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Welcome back Tei

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Man something obvious just clicked in my brain.

Ciel wears shorts in his everyday wardrobe, which very quickly determines that he is in fact a child. When he goes to Weston, he's expected to wear trousers as part of the uniform, but when he leaves, he reverts back to shorts without hesitation.

I wish we got a moment where he commented on the trousers because he seems to NEVER wear them.

As someone so self-conscious of his appearance as a social elite, and his hatred for being undermined for his age, it's really interesting that he still dresses himself in shorts. On the other hand, it's great storytelling because while he might be this super cunning and intelligent 13 year old who tries to put himself on such a high pedestal, we and everyone around him know he is a young boy.

Particularly at this time in high society, clothes are incredibly important for portraying your character, wealth and status. Perhaps Ciel enjoys confusing his new acquaintances with his Earldom and smart shorts. Again, it could just be aesthetically pleasing to have this anaemic Victorian child to have his pale legs out, juxtaposing the tall black mass of hell towering next to him.

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I know it’s late as hell to post this but who cares I KNOW ONE OF YOUS 🫵 IS UP!

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the fact that this matches their faces exactly

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Mattel has shown time and time again that they are capable of making MH dolls with textured hairstyles

and yet the most textured hair that Clawdeen, the most prominent black character of MH, has ever gotten is some measly poly micro braids atop pin straight hair

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Mattel giving the new Venus doll textured hair as reparation for her last doll having straight hair is perfection and now their challenge is to do it for Clawdeen 🔫

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Okay now let me just say, I wanna see some curls and kinks in clawdeens hair. We know mattel can and will do it. Gimme clawdeen with CURLS

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As my Monster Fest Clawdeen had some defect on her hair and was out of stock, Mattel offered me another doll. Obviously got another Clawdeen 😛

I'm not a big fan of beach/pool lines but, just like Skull Shores, this one is so pretty, I love the transparent pants!

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Someone said that the veilguard theme doesn't sound like a hero's journey and instead sounds like an anti-hero theme and now I can't relax.

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please listen to this it is destroying me its so funny

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A little princess

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dai harbors such disdain for the elves it's honestly baffling. Both of your elven companions hold disdain for the dalish. neither of them ARE dalish. a dalish inquisitor barely gets a say in being forced to carry the title of herald of andraste and inquisitor. their clan can be wiped out in a war table mission with no consequences, no cutscenes, no dialogue, no nothing as a result. you can get one of the most beloved companion of the game defending slavery to you. you can get an elf to command orlais from the shadows but the game goes to great length to let you know that she is corrupt and untrustworthy, too, like the humans.

solas, who is FRAMED as being not just trustworthy, but extremely knowledgeable and wise, denies his connection to the elves. he believes himself better than the dalish who are foolish worshippers of the monsters who enslaved them millenias ago, and better than the city elves who let themselves (in his eyes) be persecuted by humans. if you romance him he takes away your vallaslin, one of the most culturally significant symbols of the dalish, because it actually used to be a marking forced upon them by their evil slaver gods. ther dalish are constantly, over and over, portrayed as foolish and misunderstanding their past and heritage, with very little opportunity to argue against that even as a dalish inquisitor.

Non dalish know more than you even when you are a dalish inquisitor. Morrigan, a HUMAN, teaches you, a dalish elf, about ancient elvhen magic and artifacts. Solas, who through the game is portrayed as a non-dalish elf, teaches you about ancient elvhen magic and artifacts whilst at the same time mocking the dalish who wish to retain their culture, heritage and knowledge

it is so meanspirited. the reveal that solas is fen'harel does very little to soften the blow, especially since it's hand in hands with the reveal that flemeth, a HUMAN, is mythal.

i know there's some interesting lore bits that ties ancient elves to humans, but that doesn't matter, okay? What matters is that the fucking writing is biased against elves. the writing could've raised these questions, offered these earth shattering discoveries, without being so mean spirited and biased against elves and especially the dalish.

imagine being a player who doesnt care to dig into the deeper lore, whose never played a dragon age game before. you would be left scoffing about how foolish the dalish are, obsessed with their past to the point they'll happily believe falsehoods and venerate evil slavers. you wouldn't care about any of the lore implications. and even if you did, it wouldn't remove the negative bias the game really shoves at you. it's literally baffling how no one in the writer's room was like "hm, maybe we should offer a proper dalish point of view to some of these things. maybe we should hold back on the fantasy racism just a teensy bit, considering our fantasy races and cultures are deeply tied to real ones in the real world with very obvious inspirations. it might be best to not portray one of our marginalised races and people as stupid idiots who got their entire heritage all wrong. maybe."

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Being a dai hater is so hard because it's like. You recognise the writing is boring, hollow, prejudiced, cheap, and meaningless. You recognise the open world is empty and boring as hell. That the story and villain is lackluster. But no one else... Does??

Dai is game of the year. Dai is the most popular da game. Dai brought dragon age into the spotlight. "we know you love your inquisitor" people do ?? Every piece of promotion for veilguard is themed around Solas. It's just so strange. Like I feel insane playing dai because I'm so bored and most of the writing either doesn't hit or just pisses me off but it's the most wildly beloved da game after origins and I'm like... Why????? Why is this one the most popular, am I just. Dumb? Do I just have bad taste? Do I not know what a good video game and a good story are? Omg it's just wild

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Something that really pisses me off is how Vivienne is a clear victim of the circles, who internalized all of this fear and hatred for her fellow mages including herself, and it's genuinely heartbreaking but the game does fuck all with it

The same happens, to a lesser extent, with Wynne in Dao. The only companion who was an ex-circle mage who is valiantly anti-circles, in the whole franchise, is anders. Anders, who is called "crazy" at every opportunity. Anders, treated like an extremist, a villain, a delusional monster.

Other mage companions who oppose the circle include: the daughter of a literal elvhen god who is constantly portrayed as shifty and untrustworthy (no matter that she never betrays you or does anything to harm you and/or your cause in any of the games she appears in), a dalish mage who was kicked out of her clan because they found her use of (blood) magic irresponsible and dangerous, a tevinter magister-to-be who excuses slavery, and an elven god who caused the deaths of who knows how many by brashly creating the veil. Aside from these parts of the narrative putting them into question, it's also notable that none have actually lived through the circle, either.

The message thus becomes clear: the good, smart, 'sane' circle mages approve of the circle. The good, smart and sane circle mages believe templars are necessary. Only crazy extremist monsters would fight against it so vehemently. Only those who don't actually know how it's like would be against it. Even a previous lifelong apostate such as Bethany can find happiness in the circle, so surely it must mean those against it are wrong. Obviously.

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biased writing is Anders being called crazy several times during dragon age 2, including by a Hawke who romanced him. Biased writing is a Hawke who romanced Anders implying in Inquisition that Anders is a monster, and that those who believe him to be a monster are only partly mistaken. Only partly. That he is complicated in the way he is monstruous. Even a Hawke who romanced Anders. Even a Hawke who supported him.

Biased writing is Cullen being written as a beautiful, charming, big dicked commander in Inquisition. Biased writing is no one - not even Varric, who was there when Cullen said mages were "not people" - commenting on his negative bias against mages, or about him siding with Meredith up until she tried to kill Hawke. He sided with Meredith when she enacted the right of annulment of her own against the Circle of Kirkwall. He was okay with killing innocents because they were mages, and only questioned her because she tried to kill the Champion of Kirkwall. No one mentions that. No one questions it. Instead, people at the Winter palace fawn over him. Instead, he gets invited to wicked grace with the Inquisitor's entourage and is given an extended scene where everyone laughs at how funny he and his stories about being a templar is. Instead, the cunt gets a fucking dog. Even when you're given an option to say "Cullen is boring", what comes out of the Inquisitor's mouth is "Cullen is too dignified".

Meanwhile Varric openly vents about Anders. Meanwhile even Hawke denounces Anders' actions as extreme even when you specifically input them as supportive of his actions in the tapestry.

It's fucking . it drives me insane brother

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I don't like to buy repeated species but the panda with their face on the umbrella was too much for me 🥺

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The "reason" for only having three choices that would "confuse new players" is pretty laughable. Like. You design your Rook, then tab over to another set of menus where you're told to design a completely different character with little context, decide the romance of this character between 7 other new characters with only a blurb for context and nothing else, decide the fate of an institution you have no personal investment in, and then decide how this completely different character felt about about another character you only saw in the opening cinematic. and on the previous romance screen.