Half the queer fandom being frothingly mad at the idea that the game unapologetically uses the words "trans" and "nonbinary" for their characters... While the other half compares Mary Kirby to JK Rowling for confirming what some people already suspected about her demisexual character though it's not verbally stated onscreen...
Like... Like.
I'm laughing through my tears.
If you are any sort of queer writer? Writing from an authentically queer perspective? Don't forget! There's no actual right perfect acceptable way to do rep and that is obviously YOUR FAULT. Whatever you choose, everyone knows you did it with malicious intent and could've done better but chose not to. And that's on you, babe! Prepare to be demonized by your own community until you die
Also, shout out to Taash DragonAge, for deciding to make out with their new partner in the middle of a fucking dragon den in the middle of Blight City, Thedas, right after the Siege of Weisshaupt when it is crawling with Blight. You are truly the Dragon Ageiest character there is.
I find it infuriating that nobody seems to like Taash, but loves replacing them in mods for their romance scenes because they know it's hot.
Taash's recruitment mission gives me the vibes of when you meticulously plan all you are going to do next only for someone to show up and interrupt you, and it's not like that person has any bad intentions or anything, but they are still ruining your perfectly set-up routine and making your blood boil bit by bit over it
normal people going through a gender identity crisis: [to a trusted person] .....so i think i might be trans
taash dragon age going through a gender identity crisis: [to a heavily traumatized coworker] nice clothes, loser! are you wearing them to impress your mother????
TAASH: Can Ativan Crows eat meat?
LUCANIS, patiently: We’re not actually birds, Taash.
TAASH: I thought maybe you had to stay light, to do all the flips and shit.
LUCANIS: …
drives me INSANE to see people insisting taash should use aqun-athlok instead of non-binary. aqun-athlok is a qunari term that means born of one gender but living as another. The qunari who believe if you're a warrior you must be a man. The qunari who gender lock all their roles in society. You're telling me in good faith that these people would in any way recognize someone not being a man or woman. Do you think they've got nonbinary jobs? Yeah men fight women teach and nonbinary people make salami? Are you hearing yourself rn?
plz reblog for sampo size :3
some of you have never united Ferelden against the Blight and it shows
huge fan of how whenever you try to address that the trend of black characters consistently being seen as less attractive and interesting due to traits that people famously laud white characters over is a systemic occurrence and even if you don't realize this about yourself it's important to recognize the pattern there will always without fail be at least 30 different chucklefucks going "so true i just didn't like him because i like this white character more but you're so right 🥰" it's awesome actually