An Order of Magnitude

[rynling]

I'm not going to link to this post, but I want to preserve it. Since the conventional wisdom is "don't feed the trolls," it's rare that anyone has the courage to be frank about online harassment.

What I've personally experienced was nowhere near this level, but I don't think Corseque is rounding up these numbers. When people talk about online harassment, they're not talking about one random asshole sending a mean anonymous message. Rather, once people start to dogpile you on social media, dealing with it becomes your entire life until that particular group gets bored and moves on.

I should probably mention that I'm a huge fan of this writer and artist. I don't care about Star Wars, and I don't know anything about Dragon Age, but I always enjoy reading Corseque's essays. In fact, my real and honest goal as a writer is to create the sort of story that Corseque would appreciate and write meta about.

Comments

[runicmagitek]

Bioware fandom (Dragon Age, Mass Effect) in general is a hot mess and a huge reason why I've mostly avoided writing any fic for it. Never mind the shipping wars... if you decided to side with one faction or another, you were a terrible person and here are a million reasons why you are. Or if you ship your female main character (which you can choose male or female at the beginning of every game) with the male character (who can be romanceable with either male or female leads) then your ship is less valid because it's not queer enough and clearly the male lead with the male character is way better and there's no lingering biphobia at all I don't know what you're talking about 😐

You don't need to "ship" a certain way to be a shitty person. It also literally costs nothing to stop being a shitty person, but here we are.

[rynling]

In my mind Dragon Age only exists as lovely fanfiction and beautiful tarot-style character art. I've really enjoyed the fic I've read, and I've had wonderful experiences commissioning some of the artists.

And then every once in awhile I come across something like this
https://kotaku.com/it-s-been-three-years-and-i-still-hate-solas-1820049714
and I have to wonder if the fandom is okay.

Apparently not shm.

[renegadefolkhero]

"Apparently not"

Can confirm.

[runicmagitek]

On one hand, the actual facts in that article are all 100% true (Solas really does all of that), but on the other hand, it's legit par for the course for Dragon Age fans to just write dissertations about Here's This Fictional Character That I Hate And Why You Should Hate Them Too And If You Don't You Should Probably Die.

So yeah. The fandom is not ok.