kira // 28 //🇨🇦 // disaster lesbian // she/her // writer, sometimes // neurodivergent // currently posting about: House M.D., my ongoing read of asoiaf, and various other nonsense // writing blog: scytheswrites
#scythes rambles - general rambling from yours truly
#scythes reads - book stuff, what i'm reading/have read (see also: #scythes reads asoiaf for current reading of asoiaf)
#malpractice md posting - house m.d. nonsense I don't feel like maintagging, may include hot takes or occasional bitching
#scythes writes - tag for general writing rambling but also where i will put any fics i post (rare)
#scythes music tag - posts about my music interests
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probably time I post an actual about-me post so here it goes:
Basic Info:
Kira, a late-20s disaster lesbian (she/her), Canadian
ADHD & mood disorders aplenty
I’m a writer, I have a college diploma in Professional Writing, and I will occasionally ramble about my writing (but rarely post any actual writing) - writing blog is @scytheswrites
My interests/hyperfixations change fairly regularly and I have no interest in creating individual blogs for each of my fandoms, so this blog is very much multi-fandom (but I always tag my fandom posts respectively for filtering purposes)
Current Interests/Fandoms/Hyperfixations:
House M.D. (multiship hell but nuts about camchase, ambteen, dipping into cuddley. I love all of the house ladies but primarily Thirteen and Cameron, accepting my fate as a Cameron Guy)
Currently reading: ASOIAF
Longtime Interests/Fandoms:
Games: Dragon Age, Soulsbornes & Elden RIng, Fire Emblem, BG3, Zero Escape trilogy
Marvel (MCU and comics, haven’t seen all of the recent MCU content though)
Music: my taste is all over the place but my lifelong favorite artist is Paramore (late 2000s-early 2010s emo kid here), but i listen to all sorts of pop, alt, metal, k-pop, etc etc
Books: Faves are The Locked Tomb series, The Burning Kingdoms Trilogy, The Priory of the Orange Tree, & the Iron Widow series.
Ancient Interests/Fandoms (My Lore):
Twilight (I will still occasionally shitpost about Twilight)
Superwholock (but primarily Doctor Who, which will forever be in my heart and on my mind)
Carmilla (web series)
Orphan Black
I’ll update this info post as needed, DMs and Asks are always open!
tell your black friends you love them. donate to mutual aid causes that will have direct impact for black folks. show black peers in fandom some love for their creative works. 💗
If I’m gonna talk datv hot takes I’ll say it, i don’t like that they made every companion romanceable regardless of player race/gender. it’s simply not realistic. not everyone is going to be interested in you just because you’re the hero of the story. It makes the companion characters feel less like actual realized characters and more like romance options in a dating sim.
I also don’t know how i feel about Taash’s entire storyline because like. yeah trans/nonbinary rep is important. But half of Taash’s story is coming to grips with their gender identity and like. We’re trying to stop an apocalypse here. Why did we decide we needed a coming out story in the middle of an apocalyptic event. Not to mention that the marketing for the game misgenders Taash and you go into the game misgendering the character if you don’t know, and that you can essentially tell them to go back in the closet. Gender identity dependent on player character approval??? Huh????
Like, we could have just as easily had Taash join the party as a nonbinary character, already established. They could still have conflict with their mother. Inner conflict about their relationship to the Qun. But the player character should not be instrumental in shaping the character’s identity.
also I don't think parents "these days" are uniquely terrible, I just think neglect is showing up in new ways as technology progresses. today's ipad kid would've been wandering around in a ditch alone all day and night before. parents not wanting to have to deal with children is not a new phenomenon.
If I’m gonna talk datv hot takes I’ll say it, i don’t like that they made every companion romanceable regardless of player race/gender. it’s simply not realistic. not everyone is going to be interested in you just because you’re the hero of the story. It makes the companion characters feel less like actual realized characters and more like romance options in a dating sim.
i keep seeing takes like this and it's always SO baffling when someone smugly tries to frame people who dislike dav as losers who just wanted a power fantasy and were mad that rook was too much of a team player, because one of the most common criticisms of the game is that the veilguard companions have no autonomy and are annoyingly sycophantic towards the player lol? previous games had characters who would challenge your opinions, who would fight you or disagree with you. doing a companion's quest didn't guarantee they'd love you forever and losing their trust due to making a choice they disliked later on was very possible. the veilguard system of do quest -> earn trust -> companion/faction survives feels way less 'real' and way more of a power fantasy than having to actually engage with a fictional setting's politics and acknowledge that sometimes there's no way to be friends with everyone when doing the 'right thing'.
And like I genuinely am loath to negatively discuss women’s bodies online and I think the way that famous women’s bodies are up for discussion online and in the press is upsetting and dehumanising and I feel a lot of compassion for women who are struggling with eating disorders and body image issues in the public eye however the fucking mass weight loss happening to all famous women either through eating disorders or weight loss medication cannot just go uncommented on. Nearly every single famous woman got skeletal overnight and it is so incredibly worrying both for them and for what it signals to other women and girls about how they should look.
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