplies to its outposts. It was through the military aspect that Tevinter invaded and slaved the Alamarri tribes spread all over the South region. So, it makes sense for the main means that allowed the expansion to be represented in a construction that connected the Empire with the invaded regions. This interpretation about the Tevinter Warrior is valid for both speculations.

If she is a demon, it makes sense for her to appear in Tevinter iconography, since we know with some degree of reliability that humans learnt complex Blood magic from demons [read Tarohne, the Fell Grimoire, and Xebenkeck] but we also know that this magic may come from the Elvhenan. We also know that, from all the nations of Thedas, Tevinter is the main one using this school of magic in a regular, yet non-open, way. That she is represented in the Highway may be a symbol of power, a symbol of how she was the means that allowed all what represents the Tevinter Warrior to have power to conquer almost all Thedas in ancient times. 

CONS

That the Tevinter Warrior may represent an ancient Venatori seems unlikely, because we don’t have any proof of this group and its activity in ancient ruins, and we explored a lot of them in Western Approach and Hissing Wastes. We don’t know how old Venatori are.

Design counter-argument: If she is a demon, her ears are pointy, which is not the case of desire demons [the kind of demon she resembles the most]. Her horns also differ a lot from the ones that desire demons have.

As I was corrected in the comments, it is true that Tevinter not always hid its use of blood magic [related to the cult of the Old Gods/dragons] and demons. However, when the nation converted to the Andrastian faith, after Andraste’s death, it turned into a “secret” that only happened within closed door. In this case, one would expect images of demons as prolific as the images of Dragons in Ancient Tevinter ruins or Tevinter design/style.  However, so far I know, I never saw Tevinter art related to demons, since they may have been seen mostly as Corypheus sees them [implied in the way Corypheus taught Venatori and Grey Warden to bind themselves to them]: mere tools to use, pretty much as the elvhen slaves, which also have no central position in any piece of Tevinter art we saw. So I still think it is odd for Tevinter to openly represent a “dischargeable tool”, something with no value to them, in the Highway, so openly [especially because we have no other examples of demon representations in Tevinter art too].

Speculation 2: The Tevinter Warrior representation holds the same as in the previous speculation. What I change in this second attempt to explain these statues is the female figure: She is a Qunari or a prototype of a Qunari, aka a Kossith, who was used in the development and creation of the Tevinter empire, in the same way as Tevinter Warriors in their military army.

PROS

Her horns and pointy ears are closer to what we have seen in the Qunari design since DA2 than to a desire demon design.

We have been hinted by some characters along the games that Kossith existed and may have been a bit different to the modern Qunari.

Lore-wise, we know that Tevinter used Qunari as slaves and sacrifices in ancient times, according to the Tevinter Mosaics. They were so proud of them that the  Qunari ancestors were depicted in these mosaics [in particular in “Sacrifice”] with the detailed face of important magisters.

Through the Tevinter Mosaics, we had speculated that the Qunari seem to be a crafted race by Tevinter [details in Frostback Mountains: Somewhere North], with the purpose of being powerful sacrifices and strong slaves. As such, they may have been, in the beginning, a symbol of what Tevinter could do with its deep knowledge of the arcane, and therefore, a craft they were proud of. Something happened later that made this pride vanish, hence the “corrections” or erasure of horns in these Mosaics. Corypheus also shouts to a Qunari Inquisitor “your race was a mistake”, which seems to fit this idea of Tevinter being proud of their creation but then, after some unknown event [rebellion?], feeling shame of it.

Also, if the Qunari were depicted in the Mosaics without shame [until later, where some horns were erased and appeared some signs of disapproval about them] it makes sense for them to appear in the Highway. As a [potentially] crafted race they were proud of, which helped them to acquire power for expansion and conquer. 

CONS

The presentation of the qunari in the Tevinter Mosaics has been done after the First Blight or so [we assume this because the set of mosaics also depict scenes of the Chant of Light and the Magisters being burnt, so the event of stepping into the Black City may have happened after this artist made these mosaics, and also after the blame on Tevinter about the spread of the Blight was installed in the population]. The Imperial Highway is older than the Blights, so the only speculation we can make to keep things consistent is that Qunari [or Kossith] were immensely important in the development of Tevinter since the time of the Neomerian empire but, for some reason, the only old depict we have of them is the one presented in these mosaics. Maybe in DA4, travelling to Tevinter, we will have access to ancient Tevinter information that may enlighten this speculation.

#Analysis and speculation of Statues #Female Kossith/ Desire demon /Tevinter Warrior #imperial highway

[ammocharis]

Imperial Highway sea bridge?

So there's a branch of the Imperial Highway that crosses the Waking Sea, it's fragmented so no one uses it anymore. Still, I'd be curious to see what remains of it. If not in the actual game then an artwork.

It must've been a gigantic project for the Magisters to complete, I imagine they used copious amount of magic. How long was the bridge usable? Did it fall into disrepair over time, or was it intentionally demolished?

#dragon age #imperial highway

[storybookhawke]

I don't think I ever realized the imperial highway was RIGHT THERE in the intro

#imperial highway #tevinter #ferelden #dragon age 2 #dragon age ii #sbh #sbh screenshots #da2 #da2game

[shivunin]

WIP Wednesday

Thank you for the tags @greypetrel and @demandthedoodles! It might be misleading to call this part of a WIP because upon editing I fear I may have to cut this bit. But it's too funny to toss into the void and it doesn't fit with anything else I'm working on at the moment, so here's part of a letter exchange between Varric and Fenris post-HLTA.

A series of letters passed between Skyhold, a dead drop on the border between Tevinter and the Free Marches, and northeastern Ferelden: 

28 Kingsway, 9:41 Dragon

Fenris, 

Hawke is fine. 

That’s how she wanted me to open this letter, so there: Hawke is fine. In my personal, expert opinion, I think it’s bullshit. She has that look about her—the one she had after Leandra died. You know the one I mean. 

I’ll let her tell you herself, because you’ll never believe me if I try to explain. I wouldn’t believe myself, to be honest. Her trip down the mountain keeps getting delayed, but officially she’s headed to Weisshaupt. She said you’d know what she meant by it. 

Don’t bother asking me why I’m the one writing to you and not her. I asked her the same thing and she wouldn't give me a straight answer. 

As for the Inquisition: I wouldn’t bother. Sort of get the feeling there’s too many folks here you’d rather avoid. The whole “castle on a hill” thing makes this place hard to sneak away from, I can tell you that from experience. We have good people here. They’ll figure this whole thing out. 

She refuses to stick around. Said she has a promise to keep, and she wouldn’t take any coin no matter how much they offered her. Between you and me, I tried to talk her into taking it—they’re good for it, and she might as well get something in exchange for everything else, but you know Hawke. She got that look in her eyes and said she’d have the loan of a horse and nothing else. Wasn’t really sure what else I could do. 

Just—take care of her, would you? 

Your friend, 

Varric

10 Harvestmere, 9:41 Dragon

Varric, 

You are mistaken. Where is she?

—F

15 Harvestmere, 9:41 Dragon

Fenris, 

You know everything I know. Would it kill you to sign your letters properly, by the way? You have no idea how many of these things I send and receive in a day. 

She left, is all I know. Didn’t want to be too specific for reasons I’m sure she’ll explain for herself.  I’m not keeping anything from you. She said what she said and she hasn’t written to tell me otherwise. I don’t know what to tell you, Broody. Maybe go where she sent you and wait. 

Listen, I’m set to go out on a set of missions in the next few days. They’ll pass on any messages, but I might not be able to answer right away.

Your friend, 

—Varric 

18 Harvestmere, 9:41 Dragon

Varric, 

Hawke was not there. Nobody was there. Where have they put her? If you cannot give me a straight answer, I will ask you in person. 

—Fenris

And finally, an undated and unfinished letter tucked inside a writing case in a Hinterlands encampment:

Broody, 

I can’t tell you anything you didn’t read in the first letter. 

Hawke left Skyhold in one piece. If I use the Inquisition’s agents to track her down, then they’ll know where she is. She explicitly asked me not to do that. So I’m not sure what you want me

The letter ends in a large, angled splotch of spilled ink.

(Originally, this was followed by a scene where Fenris is shaking Varric by the lapels. Despite being very funny, it didn't quite fit right, either. Alas. Someday.)

Tagging (no pressure as always, lmk if you don't want to be tagged, etc.): @daggerbean @dungeons-and-dragon-age @brother-genitivi @ndostairlyrium @idolsgf @gvnseylike @palipunk

#wip wednesday #shivunin scrivening #you see the problem is she went home by way of crestwood so she could pick up her mabari from the port #and hang out w merriIl for a few days #while fenris went south via the imperial highway #so they just barely missed each other #(i've been knee deep in a ME thing for the last few days and my mostly-done DA things feel too heavy to toss into one of these wip posts) #(so this is what i got lol)

[thedailymobile]

“Imperial Pursuit”

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#401 #clouds #driving #dusk #highway #Highway 401 #Imperial Star Destroyer #Star Destroyer #Star Wars #taillights

[kissingwookiees]

i cant decide if brendan and dorian ever adopt kids bc brendans fixated on the world ending and dorian is in politics... but i can confirm they have two dogs! not mabari but the thedosian equivalent of a sight hound.

#inspired by those two dog statues on the imperial highway in empris du lion #i think orlais and tevene would be a big sight hound culture #tevene obviously has war dogs too bc thats supposedly where mabari are bred from according to fenris #and orlesians love hunting and such #and have all those plains and the dales and also DESERT #it just makes sense #WHY DID I SAY TEVENE??? i meant tevinter

[other-peoples-coats]

struck by the idea where, For Reasons, plan saddest desert hermit doesn't get off the ground and team proto-rebellion have to pivot and pivot fast.

chucking the conspiracy equivalent of a uey at 100mph on the highway, and everyone involved is sleep deprived, stressed as fuck, and experiencing y'know, several levels of Devastating Grief.

the person with the brain cell is bail organa, a man who in canon spends like 20 fucking years playing ding dong ditch with a genocidal psychic space wizard and his boss, an even more genocidal space wizard. This man is not lacking in gumption, one can say. he is possessed of life threatening amounts of chutzpah, one might also say, except that he spends twenty years winning the ding dong ditch match with, again, a genocidal fascist dictatorship which includes two genocidal psychic space wizards who literally know he was in tight with the genocided group of space wizards plus the [mumble] number of other murderous genocidal space wizards, plus the rest of the non-space wizard space fascist cohort.

So. What does a man with a spine of steel, a heart as big as a planet, and more gumption than anyone should possess do, when plan 'split up the kids and hide the most famous man in the galaxy on the saddest hell planet' is a no go?

lie. lie like a fucking rug.

What's palpatine going to do? day one of the empire, his super awesome chosen one space wizard makeover project is still in progress and not yet wheezing his way into the galaxy's nightmares, and bail fucking organa strolls into the imperial senate with:

one (1) baby (female)

one (1) baby (male)

several (~20+) aides and various hangers on, including;

one (1) brown haired blue eyed man who could, if you squinted a bit, probably get third place in a general kenobi lookalike competition, were those now not super duper illegal

Sidious, of course, could be like A JEDI KILL HIM TRAITOR ETC, but, crucially, his wheezing attack dog is still on the lab table getting seven inches added to his height and cup holders installed, or whatever the fuck skeevy sheev added in as extras. Palpatine is an old guy who is still trading on being A Beloved Grandfather who was Reluctant To Take The Throne, and is still easing the galaxy into the whole, y'know, we're a fascist empire now, kneel or perish.

Palpatine, on day one of the empire, can't point at bail fucking organa and be like HABOURING A TRAITOR unless he is really, really sure, like 110% sure, because it's bail fucking organa and every goddamn senator will baulk like a horse at a plastic bag if he accuses, again, the senator of alderaan of high treason on day one of the empire.

A secret rebellion is fine, if not ideal; you can theoretically stamp it out, and, also, it's small, percentage wise.

The entire fucking galaxy thinking that, hey, if the guy in charge is going to go after fucking alderaan, what's to stop him going after us? bigger problem. huge problem. original trilogy kinda touched on that one. Day one of the empire, everyone is still basically on war footing, and fuck man, if alderaan is copping it....maybe this empire isn't great after all. maybe we can make our OWN empire, with a different emperor.

Would palps win? eh maybe. would it destroy all credibility forever and ever amen? yeah. the difference between a 'legally installed emperor' and 'a dictator we must overthrow' is how willing the galaxy is to lick boot, and there's not yet the fear of The Empire black bagging you to keep those tongues going.

so. palpatine can't say shit. palpatine can imply shit, palpatine can get his lackies to say shit. but, crucially, palpatine himself can't say fuck all about the goddamn kenobi lookalike that is now following after organa and wiping his kid's little butts and playing gofer and whatever else.

and what's more believable? bail fucking organa is hiding a traitor, or bail organa and his wife have a situationship with a guy who looks sort of a bit like a former general? the same kind of situationship that like, half the senate has had at one point or another with a guy (or guys) who looked sort of a bit like said ex-general. go to any high level business and/or political building, you'll find half a dozen guys who look vaguely like said hot ex-general, and many of them will have a more or less (often less) accurate coruscanti-ish accent. or will develop one.

(hey, it's a niche. gotta pay the bills somehow, and if you get the job because you dyed your hair and grew a beard, well, you're still using your political science degree, right?)

of course, that only holds for so long, but by that point it's been, y'know, a while. and that looks worse in a different way -- what, kenobi was fucking walking around in front of the whole imperial senate, and none of them noticed? absolutely not, all credibility is gone forever.

which means. that palpatine and the organas are stuck in a full on staring match about this guy who is 100% for sure not kenobi, because -- well. he can't be kenobi. becuase that would look bad. but also. it's kenobi. but also. it can't be kenobi.

(vader takes one look at this guy who looks like his master kenobi and then rolls his eyes, because he has already met aproximately 90,000 people who look vaugely like his master and he got very good at picking out how the newest one was not kenobi his master by the time he was a senior padawan.)

#bail organa #star wars #bailbrehaobi #like. implied #sort of. #star wars crack #coats originals #the plot here is not thought out. if you are like BUT THIS WOULDN'T WORK sssshhh it's for the bit #the bit of bail organa making skeevy sheevy's life miserable #bail like what're you gonna do. arrest me? for having a kenobi fetish? you gonna arrest half the galaxy too?

[llovelymoonn]

favourite poems of september

robin blaser the holy forest: collected poems of robin blaser: "[dear dusty moth]"

robin ekiss the mansion of happiness: "the bones of august"

e.e. cummings complete poems 1904-1962: "[anyone lived in a pretty how town]"

daisy fried econo motel, ocean city

david campos guilt shower and bad catholic

deborah a. miranda the zen of la llorona: "advice from la llorona"

v. penelope pelizzon blood memory

aimee nezhukumatathil invitation

jeffrey jullich portrait of colon dash paranthesis: "some materials may be inappropriate for children"

karina borowicz september tomatoes

patricia kirkpatrick survivor's guilt

kamau brathwaite born to slow horses: "i was wash-way in blood"

leslie adrienne miller the resurrection trade: "weaning"

allen edwin butt if briefly

gerrit lansing a february sheaf: selected writings, verse and prose: "how we sizzled in the pasture"

jayne cortez on the imperial highway: "in the morning"

stephen yenser preserves

ethan gilsdorf the imprint of september second

kathryn maris abc

paul zarzyski the antler tree

judith goldman vocoder: "rotten oasis"

tato laviera benedición: the complete poetry of tato laviera: "latero story"

tim seibles mosaic

ethan gilsdorf the imprint of september second

lucy wainger jiro dreams of sushi

robert duncan ground work: before the war: "a little language"

r.s. thomas the poems of r.s. thomas: "forest dwellers"

anthony wrynn saint john in the wilderness

reginald gibbons bear

walt whitman "are you the new person drawn toward me?"

kofi

#tbr #tbr list #robin blaser #robin ekiss #the mansion of happiness #the bones of august #the holy forest: the collected poems of robin blaser #dear dusty moth #the holy forest #ee cummings #e.e. cummings #complete poems 1904-1962 #ethan gilsdorf #the imprint of september second #abc #kathryn maris #walt whitman #rs thomas #r.s. thomas #the poems of rs thomas #the poems of r.s. thomas #forest dwellers #are you the new person drawn toward me #anthony wrynn #saint john in the wilderness #robert duncan #ground work #ground work: before the war #a little language #lucy wainger

[seat-safety-switch]

"He is named Mr. Biscuits. But she... she is named Ms. Biscotti."

I have been volunteering at the animal shelter over the last couple of weeks, as part of my court-ordered community service. Before that, I was out on the highway, picking up garbage. Unfortunately for me, I was tempted by a broken-down Chrysler Imperial on the side of the road, and attempted to fix it to help out the owner, and not at all to drive away with it at high speed. This drew the ire of my supervisor, who shot me with a beanbag round.

Sub-lethal ammunition aside, the animal shelter had been treating me quite well. They gave me water and snacks, for instance, and I got to become friends with a grumpy old tabby who would only piss in the box when I was around. Everything was going according to plan, until it happened.

"Here are the new enrichment toys for these cats. Ooh, they look so realistic. Here's a little Toyota Corolla–"

It was clearly a Toyota Corona, but I can see how someone born in this country, and who had failed to be educated about Japanese domestic market shitboxes would miss that. I took a deep breath, lowered my heart rate, and she continued without noticing.

"And I think this one is a VW Beetle. Cute!"

There was absolutely no way that someone could mistake a Fiat 600 for a VW Beetle. Like, come on. This person – my new supervisor – was a secret oppressor placed here by my haters, to attempt to get me to violate my parole conditions. Still, I maintained my composure, drawing on the anger-management skills that had been drilled into my head by a combination of prison group therapy and mood-altering medication. I sat there, crosslegged, and watched a small orange kitten climb into the Corona. This, I assumed, must be Mr. Biscuits.

I fully expected the cat to immediately leap out of the car and continue on his usual kitteny antics of knocking things off shelves, chasing the reflection from my phone screen, and excessively odorous pooping. That didn't happen. Mister Biscuits sat in the drivers seat and seemed to be working the steering wheel and little shifter, his brow furrowed with intent.

Did I tell anyone? No. My volunteer duties were clearly indicated in the contract that I signed when I began work. When Mr. Biscuits stole that Power Wheels a couple years later, and led the entire police department on a high-speed chase after knocking over a pet food store, I wasn't surprised. The community gives back what you give to it.

[lairofdragonagelore]

Hissing Wastes: Venatori main camp

The Hissing Wastes is a large stretch of desert in western Orlais. Thousands of years ago, Paragon Fairel fled to the surface with his clan to escape a catastrophic civil war among the dwarves waged with his inventions and founded Kal Repartha, the only known thaig built on the surface. The Venatori are searching the ruins of the long-abandoned colony for the powerful runes that Fairel created. Like Western Approach, the Hissing Wastes used to be a lush forest, before encroaching sands destroyed the trees' roots.

[This is part of the series “Playing DA like an archaeologist”]

We approach the main camp of the Venatori noticing immediately the shape of one of the statues we saw in the Imperial highway of Emprise du Lion or in the  Fade. Since this was made in the stone, it can’t have been done by the Venatori recently. So I assume these carvings were done in the rock since long ago.  

From Emprise du Lion we know that these statues were part of the columns of the Imperial Highway. So, the most logical and simple explanation of why these statues are here is to hypothesise that the imperial highway reached Hissing Wastes [probably when it was not a desert] and this is just a part of the columns that supported the bridge made with the local stone? If that’s the case, Fairel thaig was involved with Tevinter in more ways than what we saw [demons bound to the stone, claws of Dumat in the tombs, Emerius stone-paintings], allowing them to reach Miranthous through a direct branch of the Imperial Highway.

There is little proof of this in terms of maps, if we see the Imperial highway along the map, in the surroundings of the Hissing Wastes [I’m using this map], we can see there is no highway in the region, however, the only slightly curious thing is that inside the red rectangle, we see a bifurcation of the Imperial highway that one can only see in maps with high resolution. The possibility of the imperial highway reaching this place exists, even though it’s very low. Why did it not last along the region? Maybe because the event that turned these green lands into deserts?

Bellow this statue, we find a wooden fence with the symbol of the Blind Men, so this place was not only used by Venatori, it was a hideout of smugglers as well.  With all the use of slaves that the Venatori have in this expedition, we can consider that part of the Venatori are part of the Blind Men or very entangled with them.  In fact, we see three symbols of mercenary, bandits, and smugglers here: the Blind Men, the Highwaymen, bandits who took the keep in Crestwood, and the mercenary group that was roaming around Hinterlands.

In this main camp we find a gallows with old dead bodies hanging.

The place shows 3 symbols of bandits:

An armoured glove gripping a snake which represents Outlands: we saw them in Hinterlands, 

A dragon skull with two scimitar crossed, Highwaymen that we met in Crestwood, and

The blinded skull that represents the smugglers and slave traders from the Blind Men

We can see that, heading deep, we find again the two gigantic statues of the horned woman--potential kossith--and the Tevinter Warrior. Both of them carved into the stone.  Sadly, I can’t say I see a bridge over them, so I’m not sure how much I can support the hypothesis of the Imperial Highway reaching this place. In fact, this place looks more like the ruins of an ancient temple.

This ruin, ignoring the wooden installation, is composed by these two looming figures which look upon a ceiling-less chamber. This chamber entrance has a pair of columns with the statue of the Horned warrior holding a sword at both sides of the entrance. These columns display a pattern usually associated with Tevinter: a square pattern that looks pretty similar to the dwarven C-pattern.

The Venatori have been digging this place as well, so these statues and coffin lids were part of a temple or place that may or may not belonged to the city built by Fairel.  We can see that below the sand there is a stone ground of an original construction.  

There are more coffins and lids with the symbols of Razikale Ceremony and the Horned warrior holding a sword spread around. 

We also find this strange Tevinter object which has spikes [something in common with the statues that loom over this place: they have a texture behind them that looks similar to the one we see at the bottom of this artefact]

In the place there is an urn on the same altar of the Horned warrior holding a sword  that we found in Coracavus;  Front Corridor and South Entrance.

We check some tables around in order to understand what the Venatori are after, and by reading books and reports we find out the codex draft of letter to Venatori Magisters which says that they need to get the dwarven relics that are instructions to recreate the weapons of the paragon Fairel. If you side with the templars, there is a sentence that adds more hinted information:  "He remembers a time when this place was not a blasted wasteland, and if He desires its secrets brought up to the light, we shall obey" meaning that Corypheus knew about this place when it was green, he knew Fairel had crafted a unique weapon as well, so the suspected involvement of these dwarves with Tevinters seems a little bit more solid.

Behind this place, a bit out of the Venatori camp, there is a Tevinter sacrificial altar. Solas and Cole speak of this place: a Venatori tried to call something he could not control. In the beginning they were “many” entities, but only one finished the diary. It’s not clear if this Venatori was possessed or had some personality disorder. 

The codex found in this place is Blood-Spotted Venatori Diary which displays two different handwriting styles. This Venatori seems to be an apostate that has a lot of knowledge about old dwarven language and that's the only reason why he is here. In the evenings, when he is free of that work, he studies his own interests. The most ambitious user/personality of this diary wonders about the source of power of Corypheus, and wants it. They consider that maybe it comes from the demons that Corypheus had taught them to bind. The temptation grows, as one of them wants to put aside their fear and wants to bind a high powerful demon to themselves. By the consequences we see in this place and by Cole’s and Solas’ comments, clearly the binding of a powerful demon did not go well.

The main colossal statues

Let’s talk about the details of these statues. I think they can be seen better here than in the Fade [the background lighting sometimes makes it hard to see the bas relief] and much better than in Emprise du Lion, where they are half covered in snow. They also appear in the Shattered Library, but in the same way than in the Fade, it’s hard to see the details due to the contrast with the environment.

The horned woman, or female kossith or potential desire demon, has the following details:

She has horns. They don’t look like the same kind of horns we see in desire demons, which are longer and go backwards and then forward. In fact, her horns look more similar to Qunari’s.

She has pointy ears, which again, it’s not the design of the desire demons. The Qunari in DAI have pointy ears.

On her chest and solar plexus her skin has thick lines. They look like veins (of lyrium?). The symbol on her chest resembles the symbol on the chest we found in the main Old God statue in DAO during the Dalish origin. Yo me looks like a sketchy dragon.

Her neck and her left shoulder show some tendrils or texture similar to the one that chastely covers her breasts.

There is a long object that comes out from her legs. It seems to be a snake with a rhomboid scale pattern. It’s not clear if that snake covers her or is being born from her.

Her figure rests against a structure which is filled with thorns or spikes.

The man holding the sword

The statue of the Tevinter Warrior has the following details:

His helmet has a spike that reminds Andraste’s helm as well. In the Fade they are aligned in a way that the game suggests you to make that connection [first panel of the green image]. 

He is surrounded by a snake. On his back he has around 10 skulls aligned as if he were resting against a backrest chair made of tiny skulls.

He holds a sword which hilt looks like a face in a triangular shape. In fact, that sword is Hessarian’s sword with which he killed Andraste out of mercy. We can see it in detail in this typical triptych: 

That the Tevinter warrior is holding the same sword related to the death of Andraste, may relate him to the Archon Hessarian, or to a proto ”Blade of Hessarian” group. It’s also curious that the replica of this sword in DA2 [ Blade of Mercy], has nothing to do with this design.

Both figures are not associated with any codex directly. And thanks to this excavation here, we can relate them to the lids of Razikale Ceremony and the Horned warrior holding a sword

Both of them are linked, since they are not two different statues, but just one, each of them resting on the back of the other. Both rest their back against an element with spikes [a thorny thick vine?], and the snake keeps them in place and wrapped. Could this be the representation of a bound spell? Hard to know. This pair of statues have always fascinated me, I wish I could understand them with a good degree of certainty.

[Index page of Dragon Age Lore ]

#Playing DA like an archaeologist #Razikale Ceremony #Horned warrior holding a sword #Tevinter artefact with spikes #Tevinter objects #Imperial Highway #Sacrificial altar #Female Kossith/ Desire demon /Tevinter Warrior

[treethymes]

With the exceptions of North Korea and Cuba, the communist world has merged onto the capitalist highway in a couple different ways during the twenty-first century. As you’ve read, free-trade imperialism and its cheap agricultural imports pushed farmers into the cities and into factory work, lowering the global price of manufacturing labor and glutting the world market with stuff. Forward-thinking states such as China and Vietnam invested in high-value-added production capacity and managed labor organizing, luring links from the global electronics supply chain and jump-starting capital investment. Combined with capital’s hesitancy to invest in North Atlantic production facilities, as well as a disinclination toward state-led investment in the region, Asian top-down planning erased much of the West’s technological edge. If two workers can do a single job, and one worker costs less, both in wages and state support, why pick the expensive one? Foxconn’s 2017 plan to build a U.S. taxpayer–subsidized $10 billion flat-panel display factory in Wisconsin was trumpeted by the president, but it was a fiasco that produced zero screens. The future cost of labor looks to be capped somewhere below the wage levels many people have enjoyed, and not just in the West.

The left-wing economist Joan Robinson used to tell a joke about poverty and investment, something to the effect of: The only thing worse than being exploited by capitalists is not being exploited by capitalists. It’s a cruel truism about the unipolar world, but shouldn’t second place count for something? When the Soviet project came to an end, in the early 1990s, the country had completed world history’s biggest, fastest modernization project, and that didn’t just disappear. Recall that Cisco was hyped to announce its buyout of the Evil Empire’s supercomputer team. Why wasn’t capitalist Russia able to, well, capitalize? You’re already familiar with one of the reasons: The United States absorbed a lot of human capital originally financed by the Soviet people. American immigration policy was based on draining technical talent in particular from the Second World. Sergey Brin is the best-known person in the Moscow-to-Palo-Alto pipeline, but he’s not the only one.

Look at the economic composition of China and Russia in the wake of Soviet dissolution: Both were headed toward capitalist social relations, but they took two different routes. The Russian transition happened rapidly. The state sold off public assets right away, and the natural monopolies such as telecommunications and energy were divided among a small number of skilled and connected businessmen, a category of guys lacking in a country that frowned on such characters but that grew in Gorbachev’s liberalizing perestroika era. Within five years, the country sold off an incredible 35 percent of its national wealth. Russia’s richest ended the century with a full counterrevolutionary reversal of their fortunes, propelling their income share above what it was before the Bolsheviks took over. To accomplish this, the country’s new capitalists fleeced the most vulnerable half of their society. “Over the 1989–2016 period, the top 1 percent captured more than two-thirds of the total growth in Russia,” found an international group of scholars, “while the bottom 50 percent actually saw a decline in its income.” Increases in energy prices encouraged the growth of an extractionist petro-centered economy. Blood-covered, teary, and writhing, infant Russian capital crowded into the gas and oil sectors. The small circle of oligarchs privatized unemployed KGB-trained killers to run “security,” and gangsters dominated politics at the local and national levels. They installed a not particularly well-known functionary—a former head of the new intelligence service FSB who also worked on the privatization of government assets—as president in a surprise move on the first day of the year 2000. He became the gangster in chief.

Vladimir Putin’s first term coincided with the energy boom, and billionaires gobbled up a ludicrous share of growth. If any individual oligarch got too big for his britches, Putin was not beyond imposing serious consequences. He reinserted the state into the natural monopolies, this time in collaboration with loyal capitalists, and his stranglehold on power remains tight for now, despite the outstandingly uneven distribution of growth. Between 1980 and 2015, the Russian top 1 percent grew its income an impressive 6.2 percent per year, but the top .001 percent has maintained a growth rate of 17 percent over the same period. To invest these profits, the Russian billionaires parked their money in real estate, bidding up housing prices, and stashed a large amount of their wealth offshore. Reinvestment in Russian production was not a priority—why go through the hassle when there were easier ways to keep getting richer?

While Russia grew billionaires instead of output, China saw a path to have both. As in the case of Terry Gou, the Chinese Communist Party tempered its transition by incorporating steadily increasing amounts of foreign direct investment through Hong Kong and Taiwan, picking partners and expanding outward from the special economic zones. State support for education and infrastructure combined with low wages to make the mainland too attractive to resist. (Russia’s population is stagnant, while China’s has grown quickly.) China’s entry into the World Trade Organization, in 2001, gave investors more confidence. Meanwhile, strong capital controls kept the country out of the offshore trap, and state development priorities took precedence over extraction and get-rich-quick schemes. Chinese private wealth was rechanneled into domestic financial assets—equity and bonds or other loan instruments—at a much higher rate than it was in Russia. The result has been a sustained high level of annual output growth compared to the rest of the world, the type that involves putting up an iPhone City in a matter of months. As it has everywhere else, that growth has been skewed: only an average of 4.5 percent for the bottom half of earners in the 1978–2015 period compared to more than 10 percent for the top .001 percent. But this ratio of just over 2–1 is incomparable to Russia’s 17–.5 ration during the same period.

Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, certain trends have been more or less unavoidable. The rich have gotten richer relative to the poor and working class—in Russia, in China, in the United States, and pretty much anywhere else you want to look. Capital has piled into property markets, driving up the cost of housing everywhere people want to live, especially in higher-wage cities and especially in the world’s financial centers. Capitalist and communist countries alike have disgorged public assets into private pockets. But by maintaining a level of control over the process and slowing its tendencies, the People’s Republic of China has built a massive and expanding postindustrial manufacturing base.

It’s important to understand both of these patterns as part of the same global system rather than as two opposed regimes. One might imagine, based on what I’ve written so far, that the Chinese model is useful, albeit perhaps threatening, in the long term for American tech companies while the Russian model is irrelevant. Some commentators have phrased this as the dilemma of middle-wage countries on the global market: Wages in China are going to be higher than wages in Russia because wages in Russia used to be higher than wages in China. But Russia’s counterrevolutionary hyper-bifurcation has been useful for Silicon Valley as well; they are two sides of the same coin. Think about it this way: If you’re a Russian billionaire in the first decades of the twenty-first century looking to invest a bunch of money you pulled out of the ground, where’s the best place you could put it? The answer is Palo Alto.

Malcolm Harris, Palo Alto

[dostoyevsky-official]

the video of a gazan car going along the highway, stopping, turning around, and getting obliterated by an israeli tank is almost to a tee identical to videos of russian tanks shooting ukrainian cars in the first months of the war. unspeakable abominations, israel's "right to defend" itself and the common imperial machinations

[vigilskeep]

the hawkes probably had little to no access to lyrium ever in backwater ferelden. maybe some here and there, if malcolm had contacts in the mage collective, and if dwarven merchants taking the imperial highway had a little stock under the table. but i wonder what it was like for mage hawke & bethy adapting to using lyrium potions on the regular in kirkwall when they would have had very few if any before

#anders finding out how much lyrium theyve been taking in a day bc they dont know any better and having a conniption

[karlmarxmaybe]

All power to the soviets! Ok, now that the liberals have ran away: I am interested in how marxist-leninist theory can be applied in the critique of the internet, and what ideas have been brought up by communists on what a collectivized web could be like. We all know the privatized, globalized internet is a tool of capital, social media working as a content factory in which workers work for free and generate advertisement revenue for the enterprises like Google, Facebook, Youtube, Twitter and the like. Now, it is also evident that web connection is a useful tool for communicating information, managing economical transaction and sharing knowledge. But under capitalism, any potential communal good that could come from the web is hampered by design; access to the internet is expensive and thus only easy for those that benefit from the spoils of imperialism (living in the imperial core); web hosting is privatized, social media is built as a factory of self-propaganda, the internet works esentially as a highway for globalized commerce and bourgeois exploitation in digital format. This is why I wonder how this could be dismantled in a communist regime (obviously it must start with state control and popular ownership of the physical means of digital production, but beyond that) and what shape a communist web would take, or if such a thing is possible at all. So if anyone knows any essays or books on the subject, please let me know, and thank you for your time.

@death-to-usa @bogleech @brendanicus @komsomolka @elbiotipo @hurricanewindattack @txttletale @papasmoke @transingthebourgeoisie @trans-girl-nausicaa @genderyomi @nyancrimew @communist-ojou-sama @communistkenobi @marxism-transgenderism @chrisdornerfanclub @commiemania @transmutationisms @gaylenin @lambdadelta-communism @autolenaphilia @little-bolshevik @apas-95 @kira-serialfaggot @thottacelli @zvaigzdelasas @daughter-of-sapph0 @decolonize-the-left @strawberry-crocodile @estrogenesis-evangelion

(communists of the entire website, unite!)

#communism #communist theory #marxism #marxism leninism #socialism #internet #cyberspace #capitalism #imperialism

[halsiin]

DRAGON AGE: ORIGINS — THE DEEP ROADS

There isn't a dwarf alive who remembers the Deep Roads as they once were. They were the network of tunnels that joined the thaigs together. To be honest, it isn't even right to give them such a simple term as "tunnels": They are works of art, with centuries of planning demonstrated in the geometry of their walls, with the statues of the Paragons that watch over travelers, with the flow of lava that keeps the Deep Roads lit and warm. The cloudgazers up on the surface talk of the Imperial Highway built by the magisters of old, a raised walkway that crossed thousands of miles, something that could only have been built by magic. Perhaps it is comparable to the Deep Roads, although we dwarves didn't need magic.

— Transcript of a conversation with a member of the dwarven Mining Caste, 8:90 Blessed

#dragon age #dragon age origins #da #dao #daedit #daoedit #mygifs #these were the last things i recorded from before i lost all my saves (besides like. 2 from haven) #so this is my last gifset for dao til i have the energy to start a new playthrough again

[dailydegurechaff]

What is Marry like in this AU of yours?

God I fucking hate Tanya von Degurechaff so fucking much holy shit. Holy shit, every piece of propaganda she's in, every photo, every parade, every video, she's got this painfully serious, annoying as shit, fuckass blank look on her stupid fucking face. Absolutely no part of her ugly as sin piece of shit appearance is endearing. Her stumpy fucking legs? How the hell is someone that fucking short. Her dumb little silver wings medal? Her shitty, round bastard face? The three thousand percent unnecessary dumbass shitass fucking ANTENNAE that no person in her company has EVER FUCKING TRIED TO FIX FOR HER IN tHE HISTORY OF GOD'S GREEN FUCKING EARTH? God, I hate her. I hate her so much. So FUCKING much. Every time I see a White Silver toy or a propaganda poster or a shitty goddamn commercial, it ignites my primal rage response and I'm overcome by the need to punt this shitty little war criminal into the fucking sun. "tee-hee! I'm Tanya, the White Fucking Silver, I like war crimes". Fuck you. Fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you. You look like a shithead little brat. Your dumb fucking antenna hair makes your whole shitty head look like an unkempt street cat. I hate your dumb fucking little button nose and your stupid, stern blue eyes and your over-the-top no-nonsense hardass asshole personality. Any time she smiles it invokes all the wrath and fury of a spoiled child having a meltdown over a chocolate bar in a w*lmart checkout line. And I know its irrational. That's the worst part. I know she's just a single fucking child soldier in a giant fucking empire’s army, I know it doesn't matter, I know I shouldn't care. But that's part of the problem. The part where no matter the might and fury of my hatred, the locus of my homicidal intent is alltogether a tiny piece of a greater evil. I find myself laying awake in the dark in the early hours of the morning consumed by the spirit of Wrath itself, all the force and might of a flaming hurricane directed at a bottle of piss in a ditch by the highway. The absurdity of it all burns me to my core. What better things could this energy be directed towards? And yet my disdain for this stupid, useless, insubstantial failure of endearing propaganda utterly eclipses the intrigue of all other pursuits. I hate her. I hate her on a level of my mind reserved for the worst of the world's array of sinners, and I can't even begin to justify it. Tanya the Evil is, for all intents and purposes, a single facet of the army subjugating the world- a propagandized pawn distilled into the single, hateable form of a shining ideal soldier for every other imperial scumbag to emulate. The fucking. Fuck. I have no words. There is no cuss or epithet in any language that can encapsulate the height of the emotions I am experiencing. God, I hate her so much. I hate her so, so fucking much. I want to light her ugly little dumpster body on fire. I want to graphically beat her to death with the butt of the gun she stole off my father. I want to punch her to death. You know that weird feeling you get, when you see a picture of something so cute you find yourself overcome with the bizarre, inexplicable urge to squeeze it? It's EXACTLY like that, except instead of cuteness it's disgust. The wordless knowledge that her existence as a war hero is evidence of all the failures of mankind. I find myself possessed by the will of a Holy Angel gone rogue with the belief that God has made a mistake, and I alone must correct it. This is the trial by which Samael himself fell from grace. This wild, meaningless rage. A thousand blades of shining steel cast with inhuman force in the direction of a plastic grocery bag floating on a breeze. What horrors must I have committed in a past life to be plagued by this torment now? I must Unmake this sinful child

(x)

#i know its tanyas birthday but here i am posting abt mary's seething hatred #you can read this as genuine rage or angry gay pining either characterization is acceptable to me #to answer your question: still hates tanya #tbh you can answer just about any question regarding the “canon” of dailydegu by asking urself this one question #“what is the funniest possible outcome to any situation?” #dailydegu is basically a comedy at this point #mary sue #mary sioux #mary #youjo senki #the saga of tanya the evil #ask #joshtr2000 #bonus doodle