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dragon age sideblog; unhinged yelling pit; OC enthusiasm zone. you are always welcome to talk about your OCs on my posts.

[stonesense]

every time a fereldan character calls someone a dog or a bitch negatively i’m like “you wouldn’t say this. dogs are the pride of your nation. they’re on your flag. this wouldn’t have these connotations to you” and then i tell myself to please relax. but i still think abt it every time

[nintendo-wheee]

[icharchivist]

sometimes i still think about how the dragon age series was about all sort of ways slavery kept existing and the different shapes it took and how deeply engrained into society this type of exploitment is, culmunating with it's future antagonist being a radical anti-slavery person who talked about all the things he saw being as slavery and that he would see the world be freed of, only for the fourth game to refuse to acknowledge slavery, to call the anti-slavery crusade the character had "a failure so why should he try it again", to have a slaver order around said character who was implied to have been her slave as the good ending, where we were deep into slave societies only to be told slavery was something only extremists were doing, and then when asked about it the devs just went "everyone knows slavery is bad we didn't need to talk about it" making people sound like some sort of perverts for wanting to see slavery be actually acknowledged on screen..... still the stupidity of all time.

[laurelsofhighever]

Don't forget the pope of the slavery empire deciding that the best way to combat slavery is to be a street level vigilante who doesn't even focus on burning records or slave ships, instead of just making it illegal to own or sell other people. And also he has a rug in his secret hideout depicting elven slaves in manacles but don't read too much into that

[icharchivist]

Or how the Crows, who we know since DAO that they partake in slave markets, have Heir explains that the children who gets chosen to become Crows are chosen after being watched to make sure they would be able to live through the life of a Crow but that they don't do torture unless the kids want to and it's supposed to be something to find really cool about the order, meanwhile te devs mentioned that clearly we're following a group of idealist and it's why we don't talk about slavery at all... in the plotline that leads Lucanis to become the leader of the "some people do slavery and are not stopped by their leaders" faction.

And who could forget the Shadow Dragons writing pamphlets to try to persuade people that slavery is bad, or that there were no reason to portray slaves in the specific part of Tevinter we saw, which was a port (famously where slaves are wont to work)

but look! a Venatori sat on a slave's back once! aren't you happy we're acknowledging it?

[wizardjail]

the thing that bewilders me about a lot of fantasy readers is that they read about settings and plots featuring imperialism, war, and slavery and then call the inclusion of violence, abuse, and sexual exploitation "edgy" and "gratuitous" and it's like what did you think was happening. why were you under the impression that you were going to get a cozy story about fascism or something. far be it from me to criticize anyone for not wanting to read about torture in their spare time, and there are certainly cases where heavy subjects are poorly executed, but is it not equally insulting to sanitize them for a feel-good adventure.. like no one put a gun to your head and forced you to give your fantasy novel an enslaved protagonist. sometimes writing is supposed to make you feel bad

[cherrydj-l]

loghain duel any %

[spiritbladed]

can i say something. i feel like exhibitionism as a kink/concept simply could not exist among circle mages. there is no thrill of risking being caught because all that happens is your classmate elbows your ass out of the way and grabs whatever it is they were looking for in that closet you're fucking in and tells you in a bored voice to hurry the fuck up because you're right in front of the spare potion bottles.

[apostacism]

Counterpoint tho: templars. In a circle like the gallows it would make sense for risk/exposure kinks to arise from mages having first (and ongoing) sexual experiences characterized by a pervasive fear of getting caught by a hostile jailer who will be easily able to use it as a pretext for violence.

[messeretrevelyan]

[carinavetreblogs]

Well there's an answer for the Teventer architecture all over the elf areas.

[dalishious]

Among these "cishet" Dragon Age men, who would you make queer?

Alistair

Loghain

Sebastian

Cullen

Blackwall

Solas

Someone else (leave in tags)

Voting ended onJun 6

[ryann-44]

there will never be another character like Oghren

[storybookhawke]

Affectionately, which is your least favorite major location in Dragon Age Inquisition?

Forbidden Oasis

Hissing Wastes

Fallow Mire

Exalted Plains

Storm Coast

Hinterlands

Western Approach

Emerald Graves

Crestwood

Emprise du Lion

Bald egg / results

Voting ended onJun 2

I don't even ask this to be critical/negative, I'm just curious what region do you go "ugh..." when you reach it while playing DAI?

[stonesense]

eternal pet peeve is high ranking mages being called enchanters when “enchanting” is a thing in this setting, and it’s extremely specifically the one thing they can’t do

[zhihuie]

lethendralis 🗡✨️

[cyanopsis]

just wanted to draw the grey warden mage uniform..

[beemot]

[jasper-rolls]

game dev: we make deep, meaningful, games with real messages. we don’t want our games to be just mindless and feel good - we make games to say something about the world we live in

community: hey this bit seems to be kind of weirdly racist

game dev: actually we aren’t saying anything and our games are just for fun and there is absolutely no correlation between this and anything in the real world

[viktopia]

a weird urge to draw anders with long hair 

gotta shake that rust off…!

[shelternmberone]

pas de deux