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there are some issues with the game that i think really speak to the broader issues with the triple a game industry and at times i do feel a bit sad that dragon age games will probably never be as good as they were again

but the fact that you can add top surgery scars to your character is not one of those issues imo

now that i'm playing dragon age: veilguard i understand hbomberguy so much better. think i could probably do a 2.5 hours long video called "dragon age: the veilguard is FINE and here's why"

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now that i'm playing dragon age: veilguard i understand hbomberguy so much better. think i could probably do a 3.5 hours long video called "dragon age: the veilguard is FINE and here's why"

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irl trans men and trans women are giving each other banana bread

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once again obsessing over literal vs expressive translation

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All things considered, this isn't a terrible day to be reading the end of Dracula. A story of a group of people banding together to defeat a great evil, motivated by their love for each other and their will to protect the most vulnerable among them. The victory doesn't come without sacrifice and heartbreak, but it does come. And life continues afterward.

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I think before we try to discuss the gayness of historical figures, we do need to ask where we locate gayness in someone's life.

Is it having the attraction? Or is it kissing and having sex with someone of the same sex? Is it being in a same-sex relationship?

If we couple it exclusively to being intimate with another person, well then you are going to have a hard time saying much about historical people without a public scandal or very revealing personal correspondence to know.

Is a gay person only gay if they've had a relationship ?

The contentious follow up question to "historians will say they were friends" is "what if they were?"

What if someone is attracted to their friend but doesn't necessarily act on it for a whole myriad of reasons? Does that invalidate their expression of those feelings?

And I know this isn't an uncommon gay experience because there used to be all sorts of jokes in LGBT circles about being in love with your friend who you aren't sure would ever return that affection. There are still jokes about having "I'm jokingly flirting unless you're into it" banter with friends.

Having a secret relationship with a friend who goes on to get married is the whole premise of a Chappel Roan song. And that's not even taking into account historical pressure to marry for economic or political reasons instead of attraction.

And when historians say "we can't say that this person would have identified this way" it can also mean that this person may have never acted on an internal attraction that we can nevertheless see in the ways that they try to explain their feelings to themselves or others. They simply may have never understood that as an option.

Tldr: I don't think we can have a meaningful conversation about whether historical figures were gay without talking about the wide variety of gay and bisexual experiences with friendship and attraction.

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Ok this is the best one i've seen.

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The promotional coffin sent out to promote the new version of Nosferatu.

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extremely comphet of nam jia to be like ‘dude if i were you id hit on girls all the time’. iconic

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Producers, directors and writers: what if we made Dracula sympathetic? *throws out any and all evidence that says otherwise* What if we turn the three women in his castle into his wives? *in their haste to turn poor Jonathan into a piece of crap they ignore that Jonathan notes two of the women resemble Dracula in looks* Whatif-

Me: Please for the love of God just make a Varney the Vampire movie

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Hi lads,

I know the world's on fire at the moment but the Dutch government is planning to cut 1 billion Euro in education funding and, as always, the ones who are going to be hit the hardest are going to be small departments. Most important to my interests is the Celtic BA program at Utrecht.

I've been to Utrecht, I've met the students in this program, I've seen the high quality of work that this department is capable of producing, the training that it gives its students, and how far the Dutch government has already fallen behind with regards to its support of Celtic Studies as a field. If this is allowed to happen, I am worried that it might functionally obliterate the presence of Celtic Studies in the Netherlands, when Celtic programs around the world are already constantly under threat of elimination or merging.

I urge everyone who can to sign the international petition here -- I don't have high confidence in the matter due to years of seeing other Celtic programs fade away, but anything that can be of use.

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For science!!!!

(Please reblog if you vote! :D )

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sending everyone boops and kinda cackling about it this is fun

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