#tr 2013

[willzelda]

Tomb Raider

[farren-elwood]

Because I’m a gay and depressed archaeologist I decided to recreate the gay hug between Lara and Sam from TR 2013

Plus a silly little photo because “they were roommates”

[lazyveran]

best thing the TR series ever did was make lara croft so desperately unhinged

[tombraiderhorizons]

So, to celebrate the game’s tenth anniversary, I invited some fandom friends – old-timers and relative newcomers alike – to share their thoughts on what Tomb Raider (2013) means to them and their fandom.

Read the full article over on Tomb Raider Horizons!

[natlabartoli]

thinking about my problems w/ the reboots (and i include lau in that, which, like, probably a controversial opinion/hot take but, like, once upon a time the fandom wasn’t so favorable towards the lau trilogy and i remember clearly in the mid 2000s reading forums full of fans complaining about how they’d snapped/smashed their legend discs bc of how much they hated the game and how it ‘destroyed’ tr so, like, maybe people look on them fondly now solely bc of how much worse it got? even if people aren’t willing to accept that? just a thought,)

i think what’s ultimately so frustrating to me about them is how it sells this lie about “female empowerment”, and giving women a “relatable” protagonist “to look up to”, or w/e. like. firstly, there’s something patronising about us having to have an aspirational, representative protagonist - why can’t we just have a power-fantasy adventure. do you think guys are playing rdr because they want john marston to give them positive life lessons? huh. but lbr, you absolutely can draw inspiration from, and relate to, lara croft - i know i do. so there’s something incredibly cynical and manipulative, to me, about how the reboot gives us a ‘softened’ version of lara that we are never allowed to experience as a fully ‘empowered’ version of herself. she is ultimately restricted to being softer, more ‘feminine’ appropriate, which is always unfeminist bc it’s within the parameters of the patriarchal configuration of a woman’s place. i am convinced that the developers/publishers/everyone involved w/ every facet of making and marketing the reboots absolutely hate(d) lara croft. so we can be ‘empowered’ ONLY if we perform womanhood ‘appropriately’ - the messaging directly suggests that women who are ambitious, unemotive, independent, confident, or w/e are inherently wrong and lesser. and what’s especially gross is how this has trickled down into the way that the squeenix reboot stans (in particular) treat lara the character, and female fans of her. we are told that liking the classic, 90s lara is “unfeminist”, by people uncritically subscribing to a misogynistic reduction of a female protagonist as defined by the patriarchy.

anyway, i had more to say but this ended up longer than i meant so saving my next rant for another day

[mechecolomar-archive]

You saved me. I knew you would.

[sarcasticgaypotato]

Tomb Raider?

Ding ding ding! We have a winner!!

To be more specific, the 2013 Tomb Raider is my #1 favorite video game.  I love the gameplay- I’ve replayed it over and over because it’s just so much fun to play- the game looks nice aesthetically even though it’s getting older, the story is fun, and the relationship between Lara and Sam is so important to me I could write paragraphs about it.

[tamayokny]