I think the point is more in the direction of representation. Yes, a story can be relevant to -everyone-, or to a subset of people without ever having to do with this one issue.
So yeah, sure. There are plenty of games that are relevant to us.
But there is very little representation, and that’s what we would kinda like as well. We’d like to see someone who is like us. And preferably not as a villain or someone that gets murdered to further someone’s angst.
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Really sucks when writers you like turn out like that huh? I had the same with the guy from the Witcher-books.
Cremisius Aclassi in Dragon Age: Inquisition was a pretty damn well written trans character. His transness wasn’t the sole character trait he had, he was decently fleshed out for a relatively minor NPC, and though some trans angst was central in his past, he seemed to be doing pretty dang well for himself as a mercenary.
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In Rowling’s particular case she just kind of went crazy after finishing the last HP book.
It is, it’s a hellish road from A to B filled with therapy, surgery, medicine treatment and all the suffering and anxiety just to get to that much wanted B which unlike in real life you could skip with a risk-free flick of your wrist, you don’t have to tell us that.
That’s literally exactly -not- what I meant, though.
You just described the dysphoria and the transition.
What I mean is that being trans is an experience beyond and outside of those things. Sure, they are big for a lot of people, but there is also a whole experience of identity that is outside of the norms.
It’s really difficult to describe, especially in my second language, but… Well, there is more than the pain and angst and therapy and surgeries.
Identity and the experience thereof. Yeah.
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You can get a kinda cute moment in the Trespasser DLC if certain things happened/didn’t happen were Crem starts to fancy the Bard playing in Haven/Skyhold and they hook up at the end.
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JK going down a spiral of madness on Twitter genuinely upsets me. It’s like watching an older relative you used to admire go further and further down the bottle and other substances every time you have a family gathering until you can only despise what they have become.
It doubly sucks because I do still enjoy the HP-verse, there are for sure some ‘roblox-oof.wav’ areas for that we know are problematic compared to ten-fifteen years earlier, but now I can’t even express interest in the upcoming video game in certain channels without my Discord DMs being set on fire with all kinds of accusations. (For the record I think JKs opinions are horrific and bigoted as one can get, her new book is mortifying in concept and yes there are things I agree are ‘yikes’ in the books and films when reviewing them today)
I just want to be a Wizard, man. Why couldn’t JK just keep her trap shut and quietly retire on literally infinite money from the property until she died of old age?
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They say that we call out the transphobes in order to silence them, but I have never ever seen a transphobe who was able to keep their trap shut.
And honestly, there are so many modern fantasy IPs with more interesting story and lore as well as authors that manage to -not- be a suppurating cyst on the buttcheek of humanity.
I love how Rowling writes her anti-trans screeds under the pretense that she just really, really cares about women so damn much.
Since her claim to fame is a story about a…
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Male protagonist with almost exclusively male antagonists, almost exclusively male mentors and one female friend whose main role is to do his homework for him.
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Probably. I do find it interesting that the upcoming game completely drops the HP name from the title, and the devs in a QnA said outright JK has no involvement in the game.
She’s been strangling the games for years. She HATED video games, sort of. Every HP game HAD to be set during the books/movies, no original content or story allowed.
The difference is, this is replaced by a potion or spell.
That is kinda self explanatory.
If you say so. It seemed like you considered a trans character something that could be “solved” rather quickly because magic, and so I said what I said.
Can confirm.
I honestly disagree. I think if anything, Harry Potter is one of those universes where women shine quite a bit.
Hermione could basically sweep the floor with just about anybody from her age (and more, including Harry) with just how damn good she is with magic.
Harry’s mothers love for Harry is emphasized throughout the movies, being so powerful it even repelled Voldemort, whereas Harry’s father is either left indifferent/irrelevant or negative, depending if you are swayed by Snape’s visions of how he used to bully him.
When Harry’s about to be captured by Snape/the bad guys, Minerva steps in to protect him (One of the best dueling scenes in the movies).
I want to emphasize: JK Rowling is quite an OOF individual but I definitely think HP universe has plenty of genuinely good female representation.
…As for JK Rowling…
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There’s also Ginny who, while very tamed/toned down in the movies, are in the books basically a prodigy Witch when it comes to actual spell-casting in the moment, witty and very fast and forward-thinking.
For a lack of better comparison, if Hermione is the brains of magic, Ginny would be kinda the brawns. While still also being intelligent.
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Anyone genuinely upset at Rowling and trying to cancel her need to get their lives in order.
You know, preaching that we should respect everyone’s experiences and be accepting of them… but also screeching to the heavens when somebody is rightfully annoyed that their, and roughly half of the planet’s experiences are being stomped on as if they don’t matter.
Tumblr going down was the worst thing to ever happen to western society. At least the crazies were contained to that cesspool before.
Love it when people reiterate the same wildly untrue transphobic talking points.
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I sure hope you aren’t trying to deny that women are roughly half of the planet’s population, or that menstruation is a thing because my god you’d look even more ridiculous than you already do.
- Nobody’s experiences are being “stomped on”, the inaccurate ramblings of a transphobic author are being (rightly) criticised, particularly when she doubles down on those views. Recommend having a look at the video I linked somewhere above, it explains the situation very well – and the problems her harmful rhetoric causes.
- It is worth noting that there are men in the world who menstruate and women who do not.
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No thanks, i’m not sitting through a 40 minute video from an antifa supporter to understand your abstract, radical leftist talking point.
Menstruation is PRIMARILY a woman’s experience. To decide arbitrarily that they aren’t allowed to discuss that experience because they “exclude” less than 0.1% of people is ridiculous. Especially when the same people decrying this, you included, spend your entire day excluding people while trying to promote inclusion.
On discord I watched you try to justify supporting SB 145. I don’t even need to say why that makes you somebody who needs to be on a watchlist. Game. Set. Match.