#elf cop fandom

[little-linda]

I infodumped to my aroace best friend yesterday about Les Miserables while listening to the music in my car. And about the end, I made my usual quip about "And then Jean Valjean ages 80 years in two weeks and dies of death."

And without me even telling him about my ships, he scoffed and said "Come on. He obviously died of heartbreak because Javert jumped off a bridge"

[keenenthusiastinfluencer]

Live look at the presidential committee discussing breaking developments

[ansburg]

there is something so. majority white userbase. abt tumblr da fans insofar as they are committed to decoupling the historical, racially-charged roots and the hypermilitarization of policing by deeming every authority in da a "cop." in reality, cops in the imperial core have more than enough resources to assist communities, but that's not what their jobs are, and that's not what the funding goes to. unless the kirkwall guard is getting new fleets of $70k SUVs every year with specialized KIRKWALL PD decals to replace the cars that they arbitrarily crash into fleeing vehicles or forget to put into park during traffic stops, it's perfectly plausible that some fictional fantasy ass city that has seen huge demographic and economic upsets over the span of a decade has trouble maintaining the peace

yall ever read da meta and know that op thought they were cooking. but the post is like this

[malewifesband]

there is indeed a fandom ableism problem around a certain elf cop but the fans will not like it when i say its not coming from the ppl who joke about him being an out-of-touch racist but from the ppl who defend their right to call him a woman-coded poor helpless dainty doll who must be fucked :/ yall make my damn skin crawl

[mythalism]

1, 2, 9, 23 🫶😌

What OTPs in your fandom(s) do you just not get?*

oh boy...... i wish i could be less inflammatory with this actually but my genuine answer would have to be s*lrook. not that i dont like it because i could actually pretty easily be convinced, i think it has the potential to be a really interesting exploration of solas w/ non-elf, non-fem characters. what i dont get is why when i see it on my dash its almost always another female elf. what??? why??????? you could just play inquisition. it adds nothing new. the dynamic isnt as different as people seem to believe. solas can be fucking mean and nasty to lavellan in inquisition, if you want enemies to lovers you can have it based on the dialogue you choose. like we had the chance to make solas have gay sex with this and we are not taking it??? we are jsut doing more of the same????? i dont understand.

2. Are there any popular fandom OTPs you only BroTP?*

not that i actually feel strongly about

9. Most disliked character(s)? Why?

honestly there arent a lot of characters that i genuinely dislike on a writing level. like i might dislike a character as a person but can usually appreciate their writing. i guess cullen which is a boring and easy answer but his da2 -> dai transformation is just so lame to me. im not against him having a redemption arc but they gave it to him without actually writing it. he already has unlearned his hatred of mages by the time we meet him in inquisition. how did he get there? its so boring. its honestly kind of a precursor to what veilguard does with... everyone. it feels like it was done to placate the audience rather than because it served a narrative purpose. LAME!

23. Unpopular character you love?

i love aveline LOL. i always have. all of the criticism about her that i see is objectively true. she is a cop and she does a lot of fucked up things. but i love women that do fucked up things. also she gets held to a moral standard that cullen, solas, anders, etc. simply do not

[thenixkat]

Also it's wild seeing people talk about whether Dungeon Meshi is queerbaiting on the basis of a single noncanon ship (Falin/Marcille) while not touching on:

the butch (by elf standards) lady elf cop who canoniclly only dates half-foot women under the age of 30

the elf cop dude who fixed his body dysphoria by becoming a werewolf

Nemari who includes male and female tallmen in her leg fetish stuff

Izutsumi who is canoniclly not attracted to anyone and doesn't have a type

Granted, I do know how fandoms in general don't care about mspec or aspec characters. You could debate on if the werewolf elf cop is trans or not (and we know how folks feel about any form of nonbinary trans people in general). But what's stopping folks with the lesbian elf cop who only dates half-foot women under 30 (who got arrested for human trafficking among other things)?

[aggressiveworldbuilding]

i hate elves.

i say this, having played an elf before so i know why powergamers like them. there is nothing wrong with enjoying the aesthetic of 'twink with a sword' or 'elven accuracy go brrrr'.

but having read the 'elf book' (i think it was the same book as them releasing all the new variants of tieflings? i cant remember now) i was underwhelmed.

Elf lore is that they are basically No Name brand Tolkien elves with none of the interesting, ethereal bits and all of the xenophobia. Which - wanna preface this - there is nothing bad about exploring themes of discrimination in ttrpgs. It just. has to be handled with something other than misinterpreting or straight up copying Lord of the Rings?

I cannot for the life of me find the book it was in, but i remember reading that elves want to travel back to their homeland or feel a call to the beyond or something like that. Which is just. LotR elves but less interesting.

My main issue is that elves in WotC worlds offer nothing new to the genre. They are generic, easily digestible, bland ass creatures. I'm not as familiar with Pf2e lore but at least they actually bring up the problem of different lifespans in their description. Also! Elves change in appearance in pf depending on where they live. so we don't NEED 700 different kinds of elves.

Doing a cursory glance at a wiki (which is sad that only Fandom has info on WotC. one would think they would care more about their lore.) I get this.

This is everything they have on the general culture for elves. If i click into the lore sections for Sun Elves, it provides me with a little bit more - which is nice.

only issue is that Sun Elves aren't a thing anymore.

The most expansive lore for elves is. Drow. Eughhhhhh spider sex cult.

anyone who knows me irl has gotten the Drow Rant before; but recently I changed my mind. I don't hate Drow for what they do - but rather how it is presented.

Drow are an 'Evil Race' - although not Naturally Evil like Orcs (which was wild to read and i have a bone to pick abt that)

Yet their lore emphasizes that 'all' drow have a massive superiority complex, a lack of conventional morality, are vengeful, taught to be power hungry, and mistrust everyone around them - even the ones that don't want to be 'evil'. And you know what?

Thats rad! I like that!

There is a non-perfect society that doesn't always get along with itself. Granted the reason they provide as to why Drow haven't just killed each other is kindof a cop-out but with very minimal tweaking you might actually have something. The only thing i don't really like abt drow is that there is no 'good' or redeeming traits about them. Culture is 2 sides of the same coin; for every horrible policy, there was something relatively good. Maybe their judicial system is tight. Maybe they have great infrastructure. Idk but I want to know more.

i should make a post abt them.

Anyways TLDR: Elves deserve better. I find them bland because they are just empty husks stolen from Lord of the Rings, and half their lore no longer applies to modern dnd. Drow are the only semi-fleshed out elves and that scares me bc they are a spider sex cult. ;/

[misty-memories09]

Hello, everyone, I once again offer an analysis on S.P.E.W. Previously I had commented on it's failure but this time it's more on the slavery itself and why it's weird, gross and every aligning adjective when I see ‘it was fine because they wanted to be enslaved’

If you see this post before you see the failure of S.P.E.W one, you can check it out here if you wish. In that post I do only speak of where I believe Hermione had gone wrong in her approach.

With all of that out there, let's start —

There are two possibilities when we look at house-elf enslavement. 1) they are magically engineered creatures, 2) mass brainwash.

Now see, I do not think the first option is too likely. Although it is the wizarding world, speaking realistically magically engineered creatures are a cheap cop-out.

If we look at the possibility no.2 imagine the things they'd have done to reach the point of mass brainwashing of house elves. It's something really gross whenever I see the book characters or fandom say that the house elves are happy to be enslaved.

Which at first you could say is absolutely correct but then you're completely ignoring how issues aren't black and white and never will be. It's incorrect to say such a thing as enslavement will never be in anyone's nature everyone strives to be free. Freedom is by default something precious to every creature out there.

But there's also this one thing, this one VERY important thing which I don't know if I should state or not but these agruements have been continuously used by slave owners, and it is actually very important to the analysis I have made.

It's natural that some people are slaves. This argument says that some people are slaves as part of the natural order of the universe, or as part of God's plan, and it is wrong to interfere with this by abolishing slavery - nobody nowadays regards slavery as a natural thing.

Source

I recommend going through this whole article as it contains multiple agruements used by slave owners which are used in the books alike. I also recommend going out to look for articles for credible sources to get a better grasp on this topic if you want.

This is the essence of the arguement for slavery used by our fictional pureblood wizards and actual slave owners historically. Which is why the house-elf deal sits so wrong.

It's because of what it represents. It represents pure oppression to the point where the oppressed class itself feels that it was meant to be opressed — as if it was born for the need of slaves. This idea has been drilled down the minds of house elves for ages. The oppressed class in our case is the house elves.

Now pardon me for involving Indian history here which might not seem related but I will make the connection quickly —

In India, you may or may not know that the major religion is hinduism. The system I am talking about was officially abolished in 1950 but even still, many people still practice this especially in rural areas.

Namely, it is the caste system — at the top are the Brahmanas, these are the priests of our temples and are regarded as ‘holy’. Then comes the kshatriyas (this is a hard to pronounce word if you can not speak Hindi, I suggest not trying lol because the k sound is there but it is also simultaneously silent), these are the ruling powers, the authority. Then comes the shudras, these are at the second lowest, still not marginalised even though they have faced atrocities, these are the farmers and artisans.

The caste we will be looking at is ati-shudras, the lowest of the low, the marginalised and the 'untouchables'. These are the workers that cleaned streets and did the so-called dirty work, they also are ones that would burn the corpses.

Now, I do not intend to credit jkr as a genius, honestly, I'm not so sure where she was going with this because it was just hanging there and the topic wasn't talked about enough, it was gone in book five. No more. Genuinely, I think she just wasted a very complicated and very interesting sub-plot set up but all we see is kreacher and then dobby die.

In our case of the fictional world of Harry Potter we can look at the house elves as the ati-shudras. When we look at this caste system, we must also consider that it has been deeply ingraved in the minds of many Hindus. There are many recent news of 'honour killing' for the simple reason that there daughters liked a man that was not from a desirable caste or well, an acceptable caste.

I do not mean to ramble, but the connection I wish to make here is that it is very possible to have a massive brain wash, and for someone so-called 'dirty' to feel dirty as well as if they were born dirty and are meant to be treated as low level garbage.

It's all because it is a heavily agreed idea upon. There are so many instances of characters agreeing upon this idea that house elves are dirty, below them, meant to be enslaved — Ron, Percy, literally every single pureblood, half-blood and even muggle borns that it is hard for even the house elves themselves to believe that they are not dirty, untouchable and that there validation as a creature is only there as long as their masters are pleased with their work.

This is why winky has such a hard time coming to terms with the fact she had been sacked. It wasn't just a job it was her life. I believe getting 'sacked' used to be much much more violent in the start of house-elf slavery. There's also a gross aspect which is totally possible during the times of early house elf enslavement — killing the ones that do not follow through their terms. Take this and there could also be the aspect of the idea starting out as a 'movement' as in, the wizards at the time had this idea mass agreed upon and treated every single house elf as below them.

The point is, the wizards are the upper, better, cleaner ones than the house elves. They are the Brahmanas, Kyshatriyas and the Shudras (this actually kind of checks out because Shudras were also treated poorly just better than the ati-shudras) while the House elves are the untouchables. The ones above them in this unjust caste system feel superior to them while they feel inferior which was purposefully crafted by the so-called superiors.

Now think about this, the concept of caste system has been officially abolished in 1950, it has completed seventy-five years since then but it is still deeply rooted into society, still has an effect on how many people live there lives. House elf slavery hadn't even been abolished. This problem still would've been there because this is, unfortunately, how people work. This is how people have been working when it really shouldn't be.

Yeesh, that was much that I just unpacked! I still have more thoughts on this topic which I would possibly post in the coming future.

[beebobeebo]

Title: Tim Help

Fandom: Justified

Characters: Raylan Givens, wee Willa Givens , & Tim Gutterson

Relationship: Tim Gutterson x Raylan Givens (Givenson)

Summary:

Some things require Tim help.

Willa might not be able to write a paragraph, but she also can't stick to a plan.

This was originally titled "Fuck Me", but that might cause a lot of confusion sans context

Something tiny is poking at Tim's eye. Clearly, this is a fucking goblin.

He opens his eyes in time to grab the tiny hand by his face. What the … Willa. He's supposed to be up and on the couch before she wakes up. Shit. He's never going to hear the end of this.

"Hey, Wisp. I, uh, I spilled something on the couch so your daddy was sharin'—"

A tiny hand goes over his mouth. "Lies are bad."

"Do you need me to get your daddy up? He sleeps like a rock, but—"

"I need Tim help, " she says in a whisper.

"'Tim help'? Go, uh, well, turn around for a minute." Tim waits for her to spin on her heels and reaches down in the floor for his sweats. Once he's decent he gets out of bed. "You sure you don't want your daddy?"

Willa grabs his hand and pulls him with more force than he'd guess possible from a first-grader. They make it to her room and she points out her window facing the neighbors.

"The men were looking at Daddy's house!"

Tim blinks down at her. It's ass o'clock in the morning, and the kid is setting off every alarm in his admittedly alarm-filled head. He drops to a knee, gently guides her behind him, and looks out the window just over the sill.

He watches for a long moment. The space between the houses has never been so still.

"What'd your elf eyes see, Wil?" He motions for her to come around beside him.

"Men. They moved the trash can and I woked up," she whispers as she peeks over the window sill.

"Lies are bad," Tim says as he looks over to where a flashlight is glowing beneath Willa's pillow. "You were up looking at your book."

Her face falls into the patented Givens "You can't prove that"-face as she bleats, "But, but I heard them!"

Tim scoops her up. "You're gonna watch your daddy while I check outside, okay?

She nods and uncharacteristically clings to him. Not helping his anxiety.

It's nothing. She's just a kid. They get spooked all the time.

He tucks her in next to Raylan who immediately pulls her to his side and kisses the top of her head without so much as blinking awake. Tim smiles down at them before he catches Willa's look.

"Okay. I'm goin'. Goddamn."

He grabs his gun from the side table, quickly clears the house, and goes out to walk the perimeter. Here's hoping the neighbors don't call the cops on the half-naked babysitter with a gun slipping around corners.

There's nothing.

The Claremonts don't properly sort their recycling, but otherwise outside the house and within ten feet of the property line is safe.

He walks back in and slips back into the bed. Willa grabs his hand. That's enough to get her to sleep, but he stays up all night listening, waiting.

By some unspoken agreement, they don't give Raylan the details. Willa simply got scared, as children do, and climbed into bed with them. She even says it had to be scary last night for Tim to need to sleep in the big bed too. The kid can be alright when she wants to be.

Raylan, of course, looks at them both like they know better, but his face shows he's too tired to argue about either of them being in the bed. They follow Raylan through his whole morning routine, alternating based on activity. Tim makes sure to claim the shower because he's only human…ish.

Raylan promises this trip's just an overnight in Georgia for meetings about the Rougeau situation. He'll be back for dinner tomorrow. No, they cannot have dinosaur mac n' cheese. He hugs Willa until she shoves him away and pulls Tim into the foyer to kiss him stupid. It doesn't take much by Tim's measure.

"Look after my girl," Raylan says as he rests his forehead against Tim's.

"Look after my man," Tim counters. "Go or you won't."

"Bye, baby," Raylan says one hand on the door.

"Get the fuck out of here. We love you." Tim gently pushes Raylan toward the door.

Raylan smiles his real smile, a bit lop-sided with fewer teeth, and disappears out the front door.

Tim contemplates exactly who the fuck he's become before he walks into the living room. He looks to Willa peering over the back of the couch.

"Now we can figure this shit out."

She bobs her tiny head at him.

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Two hours later, they got nothing. It turns out that six-year-olds are pretty shitty witnesses.

She does like playing detective, though. Her logical leaps are even pretty good for someone who can't write a paragraph.

Two men with "mean eyes" was her clearest recollection. He believes her, but when her little voice quivers trying to describe how tall they were he takes it as gospel.

He lets her rest and mindlessly stare up at the TV for a while. Then there's the telltale shuffling of a Willa in motion.

"Tim?"

"Wisp?" He asks as he looks up from the house plans spread on the coffee table. Hey, might as well look if your boyfriend keeps them shoved in the top of the linen closet, and you've got paranoia-fueled energy to spare. He's already picked out where they fucked the HVAC up.

"I'm scared." She climbs up onto the couch and twists her fingers in the knee of his sweats.

"Nothing is gonna happen, sweetheart." He squeezes her to his side. God, he didn't think he was a pet person, but here he is.

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Tim starts awake. He'd let himself get comfortable. He was losing his touch.

Willa's in her little unicorn sleeping bag curled up around his feet in front of the couch. Some part of him didn't want her in that room. The twist of his gut aligned perfectly with her desire to stay up late watching baboons be generally terrifying. He thinks he might turn the TV back on now that—

There was a clink. A window. Side window. He bends down and puts a finger over Willa's mouth, which she promptly bites. He looks down at her trying to look annoyed and not proud.

Jesus Christ.

She starts to talk but he shakes his head.

"Under the couch. Don't come out until I get you. Just me."

"Just Tim," she whispers and scurries into her creepy-ass hiding place of choice for the last few months. Better than the bathtub week.

He's glad he'd stayed up and dressed. Ready, just in case. Killing someone in his jim-jams is not on his bucket list.

Who the fuck says "jim-jams"?

He sticks close to the wall. He hears the rustle of bedding from Willa's room. A shadow dances on the light purple walls.

Fuck.

Seriously fuck.

He flattens against the wall, waiting. When the man tries to sneak out into the hallway, Tim has an arm around the bastard's throat and a gun in his ribs.

"You and how many?" Tim growls. He angles the barrel of the gun with a certainty he knows the dumbfuck can feel.

"One."

"One." Tim pulls the trigger and lets the body drop. When dipshit number two steps out of the bathroom, he gets Tim's fist to his stomach and a barrel to the temple as he's sent to his knees. Tim catches a shift in the light to his right, lifts the gun, and hits surprise jackass number three in the chest.

"Why?" Tim presses the still-hot barrel to the second man's temple. The man doesn't say anything and Tim rewards that with a knee to the back and a face to the wall.

"Why?"

"Givens pissed off boss," the man grunts out. "Takin' the girl."

"You think I'd just let you take my fuckin' kid?" Tim digs his knee in until both he and the man are in pain. "Who? If you want to be a witness and not evidence, you'll answer."

The man shakes his head as well as he can against the wall. Tim cracks his gun against the fucker's jaw.

"Who? I'm not in the mood to be clever here, cocksucker. Just answer the goddamn question."

The man makes a desperate grab for the gun and Tim shoots him with an annoyed huff. The blowback is sticky. Fucking brains.

"Tim?"

"Willa?"

Fuck.

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As the police do their job, Winona and Raylan scream at each other. Yeah, that's gonna help Willa.

Willa's hands are still fisted in Tim's bloody shirt. She won't leave him regardless of who asks. Winona even tries to buy her off with the promise of a myriad of glittery, annoying-sounding shit Tim's never heard of, but she's firm that she's staying with him.

They'll just have to wait everyone else out.

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When they're tucked up in the hotel room, Raylan is staring at a snoring Willa wrapped around her copy of The Hobbit.

"Hey,"Tim pulls Raylan over to the room's other bed. "C'mere. She ain't goin' anywhere."

"I should have been there," Raylan says. His cheek is twitching and the vein in his neck is throbbing.

"Woulda just slowed me down," Tim whispers against his neck. "Nothin' is gonna hurt our girl."

"Nothin'?" Raylan asks his eyes never leaving Willa.

"Alright, probably somethin' dumb like rollerblades, but I'll shoot them too if she asks," Tim answers with a shrug.

"Tim."

"Raylan."

"You said 'our' girl," Raylan says finally looking over at Tim.

"Oh, fuck me."

[little-linda]

Hear me out: Javert, singing "On my Own". Tell Stewart Clarke. I need this

[ao3-shenanigans]

FANFIC GAME!

Results :D

Fic: In Silent Orbit

Author: A_Cosmic_Elf

Recommended by: @a-cosmic-elf

Fandom: Starfield

Word count: 7268

Chapters: 1/1

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/51382504

Guesses under the cut:

Terrormorphs are some kind of psychic space alien monster race; with spider like limbs, they make you turn on your comrades. Doesn’t sound like they have more intelligence/sentience then a pack of rabid dogs (compared to vengeful humans)

credstik is space-currency

Constellation is some space protection government agency, like SHIELD or U.N.I.T from the MCU or Dr.Who

Trix, a protagonist has a ship called the Frontier; Trix is a Pc

Sargent Yumi is an actual character, a leader, good cop- tough but true to his word. He wears gloves.

Overall thoughts/impressions:

aww 🥹

If you’re the kind of person to put extra sugar in drinks already full of it, this fic is for you- funny and romantic, two humans in space figure out what happened the night celebrating after the alien attack. Skilled fighter sunshine x Sarcastic and by the book these two dorks have such a fun start to their dynamic

Reminder- if you haven’t already, go check out @a-cosmic-elf and give them some love!

[goddevouringserpent]

some rambling thoughts about A Certain Videogame that is releasing soon (largely game-neutral and fandom-negative)

because. listen. there are a lot of things that I could criticise Dragon Age for. Inquisition was my biggest disappointment in gaming, even bigger than BG3 because with BG3 I was on the "I expected nothing and was still let down" mindset, whereas with DAI I was genuinely looking forward to it & felt like they did not deliver on any of the promises they made. there are a lot of things they have handled poorly. the ongoing plot about the elven gods is extremely unsatisfying & feels like a total cop-out and a loss of what made the world interesting in the first place.

but some people are approaching their criticism the wrong way IMO. because—alright I don't want to get into drama with anyone or bring drama to anyone so I won't be screenshotting OP's URL here, but this statement is just. outrageously ridiculous.

uh. no? it really is not that easy??? where are these texts coming from, pray tell? that shit doesn't sprout from the ground fully-formed. who's writing them? who's voicing them (unless we're meant to assume that you want all reactivity to be contained within codex entries)? even for interactive fiction games, where literally all you have is writing with no voice work or mocap work or whathaveyou involved, keeping track of these variables is extremely tough and time-consuming work. (source: I am writing one. unpublished as of yet, but I am writing it.) this is such a weirdly reductionist way of approaching the topic, especially in light of what we know has been going on at BW—they fired a large portion of the writers, including Mary fucking Kirby (which should be more concerning to us as players than a lack of reactivity, btw), there's clearly Issues going on there that encompass the whole company, there's a lack of funding or at least severe issues with how they're handling their funding, there's a lack of care for the people who have worked there for decades, etc etc.

is the lack of reactivity a problem? yeah I guess? maybe? but not for the reasons OP is saying, and it most definitely cannot be solved in the way OP is proposing. reactivity isn't a switch you turn on or off. and a reactivity like OP mentions would just make the world feel wide but shallow; things are acknowledged, but nothing comes out of them. there's a throwaway line of text, and that's that. because the alternative involves branching paths, cameos, different solutions to quests or different dialogue trees, etc etc, all of which is, again, a LOT of work, it's not something an intern can pull off in a day.

and like. alright. not to play devil's advocate here because I am, by and at large, hugely disenchanted with this franchise, and although I will be playing DATV (not that they'll be seeing a cent from me lol) just out of curiosity and sunk cost fallacy, I do not have high hopes for it. BUT.

Origins released in 2009. DA2 released in 2011. Inquisition—the latest entry in the franchise—released in 2014. that's a whole fucking decade in-between the third and fourth installments. and something that I think a lot of people online fail to understand is that the vast majority of gamers do not engage in fandom-type activities. we are a minority. a loud, outspoken minority, but a minority in the end. a LOT of people just play the game for what it is, then shelf it and don't think about it until the next one comes out (if it ever does). in this context I think that "making great use of the medium" would fall more along the lines of making sure there is proper reactivity within the game itself—meaning: let's NOT have another "human NPC humansplains Dalish history to my Dalish elf protag" moment—and not making callbacks to games from 10+ years ago, because. guys. we have to accept it. a LOT of the people who are gonna be playing this game won't have played DAO/DA2, or even DAI. a LOT of the people who are gonna be playing this game won't remember shit about the previous games. because a decade has passed. (if we're counting from DAI. otherwise we're looking at 15 years.)

especially when people start complaining about stuff like "what do you MEAN the choice of who we left in the Fade isn't relevant"—we were told that person's not coming back. like I could understand being upset at, IDK, your Inquisitor's romance choice (which btw does seem like their way of catering to the fandom part of the playerbase, but I digress) being more relevant than who is currently ruling Orlais, but if you're upset about the Fade thing you only have yourself to blame. we've known for years that character's Not Coming Back. the devs were very straightforward about that. ultimately it's not their fault if you've headcanoned your way around that statement. which like, don't get me wrong, I am all for headcanons, but when you have a headcanon you need to accept the fact that canon probably will contradict it eventually. your city now but also don't expect the devs to buy building permissions in your city, y'know?

but yeah. as I was saying. 10-15 years. most of the choices are gonna mean absolute jack shit to new (and a lot of returning!!) players, so at a certain point it makes sense that they had to make, like, a strategic choice of what to include and what to set aside. and of course it's a bummer for those of us who have been playing since DAO! I wanted mentions of my HOF, of Kieran, etc etc, there's a lot that makes me go "aww man". but also I think that people need to start acknowledging the fact that ultimately there are limits to what can and can't be done within the frame of one game that is being released, again, 10 years after the previous entry.

I mean tbh at this point I feel they'd be better served by having their next game be the first installment of a completely new franchise / IP. I can understand why they didn't make that choice. but it feels they'd be better off that way. having to deliver cameos and reactivity to Every Single Goddamn Choice Made In 3 Games The Oldest Of Which Is 15 Years Old is kind of a Sisyphean task that bogs the actual game down IMO

[cassberry]

11 18 and 20 for the ask game :]

11 - favourite hermit to listen to?

cub for sure. he has such a nice voice and i love putting his videos on in the background.

second favourite would have to be pearl. she has just such a lovely cadence and being aussie her voice just sounds so familiar to me that it's nice :D

18 - what’s your favourite thing about the fandom?

the sense of community!!! I have never been in a fandom before that has felt both close-knit but still big enough that there are heaps of sub-fandoms within.

I have a theory that because the rest of tumblr hates/"strongly dislikes" mcyt that it caused us to band together more strongly than other fandoms but that's a whole other can of worms lmao

20 - favourite hermit skin?

It's a toss-up between scars elf skin, bdubs moss skin, and cleo's medusa skin. yes this is a cop-out on just picking one but if i had to it would probably be cleo's. its just so damn good!

also does etho's skin count? it's iconic at this point lol

[ask game here!]

[time-to-write-and-suffer]

Top 5 ros in if/video games/vns. Im super curious.

Ok so ... apologies but it's BioWare all the way down baybeee. I think I might have to make a separate VN post, cuz it's kinda fun to talk about some pretty anime boys I guess? And maybe one for IFs also. Sorry, they're all different categories in my brain lol.

Anyway.

Zevran Arainai, from Dragon Age: Origins. Just like. All of it. He's perfect, what can I say? Best meet-cute, best design, short king, assassin, bisexual, devoted and loyal, can't pick locks, I love him<3 He can truly do it all. Unproblematic fave. You agree.

Anders, from Dragon Age 2. He lives in a sewer. He's a doctor. He's a failure. He's the sexiest man alive. He's a fugitive. You're his sugar daddy/mommy. He loves cats. He's bisexual. He's doomed. He's the savior of a generation. He'll drown you both in blood to keep you safe. Tragic white boy who's so fucked up and such a meow meow that even fans of the games hate him <3

Fenris, from Dragon Age 2. Hardcore emo elf with anime hair and sword. He's so fucked up but he's chill about it (lying). I wanna roll him into a ball and keep him in my armpit. He's so fucking anime.

Garrus Vakarian, from Mass Effect. Cop. Hate that for him. Giant bird lizard cat man. Love that for me. Also best friends-to-lovers in any video game PROVE ME WRONG.

Josephine Montilyet, from Dragon Age: Inquisition. ROBBED. WE WERE ROBBED. BEST ROMANCE IN THE GAME AND IT BARELY HAD ANY CONTENT. AUGH. She makes me question my sexuality and she's ignored by fandom and the game

[trixcuomo]

Meet Lt. Lore

After Trixany and Sharpen got locked up for making terrible warcraft jokes...

Lore police: Glad those two are under lock and key. Blood Elves and Night Elves running a fandom together... what is the World of Warcraft coming to? *chews gum*

Joke police: Sure thing, Lt. Lore. All in a day's work. Let's say we go on down to the Wyvern's Tail, grab a coupla cold ones. That grog-guzzling, shirtless Night Elf himbo left me... sorta thirsty.

Lore: Officer Jokes, I'm not sure we should be seen in public together. Not after that crack you made about me and my team.

Jokes: ...Is the joke behind the Wyvern's Tail that people are always picking eachother up at that weird, stinky bar?

Lore: *stops chewing* No. A wyvern's tail has a stinger. The drinks have a kick to them. Listen, Officer Jokes. We can't just--

Jokes: *lays a finger on Lore's lips* You don't have to say it. I know I was wrong. I implied that the Warcraft lore is not at all entertaining, back when I said people enjoying themselves was my jurisdiction. I was, ah--way out of line.

Lore: *snatches his hand* We can't do this! I'm a bad cop, a dirty one. I haven't cleaned my act up in two expansions. The players no longer trust me. But, you... you have a chance.

Lore: *grabs and shakes Jokes* The people need you, Officer Jokes!! You can’t go around with me. You can't be seen with ME! No!! You're a good cop and you can’t let them down, now. Go out there and make more fun daily quests, pets and mogs, and ensure npcs like Wrathion and Sabellian keep on bickering! Those were good times.

Jokes: Okay, Shadowlands was bad, and BfA too. But you still have the likes of Denathrius!! The players love him, he could have a good arc with the rest of the Light versus Void storyline. And Iridikron, if you're lucky. Even Xal'atath--

Lore: Don't. Tease me, not like that. *kisses Jokes' hands gently, then pulls away*

Lore: Someday, maybe we can walk the same beat. And the game will be good again. But, until then? I've... just got to get clean! *his hands shake, he tries to unwrap more gum, but drops it* I must go undercover--

Jokes: We'll always have the PTR test server, Lore!

Lore: Not even there. They datamine me there. The players will always find me, and point out my flaws. Like... Queen Calia Menethil.

Jokes: *winces for him* Anyone could have made that mistake--

Lore: *sad smile* Not me, buddy. You can't see it, can you? You only love me, the way I used to be. In Warcraft 3.

Jokes: But--

Lore: My job, it never ends. At all times, I'm supposed to be canon. See ya around, kid.

[thenixkat]

[There's spoilers here]

wild that the Dungeon Meshi fandom keeps saying that there's no antagonists in Dungeon Meshi. Like?

The Demon-god trying to eat everyone that metaphoriclly rapes its victims as it eats away at them leaving them usually in a catatonic state that they dont survive, who lies and manipulates several characters to enact the end of the world as everyone knows it isn't an antagonist? (Granted a lot of yall seem to consider the scenes of the Demon violating its dungeon lords as immensely erotic when the dungeon lords very explicitly do not consent to what the Demon is doing and that's why it fucking holds down and maims Mithrun and eats Thistle desire to resist first so...)

The elf teen trying to and who succeeded in murdering most of the protags (they got better but the intent was for permadeath) isn't an antagonist?

The elf cops that try to murder one of the protags and who everyones terrified will take them away to elf jail with no trial for life aren't antagonistic? Who only stop being a threat b/c the protag gets enough political power to tell them to fuck off, even?

The dude who's down with murdering people for not meeting his moral standards who got fixated on the protag for not giving him the time of day and getting himself conned and spends a large chunk of his page time considering murdering the protag as an option isn't portrayed in an antagonistic light?

Fucking wild