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Bex ★ 30s ★ she/her/hers ★ icon by @bloomingjellies ★ AO3 is theoroark

[tacticalgrandma]

Making a pinned! I’m Bex and theoroark on ao3. I write fics about BG3, Destiny 2, FE3H, and probably other combinations of numbers and letters.

Also at bluesky under the same name.

[dailycatsblog]

[tadpole-apocalypse]

Lae’zel of crèche K’liir

[tacticalgrandma]

Ugh. I have a colony now, and don’t want to get to colony events until Eogunn’s responses are patched in. Have to pause for now.

[tacticalgrandma]

Eogunn doesn't get the debuff if you send him through the sewage!

[dateamonster]

tbh im not entirely immune to a villain with a tragic backstory but i do think villain origins are a lot more interesting when the focus is less "here is the original sin, the first big bad thing that happened to them that made them who they are" and more "here is the first time a person who maybe otherwise felt powerless in their life realized that they could hurt someone and get away with it"

[dateamonster]

you can get a lot more mileage out of analyzing a truly abhorrent character through the lens of like. what sort of conditions would allow or even incentivize this kind of cruelty? what kind of person benefits from those conditions and how? over the more typical who hurt them type analysis. imo.

[audliminal]

Thinking about the whole "there is no platonic explanation for this" thing and how it doesn't account for intense platonic situationships and anyways I think we should start saying "there is no casual explanation for this" bc really what we're talking about is the way the characters in question are Obsessed with each other

[neonhellscape]

uhhh mr and mrs haneumann everybody

[sisterdomina]

@quescon's Serafina Xanathaw Suarez von Valancius🦅

[tacticalgrandma]

Not giving Incendia augments so I have a team member in the final fight that isn't vulnerable to shock damage vs. Giving Incendia the same cerebral augment Collista has so I can write Weird Shit about it

[penandinkprincess]

3 pm: god, I'm EXHAUSTED. going to bed early for SURE.

midnight: I Have Literally Never Been More Awake And Alert

[tacticalgrandma]

Will you all kill me if I say Jae/Heinrix has legs

[dustdeepsea]

Amelia Von Valancius belongs to @orangekittyenergy

process under the cut

[tacticalgrandma]

[tacticalgrandma]

They could probably have interesting banter about this if Sol didn’t. Well.

[taurzza]

[tacticalgrandma]

Oof, idk how I feel about how they worked augments in with Pasqal. Basically things that used to just be his base abilities now are augments, meaning they come with negative effects (namely, they all make him way more vulnerable to shock/energy damage). Especially early on this seems brutal.

[wanderingcoasties]

“The LEGO Movie was my favorite movie of 2014, but it strikes me that the main character was male, because I feel like in our current culture, he HAD to be. The whole point of Emmett is that he’s the most boring average person in the world. It’s impossible to imagine a female character playing that role, because according to our pop culture, if she’s female she’s already SOMEthing, because she’s not male. The baseline is male. The average person is male. You can see this all over but it’s weirdly prevalent in children’s entertainment. Why are almost all of the muppets dudes, except for Miss Piggy, who’s a parody of femininity? Why do all of the Despicable Me minions, genderless blobs, have boy names? I love the story (which I read on Wikipedia) that when the director of The Brave Little Toaster cast a woman to play the toaster, one of the guys on the crew was so mad he stormed out of the room. Because he thought the toaster was a man. A TOASTER. The character is a toaster. I try to think about that when writing new characters— is there anything inherently gendered about what this character is doing? Or is it a toaster?”

— Bojack Horseman creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg commenting on how weird gendered defaults in entertainment are, and why we should think twice about them. Excerpted from this longer original post. (via 360degreesasthecrowflies)