Exploring The Soul CairnCommission Done For @/1898_isc_1899

Exploring the Soul Cairn Commission done for @/1898_isc_1899

The thing that has been vexing me lately about Fantasy Historical Sexism (vs the real kind) is how it flattens out actual historical politics - particularly in the high medieval period, sexism against female rulers was a tool for people who were already their political opponents for political reasons, rather than a common primary motivator for contesting inheritance. Fairly large numbers of women in medieval Western Europe inherited estates ‘suo jure’, in their own right - not even getting into things like the political power of abbesses (who could often be those same women in retirement, or their sisters or daughters or mothers). 

Historical fantasy tends to be so obsessed with having One Special Woman Who Is Fighting Sexism that it actually erases from the popular conception of history the women who were already there, and the complexity of their lives, and it’s just…very…dull. 

does anyone else feel sorry for astarion but is also very, very aware that he’s likely manipulating us with his sad stories? i have no doubt most of them are true but the way he tells them, i can see a lot of manipulation and it’s gonna be used against us later when we inevitably confront cazador or other figures from his past in baldurs gate... and i wonder if the MC can go along with this and do what he wants, or call him out and they fight? he’s kind of like the anti zevran, in my mind. zevran went through abuse and he stayed a genuinely good, loyal person. astarion’s vibes are “will stab you for funsies” once we’ve outlived our usefulness 👻

Nyx

[on a first date]

me: *thinks* don’t let her know you’re a knight unit from the warcraft rts game series

waiter: can i get you anything?

me:

Scooby looking at Velma in the new movie