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taash in dragon age: the veilguard

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people keep whispering "oathbreaker" at me when i walk past them

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You know, it’s important to have tragic blorbos sometimes because hey, maybe you had a bad day, maybe your job sucks so fucking much. But do you know who had a worse day? Blorbo bleebus, who’s doomed by the narrative

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disliking your father for personality traits you have yourself but keep firmly repressed

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Coming back to the "forced rep" argument.

My annoyance with it also comes from these people acting like queer characters can only exist to be "good rep" and "role models" and literally nothing else. To them queer characters aren't allowed to just exist, there always needs to be "a point" and they always need to be "a good example".

If we're talking about kids shows then maybe this argument could hold some water, but for an adult show it definitely doesn't. Mature brains can understand the nuance and complexity without the show spoonfeeding everything down our throats.

And one of the reasons I love HB's queer rep so much is because of how real it feels. The characters are queer because they're queer, that's literally all the reason they need.

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trans women r literally so cool theu get tits AND a prostate?? i thought only markilpler could do that

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I think a lot about DA2, because of course. My girlfriend is playing it for the first time, and we were discussing the tragedy that is Anders, and how you can’t save him.

It made me realize that you really can’t save ANYONE in DA2.

Except Fenris.

Anders goes without saying. Merrill faces grave consequences for her actions no matter what. Aveline doesn’t really NEED to be saved in the narrative sense so much as you sort of scratch each other’s backs. No matter what you do, your sibling either becomes a Grey Warden or goes to the Circle/Templars. Isabela changes, a bit, but never really stops being so self-interested; she just continues to attach herself to Hawke for personal reasons and Hawke happens to be affecting society, as far as she’s concerned. Sebastian also doesn’t need saving, not really, and if Anders lives he goes all villainous and invades a city where neither Hawke nor Anders actually is anymore.

But you get to save Fenris. Hawke gets to change the course of Fenris’s life with their friendship and their love and give him a brighter outlook, if that’s what you want to do. The Power of Love plays a huge part in his storyline if he’s romanced. Fenris’s personal arc is about healing after abuse and trauma, so it makes sense that he actually ends up the most changed and the happiest, relatively speaking, at the end of the game.

(It’s, like, SUPER relative though. Because reasons.)

Fenris’s romance is about as close to uplifting as DA2 was ever going to get, all things considered.

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“give Andrew Minyard a pet/plant to take care of” what do you think Kevin Day was.

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CONNIE PANZARINO at a pride march in Boston circa 1990

the cyborg & the crip by Alison Kafer

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This scene is so funny, Cornello orders Rose to shoot the Fullmetal Alchemist and, obviously, she goes to Al and that little bitch, instead of taking the bullets (’cause, y’know, he’s a suit of armor and can’t be killed with a gun), says he’s not him and rats out his own brother. If you don’t love Al, you’re truly missing out

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Please please please

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kill the imposter syndrome in your head because not only is there someone out there doing it worse than you, they’re also using chat gpt to do it

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question. do your irl friends know about your presence on this hellsite or are you in full hannah montana mode for life

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