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I just realized that many many people have jobs

Rb with your job, wtf do you people do while offline???

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My favorite part about the Durge and Alfira cutscene is that if Wyll isn't in your party and has been recruited, you can see him in the background drinking wine. My man watched me murder someone and didn't speak out about it the next morning.

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i love my girlfriend

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Chapters: 65/? Fandom: Hogwarts Legacy (Video Game) Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Underage Sex, Major Character Death Relationships: Ominis Gaunt/Player Character, Player Character/Sebastian Sallow, Ominis Gaunt & Player Character & Sebastian Sallow Characters: Ominis Gaunt, Sebastian Sallow, Player Character Additional Tags: Drama & Romance, Slow Burn, Polyamory, Adult Content, Explicit Sexual Content, Hurt/Comfort Series: Part 1 of Legacy Undone Summary:

Ada Marrow abandoned and found by the wizarding world befriends two Slytherin boys, faces hardships and traverses on a new chapter of her life.

_________ Slow Burn Romance between MC, Ominis and Sebastian. Some bits of the original story have changed in a few chapters and this will be going on until they graduate Hogwarts. Another retelling of Hogwarts Legacy. Also available on Wattpad & Fanfiction.net

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I thought I’d share this thing, which I’ll be finishing soon. Hopefully. 

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The bad rap Taash and veilguard as a whole get remains equal parts confusing and frustrating to me. It's one thing to see culture war chuds seething over woke or whatever, but really I expected better from Tumblr of all places. Whether or not you enjoyed DA:tV, it is objectively an incredibly inclusive game that did a lot more for representation across the board than most titles, and trying to debate that fact or tear it down because it didn't do its representation exactly to the letter of how you wanted it is, straightforwardly, poisonous to the fight for diversity in gaming as a whole. Call me dramatic, but every time you act like a spoiled child and pitch a bitch fit over a nonbinary or trans character not being exactly what you wanted, you are actively hurting your own cause. You don't have to like Taash, but if you care about the community it's the least you can do to restrain yourself from posting freezing cold, Steven Universe discourse level takes about how they are actually "harmful" or would have "put you back in the closet".

Here's the tough truth about portraying nonbinary and trans perspectives in media: these identities are not a monolith. Nonbinary, as a whole, is not a secret third gender with its own set of trappings, it's a wide, wide label that means many different things to many different people. That you can look at an nb character written by a nb person and say "they did it wrong" with your whole chest speaks more to your own limited viewpoint and disconnection from the greater queer community than it does to the actual quality of the character.

The impossible challenge that creators face when their writing hits fandom spaces is that people want many different things from art. I've seen people adamant that the correct and most helpful way to do rep is to have a character turn directly to the camera and say "I am transgender" and then have that part of their identity explored for the next 300 pages. I have also seen people, just as adamant and righteous as the first, claim that representation is best and most correctly done when queerness is an incidental background detail in the same vein as hair color or favorite food. The truth is that neither of these perspectives, nor any in-between is inherently more or less correct than the other. Different people will want different things, because at the end of the day different people have different experiences with their queerness and would like to see that reflected in the things they love.

The only real way to be incorrect here is to malign and defame a story for daring to depict something outside of your particular experience - as I see many people do with Taash. I had to read with my own eyes a post about how their romance with Harding is predatory or some shit and that it reflects poorly on the nb community. Quick question: could you please go do your moral crusade about 50 Shades of Grey or some other piece of work so I don't have to see it? You help no one with this hyperbolic bullshit. The only thing you're doing is handing the worst people in this world further unsubstantiated ammo for casting genderqueer people as inherently sexually abusive. Think for a second about who and what you sound like for the love of God. Taash and Harding are both into what happens on screen, your weird moral panic is your own problem. Once again, you don't have to like it, but please do not try to frame something as ontologically evil and harmful to the community because it doesn't suit your tastes.

Taash is fine nonbinary rep. As a nonbinary person, especially one who is afab and spent most of my life feeling a bit out of place and uncomfortable with what the world expected of me, I think it's just right. They managed to represent me. Sorry that it didn't get to be your experience that got put in the game, but it's impossible to tell every single queer story at once. If you really give a shit about the community, celebrate the wins of your fellows, not just your own.

And the sad thing is, I see two big 'critiques' about Taash's questline - either that it's all about their gender identity, or that it doesn't explore their gender identity enough. Sometimes I see these takes in the same post and I can only imagine what sort of doublethink Koolaid the culture war nonsense has gotten you to drink. Taash's gender is front and center, and that's great! But it's a part of a larger story - a story about a difficult family relationship. Taash's story is about the ebb and flow of their relationship with their mother more than anything else, and to be honest? It's one of the best in the series.

Family drama has been a mainstay of Dragon Age - you have Hawke's personal tragedy in DA2, Dorian's alienation over his identity and beliefs in Inquisition, and hell, Morrigan throughout the series tends to be more tied up with family dynamics than anything else. Taash is the continuation of that tradition, and I love what they have. The binary choice at the end is pretty weak and downright misunderstands the experience of being mixed race, but the dynamic between Taash and Shathann is fantastic. It's pained and restrained in such a realistic way, two people struggling with the old and new who dearly care about each other but can never seem to see eye to eye, and end up falling back on their worst vices - anger for Taash, and discipline for Shathann.

Veilguard has a tendency to pull its punches and make everyone a bit too chipper and chill, that's a legitimate criticism given the series' history, but I was deeply struck by how unforgiving Shathann's death was. It was really, unrelentingly realistic - life happened, and Taash never got the chance to sort out their relationship with her. They didn't get to reconcile or ever see eye to eye. Despite spending most of their screen time together bitter and simmering, Taash is so devastated by their mother's death that you have to pull them out of certain death. It was cathartic and brutal for me, a nb person who has had a really really poor relationship with my mother in the past, it made me go plan a lunch with her because I was so grateful that things didn't end like that for us, that I did get the time to work through it.

And sure, you can accuse me of going easy on Taash because their story resonated with me - but isn't that what a story is supposed to do? Reflect the real and sincere, evoke emotion in the audience and crystalize experience and feeling on the stage? Isn't that proof of its value?

At the end of the day, representation has no single golden standard. The only real end goal is to be represented at all - not only by shining heroes and perfectly squeaky clean moralists, but also by characters who are just as human and fallible as the real life people they draw from. Taash succeeds there, and I think they deserve a lot more love and grace than many in the fandom want to show them. If you still want to slander Taash as harmful or bad, why don't you call me that too? Why not call every non binary person who fails to meet your rigid standards evil and degenerate while you're at it? See how much of a community you're left with, and who the ghouls cheering for you actually are.

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So if Lucanis dies during the final quest. I can only picture Spite getting popped back into the fade and coming at solas with a steel fucking chair.

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A couple people asked about Lucanis’ wedding outfit I mocked up! Here’s my refs for it, they aren’t good but they were never meant to be seen lol

A lot of it changed in the final design like the buckle on his waist cinche and the length of the chantry robes. Feel free to use the designs for whatever you guys like though !!!!

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USA people! Buy NOTHING Feb 28 2025. Not anything. 24 hours. No spending. Buy the day before or after but nothing. NOTHING. February 28 2025. Not gas. Not milk. Not something on a gaming app. Not a penny spent. (Only option in a crisis is local small mom and pop. Nothing. Else.) Promise me. Commit. 1 day. 1 day to scare the shit out of them that they don't get to follow the bullshit executive orders. They don't get to be cowards. If they do, it costs. It costs.

Then, if you can join me for Phase 2. March 7 2025 thtough March 14 2025? No Amazon. None. 1 week. No orders. Not a single item. Not one ebook. Nothing. 1 week. Just 1.

If you live outside the USA boycott US products on February 28 2025 and stand in solidarity with us and also join us for the week of no Amazon.

Are you with me?

Spread the word.

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these ones specifically >>> soft doe eyes

wish we got a video of him today in court

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A post from my BlueSky account (@rayquazing)

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of course he still gets his bear in this universe :3

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This all got stuck in WIP hell for months and I figured it was finally time to bite the bullet and just post what got done instead of letting it collect dust forever

So enjoy some post-war Lae'zel!

[close-ups under the cut]

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I think I would enjoy Dracthyr more if they weren’t restricted to Evoker Class and they fixed their mogging situation.

I do love the customization however.

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On Neil's recent stream (x) he had Dave Jones (voice of Halsin) as a guest and one of the questions was if Dave shared Halsin's love of ducks. His response was so sweet:

"I've gotta say, I do like ducks. And to be honest; the fanbase, when they're doing all the -- and again, exquisite -- art, and when they just pop a little duck in there, just for Halsin, just to make Halsin feel nice, I've actually grown to love ducks more now because of all the fanart. It just makes Halsin smile, it makes me smile."

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is this true tumblr