Author: michellegruppetta8387

markwateneymemorialcrater:

lady-writes:

saxifraga-x-urbium:

saxifraga-x-urbium:

derive your fantasy settings from somewhere other than medieval europe you cowards

apart from anything else it gives you the chance to read some world history from parts of the world that aren’t europe and that shit is non-stop fun 

some to start you off:

the an lushan rebellion (and literally all chinese imperial court drama makes european political machination look totally pathetic)

the trưng sisters

the battle of tondibi (and literally the entire fall of the songhai empire to the morrocan invaders)

the hajj of mansa musa (the richest man of all history)

kublai khan’s repeated and failed attempts to invade japan

the maurya empire

this isn’t even stretching to like, russia, southern africa, the pacific, or anywhere in the americas yet?

c’mon man don’t you wanna base a fantasy story on patachuti?

#this isn’t even an argument for social justice#i am just fucking BORED

Avatar the last Airbender did this excellently. 

astrodidact:

Since the mainstream media doesn’t seem to care, I’ve tracked down information on the first package bomb victim in Austin, Texas.

His name is #AnthonyStephanHouse.

A married father w/ an 8 year old daughter. President of the homeowner’s association. Blown to bits.

He was a graduate of Texas State University and was an accomplished Senior Project Manager.

I kid you not, the police assumed he built the bomb and accidentally killed himself, but his family thought it was a hate crime the moment it happened.

That was 12 days ago.

His neighbor heard the explosion and tried to save him.

“It didn’t sound like an explosion or what I think of an explosion. It sounded like a metal dumpster getting hit by a truck – like a very metallic, hollow sound,” explained Philips, House’s neighbor. “I ran outside. I looked to my left and I saw him standing there, obviously damaged. He had shrapnel and his clothes were torn up and his face was torn up.”

Philips continued, “He collapsed pretty much immediately after I saw him. I went over. I gave him two rescue breaths to get him breathing.”

10 days later the same thing happened to other families all over Austin.

Source: astrodidact

rederiswrites:

Right, so, I 100% love all the art people make of their inquisitors and others in masks for Halamshiral, and I have a lot of sympathy for the attitude that we got robbed with our plain-ass matching pseudo-military uniforms (which, notably, had stylistically nothing whatsoever to do with any other costumes shown in the game, which bothers me too).  Please keep it up!  But there was a logic behind the lack of masks, and I thought people would be interested, so here’s a passage from David Gaider’s Asunder that explains:

To be without a mask in Orlais, then, was a statement.  It said you were either a peasant not even useful enough to be part of a noble house, or that you considered yourself above the Game.  To the elite, however, nobody was above the Game.  You were either a player or a pawn, nothing else.

Justinia V, Divine of the Chantry and the guest of honor at the evening’s festivities, was not masked.  Nor were the flock of priests attending her.  The priesthood wasn’t above the Game, precisely, but an exception to it, and any nobleman was expected to maintain an unimpeachable veneer of respect when speaking to a priest regardless of what they wore.

So in sending everyone barefaced, the Inquisition is making a pretty clear, bold statement.  Obviously, we’re actually there to play the Game and everyone takes that for granted.  But those bare faces are saying “We are above the Game”, and at the same time they’re sending the message that the Inquisition considers the Herald of Andraste as being due the same deference owed the Divine and her priesthood.