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silvysartfulness · 4 months

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Just a week into the US election year of 2024, and I'm already seeing some Takes™ on my dash.

Please. No.

I know you hate your options, guys, but third party will not win. They simply won't, not in 2024, no matter how much you wish they would. Building that kind of voting power takes time, and with the current voting-suppression systems and gerrymandering in place, you're just not there yet.

And you know the people who are tempted to try it anyway are the people on the left and some lost-looking centrists. And you know that taking those votes away from the Democrats while the people on the right turn up to vote en-mass as they always do means that Trump will win.

I cannot overstate how much you can't let that happen. You can't.

You can feel betrayed and be frustrated with the Biden government all you like, but you can't hand that position of power back to Trump and the conservatives. People will suffer. People will die. Within your own country and globally.

If you seriously think Trump in power will mean less genocide and fascism in the world, I'm sorry, but you're straight up delusional.

Please think really hard about what narratives you're buying into, supporting and spreading this year. Not immune to propaganda etc. People who try to cloud your judgment by appealing to your anger and sense of helplessness, telling you not to vote, or vote third party may genuinely believe what say - or they're manipulating you into throwing your vote away. Either way, the end result is the same.

And frankly - the choice is yours, but if you intend to chase the third party pipedream right now and thereby allowing a fascist government to take over and dictate global politics for the next four years at least (provided their next insurrection isn't successful, leaving them in power indefinitely...)

Then kindly unfollow me. Right now.

I have zero patience for the leftist "perfect or nothing" mindset when the alternative is outright open and proud fascism. No fucking dithering. You have one job this year. You can either vote for the lesser evil like a fucking grownup and then work within the system for further change, or get right out of my face.

That's all.

#people voting 'third party' got a nationalist right-wing party in power in my country #they're suggesting banning mosques #they're talking about exiling pretty much anyone not born here #it's a shitshow #and with your ultra-religious conservatives #you'd better believe the right will come for the queer and neurodivergent people hard #this isn't a fucking game #you either do everything in your fucking power to keep fascists out of your government #or sit right down and never pretend to care about human rights again #this has been a fucking rant #may delete later #real world bullshit

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ziracona · 2 years

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Ok here's some of the basics of DA. It's long.

Mages are born naturally. They have a connection to The Fade, which is a realm of dreams and spirits and demons. Demons in particular can use this connection to possess or corrupt mages and make them commit atrocities. Because of this possible danger, the Chantry* established the Mage Circles**, where mages are sequestered away from the rest of the world, where they're watched over by the Templars***

*The Chantry is the main religion of the continent. They believe in the Maker, creator of all, and Andraste, said to be both His prophet and also His wife. SHE existed, it's historically confirmed, but the Maker is mostly ambiguous and it's not clear if/what He was. Or if He's real at all. Chantry is human-centric, and believes that 'when all the world sings the chant of light, the Maker will return.' As it goes. They have a lot of influence, especially in Ferelden and Orlais where most of the games take place.

**The Circles are meant to be safe places of learning and study for mages. Whether they succeeded or not is pretty debatable. They're supervised by the Templars, a subgroup of the Chantry. ***Templars are... Basically antimagic cops / prison wardens. Some are alright, some abuse their authority, some are mage-hating zealots. As it goes. Also, someone who is "Tranquil" is a mage who's been forced to have their emotions stripped away, either as punishment or to ensure they can't be possessed by demons. Or both.

The Circles are defunct, though. A few years ago, a Circle in the city of Kirkwall rebelled. It turned into a mass conflict between Mages and Templars, causing intense and traumatic devastation, and eventually kick-started the mage rebellion all across the continent****. The Conclave was meant to be peace talks between the two factions, but the explosion at the start of the game killed basically all the higher-ups on both sides so now it's open warfare with no direction. Kirkwall was where DA2 happened, and the PC for that is named Hawke. If it comes up.

****This was not helped by the sabotage and interference of the Qun, which refers to the religion/nation/social order that most Quinari come from. All of those as one. The Qun governs their lives, dictates their social caste and purpose, and - by the description of its own members - is roughly equivalent to fantasy North Korea. Brainwashing and strict castes and Absolute Order.

There's also Tevinter, which is a nation where Mages Are In Charge and being a stronger mage means you have more political power. Generally, they're slavers and heavily utilize blood magic, and the local nations don't like that. Orlais is another nation, basically fancy French aristocrats and the Great Game (TM), and Ferelden is where you start, which is basically feudal Britain.

Another subject you'll hear a lot about is The Blight. Every few decades, miners and deep earth explorers will stumble across particular caverns and release an Archdemon - basically a fucked up abomination dragon that leads an army of Darkspawn (mutant zombie plague) on a rampage. The Blight is opposed by the Gray Wardens, a largely autonomous force who undergoes special rites to oppose the Blight. Only a Warden can permakill an Archdemon. First DA game was about the most recent Blight, which happened about a decade prior to DAI, and some characters have existing ties to the party members from that game. If you hear the name Hero of Ferelden, that's the PC from the first game.

Dwarves and Elves: Dwarves live underground, have caste systems by birth, and are otherwise pretty much typical dwarves. Anyone who travels to the surface is exiled and cannot return to the underground cities. Elves have historically been enslaved by humans for thousands of years. Nowadays, some of the elves live in the cities because they were born into them, and the rest live as nomadic clans, called the Dalish.

Lastly. Lyrium is magic rocks, used for magic stuff and also consumed by Templars to give them their antimagic powers. It's addictive so all of them are addicted to it. Red Lyrium is corrupted and evil, it fucks with your head and physically propagates like cancer. Don't fuck with it. And the world is called Thedas, which stands for THE Dragon Age Setting. It was the development term, before someone decided 'fuck it, let's just use that'

[addition of my own post submission] thanks for the information! I am still Very Big Confused, but at least I have some idea what some things are. At least I picked a foreigner so it makes sense he’s like ‘uh…. *wings it*’ 24/7 narratively speaking haha

#submission #Dragon Age Inquisition

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