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I’m not gonna say what the complaint was because I don’t want to come off like I’m criticising one person in particular, but I saw a tweet gain a lot of traction with a complaint about something that supposedly happened that showed poor attention to detail and sloppy writing and I just did the quest it was in and it was just. Blatantly not true. Like the thing they’re complaining about didn’t even happen. And they were doubling down on it in comments implying something even more blatantly not true happened.

And like. This is the state of veilguard criticism. People will just straight up make shit up that’s blatantly not true, if you point out it’s not true you get ignored at best, then people don’t play the game based on that criticism, never learn it’s completely made up, and then repeat the criticism as what they heard about it. So it becomes part of peoples opinions despite never being true.

bogunicorn

This is an issue with bad media criticism in general, but for years before Veilguard released, I had always said that the way people have been basically planning DA4 in their heads for so long... there was always going to be a massive freakout. People in the DA fandom (generally, in this part of fandom) get so invested in their own characters, headcanons, speculations, elaborate fanfic storylines, and stuff that "fixes" canon (you know, making things up for fandom) that I honestly think that the canon/fanon lines are super blurry for a lot of people.

And if you're already pissy at Veilguard because it didn't do something you wanted or you don't like the aesthetic -- or, at this point, you've made hating Veilguard part of your personality because you apparently have nothing better to do -- then you're going to be so negatively biased that you just start making shit up lol

It was not a good time in fandom to be a fan of Solas/Solas-shipping in particular when Veilguard came out if you enjoyed it. I unfollowed and blocked so many people who acted like the devs had dropped an anvil on their house because Solas was... the villain.

Which we knew he would be. For ten years.

And they were still "hurt" and "betrayed" and scarred and whatever because Solas acted like canon Solas instead of the many variations of fanon Solas (who is generally softer, sadder, and less of a jackass). You can't argue with someone who's emotionally attached to hating something as a social activity; even if they do soften or come around or just start getting over it to do something else, they're not going to stop Being Like That about Veilguard, even if they have to make up new things to get mad at. It's all kinds of silly goose behavior that has nothing to do with whether the game is good or not.

I'm pretty forgiving of a whole lot of nonsense, my grouching aside. But I do judge this thing in fandom where grown adults are experiencing ~emotional damage~ for months or YEARS after their thing of choice ends in a way they don't like. They can do what they like, obvi, I'm not the boss of people's emotions, but I do get to judge. It's ridiculous.

himexime

let's get HUMID! ✨

neves-trouble

Been listening to Mayu Maeshima and her songs are so fucking good. Incubus and sayonara subarashiki sekai yo with the depression amp are kinda unmatched. Long shot and Answer are such fun listens, too - same with Everything is changing. The instrumentals are so good as well.

#music #Mayu maeshima #ramblings

Vg critical people don’t be annoying and obnoxious challenge: Impossible.

#veilguard #dav #dragon age #dragon age veilguard #dragon age fandom critical #dragon age fandom #datv #it isn’t difficult to use the appropriate hashtags 🙃

koukei45

in their own world

ilovstarrrs

#thegirlfriendsever

i just really love the idea of fem bokuto with a shag

Yay! After 8 or so hours, a shalpha Fennekin! ^•^

#pokémon #pokemon #pokémon legends z a #shiny hunting #legends za

Bed rotted all fucking day. Fuck me just die already

He’s so pretty…

#rook #dragon age rook #rook de riva #dav #veilguard #dragon age veilguard

God some of the vg critical people I’ve seen are so incredibly toxic. They can’t just hate the game to an unreasonable degree, no they have to say the most deranged shit possible. They can’t just hate the game they have to claim that the devs are more bigoted than the nazis and that they support slavery. Just the most disgusting and pathetic dickheads.

The fact that some of this shit stems from the writers making solas a villain is crazy. Like even before veilguard he murdered his friends, and had no doubt in his mind about global genocide. Forgetting all this though because even the most wank writing possible wouldn’t justify the absolutely heinous things “””fans””” of this franchise say about the devs.

Ab-sol-ute-ly fucking embarrassing. They should be fucking ashamed.

#dav #dragon age #veilguard #dragon age fandom #dragon age fandom critical #dragon age veilguard

angelsndragons

if you want to understand why i say veilguard is extremely tightly written and full of parallels, fractals, and foils which zero in on the themes of generational trauma, grief, and escaping cycles, look no further than the pre-title screen tutorial:

not only is it nearly beat for beat the inquisition pre-title tutorial (cutscene to establish the protag's personality, meet the "advisors", a giant hole in the sky spewing demons, gather your first companions, fight through a demon infested landscape to reach a temple where a ritual is/was being enacted that would destroy the world, first big boss is a pride demon)

but right there, in the first ~thirty minutes of the game, rook becomes solas the rebel wolf and solas becomes elgar'nan the cruel. solas stabs varric (like mythal was stabbed by elgar'nan) after varric only tried to talk to solas, to reason with him, as mythal tried to reason with elgar'nan.

not for nothing is rook varric's second as solas was once mythal's. and not for nothing does solas keep the full realization from rook.

starlingsongs-deactivated201608

When trans women are mocked and made into jokes in the media, I get very upset, and I am often told “Kay, you can’t go through life getting offended every time someone makes a joke.” And I sputter and object but they don’t hear me. So I want to be clear for once, about why the jokes make me angry.

I learned to hate myself for being transgender before I knew I was transgender. I laughed at the jokes in stand up comedy routines, and prime time sitcoms, and animated comedy shows, and in the movies, and in books, and in games, laughing at trans women for existing, about “men in dresses”, about people who “got their dicks chopped off”, and I learned to think that was worthy of ridicule.

And then a day came when I felt a pang of envy at what my female classmates were wearing and I repressed it, and felt guilty, and a day where I felt incomplete because I had no breasts and I repressed it and I felt disgusting And a day when I realized the only images of romance that made me feel anything showed two women together and I repressed it and I felt like a monster And a day when I realized I felt sick when I looked at myself in the mirror after every shower before work and couldn’t bear to look at my own face, and I hated myself. And then there came a day when I hated myself so much, and I thought I could never understand why, and so I just wanted it all to end. And it was just a miracle that I swerved my car back into my lane in time.

And all of it started with a joke that I heard on TV, and then kept hearing from all the voices from the ether, over and over and over, worming an idea into my mind before I was old enough to realize I was absorbing it, the idea that a man in a dress is funny, and that changing your body parts makes you a freak, and that women who have penises instead of vaginas are liars and hurt men. And they’re still making these jokes. And somewhere out there right now, just like all those years ago, there is a little girl in a t-shirt and cargo shorts with buzzed off hair watching the TV, hearing that joke and absorbing it without knowing it, who will someday have to pry herself apart to tear it out of her head, just like I did.

That is, if she doesn’t kill herself first.

starlingsongs-deactivated201608

I know this is a really heavy post but if you read it and you appreciated it, I’d appreciate it in return if you reblogged it. This is really important to me and I want people to read it and understand it. Thank you.