and like i said, i want HYPOTHETICAL consistency bc i dont want them to actually arrest or deport anyone for shit talking dick cheney but GOD does this show how much all the charlie kirk fuss was just political bullshit

like. why are they not punishing people for criticising dick cheney like they did for charlie kirk. one was just Some Dude and the other was the most influential VP of their party. like??????

im gonna play the hell out of dragon age veilguard in honour of every single person who put their heart into building the masterpiece of thedas since dao, but especially anyone who had to suffer through working on a game where they werent heard. the fact the game is still good is a miracle. respect.

(i pray that some of the early disappointment didn't discourage the fanfic community...)
and thirdly, newly: SPITE. fuck ea, i will play and enjoy the last dragon age game and enjoy it as if the creative directors wishes had been honoured

secondly: i need to play the game to read all of the glorious fanfic that it spawns!! i actually want to play the game mostly blind (ive inevitably been spoiled for a fair bit by this point), ive still got spoilers muted & blacklisted, and i haven't been on da ao3 to be safe

but i was (and AM) determined to finish the game for 2 reasons, now 3. first: dwarf lore. ive always been gay for fantasy dwarves, brosca will always be my favourite origin, and id bee. having lore withdrawals. tell me about kal-sharok! how has orzammar changed! tell me about ghe TITANS!!!

in fact, i really don't care much about solas, and after hearing about hie EA fucked the creative team from realising their visions and dreams /i/ checked out a bit. the game had been out for like 6 weeks, and id only just recovered solas' lyrium dagger. (fucking disability)

the conflicting reviews from fans kinda bummed me out, but hey, death of the author! take what new lore you like and dump the rest! in fact, sometimes "bad" content inspires even BETTER fanfiction (as long as people don't mentally quit instead)

also, for years ive been reading the "modern character in thedas" trope, and i was SO excited for people with 10 years of future knowledge being dropped into inquisition...

the lack of some dai characters bc of their ambiguous deadness (cough bull cough) wouldn't be an issue for fanfic writers. i was hoping for multi thousand word retellings but with a world that interacted with the thousands of worlds of the previous games

i haven't finished veilguard yet (disability reasons) but when it was announced that there would be little world state import i was really upset bc it feels like /my/ warden, and choices, and world had been killed. but then i thought about the fanfic opportunities this would give fic writers.

like i’m sorry bluesky i know one day we’ll be besties but in the meantime i can’t live like this

but it did move the focus from the VERY VALID mental breakdown i was having that meant my mum had to drive 3 hours that morning to be there. also i want to personally call every carer who told me "it wont be as bad as ur imagining" and ask them to fucking repeat that to me now