AA dot BG is an imaginary domain because the car had one on the side, and because I can totally picture Ascended Astarion having his personal site. also, AA stands for Astarion Ancunin so it all works perfectly lol

on twt:

https://x.com/skeptical_lynx/status/1781492140561899649?s=46&t=EuBiJuFrpmM7JiLiuDbaCA

I was tagged under this post by one of my followers and I was enabled haha

So tender, gentle and mine.

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BALDUR'S GATE 3 — LANDSCAPES ⤔ SHADOW-CURSED LANDS

I think what especially bothers me about SOME people who harp on AA being abusive is that honestly it spits in the face of DV survivors. I know it’s not everyone of course, I’m just talking about those who haven’t lived it (I have to emphasize: not everyone’s lived a calm life or one free from abuse) I was in a DV relationship and was abused growing up. Who are you to tell someone what they should enjoy and ASSUME you know more about abuse from a fictional relationship in a video game. On such a high horse that they will actually talk down to those who have lived through REAL abuse as though they somehow know better because they played a fantasy game.

Also — and let me emphasize again, this isn’t a monolith for ALL who hate AA — if you think that abuse is “partner is physically violent and in complete control of their helpless, weak s/o” you have a serious piss-poor grasp of how DV can manifest. To encourage this dynamic for a part of the game you will likely never play, finding catharsis in watching people see a dynamic they enjoy be turned into a ridiculous depiction of violence/DV by the fandom… and to have people literally AFRAID to openly say they enjoy AA narratively…yeah that’s weird as hell to me. Why would you take pleasure in watching people upset? Because you personally don’t like this version of Astarion? Have you considered perhaps… growing up?

TLDR: people who like to say “you don’t understand what abuse is/I’m worried about AA fans” are smug assholes. If you want to say that I am “romanticizing abuse” then I’d kindly ask you to have lived in my shoes— you benefit nothing from being so cruel to strangers you disagree with. Unless you’ve experienced DV/Abuse/etc yourself, get bent. Please do not pretend to be ~worried~ about a group of people when you clearly empathize far more for a cluster of code in a video game

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