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A little sideblog made for shits and giggles, to engage with fandom stuff without clogging my art page. A mix of my own thoughts, memes etc. reblogs of art related to my ocs. Asks are always opem

Right now it's A LOT of Hansry and KCD 2 stuff

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universalfanfic

Something I think is neat and really cute about fanfic is that there’s a personal version of each character in it? Like, each writer focuses on different traits and qualities and even though there can be a hundred fics with the same character, they’re really not exactly the same.

So even if you and I are writing a fic with the same characters, they can still be uniquely different despite having the same core and they’re each dear to us personally as our take on the person.

I don’t know, I just think it’s cute that each writer cherishes these characters in personal and unique ways.

#it's actually crazy how people can't realize that there a reading of a character will be different from person to person #and it will still remain a correct reading in all of these instances #fandom police are the wooorsttt

atiya-nagrano

without dismissing the ways in which zevran DOES have an ability to be v conscientious and kind and tactful, i think sometimes we tend to ascribe his respect of the warden's boundaries or shaping his tactics around protecting the warden or general charm to those things being kind of instinctual and inherent or romantic. but while balancing this w the fact that there's no reason he can't be good at those things simply bc he's good at them or that his motivations remain static, 9/10 at least certainly at the beginning of his relationship w the warden, he is doing those things bc he wants to be in the warden's good graces. he does not display the same restraint and care for the other companions from the get-go, nor do the stories he tells abt himself indicate he bestows those abilities on the mage he gets credit for assassinating, for example, or, more pertinently, rinna.

he's not in love w the warden from the start. his motivation wrt warden from the start is: make this person like me so they'll protect me. he's trying to be whatever the warden needs so that he isn't disposable. it can get romantic later; it seems a real disservice to his whole arc to say that where he ends up by the end of the game if you've taken the time to get to know him is simply who he's been the whole time.

#i do believe people have uwued him as well #just less obviously so #zevran is still VERY morally flexible in most aspects #his only obvious weak spot is other elves #other than that everything else is fair game #including the warden #his companionship is literally a deal you make with him and he is doing his utmost to uphold it #growth can't happen if the person doesn't suck at least a little bit at first #dragon age

janptacek

chilling at trosky castle

#saving to maybe draw later perchance #hansry #kcd

2well2water

no one cares that you shave your legs because of sensory issues shut the fuck up forever

2well2water

really galling amount of people misinterpreting this post so i'd like to clarify. i'm saying that when discussions about patriarchal beauty standards and the way women are heavily shamed and coerced into eschewing their own natural state of being (hairy) are occurring, it is unhelpful (AT BEST) to interrupt and say that the reason YOU remove the hair from your body is because of sensory issues. that's not what we're talking about. stop asking for validation for doing something that society at large wants you to do. stop derailing the conversation because you feel uncomfortable about being made aware that you, for whatever reason it is, adhere to harmful, unfair and ridiculous beauty standards. you're stepping into the middle of an important conversation that needs to be had and making it all about you. shut the fuck up forever.

2well2water

also quite frankly i think a lot less people would experience sensory issues if they let their hair grow out so that it isn't bristly and rough and irritating. and i cannot help but wonder why these sensory issues aren't as predominant in men. maybe you're uncomfortable with the hair on your body because you've been taught to be uncomfortable with it. just a thought.

sandetigerrr

okay real talk DA fandom, i know it's fun and cool and popular to use Solavellans as the fandom whipping boy (gn) and it has been since 2014 and especially since 2015, and i know that there are indeed a lot of Solavellans that are extremely cisheteronormative and do/say insane things that absolutely should be dunked on, and I also know that the writers opted to make Solas mechanically a straight romance because they were erroneously of the opinion that it would be bad and wrong for him to be a bisexual villain and that does have some really unforch implications, and i know it's frustrating that Solavellans seemingly got a fuckload of bones thrown to them in the festering shit sandwich that is Veilguard, esp when considering how bipoc and more openly queer characters and their romances were treated narratively which is absolutely a problem, but like. you gotta stop throwing solavellans under the bus. esp the solavellans that have been in the trenches with you over how bad veilguard is and also how stupidly neoliberal the series is in general. we could all be getting hammered in the forum and having beautiful discussions about lore and politics and and and but the infighting is so ugly. the real enemy is the fucking cullen tradwife shortbread mfers and i-never-bothered-to-examine-my-penchant-for-antiblackness mfers and also bioware. amen.

maythedreadwolftakeyou

if you ever find yourself using “solavellans” in the same way redditor use “females ruining our hobby”#maybe it's time to think about that a little bit :')

#im not in the da or bg3 loop anymore but #literally the same exact situation with astarion girlies #yeas there was and are very weird ones but it just ended up again as plain old misogyny #not to mention the peoples addition of ‘girlies’ to both the solavellan and astarion basically calling them stupid dumb little women #and then trying to mask it as anything other than ‘stupid little women ruin my thing’#so disingenuous oml #dragon age

scalycat

OC checkpoint because I'm curious... What's the physical trait you like the most on your OC's face? A little detail you love paying attention to when you draw them. Their face just doesn't feel complete until you've added that thing. Tell me

#moles and the little vampire fang sticking out #his face isn't his without the little fang #oc: sade

dearestfirstenchanter

Every time I play Origins I get horribly blindsided by how often Wynne will tell the Warden to seek martyrdom and constantly self-sacrifice. It hits a lot especially playing a female mage... how much of that does she actually believe, and how much of that are the lies she desperately told herself to make life in the Circle possible? They took her freedom, her child, her life, and so Wynne is convinced that you have to be willing to sacrifice yourself for some "greater good". It's just safer for the warden to believe now, so that anything later won't hurt them as much. Wynne makes me so unwell...

#it is very much that motherly tendency of ‘i had to so now you have to as well’#you aren’t giving your entire self is you not giving anything at all #what stings even more then during the conversation wynne has with you after you have a love interest #is that any comfort of every day life needs to be inaccessible for it to be a true sacrifice #there is a whooole lot of projection going on with wynne she isn’t aware of at all imo #dragon age

wizzard890

I think perhaps the only way in which queer people have achieved true parity with straight people is that queer romantasy is just as bad.

#yeaahhhhhh

butt-rice

i wish there was a way to say "you're right, but this is really ineffective and even counterproductive messaging to anyone who doesn't already agree with you" without sounding like an asshole

#something something accountability culture

redstonedust

characters who get the "i can fix him" urge not because theyre a saint who loves everyone inherently but because they think "if i can prove there's good in everyone, maybe i can start feeling like i'm worthy or being seen as good too."

#i can work with this #oc: sade

love-goblinn

a boy and his dog

#this is so him!!!!#the guy!!!!#kcd #henry of skalitz

aryaashen

Some Arue fragments from a Pathfinder ask

Having way too much fun drawing my demon wife uwu

#aru my girrllll #wotr

oscararcane

Who’s the WORST god of Eora?

Abydon

Berath

Eothas

Galawain

Hylea

Magran

Ondra

Rymrgand

Skaen

Wael

Woedica

Sapadal???

Voting ended onMay 3

#it's either Rymrgands literally destroy existence or Woedica literally make everyone a slave.#and eothas actually did fuck everyone over for generations #Skaen is a little worm but don't think he can do anything on a bigger scale #so the correct answer is literally all of them #poe

apricoctopus

Yet another banger for the target audience of 5 but I just finished the Lost Chapel and my flabbers were gasted by this interaction.

Sosiel, bbggirl, honeybun, I wasn't hitting on you, surrounded by demons, gargoyles and undead, after my camp was destroyed and half of my squad was kidnapped. I was just happy to see you unharmed, man, I though we were friends 😭

#i play a male commander so i have only seen this from other playthroughs and it’s wonderful sosiel i love you #that being said leading him on and ultimately breaking his heart when i pick the emotionally constipated evil pansexual made me feel like #a monster #pathfinder wotr #wotr