Thinking about Mass Effect, as you do, and how I'm kind of sad that the way it's been engraved in pop culture has more to do with the way internet reacted to it at the time than what the actual game is about. Yes sure, it's about romance (and not that much all things considered) and it's pulpy (but not solely because of hot lady aliens), but it's also intricate worldbuilding that touches on a lot of sharp ideas, and a complicated tug-of-war between a genuine and vulnerable belief in reconciliation and community VS post 9-11 US military propaganda and steadfast belief in heroic exceptionalism, and the melancholic yet energizing mood, and the daring narrative systems, and so so much more than the 'We'll Bang OKs" and the "There's No Shepard Without Vakarian" and the whole ME3 ending situation
It's all there, but I'm sad the impact of the series is often reduced to (what I think is) the least interesting parts of its sum
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I know I always ask this. But do you know anyone who posts about transfemininity/transmisogyny but doesn’t shit on the word transandrophobia and trans men/mascs? I’ll even take a tme/tma user at this point. Just, please.
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there are so many of us in this industry who have been scratching at the walls saying shit like this, about how so much data is a self fulfilling prophecy, about how things are stacked against media featuring marginalized identities. this is the prime example
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