My Dash Did A Thing. @libertybill

My dash did a thing. @libertybill

Hello. Is it possible for you to create a master post of all Solas related audio dialogue you've uploaded? They are so relaxing (painful) to work to. Ma serannas.

me: I haven’t uploaded that much Solas audio, have I? me: *looks back at all the audio files I’ve uploaded*me: …holy crap

 I’m just a big fan of voice acting, lmao… Gareth David Lloyd is a sweet prince

solas talking calmly for 10 minutes (I’ve been meaning to make “solas yelling for 10 minutes” one too, because this kind of thing is great for fanfic reference, but I also have more than enough to make several more of him just calmly talking (and it’s soothing and easy to make them so I probably will when I need some stress-free task to do))

everything Solas says in elvish (except for one line he says to Mihris that I forgot, whoops)

(spoilers) every single possible line that Solas says in Trespasser 

(spoilers) the Negative Responses that Solas will say when he hates the Inquisitor in Trespasser

Solas and Varric’s conversation about the Man on the Island

everything Solas says about the Blight

Solas’ Journey to Skyhold speech

Solas’ reaction if you make him help you kill ancient elves :’/

my favorite Sera+Solas party banter 

Solas and Dorian banter hinting at what might happen in DA4

Solas dialogue that isn’t in the final game, that I only found by rummaging around in the files, so you can only really hear it here:

A missing/removed dialogue option for the last romance scene at Crestwood (warning: this is effing sad, and I couldn’t believe my ears when I found it)

Solas talking to Morrigan about Mythal!

A cute little line missing from the ball at Halamshiral

Solas calling f!Lavellan “lethallan”

the Inquisitor asks Solas what he knows about the Temple of Mythal (no audio)

more missing dialogue from the Temple of Mythal, featuring Morrigan and Abelas (not Solas dialogue, but interesting) - (1) (2)

also this would probably interest you (not uploaded by me)

Solas laughing compilation 

storytime with Solas 

Inquisition party banter (5 hours long)

I don't really know what I was expecting tbh.

The mashup you never thought would work

Never heard of this before. I'm going to reblog this for reference just in case.

WARNING ABOUT A REALLY NASTY NEW VIRUS.

Meet CryptoLocker. It’s your worst nightmare. A lot of antivirus software, including the big names, cannot yet detect or stop it. If your computer gets it, CryptoLocker takes all your files hostage by encrypting them and giving you a certain amount of time to send a certain amount of money to the man behind the virus.

The encryption is very tidy, and so far seems uncrackable (well, crackable, but it might take a couple centuries). If you tamper with the virus itself, it will pretty much self-destruct and take everything with it. And the way the money is transferred, the dick programmer behind it all for the moment is pretty much uncatchable.

YOU CANNOT GET RID OF THIS VIRUS WITHOUT COMPLETELY WIPING YOUR COMPUTER. YOUR ONLY CHANCE IS PREVENTION AND PREPARATION.

Back up your computer to something like an external hard-drive, or even an internal hard-drive that you just take out and stuff away somewhere for safe keeping. Make sure your antivirus is up to date, avoid skeevy sites, and don’t open random emails. DO NOT download email attachments unless you know exactly what it is, because that seems to be how this is primarily being transmitted.

You can learn more about it here.

all aboard the Solavellan Trash Train 🚂🚂🚂 toot toot

Solavellan hell is forever. (✿ o‿ o)ノ#ILoveTheFadeDaddy

Sword Fighting for Fic Writers: Chapter 12

You can follow the tag #Swords for Fics if you want to keep up without following me :)

Available Chapters: 1: Dumb Ways to Die  2.May Your Blade Be True! 3.On Your Guard! 4. Making the Cut 5.Stick ‘em With the Pointy End 6. It’s Like a Dance 7. The Measure of A Man 8.A Crossing of Blades 9.Like Chess, but with Knives An Interlude About Story Telling 10. You Can Barely Lift Your Sword 11.Buckle Some Swash 12.Dual Wielding

Dual Wielding Fighting with Two Swords or an Offhand Dagger

Fighting with a dagger in the offhand instead of a shield was a common practice. A long dagger made an excellent tool for catching the opponent’s weapon while attacking with your own. While attacks were made with the dagger, it’s greatest benefit was as a defensive tool. Here the dagger is being used to restrain the attacker’s weapon (note: The big guy’s sword is pointed away from the dagger guy. Again, the problem with flat images and flat swords is swords tend to disappear in perspective. My apologies for the unclear drawing.) The dagger user is now free to attack with their sword in their next action.

I have more experience with double swords so we’ll be talking mostly about that now. We both know that’s why you’re reading this chapter anyways.

Two Swords are used like off-sync partners, with one movement slightly behind the other while they’re in motion. One might temporarily stay still to cover a line while the other attacks, but you’re not going to be fighting two battles at once except for in exaggerated cartoon circumstances. We’ll talk about fighting multiple opponents in “I’ll Take You All On” (chapter coming soon)

As an example, if two downward cutting attacks are being used, what this off sync movement achieves is that as the first sword finishes it’s blow, it deals with the opponent’s weapon. The second sword is a split second behind the first, and now has a clear path to finish it’s blow. The first sword continues to restrain the opponent’s weapon.

In one pattern of attack, the lower sword begins with a thrust, forcing a defence from the opponent then the upper sword begins it’s preparation. The lower sword then follows and does it’s own cut ending as the new top sword. Beginning with the thrust provokes a reaction from the defender and buys time for the first sword to swing back in preparation while the attacker remains covered.

When defending with two swords you can use any of your usual defences as outlined in “A Crossing of Blades” but you need to be careful that you’re not criss crossing your arms and getting tangled up. That’s another reason for the off sync movements. If they follow their patterns and both do the same action, the arms will stay untangled.

Crossing the blades to collect the attacker’s sword is one of the coolest looking defences you can do with two weapons. This one also works well with a dagger in the offhand.

Things get more complicated when both opponents are dual wielding. Now each opponent can restrain with one sword and attack with the other. Even so, they’ll still be following those same slightly out of sync patterns. 

It might feel like we can do two things at once, but really we’re just switching quickly between two tasks. It’s better to have two swords working towards one goal then trying to have them both achieve two different things.

Often in one action you’ll still be catching both of your opponent’s swords in the defence.

I’m not feeling ambitious enough to try breaking down two dual wielding fighters anymore than that though, so we’ll leave off here. In the next chapter we’ll look into things you can do with a free hand that’s not holding anything.