What warms my heart the most about Veilguard is the many people crawling from the shadows and talking so fondly about the unique and first-time things we got like Lucanis ("hey, I'm ace, finally there is a romance for me") or Taash ("they are just like me!!"). The other day I saw a streamer crying about their trans Rook being acknowledged because they were so happy that they got to see a part of themselves in a game that is usually so heavily underrepresented and it mattered so much to them. For the allos and the cis, these things might be minor or annoying or even worth criticizing but just seeing people step forward and saying "this mattered so much to me, I finally feel seen" tells me that Veilguard is a very good game and they did something great with it.
Here's a crappy drawing of the Ryder Twins. Case you can tell I can't draw :¥
me too, Genji
For all of my LGBTQIAP+ siblings out there, right now.. Please don’t give up. We will be heard. I love you all, please stay safe. Please.
Forgive me I'm gonna get kinda emotional in this one, I'm even putting it on the main blog to make this a human moment you get what I'm saying
To start this off as a cliche, ever since I was a kid I wanted to be a writer.
Like that was my dream job because I loved reading so much and it was such a helpful escape from my p shit home life and I wanted to write my own story to escape into. I wrote in notebooks, I wrote on sticky notes, like anything and everything I was writing on.
I was pretty ruthlessly bullied all of my time in school and one of the major targets was my writing. I was the cliche teachers pet who liked to write and read so I was a easy target. It discouraged me a lot and eventually, I just stopped.
When I got to high school I started to write fanfiction because I loved reading it so much, it gave me that same feeling I used to have as a kid reading all the books I loved. I didn't post much, my magnum opus in numbers is actually a Fallout 3 fanfiction I wrote my senior year into my first year of college lol but I was writing and I was happy.
Then I got to college and I struggled a lot. I was the most depressed I had ever been in my entire life up to that point, I was in a place that was not accepting of me being transgender, I had a terrible "boyfriend" who crossed so many boundaries, I didn't have good friends, i was in a career path I didn't want to do and I had had my top surgery basically taken away from me because I got pneumonia, which I was hospitalized for and had to take the time I was supposed to have off recovering from surgery to recover from that and just so much shit.
I tried to write again but I couldn't and then some "friends" of mine how find my writing and bullied me for it so bad I had deleted so much stuff I wish I still had out of embarrassment. I mean at least over 100 works, gone. I hate that I did that so much.
Then years went by and beyond docs with not even a 100 words on it, I didn't write extensively.
Then BG3 came out and I was so full of lore for my character I just had to write it. I was going through what would be the worst phase of my life and mental health ever and I could find no outlet beyond BG3 and it was starting to drive me a little crazy so I tried my hand at writing again. I made my older sibling cry with what I had written, I had people messaging me telling me how they were crying over my character I had written and I thought, maybe I can do this.
Than life got shit again and I didn't write lol.
Till god damn Veilguard and bioware once again caught me in their clutches and I started to write again.
I dusted off the old tumblr I had made in highschool, revamped it and posted and my god the response was so incredibly sweet.
Ever since then, I have received nothing but love and just the most incredible kind things said to me about my writing and my characters. How people love them, how people want more of them and how they like the way I write.
I always wanted to be a writer and I am one now, and I just want to thank you all for that <3
Sorry for the ramble and for a bit of the dump!
TLDR? I love you and appreciate yall being here <3
- you just had a brilliant idea. it’s 3am - bonus: you have something important the next day - “wow I wrote so much, let’s see the word counter” 350 words “LIES” - when your worst work gets the most attention - “[AO3] You’ve got kudos!” emails are your lifeblood, water your crops, and clear your skin - B L A N K P A G E S O F D O O M - playing the entire story out in your head. never writing it - watching or reading anything ever and imagining an au - making playlists to write to. never writing - getting an “[AO3] Comment on ______” email and doing the thing. you know the one - headcanons. so many headcanons - spending days or weeks on a piece - watching the hit count rise and the kudos count stay on said work - when will the kudos return from war
“But you were such a pretty girl” “but you don’t look like a guy” “you don’t seem to pass very well, maybe you should just stay a girl” “are you sure it isn’t a phase” “what’s the point of being gay when it would be easier to just stay a girl” “you’re just trend hoping right”
Like tf!?! Let me live my life boo boo. Doesn’t change how me, myself and I feel about it because our don’t like it... ignorance at its finest ladies and gentlemen
remember kids
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