#and i've been a da fan and player since the beginning. i am a day one guy. it's fucking queer. always has been!!!
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unsurprised to see I wasn't wrong about YouTube being dogshit for Veilguard content lmao
#game: includes non-binary and trans options that actually have some impact on the story through the bonds you make#Those YouTubers: WOKE. WOKE. GAME IS AWFUL AND RUINED FOREVER. DRAGON AGE WAS NEVER LIKE THIS-#meanwhile dragon age has been queer since the beginning. even the fucking initial novel trilogy is queer...#and yet these are the same people that hold the witcher 3 as the fucking paragon of dark fantasy#you know. the game that has a genderfluid elf in it. calls danelion geralt's boyfriend more than once and includes geralt trying to help a-#man ostracised from his village for being gay#and then ciri is fucking BI and geralt ACEEPTS HER because he's a GOOD DAD#BUT OKAY#yeah. dragon age is woke now. okay#sorry. i am so fucking tired of it. like you can hate EA and say that the dialogue surrounding the topics in game is a little clunky#because it is. but dragon age has ALWAYS been openly queer and focused on the friendship and bonds you make despite the badness in the world#and i've been a da fan and player since the beginning. i am a day one guy. it's fucking queer. always has been!!!#good fucking lordt
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I haven't posted anything on this blog in so damn long and I feel kinda guilty about that. Dark Souls means so much to me (*cough* especially Dark Souls II) but I had to take a step back from talking about FromSoft-related media because Elden Ring specifically just didn't make me happy to talk about anymore.
The non-stop discoursing following the DLC release just really got to me. In general, it was always really hard for me to get invested into any Demigod conversation at all, because my opinion on them was already informed by preconceptions I've had since my Dark Souls days.
To me, it was self-evident that the Demigods were first and foremost antagonists. They represented an oppressive power to be taken down (barring Ranni, representing the rejection of said-power). Everything else about them was nice added-on flourish. The kind of people they were deep down wasn't something the game sought to answer in my opinion, it was left to the player to interpret the information sprinkled throughout the game in whatever ways appealed to them most.
I've since humbled myself though, and realized that it just isn't the way the majority of Elden Ring fans experience this game's story and its characters, that my experience with Elden Ring is informed by how much of a sucker for Dark Souls II I am (which already isn't a popular opinion to begin with).
People care for those characters, as characters, genuinely. I think that's great, but it also lead to all those post-DLC discourses that really took a toll on me. I still want to talk about Dark Souls but my interest in Elden Ring is pretty much dead at this point. I'm still a bit unsure about what to do with this blog to be honest. I've been considering expanding this blog to other high-fantasy series I really like like TES or DA but I dunno. I'll have to think about it.
#sorry about the rambling mess I hope it makes sense lol#hornsent discourse kinda pushed me over the edge#not to get too real here as someone whose family are survivors of a genocide the genocide denialism was very gross to me#I got some really fucked up asks following my take on the subject#and it felt like much of that whole debacle stemmed from people's blind appreciation of specific characters#characters which in my mind were already meant to be “symbolic” antagonists to begin with
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