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GHOST RIDE IT: Your friendly mod, Lywinis, here.
rhaegarfrey:
ademska:
thedasisforlovers:
Welcome to Dragon Age Confidential.
Tired of seeing pairing/character/fandom bashing on your dashboard? Well, the time has come for change. This blog is specifically to spread what you love about the fandom. Everything will still be…
I’m really sick of all the “MY BIGOTED ATTITUDE IS BEING CHALLENGED WAH WAH WHY CAN’T WE ALL JUST GET ALONG YOU’RE RUINING FANDOM BY BEING SUCH A MEANIE” bullshit, too. “I won’t judge you”? Good for you. I’m going to stand around and judge EVERYONE who posts homophobic, racist, sexist crap under the safety blanket of total anonymity because they are judging people too.
And no, it’s not just the game, these attitudes don’t happen in a vacuum. These people whining about how they’re just complaining about Isabela being a total slut or Anora being a bitch or Anders being gay or how it’s not realistic for all these people to be bisexual carry these attitudes and judge real people for being like these characters.
And the arguing and the discussion, sometimes angry because the shit said is actually fucking unbelievable is part of how these shit attitudes get addressed and, hopefully, changed. Maybe not the first time it’s challenged, and maybe not after the first “dogpile” of people telling them to knock that shit off, but every time someone points it out to them, it stops them from living in an insular bubble protecting from from realizing that they are saying offensive shit.
Make a safe space for them, by all means. But I’m going to continue judging their attitudes until they change.
(Also, sorry, Tuchanka, this rant isn’t directed at you, but at the discussion in general. ) (Source: , via beermuda)
b-mommy:
mloreley:
b-mommy:
tuchanka:
go back to bsn no one wants you here
We really wish that people would sometimes own up to these secrets. Maybe it would give us some insight into why they have such fucking ass-backwards beliefs. Keeping your tags by the way, you magnificent creature.
I suppose that defeats the purpose of having a “Dragon Age Confessions” if they were to reveal themselves; this kind of “secret” comes from someone too afraid to attach their opinion to their name, because they know there’s something to be ashamed for in espousing these opinions.
As for the secret itself, I have one thing to tell the confessioner- That’s stupid. You’re stupid.
And: God forbid a game be more inclusive of different sexualities, or even have the concept that someone can have exceptions in their sexuality- say, normally identifying as straight, but falling in love with someone of the same gender. Or normally identifying as gay but falling for someone of the opposite. So on, so forth.
No, you don’t understand!!!!!! These characters are blank slates!!!!!!!!
Oh yeah, and it’s totally unrealistic that they’d be bisexual in a world where bisexuality isn’t treated as some wholly aberrant, deviant thing.
And something that the confessioner might have missed; Aveline is distinctly uncomfortable that Hawke comes forward with their feelings after she’s set on Donnic, but I never got the impression that it was because she was purely straight. Just more that she saw Hawke more as a younger sibling. So she’s not excluded from the “everyone is bi” rule.
b-mommy:
tuchanka:
go back to bsn no one wants you here
We really wish that people would sometimes own up to these secrets. Maybe it would give us some insight into why they have such fucking ass-backwards beliefs. Keeping your tags by the way, you magnificent creature.
I suppose that defeats the purpose of having a “Dragon Age Confessions” if they were to reveal themselves; this kind of “secret” comes from someone too afraid to attach their opinion to their name, because they know there’s something to be ashamed for in espousing these opinions.
As for the secret itself, I have one thing to tell the confessioner- That’s stupid. You’re stupid.
And: God forbid a game be more inclusive of different sexualities, or even have the concept that someone can have exceptions in their sexuality- say, normally identifying as straight, but falling in love with someone of the same gender. Or normally identifying as gay but falling for someone of the opposite. So on, so forth.
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