#please just stop Jfc
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Here is why i find it strange that there are some people who seem to think Minrathous specifically is too sanitized:
*a specific gripe that doesn’t have that much to do with the overall post but frustrated me all the same
To be so clear with anyone reading this, i am telling you why I personally do not take issue with there not being *sigh* more slavery in this game.
You don’t see more slaves (other than the ones you explicitly free) because you’re in the poorest part of Minrathous and the slaves, presumably owned by all the altus families, would be living in slave quarters with the altus families in the nicer parts. (Read up on the depiction of slavery debt vs. chattel HERE if you care)
Now that’s the easiest answer. But for anyone making this complaint, that isn’t good enough because we want to see the horror or it Doesn’t Exist. So allow me to continue.
What we learn form Dorian in DAI is that he doesn’t think slavery is wrong because his family ‘always treated their slaves well’. To treat slaves poorly in Minrathous is seen as Bad. It’s a moral responsibility to treat slaves well. Obviously, not everyone abides by this (I’m looking at you, corpses outside if Zara’s bloodbath chamber) but it’s the party line, if you will.
So, no. There aren’t slaves being whipped in the streets. Or…whatever else you might want to see. Because everything that happens in Tevinter, happens behind closed doors. Even blood magic is ‘officially’ frowned upon. Tevinter prides itself on a public stance that often isn’t reflected in actual moral practice. And I could tell you that it feels more indicative of politics as they are in real world now to have the outward stance be very different than the actual beliefs and values/morals held. But this post is about the apparent lack of slavery/racism in Veilguard, so I digress.
I have seen a lot of people bring up up alienages, or the lack-there-of in Minrathous. Which is, in the south, an area where the elves live similiar to ghettos/slums. Alienages were set up by Divine Renata I after the Exalted March against the Dales. They are a direct result of elves being forced into one walled-off part of town and creating a subculture based in-part on Dalish influence/heritage (the tree of the people being an example).
Stay with me.
Tevinter doesn’t have alienages. But Minrathous has Dock Town, which we are told explicitly is the poorest part of Minrathous. And we see that it is the poorest part because there are beggars everywhere and literally shanty towns along the streets where people are living. We are told explicitly by Neve that no one cares about Docktown except her (and the Shadow Dragons). There are demons running rampant, murders, thievery and no one cares because it’s Dock Town. Presumably because the Templars/any other sort of police they may have are a) corrupt and b) who cares about the poors??? They don’t contribute anything to society anyway and we don’t care about them.
In Dock Town most of what we’re seeing are not slaves, you’re right. They’re likely Liberati, freed slave class. Who are graciously allowed to begin a trade or join a Circle. They are not, however, allowed to serve in the military, the government, hold any rank in the imperial chantry. Also in Dock Town: the poorest of the Soperati, who can own property and serve in the military but otherwise have no representation in government or any real rank in the imperial chantry, or in general the ability do any social climbing. So they can never move up, they always stay stagnant, always poor and weak and never ever able to do anything about it.
This is your alienage equivalent, if it’s not clear. You’re in it. No, it isn’t walled off. But it doesn’t need to be walled off or called an alienage to be that part of town.
And before you ask about the tree of life, Tevinter slaves (and therefore the liberati class) are not just elves. They’re humans, dwarves and Qunari also (this is from World of Thedas Vol. I). All of which have different backgrounds, traditions and would not come together to form such a cohesive culture based on their Dalish heritage for reasons i’m sure i don’t have to spell out.
On a final and a bit of a personal note: i live in the southeast US. Bible belt. I grew up in a majority white suburb, and yes, I’m white. So as I said, if you have a different take, you’re entitled to it and maybe my opinion means nothing. But I grew up constantly hearing about the part of town that we don’t go to. Don’t go to that shopping center, its too close to [part of town where the minorities live]. And i tell you this to say that i never heard any of the adults in my life use a slur, but it doesn’t mean they weren’t being racist. And in fact, a lot of then pride themselves on not being racist and fail to see their implicit biases and the systemic racism.
So yeah, i guess to me, the minorities and the poor people being relegated to the part of town no one cares about, where crime and corruption are rampant is racism/classism as i have witnessed it most commonly in real life. It seems odd to me that people missed it or that it seems to not be ‘enough’ for people when it’s the kind of racism that is the most rampant in the present times (at least where i am) even if it’s not as explicit.
Again, i could get into the 40 acres and a mule, post-civil war reconstruction failures that kept black people down (share cropping) and is still keeping them down now and all the ways that minorities having the ‘same rights’ somehow tricks some people into thinking that racism and bigotry doesn’t exist anymore (just because Dock Town isn’t walled off doesn’t mean the people who live there are reasonably free to live elsewhere). But maybe that’s for another post where we talk about how freeing slaves is good, but not nearly enough to actually help marginalized people. (Government reform, which you know…you get to choose the new archon but that is irrelevant and doesn’t mean anything)
*I’d also like to say that i saw a post which referenced Chantry teachings that say kissing elves is like kissing a dog. I don’t know about this. What I do know is that in The Masked Empire There is a scholar out of the university in Orlais who comes out (on the authority and encouragement of Gaspard) and says that to lie with an elf is to lie with an animal because they’re more like rabbits and follow their baser instincts. I can only assume this is to what that post is referring. You may correct me if i am wrong.
So #1 it didn’t come from the chantry, as i remember. And #2 the schism between the Northern and Southern chantries is widely known, so what applies to one may not apply to the other. Very big rift. So it’s not surprising to me that this doesn’t come up, is all I’m saying.
#veilguard meta#idk take it or leave it#im just tired#of seeing these takes#and not saying my peace about it#one thing about me#im in that wiki#i read those books#dont cite the deep magic to me#im in there#dragon age the veilguard#datv#please stop saying this game is sanitized#because no one was called a slur in front of you#and you didn’t get to have a whol savior moment or whatever#im so sorry for you#jfc#so when people tell you to look beyond the surface#i think this is what they mean#maybe#and if you don’t want me to see your shit#tag it veilguard critical#because frankly#i don’t want to see that#anyway i’m getting on a plane#so perhaps i’ll never have to deal with the backlash that may come from this#we’ll see ig
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yeah yknow what i really want in a book about two fucked up people doing fucked up stuff to each other and other people, true freak4freaks, is them psychoanalyzing each other to tell the reader that they are actually "good" people and have almost every conversation they have with each other include a fuckton of therapy speak, yeah mmm thanks
#please just stop#i have a brain i dont need you to spoonfeed this shit to me#i dont care whether they are “good” or “bad” im reading it for the fucked up shit jfc#JUST LET THEM BE FREAKS PLEASE I DONT NEED AN EXPLANATION OF EVERYTHING#ry rambles
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FRANCISCO FARNSWORTH NO
#I just caught up oh my god wtf#I was listening to the whole ep thinking ‘please don’t be a pc’ and boom it’s Francis :(((((((#rly hope they get a chance to stop him nxt episode jfc#he’s just a kid this is so sadddddddddd#dndads spoilers#the peachyville horror
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Motherfucker, I’m trying to go to bed bc it’s 3am and I have work in like 10hrs, and my brain is over here going into panic mode and convinced that I’m gonna die bc tooth hurts
Am I gonna die bc of a toothache? Probably not. Is my brain convinced otherwise, causing my heart rate to rise? Absolutely. Is it annoying? Very.
#bitch I’m trying to sleep stop fucking panicking#could be worse tho ig#I once woke up at about 3am having a panic attack bc I was convinced we were dying of carbon monoxide poisoning#spoiler alert: we were not. I would not have even been able to wake up if we were#I don’t even know where I even got that idea#probably from a dream idk#first time I’ve ever woken up in a fully fledged panic attack tho#think it was my first real one too#didn’t even know you could just wake up with a panic attack beforehand#anyway body still in flight mode for some fucking reason#Brain please let me go to bed for once in my life jfc
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I was that kid who Very Solemnly used phrases from a fantasy language in daily speech 👍 I blame my father for introducing me to Warcraft and enabling my embarrassing behaviour by replying in the same fantasy language. Sometimes, I still catch myself muttering "Bash'a no falor talah.." if I'm in a bad mood.
#it's been a decade since the peak of my Sin'dorei obsession can we please let it go brain??#*glances over at my several large lore compendiums* well maybe just a quick read...#haven't touched the game in a few years but I do still keep up with the story ><#and all their horrendous lore decisions jfc stop retconning perfectly good plot#he also recently let me know that he'd found some of the self insert fanfic I wrote at age 10 for this game#I have no idea why he kept it but I need him to destroy it#crow screaming
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Good morning to everyone except my doctor's office who forced me to create an account to pay my bill online and on that account home page my weight and BMI are visible for my dumb little eyeballs to see and internalize even though one of my STAUNCH positions for ELEVEN FUCKING YEARS is to never ever ever know either of those numbers.
#CAN WE PLEASE STOP WITH THIS#also just let me enter my account or invoice number and pay my bill jfc
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Some of my top genres are apparently Alabama metacore, Australian post hardcore, and Japanese punk rock?
Like… okay so what, Erra, Amity and/or Polaris, and… Crossfaith?
#she speaks#can we stop trying to subcategory all the subgenres into regional subgenres please?#like unless it’s British Invasion or Florida death metal then it doesn’t exist#or any other unique style that came from a specific region#like Swedish melodic death metal and Finnish symphonic power metal#those are real because there’s a specific sound to them#but like Vildhjarta are Swedish but they’re not Swedish metalcore. they’re just metalcore#there’s no such thing as Alabama metalcore it’s just metalcore#there is no unique Alabama metalcore scene#Erra is no more Alabama metalcore than crown the empire is Texas metalcore#because that doesn’t exist it’s just metalcore#jfc
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screaming at the void why did this happen again
#🎭rambling!#complaining on side#can people please stop using the word “psychopath” when they just wanna describe an evil character.#yes this is about Dimentio but it can be about any villain. and maybe i havent talked about it before but this makes me so mad#and there are so many different words. vile. wicked. foul. corrupt. but not that one jfc#idk if my complaints are going in vain but hell. why.
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I’m trying to find a way to parse this but like:
Make up culture is bad because of how capitalism has twisted appearance to be a basis of worth and social value. However, humans have been putting stuff on their skin since our ancestors started losing hair (maybe even before?) and ornamentation does have significant historic cultural value outside of modern late-capitalism induced self loathing.
Like. Make-up is not a thing in my immediate family. My mother and older sister? Nothing. My little sister is going to be so lucky to grow up in a space where she won’t have any expectation or support for make-up culture. I know make-up culture a shitty phenomenon; I know it steals time and money and self-worth from people at its worst and at its best feeds back into an appearance based cultural hierarchy.
But. But. There is such a rich and vibrant history to cosmetics outside of what is sold to reinforce that inevitably toxic culture. So many forms of art in face paint and more permanent and interesting body modification! There’s history and traceable evolving styles and intentions! And it fucking sucks that it’s been so corrupted to the point of no longer reflecting it’s original intent of being creative and unique and interesting!
Sometimes it just sounds like ‘don’t have tattoos don’t you know those annoying punks and degenerates have those?’ has just been repackaged as ‘don’t wear make-up don’t you know those annoying preps and conformists do that?’ Like I get what you’re trying to say but there is nuance to these conversations and willfully ignoring that nuance makes you sound ridiculous at best and outright hostile to any deviation from your standards at worst.
#ra speaks#personal#be normal if you reblog this or else I’ll sigh loudly and be disappointed in you#saw a dumb post. saw replies I didn’t 100% agree with.#why can’t people just not interact w posts that they don’t like#I know I know it takes soooo much self control especially for a tumblr user#but jfc stop acting like option A and option Z are a strict dichotomy#when there’s 26 letters in the English alphabet and we haven’t even touched numbers yet#you know??? like.#they’re not right. you’re also not right in an equal and opposite way. can we approach complex topics with more critical thinking please.#anyways i like when people have awesome extreme and colorful makeup it’s cool. I hate when people have bland ‘natural’ makeup that’s wack#what’s the point of having cool art stuff you can put on your skin if you’re just gonna. paint in skin colors??#this isn’t abstract art of painting a white canvas white that’s weird and externally motivated standards that do not have artistic intention#which defeats the purpose of having cool art stuff you can put on your skin.
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Tfw one of your most agreeable employees is suddenly making you look like a fucking idiot on company time.
#Mayuri is straight up not having a good time in this arc AHAHAHAHA I love his tantrum in the captains meeting SO MUCH#I love how this filler is falling in line with the only other filler I've really watched from start to finish Zanpakuto arc#They just can't let it go. They've left it to simmer and are checking back on the pot like 'hmmmm almost there'#before we approach TYBW where we get the canon 'we are your doubles in the shadow born to replace you bc shinigami suck'#I see what they're trying to do with Kon but god it is so SO annoying to constantly hear 'pervert. you pervert. get away pervert.'#Nozomi please stop. please. my sanity can't take this. PLEASE#There is honestly some VERY Good animation in here#They REALLY love Inaba's hands and cane jfc
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i just woke up to news of cm being renewed for s18 even though s17 isn't out till tomorrow
Oh, ok.
What are the chances they change up the marketing strategy next season because Garvez finally got together so all the promo involving them is 70% them being cute together like Nicola Coughlan and Luke Newton promoting Bridgerton?
#criminal minds#criminal minds evolution#i can dream#i'm just bored of watching her be mean while he acts like the sun shines out her ass like make it STOP already please jfc
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i'm so tempted to draw my kingilly au (also called stoplight trio fantasy au for my fam)... and POST IT... HERE... AA
#I have viv's design somewhat thought out and palpers' I have a vague idea of#i already have multiple for viv LMAO#not so sure for ocelore#ocelore is like??? TECHNICALLY an oc. but he's also sort of my insert for it even though it's my au so ig it is more of an oc#if its an original universe with him in it#i'm really excited to draw some concepts of it#i'm not cooking TOO hard but i think abt it often#can tumblr stop auto capitalizing my words please? jfc I'm trying to have aura#oh the reason why I call it the stoplight fantasy au is because#just 'stoplight trio' au is already a thing with Viv Palp and Oce X)#but stoplight is bc Viv is red#Palpers is orange/yellow#Oce is lime green#sooo.... stoplight
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oughhhh oh i hate you snapchat memories i hate you google photos reminders
#stop! showing! me! her! face!#its been 7 years!! please just give me a Break jfc#every fucking day its something#im tired of remembering i want to just wipe the slate clean#i dont want to think about her anymore#i hate summer i fucking hate this
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I'm really not sure what to do with this one- there's no search button or any other features it's just a big aggressive CHOOSE YOUR GENDER button. please shut up, website, i know this no more than you do
#i just want a suit for a wedding. i just want to purchase a suit. is that so hard#this is reminding me why i hate intentionally shopping. i randomly acquire stuff at charity shops and stuff#and those don't tend to have aggressive gender markers on them#like jfc i just want some suit blazer or waistcoat please stop#it makes me feel Bad and there is really no need
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hoo boy the number of baaaad takes on twitter since that con o'neill interview came out lmao
#because as we all definitely know con was lying in that interview and was just being professional#and clearly actually hates david jenkins's guts yes yes#the delusion's gotten to the point where they won't even listen to what con's literally saying#bending things any way possible to maintain their own beliefs#please oh please won't someone protect the delicate feelings of this 50-something yr old actor#why trust con's own words when you can instead pretend to know him better#begging yall just go outside and realize you know nothing about other people's lives and theres no reason to get involved in them#yes of course con is professional but that doesn't mean he secretly is repressing his devastation about izzy jfc#i'm not even gonna waste time on this i just wish twitter would stop putting these people on my timeline lmao#con o'neill is a voice of sanity and wisdom and if his stans won't even listen to what he's asking them to do then idek
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>:3




#[what is she getting us into now? -ooc-]#I'm gonna redo the muse selection page yes#but that doesn't mean I can't put these dummies on there until I actually finish the new one#I was gonna announce them yesterday or the day before and totally forgot#it was probably a good thing I didn't because there /was/ a couple things I had to fix first#they've been on there a couple days now though so like. some of you might have already noticed#but just pretend you didn't alskdfna#Also yeah I've come to accept the fact that I'm just always gonna cycle my muses every few months as some get more/less active#which yes also means that I just have a bunch of finished bios for some of the side muses and such#I don't like getting rid of them because it's so much easier to swap them out when I want to! Just do an edit or two and that's that!#LIKE THE FACT THAT I STOPPED MID SENTENCE ON ONE OF SHILO'S INFO BITS JFC SELF--#I FIXED IT I'M SORRY GUYS DON'T PERCEIVE ME PLEASE
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