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>intros for my canon dragon age OCs under the cut 🧹 my canon DA2 protag is my beloved wife default Garrett Hawke (mage, fugitives with Anders)
Rook ♜
name: Zalan Laidir (he/him)
age: 51 (born 13 August, 9:01 Dragon)
gender/sexuality: trans man/gay
race: half-elf
height: 5'6"
eyes: violet
hair: silver, it used to be a dark brown. he started noticeably greying in his mid 20s
class: mage, Evoker specialization
faction: Lords of Fortune
closest friends: Neve, Taash, Isabela
romance: Sulana'lin Then'hima (belongs to @wardentabriis, tag -> #otp: hotboxers)
Inquisitor 🦌
name: Trandil Lavellan (he/him)
age: 27 in 9:41, 38 in 9:52 (born 9:14 Dragon)
gender/sexuality: cis male/gay
race: elf
height: 5'8"
eyes: hazel initially, with a ring of green around his outer iris from the anchor. the green dulls after he loses the anchor but it never fully fades. it took him a while to get used to fighting with Dagna's prosthetics and in that adjustment period he suffered a brutal facial injury. it left three long scars along the right side of his face and damaged his right eye. while he didn't end up losing the eyeball, it's clouded over and he can't see much of anything out of it
hair: chestnut brown, as of datv he's sprouted a few grey streaks by his temples
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i love that discord doesn't tell you if someone's read your messages. like genuinely. normalize others not needing every second of your time right away. normalize taking time to formulate a proper answer. normalize this.
I also think that the strength gap is at least partially manufactured women would in fact be stronger overall if little girls were encouraged to do physically taxing games and activities and eat their fill while they’re growing vs having to constantly diet and be sedentary indoors (or god forbid do intense cardio while under-eating). The amount of adult women honestly afraid to lift weights bc they think they’ll get bulky as though bulking isn’t a full time job that athletes have to spend all their time on and anyone on earth gets shredded from just using their adult muscles for their intended purpose, girl your bone density 🥀
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"exercise will give you more energy" gets said a lot as a common piece of health advice but I think it needs to be expanded into "exercising will make you tired while you do it, and you will continue to be tired immediately afterwards, sometimes even the next day too, but over months of consistent exercise, your muscles will get stronger and therefore get less tired out by everyday activities, making you feel like day-to-day life takes less physical energy than it used to"
I just saw someone make the assertion that “everyone on booktok has low literacy, and romantasy books are bad because they’re catering to those people”
And this was meant to be a BAD thing. A problem. But if you actually believed that a massive population of low-literacy adults were buying books, becoming obsessed with them, and discussing them at length… wouldn’t that be a great thing? That’s how one moves from low literacy to high literacy: by practicing reading
Unless you think low literacy is an immutable quality reflective of poor character, in which case YOU are actually the problem
Apologies, im going to go off on a slight tangent.
Now the take OP saw is objectively wrong. I don't think romantasy is inherently bad, and its definitely not bad BECAUSE it's catering to bad readers. There are a lot of issues with the publishing industry right now and i think a lot of authors aren't getting the editing they need to make better books. That's a different issue, not restricted to romantasy.
I sincerely hope these low-literacy readers gain literacy this way, but the odd thing ive noticed is they... DON'T seem to be practicing reading. As in, the book they read in their mind is not the book on the pages their eyeballs are seeing. It's bizarre. Like, to the point where theyre making recommendations and discussing aspects of the book.... and then like, my friend checks it out and reads it and is like "I have no idea where they got the idea that this size kink porn book was breaking down feminine stereotypes".
Anyway i just wanted to go off on a tangent. I distinctly remember fucking Twilight being hailed as a gateway book for the first several years it was out - like yeah it wasn't the best novel, but girlies got obsessed with it and it made them seek out more books. Which was undeniably a good thing.
It's just an extremely odd time to be in, where a lot of readers......... aren't actually reading.
I mean, the example you’ve given sounds like people who are in fact reading but don’t know enough about feminism to recognize when a book that SAYS it’s breaking down a stereotype is actually enforcing it. It takes time to build contextual knowledge and understanding of deeper implications in text.
All of the straight romantasy bestsellers SAY they’re female empowerment, their authors truly believe they’re female empowerment (after all, she’s writing her fantasy! As a woman!) but as far as I’m aware none of them are really challenging dominant gender roles or heteronormativity. It takes a more advanced reading skill to realize when someone is actively lying to themselves and to you about the content of a book.
If you were a good reader when you were very young, you’ve probably already made this step. You’ve had time to be in spaces where people actively dissect media they enjoy and criticize it. If someone is JUST NOW getting into reading as a hobby, then they haven’t had that time to build context and analytical skill.
Your friend’s experience describes people who ARE practicing reading. They just haven’t mastered it yet. What you describe as “not actually reading” is first of all what most people do when they’re just reading for fun, and secondly, a stage every high-literacy person also went through at some point in their lives, you just maybe don’t remember being in it because you are a statistical outlier
I promise the twilight girlies who went on to read other books ALSO weren’t reading twilight that critically. Until they were.
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