The fact that some people actually blame tumblr shipping culture for the reason men can’t show intimacy to each other without being perceived as gay is fucking mind boggling to me

the quarry is an anomaly

until dawn was bad but it was DISTINCTLY bad in a horror schlock way. it was no worse than the movies it mimicked in fact it was very on par

the quarry is just. bad lol

When you see an ex mutual grumble about cringe LGBTQ people but you know they had a straight ally pride icon with a voltron character for a year and you ask whatever divine power is listening for the strength not to make that public and potentially result in a dogpile but you know in your heart it would be the funniest thing ever and they might even deserve it a little but you’re a strong woman and can hold it in

Why do you like Zevran when he’s a murderer?(I mean technically isn’t every companion but I digress) I love the dude I’m just simply curious on why you do! For me I love his character growth.

I’m only asking this because today I got asked that, and the other person made it seem like Zevran was the most evil character ever because he was an assassin and had no character growth and never atoned for all the people he killed.

well, like you said, all of our companions are murderers. we, the player character, are a murderer. and we don't ever have to atone for shit, so i honestly find "murder" to be an insufficient metric for judging characters.

i mean, we can discuss how some murders are maybe more severe, or more representative of one's morals, than others, but at the end of the day, we and our companions are all murderers who don't suffer any consequences for the deaths we cause. and whether or not an individual companion has to "answer" for a specific murder (sten, anders, blackwall, etc) is up to the PC.

also, zevran is a slave.

he was bought by the crows as a child, and raised to be an assassin, and if he didn't adhere to their training and their rules, they would kill him. his scene in the fade is of him being tortured. it's established that if he separates from the crows, they will hunt him down. zevran didn't have a choice about being an assassin.

if wynne confronts him about it, he will brush her off. but if the warden gains his trust, he will speak plainly about his past. i believe he's made as much peace as is possible with his profession (killing for pay is a relatively normalized thing in this universe after all), but he's not doing it becuz it's his passion. he doesn't know anything else, he doesn't have the freedom to choose anything else.

zevran is like a lot of companions in this series in that he uses humor and flirtation to cover up any vulnerable feelings. if you don't gain zevran's trust, he has no reason to be honest with you, and so a lecherous snarky murderer is all you will see.

but if you befriend or romance him, you will see that he is a sensitive, compassionate man, haunted by choices that he's made and struggling with the effects of his trauma. he argues with you to spare the mages and the dalish (and in the case of broken circle, to a degree that no other companion does). he is touched when you give him gifts. he promises that your assassin training will be fun, and he is so considerate of your boundaries as a lover. if you die during the final battle after romancing him, it is confirmed that he never loves again.

and if he lives? he dedicates himself to dismantling the crows. that's literally his whole appearance in da2. he might be doing it more for personal revenge and/or justice on behalf of other enslaved children than out of penance, but i don't know what more could be expected of him in terms of "atonement."

anyway. that's why i love zevran. and if anyone else gives you shit for liking him, anon, you can link them to this post.

The more I think about it the more annoyed I am by the amount of Deadwoman Sadmen in Fallout 4. Like @the head writer WHO THE FUCK HURT YOU???? @Todd Howard WHY did you approve SO many of the EXACT SAME character backstory for MULTIPLE characters in ONE GAME??

You know what? I WOULD rather a bitter divorced MacCready who nontheless is looking for a cure for his son because that's still his kid! I'd rather Kellog's wife?/gf? LEFT him because he was a piece of shit merc! Must it have been a wife dying for Deacon to feel bad and change his ways? why not some random community member or or a friend something? Time and time again this series uses women as plot devices rather than as characters and fallout 4 is the worst offender. Not only is it misogyny and showing a severe lack of anyone but the most generic cis white men they could pull off the street to sit in the writer's room but it's So. Lazy. Every. Time!!!!

Sexism aside are they not embarassed with their lack of imagination and hack storytelling?

Celebrimbor as a Telerin smith of immense skill whose talents just aren’t recognized because he’s from an unknown family, so he starts scamming people hard. Yeah, he’s related to Daeron. Come look at his projects. Yes, he’s totally Fëanor’s long lost grandson. Will that make you take him seriously? (Galadriel backs him up out of Alqualondë solidarity and also because she wants to see what he’s going to do). He and Annatar meet and have instant scam artist to scam artist recognition. Scam artist to scam artist communication.

I might be completely off base here, but the impression I've gotten from some Riddler stans is that they were also-at one point in time-really into the Onceler.

sexy fanart version of “he would not say that” is “she would not do that”

peeks into the Sonegg tag and sees it's mostly @beevean's posts talking about it, a few pieces of fanart not even from the games, and a smattering of fans going "OH FUCK NO"

which is really funny to me considering it's mostly the same deal in the Shadria tag. something about shipping three-foot-tall hedgehogs with the 'botnik cousins provokes a visceral reaction in people

Him calling her selfish pissed me off too!! Season 1 loki even pointed out at one point that she was just a child when the TVA took her.

He knows better than anyone how much she deserves to live a life.

you are so right and you should say it!

i know he was hurting and wanted to make her hurt too but like. read the room! nothing either of them wants is selfish. companionship and a life are basic needs. to cast them as selfish really highlights the dire situations they are in.

but i'll be honest, my first reaction to him saying that wasn't the contextualized, oh he's hurting, he's lashing out, that i later settled in on. my reaction was this:

loki, 2 weeks ago you killed like 100 people over a few days because you were angry with ur dad. no real room to talk about what is selfish in that space.

[cis person voice] well dan savage said—

rene descartes has sooooo much to answer for

listen if youre online arguing about what "true punk' is youre already too far gone. ok now that being said i have a secret opinion to share ⬇️

Someone come get me when tom taylor is finally off of nightwing so i can finally know peace 😔

my favourite thing about 2017/early 2018 emmerdale is that the Whites thought Robert would be the one to mess up Seb, as if any of them were normal in the first place

I always scoff at sonas with design aspects that are so clearly manufactured to be offputting and artificially mold-breaking, but I always gotta reel the cynicism back and tell myself Well Then What The Fuck Are Arneis’ Eyebrow Things Hmm?