anora-mac-tired

[anora-mac-tired]

Not to be a bitch but sometimes people engage with fiction in the most boring way possible, and nowhere is this clearer than in videogames. Like what you mean you hate a character just because they were kind of abrasive when speaking to the player character? "They were mean to me" and it didn't occur to you to wonder why? Like, what might their attitude toward you reveal about the world? About the social dynamics within it? About their own perspectives and backgrounds and personalities? Does it even occur you to ask? Would you only have liked them if they bowed to your presence and talked about how great you are? Like I'm sorry but you're so boring. How boring fiction would be if it cathered to you

[anora-mac-tired]

okay now that we’ve a had couple lesbian blockbusters and milfs are having a romance moment, we need to bring back the manic pixie dream girl. she was never fuckin suited to fixing all the problems of some boring twenty year old everyman, but you know who could actually benefit from a quirky free-spirited blue haired girl with pronouns (she/they)? a newly divorced forty-something mom who’s trying to learn how to be herself for the first time in her life

[anora-mac-tired]

Never speak to me or my 452 unread books again

[anora-mac-tired]

Reverse Mulan about a young man who disguises himself as a noblewoman and has to learn how to do passive-agressive politicking at dinner parties.

[anora-mac-tired]

queen of the eastern seas

[anora-mac-tired]

“unbothered. moisturized. happy. in my lane. focused. flourishing.”

-Cassandra reading her smutty literature on the beach (don’t tell Varric)

[anora-mac-tired]

what's the first movie you remember seeing in theaters? don't try and be all edgy and cool and say like tetsuo: the iron man. be honest.

Go!!

[anora-mac-tired]

decentralize and clean up your life!!!

use overdrive, libby, hoopla, cloudlibrary, and kanopy instead of amazon and audible.

use firefox instead of chrome or opera (both are made with chromium, which blocks functionality for ad-blockers. firefox isn't based on chromium).

use mega or proton drive instead of google drive.

get rid of bloatware

use libreoffice instead of microsoft office suite

use vetted sites on r/FREEMEDIAHECKYEAH for free movies, books, games, etc.

use trakt or letterboxd instead of imdb.

use storygraph instead of goodreads.

use darkpatterns to find mobile game with no ads or microtransactions

use ground news to read unbiased news and find blind spots in news stories.

use mediahuman or cobalt to download music, or support your favorite artists directly through bandcamp

make youtube bearable by using mtube, newpipe, or the unhook extension on chrome, firefox, or microsoft edge

use search for a cause or ecosia to support the environment instead of google

use thriftbooks to buy new or used books (they also have manga, textbooks, home goods, CDs, DVDs, and blurays)

use flashpoint to play archived online flash games

find books, movies, games, etc. on the internet archive! for starters, here's a bunch of David Attenborough documentaries and all of the Animorphs books

burn your music onto cds

use pdf24 (available online or as a desktop app) instead of adobe

use unroll.me to clean your email inboxes

use thunderbird, mailfence, countermail, edison mail, tuta, or proton mail instead of gmail

remove bloatware on windows PC, macOS, and iOS X

remove bloatware on samsung X

use pixelfed instead of instagram or meta

use NCH suite for free software like a file converter, image editor, video editors, pdf editor, etc.

feel free to add more alternatives, resources or advice in the reblogs or replies, and i'll add them to the main post <3

last updated: march 18th 2025

[anora-mac-tired]

Been making progress on a WIP lately. But I thought this just looked so cute.

I love my Athariel so much, I want her to hold me and tell me everything will be ok. 🥹

[anora-mac-tired]

i think what bothers me about a lot of "girl power" narratives is that they function on the implicit idea on the idea that women can become worthy of respect. and i happen to think that really caring about women means believing they already are worthy of respect. that historical seamstresses and soccer moms and forgotten sisters and sweet polite little girls and someone's weird grandma matter just as much as the warriors and politicians, even if they, personally, never accomplish anything "cool."

[anora-mac-tired]

things dragon age never explored so we as a society must explore ourselves:

grey wardens use the rite of conscription on criminals a lot. but. we're supposed to believe that deserting from the wardens is kind of rare.? what makes people who never wanted to be a warden to begin with stay.

dwarven templars. they're literally drinking their ancestors blood. not to mention that one-off line with a dwarven warden that kind of haunts me ("i've been fighting.... myself?")

literally anything with reavers

the relationship between dwarven berserkers and ash warriors

actually the fereldan """barbarians""" in general it drives me insane that the chasind are never mentioned again?

i miss spirit warriors tales. i miss them a lot.

did you fucking know non-dwarves can join the legion of the dead. one of cassandra's ancestors joined after being banished from nevarra. why doesnt this get talked about more.

the sha-brytol never fucking come up again in the series and it actually haunts me

[anora-mac-tired]

"I miss you, my commander.. my friend.. my love.."

[anora-mac-tired]

wip wednesday! was tagged by @lyanachaan (definitely more than once...) and @crowwowo. thank you, dears!

i am a little insecure about my sketches so i compiled some of my wips into a simple sheet. idk if i'm going to finish them but still

tagging: @starrythroat, @hollytree33, @postboxrose, @vaesivlasta! no pressure ofc

[anora-mac-tired]

Queen Anora Mac Tir

[anora-mac-tired]

i'm sorry what.

[anora-mac-tired]

Imagine meeting the most handsome goofiest genderweird butch you've ever seen and she has a dedicated probably monogamous boyfriend who to be fair is actually a pretty cool dude and you're devastated that you can't shoot your shot. Then you find out that up until last year boyfriend was certain he was gay and then he met this handsome goofy genderweird butch and was like oh I like women. Or at least women who are also men sometimes. So I'm bisexual. Also to make things more confusing they're both veterans who are actually pretty staunchly anti-military and hate every admiral they've ever encountered and the butch only went into the military because she desperately needed healthcare coverage for her father and the boyfriend was like. A legacy military brat who realized this is all pretty fucked actually. Congratulations you have encountered modern day Mulan and Li Shang