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heres the @ s and the links to their websites (cuz tumblr wont let people pause🙃) under readmore
ngl the "im white so i dont talk abt any characters' race ever bc im afraid of accidentally saying something racist" approach to fandom is like. very weak. imo.
like first of all: i get that "i dont incorporate race into my media analysis because i'm afraid of messing up" comes from a different place than "i don't incorporate race into my media analysis because I Don't See Race 😊 there is only The Human Race." but it has the same functional effect, right? that effect being that your analysis of [INSERT MEDIA HERE] ignores the very real way that race impacts people.
second of all: it feels kinda lazy! like ur saying "i dont know enough abt race to feel comfortable commenting on how race affects this show and i dont care enough to learn." the only way to become more comfortable discussing race is to actually practice discussing race. but when i see people saying this it feels like they're saying "i'm white, which means i don't know how to talk about race, and i don't have to know how to talk about race, and i don't ever have to know how to talk about race, so i'm choosing to never learn how to talk about race."
third of all: just because you don't openly talk about race doesn't mean you're any less likely to accidentally say or do something racist. implicit biases run deep, y'all. it's probably already there in your interpretation of the show. but the "i don't want to accidentally say something racist" implies that you are positive that your interpretation of the show isn't racist. and i'm not saying you're wrong. but i'm saying that if a person of color tells you that something you said about [INSERT MEDIA HERE] was racist, you better be prepared to actually listen and not just brush them off because "i can't be racist! i purposefully never talk about race just to make sure i'm not racist!"
which brings me to my final point: if you do accidentally say something racist... literally just apologize. if someone says you've been doing something racist, apologize and stop doing that thing. it's literally not that hard. i've done it. i've seen other people do it. "i'm scared of being called racist!" is such a weak excuse im tired of it. getting called racist is not the end of the fucking world. calm the fuck down and grow a spine. jesus.
and yeah sometimes you’ll apologize for saying or doing something racist and people won’t accept the apology and they won’t forgive you.
that’s also fine. people are allowed to not forgive you. and you’re allowed to move on and try to do better without agonizing over the people who dislike you, even if they have a good reason for not liking you. it takes some maturity yeah but like it’s possible to do.
Some people have asked me if I can publish my mapmaking tools. So I developed a software. 🙂
Here is the result:
sea creature of the day is the wolf eel i love these silly fellas!!! they are very beautiful to me
I hope everyone knows and loves knowing that these are a kind of goby. The biggest goby. Most gobies are like this:
Tumblr is falling down the garbage shoot. Go to my website instead. There is nothing to do there and it's still under construction but I promise it barely looks like Twitter
a lot of watching going on
cursebearing hips
i definitely think minecraft won't be the game for everyone in the end and that's just how things are no problem but i do think *some* people who don't get the hype of it just need to play with their friends and build a house with them. its also for doing things like this.
lmao tumblr letting their users choose whether or not they want their likes to be public but then pulling a twitter 2.0 and showing your likes on your followers’ dashboards and specially saying who liked the posts in their new update, without the users’ consent or a way to turn it off, is actually pretty insane.
like how many times to we — the users — have to tell them we don’t want tumblr to be like any other social media platforms and that tumblr’s being different than twitter, instagram, tiktok is actually what makes us stay on this silly little site.
respectfully @staff you’re driving your users away. stop trying to “fix” things that are good and don’t need to be fixed. we want tumblr to be tumblr. we don’t want the site to be twitter or instagram 2.0
when the media uses phrases like “the union is demanding higher pay” they want you to think hey wait i wish i got paid better you’re telling me these whiny writers are refusing to work? i’m way worse off than them and i still go in to work every day!
they want you to stop there and stew in your resentment instead of following the logic forward to hey maybe if i had a union i would have better pay!
and they say stuff like “working conditions” for the same reason because they know it conjures the image of a sweatshop or something and you’re like well that’s absurd writers work in offices how bad could it be they don’t have “working conditions”
they want you to stop there and stew in your resentment because you also work in an office instead of thinking about what the word “conditions” means and whether you are allowed to take off work to be with your newborn child
don’t be fooled by this shit. don’t buy into the idea that people work in any field solely for the love of the game yes even when it’s a literal game (writers work on those too). work is work! money can be exchanged for goods and services!
"Ew that thing is so ugl-"
NO! FRILLED SHARK BEAM ATTACK!
almost asleep but kept awake haunted by the fact that the dao party has 3 women and 4 men, sure 5 if u count loghain, but dai has 3 women and 6 men. how did you do it worse. it was five years later. how did you do it worse. WHO NEEDS SIX MEN
That's a... Pretty simplistic read.
DAI has women in positions of power, which is something DAO fails at, and in DA2 the women in power are shite heads (Meredith, the Grand Cleric)
Cassandra: Right hand of the divine, one of 2 'power behind throne' driving forces of the inquisition.
Josephine: Ambassador, diplomat, treaty negotiator. Huge amounts of soft political and trade power.
Leliana: left hand of the divine, Spymaster, one of the 2 'power behind the throne' figures of the inquisition.
Vivienne: Court Enchantress, powerful mage, major political player.
Celene: Empress
Briala: not only the third powerbase in Orlais, but intially controls the Eluvians.
Sera: no matter how she denys it, a person with power within the red jennies
Sunhair: Leader of the Avvar tribe.
We have skilled masters of their craft
Dagna
Lace Harding
Bianca
Morrigan
Mother Giselle
Fiona
We have NPC's in every location
Sister Paulette
Shaper Valta
Speaker Anais
Sigurd Gulsdotten
Belle
Tanner
Charter
Lysette
Threnn
Unless the Inquisitor is male, the entire leadership of the inquisition is female save for Cullen. And much as I adore Cullen, he is the Commander of the army, he does not hold any political power.
Your main magical researchers and scholars are Fiona, Dagna and mineave then Helisma.
Once you get to Skyhold and recruit a proper alchemist it's Elan Ve' Mal.
Your surgeon is female. 2 of the 3 trainers for mages, including the most combat focused are female.
But sure let's focus on the fact that of the 9 companions who can accompany you on missions, 3 are female and 6 are male.
the creative decision that, in-world, thedas has women in power, has nothing to do with my point that, as a real-world writing choice, only a third of the main characters you actually get to spend the game with are women
if we ARE going to have this (entirely separate) conversation, as for the advisors, frankly i don’t think it’s a super glowing example of dai’s gender politics that a) women are in charge of diplomacy and spies but commanding the army is a man’s job and b) excuses are found to dismiss all these competent women in power for the role of actually leading the inquisition, which is especially egregious if you play a male inquisitor, in which case they will all decide a man with no experience is clearly the better choice. neither do i find it wildly empowering that vivienne and briala have paths to political power via their romantic relationships, or that celene is empress because she was born royal and is also subtle and diplomatically gifted unlike the man option who, again, gets to be the blunt military one. i’m not even going to address the idea that simply having women on the map everywhere qualifies as feminism. all this is aside from the fact that treating thedas as a wish fulfillment world we should aspire to be more like is a baffling way for the writers to take a dark fantasy world which has always had the main characteristic of It Sucks Here. obligatory “do you think empress celene effectively utilised girl power when she burned halamshiral” comment. cutting misogyny out of the world rather than exploring it isn’t actually feminism compared to addressing it in your writing, and it only makes the writing’s sexist assumptions more glaring to me when they’re presented not as the product of in-world sexism but simply How Things Are
i find dai’s brand of showy Look How Forward-Thinking We Are And Here’s Some Heavy-Handed Dialogue Pointing It Out In Case You Didn’t Notice behaviour more irritating, and not less, when only one third of the complex layered characters you actually spend most of the game with are women. (not to mention that deeply questionable writing choices which played directly into fandom’s worst instincts made two of those three women probably the most unpopular companions of the entire series. and the other one is a chantry cop written by david gaider, who left to his own devices is one of the worst writers of female characters i’ve had the misfortune to experience.) adding female npcs who the game claims has expertise and power takes no effort at all for the writers in comparison to actually putting in the effort to write compelling female characters as if you believe they’re people, which i would take over this kind of paper-thin pandering any day. so if you can forgive me for making this post simplistically when i was thinking abt this while half-asleep, as the post mentions, yes, i do think this is what we should focus on, and a list of the female characters in the game is not the nuanced take that is going to change my mind.
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