#dragon age fandom critical

CONFESSION:

I wish people didn’t mischaracterize the Dalish so poorly and remove the bad things they have done. No amount of popular fanon or novella thinkpieces is going to remove the canon status of Dalish elves leaving their magical young in the woods or many clans hating non-Dalish elves for virtue of being essentially not being Dalish … and that’s okay.

The canonical oppression of the Elvhen does not mean their group is divorced from meaningful critique on shitty things, nor does it mean that oppression is somehow deserved in-canon and these decisions are just the “evil BioWare writing team” who want to be dicks to fictional elves.

In a game that tries desperately to cling to grey morality, it means that both sides are going to do questionable and morally debatable things to give a nuanced choice - this is grey morality, like, the literal definition. It was the right move to make from a game standpoint, even if it is a bit of a barbaric decision, because it doesn’t just paint the Dalish elves as “pure” who can never do wrong or perform poor actions and gives players a choice on their personalfeelings

Everytime people praise inon zur for his work in dragon age origins and say they want him back for da4, Palestinians should take fifty dollars from your pocket. He’s not a cool fun composer dude he was literally in the idf for four years and praises israel but dragon age fans do interviews with him, follow him, and support his music?? Wtf