Adrian

Every year when spring comes I feel more sun-starved,
touch-starved, warmth-starved, petrified in my bones.
I go out and lift my face to the sunlight, sunshine, and
just for a moment, I feel it: the relief of still being here,
the joy of having a body
that needs, a mind that tethers
itself to whatever love it encounters. I walk
with my eyes closed, or squinting, arms by my sides, and
I feel my hands, bare to the sunrays, present again,
safe,
and alive,
for the first time
since October.

Okay, Dragon Age: The Veilguard was VERY fun. The combat wasn't tedious at all from the very start, which I was pleasantly surprised by because I remembered (and have since rediscovered) Inquisition having the most tedious combat mechanics I have ever played with, and I'm including Bloodborne in that. Handling two party members instead of the three with the ability wheel was awesome, too. LOVED the combos, loved that I could charge my shots, loved a lot of things.

In my first playthrough, I played a they/them qunari rogue and romanced Davrin; I decided on this before even meeting him when a guide to romancing the characters I skimmed online said something like 'he'd be happy to be your prey,' and I looked at him, and I looked at that sentence, and I looked at my qunari rogue, and I looked into his eyes again, and I thought, I am going to destroy you, and it's going to be delicious. Obviously this doesn't happen in-game, not really, but I want everyone to know what my initial rationale was.

( More on the game, spoilers for all of Veilguard and a bit of Inquisition. )