Kissa

I'm so sick of how monetized fandom has become. Half the images are cropped with a link to patreon and fuck if there's anything that makes me want to engage with fandom content less than it being put behind a paywall. I feel like USA's hustle culture and the inability to have a hobby without turning it into a business and milking it for money are the main culprits here, but tbh I don't even care, I'm just sick of it. Meanwhile fic writers have to beg for comments, so the stark contrast just irritates me even more.

As someone whose native language has grammatical genders I HAAAAATE it when in English people refer to objects as "she" (or "he" but I can't recall hearing this one). For ships it's fine I guess since it's something that's been done for a long time but nowadays in my experience it's always from women referring to bags, cosmetics, etc as "her" and that's just so yikes to me

no matter what terrible rating an AAA game has I still expect it to have separate setting for the dialogue audio if it came out in the last decade or so but no, apparently that's too much to ask...

oh how I've waited for the Larian bootlicking to finally come to an end or at least die down a little bit. The parasocial worshiping was so incredibly frustrating to see ngl. I'm an og hater feeling vindicated yes get on my page finally lmaooo

instead of making up a new character to wear Gale's skin (dark Gale) just embrace Gortash, that's a dark Gale

I haven't played all the classes in ME yet but I feel like Vanguard would always be my absolute fav class for Shepard bc it brings a certain level of unhingedness to the character that fits nicely in the narrative, not to mention the very definition of the word vanguard fits Shepard perfectly. I also love a biotic Shepard both bc a biotic being the first human Spectre is satisfying considering how human biotics don't have it easy with the general public's opinions, but also on a ship-y level I like the idea of biotic!Shepard and Kaidan together. Also on a ship-y level - Shepard charging into banshees and giving poor Kaidan high blood pressure is just amusing to me lmao

My hot take about Gale's romance scenes in Act 2 (or rather about fans' opinions on both of them) is that it's fine to have a preference for either scene, but there are way too many people who prefer the bed scene and then go about insisting it's the correct(tm) one and at this point I don't believe them when they say it's bc that's better for Gale (funny how Gale's own preference is ignored bc the player knows better actually *coughLikeMystraDidEhcough*) but rather it's bc in the astral scene they feel like they would be compared to Mystra (as this is how she and Gale had sex) and their egos can't take potentially not living up to the level of magical sex that the goddess of magic could give. While in the bed scene they would reign supreme bc Mystra was never interested in that sort of sex. I've seen so much jealousy from Galemancers and in general it always takes the shape of anti-magic rhetoric which ultimately would not benefit Gale who loves magic and considers it a part of himself, but it's so irritating that it's always dressed up as being better for Gale while in reality it's just people being insecure.

I thought the "maybe you got better with age" semi-flirty comment from Shepard, and Kaidan's "don't tell me if you're flirting" reply were only for femShep who romanced Kaidan in ME1 but apparently they're left like that even for mShep lmaoo It goes amazingly well with my "Shepard had a huge crush on Kaidan since ME1 and is not hiding it well anymore" hc