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He can feel his heart fluttering beneath fingertips, spreading a warmth full of laughter and smiles that pulls them closer. To be with one another, sharing this vulnerability that would be terrifying with anyone else… yet when they touch it is an all consuming tenderness exploding in jubilation. Where once they stood as individuals now they stand as something else, something that is whole and safe. This joy, this trust, this desire, it is all encompassing and in this single moment all that they are. This, they both think, is love.  

Having grown up poor and in foster care Anders saved up money for years to go to med school, but had to drop out after he was suspended for being hospitalized during a mixed manic episode. This was not Anders first episode, but it was his most severe, and he never quite  recovered emotionally or economically. Cue Anders turning to sex work and upon seeing how little resources were available for people like him, opening up a little clinic when he had the opportunity. 

I mean; lets be clear; punishment for being trans in the military was not slavery; it was a heavy fine. A fine that Krem, being very poor, had no chance of paying and therefore was given the choice between slavery or death. This is an excellent example of the ways in which the criminal justice system effects poor people way harder; Krems punishment is slavery or death. A rich trans persons punishment would be a fine and a discharge. 

We also see this difference with Maevaris; she was allowed to marry a man, which implies that she is legally recognized as a woman and given rights that are exclusively given women. This is a right that is explicitly, and violently, denied Krem and we can only assume the reason for that is Maevaris social standing. 

and sometimes people who are used to being treated like an authority say “if you won’t respect me I won’t respect you” and they mean “if you won’t treat me like an authority I won’t treat you like a person”

I replayed DA2

im not crying you’re crying

aaah