#warcrack

[elfyourmother]

“Try the Light, not me, because I throw hands” is the official hymn of Patriarch Brightblade’s Blood Knights and no one can tell me otherwise

[void-whale]

anyway dont talk to me or my small son ever again

[elfyourmother]

I opened scrivener for the first time in idk how long and saw bits of pieces of the act 1 rewrite I had started and I feel like that meme/shitpost abt the person like “damn this shit is good why won’t this bitch finish it” that then realized they are in fact the bitch

[elfyourmother]

wrath is still such a weird expansion to me in hindsight bc clearly it was where the game peaked in terms of writing. there was some insanely good writing in that xpac, Valiance Keep being the standout example on blue side but then like...a lot of the problems in wow that snowballed later on had seeds planted in wrath

like the wrathgate was amazing esp in the buildup as a horde player but that was also the canary in the coal mine when it came to the PC’s agency being stolen and them being reduced to faceless plot levers.

wrath was also where you saw the start of making the PCs into hapless purpleshirts for the Kirin Tor’s fascism (you can draw a direct line from that quest to the purge imo).

also, one faction’s story being half baked despite there being plenty of plothooks and potential started there too (tho I know some blue team homers like to whine abt the draenei in BC even tho their faction leader uh. got to live thru it lmao)

etc etc.

[elfyourmother]

it’s a good thing in bishodandyverse that the worgen/forsaken war lasted all of 5 minutes bc all Sylv had to do was deploy Valanar to infiltrate Gilneas and that would have been lights out swearwolves

(I still think some of the coolest Machiavellian shit in wow was how val systematically dismantled the alliance forces in borean tundra just by exploiting the existing tensions there bc humans are fuckin racist. he didn’t even especially have to try very hard)

[elfyourmother]

I mean, I can compare it to their regressive and racist views of interracial relationships and how hurt I was to see thraina sunk, not because zomg muh otp but it was because the message was sent loud and clear by these white writers was that thrall—heavily coded as a moc—literally could not be happy with anybody but “his own”, his whole identity was defined by it, and his only happy ending was literally having “little brown babies” according to the head writer at the time.

anybody who still believes blizz isn’t playing the worst kind of identity politics w how they portray relationships in WoW just isn’t paying attention

[elfyourmother]

not that I bear any fondness at all for the racist, orientalist caricature that is wrathion or the fetishizing white girls who ship him w anduin—like at all—but reducing ppl’s disappointments down to “thirsty yaoi fangirls” just mad their ship was sunk is disingenuous af and honestly homophobic. a not insignificant portion of the fan base is just lgbt fans hoping for some kind of meaningful representation from the same company currently dislocating their shoulders patting themselves on the back and begging for progressive cookies for having gays in their other popular cash cow franchise

instead of what we’ve gotten for the past decade plus, which is virulent sinking of every single popular s/s ship often in violent ways (kael/Illidan, tyrande/shandris, koltira/thassarian etc etc etc), while beig forced to sit thru whole ass hetero wedding plots, sometimes with random characters pulled out of nowhere

[elfyourmother]

wow femslashers honestly make me want to die w the shit they be doing sometimes

that “sometimes characters just hate each other and don’t secretly want to fuck” post needs to be stapled to these broads foreheads so i can’t keep getting exposed to all these cursed borderline offensive ships they pull out of their asses

tyrande/maiev really? really??? pls die lol.