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hi!! in case you don't know me, i'm maxx! the op of this post I wrote about D&D campaigns having no fandoms and how much that sucks (and fan favourite Dave the Ice Elemental)
to make a long story short, the cost of living is hitting me hard and I'm opening up some writing commissions to help support myself! if you or someone you know is looking for some writing about their D&D character (or hell, any OC!), please feel free to commission me for some writing!
all prices are in AUD!
Every time fandom turns a beautiful pathetic service top into an aggressive daddy dom type a random person on earth dies
Taking up Japanese as a side project for myself has reminded me of something.
So like a long time ago I had a professor that I absolutely adored. She happened to be Japanese American. She grew up speaking Japanese at home but never really spent a lot of time in Japan. She mostly spoke with other Japanese Americans and read books.
So one day early in her teaching career thereโs an exchange student from Japan whoโs having a hard time understanding a concept so she explained it to him in Japanese and then he looked absolutely rattled. Like in shock. Pale.
This is how she learned that the way she speaks Japanese makes her sound like a gang member.
Japanese doesnโt exactly have cuss words in the same way as English does but imagine that the nicest professor youโve ever had pulls your paper over and says โOkay listen here you little piece of shit Iโm gonna fucking explain this to you. Violently.โ
observation: among a certain subset of tumblr users, the term โblorboโ has become unchic, but the concept it describes is still important; and so it has been replaced with โThe Characterโ
to be Fair, I think The Character is meant to describe a certain level of agony, of being consumed by what loves you. blorbo is an expression of affection, The Character is sinking into the depths
free my girl she did all that shit but the fandom is mischaracterizing her for it
free my girl she has the same character traits as a male character but is getting deemed a bitch for them
free my girl she acted irrationally in a situation where it was impossible to act rationally and is now being hated for it
there's something so funny about talking about an oc you havent properly drawn yet. yea yea theres this guy - i know you havent seen them but you gotta trust me on the vibes here
Friends with benefits. And those benefits? Long insightful conversations about The Charactersโข๏ธ
You know what? I love that the true villain in DA2 is not Bartrand, or the Arishok, or Anders (he's not even a contender, regardless of what reddit says), or even Meredith. The real source of all of Kirkwall's misery is literally the chantry.
The chantry does nothing while Ferelden refugees starve in the streets. The chantry won't send healers to the poorer districts of Kirkwall because nobody can afford them. Sure they were there because of Isabela, but the people who push the Qunari to staging a hostile takeover? The chantry. The people who allow the templars to abuse their power over the mages? The chantry. The people who decided that mages have to be locked up and monitored in the first place? The chantry. The people who allow the templars to rule the city following the viscount's death unchecked? The chantry. The people who do nothing while tensions between the mages and templars hurdle towards the breaking point? The chantry. Anders was right to destroy it, collateral damage and civilian casualties be damned.
The root cause of everything is that there is no separation of church and state. Dragon Age 2 is, in addition to everything else it's about, a cautionary tale about what happens when a single religion dictates what is and isn't acceptable; when it gets to make and enforce the laws. Even now, with the way civil rights are regressing under the current administration in the US, it's a staggeringly familiar and politically relevant story.
Maybe that's why it's so contentious with gamers, and why BioWare never wrote anything like it again.
i'll do it for sam
And when there was only one pair of footprints in the sand, that's when Samwise Gamgee carried me
I think we need sam more than ever this year. But we WILL get through it.
