I did write a fanfic once, about Eric being the only one left to sit with Sookie as she died of old age O_O That sounds amazing.
The Bioware piece made a little part of my already cynical soul wince. I remember when the design for Isabella came out for DA2 and people were livid about her not being lily white and I was like =_= and then when they started making skin bleaching mods I was like Q_Q. *sigh* Honestly, I'm trying to remember if they are any games where the protagonist is in assigned a Anglo-Saxon identity outright... Ah, Beyond Good and Evil...and she was mixed. So, it was "alright". I'm mildly bitter.
The Bioware boards are horrible places if you want to feel good about the world. The skin bleaching mods are among the most disgusting things I've ever seen there and that's saying something. Oh, and the defenders of those things going "I'm not racist, I just think she's prettier with lighter skin." Oh, my blood pressure.
I love their games, I do. But I hate that writers and marketing people tend to the gamer culture which is, in most cases, vile. On the one hand, Mass Effect offers you a gender/race neutral protagonist and a narrative that doesn't treat you any differently if you're a woman, on the other hand you will not meet any women of colour (sorry Bioware, Sexy Lesbian Alien Blue doesn't count) in any positions of power.
At least Mass Effect is better than Dragon Age where my first Cousland must have caused quite a stir in Ferelden, being the only black woman ever.
I discovered the "nerds pose as Mary-Jane" post over on tumblr a few days ago, but it never fails to crack me up. I do have an unironic (and probably unwarranted) fondness for Sam Raimi's Spiderman trilogy, but dear god, would I have hurt the screenwriter's to give MJ some agency beyond the damsel-in-distress part? And some of the depictions in the comics / the related merchandising seem to be even worse. I remember a flurry of outrage about a collecter's item statue of MJ a few years ago - which showed her skimpily dressed and bending over in a sexy way (that suggested her spine must be made out of rubber) and doing the laundry for the Spiderman costume. That was a WTF-moment in a league of its own...
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O_O That sounds amazing.
The Bioware piece made a little part of my already cynical soul wince. I remember when the design for Isabella came out for DA2 and people were livid about her not being lily white and I was like =_= and then when they started making skin bleaching mods I was like Q_Q.
*sigh* Honestly, I'm trying to remember if they are any games where the protagonist is in assigned a Anglo-Saxon identity outright... Ah, Beyond Good and Evil...and she was mixed. So, it was "alright".
I'm mildly bitter.
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I love their games, I do. But I hate that writers and marketing people tend to the gamer culture which is, in most cases, vile. On the one hand, Mass Effect offers you a gender/race neutral protagonist and a narrative that doesn't treat you any differently if you're a woman, on the other hand you will not meet any women of colour (sorry Bioware, Sexy Lesbian Alien Blue doesn't count) in any positions of power.
At least Mass Effect is better than Dragon Age where my first Cousland must have caused quite a stir in Ferelden, being the only black woman ever.
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But Joanna is awesome, probably one of the best "absent" characters in the series.
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Joanna is awesome, I imagine her as a great shadow looming over Casterly Rock.
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And yeah, sometimes the merchandise really brings new WTF to the original source.
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