the problem with writing a living challenge is when you change the rules for gens you've already finished you wanna go back and do it again 🙄 it's been a good six months since my last jewels save post (and over a year since the first one) so i'm zipping back to gen 1 with a new matriarch, Bianca !
but this aint the last you've seen of the jewell family,,, not by a long shot,,,
Yeah... my drive to draw RWBY again is back in full swing after getting the news of Rooster Teeth closing down (though I'm a bit relieved that today at least we got word that progress is still being made towards Volume 10, hoping for the best)
Anyway, this was something I planned for pride month last year where I wanted to do a big ass collage of several of my favorite gay RWBY ships but I gave up after these six.
Maybe someday I'll turn them into Redbubble stickers
i think positing loghain's patriotism over everything else actually directly ignores loghain's characterisation in both tst and the calling. as far back as tst, loghain's goal was never the liberation of ferelden from orlais. i do think & agree that he hates orlais, and he's furious about the occupation, but he also doesn't rly seem to think there's any way to oust them. he doesn't see the point in trying & he doesn't understand his father's sudden loyalty to a "king", to maric. he looks out for maric, not out of a sense of patriotism or duty to his country, but because it was the last wishes of his father - something maric himself makes explicit when loghain attempts to abandon him. loghain sacrifices hundreds of soldiers to save maric - to maric's fury. it's maric who is patriotic. loghain takes over maric's job in the calling not because of ferelden but out of love and concern for maric. he tries to talk to maric about his depression several times and he comes back to denerim specifically & explicitly to support maric after rowan dies. he does the same after celia dies, to support anora and cailan.
i don't think patriotism is really what drives loghain. it's loyalty, it's love. loyalty to his father, because he loves him, leads him to protect maric and act in (what he thinks is) maric's best interests. loyalty to maric, because he loves him, is what leads him to protect ferelden and act in (what he thinks is) ferelden's best interests. protecting maric - who his father sacrificed everything to keep safe - kept his father's principles alive and, in that way, he honours his father. protecting ferelden - which maric sacrificed everything for - keeps maric alive and honours maric. and if the warden wins his loyalty, he's willing to follow the warden's lead on whatever they think is best - whether that's the dark ritual, or for either of them to take the sacrifice, or anything else.
to me, it seems like his patriotism is a symptom, not a cause. i don't think it's as clear cut as loghain makes it in his dialogue in dao, but i do think he's self-aware enough to accurately gauge his motivations here. he says that he didn't do any of this because he hated orlais, he did it because of maric. and when the warden comments that maric is dead, loghain's response is telling.
i differentiate him from naraku because i believe they're different beings coexisting in one patchwork body. at least that's how i headcanon it. but.
i kinda... wanted to humanize him a bit more. i do think he was still a diabolical criminal, and overall horrible person. but i like the idea that he actually did love kikyo, if only because she was the only closest thing to kindness he ever experienced. she saved his life, and he absolutely idolized her and put her on a pedestal. so much so that he was willing to trade his soul to be with her.
Recently on my dash I saw a video of the driving crooner that started with "I'm gonna fucking kill you driving crooner" and then had music by I think run the jewels over clips of him crooning and I can't find it anywhere please help
Thinking about [this HC here], The ironic part about Sketch's poor diet before meeting Wanda is that Skitch knows how to cook.
They aren't top-shelf, but Skitch definitely knows more than the basics and fundamentals of cooking.
Like, yes, you shouldn't over-beat the eggs, and yes, the cream goes last in the sauce so it doesn't curdle, yes, you want *this* specific cut of meat because it's less tough when making blah blah blah..... But can't we just order in though?-
You kinda pick up things when your childhood friend is a chef...
Ordering takeout is just a hell of a lot easier than constantly buying food to prepare and cook later. Being with Wanda, someone who enjoys cooking more than buying ready-made food, definitely makes that feel less tedious when they're, say, making dinner together.
Is anyone else not interested in the love story this season for The Summer I Turned Pretty and instead more emotionally invested in the house being sold, Susannah's death affecting the boys and their brotherhood in addition to their crippled mental health? I feel so bad for them both and really think that they need therapy although I'm sure that's already something most people agree upon. Oh, and I'm living for Taylor's character development. The side characters seem to be serving this time, but I must admit my boy Jeremiah is also slicing through with his own maturity and no one can tell me otherwise. Emotions are slapping hard, and I'm not caring for that terrible love triangle excuse of a storyline.