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nami and robin for one piece: heroines
drew some tokens for our d&d party + some silly lil pride extras :3 top left is my wizard forte, top right is @asharaks's bard lian, bottom left is @durgewyll's paladin jude and bottom right is @baronmpontmercy's rogue/ranger tristan. tagging our dm too @ikarons thank u for making us a torment nexus <3
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> sees complaints that a female character looks "too masculine" or "like an ugly lesbian"
> ask if we got an actual butch character or if shes just a normal looking woman that isnt wearing make up and a dress
> person is visibly confused, i start explaining the difference between actual butch presentation and dress and a woman simply dressing comfortably to avoid indecent exposure
> person laughs and says "she straight up looks like a guy, i can barely tell her apart from the actual men"
> google the character
> shes just a normal looking woman that isnt wearing make up and a dress
> sees complaints that a female character looks "too masculine" or "like an ugly lesbian"
> ask if we got an actual butch character or if shes just a black woman
> person is visibly confused, i start explaining the difference between actual butch presentation and dress and how black women are held to white standards of femininity and are often accused of looking like/being men because of white people applying these standards to them
> person laughs and says "she straight up looks like a guy, i can barely tell her apart from the actual men. why are you bringing race into this?"
> google the character
> shes just a black woman
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Explaining recipes in FFXIV to my bestie
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there is space within dragon age for some really interesting discussions on gender and gender roles: why priests, who fulfil a specific, nonviolent, mediator role, are women, vs templars who tend to be men; why, when andraste's claim to fame in thedas is literally waging war, is violence considered the man's remit? if it's because women are considered too important, above it, made sacred by andraste's sacrifice, sure- men as cannon fodder, as bodies for the machine, men as the frontline because women can't be thrown away like that (and there's space in here for some tasty conversations about what it means to transition, to be nonbinary, what role intersex people might play in this society), but then you do absolutely have to consider your mythology. because andraste's fate is to become The Wife, and while she's not quite consigned to eternal holy motherhood, she's very much positioned as an agent of the male god. so where does that leave her? and where does that leave women as a class, in a world with bloodline-dependent heredity - because if you're going to do prestige and status passing through the bloodline, you have to consider what that means for the women and those capable of pregnancy in your setting, because control of that is a means of power.
like, it's not as simple as saying "women can fight" and calling it a day, and even if bioware did manage to follow through on this, without having random npcs comment on what a shocker it is for you to be carrying a sword around, it wouldn't be a successful "matriarchal" society, because the devs are wearing horse blinders labelled MISOGYNY
#LITERALLY WHAT WE ARE TALKING ABOUT ...#the thing is#of course this is a setting that should have gendered oppression. it is a setting in which almost every major nation is operating on#a sliding scale of eugenicist ideology#and bloodline-dependent heredity#and gendered oppression is a powerful tool through which to control reproductive rights and reproduction#which is the thing you need to do to control Power when it's based in the bloodline!!#it's just. simply not touched on at all in dragon age#(see: the way that for some reason THE QUN which has absolutely No interest in Familial Bloodline Legacies is depicted as#the most Gender Oppressive society in the setting. FOR SOME REASON?)#because the misogyny we Get in dragon age. is just writer inability to imagine a world Without it @ikarons
right EXACTLY like there is no logical progression to the misogyny of the games - it doesn't fit with the lore, it doesn't propose anything new, it simply mirrors what we already have irl with no critical thought as to why the power structures in reality are the way they are, and what they might look like in another world.
which leads me to think about like.....why should we be interested in exploring different forms of misogyny. why are these things worth discussing, and why do people like them to show up in their media? because what's the point, if you're not going to make commentary on it, of including sexism in your setting at all? making cheap use of real-life oppression dynamics to add Angst Potential to your game is one thing; using gender dynamics and racist tropes regarding gender as a stick to beat your indigenous-coded fantasy cultures is another, and while I don't think that's why they opted to go for a "matriarchal" society, I do have to wonder what it is about these misogynistic game devs that makes them sooo keen to write societies which are supposedly equal or feminist without putting any critical consideration into what that means
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Where this goes, part 4 (aka the rest of it)
DID DRAWING THIS ENDING MAKE ME CRY???? AND SOB??? YEAH BRO
If you made it to the end, thank you for reading this! Drawing it was very tender and soft for me and I'm glad I did it.... i hope it wasn't too difficult to read
i love wanpis šššAnd these two characters very very much
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whatās your basis behind shipping frobin? not trying to hate on it or anything, itās just that iāve never really felt particularly compelled to it as a ship, so iād be curious to hear your thoughts behind it!
absolutely love your fankid designs btw, olive and tommie are so so cute !!
I really love both Robin and Franky's stories and how they're interwoven throughout Water 7 and Enies Lobby, and I think their narratives really lend to a very beautiful poetic pairing. Their moment on the train was electric, it's hard for me to really explain why that is haha. He's building the foundations for the future and she carries the voices of the past. They've both been broken - both physically and mentally to some degree - and had to put themselves together on their own until they couldn't anymore, and they found a home that they literally get to live their second lives together. Ship or not, I find their relationship very warm and comfortable with one another and that's. Super sweet. Their banter is always funny - her comments never come off as mean or angry, just blunt or playful in her own way. It reads to me like they're very not traditionally married but basically married. They for sure match each other's freaks. Other things like the fact that Franky is kinda built like Saul is some pathological level of sweet to me. Idk, the woman who was called a weapon her whole life and the man who turned himself into one because he loves them so much speaks to me more than a lot of ships can.
None of them are canon obviously and I doubt any will be, but I cannot deny the connection these two have even if we're just talking ancient weapons and void century stuff.
They're also just really fucking hot! What can I say!
This is my favorite glimpse into their relationship. They havenāt seen each other in two years, and Franky is completely smitten all over again. āYou havenāt changed a bit, Frankyā is such a sweet response to that huge goofball. Nobody else is around, and itās just them being glad.
