Lady, EVOLVED @Lady@cat.family

@chr lmao no love for “bodies that matter”

@coriander @aescling americans need to Get Over the fact that a couple of hundred years ago some british dudes (rightly) called them ignorant fucks

@coriander @aescling
yankee doodle was a diss track
yankee doodle was reappropriated by american colonists as a source of national pride
the reappropriation of yankee doodle by american colonists as a source of national pride is actually the genesis of a lot of what’s wrong in american culture

@coriander @aescling but it’s specifically a diss track of americans being crude and ignorant and full of new money and maybe we leaned a little hard into that one

@coriander i would definitely watch a woman talk about video games!

@coriander in my recollection, in order to watch G4 you had to be capable of willingly watching a woman talk about video games, so most gamers today probably wouldn’t tune in

@coriander and humans aren't going to forget what causes cancer, we all hate cancer

@coriander once we figured out that the universe is made up of elements and started studying those elements then the rest of it all followed pretty quickly

@coriander i think it's hard to imagine a world without a basic understanding of nuclear radiation without humans having also lost an understanding of why baking soda and vinegar goes boom and i just don't see that happening

@coriander humans are really bad at history and politics and structuring a functioning society but we're pretty good at doing science and remembering things that kill us

bigger threat is that humans will know that there's deadly radiation but have formed a death cult which says that's a good thing somehow

@coriander idk personally i kind of think the problem is overblown, like sure we’ve lost a lot of stuff since ancient egypt but you know what we haven’t lost? the maths and sciences

@coriander (my dad is into hobbyist woodworking so while i haven’t done it recently, i did help make chests chairs etc when i was little)

(chairs are a pain fuck chairs)

@coriander be prepared to become one of those people who has a plank just hanging out in their shop for ages because you don’t have anything to use it for but “it’s really nice wood”

@coriander oh the other hot woodworking tip i have is plan everything on paper before you make any cuts, and you can always remove more but you can’t stick the wood back on once it’s gone

@coriander i assumed as much but saying “i’m sure they’ll be fine” is just asking for trouble so

@coriander mostly just wear goggles, don't put body parts in front of or behind any spinning blades, and keep hands hair etc away from anything sharp

@coriander woodworking is not too difficult if you have the space for it and also know how to not cause yourself severe bodily harm

@coriander but yeah i mean, bioware games are character driven narratives, there’s no doubting that, and part of this is just me seeing more of the machinery behind what makes the magic work than other people, which is not necessarily a good thing, and part of this is me being jaded about how every media franchise is trying to lean in on recognizable characters that fans feel attachments towards that they can just keep cashing in on, instead of telling novel stories

BUT even beyond all that, like, i like My Neighbor Totoro for the characters. and no Bioware puppet has half the personality of Little Sister, or could ever, really, because their job isn't to be complete characters, it's to be plot drivers and tools for the player to build narrative around

(which is, contextually, much more important! it's a roleplaying game!)

@coriander oh yeah i mean they’re good bad jokes

@coriander i’m definitely getting extremely jaded by latest trends in fandom and marketing but i am growing very tired of media criticism that views characters in isolation rather than as something which develop out of and participate in a more wholistic narrative world

i was reading reviews of dragon age books on wikipedia and lots of critics evidently were like “this was good but i wanted more inquisition characters and less worldbuilding” and (a) read fanfiction and (b) idk learn how to appreciate a good story??

like anders is compelling as a character because of reams and reams of worldbuilding about the specific relationship between magic and religiosity; “powerful white man mage thinks he’s oppressed” would be cringe as fuck if magic weren’t established in the exact way that it was

these are “characters” but they’re not REALLY characters so much as symbols for specific positionalities and how the machinations of power and culture play out thru individuals

and having that reduced to “alistair tells good jokes” or “i find iron bull very fuckable” style analysis just feels bad to me, idk