Rogue and mage wish you a Happy New Year. :)

Happy Winter Solstice! :)

Commission #DragonAge

Normally I'd leave a post like this for DAFanFriday, but given the depressing state of my skyline and I suspect yours as well: Are you a human who creates #DragonAge inspired anything? Show it off. Are your commissions open? Let people know. Let's show support to real, human creatives! 🫶

Again I say: how fucking interesting that remote work technology is bad and not worth adopting despite all research pointing to productivity gains, but genAI which offers NOTHING is so important to adopt and force on people who have no use for it despite all the horrible things genAI does

As some of you are aware, part of Dragon Age day was to thank the DA Devs for all the hard work they put into the series we love so much. This is also the first DA Day where we have no DA team, as they were laid off earlier this year. So let's make an effort to support their new projects!🧵

#BookWormSat "Erl-King will do you grievous harm. ... The Erl-King lives by himself all alone in the heart of the wood in a house which has only the one room. His house is made of sticks and stones and has grown a pelt of yellow lichen." Angela Carter

A project to restore ancient forests in the Scottish Highlands is significantly boosting moth biodiversity, a Butterfly Conservation study has found. 🌳 Read the full story 👉 buff.ly/AyKPh6e 📷: Patrick Cook, Sarah Wanless #MothsMatter #TeamMoth

It's a perfect misty morning for taking pictures of lichens. :)

#Halloween 🎃 The Yew was regarded as the gentle guardian of the dead 💀 It was formerly revered so much in Wales that to cut it down was considered an act of desecration, while to burn any part of it was looked upon as sacrilege 🔥 #Wales #History

#BookWormSat "Darkling I listen; and, for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death" John Keats

There is almost nothing in Tolkien as pervasive as his love for the small and vulnerable, for the meek and the gentle. These are not the values of these thugs and they do not have any claim to them.

Autumnal garden :)

#BookWormSat In Czech and Slovak folklore, vodník is a male water spirit. He looks human and can survive outside water if his clothes are wet. He tricks and drowns people, then keeps their souls in teacups underwater. Vodník is also the main character in one of the ballads by Karel Jaromír Erben.

Artemis and Hekate by @nikitagill.bsky.social :)

#BookWormSat "Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness" John Keats

If you would like to learn more about Flanders's witches, something witchy has appeared on Kickstarter! 🌙 Consider aiding us in spreading these tales across the four winds. It means the whole world to us! kck.st/492NqKt

'Fall, leaves, fall; die, flowers, away; Lengthen night and shorten day; Every leaf speaks bliss to me Fluttering from the autumn tree.' -Emily Brontë Tomorrow #BookWormSat celebrates autumn! Join us! 🍂

🎉 GREEN WIN! The Czech Greens (@zeleni.cz) are back in the Parliament for the first time since 2010! Congrats to Gabriela Svárovská & Irena Ferčíková Konec. 💚 They will fight for greener & fairer solutions for the people of Czechia & we can’t wait to see it!

Dragon Age and Mass Effect have never been perfect, but they have ALWAYS been at the forefront of progress of representation in video games. From queer romances, queer characters to trans identities and exploration of gender and identity. Infuriating that we have to worry about this changing.

Buyers: So your games... guns and football, yes? EA: Mmhmm, mmhmm, mostly guns and football, yep. Buyers: No gay stuff? No politics we're not going to like? EA: Haha, definitely not! Hey, could you give me one sec? I just need to shut down a studio real quick. kotaku.com/report-saudi...

a good story, you don’t really write. it was always there. you just uncover it. #dragonage ✧ #art

Oh it’s on. <3

I'm accumulating a collection of tiny mushrooms growing on other tiny things #mushroommonday #fungifriends

Here's something to brighten your Monday 💛 The comical-looking Canary-shouldered Thorn has pale orange-brown wings with scalloped edges, allowing them to blend in perfectly with the autumn foliage. 📷: Kate Reece, Iain H Leach, Will Langdon #MothMonday #MothsMatter

I kinda love Nish Kumar.

The idea that there is a PRO FASCIST RALLY happening in London right now, with lead white supremacists speaking at it, goes to show just how much these violent people have been coddled by white centrists and liberals. They were told their ideas had value and they SHOULD have platforms.

Nothing says "radical feminism" like submitting to a machine programmed by the worst men in the world to lie to you.

‘Often when I imagine you, your wholeness cascades into many shapes. You run like a herd of luminous deer, and I am dark; I am forest.’ 📚Rainer Maria Rilke, The Book of Hours, Book I 📷 mine #BookWormSat #poetry #forests

#BookWormSat "There once was a forest in the north of Spain, so old that it could tell stories long past and forgotten by men." Pan’s Labyrinth, Guillermo del Toro and Cornelia Funke

'But those eyes are all you will be able to glimpse of the forest assasins as they cluster invisibly round your smell of meat as you go through the wood unwisely late. They will be like shadows. They will be like wraiths...' -Angela Carter 🎨Alina Bazel #BookWormSat

'I had withdrawn in forest, and my song Was swallowed up in leaves that blew away' -Robert Frost 🎨Walter Crane #BookWormSat

I got another copy of Frankenstein, quite fitting for today, and now I'm eagerly waiting for October. :) Thank you, @realgdt.bsky.social!

‘For if you’re not afraid how can you really be brave?’ ~ Moominpappa, Tove Jansson. #BookWormSat

#BookWormSat "Beware, for I am fearless and therefore powerful." ~Frankenstein, Mary Shelley

Discworld QOTD, from Going Postal

FFS

Fuck EA.

Israel’s horrifying plans to take over Gaza City will lead to more death and destruction. States, like the UK and US, have enabled this escalation by transferring arms and failing to take concrete action to stop the genocidal assault on occupied Gaza.

What's the old Dalish curse? May the Dread Wolf take you? And so he did💔 #solas #dragonage #солас

About 80% of my grammar suggestions from Microsoft Word are “why not use a simpler word here for clarity?” No. Fuck you. I will use a complicated word for evocative precision whenever the muse’s clarion song demands ebullience, vivacity, torpor, or solemnity, you shit-ass suck machine.

#BookWormSat "Clara spent this time wrapped in her fantasies, accompanied by the spirits of the air, the water, and the earth." ~ The House of the Spirits, Isabel Allende

What most American adults THINK they'd have done during the Holocaust: Assassinating Nazis, breaking people out of concentration camps. What most American adults actually WOULD have done during the Holocaust: Scold their kids for singing, "Genocide is bad" on the playground at recess.

#BookWormSat "Yo no sé si esto es una historia que parece cuento o un cuento que parece historia..." ~ Rimas y leyendas, Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer