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Mount Seleya 🖖🇨🇦

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Canadian. Cis woman. Disaster bi. Elder Millennial. I do Dragon Age, mostly.

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Mount Seleya 🖖🇨🇦 @mountseleya.bsky.social · Oct 21

Here's a masterpost of my DA meta threads. 🗄️🧵

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Bug (she/her)

@11doodlebug11.bsky.social

The Baldur’s Gate 3 portrait series (continued in many comments)
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#bg3 #bg3fanart #baldursgate3 #baldursgate3fanart

January 3, 2026 at 9:32 AM

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stars, birds, babes, and sages

@vivreapleurer.bsky.social

New year, new wallpaper #dragonage #dragonageinquisition #cullenrutherford

January 3, 2026 at 1:58 AM

Mount Seleya 🖖🇨🇦

@mountseleya.bsky.social

I don't know if this is the vibe you imagined for this scene. 🤷‍♀️🫣

January 3, 2026 at 12:10 PM

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yaoi gagarin

@mel.bzky.team

[january 3rd voice] god what a fucking year

January 3, 2026 at 10:08 AM

Mount Seleya 🖖🇨🇦

@mountseleya.bsky.social

Okay I'm done spent tuning my display name to a tolerably Canadian level of jingoism and I'm gonna edit my fucking Solas/Mythal fic.

January 3, 2026 at 11:29 AM

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David Rothkopf

@djrothkopf.bsky.social

Every American should be ashamed of who we are and what we have become as a nation today. We have a long history of military misadventures and even crimes but the attacks we have been conducting on Venezuela are among the most wanton, egregious and least defensible acts we’ve ever conducted.

January 3, 2026 at 8:34 AM

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B A R S U K

@barssuk.bsky.social

The battlefield 🗡

July 5, 2025 at 9:59 PM

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Lyosha🌻

@alyoshka.bsky.social

aaand it is going to be another one year with Emmrich and I'm not sorry

#sketch #dragonage #emmrichvolkarin

pencil sketch of Emmrich Volkarin holding the scull

January 2, 2026 at 6:13 AM

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Atarial

@atarialart.bsky.social

my redraw of my old thedosian friends piece is done! redrawn all the characters and added the veilguard friends :D
#dragonage #bioware #art

all companion characters, plus advisors and manfred and assan, from all dragon age games done in a silly simple style

January 1, 2025 at 11:34 AM

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METsky 🏛️

@metsky.bsky.social

Scarab of an Official, ca. 1760–1670 B.C.
Medium: Bright green glazed steatite
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/557045

Scarab of an Official, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

January 2, 2026 at 12:57 PM

Mount Seleya 🖖🇨🇦

@mountseleya.bsky.social

I had this tablet.

These drawings are from 2008.

White Bamboo Fun tablet model from the mid-to-late 2000s, with a wireless mouse and stylus.

Illustration of a young woman with a round face, rosy pink cheeks, honey brown eyes, thick eyebrows, and somewhat wild mane of curly brown hair. She is wearing a wasabi green sweater dress with a wide leather belt. She is smiling softly.

Illustration of a young man with a long, pale face, thin eyebrows, shoulder-length straw blond hair, wide green eyes, and aquiline nose that dominates his face. He is wearing a blue button-down shirt under a grey sweater vest. His expression is serious or sheepish.

January 2, 2026 at 10:51 PM

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NANCY COMICS BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER

@nancycomics.bsky.social

Mood for after the holidays…

NANCY AND SLUGGO HAS WENT IN A MUSEUM ,THEY SAW A SIGN THAT SAID LOUNGE, SO THEY HAVE LAID DOWN ON THE FLOOR, WITH THEIR HEADS PROPPED UNDER THEIR RIGHT HANDS, A MUSEUM GUARD IS SURPRISED TO SEE THEM LOUNGING ON THE FLOOR

January 2, 2026 at 9:49 PM

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Anya

@andromedaxyz.com

Happy new year everyone :) Starting the year strong with some quick hurt/comfort Rookanis.

#myart #rookanis #anyamui #rookmercar #lucanisdellamorte

January 2, 2026 at 2:26 PM

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Yolebrat-COMMS OPEN ✨️

@yolebrat.bsky.social

Starting the year with some angst. 😤
#DragonAge

January 1, 2026 at 10:06 PM

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Eag

@psychic-eag.bsky.social

kitchen in winter ❄️ #pixelart #lowpoly

January 2, 2026 at 8:45 PM

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Carl ❄️

@carlofrivia.bsky.social

What it's like blocking all of the "Julie" bot accounts on here

January 1, 2026 at 11:49 PM

Mount Seleya 🖖🇨🇦

@mountseleya.bsky.social

Hello, I'm the poorly-constructed wooden fence along a cliffside path at an Oregon state park, and these are my friends, the jagged brown rocks and black waves forty feet below.

Alex Spahn 🌋🌪️☄️ @spahn711.bsky.social · 2d

Hi, I'm the center of a borderline EF-4 tornado. 🤷

A post from @Sabeenahmad1 that says "Introduce yourself with what almost killed you"

January 2, 2026 at 9:19 PM

Mount Seleya 🖖🇨🇦

@mountseleya.bsky.social

Greek-statue avatars with strong opinions on the canonicity of black elves in The Rings of Power spend five minutes learning what Tolkien actually thought about Nazis.

Environmentalism in The Lord of the Rings
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The theme of environmentalism in The Lord of the Rings has been remarked upon by critics since the 1970s. The Hobbits' visions of Saruman's industrial hell of Isengard and Sauron's desolate polluted land of Mordor have been interpreted as comments on modern society, while the destruction of Isengard by the tree-giant Ents, and "The Scouring of the Shire" by the Hobbits, have a strong theme of restoration of the natural environment after such industrial pollution and degradation. However, Tolkien's love of trees and unspoilt nature is apparent throughout the novel.

The caption of a photo of the New Zealand Hobbiton set reads:

Pastoral vision of an unspoilt England: the Old Mill at Hobbiton, constructed as reimagined for the filming of Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings.

Opposition to peacetime Nazi racial theory

Fimi writes that Tolkien refused to declare that he had an "Aryan" origin so as to be published in Nazi Germany. In 1938, the publishers of the German translation of The Hobbit, Rütten & Loening of Potsdam, wrote to Tolkien asking if he was of pure arisch ("Aryan") descent. He asked his English publisher, Stanley Unwin if he should

[begin quote] suffer this impertinence because of the possession of a German name, or do their lunatic laws require a certificate of 'arisch' origin from all persons of all countries? [end quote]

He drafted two letters to Rütten & Loening; only one survives, and his biographer Humphrey Carpenter presumes that Unwin sent the other to Rütten & Loening. The surviving draft says

[begin quote] I regret that I am not clear as to what you intend by arisch. I am not of Aryan extraction: that is Indo-Iranian... But if I am to understand that you are enquiring whether I am of Jewish origin, I can only reply that I regret that I appear to have no ancestors of that gifted people. [end quote]

In Newsweek, David Brennan commented that the draft "demonstrates the author's opinion on the Nazi state—and its misunderstanding of the word 'Aryan'—in no uncertain terms." Ed Jefferson, in The New Statesman, agreed, writing that the letter made it plain "that he was appalled by the Nazis".

Opposition to racism in South Africa

Commentators including the scholar of English literature Julie Pridmore have noted Tolkien's opposition to South African racism; she describes his views as "advanced in terms of the acceptance of different cultures and ethnicities". During the Second World War, Tolkien's son Christopher, training in South Africa, expressed concern about the treatment of black people at the hands of white people, and his father replied:

[begin quote] As for what you say or hint of 'local' conditions: I knew of them. I don't think they have much changed (even for the worse). I used to hear them discussed by my mother; and have ever since taken a special interest in that part of the world. The treatment of colour nearly always horrifies anyone going out from Britain & not only in South Africa. Unfort[unately] not many retain that generous sentiment for long. [end quote]

Stephen Wigmore wrote in The Spectator that Tolkien explicitly rejected the South African policy of apartheid, racial segregation, in his 1959 speech on retiring as a professor at the University of Oxford. Jefferson in The New Statesman similarly wrote that Tolkien "strongly disapproved of apartheid".

January 2, 2026 at 8:17 PM

Mount Seleya 🖖🇨🇦

@mountseleya.bsky.social

A. It's an established franchise with a built-in fandom. The opportunity to buy a mature IP doesn't come along every day. Someone will inevitably see potential dollar signs.

Autumn Witch @autumnwitch.bsky.social · 2d

Today's Dragon Age Poll: Do you think we will ever get another new, original, Dragon Age game?

A - Yes or Probably Yes
B - Nope or Probably No
C - Maybe in a long time
D - Not under EA at any rate