morrowind thieves’ guild: we need you to steal a diamond from the alchemist next door. it’s on a shelf that she stands directly in front of. she never moves from that spot, ever. also there’ll be a city guard staring directly at you who will instantly kill you if he sees you touch anything. fuck you
oblivion thieves’ guild: we need you to infiltrate castle leyawiin to steal back a widow’s stolen ring from the countess!! you can steal her key while she’s at church or use her hidden passages through the secret argonian torture chambers!! there’s lots of ways to do it so remember to be creative and have fun :)
skyrim thieves’ guild: we need you to ‘infiltrate’ this ‘house’ full of ‘guards’ using ‘stealth’. it’s a dungeon. we are a dungeon guild
The funny thing about figuring out youre neurodivergent is looking through your family and starting to notice youre definitely not the only one
This post got way more attention than I thought it would
Really interesting reading people talking about their neurodivergent family members
I’m a recently graduated therapist so I don’t have the most experience in this, but I can tell you. The amount of teens I see who I end up screening for ADHD/ASD & referring…I was originally taught to ask parents if they notice any eccentric, rigid, impulsive, or inattentive behaviors at home that are developmentally out of place.
Then later I realized I shouldn’t be asking the parents, because they usually don’t view those behaviors as any of those adjectives because they do the same sorts of things. So now every screening of a kid or teen also usually ends up becoming a screening of the parent(s) too.
And as someone who’s been diagnosed with ADHD for ten years (and probably has autism too), I have to be the weird messenger to these parent(s). Like, “yes, it is frustrating to procrastinate things you want to do and enjoy doing! However, the council has informed me that this is not a common and universal experience and is, in fact, A Symptom.”
Definitely doing a little working-through of the realization that the rages I thought I was causing in my mother as a kid were, in fact, probably sensory-overload meltdowns having very little to actually do with me.
If a transgender person asks you to deadname and misgender them in front of certain people. Misgender them and deadname them in front of those people. It doesn’t matter how icky or gross it may feel, it doesn’t matter you’d rather be honest. It doesn’t matter if there’s more of you there. Certain people aren’t safe, and honesty IS NOT the best policy when honesty could put them at serious risk. It doesn’t matter if there’s a crowd, because when there isn’t shit goes down.
Be an ally, do what they ask. Understand that the trans person knows more about their situation than you do, and this includes who’s safe and who’s not. Some one can be “trans friendly” to other people, but not to people they know or specific people. Do as the trans person asks, yes it’s uncomfortable, but it’s 10 times worse if the person we don’t trust finds out. 100 times worse if they have access to us when you’re not around.
Respect trans peoples safety. Misgender and deadname when asked.
there were no fereldan grey wardens in inquisition because they’re too unhinged for this game. i mean they would absolutely ruin the narrative and the stakes. amaranthine squad is literally a dalish mage with a pure disgust for humans and especially their attempts to erase other cultures, a casteless member of the legion of the dead who used to work for carta, a drunkard who keeps finding himself in the weirdest situations possible and getting out of them almost without a scratch and a son of disgraced war criminal and all of them also happened to be buddies with a certain apostate and a spirit of justice. these guys don’t give a shit about andraste’s supposed herald and they already managed to kick one magister’s ass or even reason with him. they would crack some kirkwall boom joke in front of the whole inquisition and then call corypheus a pretentious dumbass and nathaniel would bother to stop it only because he promised the commander they would behave and not cause problems if they left them on their own for a while
