#!room disservice

[grimwarden]

The options that I think should have mattered:

The ruler of Ferelden (very optional but one line would be enough and it could naturally come up in a dialogue.)

The Divine. Three games of mage conflicts. The results can be drastically different (Leliana.) It would matter to someone, like how we kept hearing of Tevinter.

The fate of the Iron Bull. (I have hope that this will be somehow resolved in a way we don't expect? Because the other options are bioware canons or barely mattering enough to matter even if the inquisitor romanced him.)

Morrigan/Kieran. I can ignore who fathered him but if she's coming back, his existence can't be ignored. Even if he's not in the game, he affects her greatly.

Who drank from the Well of Sorrows. Since Morrigan and Inquisitor are coming back, that can't be ignored either. My biggest problem.

Who was left in the fade. Truly, this, I think might be my second biggest problem. They keep bringing Varric back (and I thank them for it) but they can't ignore or play it as if it doesn't matter what happened to one of the most important people to him (whose fate was very important to dai Varric before Hawke even showed up).

[casually-slips-into-coma]

sorry im still talking about this,, but the armand twist in the finale wouldve packed a waaayyyy bigger punch if it was revealed he orchestrated claudias murder and also louis’ salvation. if he planned to kill claudia out of some fucked up love he had for louis that wouldve been a DEVASTATING plot point. it would have been so delicious to see louis have to come to terms with the fact that armand killed claudia for him. like thats so fucking horrifying but thats also why im watching this show. i want to be horrified

it also is completely in line with what we’ve seen of armand. it wouldve been a fire parallel to what happened in the 70s with daniel, where armand went fucking crazy and possessive and hurt/tortured an innocent because of louis (im not blaming louis for what armand did to daniel u know what i mean by that). his whole thing is that he’s someone so so desperate for love that he’s willing to do anything to keep it for himself including killing the love of his life’s daughter, including torturing a random guy for a week straight, including manipulating memories

the reveal shouldve just been that armand directed the play and he was behind it the whole time and that he was the reason claudia died. can u imagine??? a scene of louis and armand in dubai directly after the twist is revealed to louis????? where armand is trying desperately to explain how he killed louis’ daughter as an act of love for him??????? and that louis just wouldnt understand and thats why hes been lying to him the whole time?? that would’ve been amazing jacob and assad wouldve ate so bad

it just seems like the writers were like armand is the villain👎👎👎 and lestat is the hero👍👍👍 when one of the huge messages of the show is that they are ALL monsters

[fisheito]

#1 nurse on the way!!!!!!

[zeezu-ix]

sorry to the 99% of my followers who do not give a fuck about idv. warning you now, its only going to get worse.

[aq2003]

series 3 is so frustrating because there is like a shining core of pure diamond underneath the problems . like conceptually it rocks so incredibly hard. but the problems

[queeriboh]

ohhhhhhh my GOD i hate fake service dogs so so so so so much !!!!!!!!!!!!!

[slav-every-day]

[mastersoftheair]

I have to say that the Crosby/Sandra storyline is not enjoyable simply because it's poorly written.

I want to make a comparison with another character in ep 7, Demarco. Imagine, if someone like Demarco who had been consistently showing that he loved animal (ala Meatball) upon finding out he'd eaten a cat, wouldn't be disgusted or repulsed by it, but went: oh damn this is delicious, let's eat more cat!

No matter if the narration told me life in the POW camp is ultra difficult, it would still be a bad creative decision that undermine Demarco. Why is the narration tell me instead of showing me the possible reason why Demarco would be changing his stance on animal and be into eating a cat now, after six episodes showing he loves animal and about fifteen minutes into episode 7???

This is bad writing.

everyone's entitled to their own opinion, but i think it was written just fine

[thecraftgremlin]

I feel like I’m gonna get raked over the coals for this but can I just say that “lesbian necromancers in space” is a really bad description of what these books are actually about.

[sinterblackwell]

yes yes the love triangle in wednesday was complete shit and the writers’ attempt at romance was bizarre as hell yes we get it let’s just scrap all that romance and focus on the matter of the potential that was wyler’s dynamic and how much harder tyler’s betrayal hits, not because he & wednesday could’ve been romantically involved, but that this was someone who could’ve been wednesday’s friend, someone who had done some mean stuff in the past and was clearly going through it but was like one of those people who just sticks with you after hanging around you for a while so having them suddenly ripped from you and be left with the shaken understanding things can’t be as easygoing as they might’ve been before is terrifying as hell

[prettyiwa]

💌🥹

CEE!! 💜💜💜

I love how considerate you are. I love the consideration you offer others and their craft and how it cascades from each interaction of yours. I don't know if you remember it, but that one post that went around about how the purest form of love is consideration? Yeah, it reminds me of you.

I hope this week is good to you because you absolutely deserve it 💜

[generalpierrotdameron]

Ahsoka's character arc: 😑 > 😁

[luckbell-art]

Do you care about miniatures and action figures?

Too bad! Because I want to show off the tiny kitchen that I made!

[scarynewboyfriend]

This seems very comparable to saying “you can only make a box with these tools” when discussing table top role playing games, which is why i don’t think i’ve ever viewed them under a queer lens (except for ones, as pointed out above, that intentionally revolve their gameplay around identity and queerness).

The genre may be adventure as a standard baseline for many of these types of games (horror is becoming much more prominent as well), but interpersonal dynamics and roleplaying as your characters -their likes, dislikes, flaws and strengths -is a huge part of the game.

Depending on your playgroup (this is important) you may find yourself in a campaign that has very little combat involved and is mostly your characters going around and talking to people, interacting with them and using non-combative solutions to problems (charisma isn't just for warlocks!). If you have a queer playgroup, you're probably going to be playing a queer game!

TTRPGs shouldn't be the same as "here is a regular bar you can be gay in," but more of a "here is a bunch of tools to make whatever kind of building you'd like."

I think this also brings up an interesting conversation about genre definition. How do you classify "queer" as a genre?

I don't think it's appropriate to assume that "queer" also means "romance," as so many mediums tend to. If we take it to mean: a majority of the story revolves around individuals who identify as queer, then it allows us an unbiased avenue from which to develop a story and theme, but it also means that "queer" is not a standalone genre - though personally I find this appropriate. Queer people cannot be universally defined in terms of what they like, how they live, or what they do. Because of this, queer as a genre should not presume to have definite answers to these questions on its own.

If we tag with genres, we'd probably see something like: "action", "romance", "queer"

Or: "queer", "mystery", "thriller"

With TTRPGs these genres become even more loose, since your DM and playgroup will have a lot of influence over the type of story you can expect to experience.

You may not expect your pathfinder campaign to become a horror story about trying to rekindle the love between two eldritch entities before their divorce ends up destroying the universe, but low and behold, your DM has cooked up quite the story indeed!

For this reason, I consider a good majority of TTRPGs blank slates with overarching genres as a primary theme (adventure, usually). They are not so much "queer" or "not queer" as they are "undecided."

D&D is the Taylor Swift of TTRPGs by which I mean it's something with broad mainstream appeal and name recognition and also there are people out there who pretend it's gay

[giraffeter]

I often see posts about curating your own online experience that make the point, “content creators aren’t your parents.” And, yes, that is absolutely true! And I try not to be like “as a parent,“ but as a parent…

EVEN PARENTS ARE SUPPOSED TO ENCOURAGE RESPONSIBLE READING/VIEWING BEHAVIOR. NOT filter everything ahead of time for their kid.

When my kiddo was 5, his pediatrician was asking him the usual Well Child Visit questions (“What are your favorite foods? What do you do to get your body moving? Do you know what to do if you get lost in a public place?” Etc.) and she asked, “What do you do if you see something on TV that scares or upsets you?”

I piped up like, “Oh, he doesn’t watch TV without one of us in the room,” which was true at the time and is still largely true now. She said, “Yes, but that won’t always be the case, so make sure you’re talking to him about what to do if he sees something that upsets him.”

So we started talking to him about that, and the answer is simple: “Turn it off or leave the room, and talk to someone you trust about what you saw and what you’re feeling.”

The answer is NOT “Ask your parents to make sure you never see anything upsetting again,” because that’s just not possible — and ultimately that would be doing the kid a disservice, since sooner or later he’s going to be out in the world where we can’t control what he watches or reads. That doesn’t mean we don’t try to make sure he’s watching/reading age-appropriate stuff, it just means that’s not the only safeguard he has — and that’s a good thing.

So yes, content creators aren’t your parents and aren’t responsible for making sure you never see anything you don’t like — but also, your own parents should have taught you what to do when that happens. So if they didn’t, take it from me, your internet mom:

Turn it off.

Walk away.

Talk to someone you trust about how you’re feeling.

And leave the person who created the thing that upset you alone.

[heartyearning]

went to see a play me when im NORMAL !!!! it was an adaptation of brideshead revisited it was. SO GOOD !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!