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You know people who are against birthright citizenship are always like “oh people take vacations here to give their kids citizenship”

Okay. Who gives a fuck?

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Oh no that kid might move here when they’re older, offsetting our low birth rate and paying taxes, oh no.

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Immigrants almost always make a place more interesting so I just shrimply do not give a fuck

The way Shale discusses her size is interesting. When you first attach crystals to her she talks about how she's worried they make her look too wide. Conversely later she talks with anger about how she used to be ten foot tall until Wilhelm chizeled her down.

Shale is written androgynous with a decent chance that a player may not register that she's woman until she literally tells them directly. I love Shale in general and especially for her who really gives a shit what my gender is take. But i do find it notable and interesting that the writers put in the dialogue about the crystals looking slimming.

It's both to have the absurdity of a mass of rock worrying about "being fat" (and it's clear that's what it is) as well as a way to feminize Shale. I do not think if Shale had been written as a man with man dialogue that conversation would exist. "I find i am too wide as it is," is strange dialogue for a creature who was once several feet bulkier.

I don't necessarily find the joke unamusing, but i do think it sits at a crossroads between gender and humor that is very indicative of the late aughts. Jokes about women asking if their clothing makes them look fat were as baked into the pop culture of 2009 as characters saying "epic fail!”

#dragon age shale #Dragon age origins #2009

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Having seen some births now i can say that dog birth is amazing cos they just slip n slide out one after the other like a little conveyor belt. And theyre so little and unformed. And then UNGULATE BIRTHS ... are amazing for the opposite reason which is that 10mins after being born they are filing their taxes. Unless they are goats, in which case they are committing tax fraud instead

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Goats are what is called a precocial species, which means that shortly after birth they are able to do many thimgs on their own, such as standing, walking, eating, and embezzlement

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Alistair: We won? We did? Yaaaay, we won… (The last “yay” is while suddenly feeling woozy and in pain – he just got up from nearly dying | EXPLORE HEAL ME)

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VO/Localization, Scripting Comment, from Dragon Age Toolset in the ().

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Albert Square, Manchester (1910) by Adolphe Valette | Contemporary Art (2015) by Emily Allchurch

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the top is an original, from 1910, the bottom is a new version painted in 2015

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THE BOTTOM IS A PAINTING????

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also does a really good job reminding the view just how much air quality has improved since we stopped burning coal in every building lol

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There is one thing I will say for overly handholdy RPGs is that they are great for practicing a secondary language. May have a tentative understanding about what's being said but thanks to the marginally annoying reminders you will learn what your objective is.

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can you recommend any that are hand-holdy?

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Dragon Age The Veilguard and Mass Effect Andromeda

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el cazador de la bruja fucking rules like this story abt two women traveling and encountering other women making the best of their bad circumstances despite everything trying to take away the happiness theyve found and falling in love as they give each other the belonging and connection and humanity theyve never known before and then the last episode after the whole dramatic plot concludes is one more ep abt how theyve finally found a quiet peaceful life where they put down the excitement but then realize that they dont actually want to live the idealized domestic lifestyle and they want to keep journeying and having adventures bc “that spark in your eyes is why i love you”……

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I failed to notice the original tweet below and i just assumed this post was just about the artistic process in general, not nsfw art specifically, and just accepted that yeah sometimes you gotta rub that thang till the job is done

There is one line of dialogue in Veilguard that i think is incredibly well done and it's Shathann's comment about how it's unusual for her daughter to be interested in men. It always kind of feels like she's casually misgendering Rook. Not in a malicious way or even a direct intentional way. Just a simple i made an assumption and didn't even realize it was such. It works so well because it can be read as her commenting that her daughter largely dates women so it makes sense you are one or that huh you're one of the few men my daughter's ever been interesting.

It's honestly perfect for her character and the only reaction to a nonbinary Rook that feels realistic. Every other character just magically knows your pronouns and gender. Which i get is a fantasy for many people, but i actually find rather limiting from a storytelling standpoint. I much rather have a character who gets it wrong and brings an actual honest discussion to the game than what the game actually does which is infantalizingly patting you on the head at every opportunity to tell you how Valid™ you are.

#dragon age the veilguard #Datv #Shathann #Nonbinary #I want this level of discussion when i romance someone and you can do the 'are you chill with me being nonbinary'#Especially Davrin dude has to ask Taash for clarification on nonbinary terms but he doesn't even give you an 'i'll admit i'm new to it'#Like come on

A lot of games when you play as a Man™ the game treats you as though you are the manliest man. All muscles and aggression and the women all want you. Typical male power fantasy bullshit. And i don't want that.

As a nonbinary person being treated that way because the game assumes I want to be a Man™ can feel just as exhausting as when you play a woman and half your dialogue choices are like "You have a problem with my being a girl?" "What's that supposed to mean?" "What you've never seen a woman cave in an orc's skull before?"

Like no doubt it's improved a lot over the last decade especially with the rise of androgynous and nonbinary options, but a whole lot of otherwise really good games and older games are locked behind this wall of gender that can get stale very quickly.

#Video games #Nonbinary #Gender

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dark souls 3 is ten years old ????

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this isn't the gif i thought it would be .

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I've been thinking.

I thought that Taash would have the worst handwriting out of all the Veilguard members but then I reconsidered, because. Taash' mom is a scholar and she has a high standards for her child; there's no way that she would allow Taash to write illegibly (no matter Taash' actual opinion on this).

So, in fact, Taash has amazing handwriting. Probably on par with Emmrich (a scholar who worked very hard to fit among Nevarran elites) and Lucanis (rich as fuck guy from important Antivan family and with Caterina for a grandmother).

But then, what about the rest?

Well, Davrin is a Grey Warden. He probably had to write reports of the shit he has seen and done. Reports that need to be read by people later. Same with Harding, she spent years with Inquisition, so even if her writing wasn't that great at the beginning, it definitely was legible by the time of the Veilguard.

Bellara? Well, she's a scientist and we know the stereotypes about their handwriting. But the thing is, Bellara obviously publishes stuff, both scientific and her novels. She also regularly corresponded with other scientists, including Emmrich. Ergo, her writing is legible. Maybe not fancy calligraphy but it looks nice. Granted, her notes might be kind of haphazard and written in shorthand, but she absolutely cleans them up before showing to anyone.

Which leaves Neve. The detective of Dock Town, who lives on fish sticks and bad coffee. The quintessential crime noir character.

Neve's handwriting is a fucking tragedy.

#I am imagine Neve's handwriting is on par with mine.#Where literally last week i tried to write my email legibly for someone and had go make sure they could read it before we moved on.#They had to rewrite it

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I honestly think that nonbinary people should be allowed to be mean* about our genders without getting shit for it more often.

*(Read: Assertive of our boundaries and stood firm on the fact that our identities are deserving of respect)

We should be allowed to make a sour face or take a cold tone with someone when they carelessly misgender us for the fifth time in a row despite multiple corrections. We should be allowed to complain about erasure and ask where our needs and experiences come into play when we hear people reinforcing binary normativity in their discussions of gender related issues. We should be allowed to be visibly/audibly angry with other trans people when they try to forcibly categorize us as fem or masc, or imply that our enbyness is a mere phase that will eventually lead to "real/full" (binary to binary) transition.

Nonbinary people should be allowed to take our identities seriously and expect others to do the same for us, regardless of whether or not we will come off as mean for doing so. Because quite frankly, upon seeing how exorsexist the world has become recently, I think we haven't been mean enough.

#Lowkey exhausting #Gotta let shit slide for my own sanity #Don't have the goddamn time to keep having the 'don't call me ma'am' convo