I don’t understand why people who cannot accept any moral grayness or complexity decide to join fandoms for the most emotionally complex stories and then try to shame everyone there who actually is able to understand the material.

Me when I'm trying to explain why I love Vhaeraun so much despite his numerous glaring flaws

And then my partner has to listen to me yap about Vhaeraun almost 24/7 🥹

While we’re talking about censorship, I need everyone to stop playing this little amnesia game where we pretend not to remember what internet and fandom has looked like for the past 20 years. Weird and taboo porn has always existed, it used to be a LOT easier to access, and you won’t die if you look at it. We simply cannot continue placating the crazy mob of people who are scared of sex and love overstating harm, they’ll call you a pedophile literally no matter what, and they’ll roll around in their cognitive dissonance like a hog in mud when you point out that the other group calling you a freak and a pedo are the conservative alt right. Fucking exhausting being a fag and a pervert in 2025.

Drow Reference Material for your OC and Fanfiction Purposes

This is not a complete list, but here are some references I use often when trying to write thins that are somewhat lore accurate.

This is one of the coolest books I have in physical form. Fortunately for you, you can get the whole book for free in digital form here. I used this CONSTANTLY when writing fics or formulating OCs.

Published in 2012, the same year the Legend of Drizzt book Charon's Claw released, it goes into INCREDIBLE detail about drow culture and the city of Menzoberranzan itself. 10/10

Published in 1992 , Menzoberranzan City of Drow, has a lot of interesting information, but some of it might be old and out of date. There are a few things I noticed that have been changed. This is still a great source of more drow information.

Published in 2007, Drow of the Underdark provides more insight into drow culture. There are, however, aspects of this that are outdated. I take some of these older books as if they were written by a person who was observing the drow as an outsider with their own prejudices and preconceived notions.

Demihuman Deities has a ton of text on lots of gods. Good reference for drow gods and just about any other god you want more information on.

Allright. That's it for now. I'm sure I'll be back with more later.

Am I wet? Am I on my period? Did I pee my pants?- next on wtf is going on down there.

I’m so glad this is a universal wondering among vagina-owners, haha.

‘Vagina-owners’

Tune in next time for: Are these menstrual cramps? Am I pregnant? Is it just gas? I wouldn’t have to ask these questions if I didn’t have a damn uterus

Next week: Is it a bladder infection? An ovarian cyst? Do I have endometriosis? Oh God please do not let it be cervical cancer! A 20/20 special

Y'all are forgetting the all-time classic: Is it just my period or is my appendix about to burst? Some nice tea and a heatpack or 911 and emergency surgery?

There is actually a test for that last one!

Place your hand over the pain, press down slightly and release. If the pain doesn’t change by any great margin, you’re fine. If it suddenly becomes some painful you can barely stand, Get thee to an Emergency Room

reblog for the safety of vaginas and their owners

The appendix test works with or without a vagina so reblogging for everyone.

Reblogging because I didn’t know this and it needs to be shared.

Costume. Chitons.

Marjorie & C. H. B.Quennell, Everyday Things in Archaic Greece (London: B. T. Batsford, 1931).

Wait, wait…. Is that seriously it? How their clothes go?

that genuinely is it

yeah hey whats up bout to put some fucking giant sheets on my body

lets bring back sheetwares

also chlamys:

and exomis:

trust the ancients to make a fashion statement out of straight cloth and nothing but pins

Wrap Yourself In Blankets, Call It a Day

Wear blanket. Conquer world.

That last one looks dope

Squares and rectangles: easy to weave!! No cutting means no hemming.

And easy to construct, you don’t have to have complicated seaming and patterning to turn fabric into clothing!

ancient Egyptian robes

This sort of clothing solution wasn’t just for the Mediterranean, or northern Africa, either. Behold the Belted Plaid:

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Has anyone already reblogged this with saris? It’s cool how many cultures have similarities like this hidden in plain sight.

https://kalaavarsha.com/how-to-wear-or-drape-a-saree/

Since we are here might as well share the dhoti and the lungi

https://www.wikihow.com/Wear-a-Lungi

https://www.wikihow.com/Wear-a-Pancha-Kachcham?amp=1

It’s only men in the photos but really anyone can wear them. I am wearing a lungi right now.

I also know Thailand and Sri Lanka have their versions of a lungi as well.

Solas shaped Rook into someone that could escape regret. Solas shaped Rook into someone that could escape regret. Solas shaped Rook into someone that could escape regret. Solas

I had this fun idea and I’m going to address this directly at the people behind their characters. I’m wondering if people would actually pick their favourite romance option or if the artist is completely disconnected from the art.

i think he would love these tbh

balkan version

LITERALLY MADE A POLISH ONE 2 HOURS AGO LMAO

Things you should do in the Magi Origin:

Talk to Mouse while he’s here. He’ll paint a clearer picture of the Fade than any other source in the game. I still don’t know if he was the one the Warden was supposed to face, or an intruder preying on the unsuspecting apprentices and using the lesser demons called there as a vetting process. Neither option is a pleasant one.

Speak to every mage, every apprentice. There’s quite a few. You could be here a while. Learn about the apprentice who disappeared last week, vanished into thin air, and none of their friends will ever learn why. No one is panicking over this. It’s useless to panic. They aren’t ever coming back. Hear about the templars who may or may not be watching apprentices in the bath - it’s all hearsay but it doesn’t sound impossible by any means. Understand that you should not be up and about at all, you should be huddled in a dark corner with a bucket waiting for the lyrium to work its way out of your system - generally, about a week. Is the Warden truly that great, or just standing strong for a friend who needs them more?

Visit Duncan in his room. After you speak to Jowan, before you get the Rod. Talk to him about mages. He has emotions beyond mild frustration, difficult though it may be to believe. 

Betray Jowan, but only hesitantly. Accuse Irving of being vicious, extreme in his vengeance. The difference between Kinloch Hold and the Gallows is not that the former is in any way less abusive so much as the former is better, marginally, at hiding how deep the resentment and fear runs.

Talk to Owain. Pick every dialogue option. Yes even that one. My capacity to feel differs from yours, but you also differ from all other beings. You are no more a person than others, and I am no less a person than you are. Am I to be denied personhood because I do not feel as you do? Stare. Blink. Breathe. Throw everything you thought you knew about the Tranquil in the trash and start over.

Emmrich blood magic Emmrich blood magic 🩸🥰

Not only that but performing healing with said blood magic! Ahhh I've been headcanoning such use of maleficari arts for so long, it feels utterly pleasant to be confirmed right for once

Hey I'm curious about something

Again, if you add your Tav's species and hair color in the tags, that'd be super!

i made a post a while back about the peepaw jokes surrounding emmrich and got vague blogged about it by salty people because i was "ruining their fun," which whatever lol. but the jokes have now escalated to saying he has erectile dysfunction and like this is what i meant when i said people are unaccustomed to characters above the age of 30 existing in media they consume.

like, 50 year old men have pretty active sex lives. you could be 70 and have an active sex life but that's not the point. emmrich isn't some geriatric grandpa ready to keel over and have a heart attack during sex, and jokes about his penis not working because he's "sooooo old" aren't actually funny.

and in my OG post i was pretty gracious about people making these jokes but since y'all insist in being unfunny and corny lemme just spell it out for y'all: at some point y'all crossed over from harmless jokes to full out ageism and it's incredibly off-putting and ruining the vibes. you're not funny or creative for saying that a middle aged person is bad at sex.

👏🏼 preach 👏🏼

I just found this quiz and it’s, phenomenal

I haven’t seen anyone else get grief yet and like…

My Dragon Age - Grey Warden stickers are here! :D I had so much fun drawing them and they sparkle in a such lovely way.~ The stickers are available for order here: https://forms.gle/f4zsYStKBn8kyEgo9

Look at those precious babies!! 🥺💛