#besides racism

[alicentflorent]

Rhaena and Baela still not getting any lines is the true injustice of team black. Rhaena lost her fiancé and we don’t see anymore than her tears at the funeral. No lines, no being comforted by baela, baela who is ready to join this war and be equal to Jace (the the future king and queen of Westeros) and fight alongside the experienced adults.

[triviallytrue]

idk all i'm saying is, if i considered my country to be in a struggle for world dominance with another country and i knew for a fact that a decent portion of their professional class would rather live in my country... i'd be doing everything in my power to get as many of them to immigrate as possible

[carronpatrick]

Haven't found this here yet, so I wanted to share it with some links for education.

Found it from-

Twitter post by OmarSShakir

IG Post by visualizing_palestine

Created by-

AAANY (Arab American Association of New York)

Gaza Is Palestine

[kagrenacs]

I talked about doing it for literally 6 years, but I've finally finished Orsinium, here are some quick thoughts:

The Good:

I really enjoyed the Orc politics, and the varying factions you get to deal with. I did see the big twist at the end coming, but that didn't make it less enjoyable.

The creature design rocks. I really love the Echateres, and how they're integral to Orc society. The pocket mammoths are also cute!

The division between Trinimac worshippers and Malacath worshippers was interesting, and portrayed varying factions dedicated to each god.

The armor design was really neat. ESO is super hit and miss with their armor, but I thought the Vosh Rakh armor and the Trinimac armor were neat.

The Bad:

This DLC was really really bad about anti-indigenous racism. For those not aware, ESO as a base game presents the Reachmen to be indigenous to the Reach and surrounding areas as descendants of the Nedes and the proto-Bretons. They have a clan system, utilize nature magic, wear furs, are essentially intended to be read as the stereotypical idea of Native American societies. The Reachmen are near unanimously presented as "basically enemies to everyone (and like it that way)" as described by a developer, and rarely vary in appearance from clan to clan instead of being distinctive cultural identities, furthering the racist idea that actual Native American societies are monolithic entities. I cannot speak for the Daggerfall Covenant quests, but in this DLC the motivation behind the Winterborn (The Reachman clan in question) seems to be to get their land back, which showcases settler anxiety about movements to regain land.

Additionally, there is frequent appropriation of indigenous cultures, without understanding their meaning whatsoever. The ogres who are described as 'savages' live in what appear to be tipis and are treated as unintelligent enemies. There is also this:

Which wildly appropriates the totem poles used by the people of the Pacific Northwest.

All in all I think ESO needs to apologize for it's offensive actions and remove these objects from the game. I think ESO players also need to be aware of these aspects of the game, and understand what colonizer ideologies lie behind it.

[achievement-hunter]

People making Mara/uders fanworks in the year of our lord 2024

[ef-1]

some of you are so stupid <3

[mashmouths]

so i started this show and it just gets worse and worseeeee not only did it lift the romance subplot directly from twilight (and not well) but they also are trying to play the forbidden love angle hard in the fantasy racism vein except it's a "cross-species" relationship between the two whitest people i've ever seen in my life and there are three people of color in the whole (first season of the) show who aren't villains and it seems that every other episode (and sometimes ebery episode and sometimes twice an episode!) there is a man physically or magically subjugating a woman and i keep waiting for the big reveal at the end to be stolen from fucking rainbow rowell

[quinnsanestuff]

ok but whats the actual stance on gays in thedas is it a dont ask dont tell situation?

none of your companions are homophobic as far as im aware, they dont comment on you being gay at all BUT theres several moments where, during a gay romance you can bring up the fact that ur the same gender as an issue

[thrumugnyr]

Hello, I'm Lavellan, I'm 19 and I never learned how to read~

Inspired by this post by @andrastes-strap-on because yeah, the Inquisition sure put a lot of trust into an elf that spent their whole life in the woods.

[irenespring]

Time for one of my favorite TV traditions, "watch the new episodes of Selling Sunset and argue with the screen like the people can hear me."

[rjalker]

"but we can't free these slaves, what if they want to get revenge on us?" Will always be a racist argument, no matter what. It doesn't matter that you have robots as the slaves or orcs or literally any other allegory at all.

[yoggybloggy]

are you white

[starlooove]

Read one or two fics where they give Duke a personality treat Damian like a human being and stop sucking Tim’s dick for 5 seconds and everything else feels like forcing urself to eat normal food after tasting the fruits of the fae

[pa-pa-plasma]

okay wait yes we all know that ATLA (2024) sucks ass but can we stop calling the actors white because they don't fit your limited worldview? you can talk about bad writing without being racist

[pinkpinkmermayyy]

people whos whole personalities are just their blue or green eyes should go to therapy (explained more in tags)

@punkeropercyjackson

[sangfielle]

truly do not and have never understood the way a lot if people are like i dont listen to hiphop because its anti-woman like your average rock or punk (etc...) star is not just about as invested in misogynistic posturing as the rappers theyre complaining about