#but feels weird putting DA discourse in their tag

[5mcsinatrenchcoat]

(Not a plot spoiler, but skip this if you're unaware of what everyone is recently complaining about)

I've almost reached acceptance stage with the whole choices thing (I guess I'll just treat Veilguard like something akin to Absolution - a story focused on a particular party where everything else is glossed over and cameos conveniently don't have time to mention anything).

I am, however, boggled by the fact that people are comparing it to ME3 in terms of your choices not mattering. Like, hello?

Sure, ME3 fucked up with the endings with a similar sentiment, only thing that really mattered in any capacity was how much power you've amassed (some endings don't get unlocked on low power levels), while everything else just mattered in your heart. I'll say, I don't have too much beef with that one, but it is a complaint many had. It also obviously doesn't follow up if Shepard died in ME2 and has some fuckery with the Council returning to status quo.

As far as "references and cameos" go tho? Put some damn respect on her name!!! They've followed through with so much stuff you chose in the last games, starting with mentions (i.e. dialogue changes depending on if you played Arrival), small cameos like Kirrahe if he survived aaall the way back in ME1, BIG cameos of basically every single one of your old squadmates showing up and having at least one related questline. And they did it following up on two games where A LOT of those people could've died. Didn't stop them. Put in replacements for every single important one (see: Wrex's brother leading the Tuchanka mission if Wrex was killed in ME1) so that they had a place reserved in the story IF they happened to be alive. Instead of, y'know, shelving everyone who could've been dead at some point or weirdly 'resurrecting' them. Your episodic romances like Kelly made an appearance. A terrorist guy you let go (if you did) in ME1 showed up to try and kill you again.

The genophage quest acknowledged if you destroyed the cure research in ME2. The fate of Rannoch could suffer depending on how you've handled Tali's and Legion's quests in the previous game.

There was SO MUCH. What sorta fumbled your choices was the ending, not the continuity with the previous installments. I WISH that continuity work was what we got with DAtV.

Like, we have a right to be upset (I am still upset. I'm just very tired and opt to focus on the positives for my own well-being), but get your facts right 😤 It's not a 'ME3 problem', it's like a direct opposite - new choices (allegedly) matter, old ones ditched.

[vanmarkus]

I’m a new fan (yes a post Bi Buck binge watcher, just finished season 5 yesterday ((yes I have a lot of free time)).

And this is definitely opening up old discourse, so feel free to disregard.

But. I struggled so hard to like Taylor. I tried desperately not to do the “toxic slash shipper who hates the girlfriend” thing, but I just could not like her with Buck. I think as a character, she was great! Love a motivated girlboss who pushes buttons, but not so much when she’s being girlboss mean to her boyfriend. (Not that Buck didn’t deserve it once or twice for his late season 5 bs)

But I just don’t know what it was about Buck and Taylor specifically that I didn’t like. I liked Ana and Eddie. I even liked Ali and Buck.

What was the general fandom temperature regarding Taylor and Buck during Season 5?

hoooo okay.

so first of all, welcome to the fandom, hope you can find fun people to hang out with 💛

mind you, I wasn't around during season 5, I was lurking in the trending tags so I kinda knew what was going on with buddie in general lmao but I only actually watched the show in august (took me less than 2 weeks to binge it all the way through, so believe me I know how you feel) but Taylor Kelly is... well.

let me just start by saying that I love Taylor, but she feels like she's been written by two different writers room (which is actually kind of the cast because Tim wasn't around during season 5) and while I love her bossy, career driven characteristics, I felt mad about how dirty she was done.

and not even because Buck kissed some else, but because she straight up said (paraphrasing) "you cheated on me? i don't think you should've told me about it, that's not why i'm mad" and like. what?

for a strong, confident woman in a committed relationship to just say it's okay if you cheat on me, I don't care, just don't tell me? ngl that gutted me a little bit.

aside from that, Taylor and Buck was never going to work, partially because they are too similiar (work oriented, childhood trauma and abandonment issues that neither of them worked through, implied that they both had a bit of a slutty phase, etc) and partially because their moral codes are the thing that differs the most.

which we knew to begin with; Taylor was introduced as someone who would exploit Bobby's acid trip about his dead family to get ahead in her career. that is a good enough reason not to like her and I personally think that Eddie had his reservations about her for that exact reason.

they both live for their jobs, but Taylor is in it for the chase, the excitement, the recognition; Buck is in it because being a hero and helping people is his life. very stark difference.

Buck also jumped the gun with the moving, right after doing something that you don't normally do when you feel like taking the relationship to the next level. so he kinda put a strain on the relationship even though it seemed otherwise at the time.

then of course Taylor lied to him about working on the story, though she only broke it after they caught Jonah, so people saying that she endangered Hen and Chim are weird, unless they're implying that she followed them and didn't call 911? which would be a choice...

but back to fandom's reception of her and how you don't like her with Buck. you don't have to like her at all tbh, not every character or dynamic will be likable to everyone and that's fine, it's only an issue when people spend their time on hating a fictional character instead of focusing on the ones they like and when they send hate to the actors portraying them... which is something that as far as I'm aware happened to every single actress/actor who played a love interest to Buck or Eddie on the show.

this fandom hates women in general, just look at how most people talk about Shannon, Maddie, Abby, Ana, Taylor, Natalia, Marisol... like. characters are flawed that's why they're interesting, but hating them for having to make decisions in difficult situations? or for literally nothing but dating one of the guys as is the case of Ana and Marisol (though Marisol's actress is a vile human being and her character has a seemingly weird bond with her brother, so there is that).

I'd argue that Taylor is the most hated female character on the show and I regularly see posts that feature her with tags like "taylor kelly jumpscare" and such which I just find excessive...

[solavelyan]

intro.

It's a Dragon Age sideblog! My main blog is @bogunicorn, and I go by Bog (or any type of nickname you can wring out of "bog unicorn"). If you're looking for more info about me as a person, that'll all be over on my main.

This blog and my main are both 18+. Please do not follow me if you're under 18. I don't keep close track of my followers, but I do check out blogs that follow me because of the spambots, and I block minors on sight.

eta oct 2023: given The Bullshit happening at bioware following their mass layoffs and their leveraging of the next game against former employees' requests for proper severance pay, please assume that none of my posts or words are an implicit or explicit endorsement of the company itself. i mean, they already weren't, i just want you to imagine that all of my reblogs have an invisible "EA/BW execs fall off a cliff challenge" tacked onto them.

what to expect here.

Gifsets, fanart, jokey jokes, and sometimes (reblogged) meta posts.

My own Dragon Age thoughts, feelings, theories, random whatevers. My original posts of all kinds are tagged #bog post.

A general positivity toward queer shit, weird shit, horny shit, and kinky shit.

My fanfic and my OCs. I don't post fic too often, at least not in the last few months, but I have a ton of OCs (roster TBA). I write notes and profiles and little ideas for them as a hobby even when I'm not actively writing fic. Anything relating to my own writing will be tagged #bogfic, anything involving my characters tagged #my ocs and then #character name (oc).

Generally, I'm a multishipper at heart and can find something to love about any given ship, PC choice, character, or type of storyline. Chances are if I'm spending my time talking about something or speculating on it, it's because I'm having fun or enjoying myself.

Commentary on fandom trends and behaviors (and, sometimes, common sense reminders not to be a dick to each other about fake stuff).

To get blocked if you put rude or annoying shit in my mentions, including using any of my posts to character bash or otherwise go off-topic in order to air your personal grievances underneath my stuff. I don't care if you don't like Solas, or if you have strong opinions about Anders vs. Fenris, or if you think "supporting" the mages/Templars/Chantry is good/bad, or if you feel like your personal favorite character/PC option/romance isn't represented by my posts and you feel your specific criticism is the exception. Do not cite the deep magic to me, witch, I was there when it was written (like 10+ years and three US presidents ago). Mind your manners and blacklist or scroll if you need to.

what not to expect.

Untagged Veilguard spoilers. All my Veilguard posts with potential spoilers will be tagged #datv spoilers or #veilguard spoilers, since the latter seems to be what people are using across multiple sites now.

Consistent character bashing or character hate. I simply do not spend a majority of my online time thinking about stuff I hate.

Anonymous asks. Anon is always turned off, both here, on my main, and on my AO3.

Real world politics and news, or general (as in, not-DA-specific) Disk Horse. Honestly, probably not even that much Dragon Age Discourse, either.

Equating in-game choices or fandom opinions with real life politics and morality. I don't "support" any group in Thedas because Thedas is fake. My politics are for real people, not Wizard Politics or whatever.

Egg or cheese jokes.

the tag system (tm).

#timeless posts - Anything reblogged from the depths of @bogunicorn in the last 10 years. Usually queued.

#bog post - Any and all of my original posts.

#bogfic - Anything involving my writing or my OCs.

#my ocs - My OCs. Often accompanied by #[character name] (oc).

#spicy bog - Ye olde horny tag.

#bogcrit, #[character name] critical, #dragon age critical, #[game] critical, #fandom bs - These are my Complaining Tags. If you never want to see anything truly critical or negative, just blacklist #bogcrit. If you want to avoid grousing or critique of a specific character, the games in general, individual games, or the fandom itself, blacklist whatever listed tag is relevant to you.

#fic, #art - Fanfic and fanart that I didn't make.

#misc - Anything not covered by other tags.

#da au - Any kind of alternate universe post.

#ask meme - Blanket tag for any put-it-in-the-tags posts, as well as actual ask memes.

UPDATE: Characters are tagged by their *FIRST names. Origins and Inquisition PCs are tagged #the warden or #the inquisitor. Hawke is always just #hawke, Rook is always just #rook. I don't specify gender *or faction/surname in my character tags, EXCEPT for the Inquisitor because it's too much of a habit not to. This system is already complicated enough and I have like... 12 followers anyway.

Ships are tagged #[character] x [character] in alphabetical order, with the PCs just using their title EXCEPT for the Inquisitor. I also use the more common portmanteaus (like Solavellan, Fenhawke, Adoribull, etc) if I'm making an original post that I want to show up in the tags, but I would still slap "lavellan x solas" on a Solavellan post (for example) just for consistency. If you really really don't want to see a specific ship on this blog, block the alphabetized "character x character" tag. I know that's inconvenient if you hate Solavellan or something but like... I guess also what are you doing on this specific blog if you don't like that ship anyway.

contact.

complain to my manager

send me an ask

read my fic

[ask-pride-color-schemes]

About This Blog

Overview:

Pride-Color-Schemes, as well as the Pride-Flags DA and Ask-Pride-Color-Schemes, are blogs dedicated to collecting all MOGAI terms, flags, and symbols in one place and to make them as accessible as possible. We also help people find terms for themselves as well as help them create new flags.

History:

The Pride Flag Collective (the name of the DA, tumblrs, and Google docs as a whole) was originally started as Pride-Flags on Deviantart by Mod Hermy to help out another pride flag blog and organize all their flags and others. They later created the google docs "dictionary" of terms to help keep track of all the terms without flags (as well as the ones with flags because DA's organization options are terrible). MOGAI-Flags on tumblr came next but was later scrapped for Pride-Color-Schemes because Hermy made it as a separate account and didn't realize you can't add mods to a main blog. Ask-Pride-Color-Schemes was created at the same time to keep PCS as an organized archival blog. For most of the blog it was just Mod Hermy and Mod Face, but when the blog started getting larger and harder to keep up with, they started adding new mods to help out in early February 2017.

Some of our stances:

We try to be as accepting as possible of all identities, even the most unconventional ones that every other blog might turn away. Your gender is yours, and it's not up to us to dictate how "acceptable" it is or not. Obviously, we'll delete/ban obvious trolls, but if we're unsure of something is or not, we will probably add it because it's better to accidentally add a troll term than push a vulnerable person away because their gender sounds too "weird".

We love obscure labels, even the overly specific ones that maybe only one person in the entire world might experience. Many people feel like they need to name every little piece of their identity to be comfortable with themselves and that is no more or less valid than people who ID as something that's used as an umbrella term. Someone with 500 labels is just as accepted here as someone with just one.

There will be next to no "discourse" on this blog and will remain education and positivity only. Any "discoursey" stuff we feel is necessary to talk about will be put below a readmore with generous tags and warnings ahead of time so whoever doesn't want to see it will be able to scroll past without any problems. Any anon hate will immediately be deleted and blocked, don't waste your time trying to convince us of your backwards opinions because it's not going to work.

Aspec people do belong in the community and are welcome here, even heteroromantic aces and heterosexual aros.

You don't need dysphoria to be trans, and your gender doesn't have to deviate wildly from your assigned gender to be valid. An AFAB demigirl is just as valid here as a trans woman. An AMAB Offboy is just as valid here as an agender person.

Queer is a term that many people have reclaimed for themselves and is an important part of many peoples' identities as well as being a major part of the overall MOGAI/LGBTQAI+ communities. We will not call anyone queer who doesn't want to be called it, but we won't be tagging "q-slur" because peoples identites are not slurs. From now on we will also not be censoring other reclaimed slurs as well.

It's ok to question or experiment and realize that you really are just cis or straight, or that you fit under some general label rather than something(s) specific. Our identities can be fluid and there is no reason for you not to drop labels you don't feel describe you anymore, whether it's because you realized they're not right for you, or that your identity changed so you need to come up with new labels to describe it.

Neopronouns are great! She/He pronouns used by nonbinary people are great! It/its pronouns are great! No pronouns are great! Auxiliary pronouns are great for people who might have a hard time with any of the above, but if you're unable to accept any for yourself for any reason then that's ok too!

We prefer the term MOGAI to any other acronyms such as LGBT, GSM, MGSROI, etc. due to it being the most accurate term we know of.

Not /every/ flag added will be strictly MOGAI. We focus on flags regarding orientations, non-cis identities, intersexuality, and non-monoamorous identities, but we are open to adding flags for other unrelated identities that may need representation.

We recognize the connected history of the MOGAI/LGBTQAI+ communities and the Kink/BDSM communities and how we've had similar struggles throughout history. However, we will not be making any flags related to them. We don't want to make this blog 18+, and there are several blogs already dedicated to them like @kinkflagsrus or @bdsmflags

Helpful Links:

The Original Pride-Flags Deviantart Gallery: [Link]

Pride Tumblr: @pride-color-schemes

Ask blog: @ask-pride-color-schemes

Google docs dictionaries: (The docs with flags are more up to date than the text only versions, term-wise. We’re a little bit behind on adding flag icons though):

Genders (A-K): [Link]

Genders (L-Z): [Link]

Genders (Text only): [Link]

Orientations: [Link]

Orientations (Text only): [Link]