Rhyske

my son.. (frames from this video)

Make her shorter if you must

Make them exactly the same size and shape but different colors

Give him a huge flock of babies following him around to show off what a great lay he is

Surprise mPreganté

Exactly the same but one of them has a cool hat (you decide which)

Give her a sensible haircut for successful hunting while he has a big dumb mullet so big and dumb the food can see him coming and book it

I have zero issues with the age I am because...why would I lol so don't take this as me feeling insecure somehow, but I wanna write down a few of my thoughts as a person who's been in fandoms her whole life.

Leave it to women, or young girls, to shame other women for liking content that makes them happy.

Happens to me a lot as an ARMY too. Teens or young adults that discovered the band a few short years ago suddenly think women my age are "too old" to enjoy it.

When I'm the same age and younger than some of the members, and I grew up alongside them for the past decade.

Same goes for SJM, her books were YA first because that's the age range her and BB were aiming for. Throne of Glass came out in 2012. 14 years ago. Can we do the math and figure out how old the people who followed her books must be now?

So she aged up her stories, they became more mature because the readers were aging with her. She became a mom and translated those new experiences as a full adult in her 30s into her stories. Those experiences aren't aimed at teens, or people in their early 20s. They're supposed to appeal to grown women who might be going through the same thing. You don't direct a risky pregnancy story to teenagers.

Don't even get me started on the amount of sex her recent books have.

All of this to say women have been shamed for so long for being into shit, when men can be 40-45-50 and have a passion for sports, for comics, for hero movies, for cars, etc. And apparently us women have an expiration date for the content we can consume for joy. And especially don't push that narrative if you're gonna go around calling yourself a feminist.

You can dislike a ship we're into, knock yourself out. But you're being a misogynist AGAIN when you mock the main demographic of this fandom because you think it gives you some nonexistent upper hand.

Let me leave you with this, in case you have forgotten already:

But in every other situation he is thoughtful yet not overbearing. Gives his opinion and is assertive but not forceful.

He is actually rather soft in his delivery and the point of this post is that I tire of people taking a few emotionally charged moments directly relating to him responding to circumstances that remind him of his trauma and using that as a basis of his entire personality.

“Yes. You have my word.”

Especially if you're playing Hawke as a mage, the way it's repeatedly driven into the player in act 1 that Hawke could wake up in the Gallows because they're a poor refugee and also not every templar has a price, some really just love to make mages suffer (even though you never do get caught; I really wish there'd been an instance where Hawke had to break out of the Gallows like the Warden and Alistair breaking out of prison in DAO) and if you go to the Gallows and like... listen to the mage NPCs idle dialogue, look at the way some of them that are allowed to roam the courtyard are cowering, listen to the monotone voice of the Tranquil merchant standing beside Solivitus, the templars' remarks about the mages not even being people, it's just so incredibly fucked up that it baffles me how there's even a question of whether or not Anders was right. Even some of what he says in banter with your other companions about the Circle is genuinely insane (what do you mean you've been fortunate, you just told Sebastian you were assaulted by the templars at Kinloch??? You were fortunate that you escaped??).

Tranquility is so genuinely horrifying as a concept, too. Anders' entire recruitment quest being about his own lover being made Tranquil as punishment for the crime of just writing to him, Alain mentioning that Karras has been in his chambers and threatens to have him branded if he tells anyone, watching Alrik tell a girl that she'll do whatever he wants her to when he makes her Tranquil, that one woman in act 2 who Alrik made Tranquil before he died having a conversation with her distraught lover about how she belongs to Ser Alrik now, the fact that slowly over the course of the game there actually are more Tranquil in the Gallows; I feel like it's one of the darkest things I've seen in a non-horror RPG. You get taken away from your friends and family forever if you're born with magic, and if you fail the test you aren't prepared for that they randomly spring on you to see if you can resist a demon you're executed, and even if you successfully pass that, if you make one wrong move or even if the templars just don't like you, you get fucking lobotomized and have no agency over anything that is done to you ever again.