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new pinned. mint, any pronouns (he/she/they), incredibly autistic lesbian. my twitter is mintsoir and is where i post most of my art, but hi im here too.
i mostly post about rpg games, but i reblog all sorts of shit. sometimes i post risqué things, they're tagged as "suggestive" for blacklisting purposes.
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terfs and transphobes unwelcome. my transgender sisters are foundational to the lesbian community, die mad over it.
i dont like tweeting longform thoughts about caitlyn for obvious reasons so i’m bringing my thoughts here. and so here’s some thoughts on caitlyn, her ideas on murder, and stuff set up by season 1 of arcane
a lot of what vi says to caitlyn (and later to jayce) rings true — people in the undercity die all the time, die as a direct result of piltover’s hands it’s just that piltover goes about it in a way that doesn’t allow them to think about it. policy, starvation, toxic runoff. indirect means of suffering to take a life. when caitlyn releases the gray onto the streets of zaun, she doesn’t rationalize it as chemical warfare — she rationalizes it as another means to the end of capturing and killing jinx.
she hasn’t been confronted with what the deployment of the gray really means, because nobody tells her what she’s doing is reckless endangerment. most of the remaining council would probably opt to do much worse than caitlyn does! she’s had no time to grieve and process what’s been done to her and her family, and every person in her life who should tell her no won’t — because they don’t have the power to do so (vi) or because the system is built to reward caitlyn’s violent revenge fantasies.
it’s pretty well-established in season 1 of arcane that caitlyn doesn’t kill. ultimately, she wants to protect, and she’s proven she can do that in the case of sevika and vi’s first fight, where she shoots sevika’s arm three times. vi points out that she could’ve killed sevika, should’ve killed sevika, and caitlyn just rolls past that because caitlyn’s previous brushes with death have been pretty impersonal. i believe pretty earnestly that caitlyn could’ve killed jinx, would’ve killed jinx if given the chance to…
but she’s not ready at all to deal with what the reality of taking a life truly means. it’s like when jayce and vi take on silco’s shimmer production and jayce ends up killing a child. it’s easy to rationalize every other person murdered as a dangerous criminal — but what do you do when the people you harm never asked for any of this?
anyways caitlyn really needs a reality check. i’ve been seeing sentiments from other fans who want caitlyn to kill ambessa but i kinda think it’d be a lame way to take the show for various reasons — but most importantly because i really don’t think that’s where caitlyn’s arc is headed. i imagine once the direct result of her command is shown on screen, bloody and beaten, that’s when caitlyn will realize that she’s truly become the monster she so despises.
Why did you do it?
lil wip
fuck ambessa is so hot i gotta kill myself man i love manipulative women ambessa please please please would you have sex with a frail waifish girl Pleasepleaseplease
feel free to cancel me for this but i think it is actually extremely extremely hot that ambessa is manipulating caitlyn to her will
I dislike the inclusion of a lot of modern Queer Rep Terminology in spec fic (fantasy more than sci fi) on basically aesthetic grounds. But also on to be slightly more principled about it, I feel like forcing the writers to actually describe their characters' identities and sexualities without recourse to a labelled bucket they can just slap and say 'yknow, this!' would be very artistically fruitful.
Star Guardian Orianna 🌠
wild rift star guardian team goes brrrainrot
coffee biscuits w ryne's new goth acquaintance
i dont think i can play any more datv because it makes me sad/upset but can anyone let me know if that meredith cameo at the end of absolution actually meant anything, does that ever get brought up in veilguard
warwick’s design in arcane is so fucking ugly holy hell
i give dos2 and bg3 passes where i wouldnt give them to veilguard because at least the prior two games haven't set the precedent that its worldbuilding is very morally grey and textured — they're incredibly low stakes in comparison to what dragon age has been building up towards the better part of 20 years. not that they don't play with nuance, but they don't exactly demand the audience has an opinion on the sociopolitical conflicts that dragon age sprinkles throughout their worldbuilding, not in the same way. aka, the reasons why dragon age as a series is so beloved in the first place
also, i just really really really appreciate an rpg that doesnt force me to use dogshit dialogue wheels lol . i even think that larian's origin system is proof that dialogue wheels are earnestly detrimental to the rpg experience, EVEN in the instances where you are playing the dev's original character and not your own (because that is what Rook is).
tldr i miss dark urge badly
and to be clear this isnt a "politics bad for game" statement, obviously, but its more the fact that the scope has changed. i don't particularly think any bit of dragon age's sociopolitical commentary was, like, interesting in the way that it was presented to us (there's an argument that you can make that the dragon age games [and mass effect too, especially even] are very politically conservative, in spite of their queer representation)
even if i don't care for what dragon age was saying, at least it was saying something. veilguard, in comparison, says nothing at all.
i give dos2 and bg3 passes where i wouldnt give them to veilguard because at least the prior two games haven't set the precedent that its worldbuilding is very morally grey and textured — they're incredibly low stakes in comparison to what dragon age has been building up towards the better part of 20 years. not that they don't play with nuance, but they don't exactly demand the audience has an opinion on the sociopolitical conflicts that dragon age sprinkles throughout their worldbuilding, not in the same way. aka, the reasons why dragon age as a series is so beloved in the first place
also, i just really really really appreciate an rpg that doesnt force me to use dogshit dialogue wheels lol . i even think that larian's origin system is proof that dialogue wheels are earnestly detrimental to the rpg experience, EVEN in the instances where you are playing the dev's original character and not your own (because that is what Rook is).
tldr i miss dark urge badly
I'm realizing there are 3 types of Dragon Age fans.
1) Gamers who play latest big flashy action game
2) UwU kissy dating and besties simulator
3) Interested in the sociopolitical and theological themes and thesis statements the series is historically known for
Veilguard is not made for fan #3. It is a very pretty game that has absolutely nothing it wants to say--to the point that what it says by saying nothing is often times pretty offensive.
are you okay with dms? fellow dos2 + lohsebille yapper and not enough people play this game 😭
yes!!! <3 i dont mind being dmed at all about anything and i wuuuuuuuuv chatting abt lohsebille...... [extends my hand]
