me whenever someone makes any sort of stingers content:
doES ANYONE ELSE REALIZE THAT WE’RE LIKE, THE FIRST GENERATION ON TUMBLR
GIVE IT 10-15 YEARS AND WE’LL ALL BE GROWN UP AND AN ENTIRE NEW SET OF KIDS WILL BE ON HERE BLOGGING ABOUT COMPLETELY DIFFERENT SHOWS AND BANDS AND MOVIES AND BOOKS
THE ONLY THING THEY’LL STILL BE BLOGGING ABOUT THE SAME AS WE WERE IS DOCTOR WHO
HOPEFULLY
We’ll probably all be blogging about Sherlock season 4.
maybe
7/22/2013
happy decade anniversary to this post
thoughts about ROs with templar ending!hawke makes me SO unwell
oh my god you’re so right for all your wynne feelings like…. people really do think every mage should be like. dismantling the system with their bare hands and it’s like. that’s not how it works!! and calling the MAGES part of a cult?? Out of everything?? what on earth… and yknow what if she is trapped in a cult like. free her. Christ FJDJDJJDJ
I hope you don’t mind me taking this reply as a further excuse to ramble about Wynne dslkfdsf…
But yes, it’s always struck me as strange Wynne is never given the same understanding as Anders, or really any other mage character that’s been in the Circle. Anders is the one I focus on because he’s the most developed and there is Something Different that I can’t just put my finger on about him vs Wynne. A true mystery.
After skimming her page for answering purposes, and they are actually so similar.
I learned she never even had a name herself, she was also named for where she was found! Just like Anders! Both of them taken in young, no true names, and alone. They took different paths with how they coped with this, Wynne turned to the Maker and by extension took on the belief that mages need to earn their place and help humanity, and Anders tried to escape several times. Both of them even took on romantic partners, and Wynne even bore a son from it (and the heavy implication/confirmation? that, Rhys’ father was a templar SO).
Of course, this doesn’t matter in the slightest since it’s not so much similar backstories as just, hating Wynne because? She’s a woman? Not actively trying to free mages with explosions? Old? Upset you because she made you mad about your love interest? All of the above?
And I’m not against disliking her character, but Wynne, along with characters like Aveline and Cassandra never get the mountains of meta concerning their worldviews, their place in the world, and the wider implications of their writing and flaws. Wynne stood out to me more because, well, she’s a victim too. Just because she’s not “actively fighting” doesn’t mean she’s not, and in fact pretty much states in Asunder that she knows it’s either accepting your fate within the Circle or fearing a mass genocide.
And guess what happens after DA2 lol!
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3. screenshot or description of the worst take you’ve seen on tumblr - Dragon Age
I won’t screenshot it, while I could find it, I’ll just describe it: the “Circle of Magi is a cult” and the flanderization of Wynne’s character because of it. This is not in defensive of the Circle, or claiming Wynne has no faults or issues with her writing, but I felt that was such a stretch, and using this read of the Circle to further mischaracterize her lmao.
Wynne is a pretty complex character that, I’ve speculated with this fandom, give her such a bad faith reading despite the fact she’s as much a victim as other mages are, is because she’s not a 20-something white guy you can kiss so they don’t give her the time of day.
Wynne is a 60~ year old woman that has not left the tower in literal decades, and is only permitted to leave to go fight in a literal war. She has a child that was taken away, and she’s just left to live with that, and has canonly! thought about what kind of person they grew up to be (which is tackled in Asunder but prior to that). She has seen countless mages go missing, and can only imagine what befell them, mages she’s likely trained! herself!!!!
(I think also reducing the Circle and its host of problems down to “a cult” erases the nuance of why it exists, both in lore and out of lore writing wise. And…attaching “Cult” to a fictional group without much nuance as well.)
18. it’s absolutely criminal that the fandom has been sleeping on… - Dragon Age
No idea if this counts, because it’s not even a fully realized character, but “Tabris”, not the Warden but wherever the Tabris family got their name from. Lore implies an Emerald Knight, or a carryover from a Dalish clan. Like Whats Going On There.
If that doesn’t count, then The First Warden because my god that guy is up to some shady shit, what’s he gonna DO.
23. ship you’ve unwillingly come around to - Dragon Age
I had to think about this, and don’t have any major changes in ships, but…Oghren/Warden? Specifically Amell/Surana? Maybe? I’ve thought about the dynamic of two people stepping foot into a whole new world and trying to find common ground and learn together. Maybe romantic, maybe platonic, I just really liked the idea. I also saw Wynne/Shale once, and that’s a great one.
only true jem fans remember “where are all the men”
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- the character everyone gets wrong - Danganronpa
Since the answer can’t be “all of them” I’ll go with my blorbist of blorbos: Mukuro. Mukuro’s such an interesting character because she was envisioned to be a simple plot device to make the twist work, so her original character wasn’t much except, well, plot device and foreshadowing. Later additions added to her character and fleshed her out, building on a pretty decent character concept.
The core of Mukuro’s character though, regardless, is she loves and dedicates her life to her younger sister Junko. This is her /core/ and something that remained true throughout all of her content and appearances.
And of course, this is what people get wrong. Often times, when they write or rewrite her character, they remove or change that aspect. Because well you gotta make her GOOD, can’t have her complex when she needs to kiss Makoto or whatever. You know, a stupid decision. When in both semi-canon material (DRIF) and canon-but-sort-of-not (DRS) that when she grows attached to her classmates, she doesn’t change her moral stance on Junko’s plans because ~redemption~ or whatever, she still wants to bring her sister’s happiness out of her love for her, and if that means ruining her plans to bring her despair, then that’s what she’ll do. Nothing will change that, and people just ignore it, and it drives me fucking bonkers.
24. topic that brings up the most rancid discourse - JEM
This one seems so easy, it’s so unfair, but IDW because IDW had the audacity to include fat gay women. I’d say to a lesser extent, any content that’s not the show, but to those who came in late there was so much discourse and hate and just, general bigoted opinions on the FB side of the JEM fandom. Like, everything was overhated, shit on, everything. Nothing IDW did was enough, bc this was a bunch of boomers who hated change and diversity, plain and simple.
IDW did have pacing and story issues, and I would say that it is not great their WOC characters were shoved in the background, and more minor elements, but that was never the point of the, dare I say it, Jaters (JEM Haters). They just hated fat women and non-white women and gay women.
The funniest thing is, IDW is likely what Marx would have done, should she actually have a hand in a reboot lmao. And I have proof!!!
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- the character everyone gets wrong
- a compelling argument for why your fave would never top or bottom
- screenshot or description of the worst take you've seen on tumblr
- what was the last straw that made you finally block that annoying person?
- worst discord server and why
- which ship fans are the most annoying?
- what character did you begin to hate not because of canon but because how how the fandom acts about them?
- common fandom opinion that everyone is wrong about
- worst part of canon
- worst part of fanon
- number of fandom-related words you've filtered
- the unpopular character that you actually like and why more people should like them
- worst blorboficiation
- that one thing you see in fics all the time
- that one thing you see in fanart all the time
- you can't understand why so many people like this thing (characterization, trope, headcanon, etc)
- there should be more of this type of fic/art
- it's absolutely criminal that the fandom has been sleeping on...
- you're mad/ashamed/horrified you actually kind of like...
- part of canon you found tedious or boring
- part of canon you think is overhyped
- your favorite part of canon that everyone else ignores
- ship you've unwillingly come around to
- topic that brings up the most rancid discourse
- common fandom complaint that you're sick of hearing
DOCTOR WHO – The Passenger (Season 20 Announcement Trailer)
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