moiradvinskaya

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Got really invested into Smallville, decided i am now into superman. Watched all of the superman movies, remembered i am actually a marvel fan. Fixed the problem: got onto ao3 and tried to find some dc/marvel crossovers. Accidentally got slammed into batfamily face first. Realized the originall story behind each Robin is pretty cool.

I am now reading all of batman comics since the 80s.

Somebody help me

And maybe recommendations, anyone? Someone told me Grant Morrison run is cool, but so far i am just lost...

You know what? No. If Rhaenyra was a man you would've hated that scene.

I was once in a situation where i confesed about something messed up that happened to me to a man. He instantly made a move on me.

It left me feeling dirty. Like my confession ment nothing.

I would've been glad if that scene was just to show affection between Rhaenyra and Mysaria. Friendship. Something that could be a foundation for the future romance.

I loved their dynamic — up until that moment.

Because if Rhaenyra was a man you would've been grossed out too.

Well, for me it's about the dynamic. Sansa at the start of the books is very different from Sansa from the spoiler chapters and i think Sandor is one of the main catalysts of that change.

Firstly, Sandor is the first person who didn't try to sugarcoat the world for her wile meaning no harm (well you know what i mean). It's because of him she starts to realize that beauty is not about the looks, and starts to see the world as it is instead of as it is in the songs.

Secondly, it fascinates me how Sandor sees himself in her. Before the Mountain broke him he was a lot like Sansa (at least it's implied), so the lack of sugarcoating stems from that. His crudeness is a way to protect her (from his point of view).

She also has an influence on him. The whole ark with Arya wouldn't happen otherwise.

For me the core of their relationship is the determination to make the other better in their own ways. In which they succeed!

Yes the age difference is questionable (to put it lightly) but Sandor is not in his thirties (he's about 26 which isn't better but still) and he is at heart that same knight from the songs — he just happens to be broken. But (for me at least) romance isn't always about sex. And true love is about making each other better. So i guess i ship them because i really want them to meet again. I feel like their journey together isn't finished.

Shipping them just because you want them to smash is creepy, but for me ASOIAF was never about sex or even violence. It about character study. GRRM the way i see it is interested in finding "the true Knight" And Sansa/Sandor dynamic is one way to find it.

I hope i managed to convey my thoughts correctly, eng in not my native language and it was really hard writing :_)

I'm genuinly curious why people ship sansan because sandor clegane is a man almost in his thirties and sansa is like 11 when they first meet....this is just creepy to ship

Definitely the first one.

Firstly — it has the best soundtrack. My heart literally skipped a beat when i heard the final song after beating the game for the first time.

Secondly — i love the feeling of the world beeing new. I know many players skip ME1, but imho it does a great job in introducing the player into the universe.

The story is simple, classic Bioware, but it's so captivating!

Love love love ME1!

Imagine Garrus looking up all of the human mating rituals cuz "oh god what if humans consider *insert some regular interaction* a marriage proposal?????"

Ugh i love cultural misunderstandings in a multiple alien races universes

A scenario where Shepard jokes with Vega, saying she's practically Garrus' wife now after she promotes him to her XO during the war, resulting in them unintentionally spending a lot more time together.

The joke goes over Vega's head, and he goes to congratulate Garrus personally. Garrus is confused, and Vega promises to keep the "secret marriage" a secret. Garrus now has to figure out how in the hell he accidentally proposed to and married a human and how is he supposed to tell his dad he missed the unplanned wedding and the ceremonial meeting of his fiancé. He was almost 30, but this was going to get him grounded for at least another 30 years or maybe even life.

Was he supposed to get his new wife a gift? Where they supposed to get matching tattoos like Turians? He could've sworn he read somewhere that humans consummated their vows the same way Turians do. Where did he go wrong dammit!?

He adores the idea of Shepard being his wife and loves knowing that she was so excited that she even told Vega about it. He just now has to figure out how he married her in the first place without her knowing he doesn't know. Because then she'll think he never wanted to marry her, and that is NOT the case. Maybe Tali will know? No way. She'd just call him a bosh'tet. Wrex will also call him a professional idiot. Liara won't judge, but he's sure she still hasn't gotten over her crush on the Commander, and he doesn't want to rub his new marriage in her face. Maybe Joker will tell him if he promises him the new fornax issue.

Garrus has had his fair share of giving his dad a pseudo aneurysm, but this one was going to send him into cardiac arrest for sure when he finds out his son married a woman the family didn't even meet. He needs a drink...after he finishes bribing Edi to scrub away everything she just heard him say out loud.

Garrus doesn't know that Vega is the galaxy's worst secret keeper, telling Shepard he's keeping the secret marriage a secret unwilling to let Shepard convince him that she's actually not married yet. She goes to see Garrus to have a good laugh about Vega's idiocy but walks into Garrus telling Edi he will use Shepard's override if she doesn't get rid of something.

Garrus is absolutely mortified and gives the cheesiest greeting to his "wife." She assumes Vega already brought the joke to Garrus but she's not overlooking him trying to be suspicious with Edi. He recovers, mentioning it was for his sesrch history for a gift he wanted to get her. He did intend to get her a gift so the phrase wasn't a complete lie...

She jokes about it and calls him her husband. Garrus, the realist he is, does not take this as a joke. She leaves him to his vices, and Garrus is now in a full-blown panic. He needs to understand what he did, and he needs to know now.

(If my brain gets any more random ideas, I'll at least finish and provide a resolution to this concept, lol. Feel free to offer your own ending)

It's even funnier if the HOF is an Amell mage. Poor Carver escaped his sibling's shadow just to be forever trapped in the shadow of his cousin 💀

absolutely hilarious that carver joins the grey wardens to get out of the shadow of his older sibling with severe main character syndrome just to get saddled with the last descendant of king calenhad vanquisher of the fifth blight half elven chosen one alistair theirin as a boss

Alistair vs. Cullen

It really annoys me when people act like Alistair and Cullen are the same character, when they are very different.

Alistair grew up with child neglect. When visiting Denerim, Eamon kept him in the kennels. At Redcliffe, he slept in the stables on a pile of hay. Alistair also recounts a time when he was locked in the dungeons for a day before someone came to get him out. And of course he also talks about how Isolde despised him, and “made sure the castle wasn't a home.” But is still convinced that Eamon is a good person and he deserved all that. Cullen had a very fortunate upbringing with a loving family who supported him and what he wanted in life.

Alistair never wanted to be a Templar; he was forced into joining the Order by Eamon. He is vocal about how much he despised this, and considers Duncan recruiting him for the Wardens as “saving” him from them. The only thing he says he enjoyed about Templar training was the educational component, which he did not receive previously. Alistair was a poor recruit because he frankly did not want to be there, and therefore did not take it very seriously. He saw practices like the Harrowing as horrifying, and deepened his dislike of being a Templar further. And as time goes on, he becomes even less of a supporter of the Order; he outright says Meredith is the biggest threat to Kirkwall in Dragon Age II, if made king of Ferelden. It was always Cullen’s dream to be a Templar, and would even force his younger sister to “play the apostate” for his “training” before being recruited. Cullen was an enthusiastic recruit who considered Templar training “all that he had imagined”, and “did not hesitate” in taking his vows. Even the Harrowing did not waver his devotion to the Order, which by Dragon Age II becomes downright fanatical and tyrannical, practically worshipping Meredith. (Though this was later attempted to be retconned in Dragon Age: Inquisition… just as poorly as all the other retcons in that game, taking the path of “just pretend he never said and did all those things!”)

There is a lot of dialogue from Alistair about how much he dislikes the Chantry. Cullen, on the other hand, is extremely faithful and the only criticism he ever has about the Chantry is that they don’t treat the Templars well enough.

Alistair has a good sense of humour—in fact, it’s one of his biggest coping mechanisms. Cullen wouldn’t know a joke if it hit him in the face.

The player can disagree with Alistair on every turn. He is presented as sometimes being right, and sometimes being wrong, like most people. (Side note: more than that, you can be downright verbally, emotionally, and physically abusive to Alistair. Holy shit, I didn’t even realize how bad it can get until reading through the dialogue in the toolset, because I’ve never picked those options in game. I was honest to god flabbergasted and very uncomfortable through much of it.) The player rarely has the chance to even mildly disagree with Cullen. On the rare occasion you do, the dialogue is painted as if the player is being an unreasonable asshole, and he never even addresses what they say. (Example.)

The only reason I think people are capable of mistaking them for another is because fandom likes to donate Alistair’s personality onto Cullen. That and the the ever-frequent whitewashing of Alistair doesn’t help matters. But I’m not even a Cullen fan and I think it’s a disservice to both of them to act like they’re just Alistair and Alistair 2.0, honestly.