I cherish Solas romancers, because it’s like—imagine you get to go on a dating show. You’re sitting in the hot seat and—assuming you make a female Lavellan—you have six contestants you can choose from. Not three like on normal dating shows; you get six.
Now, let’s say you ask these contestants your first question. Say, you ask them to describe their ideal date.
Contestant #1 talks about how they like pulling pranks, and afterwards, they’ll take you to a rooftop to eat cookies.
Contestant #2 is a hopeless romantic who wants to snuggle by the fire and have you spin them around in the air.
Contestant #3 has had a more troubled past, but they adore you—and anything you want to do, they are game for; they are submissive and ready to serve.
Contestant #4 is anything but submissive, they counter; their ideal date is all about danger: dragon-hunting and deadly sport.
Contestant #5 seems the intellectual; they want to play chess with you, all the while marvelling that someone as amazing as you wants to spend time with them.
Then there’s Contestant #6, who answers that they’ll tell you all about the boring dreams they had, insult your tattoos, touch your butt, and then dump you. That is their ideal date.
“That one,” the Solasmancer says. “I want that one.”
I cherish Solas romancers, because it’s like—imagine you get to go on a dating show. You’re sitting in the hot seat and—assuming you make a female Lavellan—you have six contestants you can choose from. Not three like on normal dating shows; you get six.
Now, let’s say you ask these contestants your first question. Say, you ask them to describe their ideal date.
Contestant #1 talks about how they like pulling pranks, and afterwards, they’ll take you to a rooftop to eat cookies.
Contestant #2 is a hopeless romantic who wants to snuggle by the fire and have you spin them around in the air.
Contestant #3 has had a more troubled past, but they adore you—and anything you want to do, they are game for; they are submissive and ready to serve.
Contestant #4 is anything but submissive, they counter; their ideal date is all about danger: dragon-hunting and deadly sport.
Contestant #5 seems the intellectual; they want to play chess with you, all the while marvelling that someone as amazing as you wants to spend time with them.
Then there’s Contestant #6, who answers that they’ll tell you all about the boring dreams they had, insult your tattoos, touch your butt, and then dump you. That is their ideal date.
“That one,” the Solasmancer says. “I want that one.”
okay I don’t really get involved in the whole “but people on the internet are wrong” thing but i s2g i’m going to my grave fighting about this whole disney/dreamworks bullshit where people who know nothing about animation get to make these grand sweeping statements and basically just trash movies that a lot of incredibly talented people worked really hard on
like okay this whole fucking thing about the ice in rotg/frozen and “omg the ice in frozen looks so tacky why are people talking about how good the animation is in frozen fuck disney long live dreamworks”
but here’s the thing: FROZEN’S MIND-BLOWING ANIMATION ISN’T THE ICE
like please please please get this into your heads. yes, the ice in frozen DOES look tacky. yes it looks AMAZING in rotg.
this is why the comparison doesn’t work – rotg gets the beautiful ice animation, and frozen has the snow. this is like GROUNDBREAKING technology that no one has ever been able to do before (not even rotg), and it’s something that should be celebrated, not bashed. And, they presented their snow paper at SIGGRAPH the same year rotg did.
this is AMAZING stuff, just take a look:
this is incredibly advanced math and physics and computer science it’s not just some like artistic choice here there is so much time and amazing human intelligence here can we just take a moment and APPRECIATE IT
so anyway please for the love of sweet baby jesus can we not just blindly hate on a studio that’s bringing SO MUCH RESEARCH AND DISCOVERY to the field??? dreamworks wouldn’t have had a fucking chance if pixar/disney didn’t step up and make animation such a critical field of study
what if we don’t pit these two companies against each other but instead celebrate their individual accomplishments?? thanks.
PREACH
I’ll miss his work.
PSA about cup sizes at Sbux
We don’t care. Don’t say “tallest,” don’t snap at people for getting cup sizes names mixed up. If you don’t like the name system or it confuses you, just say small-medium-large. We understand! It’s not a foreign language! We won’t make fun of you!
I’m just really tired of throwing cups away because you order the wrong size!
