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Nicknames For The Romantic Poets

-Mary “Original Goth Queen” Shelley

-Percy “Thinks Byron’s weird but is going to go with it anyway” Shelley

-Lord “Totally wants Percy to notice his bisexual ass” Byron

-William “Call Me Turdsworth One More Time” Wordsworth

-John “Small bean, Please Protect” Keats

-Samuel “Lowkey Gay For Wordsworth” Coleridge

Yes, exactly!! I’ve always loved fenhawke but they came to mean even more to me after getting out of an abusive relationship myself, and I admire Fenris’s arc so so much more. He really is probably my favorite DA character next to Zevran

Oh handshake and a hug anon, I am also a survivor of abuse and sending all my love to you. 

One of the things that I really love about DA:2 is how much not only does Hawke change, but also how much companions change and develop. They are their own people, away from Hawke.

Aveline doesn’t need Hawke in order to become Guard Captain. Anders doesn’t need Hawke in order to start the revolution. Merrill doesn’t need Hawke in order to repair the eluvian. Varric was always eventually going to find someone to go to the Deep Roads. Sebastian was going to track down the mercenaries if no one else did. I’ve no doubt Fenris would have accomplished what he wanted on his own as well but a key thing to this is - Hawke helps. 

They don’t have a magic solution, they don’t immediately fix things. Aveline asks Hawke to help her on a suspicious patrol. Anders asks Hawke to help him find ingredients. Sebastian asks Hawke to come with him to the Harimann estate. Merrill asks Hawke to help her talk to the Keeper. Varric asks Hawke to come to the Deep Roads.

The companions follow Hawke because Hawke has asked for their help and because they are friends. They don’t do things and change because of Hawke. 

They all subtly develop over the course of the game, having and pursuing their own goals as well as helping each other. In the beginning, Fenris charges into Danarius’s mansion yelling he’s not afraid but by the third act - Fenris asks Hawke for their help, tells them it would mean a lot to him, and admits that he is afraid.

Me when I saw James.

Seems to me the problem with Uk’otoa is that he isn’t a great hirer. Like we’ve seen/know of 4 warlocks so far (including Vandren) out of whom 50% didn’t plan on releasing him at all and 75% are dead

Hi anon,

You are very right. Here are a number of issues with Uk’otoa’s business practices:

1. Offered the job to various drowning randoms on the spot without an interview.

2. Sets very unclear expectations (provoke? consume? how does one achieve those metrics in a meaningful way?)

3. Highly passive-aggressive - cutting off all access to benefits when employees don’t achieve quarterly goals? You didn’t even try a Performance Improvement Plan? OK snea snake.

4. Didn’t address the lingering resentment after a fling between coworkers went sour. Technically that resentment lasted only a few hours after which one of them was murdered by a pirate king, but a good manager would have intervened early on.

5. When an employee quits with minimal notice consider it a time for reflection. It’s an opportunity to understand why - it might just be them, but you might have made an environment where they don’t feel safe giving the typical notice for your industry.

6. Once an employee has left you should move on and not send a team of sea spawn and deep scions onto their ship in the dead of night to cut a fucking hole in their chest.

“He ignores you, but you like him. He does nothing yet you fall for him. You miss him, but he never thought about you”

-unknown

with the whole “keats wanted to fight everyone” stuff going around i feel like we tend to neglect the fact that sometimes his fighting had good and just causes such as this

imagine being a butcher’s boy just trying to live your worst and meanest life as the neighbourhood bully in 19th century london & this 5 ft wisp of a poet is like ok that’s it you better square up

Dowoon is the confident icon we all deserve and love. That is all.

Finding people physically attractive, but being asexual and sex-repulsed at the same time is fucking weird because other people are like “the things I’d let them do to me 😏😏” and meanwhile I’m over here like “I jus…I j-just…wanna…H-Hug him”

People are allowed to be repulsed by sex.

People are allowed to be uncomfortable with nudity.

People are allowed to be uncomfortable with genitalia, their own or others. 

There are so many reasons why people may feels this way, from dysphoria to being asexual to coping with sexual assault to just straight up that’s how they feel.

And that’s ok.

Kim Jonghyun