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I gained the next level of appreciation for how well Dragon Age 2 understood trauma, the ugly side of it.

I don't blame Fenris. I understand why after enduring years and years of abuse, humiliation, having your autonomy, your memories, everything that constituted you including your own name stripped away from you, you have no empathy for anyone reminiscent of your abusers - especially if nobody came to save you in the end and you are the only one fighting for your life and freedom. I understand why upon hearing how someone (who reminds you of your abusers) suffers unfairly, the only thing you can say is "Good" - and lash out at anyone trying to tell you off for it. Where all these fucking preachers were when you were suffering? Why even in the land that is supposed to be different from your own hellhole, your word and your experience still don't matter?

I don't blame Anders. I understand why after being betrayed by your own parent, after the decades of listening how you must suffer for the sin of being born, being confined to isolation, being treated like a monster while being a child, being denied the simplest of comforts, you fiercely defend people who share your abilities - because nobody else would ever look out for you and them. Of course you would clash even with someone who has legitimate reasons to be negative towards people like you because your own wounds sting more than their pain. You have dealt with the Chantry's vile propaganda for so long, you no longer take things at face value. Of course, Chantry would say that the foreign land where mages rule is foul, and corrupt, and full of blood magic and demons! So many times rumors, lies, and twisted religious depictions have been used to abuse, lobotomize, and enslave you, you're no longer letting it happen - and you only believe what you see and hear. And all you see around is injustice and indifference. And you're only the one screaming into the void, raging against the horrors everybody else is willingly blind to.

I don't blame them both for losing their mind in their own ways while the rest of the group silently wondered why they couldn't just be normal.

Personally, I don't think there was any chance for them to become friends or make peace during the events of the game. The "I suffered so I don't want anyone to suffer like I did" or "I'm a bigger person" are pretty lies and half-truths at worst. At best, they are mindsets only possible after someone who suffered finally feels safe and can be out of their survival mode. Which is not really true for Fenris and Anders, even during the final act of the story.

Even on high friendship or romance, Anders is still self-destructive, ready to die at Hawke's hands after launching his plan in motion. Even with a friend/lover at his side, he is alone in his head, in his vision of the world, in his pain.

Even with proper support and help, it takes Fenris three years to accept a relationship, but it doesn't change his perspective and if you don't have enough of his trust, you lose him to his trauma-based response.

I may be overthinking it, but I am truly thankful to the game for not toning down the complex, hard and uncomfortable aspects of trauma. People have always been in love with the concept of the perfect victim (who hates only "the right" bad guys and suddenly knows when to be tolerant, nice and accepting and doesn't say any rancid and hateful shit ever), but it became particularly aggravating lately.

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if your man sends you an evil ass text message and you don’t know how to respond, come to me. I will ghost write your response.

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zionists are actually beyond parody lol.

“koreans aren’t real people who can have any real opinions on the world. over there in that strange eastern peninsula korea those people just listen to kpop, respect elders, eat kimchi all day and die. no im not racist at all what do you mean?”

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We all agree that Josephine “I can destroy Caralina's marriage with four words and the proper glove left on the proper table” Montilyet would lock onto someone as soon as she hears them muttering something unkind about her Inquisitor (especially if the other person mutters the term “knife ear” or “ox” around if her SO is an elf or qunari) but she wouldn’t outright ruin them. She’s subtle about it, going out of her way to inconvenience their life as best as she can as soon up until they get her to the point where she can’t contain her anger. It takes a lot to make her angry but she’s fiercely protective of the people she loves and has a breaking point like any other person.

Oh they want to make a deal with this person? Too bad, the person suddenly can’t make a deal with them or make eye contact.

Oh whoever could have spread this outright rumor about them to the other nobles? Certainly not kind Ambassador Montilyet.

She pulls every favor she has available just to inconvenience this person’s life as much as possible, roping Leliana into helping her (and Leliana is, of course, thrilled at such an opportunity lmao), but if it ever got to the point where Josephine gets truly angry?

Oh, she is ruining them.

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The DA Companions/Advisors and the Hate Comments They’d Leave on Your TikToks

I worked too hard on this and I’m sorry

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this is going to be less critical but more rant-y so beware lol taash as a character left such a bitter taste in my mouth i cant even put into proper words, who the FUCK let weekes write them???????? "but- but the writers worked hard :((((" i dont careeee!!!! if the writing of your AAA game is the equalevent of a white twitter liberal then it's below average

the transphobia plot in their story is so bizarre because from origins to inquisition, we've been told that the qunari view gender differently from the rest of thedas. bragging about how inclusive your game is but you cant even write a foreign (or dare i say, middle eastern flavoured? hmm???) companion without insulting their own culture is so bizarre on so many levels

the writers clearly cant seperate religion from culture without being super weird about it, i cant (and dont want to) imagine how they would handle a qunari who belives in qun. maybe the lack of cultural exploration in da:tv was the best.

i do keep trying to write something meaningful about taash's storyline but i always get stumped when i try to talk about the conclusion because it's so insane. "hey btw my mother just died protecting me. she was an immigrant whose culture was deeply important to her which caused conflict between us because i left the country too young for it to have much significance to me. she would probably want me to do something with her body in a way that honoured the culture she most closely identified with. however i (the writer using my dragon age character as a mouthpiece) personally think that this culture is inferior regressive less nice to trans people so i feel icky about it :( should i just honour her in accordance to the culture that i feel is better personally because they (the three characters we see) respect my pronouns?" like. to be clear this is absolutely something the most out of touch person you know would say in the vent channel of a discord server. but i don't want to be rewarded with an armour for participating in it.

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Solas calling Varric 'child of the stone' derisively hits different 🫠 before it was prejudiced but now its just salting a wound only he's aware of ykwim a sneak diss, a jab, a mocking little pat on his silly durgen'len head

Harding should have had a special scene in the Fight Ending where she resists the petrification spell and just wails on him for fifteen unskippable minutes

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"fandom isnt activism" means that shipping destiel isnt the same thing as fighting for queer liberation and posting about a brown character doesnt make it impossible for you to be racist. "fandom isnt activism" does not mean that anything done in fandom spaces says nothing about you as a person and is beyond reproach. some of you spend all day showing your whole ass and then get all shocked pikachu dot jpeg when someone says you might have some biases to work through

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call me ignorant but i genuinely don’t understand why sports have to be split up by gender.

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Davrin, sweetie, I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry that a ugly ass bitch like this would even say that

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whore [lovingly]

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MAKE ME CHOOSE MEME | anon asked - Meleksima and Osman II or Akile and Osman II

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there was like one 200 note post a month ago where someone said they were mourning veilguard and i feel like ive seen a million posts making fun of it from the positivity and #letpeopleenjoythings crowd

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Traditional Turkish yasmak.

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Turkish Lovers