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so tired of ppl saying America doesn't have a lot of history because it hasn't been around very long. WHITE PEOPLE haven't been around for long. There's actually a very rich history here, it's just not a history of whites.
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On jennlikespie's last comment (I will not be @-ing her because she clearly does not want to engage further):
When you said "Even with all those examples given a extremely large glaringly obvious detail OP douche canoe has failed to consider or realize is that Matoaka was a real person" it certainly looked like you were downplaying Peter Pan in your efforts to talk once again about how Matoaka is a real person, which we all already fucking know. And it appears you're the one with shitty-ass reading comprehension because not once did I say people should fucking ignore the racism in Pocahontas, what I said (if you would read) is, and I quote, "if you still say that [other Disney films] are still good, entertaining movies despite the misogynistic, morally dubious, or racist moments and viewpoints in them, then you need to shut the fuck up about Pocahontas." Which means, if you're struggling to understand, that all of them are racist and all of them should be lumped together as such instead of pretending one is worse than others. Which is what you did.
Yes! Duh! Matoaka was a real fucking person! Pocahontas in the movie Pocahontas is a character and should have been given a different fucking name because the bullshit that was written is so whitewashed it's insane! Hence why I refer to the character in the movie as Pocahontas, because it's not fucking Matoaka and shouldn't be lumped in with her. But her being a real person doesn't make it more racist than any other fucking film. They are all fucking racist.
This is why humanity fucking sucks ass. You and I are arguing the same basic concept, but you were too busy getting pissy to actually read and you ended up accidentally doing the thing others have done to you by blowing off Peter Pan to talk about Pocahontas, which was my fucking point.
#anti fandom#anti this idiocy#anti disney#imagine saying 'we spoke up abt Peter Pan and were shit on by ppl like you'#when I am LITERALLY shitting on ppl talking only about Pocahontas and ignoring the shit in other films like Peter Pan#reading comprehension = nonexistent#and indeed shitting on you bc you did the exact thing you're saying others have done#by DOWNPLAYING the racism in Peter Pan to win an argument abt how racist Pocahontas is#'Pocahontas is worse bc Matoaka' did you know IT'S ALL EQUALLY FUCKING BAD ACTUALLY#/throws hands up/ what the fuck you were so busy getting angry you didn't stop to READ#caveat to be made here: I said Peter Pan's shit was worse when it's all bad#definitely should have worded that better but I stand by it bc I'm tired of ppl talking shit abt Pocahontas and ignoring shit in other film#I am sick and tired of hearing ppl constantly mentioning the actual history of Matoaka to the detriment of speaking up abt everything else#everyone's taught abt the Powhatan tribe in school (at least I HOPE) but no one's taught abt racism stereotypes or treatments#which affects real ppl RIGHT NOW and needs to be spoken of more than history most already know#and while it's all equally fucking awful it's EXHAUSTING having ppl defend the dead before caring abt the living#HENCE MY ORIGINAL POST that you clearly did not bother properly reading
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yet another reminder that the movie Pocahontas would have been an Actually Acceptable Movie if the writer had just not pretended to be a budding historian and had used fake names for his obviously fake characters instead of pretending he was making a 'historical documentary with some creative liberties' because he preferred the white man's version of events
and maybe if he had we could all talk about how wonderfully a native woman and her father and culture were portrayed for once without having a bunch of teenagers start screaming about the history we are all already fully fucking aware of and we could focus on the actual racist problems with the film like the slurs and the 'Great Spirit' references which are in fact incorrect to original native beliefs before white people came and ruined them and how 'both sides were equally wrong' (I get what they were trying to teach children but no, fam) and the fact that the natives resorted to violence and war first instead of the white people which are the actual things I would like to talk about if these teenage animals would stop barking for ten minutes
#'Matoaka is a real person tho!' well fuck me up I never knew thanks for the brilliant feedback#may we talk about the actual misrepresentations and how they could be improved? no? cool#I guess we'll ignore how Pocahontas and Powhatan AS CHARACTERS broke some serious new ground in how natives were portrayed in media#and keep yapping and yapping and never making actual headway thank you#anti fandom#anti humanity#anti disney
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I am genuinely fucking horrified that I might have to remind humanity of this, but the stereotype in movies, including kids' movies, that minority women are all falling over themselves to get with a white man is actually, uh, not okay
and by 'horrified that I might have to remind humanity of this,' I mean specifically the fact that Tiger Lily existed to get with and flirt with Peter Pan and was the only good-looking native in the film and how she was literally used as a Damsel in Distress trope waiting for the dashing white man to come rescue her is not only not new and in fact common in film from the 60's all the way to the 2000's and beyond but is also Extremely Not Okay, shockingly, and while I should not have to say this sort of thing again here I am, faced with the fact that humanity needs reminders on the daily
#anti peter pan#anti disney#anti fandom#can you people see how tired i am? can you?#five minutes on the hell app and I'm reminded of just how low humanity has fallen#alt right and alt left is actually The Same Fucking Thing just with different jargon
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And I already did talk about the racist bullshit in Peter Pan, as a reblog to this very post, so you're both stupid and lazy to not even check this.
And while Matoaka was indeed a real person, Pocahontas in the movie was a character and many natives themselves have been thankful for her existence and how positively she was portrayed, which while it doesn't erase the disgusting racist shit inherent in the making of the film is the whole fucking point as to why I said you fucking people need to think a little more critically than screaming something everyone already fucking knows.
Only complete dumbfucks say there wasn't racist shit in Pocahontas. But dumbass children like you keep doing the exact garbage shit you just did above, where you trash talk Pocahontas while accidentally defending the much worse racist shit in other Disney movies. Making you jackasses giant fucking hypocrites.
Imagine saying I'm more empathetic to a talking cat when I'm the person talking shit about the racist cat while you morons ignore it. "Oh actually Pocahontas was so much worse" NOPE. The racist shit in that movie is fucking tame compared to the racist shit in other movies (and if you think Pocahontas is bad you haven't watched fucking anything with natives in it save for fucking Disney, have you?), and its unforgivable crime is using the names of real fucking people when the movie would have been 89% better with fake fucking names, and you children somehow miss that fact because you want to pretend you're defending natives and the Powhatan tribe (who have already defended themselves without your whitewashed privileged 'we know what real racism looks like' bullshit) when in reality you're literally downplaying the racist shit in Peter Pan.
Pocahontas was racist, far moreso for the actual slur in the first song of the movie that literally none of you shitheads even fucking mention, but other movies and especially Disney movies are far worse in how they characterize minority groups and you should be fucking ashamed of the fact that you dared come to me defending said movies in your race to prove your moral fucking superiority.
Gonna have a take that's gonna piss off a lot of kids on this site - if you still say that Aladdin, Dumbo, Peter Pan, Sleeping Beauty, Lady and the Tramp, Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, Pinocchio, and/or the Aristocats are still good, entertaining movies despite the misogynistic, morally dubious, or racist moments and viewpoints in them, then you need to shut the fuck up about Pocahontas.
The movies all have awful moments in them. Every. Last. One of them. It's important to talk about those. It's also important to talk about what Disney got right, and to demand they do more of that in the future.
It's also maybe a good idea to not throw the baby out with the bathwater, but this is a take that most kids can't get because they're trapped in the either-or fallacy.
#anti fandom#anti this fucking idiot#anti every jackass who defends other disney movies' racism to diss on Pocahontas specifically#imagine pretending someone was defending Pocahontas as a morally pure movie#when that fucker LITERALLY said 'if you shit on Pocahontas WITHOUT SHITTING ON OTHER FILMS you're a hypocrite'#anti hypocrites#how do these people always out themselves lol#'did you know “Pocahontas” is bad actually? she was a real person hur dur'#no fucking shit give yourself a Moral Crusader award bc you're breaking new ground there my fam#shut the fuck up#it's pathetic how shitting on Pocahontas has become a main point of Speaking To Prove How Good A Person You Are#to the point where everyone acts like it's The Worst Disney Movie Ever Actually#like I said in my tags before: Song of the South is RIGHT THERE#I LITERALLY mentioned Peter Pan and this person blew the movie off bc 'no real ppl names were used' hoo boy#imagine literally ignoring blatant horrible fucking racism and white ppl owning pretty native girls#bc Matoaka was a real person like. imagine ignoring racism to prove how not racist you are#imagine ignoring how the native girl in Peter Pan was made for Peter's enjoyment while using Matoaka's name#I would be too ashamed to show my face in fucking public. the utter gall#anti human beings#humanity was a mistake#anti disney too bc obviously
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See, that's something that's always come across as very Tevinter-y to me. The very existence of colleges in Tevinter plus Vivienne giving more political power to the Circles, heck even Dorian says that his homeland should be a cautionary tale and isn't to be emulated and he's not wrong. Not to mention that other bit of banter she has with Dorian over how Tevinter magisters deal with political rivals. Consequently she's utterly terrifying and not someone who should be emulated.
Oh, yeah, she's recreating Tevinter for sure. I randomly saw someone post once about how Vivienne's ticking all the 'let's remake Tevinter' boxes, and it was wild. There are Circles in Tevinter. There are templars in Tevinter. There are colleges for magic in Tevinter that are just considered less, overall, than the Circles. If you read about Tevinter's history, you get a nearly identical account compared to what Vivienne does if made Divine. Oof.
Though, like, to be fair, if Tevinter didn't exist in Thedas, her actions would still be fucking awful because she has only ever cared about herself, and only idiots can't see that. She would just be the first person to create a Tevinter, is all.
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What’s your opinion about Tony taking Peter along with him to the airport? Of course he did NOT force him or blackmail him, people are literally making shit up to make Tony look bad (because that’s literally all they have, just words without facts) but just in general what do you think?
The way i see it, this is a good, supposed to be safe mission  preparation first mission for him, but people saying he was bad for doing this to peter.
What do you think?
I mean, storyline-wise, it's pretty forced. The MCU high-ups were like, "Spider-Man makes money; let's get him in there!" So. What can you do.
From within, I liked how we were already well past his origin story, and I loved the dynamic between two Nerdy Boys, I thought the thing about Aunt May being young was weird but fine, since I love getting away from tropes and the 'sweet grandma' trope has been beaten to death. I loved Spider-Man as he was written and acted because he was the quintessential silly nerd weirdo who got crazy excited over stuff and nerded out about weaponry and superheroes and everything.
I liked how Tony was explicitly stated to order Peter to stay back and just web them up. I like how both of them were still playing around a little bit; the "Underoos!" thing made it clear Tony wanted Steve to knock it off but never expected a real fight. Even after having Spider-Man take Steve's shield, he still didn't instigate a battle; he just wanted to use Spider-Man as a tool for de-escalation. I was pleasantly surprised, at the time, by Steve being the one to push for a battle, and for his side to end up going WAY too far over and over again, because it proved his imperfections, which I love to see in my superheroes. (I of course abhorred the backtracking in later movies.)
Overall, I thought Tony noticing Peter made sense, since Tony's been leading the Avengers in all but name since the start, no matter what anyone says about Steve, and it makes sense for Tony to be on the lookout for others like himself and the team. It also makes sense that Tony sat on this after learning who Peter was until he found he needed someone to help him get his friends back before the United States government killed them. I wasn't fond of the sudden trip to Germany, but I understood the need for speed and, with the information given about Tony's original plan, I realize he was backed against a wall and making a tough choice.
I loved how, when everything got bad as hell, Tony stopped everything and ran to Peter to order him to stand down and stay out of the fight; I loved how scared he'd been when he'd gotten to Peter's side, because the kid had been in real danger thanks to Steve's team and could have gotten hurt far worse. It is telling to me that Steve was the one to injure Peter, even after learning how young Peter was (there's no way Peter's voice was the voice of an adult, ffs), yet Steve did not ensure Peter was okay. Tony did. Tony was the one to check if the kid was all right and then ensure he stayed out of the increasingly escalating battle.
If the rest of the MCU movies hadn't come out and I hadn't been forced by a bunch of brats on the Internet to endure some of the dumbest bullshit the MCU fandom writes about how sweet angel Steve Rogers did no wrong and evil devil Tony Stark wrought the world asunder, I would actually say that I loved Civil War, for all its faults. Because Steve wanted to be a hero, Tony kept trying to hold everything together, and neither of them did a perfect job but Tony did well and Steve did horribly, and it was about time we got some character depth on Captain America and got to see Tony's merits as a leader, too.
And then. You know. The rest of the movies, and the fandom, and now I want to burn the world to ashes every time someone even mentions MCU Steve Rogers or Civil War to me.
#mcu rant#avengers rant#civil war rant#anti steve rogers#anti fandom#anti fandom stupidity#tl;dr - Spider-Man was done well and his part in the battle was done well#humans are just stupid#long post
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If you don’t mind me asking, what fandoms are you into. I’ve already come across most of your MCU ones and I love listening to you rant about it because I agree 100%. I’d love to know what else you rant about
Oh, gosh, okay, fandoms... hm. I have a lot, so how about a random list?
MCU (obviously)
Naruto
Kingdom Hearts
Dragon Age
Mass Effect
MXTX stories (I have not started on these rants and please don't start me; I've barely gotten MCU morons to fuck off and these people will swarm me because they think MXTX is the Writing Goddess of our time)
Lots of BL actually just talk to me about BL tropes or something
Shadowhunters
Teen Wolf
a lot of older anime actually; I am Old
Disney
I dunno stuff
Fandom Tropes maybe I've been in the game for a looooong time now
TOS and AOS Star Trek (dear god do NOT send these Trekkies after me, fuck; also don't talk about the Discovery and whatnot because I'm a cheap bitch and refuse to get Paramount+)
Damn I like so many things but not many of them are Top Ten TV Shows and Movies or anything huh
Honestly, name something that had incredible potential that fell flat and I will rant for days about those things I disliked, even if I loved several other things about them. In fact, because I loved other things about them.
PS - I have a bad habit of never checking something out if it becomes popular because I have this awful ADHD thing where I feel like it won't live up to the hype and I'm kinda curious and might be interested in it anyway so I just keep putting off watching it for the rest of my natural life ahaha...
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I've noticed an uptick in the amount of otherwise pro mage folks deciding that Vivienne is actually the best choice for Divine, not Leliana because 'too much,too soon'. And I just don't get why they'd want someone who leashes the Templars,kills anyone who doesn't report to her 'reformed' Circles and is only interested in being the big fish, so to speak.
It's the same "yas queen, go off, slay" radfem "girlpower" we've been seeing inundating fandoms for years now. They like a woman being powerful and violent and whatnot because they hold bitterness and hatred themselves and want to see their idea of revenge unfolding. They see Vivienne as a strong, confident woman because that's how she carries herself, and maybe it's hard to see the difference between confident and arrogant, or between strong and cruel.
Leliana, on the other hand, talks in a calm manner very often, and she brings up ideas of equality, tolerance, and love. These are feminine traits, though, which aren't powerful and tough and girlboss. They don't represent the radfem ideal of ruling over men and, you know, other groups of people we don't like. It's all about 'everyone having the same rights' and 'being nice to people' and that's just not realistic! She's even getting rid of Circles, and Vivienne the Lady Powerhouse has warned about how non-mages will go murdering people on the streets if we let them run free! (But actually, this is definitely her worrying about mages and not her trying to lock them in a cage she got the key to.)
And Vivienne isn't recreating Tevinter, oh my god, you morons, she's keeping the templars (under her thumb) and she even allowed the continuation of the College of Enchanters (which exist in Tevinter, too, actually, quite a lot) and only starts wars if people defy her (I will actually just leave that one to sit there, lol). She's wonderful! She demands radical change, sure, but she talked a lot about keeping things the same!!! So that must be what she did! And if not her ideas must certainly be better because there are still Circles, okay, she's taking it slow.
Okay, honestly, on second thought, I think these people are just idiots, and there's no saving stupidity.
#dragon age rant#da:i rant#fandom rant#anti vivienne de fer#anti vivienne stans#anti vivienne#I mean Vivienne's a mage so that means she's great for mages right?#...right???
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It's so weird that people keep saying that Wanda's trauma is because of Tony. "Tony's weapons attacked her home! It's Tony's fault!" Actually, those weapons were sold by Obadiah Stane (if they were Stark Industries' weapons at all, but we'll ignore how the logo is wrong because it might just be a continuity error). Tony actually is the person who stopped Stane the instant he found out about it. So in fact, Tony is the one who prevented what happened to Wanda from ever happening again.
But for some reason we can't say that. Everyone cries foul. They say we're trying to erase Wanda's trauma. Instead of, you know, redirecting it to the proper source. But I guess it's easier to take up the narrative Wanda created (and loudly and consistently spouts) instead of looking at the truth (which is never said out loud in the movies and is left to be inferred). Because children don't understand how to think critically.
#mcu rant#fandom rant#anti wanda maximoff#anti fandom#avengers rant#anti anti tony stark#tony did what wanda said she wanted to do#if she were a hero she would at least acknowledge that#and acknowledge that her hate was wrongly placed#but she's not a hero she's a brat so she doesn't do any of those things#and her stans are brats so they don't do any of those things either#mod 1#it's been a long time but here I am getting annoyed with humanity again lol
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@livd03 replied: "No one says that 😂"
Joke's on you; every single post I make on here is because I literally saw some dumbass say that. But it's always a great take to pretend no one does, thank you for your super based input.
Though I suppose you think I should apologize for not giving taking pictures or something. I just don't give assholes the attention they crave (past mocking their stupidity for entering my replies).
Tony Antis: Ugh, can you believe Tony Stark complains about his father abusing him? God, what a manipulative whiner.
Me:
#anti fandom#anti this person#anti anti tony stark#good luck finding the post my friend#I think this post of mine is well over a year old#check the tony stark tag and you'll find some real doozies#including the recent chap who decided to talk about getting off on two men beating up someone else#enjoy that
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Just saw a post where someone said that the hottest thing they'd ever seen was when Steve and Bucky beat up Tony Stark, and I gotta say... all I can think of is someone bragging about getting off on watching someone nearly get killed, and I'm just like... ...uh... I am concerned about the safety of those around you...
#do. uh. you know what you're saying???#and others agreed so like. do ANY OF YOU know what you're saying???#because I don't care which chars you like or hate#I'm just genuinely disturbed by you#please. uh. please either say you're deeply exaggerating or that you are seeking professional help#anti fandom#anti anti tony stark#how do I trigger warning this?#tw: sadism#but like#more like#tw: not safe sane consensual sadism#also like. imagine thinking yourself righteous or pure and then saying something like this lol#like. child. you are neither of those two things#'tony stans are so awful' we ain't over here getting hot over a man getting beaten up by two superhumans lol#but uh. go off i guess
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@the-sound-of-her-wings said: "I'll bite. I will admit to not being well versed in dragon age lore, but do not all elves stem from the ancient elves? Even if they are not the same in modern Thedas, they have the same ancestry. Moreover, Dalish history is told orally. Can one not assume that the original meaning was distorted overtime? A mark of ownership becomes a mark of dedication.
"I don't fundamentally disagree with the notion that it's cultural appropriation. But to me it seems more like cultural integration and/or a lost people trying to reconnect with their ancestors. They do what they can with what they know, and I don't exactly blame them for not knowing since the world their ancestors came from was obliterated."
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This particular argument - of cultural appropriation - stems largely in response to the Sola/vellan stans crowd. In their eyes, the vallaslin is a reclamation largely and specifically because it reminds them of Romani and Jewish cultures. I get why - the elves have lost everything, live nomadically, are disgraced and hounded by humans, and desperately keep to their cultural history as well as they can in response to what they've lost. But their history is not the same as those of our world, and their past is not as well known to them as it is to those marginalized groups in our world, and their cultural beliefs are not the same.
In fact, modern elves hold strongly to the conviction of staying true to their history. Even the Dragon Age Wiki's very first sentence proclaims the Dalish to be "nomadic elves that seek to recover, inherit and preserve the knowledge and sacred treasures of the two fallen elven kingdoms, the Dales and Elvhenan." (Please remember how, in Dragon Age: Inquisition, the aravel there learned of their culpability in the start of the war in the Dales and embraced it wholeheartedly. This is a crucial part of their culture.) There was no attempt at 'reclaiming' the vallaslin! They truly believed the vallaslin stood for proof of adulthood and adoration of the god of their choice. None of which is true.
Yet, when Solas informs Lavellan of the truth of the vallaslin, most of the Sola/vellan crowd start yammering about "cultural reappropriation" and "reclamation," simply because they've mixed real marginalized groups with a fictional fantasy race. Instead of making an argument on Thedas lore to explain why they would keep the vallaslin - about how it means something to their Dalish elf specifically, or how they'd become an outcast to their clan, or how they want to change its meaning to something better and start to reclaim it - they talk about how they already have changed its meaning. Which they haven't. Because they never knew its true meaning in the first place.
You cannot reclaim something without at the very least knowing you're doing so.
Add in the fact that, by the time you learn the truth of the vallaslin, you also learn that Ancient Elves still exist in this world and have their own opinions of the Dalish (who are actually known to be descended from the elves of the Dales, so though they of course stem from the Ancient Elves, we don't know how much their culture changed from the fall of Arlathan to the fall of the Dales, two time periods already separated by over a thousand years - though we do know that the Dalish all stem from the slaves of the Imperium who rose up with Shartan, so incredible cultural changes had already taken place). The idea that the Dalish are simply descended from the Ancient Elves and thus have every right to their cultural symbols gets really murky when you realize they are using said symbols while the Ancient Elves, who do not recognize them as the same as them, are still alive to witness it.
Though I dislike bringing real life into a debate about a fantasy world, let me just say this for comparison's sake: just because I have Cherokee blood in me does not make me a native. Being descended from a group does not necessarily lend you equal authority or control on their culture or their traditions. Just because they're both groups of elves does not mean they are the same. Not every human belongs to the same culture, nor does every human have the right to that culture's symbols. The Dalish do not own the Ancient Elves' culture simply because they can trace their ancestry back two millennia and eventually point to the Ancient Elves.
When a Dalish Inquisitor is told outright that they are not recognized as Ancient Elves, when that Dalish Inquisitor holds their peoples' belief that reclaiming historical truths is in fact the greatest of noble deeds, when the oath of the Dales says, specifically, "We are the Dalish: keepers of the lost lore, walkers of the lonely path. We are the last of the Elvhenan, and never again shall we submit,” and yet you choose to keep the slave markings on your Dalish's face because you think they're exactly like real human cultures and don't have any lore to their names - well, that's when you enter fanon, and while you may enjoy the ride and are free to do so, you're ignoring integral parts of the Dalish, the Ancient Elves, and the world of Thedas, and I have no interest in doing the same.
By the way, the vallaslin was unwittingly culturally stolen by the modern elves from the Ancient Elves.
The Ancient Elves owned the vallaslin first. It meant something specific to them. Even if you don't like the meaning, it was and still is something important, even holy, to them. In their ignorance, modern elves reinterpreted the vallaslin and began wearing the markings with no knowledge of what it truly meant.
Abelas says it perfectly: “'Our' people? The ones we see in the forest, shadows wearing vallaslin? You are not my people.”
To the Ancient Elves, modern elves are shadows, or other (potentially lesser) people chasing after those of his race, wearing what is rightfully the Ancient Elves'. They are worn in ignorance by those outside of the group who really owned them.
Moreover, it's stated multiple times in multiple codices that no other race has figured out how to create the vallaslin. The ink is sacred, and no one but a few elves know how to make it. For something to be "culturally reappropriated," it would have needed to have been taken from them by some other group first. It was not.
In fact, the only two groups to have ever created the vallaslin are the Ancient Elves and the modern elves.
So despite what the Dragon Age Wiki says, no, modern elves have not 'reappropriated' the vallaslin. The appropriated it from the Ancient Elves.
#the-sound-of-her-wings#response#dragon age rant#vallaslin rant#fandom rant#once again. i use the term 'native' bc a couple told me that 'native american' is a term created by white people#& they are no more 'american' than the land that was taken from them#but if most others disagree with this just let me know and i'll change it#long post#as usual
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By the way, the vallaslin was unwittingly culturally stolen by the modern elves from the Ancient Elves.
The Ancient Elves owned the vallaslin first. It meant something specific to them. Even if you don't like the meaning, it was and still is something important, even holy, to them. In their ignorance, modern elves reinterpreted the vallaslin and began wearing the markings with no knowledge of what it truly meant.
Abelas says it perfectly: “'Our' people? The ones we see in the forest, shadows wearing vallaslin? You are not my people.”
To the Ancient Elves, modern elves are shadows, or other (potentially lesser) people chasing after those of his race, wearing what is rightfully the Ancient Elves'. They are worn in ignorance by those outside of the group who really owned them.
Moreover, it's stated multiple times in multiple codices that no other race has figured out how to create the vallaslin. The ink is sacred, and no one but a few elves know how to make it. For something to be "culturally reappropriated," it would have needed to have been taken from them by some other group first. It was not.
In fact, the only two groups to have ever created the vallaslin are the Ancient Elves and the modern elves.
So despite what the Dragon Age Wiki says, no, modern elves have not 'reappropriated' the vallaslin. The appropriated it from the Ancient Elves.
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@mywitchcultblr said: "I can understand her background but i cannot agree with her politics, an ex mutual blocked me simply because I'm critical of her lmao
"I love dragon age and all of my fave, im still passionate but it's just i have no interest to interact with the fandom too much"
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I feel the exact same! Dragon Age is my favorite game series, and yet the fandom is hands-down one of the most toxic I've ever had the displeasure of interacting with. Don't like Sera? Lesbophobe. Don't like Vivienne? Racist. Don't like Solas? Misogynist, for some reason. Don't like fandom's favorite fanons because they go directly against known lore? Gatekeeper. What's that? Fandom can enjoy fanon, but you dislike it and block any mention of it from your eyesight because you love the original world and lore of DA? Still a gatekeeper, apparently.
Worse, the fandom has a handful of favorite blogs that are Always Right And Best, and everyone else had better toe the line while also being forced into obscurity. This is something I've always seen, both in fandoms and in life - the popular people are right, always, and the unpopular people need to be quiet "and let people enjoy things" (by not speaking about what they enjoy, of course). But it's the demanded silence that really does it to me. The Dragon Age fandom barks and howls about inclusivity, but the instant you don't fall in line with their reinvented fanon DA, you get attacked as if by rabid wolves.
Have you ever mentioned that, while the fics and pics to the contrary are fun and interesting, Solas made it clear in Trespasser that he was never one of the Evanuris, so he was never considered a god before he started the war? I don't recommend it; Solas stans get really upset when you point it out.
Hell, I remember someone posting about how Solas' eyes are canonically brown, not blue, and someone telling them they don't want to know that. Like???? The fandom is INSANE.
It's the height of the "woke" crowd, and I put "woke" in quotation marks because they aren't woke so much as they try to make everything about marginalization and demand everyone agree with them, even if it means deliberately ignoring canon. The creators who wrote Orlais and Ferelden are racist against the French-speaking people in Canada. Making a corrupt Chantry led by women is misogynistic. Cullen getting an okay ending is abuser/racist apologism. Vivienne is a black woman girlboss with no bad features hated simply for being black. The Ancient Elves are evil and selfish like boomers. And on and on!
It's exhausting. If these people want to enjoy Dragon Age in this way, even though I can't imagine how, they are free to do so. But anyone who wants to enjoy it in any other way - by reading the side books and knowing Vivienne is a corrupt liar, by learning the history and cultures of the games and knowing the plight of the Ancient Elves is far more complex than boomer rhetoric, by enjoying the complexity of characters enough to say Cullen and Solas are morally grey, by tackling the complex political world of Thedas and seeing how religious extremism is the problem with the Chantry and would be the problem no matter who led it... all of these are unacceptable interpretations by 99% of the fandom, and any time a person sticks their neck out to say something that goes against the status quo, fandom will jump them like slavering beasts in an effort to shut them up.
If ever there was a fandom that I never, ever wish to interact with again, despite how much I love the original source and have even created art and fic, it would be the Dragon Age fandom. I have written several stories and drawn countless art pieces that will never be seen online, because I don't want to hear these people praise my works - nor do I think they deserve to enjoy them - while waiting in the wings to jump my shit because I mentioned that the vallaslin was unwittingly culturally stolen by modern elves from the Ancient elves.
#mywitchcultblr#response#long post#damn every time i think about the da fandom i get upset all over again#i can't tell you how many times i've said something and gotten people screaming at me#you think i had it bad with the anti-terraven crowd? you haven't seen anything#just mention that elves aren't any real group of people and you'll get countless idiots screaming that you're wrong and a disgusting person#even though they are ELVES. in a fantasy world.#watch them slaver all over themselves to jump in your inbox about how you're antisemitic or something#tw: racism mention#tw: antisemitism mention#tw: misogyny mention#tw: homophobia mention#dragon age rant#da:i rant#fandom rant
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It feels like not enough people are talking about how making Spock a very sexual character in SNW has erased many parts of him that connected to asexuals around the world. I'm not even arguing about how they've erased the very obviously gay subtext around Spirk - they've even felt it necessary to make Spock openly het instead of keeping him largely aloof to sexual matters, something that I as an ace felt drawn to immediately. It feels like they've erased my representation from one of the oldest and most famous characters to stand for me.
#star trek rant#strange new worlds rant#anti this new version of spock#asexuality#mod 1#i keep thinking about this#it's why I haven't been able to get into the series at all#where'd my ace go? :(#and before anyone goes into it i am well aware that aces can like people and like sex duh#but this does not feel like that at all#it feels very very het
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@elenajones23 asked: "Question is Star Trek better than Star Wars?"
A very subjective question. I actually highly dislike Star Wars and love Star Trek, though I'm not much of a fan of The Next Generation. If you enjoy Star Wars, you may love Star Trek: TNG because I see a lot of overlap between fans of those two shows.
In the end, it all depends on your tastes. Even if you end up liking Star Wars more than Star Trek, however, there are so many Star Trek shows (all but the latest of which are standalone) that you're bound to find one you adore.
every time a man says "Star Trek wasn't made for women" I have no idea whether I should laugh or cry
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