#queerness in videogames
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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.
#queerness in media#queerness in videogames#navel gazing#queerness in storytelling#dragon age spoilers#dragon age#dragon age origins#dragon age 2#dao#da2#zevran#zevran x warden#zevran arainai#isabela#isabela da2#anders#anders da2#fenris#fenris da2#dragon age hawke
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#the last of us#last of us#Tlou#bella ramsey#ellie williams#joel miller#pedro pascal#bill and frank#murray bartlett#nick offerman#HBO#gay couple#lgbtq#lgbt representation#queer pride#Videogames#The last of us hbo#tlou show#WE WIN#Gay#Lesbian#Representation matters#TLOU Geek Memes
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“Hunt” part 2
Previous caption: Rev is a spore Druid/urchin wood elf (my favorite kind of Druid) they have horns due to spending the last years of their life living in isolation away from civilization, adopting the likeness of goats and cervines in the heart of the forested mountains. Such is their love for these animals they decided to keep the horns and the singularly colored eyes (also, they miss the weight on their head when not wearing them) Decided to make them a genderless beast because, hear me out, a shapeshifter being connected to nature n’ living away from human costumes studying fungal behavior. What would a being like that need a damn gender for? Nothing, the answer is nothing.
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#baldurs gate 3#bg3#halsin#druid#halsin silverbough#halsin x tav#dnd#animals#nature#forest#mushrooms#fungi#digitalart#digitaldrawing#comic#webcomic#queer#queerart#lovers#videogames#larianstudios#truegrittextures#agender#non binary#jogh
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🎵 Enola Gay
You should have stayed at home yesterday Ah-ha, words can't describe The feeling and the way you lied 🎵
#art#signalis fanart#signalis art#signalis#signalis eule#videogame fanart#my fanart#fanart#illustrator#artist#queer art#illustration#arte#artists on tumblr#digital art
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tumblr, twitter and tiktok has a chronic condition of mischaracterizing and headcanoning characters as gay and autistic and then acting as if those headcanons were canon all along, but what i find beautiful is that with metal gear solid (and disco elysium tbh) LITERALLY EVERYBODY is gay and/or autistic. Beautiful. like the big bad guy of mgs is a gay catboy who spent 60 years triple-crossing malicious international organizations just because he was so in love with somebody called NAKED SNAKE. said naked snake has a special interest in guns and is also a war criminal but dont worry too much about that
#metal gear solid#disco elysium#revolver ocelot#ocelot#big boss#tumblr#twitter#tiktok#snake#solid snake#naked snake#bosselot#uhhh also there are nanomachines and giant anime mecha gundam robots and hypnotherapy and ghosts and torture and piss jokes#hideo kojima#cinema#mgs#mgs3#mgsv#snake eater#i also love how hideo kojima takes every opportunity to infodump on his favourite movies#in mgs3 the medic will call you and give you unprompted godzilla lore and it makes me laugh every time#metal gear solid and disco elysium are perfect companion pieces to each other. theyre both gay#gay#queer#lgbt#queer games#videogames
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A thousand thanks to @lairofsentinel and @alcassin to help me complete these lists!
I am finally putting all the games I know with same sex/queer romances. Mainly, I am focusing on non-dating games, so games that are about a specific plot, adventures, other non-romantic events but that do have romance options in them.
Recommended: Are all games that I played personally and that have full romance. Informational: Games I know have romance, but I have not played personally or I could not confirm there was enough romantic content, or games where the romantic content is minimal (ex. Fable)
The lists are divided (linked) in:
RPGS (ex. BG3, DA:O, DO2 etc.), in total 39 games are currently added in this list
Visual novels that do not focus around dating (ex. Solstice, Loren etc.) but that still have romantic options/romantic storylines, currently 10 games in the list
Life simulators or walking simulators (ex. Stardew Valley), currently 7 games in the list
Others, currently 7 games in the list. Others are all games that did not end up in the above categories (ex. hack and slash games like Hades, puzzle games like Newfound courage)
There is also a category for dating sim visual novels. Here I will only add games I played and enjoyed given that it is usually pretty easy to find queer visual novels.
If there is a "what to expect" summary from this blog (a lot written by lairofsentinel!!) I also linked that!
#lgbtq games#lgbtq#queer videogames#baldur's gate 3#sorcery!#enderal#stardew valley#etc#what to expect
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ok ok so my professor came up to me before class a few weeks ago and i was a little worried when she brought up the short writing assignment I did the day before on Unpacking but after I confirmed that I wrote it she smiled and told me how a guest lecturer was going to take up that exact game as part of their lectures on LGBTQ+ videogames and I shit you not I was so excited.
SO flash forward to now and that guest prof just finished their intro lecture, mentioning how their next one will actually focus on the game. After the lecture I walk up to them in all my youtuber merch glory, introduce myself, mention the writing assignment (which apparently the guest prof already knew about bc my prof told them??? crazy) and the prof asks me what I think about the game, and I think they were kinda hinting about the ex-boyfriend's room and how they were going to discuss the story implications of it???
but apparently I was one step ahead of them and told the prof about how I was inspired from a "streamer I watched" (cough RTGame cough) and how I've found that level 100% more enjoyable when I stopped giving a shit and just messed with the boyfriend's shit, inconveniencing him however possible and guys. GUYS.
the way the professor's eyes LIT UP dude, they even giggled when I told them about folding the boyfriend's fancy suits and placing his coffee shit on the highest shelf, and they told me that they were going to open their game just to replay that level and try what I did and man. MAN.
this lecturer has no involvement with my actual grade, but I definitely feel like I just got an A+ in making that prof's DAY.
#unpacking#rtgame#maige's posts#stories#maige's ramblings#when ppl talk abt how fun college is its always like parties with friends or funny lecture moments.#they never say just how fun it is to go full Nerd Mode with a professor who shares your passion for the same topic of interest. man. MAN.#that was so cool but now I'm lowkey aware that theres a non-zero chance of them being on here (by virtue of being a queer videogame nerd)#so um. hi prof! i was that kid with the crumb cup//toast hoodie and mirac//ulous fox necklace. Hi.
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the best thing about persona 4 is that kanji and naoto are there. unfortunately the worst thing also about persona 4 is that kanji and naoto are there.
#text#p4#persona#persona 4#free my videogame queers#the narrative is simply diabolical and the cishets on reddit are insane people#persona kanji#persona naoto#kanji tatsumi#naoto shirogane
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re: last reblog, but to me A Link Between Worlds is kind of the nail of the coffin of my "Ganondorf does have a point in his attempt to seize the Triforce, because that's literally the only fucking option you have if you want to change the natural world, given it's been demonstrated that trying to function outside of these parameters will make the world implode on itself" perspective
I'm not saying world domination is a particularly worthy goal, but literally what else can one aspire to beyond this given the unbelievably restrictive rules of that universe? this is a world conceived to be a hierarchy, and stay one, by design!! Nayru's domain, Wisdom's domain, is literally Natural Rules, and Farore's, Courage, is to create life that can abide by these rules. It's in the very cutscene that introduces them as a mythological concept!!
So if you're unlucky enough to be casted as "one of the bad ones that aren't blessed sorry :/" either you wall yourself in a cave and live your life lowly and miserable, hoping no hero will come break all of your pots while you're out picking up wood, or you take your only reasonable shot at making significant change for yourself. Like what else do you do in such a conservative world??? attempt to build diplomacy, when your entire race is being considered evil thieves inherently, and when you're incredibly underpowered and with nothing of worth to offer your neighbors?? like what is one poor poor gerudo king meant to do :(((((
(caveat in case this leaves the usual circle: no I'm not saying this to undermine that Ganon is a maniac and gleefully violent and egotisical and willing to put others in harm's way in the name of his own hype, nor that he is a worthy ruler with any sort of long-term political vision that would look terribly different from hyrule's --tho giving Ingo the ranch in OoT was kind of an ideological W imo even if Ingo is not a great dude once in charge (which in itself is so interesting ideologically, it's once again a case of You Were Assigned Subordinate And If You Try To Swap Places The Natural World Will Collapse Yes Even If You Are Suffering And Treated Poorly Your Suffering Is Natural While The Suffering Of Those In Charge Is Unnatural)-- but, yeah. One does certainly not prevent the other from also being true)
#tloz#ganondorf#princess hilda#ingo#a link between worlds#ocarina of time#farore#nayru#“Stay In Your Lane Or You're Evil” the videogame series#I love it love this series to pieces but like come on#sorry I went in 8 thousand different directions in that post haha#but like the ingo thing is so interesting it's like#“yeah if you let workers seize the means of production they'll turn up crueler than their bosses and drink/gamble their money away”#but ganondorf did attempt a socialism there! which did blow up in his face kinda!#which is so hilarious conceptually#god ganondorf oot really is a “the future liberal wants” meme crystallized into a guy#hyper-masculine poc muslim-coded but also feminine and vaguely queer-coded and also he has two moms and tyrannical and communist#does it all make sense together ideologically? I don't know but that sure is scary to think about :((((( we sure live in a society......#sorry I have completely lost the plot of this post#does that post count as a gantober special
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"JOB-DYING" | Un cómic sobre Lethal Company
Inspirado en una de esas partidas que te echas con los colegas
#lethal company art#lethal company#lethal company oc#lethal company bracken#lethal company mimic#lethal company fanart#digital art#comic artist#artist on tumblr#commissions open#illustration#moska fleur#moska fleur art#my art#digital artist#queer artist#art commissions#open commissions#artist#artists on tumblr#videogames#horror#horror comic#español#spanish
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Arthurian videogames with romances (I added a little rainbow for queer romances options)
(in order of pics above, from left to right, top to borrom)
Secret Kiss with Knight: Otome -> mobile game, classic otome game with pay to unlock extra content. The romance options are Arthur, Merlin, Mordred and Galahad. Not played, so I cannot add any commentary.
Princess Arthur -> another otome mobile game, unfortunately impossible to find if not in Japanese now. Multiple romance options: Tristan, Lancelot, Merlin, Galahad, Mordred (not Arthur's son), Gawain. You play as a female Arthur character. The route are pretty long and complex, and it was set in arthurian times (with other secondary characters like Medraut, Morgause, Kay etc.). Quite good game too.
Choices: Guinevere ️🌈 -> free mobile game from "Choices: Stories you play", where you play Guinevere and you can romance Arthur or Lancelot. Arthur and Lancelot are not gender locked so you can choose their gender too. The game is complete and deal with Guinevere romance too, her arrival to Camelot and some strange premonition of danger she is having.
Pendragon Rising ️🌈 -> text game from "Choice of Games" (you can also buy it on steam). You play as Arthur (male or female) and you have to consolidate power and save Camelot as Uther is aging. The romance options seem to be Morgana, Emrys and Gawain (their gender seems to be chosen by the player, I am not sure).
The Chronicles of Lancelot ️🌈 -> gay (mlm) p0rn game on itch io and steam. THIS IS NOT FOR MINORS. You play as Lancelot, branded as a traitor after Ban has been accused of killing Uther. You go around sleeping with various characters (Kay, Gawain, Arthur, OCs) and trying to find out what happened to Excalibur. I am currently playing it, so I am not completely sure, but it looks like Arthur might be more of a romance option than the rest of the flirting and sleeping with options.
Arthurian Tale: Camelot ️🌈 -> ongoing text game by @cain--abel, I have not played it. You can play as any gender and you arrive at Camelot after Uther's death to find out who is the pretender who took the throne (Arthur). The romance options are Kay, Lancelot, Arthur (or Elaine, depending on the gender), Morgana, Lunete. You can play it here.
The Bastard of Camelot ️🌈 -> ongoing text game by @llamagirl28 and my favorite arthurian videogame ever. You play as Mordred (any gender) since his early years, meeting Arthur for the first time (and you can also decide how to react to your estranged father) and growing up with your dragon friend. There are multiple romance options: Gawain (Kay's son), Elaine, Galahad, Nimue, Isac (OC), Sophie, Agravaine (not related to Mordred). You can play it here.
#arthurian#camelot#lgbtq#guinevere#choices guinevere#the bastard of camelot#arthurian tale camelot#to add#videogames#queer games#mobile games#princess arthur#otome#guinevere choices
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I assume you:
Like indie music
Need a therapist
Would play ukulele if given the option to learn any instrument
Like stickers
Kin Maria
Are blonde or brunette
Have never dyed your hair
Consume media you know has queer characters, and when they come around to it during said media go "omfg i had no clue they'd end up together..."
Don't like Knuckles (mainly cuz I've only seen you post him once. ever.)
Don't know that you're the first blog I ever followed on Tumblr
Saying you think I don't like knuckles is so sad.... He's just too cool for me.... (He's so hard to draw bc snoot)
#the kins Maria one made me happy idk why#the hair ones are the truth (brunette never dyed)#its so funny getting into media bc most i get into aren't explicitly queer#<- most media with queer aspects hooked me on different parts bc even tho I love rep. i don't actually care for canon romance#i did NOT know i was the first person you followed (jumpscare)/pos#i wouldn't want to play instruments because my hands get confused with things like that (also things like playing videogames)#i don't know what classifies as indie music lol#i would love stickers if i wasn't scared if using them lol (gets anxious about putting them on things BUT THEY'RE SO JOY)#for the therapist. i am currently in a time where im realizing stuff and. yeah. probably.#ask game#rednexxsaysthing#HII RED HAIIII
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Last goodbye.
#art#signalis fanart#signalis#star#eule signalis#arte#illustration#artist#digital art#artists on tumblr#queer artwork#queer#videogame fanart#fanart#lesbian#drawing#cw gore
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Hi, I'm Lunaxio. Some random gamedev (cannot disclose game yet, musician ain't ready) who is also bisexual.
✨hail satan✨
I have several OCs (most of which are part of my game in some way.) i cannot donate and i am afraid of being responsible for a scam
I have both autism and ADHD (diagnosed) my qpps are @not3catsinatrenchcoat and @shower-man
pronouns mothafucka
dni list: Exclusionists, Pedos, Zoophiles, any bigot, mfs ive blocked in general, discord raiders (yall fucked up like 2 years of my online life), radfems, radqueers, conservatives, transid
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I've been playing Mad Maggie this season, and when she says "Open wide" while using her drill, it got me feeling like:
Whatever you want miss.
#apex legends#videogames#margaret kohere#apex mad maggie#lgbt#listen im queer af and i will do anything for women
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My hand slipped
(yes, a matching romanced Solas card painting is coming too)
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