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I need to find a way to not hate myself so im disappearing. Bye for now.

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how come hans and henry go hunting all the time but never catch anything?

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Some of you just need to block the critical tags instead of acting like assholes

If criticism as mild as my post about how i don’t like how they did the DAV romance for companions has you getting that upset that you have to get personal about it you really need to just block the tags and move on.

“You must be bitter and jealous” i am criticizing a mechanic of the game i bought.

Then vague posting about me , pulling out of your ass that i give Strife and Emmrich a pass because they’re cis men? This will sound mean but put your phone down, go outside and get over yourself. It’s an opinion post about a video game dude.

It was very obvious from these two individuals they didn’t want to hear any criticism in any shape or form but for some reason still haven’t blocked the critical tags.

You can disagree with me, you can dislike my opinions and posts but this fandom loves to immediately make weird personal assumptions about you first “no it can’t be about the game it has to be something wrong with them, they’re just bitter and jealous of pixels”

I blocked those two lovely individuals who thought it was polite to have a whole conversation about me in the replies making personal assumptions about me whilst completely ignoring the actual problem i had which was HOW they implemented the mechanic.

I’ve been thinking of dropping the DAV part of the fandom wholly for a while now but thought maybe things got a little better as time went by and people cooled down but no. “You don’t like my video game i will now proceed to say weird things about you and then vague post assuming shitty things about you as a person “

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An add on to the very poor handling of Nevecanis; the companion/companion romances in general were badly done in DAV

Concerning Harding/Taash, Nevecanis, the banter and its inevitability

One of the first problems i have with the DAV companion romance system is that it is inevitable, if you don’t romance one they get together always instead of it depending on time together spend in part like it is in DAI wit Dorian/Bull. I feel like a lot of people forget that at the end of the day this is supposed to be an RPG game and that the player should be able to control their story, yes even the companion romances. And the system for Dorian/Bull was really simple and really good.

In DAV it is treated as a pivotal part of the story of both of the pairings between the main companions with shared scenes instead of unique ones (yes even the Taash Harding one is basically Tav replaced Taash with different dialogue, which is way better handled with them but still, a recycled scene).

Another thing that is badly handled is how quickly respective companions will start to flirt with each other even if Rook is already showing obvious interest, and the flirting for companions is imo far better done and with more active participation and reaction than with Rook. Nevecanis is just overpowering in this but it happens with Taash and Harding too. If you’re pursuing Harding do you really want to her talk how hot she thinks Taash is?

And then we get to the relationship banters. If companions gets together they talk about their relationship constantly with each other and with the other companions way more than Rook gets and does with them. It basically takes precedence over any other interesting banter you might’ve gotten (as i have learned recently with Harding and Taash). Again the game decides to shove Rook to the side so the writing can play their little OC game.

This is a problem with Rook again and again where they most of the times feel sidelined so the companions can shine. There is a found family here, but rook is extended family rather than the inner one.

The only one done right imo was Strife and Emmrich. A fun little side thing that happens, completely out of the way other than few lines of banter and one scene where they talk to rook about it. The player doesn’t feel left out it just makes you go “oh that’s neat” instead of constantly watching a secondary pairing get more attention than whatever you would have going on (Taash/Harding doesn’t suffer this nearly as bad as Nevecanis but the complaint still stands, though don’t take my word for it i haven’t seen them not together to compare)

I will repeat what i said though the main issue DATV has not giving me the CHOICE for these things to happens, i don’t get to influence it like i could in DAI where thankfully (no one crucify me for this) i could easily avoid a ship i despise.

Now you can yell “but it’s realistic to-“ this is a video game, more than that an RPG, and it has decided once again to rob me of meaningful agency over my own story.

EDIT: a lot of these thoughts come from discussion with @hightowerqueen 💛

EDIT 2:

Removed the people don’t like companion/companions romances thing, this is a very split opinion and i don’t want the focus on that

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Im gonna need everyone to hear me on this because some people are being annoying af with some Hansry shit

You can hc hansry running away, you can hc the wedding getting cancelled or whatever. It isn’t that serious. (Yes there is a specific post I’m referencing i will not name anyone i don’t want hate on them because i generally like a lot of their posts but this one and the one they reblogged were just typical fandom policing that annoys the shit out of me i blocked them immediately )

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People out here acting like people who do this suddenly can’t differentiate historical fact and fan fiction/head canons. Yes i know historically they couldn’t be together, stop acting like people who do this are somehow erasing or aren’t aware of well known historical fact. These are HEAD CANONS for the love of god.

Another thing to add; the “tragedy” of their relationship is the least interesting thing about them to me, i love the devotion of it, the strong platonic and romantic bond that transcends something being capable of putting into words (Hans himself said it best with the story of Lancelot and Galehaut). So no their relationship isn’t diminished because in an au they ran away together. Maybe to you it is but guess what that has nothing to do with me.

Also people not giving a shit about Jitka doesn’t make them automatically misogynistic. Jitka is a character named maybe twice and is literally just a plot device to be used to represent the marriage and responsibility Hans doesn’t want (that yes is also historically accurate). No it doesn’t mean people are undermining the actual side of the woman in that particular situation that happened in real life. Jitka literally doesn’t exist in the game other than as a concept, of course people won’t care all that much about her. Another example of weird moral grandstanding and arm chair psychology that social media loves so much. It’s an incredibly chronically online take imo.

I could also make “intellectual” sophist arguments how people love to fetishize and insist on gay relationships always ending tragically (no matter the time period ) but that would be wrong and incredibly self important of me because that’s also bull shit armchair psychology and moral grandstanding. People enjoy things the way they want to, you have to just deal with it.

Some of you like sucking the fun out of everything when people aren’t having “your version of fun” so you have to moralize or intellectualize the reason as to why “your version is the correct one”. I immediately block people who do this.

And that last statement goes for most fandoms. Some of you need to learn to just scroll away and block people because no not everyone who liked things differently for different reasons is dumber and wrong.

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Meet my Rook Game <3

tagged by @marvelous-goose with their Jasper intro so mine has to be Lorant of course

idk who to tag this is a very late thing so i'll leave it blank for now lmao

GENERAL

Name: Lorant (orlesian noble name he refuses to tell anyone)

Alias(es): Rook, no other ones :3

Gender: Cis man

Age: 31 at the start of Veilguard

Place of Birth: Orlais, haven't worked out the particular area yet, def a chateau in a woodland filled area,

Spoken Languages: Orlesian and common, still has a slight accent and sometimes mixes orlesian words and sayings in sentences.

Sexual Orientation: Pansexual

Love Interest(s): Jasper Thorne (belongs to @marvelous-goose), no idea in game i basically have only used him for made up OC reasons with friends lmao

Occupation: Grey Warden

FAVORITE

Color: Green colors of the forest, yellow

Entertainment: Before being blighted he competed in tournaments so probably dueling, dancing with someone, just being and talking with people, singing

Pastime: riding through the wilds and plains, writing stories, poems and songs, reading, daydreaming and just relaxing without a care in the world

Food: Loves pastries (especially something with cinnamon), loves a good duck roast with sweet side dishes like jam or fruit. Loves mixing sweet and savory.

Drink: Different kinds of teas, favorite is wild berry, doesn't like coffee. Likes mead and a good red wine.

Books: Loves romance novels, history books and knightly fiction.

HAVE THEY

Passed university: Highly educated due to his noble birth but focused his studies on sword play and dueling.

Scared easily: Nope

Jealous easily: Not really.

Trustworthy: His default is to trust but is excellent at reading people so he isn't naive about it.

FAMILY

Siblings: Only born son

Parents: His mother died at child birth and his father died during the darkspawn attack where he got blighted and recruited into the wardens

Children: None.

Pets: as a kid used to have a pet rabbit called '' Luc the Third'' (he thought it was funny, he was like 9)

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OH MY GOD

not to mention that no matter what, even if you never go through the lock in convo for neve and lucanis to happe, lucanis still professes his feelings for her at the end game saying he ''feels sorry for never telling her how he felt''.

So it really is canon that he will always like neve first and foremost.

Who the hell thought this was a good idea.

God i hate the way dav did romances so much

No people are not wrong that Nevecanis feels canon rather than Rookanis

An analysis (and vent) on the poor writing of the whole romance situation. A long post for those that want to read. I need to get it out of my system because more than anything this ruined my first playthrough. I know this has been talked to bits but i was recently reminded of this and it ruined things for me again while playing.

NO NEVE HATE ALLOWED, don't come here with that home wrecker bullshit.

First let's start of with saying i will be looking at what the actual text and game shows me here, no hc's, no fics just the pure canon. When the in your face text actively contradicts all of the ”subtext” a lot of people like to throw around it isn’t subtext, it's wishful thinking and making things up. We are sticking to the WRITING.

No Neve isn't a distraction, it isn't a casual relationship meant to fail. It is supposed to be genuine, Lucanis by the end of the game does love Neve and Neve loves Lucanis. Endgame convos show us this, especially if one of them dies. It isn't lust or distraction or whatever, it is a real genuine relationship. We are shown this through many lines of banter and interactions. And Spite likes Neve too i don't know where this started but Spite is fine with Neve. Stop reducing Neve and making shit up because some people just can’t handle the fact that the writing for all of this isn’t well done.

Now there is the first coffee date which i LOVE and shows that Lucanis isn't an awkward bumbling ''doesn't know intimacy'' dummy, he can flirt, he can show that he likes Rook but the game after this scene completely forgets that.

There is a very weird personalty split with nevecanis and rookanis when ti comes to Lucanis later in the game.

The problem is this: Lucanis actively pursues Neve, flirts and shows interest. He is completely capable of showing it, he isn't the closed off traumatized assassin people paint him, the game shows us this repeatedly. With Rook it is the complete opposite, stonewalled and disinterested, if someone acted like that way to your flirting you would leave them alone because you would think you were making them uncomfortable which is what it often feels like with Lucanis and Rook.

There are few moments besides the very end game that Lucanis actually reciprocates feelings, one is the lean in kiss that amounts to nothing that is never talked about and addressed and one is a RECYCLED Neve scene that is actually very sweet and insightful when it's about her but with Rook it flows incredibly awkwardly like it's missing half it's conversation. Yes acts of service are a way to show love but this is literally a recycled scene that seems far more friendly than romantic because it WAS meant to be friendly (and like i said lucanis is very capable of being romantic, he isn't an awkward little uwu i don't know how any of this works type). And then to add salt to the wound Nevecanis actually gets a follow up scene to that which confirms their feelings for each other, they get an ACTUAL verbal lock in scene that Rook doesn't.

Then we go on to the banter, Rookanis gets three lines of romance banter through the whole game with three different characters which are... fine. While Taash gets a whole series of banters with Neve same as Lucanis with others. If in party they constantly have little tid bits about what they do together and how their relationship actually progresses. Rookanis doesn't get any actual progression. Hell nevecanis banter with Taash actually talks about spites whole deal in the relationship which is never mentioned AT ALL with Rookanis. The post Talon conversation is mostly about spite with a VERY awkward lucanis standing next to Rook scene and a ''whatever this is'' I'm sorry but after all that game time this is what the relationship is? “Whatever”? And then after a whole bunch of nothing I’m sorry the end game scenes and convos are completely out of nowhere.

And don't even get me started on that little flower comment in the grove, that one legit made me sad that Lucanis wants to get flowers for Neve but a Rook version of that doesn't exist. It made me so pissed that no one writing it thought “maybe the player would like something like this”

Sure we save him from the mind prison, Rook is obviously close to Lucanis and definitely friends with him but if you had Neve and Lucanis in your party a lot like I did (and no matter what some people claim they very much flirt with each other) Neve showing up in there 100% feels like another nod to the fact that he is very much interested in HER. There is a little nice sincere bit of dialogue in there for Rook that however feels disjointed because this man has been ignoring me for most of the game at this point.

I'm sorry but the writers did an abysmal job with this relationship. More on Lucanis' side since his content is cut to shreds because from what I've been told Neve doesn't elicit the feeling of being ''the second choice''. They gave me a love interest who is more actively interested through a lot of the game in someone else and then gave them more content, in fact used Rook as a bad fill in for Neve's content.

So with the actual game you are very correct at being bitter, disappointed and robbed of a good/meaningful romance. Without fics without a shit ton of contradicting hc's and mental gymnastics Lucanis is far more into Neve than Rook for most of the game and then then definitely later when Neve and him get together.

And look this is a problem with two writers obviously not cooperating, MK getting real shit treatment at bioware (but let's not let her completely off the hook, the woman stated she hates writing romance and has received criticism before for it) ,the general unfinished nature of Lucanis' character and the fact that Neves writer definitely overdid it with the ship. Which while does give an explanation and context doesn't suddenly change the situation that it makes the player feel like ass when they find all the nevecanis info.

DATV is never beating the ''these are the writers OC's and you are here to watch them'' allegations for me.

You are allowed to feel sad and bitter about this, I still am. I feel robbed and lied to after seeing everything that Nevecanis gets that Rook doesn't. I've also seen that Neve doesn't suffer the same fate of '' i feel like she's settling'' because the game makes their relationship far more active with an amazing lock in scene and actual good reactivity.

And you can still like his in game romance for what it is I'm just saying these complaints aren't coming out of thin air, they come from the game itself showing you things that make people feel this way. After seeing the Nevecanis clips i wanted my money back. I love romance in games and here I am seeing that a side ship is meant to be more canon than my characters.

And istg if someone brings up Lucanis being demi as an excuse i will block you, demi people can be romantic (which Lucanis can be just not with Rook only in the nevecanis route ), they can flirt (which Lucanis does on the first coffee date and with Neve frequently), demi people can be very sexual (something that is alluded to with Neve banter with Taash). Stop using acephobic rhetoric to try and wash away bad, janky, unfinished writing. Demi people don't all act the same and a lot of you are projecting a stereotype on Lucanis that he isn’t (or projecting your own demi experience which he isn’t). Lucanis isn't an uwu baby who doesn't know anything about intimacy, who shies away constantly and just gets so confused and scared of flirting all the time it’s just that the writing didn’t care about Rookanis enough to show what he actually could be in a romantic relationship with Rook (see cut gondola scene and mined dialogue that went with it).

Also i couldn’t care less about what MK posts on bluesky, that isn’t in the game, it isn’t in the canon. If you want to keep to it fine but we are sticking to actual text here on my blog and this post.

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Sorry y'all im crashing out over the rookanis romance again after a discord convo and im just sad all over again.

I wanted to play with my Esha de Riva a bit and got the wind blown out of me with that whole thing because yeah, they are second fiddle the way the game writes it.

I waited so long for this game and then for this character only for the game to tell me yeah your character is basically who he settles for.

So much cut content, so much romance disparity, all the things i was waiting years for like the Crows and then later Lucanis are some of the worst written unfinished parts of the game.

Like i really don’t want to be so negative about this game but literally all the things i wanted got cut, rushed or completely shafted.

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I don't know who needs to hear this but Taash Dragon Age is not "harmful representation" just because you personally didn't like them

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No people are not wrong that Nevecanis feels canon rather than Rookanis

An analysis (and vent) on the poor writing of the whole romance situation. A long post for those that want to read. I need to get it out of my system because more than anything this ruined my first playthrough. I know this has been talked to bits but i was recently reminded of this and it ruined things for me again while playing.

NO NEVE HATE ALLOWED, don't come here with that home wrecker bullshit.

First let's start of with saying i will be looking at what the actual text and game shows me here, no hc's, no fics just the pure canon. When the in your face text actively contradicts all of the ”subtext” a lot of people like to throw around it isn’t subtext, it's wishful thinking and making things up. We are sticking to the WRITING.

No Neve isn't a distraction, it isn't a casual relationship meant to fail. It is supposed to be genuine, Lucanis by the end of the game does love Neve and Neve loves Lucanis. Endgame convos show us this, especially if one of them dies. It isn't lust or distraction or whatever, it is a real genuine relationship. We are shown this through many lines of banter and interactions. And Spite likes Neve too i don't know where this started but Spite is fine with Neve. Stop reducing Neve and making shit up because some people just can’t handle the fact that the writing for all of this isn’t well done.

Now there is the first coffee date which i LOVE and shows that Lucanis isn't an awkward bumbling ''doesn't know intimacy'' dummy, he can flirt, he can show that he likes Rook but the game after this scene completely forgets that.

There is a very weird personalty split with nevecanis and rookanis when ti comes to Lucanis later in the game.

The problem is this: Lucanis actively pursues Neve, flirts and shows interest. He is completely capable of showing it, he isn't the closed off traumatized assassin people paint him, the game shows us this repeatedly. With Rook it is the complete opposite, stonewalled and disinterested, if someone acted like that way to your flirting you would leave them alone because you would think you were making them uncomfortable which is what it often feels like with Lucanis and Rook.

There are few moments besides the very end game that Lucanis actually reciprocates feelings, one is the lean in kiss that amounts to nothing that is never talked about and addressed and one is a RECYCLED Neve scene that is actually very sweet and insightful when it's about her but with Rook it flows incredibly awkwardly like it's missing half it's conversation. Yes acts of service are a way to show love but this is literally a recycled scene that seems far more friendly than romantic because it WAS meant to be friendly (and like i said lucanis is very capable of being romantic, he isn't an awkward little uwu i don't know how any of this works type). And then to add salt to the wound Nevecanis actually gets a follow up scene to that which confirms their feelings for each other, they get an ACTUAL verbal lock in scene that Rook doesn't.

Then we go on to the banter, Rookanis gets three lines of romance banter through the whole game with three different characters which are... fine. While Taash gets a whole series of banters with Neve same as Lucanis with others. If in party they constantly have little tid bits about what they do together and how their relationship actually progresses. Rookanis doesn't get any actual progression. Hell nevecanis banter with Taash actually talks about spites whole deal in the relationship which is never mentioned AT ALL with Rookanis. The post Talon conversation is mostly about spite with a VERY awkward lucanis standing next to Rook scene and a ''whatever this is'' I'm sorry but after all that game time this is what the relationship is? “Whatever”? And then after a whole bunch of nothing I’m sorry the end game scenes and convos are completely out of nowhere.

And don't even get me started on that little flower comment in the grove, that one legit made me sad that Lucanis wants to get flowers for Neve but a Rook version of that doesn't exist. It made me so pissed that no one writing it thought “maybe the player would like something like this”

Sure we save him from the mind prison, Rook is obviously close to Lucanis and definitely friends with him but if you had Neve and Lucanis in your party a lot like I did (and no matter what some people claim they very much flirt with each other) Neve showing up in there 100% feels like another nod to the fact that he is very much interested in HER. There is a little nice sincere bit of dialogue in there for Rook that however feels disjointed because this man has been ignoring me for most of the game at this point.

I'm sorry but the writers did an abysmal job with this relationship. More on Lucanis' side since his content is cut to shreds because from what I've been told Neve doesn't elicit the feeling of being ''the second choice''. They gave me a love interest who is more actively interested through a lot of the game in someone else and then gave them more content, in fact used Rook as a bad fill in for Neve's content.

So with the actual game you are very correct at being bitter, disappointed and robbed of a good/meaningful romance. Without fics without a shit ton of contradicting hc's and mental gymnastics Lucanis is far more into Neve than Rook for most of the game and then then definitely later when Neve and him get together.

And look this is a problem with two writers obviously not cooperating, MK getting real shit treatment at bioware (but let's not let her completely off the hook, the woman stated she hates writing romance and has received criticism before for it) ,the general unfinished nature of Lucanis' character and the fact that Neves writer definitely overdid it with the ship. Which while does give an explanation and context doesn't suddenly change the situation that it makes the player feel like ass when they find all the nevecanis info.

DATV is never beating the ''these are the writers OC's and you are here to watch them'' allegations for me.

You are allowed to feel sad and bitter about this, I still am. I feel robbed and lied to after seeing everything that Nevecanis gets that Rook doesn't. I've also seen that Neve doesn't suffer the same fate of '' i feel like she's settling'' because the game makes their relationship far more active with an amazing lock in scene and actual good reactivity.

And you can still like his in game romance for what it is I'm just saying these complaints aren't coming out of thin air, they come from the game itself showing you things that make people feel this way. After seeing the Nevecanis clips i wanted my money back. I love romance in games and here I am seeing that a side ship is meant to be more canon than my characters.

And istg if someone brings up Lucanis being demi as an excuse i will block you, demi people can be romantic (which Lucanis can be just not with Rook only in the nevecanis route ), they can flirt (which Lucanis does on the first coffee date and with Neve frequently), demi people can be very sexual (something that is alluded to with Neve banter with Taash). Stop using acephobic rhetoric to try and wash away bad, janky, unfinished writing. Demi people don't all act the same and a lot of you are projecting a stereotype on Lucanis that he isn’t (or projecting your own demi experience which he isn’t). Lucanis isn't an uwu baby who doesn't know anything about intimacy, who shies away constantly and just gets so confused and scared of flirting all the time it’s just that the writing didn’t care about Rookanis enough to show what he actually could be in a romantic relationship with Rook (see cut gondola scene and mined dialogue that went with it).

Also i couldn’t care less about what MK posts on bluesky, that isn’t in the game, it isn’t in the canon. If you want to keep to it fine but we are sticking to actual text here on my blog and this post.

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I just remembered this too: no matter what, even if you never go through the lock in convo for neve and lucanis to happen, lucanis still professes his feelings for her at the end game to rook saying he ''feels sorry for never telling her how he felt''.

So it really is canon that he will always like neve first and foremost.

Who in their right mind thought this would be a good experience for the player? Did absolutely no one playtest the lucanis romance and see that “hmm this feels like shit”

God this is so badly done.

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I feel like a thing that the historically accurate argumenters are often forgetting, not just in regards to Hansry but in general, is the active LGBTQ+ erasure by historians.

It’s all fun and games to make memes about it, e.g. society will say they were best friends, but it’s actually an ongoing issue in real life and it’s incredibly harmful to the LGBTQ+ community. It’s warping the way we as humans perceive the past, unfortunately warping it in a negative way.

We have always existed, in every century and in every shape, way or form. There have been same sex marriages, there have been trans people, lavender marriages and so much more.

And I agree with your last post btw. I hope I understood it right tho lol

Have a good day!

Hey!

Yes it’s why the “well either way if they’re friends or romantic their relationship works” comments bother me to no end. When i am showing queer art and see comments like that it isn’t positive, it’s people telling me “yeah to it’s impossible that they’re just fully queer (which they both are)”

It’s unfathomable for these people to realize that no not everyone was a bigot and homophobe those days and that many queer people were able to live normal lives, as you said there have been trans people, marriages/lavender marriages etc. plenty of ways for them to not only exist but be happy as well.

And the misinformation of the medieval ages especially where they think people were calling the authorities and inquisitions if they so much as thought someone was gay. Or that everyone was the example of a raging conservative christian; specifically in the american sense. No they were freaky too, they were queer too, the story of the “dark ages” is a wholly misunderstood and misinformed one”

If they’d listen to ACTUAL historian and ones who are actually presenting up to date, non conservative funded information they would see a butt load of queer history.

And as you said it’s ok to joke here and there but let’s never forget that the joke stems from an actual problem of people trying to pretend we only started existing like 50 years ago.

Thank you very much for the lovely ask! 💛

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Some people on the internet: Henry and Hans can't be gay, cuz they like women, they are Christians, living in medieval Bohemia and gay people was not invented until Freddie Mercury!

Meanwhile Black Bartosh living his best live, free of any judgement:

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Im gonna need everyone to hear me on this because some people are being annoying af with some Hansry shit

You can hc hansry running away, you can hc the wedding getting cancelled or whatever. It isn’t that serious. (Yes there is a specific post I’m referencing i will not name anyone i don’t want hate on them because i generally like a lot of their posts but this one and the one they reblogged were just typical fandom policing that annoys the shit out of me i blocked them immediately )

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People out here acting like people who do this suddenly can’t differentiate historical fact and fan fiction/head canons. Yes i know historically they couldn’t be together, stop acting like people who do this are somehow erasing or aren’t aware of well known historical fact. These are HEAD CANONS for the love of god.

Another thing to add; the “tragedy” of their relationship is the least interesting thing about them to me, i love the devotion of it, the strong platonic and romantic bond that transcends something being capable of putting into words (Hans himself said it best with the story of Lancelot and Galehaut). So no their relationship isn’t diminished because in an au they ran away together. Maybe to you it is but guess what that has nothing to do with me.

Also people not giving a shit about Jitka doesn’t make them automatically misogynistic. Jitka is a character named maybe twice and is literally just a plot device to be used to represent the marriage and responsibility Hans doesn’t want (that yes is also historically accurate). No it doesn’t mean people are undermining the actual side of the woman in that particular situation that happened in real life. Jitka literally doesn’t exist in the game other than as a concept, of course people won’t care all that much about her. Another example of weird moral grandstanding and arm chair psychology that social media loves so much. It’s an incredibly chronically online take imo.

I could also make “intellectual” sophist arguments how people love to fetishize and insist on gay relationships always ending tragically (no matter the time period ) but that would be wrong and incredibly self important of me because that’s also bull shit armchair psychology and moral grandstanding. People enjoy things the way they want to, you have to just deal with it.

Some of you like sucking the fun out of everything when people aren’t having “your version of fun” so you have to moralize or intellectualize the reason as to why “your version is the correct one”. I immediately block people who do this.

And that last statement goes for most fandoms. Some of you need to learn to just scroll away and block people because no not everyone who liked things differently for different reasons is dumber and wrong.

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hans: i was mad so i stole his bow for you do you like it 🥺👉👈