#TW eleanor nightwalker

[dorianwolfforest]

I feel like your blog would be the best to ask this, haas anyone here watched eleanor nightwalker's new video about Alex and Maya as queer rep? My adhd brain is curious but would not let me waste my time on it

you just made me click on an eleanor nightwalker video on my own accord and download it onto my computer (she gets no seconds of watchtime from me, fuck that) how dare you

Basically "ue ue ue all the relationship development happened outside of the game" which, fair, but it's hard to retcon things when they've already happened in your main story line.

"The events in Elli's comics don't feel official because they don't add anything to the game" die mad wtf are you on about, we got so much lore regarding the game and the characters in it from those comics

"You meet them as two separate characters and then all of a sudden they're cuddling in a field" yes, people in relationships are also their own separate entities, good job!

"We need something to explain why they're a thing, not just that they are" yet you do not push this narrative on any straight couple in the game. queer people do not owe you a grand romantic story to be "permitted" to exist, sometimes their relationship can just be one small part of their story and their existence does not need to be justified.

"Alex had a crush on justin in the clouds over silverglade comics!!! She also thinks about him a lot when we need to rescue him and is the one who suggests breaking him out of jail." WHAT. OUTRAGEOUS. BISEXUALITY? IN MY VIDEO GAME? (Doesn't even need to be bisexuality a lot of queer people mistake their close friendships as romantic feelings because they haven't clocked what they're attracted to yet) Also, like, yeah, if i was breaking someone out of prison i'd... think about them too? "She needs to stop defending him to make Alex and Maya's relationship seem more genuine" She's being a good friend? A good Samaritan? A person who sees someone get kidnapped and says "yeah i don't think that's right, stop it"??????

"Lisa would be the best queer rep because she doesn't have a romantic past and it fits her character" Lisa is word-of-god-confirmed to be bisexual. Get dunked on. Also, die mad.

"Maya's model is smaller than Alex so it looks weird" ok? fuck short ppl ig.

In short yeah, i'm sure we all want to see more of alex and maya, but that doesn't make their representation forced or bad. To finish off, die mad.

[lisasprideflag]

has anyone seen eleanor nightwalker’s new video on the lisa edit? bc it’s honestly a bit racist that she whitewashed lisa(and the fact that ppl in the comments are using terms like “hispanicwashing” and “blackwashing” when people point it out)

i like the edit she did of her style/hair/aesthetic but she had no need to whitewash lisa

just making this post to point something out and start a discussion

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i don’t think this is an adequate apology. in fact, i don’t think it’s an apology at all. it’s an explanation, which explains yes your intentions were not to come off as racist, but you did anyway. intent does not matter in situations like these, the outcome and POC opinions are the only thing that does.

also i’ve seen this argument before, it’s the same shitty one that people(who had underlying racism issues) used to defend their standpoint on why live action ariel NEEDS to be white. why?

i’m sorry eleanor but i truly do not believe that you did not see the problem with the last shot/changing her race back to white until people pointed it out to you. and if you truly did not see anything wrong with it then i’m honestly even more disappointed in you.

@pandoricexplorer

has anyone seen eleanor nightwalker’s new video on the lisa edit? bc it’s honestly a bit racist that she whitewashed lisa(and the fact that ppl in the comments are using terms like “hispanicwashing” and “blackwashing” when people point it out)

i like the edit she did of her style/hair/aesthetic but she had no need to whitewash lisa

just making this post to point something out and start a discussion