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Breaking news: aromantic is not, in fact, interested in romance
aka my not so silent ‘fuck you’ to a select few people recently (and since this hurt my hand a bit less than punching them in the face, it was an achievement)
ft. me and a bucket of sparkles to make my lack of fucks given a bit more obvious
Imagine Dorian, deprived of touch throughout his entire life, except for the fleeting, meaningless sexual encounters he can manage in oppressive Tevinter.
As a child, he was taught that affection was weakness, and displays of such feeling are beacons for other houses to target you and bring you down. As an adult, he craves the touch that has been denied him, but fears that showing he needs it will bring about his downfall.
Dorian stands with arms folded close, refusing to acknowledge the way the Inquisitor makes him unravel. With a first kiss, spontaneous and seeking, Dorian tries not to see the promises held within, promises of more and “more”. What they have, what he wants – it isn’t done. And yet they do. The walls around him chip away when the Inquisitor proves himself again and again to be worthy of trust.
The first touches are light, simple. Almost chaste. A fingertip against his palm, a caress on the arm. Why, then, is the Inquisitor’s touch electric, sending shivers and tingles across his skin that make his cheeks flush crimson?
Imagine Dorian, deprived of touch throughout his entire life, and the open affection that gradually becomes his undoing. Undoing the barriers between him and happiness, him and intimacy. Undoing years of hurt and longing, of wanting and worthlessness, replacing it all with the satisfaction of a love worth having.
K, but, like, imagine there are two mage babies in a Dalish clan. An older brother and, like, five years younger sister.
The plan is that the keeper will train both of them until the next Arlathvenn, when the younger kid will go to another clan.
But, like, three weeks before the Arlathvenn, the keeper dies.
The older brother takes over as keeper, expecting his little sister to be his First.
But the little sister isn’t having any of it. She doesn’t want to be bossed around by her big brother, who’s now also her teacher too.
So the two get into a massive fight and and the girl’s brother yells, “If you don’t like my leadership, go see what the world is like outside our camps, Da’len.”
And the girl runs off angrily.
And when the giant Qunari she meets up with in a bar a few months later, she says sadly, “My keeper told me I should see the world.”
The Qunari, Iron Bull, she’d later find out his name is, just assumes that means the myths he’s heard about the Dalish getting rid of extra mages are true, and the girl, who starts going by Dalish, doesn’t bother to correct him.
Title of this post: Fixing Canon Without Breaking Canon One Step at a Time
awww
I sketched a bit today and somehow it looked like Anders. so Anders it is. 😀
Love me some Apostate with longer hair.
There’s a nude version because I love that butt.Why naked and Staff? Nightly Templar Raid, that’s why 😀
and tbh if you think your bioware fave has never done a bad thing you’re deluded
okay actually maybe josie never did a bad thing. she thinks she did a bad thing but she was wrong. it was an accident.
• Use the hand you write with.
• Make a fist with your thumb outside, not tucked inside. If it’s tucked inside your fist, when you punch someone, you might break your thumb. The thumb goes across your fingers, not on the side.
• Don’t be like in the movies—don’t aim for the face. Face punches don’t usually stop people, and you can miss when they duck their head or break your hand on their jaw. If you want to get away quickly, or end a fight, aim for the chest, or the ribs. If you really want to do some damage, e.g., you’re being attacked, aim for the throat, which will make it hard for your attacker to breathe for a hot minute.
• When you punch, you want to aim and hit with your first two knuckles. Not the flats of your fingers, and not your ring or pinky knuckles, which can break more easily. You can use your weight, if you’re on your feet, to add wallop, and spring into a punch with your feet and torso.
Useful information, esp. if you haven’t taken self defense.
I reblogged this once before to add this and I’ll do it again…
keep your wrist straight.
You can also risk breaking your wrist if you allow it to bend. I actually can’t believe this isn’t in there.
Other good pointers:
- if your attacker is male, go for his junk – especially if he’s wearing loose pants. There’s no sportsmanship when it comes to assault so fuck them balls UP
- punching pretty much ANYWHERE in the face is going to actually hurt you a LOT (just think – you’re punching your bones into their bones and ow). If you’re going for the face, my suggestion is to strick upwards with your palm.
see that meaty portion highlighted in red? There’s a lot of muscle and fat right there which makes it excellent for striking. Hold your hand as shown and aim for the nose or chin (though I’ve been told in extreme circumstances, doing this to the nose can be fatal but I’ve never really heard if this is true or not) and just aim upwards
- other delicate areas:
- the shin (hurts like a bitch if you kick it right – also, you can hit this spot if you’re being held in a choke-hold and if your attacker has to move in order to stop you from kicking him, he’ll have to angle his body so as to expose his stomach and crotch to the wild spastic jabbings of your elbows)
- the solar plexus (either jab while holding your hand in a sort of spear position or use your elbows – unless you’re super strong, your punch probably won’t wind your attacker. Your elbow or a spear hand will, however)
Originally in (most) martial arts, you hit the solar plexus because it supposedly contained an important chakra. Now we know that it actually also contains like a bunch of necessary organs that are exposed just below your ribs and is also (roughly) where your diaphragm lives so getting punched there is not pleasant.
- the clavicle (from experience, getting hit in your clavicle HURTS LIKE A MOTHERFUCKER. If you strike downwards with your knuckles, the person might just cry. Like I did.)
- the ear (this is probably the best place to punch besides the throat. It’s all cartilage so it probably won’t hurt you all that much and most people will be like “DUDE YOU PUNCHED ME IN THE EAR WHAT THE HELL”)
- the kidneys (this is harder to hit without training but if you somehow get your attacker’s back to face you, try to hit’em in the kidneys. Again, from experience, this FUCKING HURTS. You can’t really hit the kidneys from the front with any effect but from the back it is super painful)
- if you’re held in a choke-hold, try turning your head so the forearm isn’t pressed into your throat. If you can position yourself right, you can sort of force your chin into the crook of the elbow, making you able to still receive (limited) oxygen and provide time for you to kick some shins or elbow some spleens and shit
-Also, remember that a guy’s junk is not an off-button. Don’t think that you can rely on a swift kick to the balls to immediately incapacitate him in an emergency. Adrenaline and anger can keep somebody going for a long time even through extreme pain, and if you expect to end a fight with a single groin-attack you might be caught off-guard when he doesn’t drop. Certainly go for it if you get the chance, but keep hitting him until the fight is over.
-Draw blood if you can, especially if you can draw it from the face or the eyes. Blood in the eyes is not just a good way to impair your attacker’s vision, it’s also a really good way to freak them out and let them know that they might be getting more than they bargained for by picking a fight with you.
-Elbows and knees are really powerful weapons. Elbows are very sharp and very strong and if you are in close-range they are often more effective than trying to throw a punch.
-Yelling and shouting makes you scary.
Nothing much to add to this, it’s pretty much all there. So. Reblog. Oh, also, it’s really easy to break a nose – go for the eyes too. All it takes to avoid a shot to the throat is tucking your chin.
Also, that part about the ear – don’t punch. An open hand over the ear hurts a lot.
Tumblr teaching me how to fuck a bitch up
Also if you fuck up their face it’ll be easier for police to identify the attacker.
If someone gets you from behind and you cant punch them, go for the underside of the upper-arm. A bad pinch there is legit so painful because that skin is super sensitive.
Also this cant be stressed enough, if the attacker is a guy then fucking rip his junk off.Most important of all – YOU ARE WORTH FIGHTING FOR
Here is one of my favorite moves; it’s a method for escaping from a particular kind of sexual assault.
Never underestimate how powerful knees and elbows are.
They’re solid bone with few pain receptors so you can hit really hard and the worst you’ll get is a jarring sensation, they’ll get broken bones and squashed jiggly bits!!
I’m gonna need non-autistic allies to start reminding folks in vaccine discussions that children are not better off dead than disabled.
enough “vaccines don’t cause autism”– more “so what if they did?”
autism is not a death sentence.
vaccine-preventable diseases can be.
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