Din tunga är mitt äpple

words to use instead of ‘said’

Muahahah the Walk Cycle Queen strikes again!

@corseque uploaded this dual gifset of Solas being obstinate and I was like, “Wait a second I don’t remember the things you can say as a friend!” So I went back and played through them and wouldn’t you know it, I found something!

The first walk cycle is stiff and a little awkward as he walks away from a befriended Inquisitor after having taken their hand and bidden them farewell. This is probably the stiffest gait I’ve ever seen from him in the game, probably because we’ve never seen him as Fen’harel before, completely in his element (his walk to Mythal was cautious and slow, weighed down.) This is an authoritative, confident stride that assumes power and respect, accompanied with his reverse crossed arms is like looking at another side of him (which we do throughout this cutscene.) Leaving a friend behind is tough, but his duty and goals are at the forefront of his mind as he departs.

The second walk cycle might as well be a completely different person. He’s not confident, rather he looks drained despite taking the mark from her. He’s dragging his feet, his hands loose by his sides as he shuffles slowly back to the eluvian in no hurry to leave her again, but he has to. The conversation severely hampered his pace through his plans, and leaving is probably the last thing he wants to do, because that means he can never go back on his word (even if he knows he’d never break off his plans.) The longer he’s in the same place with her, the more he can entertain the meager, false hope that he will stay, because once he crosses the threshold, all he can do is hope against hope that she’ll prove to him that he’s wrong about everything.

Notice the distance the gifs start for both of these to really take in the difference in distance. They are the exact same frame rate with the same amount of frames. In the first, he’s brisk, almost in a hurry to get out. In the second, it will take him at least three times as long to reach the mirror at that pace if not longer. He’s already defeated, at least on one front.

Solas Gifset Masterpost

Through dangers untold and hardships unnumbered, I have fought my way here to the castle beyond the Goblin City to take back the child you have stolen. 

Labyrinth (1986) dir Jim Henson

Self care is chain smoking, dropping acid, and chugging coffee until you astral project to the castle at the center of the labyrinth to fight david bowie

Robert Louis Stevenson, The Silverado Squatters (via phil0kalia)

Margriet Smulders – Photographic Masters

“can you stop playing the Tchaikovsky sonnets just because he was gay?”

“quiet, here’s the chorus”

this is an ultimate kissing gesture also the nose, neck, shoulders, everywhere

Christina Yang (via maybe-you-need-this)

An afternoon