“if you couldn’t be bothered to write, i can’t be bothered to read it” is the best response to AI fanfiction btw. don’t engage. don’t even give them attention, let them starve.
removed nearly every depiction of racism and never fully addressed it and then made tevinter a super progressive haven for queer people….massive white queer moment
It’s so funny how inadvertently Veilguard made Tevinter, where slavery is legal and blood magic is rampant, seem more progressive than all of Southern Thedas bc they refused to depict slavery or oppression or really anything that wasn’t fucking DOCKTOWN and the SHADOW DRAGONS*
Every time I see the fandom dismiss Davrin’s caretaker characterization i legit want to cry because it shows how a large swath of the DA fandom are unaware of how Black men have been portrayed as the deadbeat who do not know care? A mini 🧵
tbh the problem with datv isn't modernized language that was used to be funny, it was the non-immersive laziness of replacing too much the original fantasy language with modernized equivalents and stripping away localised/religious turns of phrase and profantiy
people being like "we did not need a bunch of slavery and slurs shoved in our faces" when ppl criticize the sanitization of datv are annoying as fuck bc YOU'VE MISSED THE GODDAMN POINT ENTIRELY
this is so fascinating as a writer, to see how cumulatively this relaxing of the former writing rules led to such a huge change in the tone of the dialogue
*banging my writer’s drum* there’s no such thing as an inconsequential writing choice! they all matter! even ‘okay’!