#ALSO. an extra special fuck you to the guy who said the only reason sera got a marriage was bc same-sex marriage was recently legalized <3< /div> Explore tagged Tumblr posts

[lelianasbong]

having flashbacks to inquisition's reception on the old bsn and how so many mfers insisted dorian and krem's stories were unnecessary ham-fisted after school specials, how they also somehow asked "does sera really need to be a lesbian? it doesn't even come up in the story :/" and how josephine's romance with a woman "didn't fit" because you play the gallant knight to her noble lady (tell me you don't know anything about sapphics w/o telling me you don't know anything about sapphics lmao).

anyway i just read a tirade on youtube about how "tHeY uSeD tO hAnDlE ""this stuff"" (queer people) bEtTeR, eVeRyOnE tHoUgHt so" & i'd just like to remind everyone that that's not true. people did in fact claim that sera, dorian, krem, bull, etc were cringey writer self-inserts, that they scolded the player for disagreeing with them, and that the games themselves were trying to tell you what to think and how to feel about queer people.

i cannot emphasize this enough: i heard countless times that dorian's ENTIRE CHARACTER was Being Gay, that he was a camp gay stereotype, and 'why won't bioware give us a REAL (hypermasculine) gay guy whose story doesn't have parental rejection and a super on-the-nose conversion therapy allegory instead of david gaider's blatant self-insert??? :((('

so, for people who feel like they Just Have To decry the depiction of taash's queerness in favor of something less "in your face": it's always been "in your face" and crybaby reactionaries have always responded with discomfort because in their ideal medieval fantasy, queer people don't exist or are violently stigmatized if they do. either way, the status quo remains the same and the result is they never, ever have to think about queer people except as a lesson in what not to be.