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About me: Natalie - 21 y.o. - Turkish - Writer, modder, and once in a blue moon artist <3

Fandoms i'm in: Dragon Age - Fallout 4 - Mass Effect - Baldur's Gate 3 - Dying Light - Magnificent Century - Dispatch - Overwatch Though my primary fandoms are Dragon Age, Baldur's Gate 3, Fallout 4 and Magnificent Century

Disclaimers and Potential Tags to Block: VERY critical about Solas, Cullen Rutherford and DATV as a whole, if you wish to not see those posts on your feed, block the following hastags below:

#Cullen Rutherford Critical - #Anti Cullen Rutherford - #Cullen Rutherford Negative #Solas Critical - #Anti Solas - #Solas Negative #DATV Critical - #Veilguard Critical

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vigilskept

the blatant bigotry of his writer is not an excuse for you 🫵 nonblack mass effect player 🫵 to write off jacob taylor's character or romance. btw

#mass effect #jacob taylor

monidoll

as we all know, the only man in the world to actually benefit from the patriarchy at all is John Richard Patriarch. all the others are actually exclusively oppressed by the patriarchy and feminism should be all about liberating these men.

what-if-i-just-did

Tumblr as the loud, alt, gnc nerd with coloured hair, a ton of Pride pins, and lots of merch

Ao3 as the quiet, unassuming book nerd that's secretly freaky as fuck

Does anyone else see my vision

strangestcase

and they’re both racist

mrhealyourgirl

and they're both racist

antoniabishop

i’ve heard a lot of stories about writers that i love but i think my favorite one is that the dragon age writers called the game world “thedas” because it was originally short for “the dragon age setting” and then they just didn’t change it

#dragon age

hehe. hoho even.

#naty's ramblings

secondlina

No transphobes allowed, only transborbs.

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fatluka

DYKE UP OR DIE. #PRIDEMONTH.

asharaks

lets address my favourite topic: dev bias in writing. "i don't like sera because she's annoying" the guy who wrote sera also wrote jacob taylor. can we take the marginalised romances away from this guy. he hates black people and he hates lesbians. there's a certain impulse in some of these devs to take...i guess schadenfreude?? in writing romances that "punish" the player - from gaider's "alistair is a manchild and terrible partner" to whatever weekes says about solas - there is something in particular in these devs' loathing for women (or people playing women) that makes them willing to weaponise unimaginable bigotry in punishment.

kristjanson writes a lesbian, and gives you absolutely no opportunity to extend her kindness or empathy: sera is marginalised across several dimensions, both in- and out of-of-universe, as an elf, as neurodivergent, as a lesbian, and her romance is marked by scenes you are intended to read as hysterical, irrational, unreasonable. your reward for being interested in a neurodivergent lesbian is getting shouted at, having a bow pointed at you, don't you regret this? and again, in mass effect - you romanced Black man and he leaves you without a word, he takes up with another woman and starts a family behind your back, what did you expect?

kristjanson's writing is so full of racist, homophobic, bigoted tropes that are levelled against the player and the romance in a way that feels like punishment, like he wants to make sure no-one (no woman) can have a joyful, fulfilling relationship with a marginalised person, like you don't deserve to be successful in these relationships without conditions. and i love a difficult, unconventional, even tragic romance in games, but in contrast to the treatment the other romances get it is notable to me that kristjanson singles out the lesbian and the Black man for treatment that not only punishes the characters involved but leans heavily on stereotypes particular to those groups.

if you are a woman, or playing a woman, devs feel all too comfortable belittling and insulting you for pursuing the romances they choose to make available in their games, to the point of self-sabotage, and that is a significant factor that needs to be taken into account in any analysis of how these storylines play out.

#dragon age #mass effect #bioware critical

dalishious

Lets be real though. It is a goddamn shame that the opportunity to really explore a) what it means to be a woman in Thedas and b) what it means specifically to be a woman who loves women in Thedas, is never really seized to its full potential. Like, the setup is there to easily talk about how women are idolized as a theoretical thing (Andraste) but treated like garbage in practice (pretty much every female character ever).

And the moment a female character becomes unavailable to a male player, either because she's a lesbian or "too mean" to them? They make the Straight Sera mod and Slap Morrigan mod, etc.

And then of course there is specifically the misogynoir over characters like Isabela and Vivienne and even minor characters like Teia I've seen some real bad behaviour from fans about... Let alone the treatment they get from the actual devs themselves, because that shit is like a disease the way creators and fans just pass it back and forth.

virgomoon

i don't like the way you people talk about addiction. i don't like the way you people talk about bpd. i don't like the way you people talk about eating disorders. i don't like the way you people talk about paranoia. i don't like the way you people talk about ocd and intrusive thoughts. i don't like the way you people talk about cluster b personality disorders. i don't like the way you people talk about autism. i don't like the way you people talk about disabilities. i don't like the way you people talk about lesbians.