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Gonna uninstall tumblr again while I deal with some busy weeks at school and Veilguard coming out (makes avoiding spoilers easier)
I'll be back Eventually
Me when I Lie
Ok so for real this time I'm putting tumblr away while I work on my thesis. Love y'all, I'll use it on my browser occasionally I promise. DM me if you want an alternative way to contact me <3
BTW I handed in my thesis and I'm BACK I just haven't redownloaded the app
Ok so it's clear to me that some of y'all are having issues with this video. As someone who understands breed specific behaviors and dog body language this shit is objectively hilarious to me. Lemme explain why:
Beagles are a very vocal breed. They are hound dogs, specifically hunters, so their job is to communicate and be extra loud when excited or a "treat" is found.
Due to their nature as hounds, and in part genetically predisposed health issues, they get fat often. They're prone to eat too much and need exercise. Old beagles tend to get over weight.
This dog is not biting, frustrated, or aggressive. He's wagging his tail, licking his owner, and engaging in hunting behaviors (barking, sniffing, pointing, and nipping.) This dog is trying to catch his treat. He's working for his reward.
TLDR: The dog is having fun. Don't take it seriously. Using a crunchy mic with a beagle makes his barking sound so funny. Enjoy the humor.
Good morning fellow Dragon Age enjoyer. Your posts talking about characters and lore and whatnot are A+++. so I wanted to ask: how do you feel about DAI as a whole?
(I started the year doing replays of both DAO and DA2... 16th and 17th runs respectively lmao. But well... I don't think I can bring myself to do a DAI replay because that game is so... open world)
dragon age inquisition is bad ❤️
it has its moments: truly beautiful art & design, the quest in your heart shall burn, and characters with potential. but for me personally, the bad easily outweighs the good. the gameplay is very poor with drawn-out fights that amount to nothing, vast empty maps with thoughtless and uninteresting side quests, and tedious crafting that trivialises anything you can loot. i honestly think the graphics have aged the worst out of the series; the landscapes are pretty but so many of the close-up textures are ugly, shiny, and grating to look at. the inquisitor is flat and empty to roleplay, with the backstories needlessly restrictive and yet flavourless.
i could probably get over a lot of those technical flaws for a story i love but i disagree with dai, i don’t believe in it. thematically, it poses law, order, and stability as moral good to be preserved over chaos, change, and rebellion, insisting on the preservation of empires & oppressive institutional religions as a necessity for the peace and happiness of ordinary people. everyone good and normal believes this, and anyone else is a selfish malcontent or just “crazy”. it forces this narrative on you rather than letting characters disagree & the players form their own opinions. in a series that is at its best when it plays with unreliable narrators and differing perspectives and complex truth, it just tells you what to think.
in terms of a world to explore, dai puts you back in ferelden for no real reason at all and then wastes orlais on tired, childish jokes about accents being funny and fashion being weird. dwarves are sidelined into near non-existence, the elven lore updates and the open mockery of elven culture and religion are appallingly racist to the real cultures who the writers used as inspiration, and the qunari companion’s good ending is to be Saved from his own culture by the enlightened west south. social and political conflicts that have dominated the entire series are brushed out of the way as quickly as possible by a game that seems deeply embarrassed to be in the fantasy politics series and rushes to assure you that it knows how dull and pointless fantasy politics are. the party is bloated with too many companions, most of whom could be completely cut from the story without changing it, and in a game constantly patting itself on the back for its lukewarm feminism there’s two male companions for every female companion. after a cool introduction the antagonist is shallow and meaningless. the plot pacing is bizarre, with the bad guys constantly on the back foot and the open world full of trivial quests ruining any sense of pressure or tension, and most choices are ultimately meaningless, only hinting at payoff in future installments that i guess they just imagined they would figure out how to deliver later. (spoiler: they didn’t.)
i have lots of hours in it. i actually have more hours in it than my beloved da2. but that’s because as someone invested in the series i’ve always wanted a solid complete worldstate, and it was easy to get a rewarding playthrough out of da2 that satisfies my narrative needs, whereas i’m constantly revisiting dai to try and make it “work”. but while i eventually beat the base game twice i’ve never struggled all the way to the end of the dlcs (which ironically everyone tells me are the best part lmao). i beat jaws of hakkon once but honestly by the end of dai all i want is to play something else. i go back because i have maladies of the brain, do not follow where i lead
The idea of “but everyone knows that” needs to stop.
I saw a post about someone chiding Millennials for not knowing about JKRowlings transphobia, and asking how it is at all possible that people can exist in the world and the internet and, you know, not know.
Which I mean, I get. It is so present in so many of my online spaces that it seems astounding that someone could simply be ignorant! It feels impossible!
But let me tell you a story:
I went on a girls trip with a bunch of friends. All of us are rather incredibly liberal and all of us are incredibly online.
One girl would not stop talking about Harry Potter.
At one point, another girl asked her why she was ok with supporting it, and she had no real clue that JK Rowling was at all transphobic. She had heard that she likes to support Lesbian causes and thought “oh ok cool!” And that was it. She was AGOG with the news and rather horrified.
I must once again emphasize that she was an incredibly online person. She’s a foodie and a restaurant blogger.
Later in the trip we were picking restaurants and I suggested one I found on Google, and she gasped at me. Actually gasped, asking how I could ever be okay picking that one.
The shock must’ve been on my face, because she then told me all of the shitty things that restaurateur does. He abuses staff. Underpays them. Fires them on a whim. Is known for being one of the worst people to his employees in the entire restaurant business on this coast.
And she was so shocked I had never heard of this. Because in her mind, I was just as online as her. And in her online world, EVERYONE knew about this guy.
So I think the moral of this story is: always approach the other person with some empathy. Even online people, even people you think MUST know about how bad people are, may not have heard. It may truly be just them being on a different sphere of the internet than you.
So be gentle, be kind when letting people know they might not have heard about the cancellation of XYZ person. Don’t assume that everyone knows all the same info as you.
By all means, let them know so they can make informed decisions, but being kind will go a lot further than attacking them for some info they might not know yet.
do you have at least one openly queer family member? (not including yourself?
Video caption: Good guy who talks like a bad guy
“Perhaps you’d like to see my pets. They were ALL … rescues.”
“And as always, gentlemen, our profits will be … donated.”
“Oh, I wish I could stay and chat, but I’m afraid I have to take my friend to the airport.”
Redeemed villain who can’t let the speech pattern go
Ragnar (old, blind, big, strong) pushed me by accident while I was putting on perfume and I dropped the bottle (of my favorite perfume which I got as a present for my birthday) and it completely shattered 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 he didn’t get injured because my first instinct was to carry him away but I both stepped on the glass and cut myself a few times picking it up 🥹😭😭😭 amazing start of day 😭😭😭😭😭😭 and it was a really expensive perfume too 🥹🥹🥹🥹
I had to go get that taken care of because there was glass remaining in my foot 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 it hurts a lot 😭😭😭😭
Was the glass on hardwood or carpet? Hardwood is easier to clean glass off than carpet.
Unfortunately a combination of both but I think I cleaned it all but now I am limping at work 🥹
I don’t want you all to spend your hard earned money on a silly vanity thing for me like perfume that I broke accidentally but I love you all ily
My kofi link is always in my about section but there’s really no need to give me money for perfume
At best you can buy me coffee, but I even think that’s too much
I don’t have a wishlist anywhere, just a lot of affection from and towards you all ❤️
Don’t even mention it, legit yesterday I had a big crying fest when I noticed how confused he gets in the evening, thinking how life is unfair because my pretty baby boy doesn’t deserve to be old and achey, he deserves to be forever young and healthy
I've seen photos of Ragnar with tiny pan, and he has to be over a hundred pounds. What do you mean you carried him away???
I think the heaviest he ever was was around 88 pounds when he was on heavy meds therapy, he is much leaner now and of very healthy weight 🥹 he is just lanky
happy new year
Narcissus taking a selfie is the ACTUAL best.
These are REALLY cool
These are art in themselves, in a some of them point out what lockdown was like for us, they’re expressed themselves in a really cool way. But I think these are going to be talked about in the future.
Yeah sure autocorrect I'm trying to s rank the euthanasia game whatever
i’m so glad goncharov happened pre ai slop era
update from the discord group courtesy of one of my mutuals;
do not trust that damned survey. change your discord password. utilize 2FA.
I use 2FA on every website I log into, and it didn't ask for any details when I took the survey, but I still don't trust that thing at all. One can never be too safe.
to be clear, the one that is a scam is the one that asks for your Discord login information. there is a legitimate one that does not ask for ANY information and that one is a legitimate qualtrics survey from Discord. make sure you always check sites and links before you click on them fellas!
The legit survey has been closed down as of yesterday.
The phishing scam is taking advantage of the high emotions about AI, but if anything online asks for your login info (that is not on the actual verified website that belongs to that login that you navigated to yourself (not a link from an email or post!)), that is a huge sign to STOP.
He doesn’t even know, and he doesn’t want to.
I don't go here but I feel like "It's a metaphor. Don't force it to do the work of a fact." is a great statement about literature and fan-content in general.
can not overstate that the reason hand-tailored items were so common 100 years ago is because every family had a dedicated home tailor called a "wife" who did 100% of the domestic labor do NOT romanticize a pre-readymade clothing life unless you're willing to go to bat for every individual having a secondary part time job as a tailor
it's correct to observe that clothing quality has gone on a downward trend and it's correct to say that clothing was higher quality before the advent of ready-made clothing, you're right to criticize ready-made fast fashion clothing but ready-made or modernity themselves are not the issue.
the problem with the wastefulness of the modern fashion industry will always be capitalist imperialism, the demand for people in the imperial core to have luxury trendy goods for abysmal prices at the cost of dehumanizing labor conditions, and the fatphobia that perpetuates a lack of size inclusivity. having perfectly tailored and constantly adjusted clothing is a luxury that was maintained through a slave labor force picking all our cotton and relegating 50% of the population to feminized domestic labor. you do not have the god-given right to be fashionable at all cost.
My one friend really likes "yo mama" jokes, but she feels bad for saying them to me because my mama's dead, and lately she's been circumventing this by adding "in heaven" to them, a concept I was introduced to with zero warning via a text that said, "Yo mama's so stupid she's in heaven pre-heating the microwave."
