so I see two common threads in takes on alistair performing the dark ritual with morrigan, the first being alistair romancers making it All About Their Warden and how Sad they are that their man slept with another woman, which. ok. (sometimes they take it a step further and like, take it out on him for doing it? which. you're the one who talked him into it. girl. cope. but I digress.)
the second take is to make it All About Alistair and how Sad they are for him that he's coerced into having sex he doesn't want with a person he doesn't particularly like and! genuinely, yes, that's awful.
but I so rarely see even a moment of consideration for morrigan's position in the proceedings, how she was... also? coerced into the dark ritual? by her mother, and by the knowledge that she alone has the power to do something that could prevent the deaths of her friends and companions?
"how terrible for alistair, he doesn't WANT to have sex with morrigan" granted! but. well. morrigan doesn't WANT to fuck alistair either, obviously. so can we just like. have a shred of consideration for the girl who was raised for the purpose of being nothing more than a womb. as long as we're feeling sorry for people in a bad situation. I'm so tired.
I do want to clarify—not that I think anyone has misunderstood me—that I think it is an awful position to have been put in for everyone involved, including wardens of either gender. I don't want to minimize (since this post is specifically about alistair and morrigan) that it is genuinely awful for a warden who is roped, completely out of the blue, into the position of having to coerce alistair (potentially a very good friend or romantic partner) into performing a ritual that could possibly save his life later down the line.
it's a bad day for everybody and that's obviously the point of the dark ritual. (which I've criticized in the past for being pointlessly edgy and sexual to sell the "mature" grimdark fantasy tone they wanted for the game. but again I digress.)
it's just my disappointment that I so rarely see the empathy displayed for morrigan that I see regularly displayed for alistair and the warden. as if she is some duplicitous temptress out to ruin lives and relationships for her own gain and not a young woman with an abusive mother who has been staring down the barrel at the prospect of single motherhood for the duration of the blight and trying not to flinch.
I opened up to people IRL for the first time in a long time today. It feels weird, like I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop, that they may throw it back in my face one day and that I shouldn't rely too heavily on them, even though they've reassured me countless times that they've got my back and love me. I'm really used to handling things on my own and not asking for help, though I've gotten way better at asking for help over time.
Idk. Chile, I'm here, idk.
The tests aren't free anymore. And people aren't testing anymore cuz your job gets real shitty about it. So you hear about the "bad cold" going around? That's probably covid.
Plus home tests don't detect it anymore. My whole family had a really bad cold last February. We still had home tests, so we took them. They were all negative, so we couldn't even get a pcr test done. But... That "cold" was worse than when we actually were tested positive for covid a year before that... So yeah... It's not gone... The old tests just don't pick it up anymore.
“Do not speak badly of yourself - for the warrior within hears your words and is lessened by them.”
— David Gemmell
fuck whoever turned off reblogs on this post
Butterfly dresses @ Valentino fw03
Some of the Missys didn’t make the cut because not enough layers (and I really didn’t wanna fight with that issue. Lol). It still turned out pretty fly.
Madame Vivienne
Speedpaint with most fabulous enchantress from Dragon Age.
thinking about that tweet that said a crush is just a lack of information
