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My biggest wettest dream is that when I'm rich and famous after making it as an auteur I buy the rights to the dragon age series and remake all the games so they can achieve their True potential, because so much of their short comings are from just. Being a product made by big corporations to make money. And also white north American bigotry ofc
My biggest wettest dream is that when I'm rich and famous after making it as an auteur I buy the rights to the dragon age series and remake all the games so they can achieve their True potential, because so much of their short comings are from just. Being a product made by big corporations to make money. And also white north American bigotry ofc
Hello all my lovely followers! I have found 9 mods on Nexus mods that blatantly whitewash Isabela from Dragon Age 2. It's crazy to me that these mods have been up for 15 years and still haven't been taken down. But I believe if we work together we can finally get them removed.
If you can click the links below, they’ll take you to the mod pages. Click the "Report Abuse" button as seen below.
Then select the option "I believe this mod is breaking the rules". Then select "Inappropriate content". When asked why the content is inappropriate, select “Other Terms of Service violation”.
Finally leave a brief description and photo. Here’s a message example written by @dalishious and customizing it is encouraged so as to not get spam filtered:
This mod changes a Black character to make her white, and breaks the Inappropriate Content guidelines: “Content that may be generally construed as provocative, divisive, objectionable, discriminatory, or abusive toward any real-world individual or group, may be subject to moderation.” As such, this mod should not belong on NexusMods and must be removed.
It'll only take a few minutes to report them all. And it would be nice to have less racism in this fandom and in the world in general. Please help and report this stuff and/or share it with others. Thank you!
A sexy new black and silver outfit for my Fair Skinned Isabela. ;)
Sexy Fair Skinned Isabela v2 by lustrianna
Dark Celtic Isabela Head 1 by Ravenwolfie
Alternative Isabela by omegadeity
iveys Isabela by jandwivey
Isabela Improved by Stacycmc
Isabela Improved Armor by Stacycmc
XN_Isabela by fosywyn
Easy There Isabela by Alliezig
I’m also going to include Isabela Is Black by @dalishious. It'll give you a brief look into the whitewashing of Isabela.
Anon bc I genuinely believe I'd get death threats from Fenris People. But a huge reason why I left dragon age Fandom is because every time I'd even mention how cruel fenris is to anders and how unfair it is, I'd get hordes of people accusing me of being a slavery apologist. Like outright advocating for the torture of a group of people for the way they were born is excusable because fenris has trauma. But these same people accuse anders of being antagonistic for "no reason." Like yes by all means lets be patient and sympathetic with fenris. But then suddenly the patience and sympathy for trauma victims dries up when its for anders. And even the game itself lets Hawke be super understanding of fenris and does not at all do the same for anders. Anders deserves a fucking peace prize for not immediately blowing up the whole city.
EXACTLY. like genuinely? I love fenris, he is one of my favorite characters, and him being very vile to anders and mages is him being mostly well written. it is cool to be given these very wide arrays of experiences and characters to portray the actual depth of the issue at hand.
HOWEVER can anyone put themselves in anders' shoes for like a single second. bc honestly i would also be a gigantic cunt to fenris if i was anders. and anders also deserves a peace prize for not blowing up at hawke about being so buddy buddy with people who advocate against mage freedom. i'm glad anders at least does get to throw a few pointed lines at hawke, and whilst his weird questioning of hawke's romantic decisions wrt fenris - and specifically, the wording anders uses being kind of fantasy racist - imagine you watched your liberal friend hanging out with a guy who constantly advocates for your extermination LOL wouldn't you also have a few moments of extreme bitterness even in situations where it's not your place.
if we can have understanding for fenris' attitude with mages/anders due to his trauma, i think it's only fair we have understanding of anders' attitude with fenris due to his trauma as well ykwim lol.
And actually, to be fair - people hating anders for petty reason wouldn't be a problem to me if they didn't use it to justify killing him? 😭😭😭😭
"oh I hate anders, I always kill him" "why do you hate him" "he's awful to/about Fenris" is a conversation I've had a shocking amount of time and it's like. W. Would you not kill him after the chantry boom if he had been nicer to fenris???????????
Does the righteousness of one's actions just, disappear if they're also kind of a cunt????
People will say they hate anders not because of the chantry boom but because he's a cunt to fenris* and then turn around and just, idk, close their ears whenever Fenris openly advocates for the mass incarceration, abuse, and lobotomy of a people
*this doesn't count the whole approving to give Fenris to danarius thing, because that's not anders being a cunt, it's anders being ridiculously ooc for the sake of a disgusting. Idk. "joke"
Does Fenris have very good reasons to be wary of mages? Yeah! Is he extremely traumatised with literally no opportunity to actually work thru this trauma until act 3 where danarius is dead? Yeah!! Should he be given patience and sympathy?? Totally!
But also I can't exactly blame anders for hating his guts when Fenris constantly advocates against mages, regardless of his complex past. I just think it's crazy to hate anders solely because he's a cunt to baby boy Fenris. Because he also has very understandable reasons to be really angry and bitter not just at him, but at a hawke who doesn't challenge him¿
People will say they hate anders not because of the chantry boom but because he's a cunt to fenris* and then turn around and just, idk, close their ears whenever Fenris openly advocates for the mass incarceration, abuse, and lobotomy of a people
*this doesn't count the whole approving to give Fenris to danarius thing, because that's not anders being a cunt, it's anders being ridiculously ooc for the sake of a disgusting. Idk. "joke"
While I do think gaider is able to write engaging narratives I also think that he only knows how to write One type of character, that being unserious virginally stupid little misogynistic and horny man and it gets soooo tiring
Dude the way ppl talk about veilguard makes me feel insane like yeah it's not perfect but it's certainly not the steaming pile of shit everyone treats it as???
Like gameplay wise it's not revolutionary but neither were the other dragon age games or any of bioware's games really lol... Writing wise its clunkiness basically equals the rest of the franchise, and if you wanna complain about lore inconsistencies but think veilguard is the only culprit then you either don't know enough about the series to be listened to, or you're a hypocrite, because every single piece of dragon age media introduces insane inconsistencies lmfao.
Like it has its problems, some of which are insulting - but again even that IS fairly consistent to the rest of the series lmao. So rly the only thing I can pull out which IS massively different is that vg actually does care about outward inclusivity and representation....
Yeah I'm not the best gamer in the world and I've been working at my dragon age essays at a snails pace but I'm the best at veilguard's character creator
Yeah I'm not the best gamer in the world and I've been working at my dragon age essays at a snails pace but I'm the best at veilguard's character creator
imagine making a character who's a spirit of compassion. his first scene is plunging a dagger through a young mage's heart. it says so much that a spirit of compassion who took the appearance of a mage who died in the circle decides that the only way to help other mages like him is by killing them. because it takes away their pain. because it makes him more real. crazy!! and then inquisition decided to make him say pop culture references and use him to make cullen and solas more sympathetic
