why are you telling me apostates cannot run the country when you have NOT EVEN LET THEM TRY
THE MANY IMPORTANT AND EVENTFUL THINGS OF THE PAST FEW HOURS:
1. Last night theprerogative, M and I crashed elvaron's house at the eleventh hour to:
a. spend time with her ♥
b. visit her adorable corgi boy (btw check out royal corgi art!);
c. check out her pretty blond and gray-eyed custom Hawke. As a result of her customisation she got one of the prettier (and long-haired!) iterations of Carver. But in a clear case of we always want what we do not have, both of us think the other's Carver is better looking;
d. have this conversation:
elvaron: There was that time Fenris ate an entire bagful of them and then [had to be induced to reverse the process].
M: That was when I realised that M&Ms were not chocolate.
Me: o.O
elvaron: The deleterious effects of chocolate vary depending on portion consumed relative to body mass.
Me: But wasn't Fenris. Rather large.
elvaron: He was a puppy then.
Fenris is the name of a dog. I realised later that I wasn't sure if we were talking about the same Fenris (the one I was talking about was a husky with very similar issues to what DA2 Fenris has), but all the same please do not name your dogs Fenris, they might end up with issues.
2. nemesis is writing Dragon Age fic I AM SO HAPPY. nemesis also now has a standing invite to my next DA2 gaming session (which will probably include tokei and mangy_mongrel; theprerogative and elvaron may not be up to a repeat session / can come later so I can show them the other bits.
(a) I really really loved nemesis's Leandra-centric fic. MOMMY!Hawke is so awesome here omg. ♥ It is also m!Hawke/Fenris, but the central character is Leandra. AUGH MY HEART.
(b) She also wrote Anders meets Discworld's Death.
3. I am procrastinating my DA2 advance because I (a) cannot bring myself to do All That Remains; (b) cannot bring myself to do what the end of Act 2 entails. I'VE GOT TO MAGE UP AND GET IT OVER WITH.
4. demoerin wrote choreography to Yamamoto doing a striptease and broke my brain so badly that I switched my LJ to Spanish while attempting to reply. Several times. And by that I mean I switched my journal language several times. OHHHHH MY HEAD. ED YOU ARE SO BAD FOR ME. I wish we lived in the same country so I could invite you home and you could check out Dragon Age and we could laugh about it together.
5. Have you ever read Walter Moers' City of Dreaming Books? I love it, by the way, it's awesome. Try it! There are creatures in there called booklings, who live off reading books. Reading books sustains them the same way eating food does humans. Substantial books fill them up like a buffet spread, reading poetry volumes is akin to snacking.
Reading manic_intent's fics kind of has the same effect on me: one of her AUs can pretty much leave me utterly content for a day and beyond. After that I am NO MORE FIC READING TODAY because I am so content.
Today I was reading The Last Inch (Hawke/Anders AU), which was omg so awesome. Also Red Queen (also a Hawke/Anders AU) is so awesome that I think every time I play the game I will bemoan the fact that it did not end like this fic.
6. It is election season in my country, which means we are being treated to events like this:
One Side: The mages are emotionally blackmailing you into siding with them! If you side with them you will REGRET IT FOREVER, for if you let them come to power your streets will be overrun with blood mages and abominations and the CITY WILL FALL. APOSTATES KNOW NOTHING of temperance and governance and if you are not with us you are AGAINST US.
eta: manic_intent had an excellent point and it was: "THEY LET THEM TRY IN TEVINTER AND SEE WHAT HAPPENED"
Other Side: CAST OFF YOUR SHACKLES! RISE UP WITH US for you have been oppressed for so long!
Or, as Mr Brown puts it: We're "stuck between Vader saying we will become Tatooine & Leia saying we're her only hope."
Except our version of Leia says we're her secret weapons, which has more of a ring to it.
please have an artistic representation of what election season looks like here,
represented via Dragon Age 2 art.
warning: not entirely worksafe, I think.
it's election season guys! BETTER GET CLEAN AFTER ALL THAT MUD-SLINGING
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1. Last night theprerogative, M and I crashed elvaron's house at the eleventh hour to:
a. spend time with her ♥
b. visit her adorable corgi boy (btw check out royal corgi art!);
c. check out her pretty blond and gray-eyed custom Hawke. As a result of her customisation she got one of the prettier (and long-haired!) iterations of Carver. But in a clear case of we always want what we do not have, both of us think the other's Carver is better looking;
d. have this conversation:
elvaron: There was that time Fenris ate an entire bagful of them and then [had to be induced to reverse the process].
M: That was when I realised that M&Ms were not chocolate.
Me: o.O
elvaron: The deleterious effects of chocolate vary depending on portion consumed relative to body mass.
Me: But wasn't Fenris. Rather large.
elvaron: He was a puppy then.
Fenris is the name of a dog. I realised later that I wasn't sure if we were talking about the same Fenris (the one I was talking about was a husky with very similar issues to what DA2 Fenris has), but all the same please do not name your dogs Fenris, they might end up with issues.
2. nemesis is writing Dragon Age fic I AM SO HAPPY. nemesis also now has a standing invite to my next DA2 gaming session (which will probably include tokei and mangy_mongrel; theprerogative and elvaron may not be up to a repeat session / can come later so I can show them the other bits.
(a) I really really loved nemesis's Leandra-centric fic. MOMMY!Hawke is so awesome here omg. ♥ It is also m!Hawke/Fenris, but the central character is Leandra. AUGH MY HEART.
(b) She also wrote Anders meets Discworld's Death.
3. I am procrastinating my DA2 advance because I (a) cannot bring myself to do All That Remains; (b) cannot bring myself to do what the end of Act 2 entails. I'VE GOT TO MAGE UP AND GET IT OVER WITH.
4. demoerin wrote choreography to Yamamoto doing a striptease and broke my brain so badly that I switched my LJ to Spanish while attempting to reply. Several times. And by that I mean I switched my journal language several times. OHHHHH MY HEAD. ED YOU ARE SO BAD FOR ME. I wish we lived in the same country so I could invite you home and you could check out Dragon Age and we could laugh about it together.
5. Have you ever read Walter Moers' City of Dreaming Books? I love it, by the way, it's awesome. Try it! There are creatures in there called booklings, who live off reading books. Reading books sustains them the same way eating food does humans. Substantial books fill them up like a buffet spread, reading poetry volumes is akin to snacking.
Reading manic_intent's fics kind of has the same effect on me: one of her AUs can pretty much leave me utterly content for a day and beyond. After that I am NO MORE FIC READING TODAY because I am so content.
Today I was reading The Last Inch (Hawke/Anders AU), which was omg so awesome. Also Red Queen (also a Hawke/Anders AU) is so awesome that I think every time I play the game I will bemoan the fact that it did not end like this fic.
6. It is election season in my country, which means we are being treated to events like this:
One Side: The mages are emotionally blackmailing you into siding with them! If you side with them you will REGRET IT FOREVER, for if you let them come to power your streets will be overrun with blood mages and abominations and the CITY WILL FALL. APOSTATES KNOW NOTHING of temperance and governance and if you are not with us you are AGAINST US.
eta: manic_intent had an excellent point and it was: "THEY LET THEM TRY IN TEVINTER AND SEE WHAT HAPPENED"
Other Side: CAST OFF YOUR SHACKLES! RISE UP WITH US for you have been oppressed for so long!
Or, as Mr Brown puts it: We're "stuck between Vader saying we will become Tatooine & Leia saying we're her only hope."
Except our version of Leia says we're her secret weapons, which has more of a ring to it.
please have an artistic representation of what election season looks like here,
represented via Dragon Age 2 art.
warning: not entirely worksafe, I think.
it's election season guys! BETTER GET CLEAN AFTER ALL THAT MUD-SLINGING
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