“After playing the Omega DLC, I now know that Aria is older than Samara. Never would’ve guessed it.”
This picture is just marvellous. XD
“I wanted to erase Evangelion” - About Yuko Miyamura’s infamous relationship with the Evangelion franchise and it’s creator Hideaki Anno
Despite the praise and love the creator and director of the classic “Neon Genesis Evangelion” Hideaki Anno and his creation may receive from many fans. The same adoration cannot be said for the voice actress of the ever iconic Asuka Langley Soryu, Yuko Miyamura.
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Mark Meer is amazing and you should bow.
my need to see sheploo dressed like this is a burning thing
wow.
If you ever get the chance to meet Meer in person, I recommend it.
Firstly, he is infectiously nice.
Secondly, he is adorable.
Thirdly, apparently he looks amazing in drag, though I haven’t had the pleasure.
exact thought process before reading the post:
“Wow, check out the cheekbones on that hot lady…”
*click* “HOLY SHIT IT’S MANSHEP”
That’s Mark Meer?! Damn, he is hot dressed up like that.
Confession: I don’t like Anora. However, I understand why people do like her and I respect that. :)
canaa said: That’s a good attitude to have, but the Anora fans going to assume you’re sexist anyways, because obviously the only possible reason to not like her is because she’s female.
Anora fan here and no, I don’t think OP is sexist. She’s my favourite character, but no, not everyone is going to like her.
In general, I only think you’re sexist if you either give me a sexist reason for why you don’t like a female character or use sexist language. OP doesn’t do that. You’re cool, OP c:
I agree! And it really does wind me up when people write things like that. especially in such a way that you can’t reblog them directly. The OP put their opinion forward in a perfectly reasonable and polite way, but some random fool tries to be inflammatory anyway *and* blame that on Anora’s fans.
CONFESSION: I used to love Flemeth dearly, and I still love her voice actress, but the way that she treats Morrigan reminds me too much of my abusive grandfather. Because of this, I’ve never had a problem killing her for Morrigan
This is one thing I don’t understand about people. Flemeth is clearly very abusive to Morrigan, and has been from a young age - and has presumably been so to all those other daughters (and maybe sons?) whose bodies she’s stolen over the years. I can understand people liking her as an interesting and well-written character, but when people start talking like she’s a good person, it baffles me.
CONFESSION: I hope some of the Desire Demons in the next game are male
Me too! Actually, I hope they actually turn into something our character would desire. It turned into Wesley for Aveline in DA2.
The moment in DAO’s Gauntlet, where the Warden meets a ‘ghost’ from their past - Dad/Jowan/Shianni/Tamlen/Leske/Trian - is a good example of what a desire demon should be like. After all, desire isn’t just sexual, it’s just something you want powerfully. Hawke’s desire could have been for Carver/Bethany/Malcolm/Leandra to be alive again. Or for Carver to be out of the templars, or Bethany out of the Circle/Wardens. Or her/himself being rich/powerful/free. Or for a sexual thing - being seduced by their LI. Or more than one LI? Just having a horn-headed naked purple woman seems half-hearted, but unfortunately most of the Fade doesn’t realise its potential.
It’s a world of dreams and illusion, yet our character always knows its fake (even when you’re supposed to be tricked in DAO’s Circle quest, it was obvious you were dreaming). They could try and trick us and our character into thinking it’s real, or come up with amazing things to tempt us. They could showcase things from our character’s past and personal life. Instead of meeting Duncan in the Fade, the Warden should have had a close friend/family member from their origin story. It could be insanely surreal, instead of a wishy-washy brown with some weird architecture/plantlife. The music was the only thing that really felt like they hit the nail on the head with the Fade sequences.
Oh well, dreams for the future games…
Game of Thrones… where even a gruesome torture scene requires a couple of pairs of bouncing breasts.
Confession: I was incredibly surprised when Stroud spoke and out came Riordan’s voice. Never expected those two to have the same voice actor.
Riordan/Stroud’s voice is so sexy. People who whine about having to listen to Orlesian accents in DA3 should go listen to those two some more. XD
remember that one chapter in a feast for crows where asha just starts throwing shade left and right like
“I am unwed,” announced Left Hand Lucas Codd.
“And for good reason,” Asha said. “All women do despise the Codds as well. Don’t look at me so mournful, Lucas. You still have your famous hand.” She made a pumping motion with her fist.
whoa girl
“Was that courteous, Asha? You have wounded Lucas to the quick.”
“Easier than wounding him in the prick. I throw an axe as well as any man, but when the target is so small…”
sheeit boy best step back
“This girl forgets herself,” snarled Pinchface Jon Myre. “Balon let her believe she was a man.”
“Your father made the same mistake with you,” said Asha.
damn son didn’t know you were at smackdown university with professor greyjoy did you
“Give her to me, Euron,” suggested the Red Oarsman. “I’ll spank her till her arse is red as my hair.”
“Come try,” said Asha, “and hereafter we can call you the Red Eunuch.” A throwing axe was in her hand. She tossed it in the air and caught it deftly. “Here is my husband, Nuncle. Any man who wants me should take it up with him.”
class dismissed
Oh, I just love Asha, she’s insightful, fierce and so much fun. XD
Men still have trouble recognizing that a woman can be complex, can have ambition, good looks, sexuality, erudition, and common sense. A woman can have all those facets, and yet men, in literature and in drama, seem to need to simplify women, to polarize us as either the whore or the angel.
Confession: Although I like DAII more than I thought I would, compared to Origins, I thought it felt kind of soulless. Nothing I did seemed to matter. I couldn’t save Carver, so I made Bethany stay home from the Deep Roads only to lose her to the Circle. I couldn’t save Leandra or the Bone Pit workers or Marethari or Thrask or Elthina or Orsino. I couldn’t stop Anders. When my Warden made choices, it impacted the game and the other characters. Nothing Hawke did ever made any difference at all.
People gonna throw stones and disagree with me but I sort of…liked it?
The Warden is this character, this image, larger than life with power in a dark time. They’re the product of fate, of Flemeth pulling strings and their own internal struggle. They must save a country, decide it’s leadership, as well as fix the problems of other factions for help against the Darkspawn. The Warden is a hero; perhaps a bit stereotypically, but a hero.
The Champion? The Champion suffers futility after futility.They are strapped down watching the chaos that unfolds before them, only truly controlling the frequency of their own blinks. They are a lowly soldier from a poor family that ran away from the Blight, and then suffered a year of indentured servitude. This story is not about Hawke and their victories; it’s about one person fighting the tide with all their might and losing, because hey—that’s nature.
You don’t always win. Sometimes you fight your hardest and it’s not good enough. That is Hawke’s story.
Now some people might ask me, “But Marna, where’s the fun in that? Why play a game if your decisions don’t matter?” to which I’ll reply “Sometimes it’s about the ride, man.”
Dragon Age II was a rushed cash in, I agree. While it had a vastly improved user interface as opposed to Origins, it’s combat lacked and it’s setting was lackluster at best. So don’t come to me like “it was a bad game hurrr” because das rood.
It’s also a sequel, and from the vibe I’m getting, it’s story line suffered heavily from 1) a lack of development and 2) “HOW THE FUCK TO WE SEGUE ANOTHER GAME IN?” Ever read a trilogy? Know how that second book is really just sorta….yeah, preparing for the last/next installment? ~Dragon Age II~
