#eggrika

[captainsway]

eggrika replied to your post:anon probably doesn’t know i’ve been running an...

anon sounds like one of those “but why can’t u sjws talk about REAL issues” kinda ppl

YOU CAN'T START SMALL

YOU CAN'T EVEN CHANGE ONE ISSUE ABOUT SOMETHING YOU CARE ABOUT

GO BIG OR GO HOME

[captainsway]

hi! instantly followed u after seeing one of your feminist smackdowns, and ur blog looks great! eternally jealous of your nails btw *_*

ahhh thank you! i don't do them very often, but when stuff makes me angry i can't help it loool

(if you want more feminist smackdowns or general media+feminism, you can also follow my other blog stfu-moffat :) )

i need to post more pictures of my nails!!! i keep forgetting to do step-by-step photos lately and i have like. a month's worth of manicures that i haven't posted whoopsss

[ladyloveandjustice]

what do you think of attack on titan's english dub cast? (i'm just glad vic mignogna's nowhere near it tbh)

It seems all right! I’m pretty glad he isn’t either, i wouldn’t have minded if he was a minor character though. 

Annie’s perfect and Eren’s decent. Not sure about everyone else, but guess we’ll have to see.

[elfyourmother]

loving all this femshep/tali! man this ship hits me especially hard w ruthless background paragons because the space!xena comparison is even more blatant ;-;

i didn't even think about that connection since imani's a war hero

it's even better with that!

[justjasper]

OMG I'd love to hear your morinth feelings/headcanons! she had so much wasted potential & it would be cool to see where you would've taken her

okay this’ll probably be a ramble

but morinth’s potential was wasted, whatever choice you make. kill her, and she’s gone, done. keep her, and she has no character development and then dies later anyway in the most crappy cameo/easter egg ever. fuck.

let’s talked about ardat yakshis for a moment: biowares creates the asari, who are a textbook “alien babe” stereotype in their creation. they’re typically feminine, attractive, exotic, and sexually driven. there’s lots to be said for their creation being steeped in misogyny, but even with that the asari are an interesting race in the canon narrative and the wonders fandom has done to flesh out their existence even more is great. but bioware creates a race of beautiful women and emphasises their sexuality and then goes and lumps them with lore that if these sexy alien babes dare to have sex with each other instead of other races that want to do them, they might spawn a baby that has a genetic condition that will make her kill anyone she joins her mind with. oh and did we mention that joining minds is positioned as the pinnacle of asari intimacy and cultural importance? oh.

ardat yakshis are typically not diagnoses until it’s too late to correct (whatever that might entail if they could be detected??), so some asari and saddled with a genetic condition that they didn’t want or ask for that relies on a key part of their culture.

the canon tells us morinth was already addicted to joining, and it follows that mind joining is not an  activity reserved for of-age asari. asari siblings and friends probably do it, practising, sharing secrets and playing make-believe in each other’s heads.

this also implies that ardat yakshi powers don’t come into full killing effect until maturity, otherwise you figure they’d be alerted the first time their precious toddler asari kills another with her mind at preschool.

so morinth does a thing that is a normal and important part of her being as an asari, and becomes addicted to it, probably not even realising she shouldn’t feel this way about the experiences. then she gets to 40, which by the way asari talk about age i figure is young adolescence, and is told that she either has to go live in  a monastery for the rest of her life or be executed.

imagine being 15 and told you face being executed for a thing that’s meant to be totally natural and normal!! of course she ran.

i don’t believe morinth is a psychopath or a sociopath. samara talks of her fondly, about her being the smartest and best of her daughters, and morinth does show intense drives and feelings despite having no real character development. but she is an addict. she is addicted to a biological function that should be normal and natural and beautiful but instead kills people and gives her strength. she was addicted before she even knew what was going on with her. being told that what you are is an abomination can lead you to embrace it to embrace being a demon of the night winds and to take relish in something that once upon a time would have sounded horrific. addiction will fuck you up.

ardat yakshi are a mark of shame and you can bet they’re not dinner conversation, and that asari schools don’t give them lessons on how to spot if you have ardat yakshi tendencies.

morinth could have been so interesting if you chose to have her on your ship - instead of loitering in in the obs deck, she could have discovered the rest of the company shepard keeps and found companionship and friendship and help.

thane is a hired killer who admitted to having no moral input on who he was told to kill. zaeed is a merc with loose morals. mordin killed millions of krogan. jack killed many times and dealt with power beyond her control that she didn’t ask for. morinth was amongst kin.

she could have forged alliances and changed. an addict can stop, even if they have to work at it for a lifetime. she may have never redeemed herself for her murders, but could any of them, truly?

[theroguefeminist]

this Pan thing is especially ridiculous bc in the 2003 adaptation of Peter Pan they had a Native American actress in the role. if they did it then, why the hell aren't they doing it now

ugggghhhhhhh i have no idea it just goes to show you the whole "progress" narrative that things "keep getting better" for marginalized people is bullshit though

[justjasper]

hey there your sims hair resource post was an immediate bookmark and I also like mass effect, sj, and merpeeps so i'm totally following ur blog now :) (also your femshep is a hottie ;A;)

hi! thanks very much!

i've since moved the hair resource post to its own blog for easier navigating: http://simsofcolorhair.tumblr.com/

[theroguefeminist]

your pokemon blogging is the best pokemon blogging! if you were a let's player I'd instantly subscribe :)

omg that’s so nice of you - i feel like i actually suck but thank you

i guess i might as well promo my liveblogging adventures page - it has links to each thing I’ve liveblogged - and all the posts in each tag are in chronological order: http://theroguefeminist.tumblr.com/livebloggingadventures (except that, other than the pokemon games, it’s all tv shows- most of it is anime)

maybe i’ll do a let’s play one of these days - i’m not a huge gamer though and so i feel like people would get frustrated with me/send me hate/spoilers lol but if ppl came for the humor/witty banter/jokes/analysis/sj commentary as opposed to the game play skill level it could be fun

i’d probably have to check out more let’s play videos first because i haven’t seen much