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Everything that's wrong with Solas could have been solved if he'd spent a single moment of his life on the floor of a women's bathroom at the club at 3 am. Thousands of years of regret? No problem: this drunk girl with runny mascara just told him "FUCK them all. You're fucking beautiful. You did nothing wrong ever. Your head is so shiny." Boom. Cured. 

He would end up crying hysterically in the arms of, like, five hyper-supportive twenty-somethings. They would do his make-up. He would never look back.

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Okay but why be sad when you can have Assan watching butterflies?

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In all seriousness, the trans rep in this game is IMMACULATE.

Especially being an enby myself, playing my he/him nonbinary Rook, and getting to talk to Taash about my own experiences through him was just.

I cried. Multiple times. Because it's the most seen any piece of media has ever made me feel. Not just that there were options that fit me perfectly, but there were plenty of options that don't, but would absolutely resonate with other non-binary players.

People cared. About us, and about making us feel seen.

Actually I'm not done yelling about the trans rep in Dragon Age: The Veilguard yet.

As most Lucanismancers probably already know, one of the banters between Lucanis and Taash changes slightly depending on Rook's gender. Taash suggests that now that Rookanis is a thing, he and Spite should take Rook flying. Taash's reasoning? "Girls/guys/nonbinary people love flying", which honestly is 10/10 logic, no notes, Lucanis why have we not already gone flying? Why are you not literally always flying around the Lighthouse??

So yeah, if your Rook is a woman, "girls love flying"; Rook is a man, "guys love flying"; and nonbinary Rook, "nonbinary people love flying". Simple and easy, you love to see it. Except I just triggered that banter, and what did Taash say? Casual, easy as you please, "Everyone loves flying." Again 10/10, I certainly have no rebuttal.

But I'd never heard that in anyone else's game clips before. "Everyone loves flying." The entire line is different from the others, which have the same rhythm and emphasis across the gender board. Know why the line was different for my Rook?

Because my Rook is a trans man who uses they/them pronouns.

Like the devs or writers or whoever had Taash give at least four different lines dependent on Rook's identity, and one of them is clearly meant for a Rook whose identity and pronouns don't match in the expected ways. She/her women get "girls love flying", he/him men get "guys love flying", and they/them enbies get "nonbinary people love flying". It's just.

It's such a little thing, but they didn't have to do that. No one would have called them on it, but they did it anyway. Like so much of the gender stuff in Veilguard, I cannot overstate how much they didn't have to do all that. But they did, even for tiny little things like this.

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love that Antoine's kicked puppy look is so powerful that it works on Davrin too

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the scions are a multitalented group

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watching children successfully and compassionately self-mediate conflict and wondering if it's possible to pinpoint where exactly it all goes wrong for us

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Food for thought

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"Solas is only using and manipulating Rook" Mates have not received the breaking news that even Rook knows that said "betrayal" is part of something bigger.

And to quote Solas "I am sorry for the necessity of this lesson."

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They say that the way you should view disagreements in relationships is “us vs the problem” and not “me vs them” and I think that to a certain extent that mindset can also be helpful when engaging in political or ideological movements

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The most popular browsers in different countries in 2012 and 2022.

by @theworldmaps_

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Listen to me and listen close. You simply cannot make me hate a dragon age game. I loved DA 2 when they reused the same maps over and over and drowned us in random encounters. I loved Inquisition when we spent 20 hours in the hinterlands. I loved Veilguard every time Rook put his dumb hands on his stupid hips. I love these games, I would like more, and simply cannot board the hate train. I totally get why people are upset, but the game was fun, it made me cry, and I’m going to play it 12 more times just like I did the other three.

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I just found the earliest email I ever sent from my email address, and it’s the funniest goddamn thing I can possibly imagine a fourth grader sending her teacher:

(Context - my fourth grade teacher was on maternity leave, and the state of the classroom fish tank was dire under the substitute teacher’s tyrannical rule. The class convened at recess, and decided to inform our (24yo, new mother) former teacher of the situation. I was selected as the duly appointed representative for this solemn communication.)

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spin this list of all of the pokemon. you are now that pokemon.

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you want to make people care about like a grab bag of media skills (recognising inflammatory rhetoric, fearmongering, dogwhistling, who frame the agenda etc) because they essentially just expand your agency. not all that shit about how they're your duty or that they make you more cultured and human. they keep you from getting scammed.

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when you reblog a post because you think a specific mutual would enjoy it and then they reblog it from you