Rhyske

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[rhyske]

Masterlist and Rules

Dragon Age

Fenhawke

Touch

I am Yours

Domesticity (Reader Insert)

Mass Effect

Shakarian

coming soon

Random Drabbles

Normandy Crash Site

Random Prompts

Roommate is Demonic Royalty

[lady-surieldown]

I'm feeling a little ranty

I have zero issues with the age I am because...why would I lol so don't take this as me feeling insecure somehow, but I wanna write down a few of my thoughts as a person who's been in fandoms her whole life.

Leave it to women, or young girls, to shame other women for liking content that makes them happy.

Happens to me a lot as an ARMY too. Teens or young adults that discovered the band a few short years ago suddenly think women my age are "too old" to enjoy it.

When I'm the same age and younger than some of the members, and I grew up alongside them for the past decade.

Same goes for SJM, her books were YA first because that's the age range her and BB were aiming for. Throne of Glass came out in 2012. 14 years ago. Can we do the math and figure out how old the people who followed her books must be now?

So she aged up her stories, they became more mature because the readers were aging with her. She became a mom and translated those new experiences as a full adult in her 30s into her stories. Those experiences aren't aimed at teens, or people in their early 20s. They're supposed to appeal to grown women who might be going through the same thing. You don't direct a risky pregnancy story to teenagers.

Don't even get me started on the amount of sex her recent books have.

All of this to say women have been shamed for so long for being into shit, when men can be 40-45-50 and have a passion for sports, for comics, for hero movies, for cars, etc. And apparently us women have an expiration date for the content we can consume for joy. And especially don't push that narrative if you're gonna go around calling yourself a feminist.

You can dislike a ship we're into, knock yourself out. But you're being a misogynist AGAIN when you mock the main demographic of this fandom because you think it gives you some nonexistent upper hand.

Let me leave you with this, in case you have forgotten already:

[the-august-one]

Reblog if you appreciate when your followers point out that you've reblogged something that is Ai slop, so that you can rectify your mistake.

[theunfortunate-author]

my daily affirmation as an author

[madameshogunassassin]

[eyes-of-nine]

@ that one part of the cathedral

[mahirublue]

I can hear the loud & heavy "THUNK!!!* In each panel😭🤣

[eazzy--pink]

How Fenris confessed to Hawke in the game: “I cannot exactly put to words how strongly I feel about you, but I do. And it scares me. It has been so long since I’ve allowed myself to be vulnerable with anyone yet, here I am, wanting to share part of myself with you. You are terrifying and sincere. But I care deeply for you and there’s nowhere else I’d rather be.”

How fandom portrays Fenris: “god Hawke ur an annoying piece of shit but I guess I love and tolerate you or whatever,,,,,here’s a bloody and beating heart,,,,,,,,,,”

[eazzy--pink]

The most angry or aggressive that Fenris ever gets is when dealing with situations that directly relate to his trauma. He is angry when dealing with slavers, frustrated when talking of his memories, agitated when he learns of Varania, infuriated when he finally gets his hands on both Danarius and Hadriana who perpetrated his suffering.

But in every other situation he is thoughtful yet not overbearing. Gives his opinion and is assertive but not forceful.

He is actually rather soft in his delivery and the point of this post is that I tire of people taking a few emotionally charged moments directly relating to him responding to circumstances that remind him of his trauma and using that as a basis of his entire personality.

And it be his own fans…..

[crimsontentacles]

“Yes. You have my word.”

This old, OLD sketch of Fenris is doing rounds again so I decided to finally put a little bit more time into it.

[potatosaresweet]

happy pride month to that one random background character in the sk8 the infinity dub who yelled im falling for you daddy at shadow specifically

[notcasphobia]

sometimes i just think about how square enix created one of the most compelling sci-fi narratives in recent gaming history, successfully masked it under the pretense of a post-apocaliptic fantasy farming rpg (which it also very much is), made everyone who played it go through an actual trolley dilemma that had actual consequences, and then topped it all off by being a commentary on environmental ethics, climate change, religion, genocide, cloning, artificial intelligence, and colonization

and somehow its biggest headline was caused by mass review bombing bc it allowed u to identify as non-binary 😭😭😭

[shadow-schemer]

Harvestella will always be my point of comparison for cozy games because it's all about tending to my field and thinking about what food I'm going to pack when I'm outside the house one moment, then having an existentialist crisis and fighting the embodiment of humanity's desire for calamity and destruction the next. But you can always set aside the plot to think about farming forever if you like. Just make sure you sleep before curfew or you will PAY and harvest everything before the day where everything dies.

[elfes-materia]

Also it absolutely kills me how everyones doing flips and shit off the highwind but Vincent’s just 🧍‍♂️

[owari--hajimari]

Love it when Neku straight up says he wants to murder Josh

[sunsetzer]

Obviously Dragon Age as a series has a few things fall distinctly into the genre of horror (especially the Blight, even the lighter tone Veilguard had overall didn't lessen how scary it actually is as a concept) but I've made it a point to really pay attention to the NPCs in the Gallows this playthrough and damn if DA2 doesn't have some solid psychological horror going on with the mage-templar stuff.

Especially if you're playing Hawke as a mage, the way it's repeatedly driven into the player in act 1 that Hawke could wake up in the Gallows because they're a poor refugee and also not every templar has a price, some really just love to make mages suffer (even though you never do get caught; I really wish there'd been an instance where Hawke had to break out of the Gallows like the Warden and Alistair breaking out of prison in DAO) and if you go to the Gallows and like... listen to the mage NPCs idle dialogue, look at the way some of them that are allowed to roam the courtyard are cowering, listen to the monotone voice of the Tranquil merchant standing beside Solivitus, the templars' remarks about the mages not even being people, it's just so incredibly fucked up that it baffles me how there's even a question of whether or not Anders was right. Even some of what he says in banter with your other companions about the Circle is genuinely insane (what do you mean you've been fortunate, you just told Sebastian you were assaulted by the templars at Kinloch??? You were fortunate that you escaped??).

Tranquility is so genuinely horrifying as a concept, too. Anders' entire recruitment quest being about his own lover being made Tranquil as punishment for the crime of just writing to him, Alain mentioning that Karras has been in his chambers and threatens to have him branded if he tells anyone, watching Alrik tell a girl that she'll do whatever he wants her to when he makes her Tranquil, that one woman in act 2 who Alrik made Tranquil before he died having a conversation with her distraught lover about how she belongs to Ser Alrik now, the fact that slowly over the course of the game there actually are more Tranquil in the Gallows; I feel like it's one of the darkest things I've seen in a non-horror RPG. You get taken away from your friends and family forever if you're born with magic, and if you fail the test you aren't prepared for that they randomly spring on you to see if you can resist a demon you're executed, and even if you successfully pass that, if you make one wrong move or even if the templars just don't like you, you get fucking lobotomized and have no agency over anything that is done to you ever again.

You mean to tell me that people played this game, saw this shit, and still thought the Circles were a valid solution akin to real life gun control? Thought that Anders overreacted and the system should have just been allowed to stay that way because mages are dangerous? Hello?? Nani??? The fuck??????

[sometimesimshell-fish]

Good morning specifically to Garrus's slutty ME2 introduction.

Bioware: "is this what you want you freaks?" *adds the spreading legs onto the box, the sniper rifle, the ass shot, the dialogue*

Us: Yes. 🙂

[artsyririblobbu-deactivated2026]

the boys have been set free

[quantum-shard]

I love Origins crew but they never gave me "found family" vibes, to me they have more "school trip which lost its tour guide" vibes.