#fenrys x original

[kemalamalam]

Come look at my insanity

[milton-chamberlain]

[aldruiel-scribbles]

In this link there is definitely not a folder with every Dragon Age eBook, numbered in order of reading plus the two Encyclopedias about the world. Please do not use the link, there are not free books in there.

[witsserviceablesubstitute]

The reasons I love the bug where Zevran can rock up in DA2 and DAI's war table mission despite the player having chosen to kill him in DAO is because I remember the unbridled glee gamers had at killing him for flirting with their male Warden.

The reason I dream of Fenris, Anders, and Isabela receiving equitable consideration and dignity in discourse is because I remember the response to their characters outside progressive bubbles.

Anders had a whole homophobic manifesto written about him and sent to DA2's head writer (who's gay btw). Gamers would be proud of handing Fenris back to his slave owner because Fenris was 'difficult'. (Of course the recently escaped slave is prickly and angry). Certain fans still enjoy telling you how they kill 'the terrorist' on every Anders post, evidently because of his actions, transparently because he's a mentally unwell queer "SJW" they feel vindicated in killing. Any mention of Isabela must also apparently include slut-shaming when promiscuity is a fine response to being a former child bride who's free of their cruel and possessive husband. Isabela fearing commitment and being sexually open is not an invitation for dehumanization. I play DA2 with the polyam mod, so I could be wrong, but I always felt Isabela and PurpleHawke were well matched there anyway.

We've come far in terms of accepting diversity in videogame storytelling, but cycles of controversy around queer romance, diversity, and sex in videogames is an old one. The difference being that the industry has mostly stopped catering to conservative and contemptuous discourse now and for that I'm glad.

[miithriilart]

I hope you can support my Dragon Age brain rot, here some sketches

[prezs]

still though we should dance 💃

happy dragon age day! i definitely didn't start and finish this in one day haha nooo don't worry about it

[papagrazza]

Smooch study with the faves

[kathrenax]

Continue my little couple series <3 haven't played DA2 for ages, but I think that's how that generally went:

Garrett Hawke x Anders (merciful path / fighter / sided with mages / had to kill his bf at the end)

Marian Hawke x Fenris (ruthless path / mage / sided with templars / used everyone for personal gain)

[trashwithvariety]

my favorite way to romance in dragon age is playing as a mage and going after a self proclaimed mage hater

I think it's so funny

like "I hate all mages except this particular mage right here and I will not be taking any questions"

hahaha such a fake idgafer I saw you yearning

[asha-mage]

I have largely said nothing about Veilguard because I am not, by nature, a hater and if I have nothing good to say I try to avoid saying anything. And also because watching a beloved franchise (and a huge ground breaker for LGBT rep for me personally and games in general) utterly crater brings me nothing but heartache.

But with the news I feel like this at least needs to be said: this is not the fault of BG3, or "woke", or whatever other excuse annoying chuds want to trot out. To a limited extent it's not even really the fault of the industry- at least no more so than usual. Bioware has been on this trajectory since Inquisition. They had ten years to turn things around and they didn't. Instead they chased trends and fairytales and the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow called "live service" and never considered they might just need to stick to what worked and tell a good story.

All the while they were shedding more talent and more passion until we ended up with Veilguard. The fulfillment of the promise of Inquisition: a cynical triple a cash grab meant to appeal to everyone and so appealing to no one. A game that ignores the most interesting rich parts of it's setting to serve up a calorie free action RPG that manages to say absolutely nothing about the ideas at the heart of the Dragon Age series.

No one deserves to lose their job and layoffs are an unethical bloodletting to please investors, but things didn't have to go this way. The rails had come off with Inquisition but it wasn't too late to prevent a crash.

Instead they barreled full steam ahead. And we ended up here.

[waesabie]

I enjoy following you…

[pkbth]

World state YAOI

-Elijah Surana, the royal arcane advisor after mastering the blood magic he finally found the cure to the warden taint and reunited with his King consort Alistair

-Garrett Hawke, he returned to Kirkwall with Fenris(and his mabari jofc)

-Ezekiel Lavellan, settled down with Cullen in the countryside and raised their adopted mabari and its pups together

[strawberry-halla]

"the blood on my teeth begins to taste like a poem, like religion, like the way you look at me." ❦

happy dragon age day!

[galaxykittye]

I want to make a silly sketch of my characters from DA and their lovers.

[tiredwaterboy]

Some silly projects I might finish someday

[chraustinjesse]

Hero - Champion - Herald

Yarren Mahariel - Fior Hawke - Adhas Lavellan

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