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"They should fuck nasty" is one of the most insightful and universal observations about any media.
Who has done more to promote tf2- Valve or the kid at your lunch table in middle school who would say “Gentlemen?” In the spy voice
I drew xolo maridueña bc that bb movie casting news made me watch three seasons of cobra kai and now I’m convinced he’s the perfect jaime
Character: Doesn't exhibit sexual or romantic attraction through the entirety of the source material towards anyone; even expresses repulsion or confusion about romance & sex
The fandom: This character is canonically gay, why else would they not be interested in the opposite gender?
Reading The Binding without any prior knowledge of the book was really me going: is this gay?? seems kinda gay?? this is definitely gay right?? oh fuck yeah that’s gay.
and i loved every second of it
One of the craziest things about Dragon Age (and this might help those of you who don’t go here kind of understand what people are yelling about in the coming months) is its lore. But I don’t mean that in the way you’re probably thinking.
I mean, quite literally, the way it presents its lore to you. In picking up notes and books as you go along and sifting through the codex, the game effectively asks you to act as an anthropologist. You’re met with a host of primary and secondary sources, some many hundreds of years apart from one another, written by anyone from the highest Chantry scholar to John Farmer, and you’re meant to constantly be questioning every piece of information you’re given. What biases are present in what I’m reading? What is fact and what is complete fabrication and what is, potentially, a slightly twisted version of a fact? How does one source potentially contradict another? The lore is one giant mystery-puzzle that you get to piece together across three games, and what conclusions you draw are going to be entirely different from someone else’s, and so on.
And yet, the series still does something even cooler than any of that. You realize, at a certain point, that this idea you have been engaging with on a meta-level — this idea that history is biased and fallible, that it’s written by colonizers and conquerers, genocidal racists and religious zealots, that the ability to control historical narrative is the prize you win for spilling the most blood — that idea is one of, if not perhaps THE most important, overarching theme of the series. The way that we remember history — what we remember and what we don’t, and why — and the impact that has on people on a sociological, political, cultural and psychological level, on both a macro and micro scale. It’s the entire thesis of the series’ main villain’s whole motivation.
And there’s gonna be a lot of people that don’t care about all that but me personally it makes me want to gnaw on a cinder block and scratch at my walls