geck

i like when a piece of media says that an all-powerful character "sees humans as insects" because that really could mean a lot of things. maybe they view us as insignifigant and will squish us under their boot. maybe theyre actually studying and cataloguing us for their thesis paper. maybe theyre campaigning for human protection because we're an important part of their ecosystem. maybe they see a human and go "ew ew ewwwwww someone get the cup and get that FREAK out of my house." .

granted maybe i just haven’t played enough jrpgs but can anyone point me towards an actual genuine instance of an ambiguously gendered silent protagonist. like. can anyone give me an actual real life example of a game in which neutral or no pronouns are used for a player character with the specific intent of that character being gendered outside of the text of the game by the player. not a gender selector or a male character with ambiguous physical traits but a player character who straight up deliberately is not gendered with the expectation that the player decides their gender after the fact. or is that just something people only pretend is an established trope when they don’t want to acknowledge that toby fox knew about nonbinary people in 2015

Last night I dreamt that I watched all of LotR and everything was the same except Sauron was replaced by the penguins from Madagascar standing on top of Barad-Dur with a telescope and a sniper rifle.