dark-magician-girl-meets-world:

80% of my opinions on Tumblr discourse are driven by one principle. I call it the Hateful Shitbag test. Imagine a hateful shitbag, the kind of person who has a Blue Lives Matter flag and thinks Fox News is mostly good but not as insightful as Breitbart. The Hateful Shitbag test is to ask yourself whether that person, qua hateful shitbag, would like your opinions on a group in question. If they wouldn’t, it passes. If they would, it doesn’t mean you’re a hateful shitbag yourself, but it might mean you’ve internalized some of the narratives they spread, and it certainly means you’re giving them comfort. 

For instance, take TERFs. They claim to be radical, but would a hateful shitbag approve of the way they talk about trans women? Hell yeah, they’d love it. In fact, a lot of them do love it and try to make friends. It fails the Hateful Shitbag test. 

Would a hateful shitbag agree with how transmeds talk about non-binary people? How about how exclusionists talk about ace people? Or whoever the heck it is who goes on about MOGAI people? I really like the hateful shitbag test; it’s a good way to catch yourself when you start internalizing things. 

tldr don’t act like hateful shitbags even if you want to 

ithun:

faerunner:

Calling it now: The next big reveal is the 7 Magisters only cracked the Black City and brought the darkspawn taint to the world because the Evanuris whispered instructions from beyond the Veil, hoping they’d set them free.

So the Blights are REALLY the elves’ fault, like everything else.

Another one: based on the teaser poster, we see the red lyrium statue enclosed in a large black circle with seven orbs around it; five dim, two bright. There have been 5 Blights, 5 slain Archdemons, with two to go.

Solas hates the Grey Wardens slaying Archdemons because he implies if all 7 are slain, something much worse will happen.

My guess is Solas sealed Evanuris in the Black City (hence tainted red lyrium) to suffer an eternity of torment; tainted and maddened but unable to die. But they can till use the magic of the Fade to “sing” heavenly music for those who can hear, mingled with the darkspawn taint. And darkspawn feel compelled to seek out and “awaken” Archdemons because the tainted Evanuris eternally compell them with their “song.” And the “Old Gods” that instructed the 7 Magisters to invade the “Golden City” was really the 7 Evanuris trying to trick them into freeing them.

Calling it now.

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