one thing i love about oliver quick’s character & how he is portrayed (his actions, motives, etc..) is that he’s so relatable. like he shows the “grossest” parts of human want and yearning and i really appreciate & resonate w that because it’s real! it’s true! y’all ever wanted someone so bad you’re willing to become the worst version of yourself just to get them to simply look your way!!?? like humans are animalistic in nature, it is an innate quality in ourselves to satiate that self-pleasure compulsion. ollie is showing all the parts of us we are too scared speak about / delve into.
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I don’t think yall understand how meaningful it is to have Oliver say “when you close your eyes it all feels the same” (kissing on screen). The fact that he doesn’t laugh it off, or say he had to push through it, or that it was a little weird like other actors have in the past is so incredibly important. This is him portraying a character and his sexuality, and it’s so validating to have the actor do his job the way Oliver has, in such a caring, positive way. It’s the feeling of finally belonging, of blending in when you’ve been marginalized and picked out all your life. Love is love, and a kiss is just a kiss.
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oliver stark when people erase the black lesbian love story that’s been on the show since s1
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so fucking irritated with the narrative of “two men can be close platonic friends without romantic feelings” in regards to buddie because 1) you can be friends and in love 2) men are friends on this show? chim and buck, chim and bobby, bobby and michael 3) point me to this so called plethora of male slowburn friends-to-lovers canon ships that exist in media so i can watch that instead
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2023
1. RAGE, RAGE AGAINST THE DYING OF THE LIGHT.
2. YOU DO NOT HAVE TO BE GOOD.
3. WE ARE ALL GOING FORWARD. NONE OF US ARE GOING BACK.
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Obsessively reading everything in game by and about Gortash and the dude is
On a philosophical trajectory that ends in immortality thru technology / the machine
Doesn't have an original bone in his body, but he can backwards engineer anything
Halfway to being a decent scientist but doesn't have the education and is deeply impatient
Overconfident in the veracity of his own results and conclusions
Accurately predicted that the brain would metamorphose and become more difficult to control and then did nothing about it
Outsources his propaganda / arts and humanities
Charming, but he got there in a Pavlovian way (learned from trial and error and probably doesn't consciously know how he does it)
Vindictive af (learned / reinforced)
Darwinian (in the worst way)
Sociopathic, obviously, but extremely Rationalist about it
Never asks questions he doesn't know the answer to and probably thinks this makes him sound more authoritative
Completely incompetent as a strategist (but doesn't know it)
Not nearly as narcissistic / full of himself as he pretends to be
Thinks what he wants is praise but it's never enough because it's not actually what he wants (he wants to be wanted)
Bane makes him feel wanted (conditionally)
Durge made him feel wanted (unconditionally)
Understands intellectually that Durge got ambushed, but he feels abandoned
See also: thematic parallels between Gortash and
Silouv Yali (the Adamantine Forge & the construct Grym)
Oliver (in the shadow-cursed lands)
Astarion and Gale, obviously
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Handsome! Good at paperwork! Just wants to go to sleep! The best avatar around! It’s Oliver!
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something about how felix only wants oliver as long as he performs for him and as soon as its over discards him while farleigh knows all too well what its like to perform and knows oliver instantly and throughout albeit not completely and still wants to get closer and tease and hate and get closer. something about that
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