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.
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i was gonna do a bigger write up on my Thoughts irt this post i made yesterday but i landed on a much better bit of "rook is written as the hero of the story, while the warden/hawke/inquisitor are written as the protagonist of the story" and really i can't come up with anything better to get my point across than that.
ive been struggling for yearrrrs to draw morrigan bc she looks different in every game and idt any of her facial features are super distinctive idk idk i've tried to make her a little more characteristic here what do we think. do we like her is this anything
Making my first prints, yay for me! UWU I'm running an interest check, cause being a tiny, unemployed artist doesn't let me stock up on merch ^^; Since I'm not going to order a large amount besides what is submitted in the form, so if you'd like anything, please, let me know here:
https://forms.gle/EGgsJMNvDVc8BVXW8
Reblogs and spreading the word in general are very, very much appreciated <3
this has been discussed before but reducing female characters to the girlboss braincell holder in the name of combating misogyny in fandom is ironically also a form of misogyny
people love love loooove to go on and on and on about whiteguy #135336843’s internal torment and the nuances of his writing and then when it comes time to talk about women it’s all um actually she can do no wrong and holds the braincell and babysits the boys like a mother hashtag feminism. i hope you fucking blow up
the convo wrt zevran and leliana originally being gay and being made available to the opposite gender because of homophobic backlash is really nuanced, especially considering the fact that there is only One gay man and One lesbian companion throughout the entire series. like yeah i actually would've liked if homophobia hadn't prevented a gay writer from writing a gay character, actually. but 15+ years after release i feel like we just need to accept that these are bisexual characters in a medium where bisexuality is also underrepresented and move forward.
but i feel like the discourse always either tries to paint bi people wanting representation as homophobes who don't understand the lack of gay rep, or gay people hurt by a lack of gay characters as biphobes who want to erase canon bi rep. when really the REAL issue is the way dao and dai consistently prioritise straight-locked romances.
[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?
