#meleposting

Tagging my veilguard playthrough with #daveposting

maybe a decade ago i'd just started playing mass effect and went to my first anime convention. in the dealers room i saw a little mordin figurine for sale and remember examining it closely and thinking "well that's a salarian but i neither know nor care about this guy. ok" then walking off to do whatever it is fifteen year olds do. little did i know that a few months later i would have killed and died for the damn guy and would seriously regret not picking up that figurine for the next ten years (but honestly still wouldn't have put up the $40 or however much it cost on account of being in high school. now i have the money but a collectible like that is probably five times as expensive. alas)

this is my first time playing me2 with the kasumi DLC (too cheap to get it the first time around lol) and consequently my first time, well, seeing or hearing her in any context. and i have to say i really love kym hoy's voicework. i had honestly in my head imagined her to have a high-pitched, peppy, kinda west coast voice, the kind you might get from someone like lauren tom? but i really dig the sort of raspy midatlantic thing she has going on 😊

got a little too high last night started reading the wikipedia page for kaidan alenko and spam reblogged a bunch of posts from the tag to this blog because i felt an overwhelming wave of real fondness and affection for a fictional character. hereby christening this my dragon age & kaidanposting blog because though i am sorry it will likely happen again

nearing the end of me1 and just got a full body frisson of giddiness at the concept of going through the me2 suicide mission for the first time in half a decade with absolutely no recollection of how to keep everyone alive. wondering if muscle memory will kick in like when you replay the impossible quiz

ashley is a really compelling character and i LOVE kimberly brooks in every role I've heard her in but I am so permanently down abysmal for kaidan that i can never keep her around for long it's truly sad. even in 2014 at the peak of my "fuck all men women step on me 😍" high school silliness i could not resist his boring canadian swagger for even a single playthrough

new deranged hobby is spamming the generic mass effect npcs voicelines to determine which ones were voiced by robin atkin downes. counted 2 on feros already 🥴

Mild take incoming but i honestly don't even think the sexism in dragon age is that egregious. Or at least there's an in universe explanation for the "men and women are treated equally in thedas" -> "you don't see a lot of women in the Wardens" post that goes around sometimes which is that broodmothers exist. That being said on a narrative level they could have done a lot more with andrastianism AND lukas kristjanson has some issues he seriously needs to work out outside of writing lesbians. getting off track here but my point is that the sexism where it does exist does not even BEGIN to touch mass effect levels lmao i forgot how much this shit sucks right out of the gate