#I like the companions for the most part

[zahra-hydris]

starfield is very fun, but it continues the modern Bethesda tradition of mixing some truly wild game design choices with some basic ass writing

[fatedroses]

More than just the Demon.

[3gremlins]

i actually think it's really weird that people (like davrin esp) are so upset that lucanis is an assassin. like he wasn't hired to kill US you guys, we're fine. that's kinda the point of assassins, they only kill who they're paid to kill. it feels like they wanted him to mirror zevran a little bit but like zevran it makes sense b/c he was literally hired to kill the HoF and Squad. So it's pretty reasonable for your squad to be like "this guy? you're gonna let this guy near our food? you're going to SLEEP WITH THIS GUY? THIS GUY WHO JUST TRIED TO KILL US!??" since zevran did in fact, very recently, try to kill you.

Lucanis, you just broke out of prison and "hired". He's not going to murder you (on purpose), you're ostensibly his client. That would be exceptionally bad manners and also bad for business. Lucanis is a Professional and a Gentleman, at the end of the day. i do get harding and davrin being leery that he's possessed and spite might kill you just for funsies. but some of the dialogue you get from davrin esp, you get the vibes that he's much more upset to be working with an assassin than a demon possessed person. which is kind of a weird thing for a dragon age squad member to be upset about, since you regularly kill lots of people/monsters for no money/minimal money. i wish we got to call them out on it a little bit (or had a squad member who could), the way varric does with anders in da2 when anders gets upset about almost killing someone and varric's like, "dude we killed so many people before breakfast this morning and you didn't even blink, miss with me with this shit"

[wanderingblindly]

getting ready for the same birthday party I went to last year, wearing the same dress and the same shoes and the same body issues, listening to the same songs and having a mild existential crisis about the fact that I’m the same person I’ve always been and maybe always will be

[tethys-the-aquatic-sea-godness]

I was having fun then this happened

[optiwashere]

Huh, I didn't even realize it'd been a year since BG3 came out until I opened tumblr this morning. Kinda wild. I didn't think much of the game's release: I like Larian's games, and I like the BG series. I wasn't ever going to skip the game, but I didn't think I'd play it at launch because I was busy working on a novel in 2023 and not doing well financially.

Thankfully, circumstances left me with a little bit of extra money last year just before launch and it meant I could spend on a video game. I needed a pick-me-up after said 2023 novel failed to go anywhere, and BG3 was right there. Like most CRPGs, I played it in basically every moment of free time that I had and did as much as I possibly could in one playthrough.

It's so odd how these small happenstances can snowball into coming back to fandom, finding some friends I might've never met otherwise, and writing a lot of fanfiction along the way. I'll probably have something more interesting to say/share when it's the 14th, AKA when I sat down and wrote my first fic for this fandom.

Anyways, it's been a lot of fun and I'm looking forward to more years to come 💜

[variousqueerthings]

the doctor is like that bit from casper the friendly ghost where he's like "can I keep you," because it's these deep connections to people that can't last and there will always be a mild to severe gulf between them, and there's something just a bit unnerving about it, like you've been sucked into this being's frenzy because they can't bear to be alone and you want to, but there's something a tad lovecraftian about the whole universe the doctor introduces you to, that the doctor radiates a need to keep you in, and if the doctor weren't good you'd worry a bit about the intensity of the doctor's emotions towards you and you're worried a bit anyway, but you're not entirely sure why, only that even if you survive and leave (or get left behind) you will be forever changed in indescribable and often terrible ways, and the doctor knew this going in and you didn't, and they let you take the plunge anyway, but what else could you do and what else could they do? the doctor wishes they could keep you forever and ever

[tottymatsuno]

Working on my robot au and i decided ichimatsu would be the brother that would be extremely popular bc hes marketed as a domestic companion. There'd be someone in a civil rights legal battle with the supreme court to actually allow ai-human marriages to be legally recognized, with an ichibot.

I say this for several reasons, but mostly bc i can see yall doing that.

Osomatsu would be the cheapest to buy secondhand bc he keeps accidentally gaining real sentience and uses it immediately to gamble, commit crimes, fuck around and over all do osomatsu related bullshit. But he can drive! Thats his special feature!

I have ideas ofc for the other ones but lol ive been thinking "and osomatsu can drive too please stop returning him you cab use him as a taxi driver and make money off of him you just have to be okay with the fact he might hit on your customers or crash your car, or steal your money to gamble pleeaaaseee we're trying to fix this in Series 4!"

[fell-maverick]

It's been a while since I've played with a "X gets revived" au idea, specifically the one where Omega does it by forcing several Cyber Elves to use their powers. (IF PASSY CAN BOTH UNLOCK ZERO'S BARRIER AND GIVE HIM HIS ARMS BACK, MULTIPLE CYBER ELVES CAN REPAIR A BODY. AND DON'T EVEN GET ME STARTED ON WHAT MOTHER/DARK ELF MIGHT BE CAPABLE OF.)

The cross design robe probably wouldn't follow him out of cyberspace and back into his body... He'd probably get a new robe.

[doctorwhoisadhd]

one thing about me is when i was 12 or 13 i DID in fact go on itunes to buy dr who music and what i legitimately did was pick out several individual tracks SPECIFICALLY because they were leitmotifs. so i have literally just always been this way

[revvethasmythh]

my toxic trait is that i legitimately think lucanis' plot is the most interesting one because it's SO soap opera and fucked which appeals to me specifically and tbh i could take or leave the god plot and most of the others for a game focused solely on the messy messy lives of family dellamorte

[la-porte-bleue]

There is sooo much potential in the Treviso story, but it frankly seems lazily written. Why does Rook have to agree with the Crows on everything? Every single dialogue option is just variations of praise for everything they do, and reassuring everyone that they absolutely should run the city. It’s crazy.

But the biggest disappointment for me is that the Butcher could have been an absolutely epic character. That design, that VOICE, his ambitions and motivation. It’s all fascinating, and barely explored at all.

[redeemed-wren]

Listening to Spare Parts and had to stop and TAKE A SECOND because this Frank character really asked NYSSA who she's ever lost. Nyssa.

Aside from the fact that she's having Adric's death thrown in her face over and over due to the cyberman presence here, SHE LOST HER WHOLE PLANET. Every single person she KNOWS. Her father's FACE WAS STOLEN.

I am Fuming on her behalf what do you know Frank. She is so strong for not responding to that.

[local-redhead-bookworm]

The sheer number of spider man game fans who are whining over Neil Newbon winning best performance is so funny. My partner is an avid Final Fantasy and Legend of Zelda enjoyer, and they were rooting for Clive’s VA and Tears of the Kingdom to win more awards than they did. But you know what happened when Baldur’s Gate 3 won? My partner grumbled but accepted the loss with grace and acknowledged that BG3 was a good game.

Meanwhile I have never seen such sore losers as the Spider Man 2 fans. They are in videos of people celebrating Neil Newbon’s performance, congratulating him on his win, and sharing their favorite parts of his performance leaving comments like “rigged af”, “Yuri lost to this?”, and “😭 we know these girl voted cause they were creaming for him” (that last one is a direct quote). As if that isn’t a phrase I’ve never heard before. Accept the L! You were outvoted! This is how the awards work, people vote for what they like! Cry about it, and go touch some grass!

[variousqueerthings]

the thing is I do quite like individual stephen moffat episodes, I think they're good episodes. they get less good when you start to see patterns of writing and how he has a tendency of beating a dead horse + ongoing sexism which may be missed in one episode, but becomes very clear through repetition, but if one considers them as one-offs they're Neat bits of writing. it's when he tries to make it longform that it all falls to pieces for me and reverberates back. his lore is a mess and consequently so are his characters if one spends more than an episode or two with them.

[crossdressingdeath]

Today I am learning that I apparently care significantly less about callbacks and cameos than most people in this fandom. I mean, I'm worried about the Well choice yeah, but only because that's going to be awkward to write around if Morrigan and Quiz are both here. Otherwise a lot of it is like... yeah yeah, we won't get the Warden writing letters to us or whatever. Is Rook's story good, though. Everyone shut up about companion cameos for a sec, is Rook's story good. Like, would I like worldstate references? Yes. Absolutely. But seeing people genuinely decide that this game will be completely ruined by the lack of worldstate references is like... guys. Calm down. The game isn't about the Warden or Hawke or Quiz, it's a decade later on the other side of Thedas, please take a deep breath, set aside the anger at the lack of fun little callbacks, and really think through which choices would actually still be relevant in general. Then remind yourself that we don't actually know the full plot of this game, and what will or won't actually matter worldstate-wise is going to shift based on that. The lack of worldstate customization is unfortunate, yes. But it's not the end of the world. Did you play DAI for references to your worldstate, or for Quiz's story? Did you play DA2 to hear about what the Warden's up to, or to play Hawke? I absolutely get the disappointment and annoyance, Bioware really fucked up here, but this is not going to ruin DAV. If it'll ruin DAV for you then you probably wouldn't have liked it anyway. Dragon Age is not a callback factory, and this game is set much further from the others in both space and time than we've seen before in the series (the longest timeskip up to this point was what, three years?). Give it a chance before deciding that it's completely ruined because they simplified the worldstate.