hi i'm bee (she/they), i'm over 30 and have loved leliana/leliwarden for over half my life and won't stop now. currently you can find mostly dragon age, women, and femslash being shared here.
and as for my opinion on veilguard:
...i was not a fan. i write/reblog critical posts from time to time and you can blacklist the tags "veilguard/datv/bioware/dragon age critical", "[full dev name]/[last dev name] ie weekes/trick weekes critical", and/or "[character name] critical ie solas critical" to avoid seeing them if you want to follow me.
otherwise welcome! and feel free to like/reblog spam!
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[pries open the bars of their cage and steps out] so anyways as I was saying bioware could have dug a little deeper into Leliana's resurrection in DAI, because as it is, it's only mentioned twice, once at the beginning and again conditionally at the end slides. It didn't even need to be anything big, just a few more lines here and there through the campaign. Maybe an additional line with Cole denoting her nature. From a development standpoint I understand why these things weren't included but- oh stop screaming haven't you seen a werewolf before?
Rumour has it that originally Leliana was supposed to be a lesbian and Zevran was supposed to be gay - but the writers weren't allowed to do that because it was 2009, so they made them both bi. How do you feel about that?
I wish Leliana was written as a lesbian, Zevran being bi is fine
I wish Zevran was written as gay, Leliana being bi is fine
I wish Leliana was written as a lesbian and Zevran was written as gay
Lukas Kristjanson in Boss Fight Books' Dragon Age II, pages 97-98 (top quote) & Trick Weekes in "Dragon Age: The Veilguard Almost Had One More Choice At The End That Got Cut" (bottom quote)
just a comparison of two different approaches to writing player agency by two of the writers to ruminate on.
you know the worst part abt that reddit post is it was a comment on an actually well written "i don't understand why the qunari were written like this in vg and why" topic but man i can't get past calling any single dragon age character a fucking tankie.
dragon age but you get to go through a viddathari underground questline disco elysium style and get into arguments about theory with white people who haven’t unlearned their feudal christian worldviews. also none of you have the original text, only fragments, leading to concurrent debates abt the authenticity of the various texts you’re arguing over, sourcing hadith style. except of course none of you are experts in the field (u are in the South) so this resembles muslim squabbling on reddit more than it resembles academic discourse
