"This must be what going mad feels like."

good xkcd today

The Crescent Moon by Montague Dawson

been playing tears of the kingdom and i love these guys

Delicious in Dungeon Deeproads!!!!!

gay ppl going to brunch

@tlounetwork​ | The Last of Us Week 2023 day #3: favorite parallel ↵ Kathleen’s speech (1.05) / Joel: my kid? worth everything (1.09)

a spin on a classic

warden's oath

Really fucked up actually that the “you are valid” culture which, usefulness and uh, validity thereof aside, was intended to provide some some perspective for people who may have been blamed for harmless things they could not control morphed into “if strangers on the internet do not constantly tell me I’m good and perfect they are the oppressor” and “even constructively and gently telling me that I hold some power and responsibility to seek a better situation is an unspeakably cruel act.”

Once, in an argument with my therapist about a decision I made to antagonize my mother, I snapped, “My feelings are valid,” and he shot back, “They’re valid because they’re real, but that doesn’t make them rational.”

It was a more nuanced and tailored conversation after that, but that particular quote struck me especially and made me realize how often I was conflating “valid” with “reasonable” or “justified.”

your feelings are valid == you are allowed to feel what you feel

your feelings are valid =/= whatever actions you take based purely on your emotions is reasonable and right

your feelings are valid. that doesn’t mean your understanding of a situation is correct; it doesn’t mean you haven’t misunderstood something; it doesn’t mean you have the right to hurt someone else because you feel hurt, or unhappy, or sad, or angry, even if they obviously ‘deserve’ it for how they made you feel

your feelings are valid; you are not wrong for feeling whatever way you feel. But just because you feel something doesn’t make it true

Moon cat moon cat

i'm all for welcoming twitter and reddit refugees but you guys have got to leave your unsolicited argumentative dickheadery at the door. why are you reblogging fanart or people's original writing or people's goddamn personal posts like "ew this is gross" or "lmao cringe"? reblogging is not a quote tweet, it's not a comment we can downvote into oblivion, we can see this shit, it contributes nothing but pissing off you and everyone else. don't like something? block op and ignore it. we stopped throwing shit at each other in 2019; you should too.

Chapters: 121/175 Fandom: Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death Relationships: Alistair/Female Warden (Dragon Age) Characters: Female Warden (Dragon Age), Duncan (Dragon Age), Alistair (Dragon Age), Daveth (Dragon Age), Ser Jory (Dragon Age), Loghain Mac Tir, Cailan Theirin, Morrigan (Dragon Age), Mabari (Dragon Age), Leliana (Dragon Age), Sten (Dragon Age), Zevran Arainai, Wynne (Dragon Age), Shale (Dragon Age), Oghren (Dragon Age), Flemeth (Dragon Age) Additional Tags: Implied/Referenced Sexual Assault, Assault, Canon-Typical Violence, Minor Character Death, Canonical Character Death, Animal Death Series: Part 1 of Origins Summary:

Inara Panthin, a young human girl living on the streets in Denerim, has a very bad day, and meets a Grey Warden.

The recruitment story for Inara on her path to becoming the Hero of Ferelden.