Hi, here be art and rambling

I'm probably gonna get yelled at for saying this but sometimes something isn't a real problem in fandom, you just learned a Japanese word describing a general fandom practice and got scared and decided it meant "The Bad Ones" of that practice

OP is correct and smart for saying this. this is related to/a subset of how people are about non-fandom foreign words, too, like how people say "Christians worship God (good), Muslims worship Allah (bad and scary)" when gues swh. gu. guess what. gues s w hat Allah mea. guess what the word "Allah" means--!!

I don't understand how cis people obsessed with gender norms think trans people are the weird ones. they're going around believing that your name has to correlate to your genitals. your fashion has to correlate to your genitals. your behaviours have to correlate to your genitals. your hobbies have to correlate to your genitals. who you date has to correlate to your genitals. whether you can put sparkles on your eyelids or not has to correlate to your genitals. and then people like me go "hmm. I might not do that. maybe I'll just do what feels fun and okay instead" and they LOSE their MINDS

Found the source of the infographic that explains how the results were obtained!

we did it, we created furry gerrymandering

obviously there’s nothing morally wrong with the projectionist lens through which a large portion of fandom operates but it does get kind of tiring to constantly feel like. hey guys what if we stopped talking about ourselves and instead talked about the character

and of course a degree of projectionism can be a very useful lens in certain circumstances, such as having unique insight into a character who shares certain aspects of your own experiences. but at the end of the day you still gotta recognize that there are going to be aspects of them that diverge from yourself

I work for the Marriott next to a convention center and every time theres a furry convention we get complaints about the continental breakfast having hair in it and im like what do you want me to do? Shave them? Shave the fucking furries?

I also refuse to believe that nearly 50% of the fandom thinks Anders was wrong for blowing up the Chantry. I think you're all a bunch of pedantic asswipes who love misinterpreting questions to be "funny"

Right!? Because if that’s the case then more people would side with Templars in both 2 and Inquisition. Honestly I think there’s very little reason you would side with Meridith in 2, except for RP reasons I guess??

thinking about "a hundred years from now someone like me can love someone like you with no templars to tear us apart" for no apparent reason

thinking about morrigan having kieran is actually so sad for me. because obviously she grows to love him, but in her own words he was "a means to an end." we don't know exactly when that changed. this was a ritual given to her by her mother, she was told to do this by her mother. to become pregnant, to carry a child to term, to raise it for the sole purpose of preserving the soul of an old god. "a means to an end." what does that look like when, even though your mother who tasked you with this is dead, you still choose to go through with it because it's the only way to save the life of your friend or lover? you uphold flemeth's directive. you save the life of someone important to you. all it costs is the loss of self and the loss of body that accompanies pregnancy and motherhood, and you have to do while completely alone. obviously morrigan did want to preserve the old god soul, whether for herself or because flemeth impressed that desire upon her (or some mix of the two), but did she ever want to have a baby? she loves kieran. he became her son. but having a baby when you didn't particularly want one is a huge sacrifice for "a means to an end"

and to make it all worse, she's like. 20.

the slut is back !?