cringe central

tagged like uhh . over a week ago oops. by @atiya-nagrano !! ummm this is actually not super recent (started it and then immediately forgot it existed when i got scared) but i'm thinking about it again... much 2 think about. welcome to the jasperverse ig

“The myth, the legend…”  “Varric,” Hawke had interrupted, wearily, cracking the joints in her hands, where a mottled trail of bruises already bloomed across her knuckles. Her gold-lacquered staff leaned against the wall; Andraste, nude, stared beatifically up at the ceiling atop it. “Stop. I’m Jasper, I’m here on behalf of the rebellion. And you’re Vivienne of Montsimmard, I assume?” Battered, rangy, with her dark roots growing long and stark against her bleached blonde hair, she hardly looked the part of the infamous Champion of Kirkwall. Then, of course: writers embellish stories to their tastes just as surely as courtiers pursue an agenda, and despite his coarse exterior, Varric Tethras — Vivienne would do well never to forget — has been both.  “You assume correctly,” she’d replied, smooth: incline your head, smile at your guest, spirits teeming around her, clamouring for her attention. What you feel, what you know, what you understand, locked behind your ribs. “Dare I ask about…?”  Varric’s grin had faltered. Hawke, catching her meaning, had grimaced, waved her hand. “I met the Inquisitor and his advisors,” she’d said, darkly. “Knight-Captain Cullen Rutherford and I are… already acquainted.” Vivienne, raising her eyebrows, hadn’t commented then on the wisdom of launching oneself at a former templar and current commander of Inquisitorial armies heedless of consequences, but the impression had stuck.

men inherently includes trans men just as women inherently includes trans women

transmisogyny is a real intersection of oppression that trans women uniquely face