The Dragon's Crooked Spine

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Chapters: 2/? Fandom: Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game) Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Neve Gallus/Rook, Neve - Relationship Characters: Neve Gallus, Rook (Dragon Age) Additional Tags: Post-Canon Summary:

A post-canon story set in Minrathous after the events of Veilguard exploring the relationship between a Shadow Dragon Rook and Neve.

I've got plans for this one! Let's see if I can follow through.

Cory Booker is reading letters from his constituents and tearing up repeatedly and it’s making me cry.

Yes -- in case anyone thought their calls and letters don't matter, Cory Booker has launched a protest marathon speech on the Senate floor and is reading letters directly from his constituents. Their voices and words gave him something to share on the Senate floor directly from the American people.

I intend to call my senators tomorrow and let them know that I've heard about this, and will be sending them letters as well so THEY can speak up for their constituents, because I expect them to speak up.

as of this morning, tues. 4/1/25, the speech is still going, with booker only stopping to take questions from democrats. here is a link to a NYT article about it, in which they quote him as saying:

“In just 71 days, the president of the United States has inflicted so much harm on Americans’ safety, financial stability, the core foundations of our democracy and even our aspirations as a people for — from our highest offices — a sense of common decency…These are not normal times in America, and they should not be treated as such.”

here is a link to the livestream of the speech on senator booker’s youtube. the live chat when i last checked it was filled with supportive comments as well.

Still going. Still coherent, somehow! His staff did an insane amount of research to prep him for this.

Dragon Age: Absolution (2022) "I've made mistakes. But they were mine. I chose them. Don't you understand that?"

oh i love you fucked up mentor-mentee dynamics i love you dynamics that aren't quite friendship or family or romantic but some other thing that's like "you taught me how to be everything i know and i am grateful to you and i would die for you but also i resent you so much i love you i hate you how could you disappoint me like this i will spend my entire life wishing that i could love you but i will always hate you a little for how you made me feel--even if it made me stronger"

"not my circus, not my monkeys" = not your problem

"not my circus, but those are my monkeys" = it's only your problem as far as figuring out how to retrieve them without being caught

"my circus, but those aren't my monkeys" = it's your problem until you figure out whose monkeys those are, and after that you make it their problem

"my circus, my monkeys" = this is 100% on you. On the bright side, if you decide you're chill with the shitshow currently happening, nobody can walk in and make you do anything about it.

I just noticed in all the DA games at the end the protagonist is being celebrated besides in DA2. There people are walking away from Hawke in almost horror.

In this video essay I will discuss why Hawke is so fucking tragic.

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