Making a pinned! I’m Bex and theoroark on ao3. I write fics about WH40K: RT, BG3, Destiny 2, FE3H, and probably other combinations of numbers and letters.
Anya is live and ready to show you everything. Watch her strip, dance, and perform exclusive shows just for you. Interact in real-time and make your fantasies come true.
✓ Live Streaming✓ Interactive Chat✓ Private Shows✓ HD Quality✓ Free Actions
Free to watch • No registration required • HD streaming
something else with the Dragon Age Tournament blog's tumblr census results that strikes my personal interest is how the gender + sexuality demographics looks... because again, it matches up pretty neatly with every other fandom survey/census. Biggest slice of gender demographics is cis women, but biggest slice of sexuality demographics is bi/pan people. And for this census, also interesting that straight is the next-to-least selected sexuality (gay coming in last)
their graphs:
"What's your gender identity?: Cis woman (48.2%), nonbinary (31.5%), trans man (10%), cis man (2.3%), trans woman (1.9%)"
"What's your sexuality?: Bi/pan (48.9%), ace-spec (39.5%), aro-spec (19.1%), lesbian (14.6%), straight (9.1%), gay (6.9%)" + 4.9% total other write-in responses
So the largest demographics of Dragon Age fandom on tumblr (represented only by this census, but no other conflicting sources afaik?) are women who are not straight; so you would think, from this, and from other various fandom polls/censuses/surveys, that tumblr tags and ao3 would be heavy on women player characters/self inserts, but a fairly equal spread of love interests + general characters who are focused on. And yet
And yet
A lot of times, when the subject of women characters being underrepresented or ignored in fanworks comes up, there's a response of "What, so you just want everyone to write/draw/enjoy the characters you like instead of what they like?" but come on! by all metrics available, these are all characters everyone should be want to interact with. They're all great characters from the same media franchise, who should appeal to self-professed majority bi women fandoms romantically, sexually, and platonically.
Really, I don't doubt that the people responding to these surveys are being honest. Rather than dishonesty, I think this apparent mismatch of personal identities versus action/attention in fandom just indicates, once again, that a lot of people have a lot of internal biases and misogyny.
This also isn't getting into the issue of race and fandom.
Which similarly, fandom is so generally accepted as being a cozy liberal safe nice space, this should be shocking; but it really isn't. The Dragon Age Tournament census didn't have a race demographic, only location (USA and Europe being the huge majorities at 61% and 31% respectively) but fandom is a very white (esp. American, British, northern European white) space. We know this data-wise from other similar fandom polls/surveys, and anecdotally from using our eyes and brains. This feels different from the misogyny issues, which is predominantly women continuing to propel fandom misogyny via character treatment, because this is really white people making fandom spaces unfriendly or downright antagonistic to fans of color while also ignoring Black and non-white characters.
I don't have any great solutions. IDK. I just wanted to talk about this, since these are more self-reported statistics that align with and add to what we already have and know about fandom demographics and problems.
just in case no one tells you today…..you’re worth having around. you’re worth committing to. you’re worth appreciating. you’re worth loving… you're worth reassuring. you're worth risking it all for. you're worth everything...
Anya is live and ready to show you everything. Watch her strip, dance, and perform exclusive shows just for you. Interact in real-time and make your fantasies come true.
✓ Live Streaming✓ Interactive Chat✓ Private Shows✓ HD Quality✓ Free Actions
Free to watch • No registration required • HD streaming
Realized what I've been moving Collista's characterization towards... what vg kept telling me Neve's characterization was but that she never really actually got to be
Realized what I've been moving Collista's characterization towards... what vg kept telling me Neve's characterization was but that she never really actually got to be
I feel like this comes off like a gotcha and I promise, it isn’t. I’d honestly like to hear how different people interpret it, to see if there’s a consensus. I’ve seen very smart people use it in the context of left wing politicians, so if this is a meaningful linguistic drift I would like to get on the ball?
(If I did have to submit my theories on why that drift started, it’d be that 1) it was used as a pejorative towards conservatives, so people could have remembered the insult vibes of the world while forgetting the context, 2) US centrism ended up meaning that the traditional meaning of liberal got a bit swamped out. Curious if this is used as much by non-Americans, or if so, it their understanding is different?)
(Also if those theories are totally off base, would love to hear why!)
Anya is live and ready to show you everything. Watch her strip, dance, and perform exclusive shows just for you. Interact in real-time and make your fantasies come true.
✓ Live Streaming✓ Interactive Chat✓ Private Shows✓ HD Quality✓ Free Actions
Free to watch • No registration required • HD streaming
The chiurgeons finish putting him back together, and Cyrus von Valancius runs to the bathroom. They offered him a mirror then and there, of course, but he couldn't look at it then, there, the glint of scalpels and the pulsing of synth-flesh suspended in its vat still far too close, God-Emperor forbid he say they had done it wrong and they put him back under again, what would even be left of himself the next time he woke up?
Even now, staring into the silver above the sink, all Cyrus can think is that he wouldn't know anyway. If the face looking back at him is his.
He touches his left cheek first. A part of himself he hasn't seen in over two decades, the mangled flesh left behind by a defective cyber-mastiff's maw plastered over in gold, how would he know if his freckles are painted exactly as they had been in childhood?
Tracing them again now, it is not the cyber-mastiff that Cyrus recalls but the knife of a Commorragh shrieker scraping the augment from his muscle tissue. Raw. Rotting. His fingers slip down to feel along his jawline, where something ate away at him. Infection or hunger, bacteria or parasite or something with teeth or a consciousness, there's only a seething, festering haze in his memory.
Pads dance along newly grafted bone to the chin, once devoured, now is it as long and pointy as it was before? There is no seam or stitch to tell him here, here is where you really end and there, there is where that xenos wretch stapled you with scrap metal and the vox he jammed between what was left of your lips. For all the stimms coursing through his body for days, weeks, months in the unending dark, Cyrus always felt that. The ceaseless stretch of his mouth.
But here it is again. His mouth. No cracks at the edges chaped bloody. No bare bone. If he opened it, he's pretty sure he'd even hear his own voice come out.
("You know, pet," Marazhai remarked as they docked with the flagship, "I'm rather looking forward to hearing what your screams really sound like.")
Cyrus tries to pray. That's what he should do, what would make this all feel right again, his body isn't even his anyway, it is a tool for His Perfection, how dare he doubt the form of his service to His Brilliance with such base attachment to his own physicality, he should beg for forgiveness... and when his mouth still won't open, he forces his hands inside and wrenches the jaw down, hard enough to make the sockets scream.
Holding himself open like a sick dog, staring. Searching. Along the tongue (he has a tongue again!) down to the back of the throat to the hidden depths of himself he cannot see. Touch. Know are real.
One hand still hooked into his cheek, the other reaches further. Past the teeth, groping toward the uvula the tonsils the pharynx the esophagus something anything to grasp onto for purchase inside himself, all wet and slick and fake! Even the saliva dribbling out between his fingers, even the sweat breaking out across his brow, even his pulse spiking in his gut, it's all--!
Cyrus gags around himself.
Convulsing, he's just barely able to grab the sink instead before he retches.
There still isn't anything solid inside him. A slurry of bile and unprocessed stimms and nutriliquid drip.
Would that his heart had come up with it, so he could know, "God-Emperor, please," he chokes, "please love me. There is nothing left to me that I can be certain of except for you. Please, please, please..."
Anya is live and ready to show you everything. Watch her strip, dance, and perform exclusive shows just for you. Interact in real-time and make your fantasies come true.
✓ Live Streaming✓ Interactive Chat✓ Private Shows✓ HD Quality✓ Free Actions
Free to watch • No registration required • HD streaming
snowghoul
origamiaround
yousharknotpass
kianamaiart
blakekathryn
titsay
areudirty
