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The Sims 4 has a new shirt with Mass Effect and Dragon age logos. This is all I needed in my life.
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elizashepard · 2 years
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Just sitting here giggling uncontrollable while I play
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aceouttatime · 2 months
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strong ladies make me so bisexual. lord have mercy--WE MUST STAY FOCUSED.
Commission for the lovely @capt-biglou of his turian engineer, Eli! You were a pleasure to work with, and I had fun playing around with her outfit! Thank you again!!!
Commission type: Full Body; Colored-Shaded Sketch; $65 USD Interested in a comm? Check my availability, style, and pricing HERE!
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biowho · 1 year
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MAY I HAVE YOUR ATTENTION PLEASE
The 2023 BioWare Best Blorbo has been decided by over 7000 participants in the final round! And it is with great honor, pleasure, and esteem that I announce that the winner of the 2023 BioWare Best Blorbo Poll which started out with 70 NPC’s and ended with 2 is…..
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Garrus AND Zevran!!!!!
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It is with even greater pleasure that I point out that neither of these fantastic and wonderful characters got above 53% during this poll at any point in its 24 hour period. And we sat pleasantly in a 50-50 tie for the last 11 hours of the poll
Thank you to everyone who was a part of this! For the most part, your comments and tags were really fun to read! And remember! They’re fictional men and are not real!
See you guys on February 1st, 2024 for the second BioWare Blorbo Beat Down
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serial-chillr · 2 years
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Petition to give Josephine a sun hat and a day off…..
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storybookhawke · 10 months
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I commissioned @azreto for a drawing of Emir Hawke! Look at my handsome man ;u; Please consider commissioning him in the future!
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kassarts · 10 months
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3D for ask meme!
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she just thought of the beeest prank
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palipunk · 1 year
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Eurydice Lavellan for my lovely @star--nymph <3
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confusedlucifer · 5 months
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there's no Shepard without Vakarian
this is from 2021 but i never posted it here so, happy n7 day! in many small ways i will always care about these characters and their journey
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aveny-art · 7 months
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commission for @spainkitty
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drthrvn · 1 year
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orc-apologist · 1 year
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fanfiction writers better got on that Roland x Lacklon fic RIGHT NOW
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ladylannisterxo · 8 months
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the "you don't fit the inquisition" option for sera is so stupid. why is it there at all? why is she the only companion it pops up for? why is it so easy to accidentally select? like if i didn't want her here, i would have said no when she wanted to join from the jump 🙄
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misspickman · 17 days
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My unpopular bg3 opinion is they tried way too hard to make some of these characters mean and flippant which is meant to make the player more interested in them and clearly this has worked on many (good for you !) but personally i could not care less. If 80% of what a character has to say to me is bitchy i will simply leave them at camp for most of the game
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kaidans-alenko · 1 year
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i'm so normal about him
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sillyliterature · 1 year
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"I have so much to say about Anders and Justice but I don't want to clog people's dashboards"
Please post and clog our dashboards I beg of you. 🥺 For real though I love all your posts!
Aww thank you😭❤️
Where to even begin... I know Anders' change from Awakening to DA2 had to do with a practical thing, as it is to be written by a different writer (and also because they clearly needed someone - anyone - to ignite the mage rebellion). But I'd like to ignore all that drama and focus on Anders and Justice.
For me, writing is an exercise in empathy and for that you need to place yourself in the character's shoes (and to take them seriously or else it doesn't work). The thing about Anders is that... there is something awe-inspiring and heart-wrenching in someone who, despite having suffered physical and psychological torture, being robbed of his freedom without having committed any crime and being betrayed by his family and later by the Wardens, still helps others by healing their wounds and illnesses free of charge and does everything in his power to free his fellow mages, even risking his own freedom and life in the process. The question is, would Anders have been able to tap into this altruistic vein within himself and look beyond his nose without Justice? In a world filled with people apathetic to others' sufferings, with despots donating to charity but not wanting their realities to be shaken in any way, a society full of people who are either ignorant of the treatment of mages by the templar order or they choose not to see, it seems a benevolent spirit from the Fade is truly necessary to lift the curtain of cynicism and convenient centrist stance to take action. In the case of Justice, it is as his name implies, to exert justice to those invisible, forgotten and voiceless in society.
I understand Anders' desperately comedic banters in Awakening as a defense mechanism. Not only to shield himself and deflect any serious conversation that may render him anxious, make him lose his shit completely or at the verge of a panic attack, but also to appear silly and even stupid before others. Whatever it takes to survive and not to appear as a threat to the others what-so-ever. It's soul-crushing that a boy dragged away from his family with his own father's leave, would develop a witty tongue and adopt the clown persona if necessary in order to survive the Circle. Being considered the funny one doesn't translate to being considered weak, nor a threat, or a hazard, instead it's just like "that Ander boy's joking again, uh?..." (still, Anders felt the templars' wrath after each escape regardless of his shenanigans). Maybe, should Anders and Justice never have come together, Anders would have still ended up in Kirkwall after Karl and after learning about his horrible fate, he would have much likely got the hell out of the City of Chains. Why the hell would he have stayed in a city ruled by the templar order? A city where the Circle of Magi was once used as a slaves prison? With Ferelden in ruins because of the Blight, perhaps he would have searched his luck further north, either to other Marcher city states or to nations with little to no Chantry presence, like Rivain.
But Justice made him see beyond his own nose way before they merged. Justice being in awe and dazed by the waking world, barely able to make sense why there are so many wrongs that go unpunished, why everyone seem numb or blind to the beauty of the world around them, why so many have so much if they don't deserve it nor have worked to earn it, while so many others struggle for food, water, shelter and dignity... He must have gone half crazy if he hadn't have his fellow Wardens to do some good by fighting the darkspawn. And he met Anders. I'm sure Justice was able to see through that funny persona facade right away. As a Fade spirit, he probably had to wonder why would Anders lie to himself and others when in fact he's shaking in fear and boiling in rage inside, and all too aware of living on borrowed time.
Justice questioning Anders why he doesn't help his fellow mages be free like him is the beginning of him pealing each layer until reaching the core. I'm sure Anders didn't like that at all but maybe there was a point, specially after the Warden Commander left Amaranthine and he remained there among some new Wardens, when he appreciated a listening ear. After all, when did he ever have that luxury in his life? The only one with whom he much likely lowered his shields was Karl and by that point, Karl has been long sent to the Circle in Kirkwall and they haven't have contact for a while.
In my opinion, Justice gives Anders a vulnerability and strength he may never have been able to tap into on his own. To show himself bare and open and knowing there is truth and strength in being himself without any masks. To shout out the mistreatment of mages by the templars and the Chantry even to deafening ears and blind eyes knowing he's being perceived as annoying but also knowing is the right thing to do. And to use his Maker-given gift to help those even poorer and more vulnerable than him. Granted, there are tales of Anders using his spirit healing during his escapes from the Circle (his default amulet in Awakening says it was a gift by a Bann who he healed). The thing is, by deciding to stay in Kirkwall after Karl's death and choosing to set a clinic in the city's poorest neighborhood, he's risking being caught by the templars, specially as his fame increases and people recognize him as the healer who cares for them without charging a copper nor accepting any form of payment at all. Justice's righteousness compels him to remain and make a difference in any way he can. And most importantly, Kirkwall is the city whose mages most acutely need saving! And so Anders must work towards that even if it's the last thing he does.
But the spirit's shortcomings tear Anders inside. Justice doesn't know what it means to be a mortal. Kristoff's body was long dead when he accidentally possessed him when he was thrown out of the Fade in the Blackmarsh. He considers every moment Anders is not working towards the mage cause as wasted. He works him to exhaustion. Anders barely sleeps or eats, he lives in a constant state of anxiety for his fellow mages and always looking over his shoulder fearing the day the templars - or the guard - come for him. This is where Hawke's influence can make or break him. A loving and supporting Hawke can instill in Anders a sense of responsibility with himself first before anyone else. Something as simple as to make sure he eats and sleeps enough, or to drag him out of the clinic so he can talk with others for a few hours and distract himself. This can and does put Hawke at odds with Justice, though. The spirit sees Hawke as a distraction at first and maybe even tries to pull Anders away from them (how much of those three years of pining was Justice's doing?)
The question is, who else could have taken the mantle of mage freedom other than Anders and Justice? The talks held by Circle fraternities weren't achieving much, the cure for tranquility had yet been exposed and all throughout Thedas mages continue being systematically abused, turned tranquil, tortured and deprived of any rights.
There's also the issue with Anders' biases. In his years in the Circle, he inevitably got brainwashed by the templars and the Chantry that mages are a curse, that their magic is the sign of the Maker's hatred, that they are a danger to themselves and others, that they are one bad day away from being possessed and killed. As Anders says in Awakening, "mages are tolerated at best." How deep is his belief that mages are not worth the trouble; that they shouldn't let anyone too close lest they get hurt because of them; that they are undeserving of love, care, protection; that is best for them to never have children on their own lest they inherit their magic; that there's nothing they can bring to society to make it better, because their magic is a ticking bomb and they all are too weak to resist a demon's offer? How does Justice deal with this? Does he confirm these beliefs or challenge them? Perhaps at first Hawke may seem a distraction to Justice's eyes, but as years pass by he sees through Anders that Hawke also helps mages and supports him in any way they can. It's their very love and the home they provide that shatters this instilled idea of never being able to live - nor being deserving of - a normal life in peace just because of Anders' magic.
As always, the game contradicts itself with the narrative, because when you first meet Anders in Awakening and see his attributes stats, the two highest ones are magic and willpower, the latter one responsible for mana and mental resistance. I can imagine that the horrible experience of that one year of solitary confinement left him both with a deep trauma and a phobia for dark and small places (that will take years if not his entire life to heal), as well as an incredible mental resilience. I mean, he survived it, did he not? Also, in DA2's Night Terrors, Anders is the only companion who doesn't betray you in the Fade. Justice has a big part to play in this because in the Fade he takes control of Anders all too happy to be back in his original habitat. But even before the merging, that battle against the witch in the Blackmarsh is brutal and it occurs in the Fade and the whole party survives it, including Anders. Bioware likes to tell us that he's the stuff of evil and weak and all things crap, but in fact the guy is quite capable and mentally pretty strong. How else would he have been able to live with a Fade spirit merged with his very soul for years on end?
And on the subject of mental strength, there is also the Taint. I imagine that, out of all classes of Wardens, mage Wardens must have it the toughest. And for spirit healer mages like Anders, the Taint must feel even stronger. The Fade and the Archdemon claim him in equal measure every single day. The nightmares must mix up with his presence in the Fade when he sleeps, mashing up into one unrecognizable blurry horror. I headcanon that Justice can act as a form of guardian of Anders in the Fade. Perhaps this doesn't happen overnight, but after some time when both spirit and man just begin to learn to live together as one being. Still, the Taint is yet another reminder that he lives on borrowed time, today as much as yesterday and that every day can be the last. Despite all this, Anders manages to write his manifesto, he works with the mage underground risking his ass to get mages out of the Gallows, continues to heal patients in his clinic, sometimes he goes to the Hanged Man for a few rounds of Wicked Grace with Varric, Isabela, Hawke and whoever else who wants to join. And he also musters the courage to confess his feelings to Hawke after being physically and mentally incapable of ignoring them any longer and even manages to entertain the prospect of a relationship in the safe haven of their arms and home.
In an ideal canon, Anders needs to survive the events of the mage rebellion and pull through it so he too can have justice. I find it very hard to believe that Anders can survive on his own in a playthrough where Hawke sends him away in The Last Straw. He wouldn't last that long before either the templars or Sebastian's forces find him. And if he would happen to survive those first years after the Chantry explosion, he may very well be one of the many, many mages we are forced to butcher at the beginning of Inquisition in the Hinderlands in the name of pEaCe...
I think Hawke is critical to restore in him a sense of self. I hate that dialogue in which Hawke says something like "I don't want to lose you. To the templars or to Justice" and Anders replies "what else is there left if you take those two out?"... That right there is what I'm trying to fix in my current f!handers fic wip. Yes, there is something else beyond Justice in himself and all the biases instilled in him by the Circle. There's him. There is the human being, the man, and that ought to be enough. Without the need to justify his existence through awesome and reckless acts of heroism and altruism. I mean, all that matters is that, if he truly wants to do that, he can and if his work gives him a sense of fulfillment, the better. But it shouldn't be necessary. He lives. Despite the many, many attempts on his life, by the templars, the Chantry, Sebastian's forces, even Inquisition forces (if you picture him among the rebel mages in the Hinterlands), and even by Bioware itself! Anders lives because he deserves to live, not simply to survive (nor to be a blatant plot device).
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