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still thinking about blackwall's gendered dialogue differences. the chivalry towards and idealization of f!inquisitor. the frankness about sex with m!inquisitor. sheryl chee can we talk...

^ this is sooooo crazy . when f!inquisitor asks, blackwall's mind goes to the ideal of family life, which of course he doesn't believe he deserves. but in response to m!inquisitor he's firmly oriented in reality where he could've fathered a bastard at some point, who knows, but no child would deserve a father like this. (a father who's killed children.) the romanticized ideal of a happy family as a kind of just reward, as opposed to reality where a child can be born of an unknown, disgraced father and the fact they deserve better doesn't change the facts. all they can do is try and avoid the truth. and of course the focus in both cases on being 'deserving' in either a positive or negative sense. (people only get rewards they deserve in fantasy!)

and like it is. so andrastian. blackwall isn't overtly faithful in the way of leliana or cassandra, but it is clear that the idea of the inquisitor as andraste's herald means something to him, and plays heavily into his idealization of f!inquisitor/an inquisitor romancing him especially. he is invested in the idea of women as purer and closer to divinity while men (like him) (especially him) are forever marked by betrayal and violence, because it's a familiar and comfortable framework to contextualize his own guilt. we've GOT to get a war table operation going for diy feminizing hrt

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"none of you know what a maid/knight/mech pilot is" we're playing pretend. you can play too if you want. it's fun I promise

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Krem, soldier of the Tevinter Imperium

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I rly hate the Satanic Panic & the moral panic surrounding violence in video games in the 90s, coz it's now impossible to talk about the social implications of violent video games in a realistic sense.

No, violence in video games does not create serial killers in the way most people imagine it would.

However, it's very important to notice how after 9/11, a lot of violent video games pivoted their content from silly gratuitous cartoon gore to more realistic military shooters set in the Levant from a US American lens. It's also important to notice the connection of these games & their toxic online multi-player voice chats to Gamer Gate in 2014.

It's obviously not as black & white as it was presented in the 80s & 90s, I dont think everyone who played early Call of Duty games is a white supremacist who wants to join the military to kill people in the middle east, but I think it's dangerous to pretend like video games or any media can't have an impact on the way people think about violence.

I think what makes all the difference here is how that violence is portrayed, what the message behind it is, what the motives are behind the people who crafted that message, who the victims of that violence are, how they are portrayed & the greater cultural context that surrounds it.

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Putting all tabletop players into a college level ethics class and forcing them to turn in a paper on moral philosophy before buying a new book

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more comic characters should haunt their writers like how everyone who’s written John Constantine keeps meeting him in dark alleys

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joining the war on homophobia in fictional settings on the side of homophobia

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it's definitely uncomfortable that dav's only nonbinary character is portrayed in a way that leans into negative stereotypes about young trans people. like imagine if there was a game where the only gay man was a sassy princess and the only bisexual man's romance was focused on bdsm and the only lesbian was written by a misogynist and the only trans man is voiced by a cis woman. that would suck right. luckily there are no games like that.

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sometimes when my mom gets drunk she goes into Liberated Women Mode, and one time she was real tipsy and while talking about her friend’s divorce, she very earnestly told me and my sister (both adults) that regardless of preference or relationship, she hoped we would both reach a point in our lives where we were having really good sex with really good people. and my sister said, “i do that now except the good people part” and i said, “sex is real?” and my mom didn’t love either of those answers

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Actually Tumblr users are a bit too caught up in the entirety of high school. Being a "gifted" kid, being a nerd, going to parties, not going to parties... Idk at some point you have to let it go, whether the experience was negative or positive. You're an adult pushing thirty surely you've done something else with your life in the past decade that is more formative and interesting than who you were (or weren't) at 15

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"doesn't care for vampires or elves" is possibly one of the funnier ways that god nerfed me. I do have to hand it to him there.

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Obsessed with Ciaphis Cain and I think it’s outrageously there’s not more equally outrageous art of him! Hero of the Imperium pinup based on the Burt Reynolds’s The Cosmopolitan Man shoot.

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i remember seeing a post floating around about how anders is the type of guy who rants about social justice but doesnt do the dishes. but i think we're all forgetting that he runs a clinic for FREE and leaves milk out for cats so he is putting in the work my dudes, he's just being an absolute cunt about it. so my counter is, he does the dishes but he bitches the entire time about how inefficient your kitchen set up is and how you really need to be getting a more eco friendly dishwasher and also the cookware you're using is absolutely full of microplastics. also he can cook two things so he really can't talk.

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a true male feminist will be bisexual. attracted to women in case there's a woman who wants you and attracted to men in case there's a fujoshi who wants to watch you have gay sex.

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yknow im sick of acting like there isnt actual structural violence in place against polyam people. any person who has to keep their romantic life completely secret out of fear of employment loss, housing discrimination, harrassment, social alienation, etc is like. materially speaking facing structural violence. polyamorous couples dont get access to the same legal protections (marriage being the big one), theres no laws in place prohibiting any kind of discrimination against somebody based on having multiple partners, its more than socially acceptable to call us ugly, fat, undesirable, all secretly sex pests or freaks or abusers, etc.... like can we be real here lmao