dwagon age

they hate me for my ardent refusal to accept cruelty as the status quo

draw your fat girls with saggy titties!!! for gods sake!!!! cowards!!!

The cousin of "he would not say that:" he would not keep saying that. It was a one off funny line for one particular situation. Every memorable line does not need to become a running gag.

honey, I was thinking that we could spice things up in the bedroom by turning the heat off and pretending to be gold prospectors in the Yukon during winter who have to have sex to avoid freezing to death. how does that sound, babe?

oh so temperature play is fun when it’s hot wax but god forbid I try to save us some money

Tumblr really needs a "dont ever show me this post again" option

i always click the "track package" button as soon as i get the email. "oh boy i wonder where my package is!" warehouse.

“I’m just a girl” first of all you’re a grown ass woman second of all free yourself

kind of crazy how they drop this bar like 20 minutes into the game. let me get up let me get uppp

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why is adderall even a controlled substance. whats the big deeeaaallllll

come oonnnnnnn

"unlikable protagonist" and it's just a woman who's a regular human being with flaws

2 a.m. Currently.

"gay or european" also goes for middle-aged women btw. that lady with short hair no makeup and sneakers isn't a lesbian she's just german

fandom approaches male characters from a watsonian perspective and female characters from a doylist perspective

by virtue of being made up constructs everything about fictional characters only exists as far as what is told about them, and yet underdeveloped male characters are assumed to have rich inner lives that the writer have simply not tapped into - when they actually did not give them any - and it's therefore up to fans to rescue the character from the writer's assumed negligence and explore him themselves through headcanon-ing the shit outta them picking up small bits of characterization and expanding from it, whereas female characters are taken at extreme face value: if the writer did not give them an inner life then she doesn't have one period, even within the universe of the story where everyone is a living breathing person, and it's not worth exploring. even when the small bits of context and characterization about her insinuate something interesting about inner world and leave room to spin an interesting backstory and motivations there seems to be no interest in fandom to do so.

saw a bad cullen defence post and i really think that the issue with the inconsistency between his character in dai and his character in da2 is that you're not supposed to draw the same conclusion from them... like dai cullen is all about how the templars have it bad too etc etc but da2 cullen feels more like a point about how just because someone appears more reasonable / polite / less visibly unhinged it doesn't mean they're not also actively contributing to oppression. and this means dai cullen completely undermines da2 cullen's entire thing lol

Ironically, I think DA2 was much more effective in its commentary on Cullen's trauma from the events in the Kinloch Hold. He literally cannot comprehend the fact that Uldred's horrible attempt at revolt was caused by the harsh environment of the Circle.

So Cullen comes to the obvious conclusion: If the Templars had been even stricter, nothing would've happened. This is the belief he was taught, and he has no reason to question it, not after his trauma.

Of course, this drives him to the radicals. Don't trust any mage, they're not real people, they're just waiting for the opportunity to make deals with demons and destroy everything you hold dear. Of course he sees tranquility as a good option. It's not genocide if you don't kill them, y'know ? You just make them tranquil and agreeable, and they're still useful, win-win.

Ironically, DA2 was also much more effective in its commentary on the drug addiction that every Templar inevitably suffers from. Idk, maybe it's just me, but Samson's struggle strikes a much more memorable image because it actually looks like a struggle. With Cullen, his addiction is literally cured after one conversation with the Inquisitor because it is never mentioned again.

Still, the addiction is part of his trauma. How many Templars overindulge in lyrium out of fear of mages? Does it help them with their anxiety? I think it's important for this conversation.

yeah i agree wrt it being more effective and realistic tbh - irl most bigotry is justified via fear / disgust / uncertainty, having a character be traumatised by an event that was the result of mages being oppressed and using it as justification of oppressing them harder is soo interesting/true to what happens with various marginalised groups irl. cullen and the other templars aren't actually benefiting from this oppression in any way, the chantry is the only one winning, but they're still one rung above the mages on the ladder and are being constantly convinced that stamping down on them will make them feel better. it's a surprisingly coherent portrayal of how systems of oppression work for an aaa game from 2011 lol. it also makes him interesting to compare to fenris, who holds similar opinions and is similarly traumatised by magic but doesn't have the same social status and therefore the same ability to cause harm.

and then dai comes in like "umm well his trauma shows the mages and templars both have it hard 🫶🏻" which kind of erases any of what made his trauma interesting or realistic lol. how does his trauma even manifest in dai beyond him throwing his lyrium paraphernalia one time.

also yeah, bioware is ALWAYS weird about addiction for some reason and samson is no exception but he does a better job at showing why a lot of templars stay in the gallows despite disagreeing with what the order has become.

there should be more options than suffering via employment and suffering via unemployment