tagged by: @aroihkin and now also @kasiapeia (thanku! this was fun and i cant sleep rn anyway)
rules: answer 20 questions, then tag 20 bloggers you want to get to know better.
Cut for length & dash clutter.
name: why tis MJ sir
nickname: that’s technically MJ as well I guess
zodiac sign: Aquarius, Metal Horse
height: bout five six odd
languages: English (Scottish Standard), some Scots (2 regional variant dialects of it? specifically. and yes this is its own language), learnin Gàidhlig
favorite scent: uhmm pine? woodsmoke is nostalgic. & I like when you can smell rain in the air
favorite color: teal, black, blue, gray
favorite animal: i lov rat
favorite fictional character: uff cant answer this theres too many. Shepard if u put a gun to my head or sth
coffee, tea, or hot chocolate: coffee (black or black w/ artificial lactose-free sweetener or w/ plant milk or a plant milk latte, dependin on mood. not fussy on type or quality of bean at all but I did become partial to Norwegian coffee thx to my job) & chamomile tea
average hours of sleep: bout asdfjkl
cat or dog person: love both but if I had to pick one, dog, and rly I’m actually rat person
number of blankets you sleep with: 0 blankets. 1 cover or 1 sleepin bag (its a cosyness thing)
dream trip: hmm.. Iceland
broadway shows seen: like on actual Broadway? none, but when they came to Scotland I saw CATS and The Lion King.
favorite breakfast: I don’t do breakfast rly. Just some coffee
blog established: Nov 2011
followers: --
a random fact: uuuhm last time I went to a gig the Scottish Justice Minister was there. my fav record label-type thing is 88rising (the 88 part isn’t what it sounds like btw, they’re a collective who mostly promote Asian American and Asian musicians. the founders are Asian American and the number in the name was chosen because it’s associated with things like good luck in Chinese culture. explaining to clarify). i’m like fourteen years [?] cancer free. this one time I pulled a prank online and it was kind of a thing and a few years later I discovered someone had written about it in a book. (i then bought the book l0l) oh and Felassan isnt dead.
Omg I still get mad if I think about that Odyssey dlc like. Narratively it doesn’t make sense to be played post main quest but also it’s just? It’s gross. The tie in to Aya was nice but it could’ve been done in a much neater way :(
RIGHT???? Like you could maybe see it as making sense when you’re fresh off Kefalonia and don’t know a single fucking person in the world and you’re angry and lashing out because you’ve just encountered the Cult for the first time and you’re lonely and confused about people screaming about destiny and power and hey here’s some other folks who understand what you’re going through! They get it! You’ve got a connection!
But not when I’ve played for 200+ hours and have rescued my entire family and have friends and lovers in every goddamn Greek city, and that’s even before we get into the miserable grossness of playing a character as gay for hundreds of hours only to be told that you are definitely Not Gay and Must Breed to be a worthwhile person :)))))))))
knifebi replied to your post: the “split attraction” model is...
ngl i think that concept developing here is directly responsible for at least 1/3 of the discourse
honestly i really think so too like it’s led so many naive people (myself included, back when I was 18, so I’ll use myself as an example here) to think like “hmm i theoretically feel attraction to anyone but 1) i am shy and socially awkward and stressed and busy and have no interest in having a relationship so i must be aromantic, and 2) i don’t wanna drop my pants at the sight of every stranger I encounter, so I must be asexual and it’s like nah bro ur bi you’re just Shy and also Normal (as in just the average person, no disrespect to people with high sex drives)
like i do recognize asexuality is a thing and i still Do identify with it to sooooome degree but it’s like.... i’m not gonna tell someone they’re not what they say they are, that’s not cool. but people really need to stop perpetuating lies and misunderstandings bc it’s confusing people and it’s Wrong.
and AGAIN i was using myself as a specific example the point of this is not to rag on ace people at all, that was just my personal experience with the split attraction bullshit confusing the shit out of me when i left a conservative and homophobic environment with no exposure to lgbt history. this bullshit has also led to people genuinely saying “straight lesbians” or “homoromantic bisexuals” exist and it’s just like. i don’t think you know what those words mean. it’s not split attraction, it’s homophobia being HEAVILY interweaved into our society making our relationships with our orientations far more complex than people are willing to admit.
like i’m not a biromantic heterosexual or something. i’m a bisexual person that is Very apprehensive of ever being in an open relationship with a woman because I know my family would not be accepting. and i’m not a actually lesbian willing to settle for relationship with a man because of my homophobic family. i’m just a bisexual person that has made the choice to not come out yet. that’s it.
and that’s not getting into the history of why the misunderstanding of this model is just wrong. i’m not going into that. i’m tired. ugh.
@knifebi replied to your post “leandra: i guess i just need to start picking you out a suitable...”
but imagine hawke's gay ass being like "i'll get right on that" while moving merrill into the house like directly in front of leandra's face. she's still somehow oblivious.
hawke: i love merrill so much, i think i’m gonna ask her to marry me
leandra: that’s so cute, you two are such good friends :)
After that preview for BW I wanna bring Danarius back just to make him suffer
god!! right?? I am with you on that one, those were some really hard-on-the-heart panels. I feel terrible for Fenris and raging again at Danarius’ non-existent, and also dead repeatedly in the multiverse already, corpse. might go boot up DA2 and load an old file and go kill him ..
