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Women often get dropped from memory, and then history.
Doris Lessing, Under My Skin (via quotespile)
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“Your soulmate is not someone that comes into your life peacefully. It is someone who comes to make you question things, who changes your reality, somebody that marks a before and after in your life. It is not the human being everyone has idealized but an ordinary person, who manages to revolutionize your world in a second.”
— Unknown
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𝐋𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐡, 𝐀𝐧𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐢 𝐏𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐚
Source: crimsonkismet
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art by Julie Dillon
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art by Belinda Dalton
Hail Déa Mysteria!
She is the Dark Mother, the Very First, the Foundation of All, the Primordial Mother, the Eternal One, and the Unknown, that which is beyond our ability to fully understand. She is the Supreme, the Great Mother, and the Source that "out-breathed" at the beginning of time and will "in-breathe" at the end of time.
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Anders
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Relief for Sri Lanka
Yesterday’s Easter Sunday attacks is the largest post-colonial civilian massacre in Sri Lankan history, with 300 dead and 500 injured. Our country needs your help! Please consider donating to the following:
1. Muslim Aid USA, a registered 501©3 organizations in the US with a local presence and country office in Sri Lanka. Has raised 14,000 USD so far. They’ll be matching the first 5000 USD raised.
2. The Red Cross (it has faced criticism but still remains the best way to help in an international emergency)
3. In addition, some known and trusted people are running this Gofundme campaign:
If you can’t donate, please please boost. Every little bit helps!
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MY HEART IS SO HAPPY!!
@galadrieljones created this amazing piece of Solas and Aelyn and I can’t stop looking at it! The flowers in her hair, his hand on her neck, the necklace, her dress, his flower crown, just… everything. They look so soft and peaceful!
Gala is absolutely wonderful to work with, and I highly recommend commissioning her! Thank you so much for creating such a wonderful scene—especially considering I gave you so little information, LOL! I love this so so much.
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Eause even though I don’t have time to participate in Carver Defence Squad Week in full I wanted to do something for the best bro
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I always loved drawing animals but I ended up drawing mostly people these days. Hoping to do more animal art in the future! I’m loving new SAI 2 scatter brushes and excited to test them more :D I’ll be sharing the brushes as part of the March Patreon.com/Yuumei rewards :)
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Bad Children All Get Eaten
A Marcher rhyme, originating in rural areas but common in some variation from Wycome to Starkhaven
Now gather, all young ones, and hear what I say, For good girls and good boys know when to keep mum. For silent politeness is simply the way, And always be thinking of this rule of thumb:
Eaten, eaten, eaten! Bad children all get eaten! Boiled or toasted! Broiled or roasted! Eaten, eaten, eaten!
And always give credence to elders and lords, Respect all their titles and ranks of the guard. And bow to your betters if you are their wards, It’s never worth risking a loss of regard.
Eaten, eaten, eaten! Bad children all get eaten! Poached or basted, nothing wasted! Eaten, eaten, eaten!
And when you complete all your work in the store, Or stables or cobblers or fletchers or field, It’s not just polite to wash off what you wore, If giants can smell you, then your fate is sealed!
Eaten, eaten, eaten! Bad children all get eaten! In the fryer, dragon fire! On a boiling kettle pyre! Soup for six or maybe higher! Eaten, eaten, eaten!
No child of the Anderfels, elf or human, grew up without being terrorized by bedtime tales of hurlocks and genlocks and baby-eating ogres.
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We Found the Universe’s First Type of Molecule
For decades, astronomers searched the cosmos for what is thought to be the first kind of molecule to have formed after the Big Bang. Now, it has finally been found. The molecule is called helium hydride. It’s made of a combination of hydrogen and helium. Astronomers think the molecule appeared more than 13 billion years ago and was the beginning step in the evolution of the universe. Only a few kinds of atoms existed when the universe was very young. Over time, the universe transformed from a primordial soup of simple molecules to the complex place it is today — filled with a seemingly infinite number of planets, stars and galaxies. Using SOFIA, the world’s largest airborne observatory, scientists detected newly formed helium hydride in a planetary nebula 3,000 light-years away. It was the first ever detection of the molecule in the modern universe. Learn more about the discovery:
Helium hydride is created when hydrogen and helium combine.
Since the 1970s, scientists thought planetary nebula NGC 7027—a giant cloud of gas and dust in the constellation Cygnus—had the right environment for helium hydride to exist.
But space telescopes could not pick out its chemical signal from a medley of molecules.
Enter SOFIA, the world’s largest flying observatory!
By pointing the aircraft’s 106-inch telescope at the planetary nebula and using a tool that works like a radio receiver to tune in to the “frequency” of helium hydride, similar to tuning a radio to a favorite station…
…the molecule’s chemical signal came through loud and clear, bringing a decades-long search to a happy end.
The discovery serves as proof that helium hydride can, in fact, exist in space. This confirms a key part of our basic understanding of the chemistry of the early universe. SOFIA is a modified Boeing 747SP aircraft that allows astronomers to study the solar system and beyond in ways that are not possible with ground-based telescopes. Find out more about the mission at www.nasa.gov/SOFIA
Make sure to follow us on Tumblr for your regular dose of space: http://nasa.tumblr.com
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i honestly believe human beings are not meant to live like this. we are meant to live in loving communities and be around nature every day and grow our own food and create art and not work day and night until we die. this longing for another life is not human nature, it’s a symptom of modern society.
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A comic about visiting friends through the years
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AS A PILOT SEES THE WORLD......
A Lake in Pomerania, Poland
Amsterdam
Athens
Bac Son Valley, Vietnam
Barcelona
Bern
Cape Town
Central Park, New York City
Chicago
Dubai
Dubrovnik
Giza Pyramids, Egypt
Mali, Maldives
Mangroves in New Caledonia
Marina Bay, Dubai
Maze at Longleat, England
Meskendir Valley, Turkey
Mexico City
Moscow
Namib Desert, Namibia
Niagara Falls, U.S.A.
Paris
Rio de Janeiro
Seattle
Shanghai
Terraced Rice Fields, China
Tulip Fields, The Netherlands
Vancouver
Vatican City
Venice
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It’s such a confidence trick, writing a novel. The main person you have to trick into confidence is yourself.
Zadie Smith (via writingdotcoffee)
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Anonymous asked:
Do you know of any Latine characters in dragon age? I figured antivan characters but they're supposedly just spanish.
Antiva has more in common with Latin America than Spain and Italy (the other one often said.) So the TL;DR version is yeah I think most Antivan characters like Zevran and Josephine could be considered Latine. (And Josephine was clarified to be a WOC, though we weren’t given any details beyond that because BioWare.)
Also you should totally check out @latinxdragonage!
First, just a reminder that there is no 1:1 ratio of Thedosian countries and IRL equivalencies, but rather general regions of the world. So please don’t misinterpret this as me lumping all of Latin America together, but rather I believe that is what BioWare did in terms of pulling inspiration from a wide range of places and cultures. Antiva is a large place and there’s lots of room for differences across it!
Zevran says that in Antiva it rains often. Spain has a dry climate compared to nations like Colombia (which has been ranked as the rainiest country in the world) and neighbouring countries:
That it rains so much in Antiva makes sense why they have a region called “the Drylands,” if it’s dry unlike most of their country, instead of the other way around like Spain.
Antiva is also hope to the Tellari swamps, which is a giant wetland [some images are included in this post]. Four of the worlds most major wetlands are in South America, including The Pantonal, which is also one of the largest. Looking at the actual comics though, while it’s called a swamp it appears more like a rain-forest to my eye at least. In which case that still definitely wouldn’t bring Spain or Italy to mind, would it?
Still talking about geography, Antiva shares The Hundred Pillars with Tevinter, which is a long stretched mountain range like the Andes.
Last Flight describes Antiva City being decorated with turquoise tiles, just like the Aztec people used it for, among other things as it was favoured for both ornamentation and ceremonial use. There is no turquoise in Spain.
Also in Antiva is gold; their symbol is a golden drake. And yeah the Spaniards sure loved their fucking gold, but who did they steal it all from again?
Antiva is where coffee is produced in Thedas. The world’s biggest coffee producer is Brazil (by a lot), with Guatemala, Honduras, Colombia and Mexico also being on the top ten list.Some other foods that are known to come from Antiva are peppers, corn and passion fruit, all foods native to Latin America, and only brought back to Spain by colonizers.
Antiva is specifically named when discussing fine weaving skills, with rugs apparently identifiable as Antivan by look. Weaving is an iconic textile tradition from many Indigenous peoples in South America.
Zevran mentions something called a “lillo flute” being a common instrument used by Antivan minstrels. This may be a fictional type of flute, and not that they have the copyright on all flute music, but flutes are among the most used instruments in Andean music.
Antiva has a huge history of piracy and as a trade hub similar to the Caribbean, including the existence of pirate seaports, which were a large contributor to the establishment of Antiva as a nation.
Finally, a few things entering headcanon territory but I’ll include anyway:
I like to think the Drylands could be equivalent to the drylands in Mexico, Argentina and Chile.
That Antivans have notable weaving textiles would also suggest that they have the animals it takes to produce the fibres, like llamas and alpacas? Which would thrive in the Drylands and mountains. And the Dalish of Antiva probably use halla wool.
It’s not that there aren’t any things that Antiva has in common with Spain and Italy, like previously being a city-state (something Gaider specifically pointed out when asked if Antiva City was Italy) and known for wine exports. But I think Orlais has more in common with those countries, when we’re talking about the quantity of similarities……And frankly, I am really tired of the fantasy genre only equating to Europe. Dragon Age is one of the only franchises not to do that.
SOURCES:
- Dragon Age: Origins
- World of Thedas Vol 1
- World of Thedas Vol 2
- The Silent Grove
- The Calling
- The Masked Empire
- Last Flight
- See the sources in this post re: food
