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thebitchywitchyone · 2 years

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This feels very cringe (at 28 I am apparently a fandom old, and used to keeping my OCs quiet) but then this is tumblr so…

Sofia Marie Ruiz is my Dragon Age OC, brought from Earth to Thedas by Flemeth via magical plot contrivance (fade rift post the conclave, unexplained divine spell craft prior to it). She comes from a large extended family, and is the eldest of all her cousins. Her Abuela was the family matriarch, and married for money more than once, styling herself as a southern society woman and drilling a good deal of old fashioned femininity into her granddaughter. Sofie’s done quite a bit to unpack the misogyny inherent in that, but still has trouble letting go of her vanity.

Varric calls her ‘Legs’ as she’s tall for a human woman. She has a head full of brown curls, brown eyes, and is Hispanic. She loves red lipstick and long skirts over corsets that show off her her hourglass. Her ears are pierced, and she has a fondness for pearls and delicate jewelry, as well as a niche interest in historical Earth fashion.

Sofie love fine things and shopping, but will not shop for fine things. Instead she’s a thrifter and a bit of a magpie, most at home haggling for a good price on a pile of junk that she thinks she can restore to either beauty or usefulness. She’s also a great lover of fiber arts. She knits, sews, quilts, and embroiders to varying levels of quality, eventually teaching herself to weave on a loom Josephine gives her for Saternalia. She’s an inherently domestic person, and likes a feathered nest which generally comes as a surprise to her more austere love interests.

One of her conditions for coming to Thedas was that she be able to defend herself. To that end, Sofie is a mage. She’s not especially powerful, but her modern education means that she understands how to manipulate matter especially well. She is generally more inclined towards healing and barriers, her basic high school anatomy class putting her leaps and bounds over the Theodosian healers still using humors and miasma theory. When pressed she defaults to electrical spells or simply using her magic to temporarily blind her attackers long enough to escape them.

Where Sofie really shines is diplomatically. She’s pretty, well mannered, and well spoken; it’s easy to like her when she applies herself to being personable. Her major cause is public education, as she believes that an educated society is inherently more free and less bigoted. She would see mage and non mage children of all races taught side by side on the state’s dime, and campaigns fiercely for mages to be able to repatriate to the country of their birth with full citizenship.

An idealist and a theater kid, Sofie can be prone to dramatics. She feels good and bad emotions strongly, and will walk away from an argument rather than let her quick tongue lash out at people. Her mind is a large ball of Shakespeare quotes and musical theater, and you better believe she melts into goo if her LI says “as you wish” regardless of if they know the connotation or not.

Lmk if you want to know anything more about Sofie - I love her dearly and my inbox is always open!

#ocs and things #dragon age #da2 #da:i #dragon age oc #non inquisitor ocs

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falkenbergbager7-blog · 5 years

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its0katka · 5 years

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I’m Bringing Blogging Back

I’ve always been a journaler, scribbling thoughts and stories in marble notebooks that I’d throw away once they were filled because I didn’t want anyone finding and reading them. I used marble notebooks because then my teachers would think I was taking notes during class, when in reality I’m not a notetaker at all, I’m more of a visual-retention learner and forcing kids to take notes is lazy teaching, in my opinion.

Then LiveJournal came on the scene and it was great because suddenly I had a platform for my thoughts and stories. It was a way for me to express myself but also passive-aggressively talk shit about people in my school, I had this whole blind item thing going and it was great when the semi-popular girls would try to comment on my posts when in reality, I was literally starting rumors about people who didn’t exist. It was super revealing.

Once, I had to write an essay for a summer writing program at Simon’s Rock College, on the author whose writing had influenced me the most. I wrote about how my own writing influences other people instead, via my LiveJournal. I got a full scholarship but had to forfeit my placement because I was trying to save money for my first trip to London.

MySpace ended up replacing LiveJournal, especially in college, and I took full advantage of those blog options, hot damn. Where else was I going to write some emotional love essay to the guy who broke my heart? Social journaling was on full display by that point, almost to the point where blogging about your feelings was getting pathetic.

Facebook statuses and tweets offered a way to micro-blog, but if you really wanted people to see the heart you wore on your American Apparel sleeve, you got a blog. A Wordpress, a Blogspot, a Tumblr. At first it was kind of, “Hey here’s my life and all the things I do in it!” and it was a mess because like, no one really cared about how many tacos you ate that day, or your mom problems, or the garden you started but never finished and was accompanied by blurry images from your 5 mega pixel camera.

The thing was, that people soon learned they could make money off of their blogs. Ad placements, affiliate links, and sponsored content became a thing, and made it possible to basically be financially independent. People started calling themselves “bloggers” as a profession. It was the first time people were able to turn their side hobbies into massive amounts of cash via what seemed like a relatively “fun” and “easy” job based on your interests.

Then the blogosphere became oversaturated; it wasn’t good enough to have just a fashion blog, you needed a specific kind of fashion blog. You couldn’t just write tips about how to take a trip to Paris, you had to be some kind of French expert. The folks who had been blogging just to blog, and had built up some pretty loyal followers for fun, did the best, while the rest of the wannabe bloggers desperately tried to carve their own way with some kind of weirdass specialization — budget, luxury, gluten-free, millennial, shoeless, couples, dogs, etc.

I tried to do this but realized swiftly that like, everything has already been done. It’s really hard to be “special” when special has 0 meaning anymore. Plus it takes a lot of time to be niche these days. It compromises what you write because you’re trying to write for a specific audience, in a specific way. I kept losing joy in my writing because I felt like I had to “fit” a genre that just wasn’t me.

It became about the clicks. And the Google Analytics. And the social media followings. And the idea that, fuck, why am I writing this post for free when I could easily write it for money (another issue that has stunted my creativity over the years. It’s hard to write “for fun” when you know that, if you tried hard enough, you could find someone to pay you $400 for the same kind of content). I realized that I’m a polymath and a Gemini and a generally interesting person who likes many things and I’ll never be able to commit to writing about one thing, ever.

So I’m bringing blogging back, 2006-style. I’m using my old website (a failed travel blog that was dormant for like 3 years) as the base for writing whatever the hell I want. Some days, I’ll tell you about an awesome meal I had. Other days, I might write about a Broadway show I saw. I might write stream-of-consciousness-style sometimes, because I’ve started using talk-to-text on my phone and it’s awesome, and makes me feel like I’m a “hip” writer and junk.

There will definitely be travel-related posts (travel encompasses about 90% of my life. The other 10% is dedicated to my dog) but I won’t be forcing myself to “be” a certain kind of traveler, because how fucking limiting is that, really?

Anyway, hopefully this is the longest, dumbest post I write (I also hate intro posts, as a rule). I don’t care about who sees my posts, I don’t care about optimizing or monetizing or SEO or whatever else people email you on the side about when they see you’ve started a new blog. This is mainly for me and if other people enjoy it too, cool, that’s cool, we’re cool.

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itsalburton · 7 years

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Upon Further Reflection

Someone had mentioned on Tumblr that many of the medieval armor and sword bloggers also happen to be racist, white supremacist or Nazis---going further to say that 4 out of every 5 reblogging this niche aesthetic are bigoted in some fashion. @osyra-sunshine tagged me in that post and I got to thinking about that claim.

Unfortunately, there’s a reason for that connection between Medieval arms, armor, history and culture and their bigoted fascist ideals:

Despite the many abuses of the Catholic Church, Jews and Christians persecuted by the various knightly orders in the Crusades, conflicts made in the name of Christianity between Christians, colonization and the oppression of ethnic and religious groups throughout Europe by the old empires predating the modern European nations, the Medieval and Imperial periods of Europe and the parties involved are highly revered by extreme nationalist, white supremacist, fascist and hardline conservative groups.

There’s a similar example of this radical sentimentality in American history: GOP Republicans, Tea Party Conservatives and the Trump-supporting groups often refer to the 1950′s, the Civil War-era American South and the Revolutionary War as “the good old days”. They idolize figures and events of those periods and praise the societal norms that existed as “the way things were and how everything should be”. Stuff like “women acting and dressing like women” and transphobia, political opposition toward taxation and government regulation, celebrating and encouraging rebellion against the government and the utter lack of feminism, African-American and Latin peoples’ demanding civil rights and the Gay Rights Movement are all things they love and cherish to a fault.

Across Europe and the United States, hard conservatives and authoritarian idealists follow the same course---but with the themes being the various orders of Crusader knights, empires such as Austria-Hungary and Holy Rome, the political power and influence of the Catholic Church, the Kingdom of Prussia, the Hapsburg, Medici and Borgia political dynasties, the classical Roman Empire and their Byzantine successors, Tsarist Russia, Spanish Conquistadors and the Spanish Inquisition, Polish/Hungarian Hussars and the Russian Cossacks.

Despite many of these individuals’ staunch and proudly-proclaimed Atheism, they idolize the radical Catholic movements and Christian nations actively engaging each other in the name of God. Some envision a reconquest of the Turkish city of Istanbul for the purpose of re-establishing the Eastern Orthodox Byzantine Empire, a continuing of the Catholic Crusades in the Middle-East and/or the rebirth of empires that highly indoctrinated Christianity as a rule of law and foreign policy.

Although many of these individuals are islamophobic, anti-immigration, in favor of single-ethnic states, denounce Muslims as “ignorant tyrants operating under Sharia Law, forcing conversion by the sword and trying to turn Europe/America into an Islamic caliphate in the name of their false God” and claim that the immigration of Muslims and/or other European ethnicities is a physical threat to whiteness and national purity, they still heavily endorse the idea of Christian fundamentalist regimes, an established state religion, religious war, aggression towards and/or the invasion of Non-Christian states and the conversion of unbelievers by the sword---even if they’re Atheist themselves.

Events such as the Ottoman Turkish siege of Vienna being repelled by the Polish-led and Catholic Holy League, the imagery and romanticizing of the Polish Winged Hussars and the halting of Ottoman Turkish incursion into Western Europe are celebrated as a “defense of Christendom” and whiteness, as well as a “heroic defeat” of “invading” Islam.

Even more disturbingly, these groups also tend to revere the 1990′s genocides committed by Serbia against Bosnian, Croatian, non-Christian and non-white citizens and those of their neighboring countries. They even shout propaganda pieces such as “God is a Serb” and “remove kebab (i.e. Islamic and Turkish peoples)”.

Adding onto this, Adolf Hitler and many of the Nazis idolized the Teutonic Crusades against Poland and Lithuania, the old Prussian Kingdom (often called “Empire” incorrectly from sheer sentiment) and the time of Otto Von Bismark. Much of their ideals, parade rallies and symbolism revolved around this concept of “Old Germany” and their campaign of “making Germany great again” was in reference to the “greatness” of the Teutonic knights, Prussia and Bismark. They also imported Imperial Roman styles in their propaganda and political rallies.

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