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GOD I FUCKING LOVE MY LITTLE ELF MEN. MY BREAK MY HEART RIP MY SOUL OUT ELF MEN. MY “I CANT I CANT” WHINE WHINE ELF MEN WITH TRAGIC BACKSTORIES SO HOT I SPLOOSH I SWOON (fanart by me)
Raise your hand if your OTP has literally made you cry, like real tears, not like you just said it on Tumblr but actually cried tears of real unexplainable to your family tears.
♫♥▒♥▒♥ Happy New Year Everyone ♥▒♥▒♥♪
Dragon Age: Inquisition and Lost Elf Theme belong to EA.
The poem belongs to Shel Silverstein.
Someone on Tumblr relates the poem with this ship. I'm sorry I can't recall who did it.
ahhh thank you!! I am glad I am speaking your language! I'm also so excited to see where it goes when you've got the literal goddess of halla and also the first halla created as the antagonist of the next game :D its gonna be spicy I just know it
alright listen. i have a Take. it is super inconsequential but i Have It.
ppl who don’t like the halla imagery for Lavellan, esp a Solas romancing one (wolf and halla stuff) are super valid! there’s reason to feel icky about it!
but i definitely find myself giving that a read that… seems at least to be far more balanced. i’m from a part of the world that still has most of its large ungulates, and i gotta tell you, those things are far scarier than the predators in the forest, and here’s why:
a predator fights for a single goal: to eat. fighting takes a lot of energy, and so unless it seems like it will pay dividends—either by landing you a tasty meal or by getting you out of an unavoidable fight with another predator alive—they avoid it. it’s why there’s all these tips for how to handle being stalked/attacked by any given large predator in the area i’m from.
but prey species? if they’re in a fight, 100% of the time it is a fight for their very survival. for a deer or an antelope or an elk or a moose, it is fight and win, or die trying. as a result, the stakes are higher: a predator can walk away from a fight relatively unscathed if the benefit of it (a meal) no longer outweighs its costs (getting your skull smashed open by a moose). a predator can simply find an easier meal. prey species don’t have that option. the stakes are MUCH higher.
(also note that if an ungulate is hungry enough, they will attack, kill, and eat smaller animals like birds and rodents. they’re just all around way more metal than common conception gives them credit for. i’d rather meet any large predator while alone in the woods than a moose, just to toss in my two cents.)
so! not an attack of the “i hate wolf!solas x halla!lavellan imagery” position, certainly. just a defense of that dynamic here.
in my view, they’re both fighters, both survivors, just employing different strategies. the “halla” figure here is surviving through support of community, working and fighting to keep everyone safe, because there is strength in numbers. but fighting does happen, and it is brutal—for the “halla” figure, victory is the only option.
the “wolf” figure—a “lone wolf,” in this case, and that matters—is surviving at the cost of others. there is strength in numbers for them, too, but they are without that support. if they are spotted or found out by the community they are “preying” upon, they risk being killed by that community for the sake of its survival. but importantly, as long as they can get out of this alive, they can try again if this fails. they can find a other meal ticket.
i just think there’s room to read it as a far more balanced dynamic that just predator and prey. there is that element in there, and that squicks some people, and that’s fine! but there is also the element of a lone predator, one that would typically be a part of a larger, stronger pack, preying on the entire community. there is vulnerability and fear to be seen on both sides. so anyway, i just think it’s far more balanced than a lot of takes i’ve seen on it! that’s all i wanted to point out. ☺️✨
Equal Opportunity Solas week
Taking Place Oct 6th - Oct 12th
Equal Opportunity Solas Week seeks to promote the Solas romance as inclusive and diverse. We wish to celebrate the possibilities of the Solas romance for characters of all races, gender identities, gender expressions, sexual orientation, and disability.
The event supports content involving:
Solas rare-pair romances
Solas romances with queer characters
Queer Solas romances (in which Solas himself is queer)
Asexual & aromantic Solas pairings
Solas romances involving characters with mental or physical disabilities (beyond missing anchor arm)
Due to the tendency within the fandom to view the Solas romance within heterosexual and cisgendered norms, the event will exclude all depictions of heterosexual cisgendered (cishet) fem!Lavellan
Queer representations of fem!Lavellan or female-presenting Lavellans are valid and encouraged within this event, including:
poly romance with Solas and another character(s)
aromantic or asexual relationship with Solas
bisexual Lavellan
nonbinary Lavellan
trans Lavellan
gender fluid Lavellan
See Event Info & Rules for content guidelines as well as Themes for more information!
