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Solas is a man. I don't know why some within this fandom insist on denying this. Or would twist themselves into knots in order to pretend he's anything other than what he is.

"But Solas is a spirit!" The typical argument goes.

Correction: He was a genderless spirit.

Yes, Solas was once a spirit.

A spirit of wisdom and pride who chose to create for himself a male body, who has lived for thousands of years as a man, identifies as a man, and is, like it or not, exclusively attracted to women.

Solas is (now get ready to clutch your pearls, ladies and gentlemen) a straight, white, male. 😱

All other versions of what or who Solas could've been as a character was left on the cutting-room floor during the creative process.

This is, of course, standard. As anyone who has ever created an original character can tell you. Ideas are tried on, and if they don't feel right, for any reason, they're dropped.

End of story.

It doesn't matter who your Lavellan is either, since Solas' identity cannot be altered in canon by Lavellan or any other inquisitor. Solas will always be what and who he is.

"I am not a god! I am as I have always been: a man, all too aware of his failings..." - Solas, Dragon Age: The Veilguard

Headcanon all you want, all I'm saying is that I've never understood why someone would choose to lust after a fictional character who's immutable characteristics they claim to find offensive.

Especially when there are other characters present that are clearly more accommodating to your tastes.

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it does still make me wonder how the bioware writers managed to throw in "anders was in solitary confinement for a year" as like an offhand line, rather than something that should shape his entire character and that other people would react to. and then frame solas being put in a similar state at the end of vg as... uhhh... optimistic and plausibly sustainable...

like the ENTIRE veil hinges on this one guy not getting depression too badly after [indefinite number of years] in forced isolation? and no one thinks this is both really precarious on an objective level, and a morally fucked up thing to do to begin with?

weird ass game. unsettling implications. i don't usually like to assume anyone's political views from their work in that way, but do the writers think people in solitary confinement are just chilling? especially in the sort of medieval dungeon type of thing anders would've been in/whatever torment nexus solas is supposed to be in?

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genuinely bro, stop fucking yapping

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who put all these dramatic bitches in the same room

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Girl dad Roy

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can u imagine if other pieces of media were as scared of calling their monsters what they are as zombie media is about calling zombies zombies

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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

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“women don’t have the capacity for misogyny” have you ever met a mother

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Little sequel to this

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my creative writing prof also HATES fantasy. as in if she asks for an example of symbolism in a book, and you give something from a fantasy novel, she’ll ask for an example from a “non-commercial book” instead.

I dunno man, people can have preferences, but the second you discount the artistic merit of sci fi and fantasy I stop taking your opinion seriously. and there’s such a big culture in Canada of only valuing literary fiction, to the point where one of our biggest authors, Margaret Atwood, refused for a while to classify her books as sci fi or fantasy. she said they were “speculative fiction”, which is entirely separate and very highbrow (sarcasm).

and I could go on about how Octavia Butler and Ursula Le Guin wrote books every bit as intellectual (and honestly, even more so) than their literary counterparts, but I am also an enjoyer of schlock!! I think there’s artistic merit in animorphs, and in isekais where a japanese schoolgirl reincarnates into a magical spider who has to level up like it’s a video game! it’s like with everything, you can’t draw a clean line that separates ‘art’ from ‘non-art’ or even ‘lesser art’, and pretending you can do so just makes you look ignorant and goofy. in my opinion.

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Reading Kings Rising right now and Laurent stepping in front of Damen as he’s about to cut down Makedon and saying “you’re one inch away from ruling two kingdoms”

?????? BITCH?????? That’s one of the hardest lines I’ve ever read.

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Speef is real to me. I'm sorry for that.

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SINNERS (2025) dir. Ryan Coogler

Johnny, rosin up your bow and play your fiddle hard 'Cause hell's broke loose in Georgia and the Devil deals the cards And if you win, you get this shiny fiddle made of gold But if you lose, the Devil gets your soul

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Using Laurent as my personal dress up doll.