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[finely-aged-dragons]

makes a little pin post just for myself 😊

Z, genderflux, he/they. recently returning to dragon age after a very long break <3 plural system host, my* memories of playthroughs between ~2010 and ~2017 are not the best bc of dormancy ✌ likes/follows/asks from @sharkface-daydreams

Have played: Origins, Awakening, DA2 minus Legacy

Working on: Inquisition (GOTY edition), and another pt of DA2❤️

Wardens:

🛡️ Guerin Cousland

🛡️ Torani Brosca ('canon') 💔💀

Hawkes:

Cilan Hawke/💙/🔮 (’canon’ Hawke)

Tavor Hawke/❤️/⚔️

Inquisitors:

Savraas Adaar 🔮

Ranna Lavellan 🛡️

Valeska Cadash ⚔️

Edmund Trevelyan  🛡️

yes. yes I am (mostly) a mage. who doesn’t want to shoot fire from their fists??

Dragon Age AO3 Fics: FinelyAgedDragons

Useful information on plurality/systems here [Plurality Carrd by Heretic System] we block sysmeds on sight ✌️

[dalishious]

Girl Solas. Femme'Harel.

[magemance]

Well rested for once ☀️

[mournmage]

Right, I see you there, Blondie. Don't worry.

[jasontoddsguns]

Zevran, meeting the warden:

[becauseanders]

thinking about going to the bone pit in act 3, hawke seeing all this devastation and knowing everyone is dead, hawke contemplating all of their interactions with jansen and the other fereldans they personally told would be safe with them in charge, and all that could possibly be going through their mind wandering through the wreckage all the way up until they face the high dragon being “they trusted me…they trusted me”

[okthisway]

the tags here warm my heart :')

[ruushes]

no one's ever done it like them (derogatory)

[nev-jpgg]

My friend made a joke about Zevran and Lainel having the energy of a family with way too many kids. Well... Now, all three of these were stolen from crows

"Not only he embarrassed us, kills our talons, but now also steals our recruits?"

-Crows, probably

[vigilskept]

this whole idea in both the fandom and the games themselves that being a people attached to their past & a lost civilization is a failing whereas a celebration of the present is something to strive for wrt elven & dwarven culture is something that reads as fundamentally western & liberal to me.

[vigilskept]

adding the original tags actually bc i do think they’re important :)

[vigilskept]

tags via @/mythalism 🙂‍↕️

[vigilskept]

addendum to this post bc i am seeing a fair amount of people in the tags getting deeper and deeper into the subject of fascism/naz*sm in germany and arguing how the solas comparison doesn’t make sense. you’re right. prev tags were spot on. and it is important history to learn about the history of fascism in germany.

however, that is also history that is widely condemned in the west which actively misrepresents it in order to distance itself from it. it is not the dominant rhetoric. even maga can’t quite stomach the comparison half the time. comparison to h*tler is everyone’s favourite political insult levied at the left, the right, anybody you want to suggest is a totalitarian monster.

“fascism is that thing over there done by those other people. our liberalism is fine. don’t worry about it.”

do you see how this is a misdirection?

bioware’s devs are not trying to peddle fascist rhetoric to you. fandom is not parroting fascist rhetoric to you. bioware are reproducing anti-indigenous and anti-semitic LIBERAL rhetoric in their games, and the fandom is circulating the very same ideas in their discourse. you don’t need to be a fascist to do real harm to marginalised groups. in fact, most of the harm done to marginalised groups in north america was done by people spouting (neo/)liberal rhetoric.

read up on fascism, i don’t discourage you from doing so. but also sit down and read about antisemitism & the continuing colonialism (not 1 country in north america is POSTcolonial) in the west too. that’s what these games are normalising when they reproduce (and encourage) this discourse.

you have to go further than just condemning fascism to combat antisemitic and anti-indigenous rhetoric. you will continue to feed into it yourself if you do not.

[vigilskept]

i just want to respond to prev tags bc i absolutely agree that marginalised groups are NOT immune to conservatism and can/do reproduce or even cook up our own genre of fucked up reactionary politics.

the reason i repeatedly (knowingly!) center the west & western liberalism in this post is because bioware is writing within that context and while we can extrapolate it into other contexts, the discourse they’re reproducing has very specific connections to real north american politics.

the idea of jewish & indigenous people being too attached to their pasts is a dogwhistle that’s firmly embedded in the consciousness of people out here and the idea of a “problematic past” and “they were just as bad” is used AGAIN AND AGAIN to justify persecution, disenfranchisement, ignoring the treaties, etc.

you do not have to look for very long to find it. quite literally it saturates every single conversation about politics that pertains to these marginalised groups.

bioware can pretend that they have created a broad and universal allegory, but the idea that indigenous people were actually evil imperialists all along DIRECTLY pulls from discourse about central and south american indigenous people. the idea of emotional attachment to a lost homeland and its traditions is delusional DIRECTLY pulls from antisemitic discourse.

you can decontextualise it, but in doing so you are missing something really central to making sense of what is happening in the source text, and it’s a slippery slope from there to recreating or normalising that same rhetoric.

[lullambii]

Good night my sweet prince Alistair

[theheartmold]

[scrollofgrease]

Coming back and redoing these lines six months down the taking-up-art-again line is actually proving a pretty fun exercise in visible improvement Also, his underbite is very important to me 😌

[punch-love]

something I like about fenris is he's spent his whole life either biting his tongue/being punished for speaking out of turn so now he's just in this idgaf era where he'll say whatever he's thinking whenever he's thinking it with absolutely 0 consideration of how it'll impact the room

[utatoners]

📚 diligent student

[solavellan--hell]

I got another question because I love being nosy.

What was your FIRST dragon age game and race/class/personality (if da2)?

I’ll go first, for me it was Origins and elf mage

[dirtybiowareconfessions]

Confession: you know that thing fenris does in his introduction scene where he rips a man's still-beating heart out of his chest? yeah. i want him to do that to my ovaries. no more estrogen for this guy. dr fenris is in the building