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after i got my darkmaster's degree from scholomance i got an internship at naxxramas but they put me in the fucking arachnid quarter and i keep getting stuck in these spider webs

wowhead

miss faerlina said if it happens one more time they're going to stitch me up into thaddeus

onceiwashere

at least you got a job 💀 i had to move back in with my parents in andorhol and they won’t even let me smoke arthas’ tears inside the family crypt. i should have majored in STEM instead of fucking geist poetry

onceiwashere

(stem stands for Skeletons, Terror, Embalming, and Melting flesh BTW)

nagunkgunk

amawo

isei-silva

I want to start by saying I know little of vieras aside from their release as a playable race in FFXIV and what research I found on the internet. I quickly grew fascinated by the (lack of) male vieras and how secretive they were - they’re even gender locked to female only in the game! I also like that the ladies are the dominant gender.

So here’s my Hot Take™ on male vieras on appearance and a bit of extra. While it’s likely male vieras don’t have antlers, I couldn’t help myself throwing in a jackalope nod to give them an extra oomph. Maybe only a certain bloodline carries it, maybe it’s a freak genetic thing, Male hares and rabbits can be surprisingly aggressive, I learned, especially when it comes to territory and females, so I can imagine these manly beasts constantly duking it out with each other - or maybe forming bachelor groups to guard larger territories.

I thought to give them extra weapons with their armor in the form of metallic “spurs”, similar to roosters, to add a boost damage to their opponents.

#thinking of this again

gnome-gang

Important image for all your wizard memeing needs

#khadgar

FtM Transition? Oh you mean

#ffxiv #trans #making you look at this since i'm RDMing right now

visenyaism

absolutely wow is filled with all kinds of colonialism against all kinds of races. but why do you need blizzard to directly say that it’s bad? i doubt anyone at blizz is a fan of colonialism, and just because it’s put in the story and lore, doesn’t mean they condone it at all. it’s up to the player to see the wrongdoings of the character’s and races throughout warcraft lore. unfortunately, it’s hard to create conflicts without using something like ethnic/racial hatred, the blind desire for power, or any other horrible thing that motivates war/conflict. in MoP there’s a quest where a panda directly calls the horde vs alliance conflict a ‘race-war’ which is a totally legitimate stance an outsider may have on their (our) war. it’s all a matter of perspective. it’s all a matter of culture. there’s no objective right or wrong values, that the alliance should change their ways because their values don’t fall in line with yours is silly. it’s fiction. fiction is great at letting us explore these horrible themes without actually harming anyone. i don’t want fiction to turn into a place where we can’t talk about anything controversial, because people will believe that creator of said fiction actually condones whatever controversial topic they’ve chosen to comment on. this is quite long and i’m sorry about that.

obviously people should use their critical thinking skills when consuming any media. i just meant a lot of their storylines are based on real world historical precedent thats had horrific consequences and they don’t depict it like that. they often depict colonialism as a both-sides conflict or as a net good considering the alliance is always right. a lot of media especially that made in imperial nations does this and should be criticized imo cause portraying it as a both sides issue actively erases the damage settler colonialism does .

for example, look at the drustvar storyline. the drust and their leader violently resisting occupation are framed as irredeemably evil, because they attacked the kul tiran settlers first (framing settling as a neutral act rather than an aggressive one), and where Lucille Waycrest openly revives the witch-hunting practices of her colonial ancestors to hunt down the remaining drust, all of which is framed by the narrative as a good and cool, because you’re killing monsters who deserve to be attacked because somehow they “started it”. it frames that colonialism as totally fine. no one in the narrative disputes it, and we don’t hear from the drust except as a monolith of scary monsters. unless the player is going out of their way to recognize and condemn media that promotes settler colonialism, they’re not going to think anything else. how would this make them think about real-world instances of colonialism? are they likely to view settling as wrong and violent, or neutral and inevitable?

there’s no nuance to it so it in fact is not up to the player to see when things are wrong when the narrative is directly communicating the opposite or just doing a really bad job of communicating anything at all. also, you can criticize media, and if it’s up to the player this is literally MY blog

#hi op you're absolutely correct #it's also an extension of irl british colonialism on the celts that still happens today #including the active attempts to erase their languages!#which have #in wow #been completely obliterated. no drust culture is left except what ulfar teaches.