[ SECRET POST #3180 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3180 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

Re: Mods in Dragon Age fandom

[(Anonymous)]

It's a little hard to listen when the fandom actively harrasses the modders and sends death threats and the like and runs them from the fandom (just found out about the bi!cassandra mod earlier).

Sry, bi!Dorian can still fit that bill cause he'd still be interested in men, just that he can also like women.

I just find the outcry over those particular mods to be over the top. Because, honestly, we have more representation of homosexual relationships in media (how quality they are tends to be a rollercoaster) than we do of bisexual relationships. I mean, I see the criticisms all the time about bi erasure, on both sides of the fence.

Re: Mods in Dragon Age fandom

[(Anonymous)]

Death threats are meaningless as evidence for which side is right in an Internet conflict. Death threats on the Internet are like mushrooms. They spring up everywhere, inevitably, on all sides.

Re: Mods in Dragon Age fandom

[(Anonymous)]

like, seriously, what was the last real wankstorm you saw that DIDN'T feature at least one side, and probably both, reporting that they'd received death threats?

Re: Mods in Dragon Age fandom

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

Why would his dad need to brainwash him into be attracted to women if he was bi? It's an important plot point that he's gay.

It's ridiculous and disingenuous to claim that you're giving gay characters opposite gender attraction in the name of bi representation. Bi people and gay people are both underrepresented in the media. Trying to get more representation by stealing from each other is counterproductive and oftentimes offensive.

Besides, claiming that you're only changing gay characters to bolster bi representation is doubly ridiculous in this specific scenario, considering that Dorian and Sera are the only gay love interests available across all three games. All of the other non-straight love interests (of which there are 8) are bi/pan. The simple existence of two gay characters is not bi erasure.

Re: Mods in Dragon Age fandom

[(Anonymous)]

Because if he saw his son trying to woo a dude, he'd probably have a hernia. And Dorian trying to tell him he also likes women may not fly because, omg, he also dudes and that is not acceptable.

Nooooot that hard a thing to think of.

Re: Mods in Dragon Age fandom

[(Anonymous)]

The problem wasn't just that he was attracted to men, but that he refused to pretend to be attracted to women. His father wouldn't have cared enough to brainwash him if Dorian had agreed to marry a woman and produce an heir, while still "wooing dudes" on the side.

It's wildly inappropriate to claim that the conflict works just as well if Dorian is bi. He isn't and it doesn't. So much of his storyline makes no sense at all if it's reduced to a simple case of him wanting to escape an arranged marriage, and it seems insensitive besides, because the person who wrote him is a gay man whose experiences heavily influenced Dorian's. And it's especially inappropriate considering that you've never actually played the game.