Mount Seleya (Blanket Era ⛄)
@mountseleya.bsky.social
Canadian. Cis woman. Disaster bi. Elder Millennial. I do Dragon Age, mostly.
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Here's a masterpost of my DA meta threads. 🗄️🧵
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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
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.
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aaand it is going to be another one year with Emmrich and I'm not sorry
#sketch #dragonage #emmrichvolkarin
#sketch #dragonage #emmrichvolkarin
January 2, 2026 at 6:13 AM
aaand it is going to be another one year with Emmrich and I'm not sorry
#sketch #dragonage #emmrichvolkarin
#sketch #dragonage #emmrichvolkarin
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my redraw of my old thedosian friends piece is done! redrawn all the characters and added the veilguard friends :D
#dragonage #bioware #art
#dragonage #bioware #art
January 1, 2025 at 11:34 AM
my redraw of my old thedosian friends piece is done! redrawn all the characters and added the veilguard friends :D
#dragonage #bioware #art
#dragonage #bioware #art
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Scarab of an Official, ca. 1760–1670 B.C.
Medium: Bright green glazed steatite
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/557045
Medium: Bright green glazed steatite
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/557045
January 2, 2026 at 12:57 PM
Scarab of an Official, ca. 1760–1670 B.C.
Medium: Bright green glazed steatite
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/557045
Medium: Bright green glazed steatite
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/557045
I had this tablet.
These drawings are from 2008.
These drawings are from 2008.
January 2, 2026 at 10:51 PM
I had this tablet.
These drawings are from 2008.
These drawings are from 2008.
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Mood for after the holidays…
January 2, 2026 at 9:49 PM
Mood for after the holidays…
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Happy new year everyone :) Starting the year strong with some quick hurt/comfort Rookanis.
#myart #rookanis #anyamui #rookmercar #lucanisdellamorte
#myart #rookanis #anyamui #rookmercar #lucanisdellamorte
January 2, 2026 at 2:26 PM
Happy new year everyone :) Starting the year strong with some quick hurt/comfort Rookanis.
#myart #rookanis #anyamui #rookmercar #lucanisdellamorte
#myart #rookanis #anyamui #rookmercar #lucanisdellamorte
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Starting the year with some angst. 😤
#DragonAge
#DragonAge
January 1, 2026 at 10:06 PM
Starting the year with some angst. 😤
#DragonAge
#DragonAge
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What it's like blocking all of the "Julie" bot accounts on here
January 1, 2026 at 11:49 PM
What it's like blocking all of the "Julie" bot accounts on here
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.
January 2, 2026 at 9:19 PM
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.
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.
![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".](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:isz42ozuhgryswoeak454vvw/bafkreif6z4e3gcbjt4eiu3yeybvqgqitbxdzoikj3pclfotke7weyo6ayi@jpeg)
![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".](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:isz42ozuhgryswoeak454vvw/bafkreigusykk3jd4iwspajvdmjiizajldpqddqsqqt2tfajrxtpxqtk6de@jpeg)
January 2, 2026 at 8:17 PM
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.
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.
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
A - Yes or Probably Yes
B - Nope or Probably No
C - Maybe in a long time
D - Not under EA at any rate
January 2, 2026 at 2:39 PM
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.
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Found my New Year's Resolution.
January 2, 2026 at 5:52 AM
Found my New Year's Resolution.
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December 28, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Meet me by the promise tree 🐇🌿
December 31, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Meet me by the promise tree 🐇🌿
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Morning on the Seine - 1897
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/3110422
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/3110422
December 30, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Morning on the Seine - 1897
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/3110422
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/3110422
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how life feels when your hyperfixation first hits
January 2, 2026 at 10:42 AM
how life feels when your hyperfixation first hits
I would've loved banters in which Cole gently turned out Mythal and Elgar'nan's innermost thoughts as he did with Solas. 🥺
So Benevolence still saw Love … drawn to his side …but it ate them both. Their mouths…words of their purposes…running black…
January 2, 2026 at 1:17 PM
I would've loved banters in which Cole gently turned out Mythal and Elgar'nan's innermost thoughts as he did with Solas. 🥺
He was intentionally written to respond one way to Inquisitors who express humility and another to egotistic Inquisitors.
I think that's as good as confirmation he's a switch. 😈
I think that's as good as confirmation he's a switch. 😈
Hard same except I'm horny-on-main about domming the Egg.😅
January 2, 2026 at 12:47 PM
He was intentionally written to respond one way to Inquisitors who express humility and another to egotistic Inquisitors.
I think that's as good as confirmation he's a switch. 😈
I think that's as good as confirmation he's a switch. 😈
Oh, sweetie, you absolutely *do* help. 💕
But it is neither physically possible nor practical for one person to try to care about everything that deserves attention equally. Our nearest causes and dearest people always take priority.
See: your acquisition of a surname. 😉
But it is neither physically possible nor practical for one person to try to care about everything that deserves attention equally. Our nearest causes and dearest people always take priority.
See: your acquisition of a surname. 😉
Remembering helps the hurt too
There's a quest in DAV ("In Memoriam") which establishes that spirits sometimes change in positive ways.
A spirit of compassion becomes a spirit of eulogy. This is a refinement of purpose. A Cole-like desire to balm every hurting soul transforms into a focused desire to help the grieving and dead.
A spirit of compassion becomes a spirit of eulogy. This is a refinement of purpose. A Cole-like desire to balm every hurting soul transforms into a focused desire to help the grieving and dead.
January 2, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Oh, sweetie, you absolutely *do* help. 💕
But it is neither physically possible nor practical for one person to try to care about everything that deserves attention equally. Our nearest causes and dearest people always take priority.
See: your acquisition of a surname. 😉
But it is neither physically possible nor practical for one person to try to care about everything that deserves attention equally. Our nearest causes and dearest people always take priority.
See: your acquisition of a surname. 😉
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Let's ring in the new year with a meta-thread. 🧵
Mythal tells human!Rook "we made ourselves bodies to be like humans." Spirits mirror the physical world as it exists. Guess that meant reinventing gender too. 🤷♀️
January 1, 2026 at 9:47 PM
Let's ring in the new year with a meta-thread. 🧵