let it also be said that I love the Mahariel + Lavellan worldstate. It's so haunted. You are Dalish, you are not a part of human culture, but by happenstance you're dragged into it and to the forefront of hell to save a world that hates and fears your people. You have no choice. You can never return to your home, to the familiar, to anything you've ever known. You will be an echo; Mahariel echoing Garahel, Lavellan echoing Mahariel. You're so proud of your Dalish heritage, but your identity doesn't matter at all. Doomed to be a martyr for a people that do not respect you and cannot understand you, while your clan mourns, lamenting that they cannot bury you, no life-tree to stand as your memory. You're a hero. You're already dead. You died the moment you left your clan.
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Hmmm...what do you think? I tried to create a cute picture of Blu as the Easter Dog. My sister, ( who always prefers things a bit dark and creepy) says Blu looks weird and scary! I like it! I put white bunny ears first, then I realized they don't match his fur, so I put the dark ones. 🙄
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Im thinking of putting my birth name (and my pseudonym) on business cards so if that happens u guys gotta promise to be nice about it okay....
its not that my given name is a deadname to me, i just dont use it online and i like it that way. so if u ever get one of my cards dont call me that lol. it will be our little secret*....... (*not secret at all)
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thing that keeps me up at night #44
neanderthals existed from about 130,000 to 40,000 years ago
homo sapiens have existed for 3000,000 years
that's 90k years of potential intermingling
that's almost an entire third of our existence, another species running parallel to us. but what were the differences? how different were their faces? their language? i was reading something that said they had less sophisticated language capabilities than us. when we interacted with them, what was it like? were our languages similar enough to get by? or as foreign as english and sumerian? the first evidence of the written word we have is from 3400 BCE. as we all know, that doesn't mean that's the first time we wrote anything down. it's just the first time we wrote something down on a tablet that survived for 5k years. the same is true for other arts. we have cave paintings as old as 45k years. that doesn't mean that's the first art ever. just the first that lasted so long.
did homo sapiens and neanderthals ever fall in love?
did they ever sit in a cave together, painting bulls and elk on the walls? did they tell each other stories? could they?
did a homo sapien and a human ever hold hands? did a homo sapien ever see a neanderthal from across the river and feel their heart thump in their chest? did a neanderthal ever caress the face of a homo sapien? did they ever look in each other's eyes and smile?
did love exist back then like it does now? when was the first time one human looked at another and thought,
"I want to spend the rest of my life with you, and only you."
we'll never know! and it fucking kills me.
we can trace language and history and biology so far back, hundreds of thousands and millions and billions of years. we know what beings 65 millions years ago looked like. we can guess when the fucking universe started.
but we can't know when the first human loved another.
i know this is saccharine and cheesy and corny but it really does keep me up at night. the indefinable aspects that make up the core human experience. how inherently unknowable they are. how inextricable they are. we can never know how our ancestors loved. but, at the end of the day, i also know that doesn't really matter, because we love how we love now, and that's more than enough.
still.
wouldn't it be nice to know where it came from?
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i think ali would have preferred it if he lost 10-0 cause then at least he didnt stand a chance, i think getting to 7 all stung because he actually thought he Could
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