The Anders Thread: Flash Fic Contest! Details on Pg. 2274
#19776
Posté 10 avril 2011 - 07:15
Dress up game is so awesome. Payroo, you are awesome!
#19777
Posté 10 avril 2011 - 07:15

GLORIOUS!
#19778
Posté 10 avril 2011 - 07:19
#19779
Posté 10 avril 2011 - 07:19
payroo wrote...
it oddly satisfies my weird distress/rescue fetish.
And, yes, the dress up game is adorable. Now I get to have Anders as V in Orsino's robes with a kitten basket. What more could I want in life?
#19780
Posté 10 avril 2011 - 07:19
Trophonius wrote...
That Karl mod doesn't look too bad. While he wasn't such a bad looking guy, his gray hair and beard kind of made him look pederastic. Anders was probably only 18 when they dated, right? Either Karl has Progeria or he really is THAT old.
On another note, it's possible for Meredith to grab Anders. I controlled him for a few minutes to heal my warrior. Sure enough, Meredith grabs him from the neck, gives that "tell me champion, how does it feel to have the life of the one you love in my hands?" speech and proceeds to thrust her ginormous sword through his chest. She definitely deserved that beatdown I gave her.
Someone needs to get a vid of this happening!
The Order Dictates!
#19781
Posté 10 avril 2011 - 07:22
#19782
Posté 10 avril 2011 - 07:23
Kawamura wrote...
Well, thanks to the person I'm in a long term bromantic relationship with, I've got my Hawke/Anders song. It's great for Hawkes that feel strong senses of responsibility for the events going on around them. And might even be a sort of call and answer thing, too, in it's own way. I don't have to figure it out, it's music, it can be whatever you want it to be. Little Lion Man.
She always finds waymiserablebetter love songs than I do. I guess that's what I get for listening to too much Pitbull. His songs have yet to speak to me.
I love you so hard right now. I love this songggggg.
#19783
Posté 10 avril 2011 - 07:24
ipgd wrote...
I knew he'd cave eventually. No one can resist the allure of fashionable maternity armor.It's funny, because the Edward/Bella romance is certainly very dysfunctional -- but the book spends its entire time focusing on possibly the one part of their relationship that is never, ever an issue. Honestly, Twilight probably could have been good if it had skipped the hackneyed baby plotline and explored their relationship once Edward's vampirism was no longer an issue, forcing them to deal with all of the things that actually make their romance self-destructive (the obsessive stalking, Bella's submissiveness, the age gap, the fact Edward is a 100 year old virgin, etc.). It has a pretty excellent setup for a deconstruction of rushed teenage romances and power imbalances in relationships and it's completely squandered by an incompetent writer who doesn't even realize how fundamentally toxic (in the "these people are too ****ed up to be ****ing" sense) the romance she's writing is. why do i spend so much time thinking about twilight
Fortunately she left all the interesting dynamics that she could and should have addressed up in the air for claiming by a more... well, by anyone else.
Someone pointed out to me that Twilight would be marginally more worthwhile if everyone genderswapped. Interesting thought experiment at least.
#19784
Posté 10 avril 2011 - 07:25
yukidama wrote...
Kawamura wrote...
Well, thanks to the person I'm in a long term bromantic relationship with, I've got my Hawke/Anders song. It's great for Hawkes that feel strong senses of responsibility for the events going on around them. And might even be a sort of call and answer thing, too, in it's own way. I don't have to figure it out, it's music, it can be whatever you want it to be. Little Lion Man.
She always finds waymiserablebetter love songs than I do. I guess that's what I get for listening to too much Pitbull. His songs have yet to speak to me.
I love you so hard right now. I love this songggggg.
She keeps finding me songs like this.
Also, Kiss With a Fist from Florence and the Machine a million years ago so when I heard the ending song I went "Hm, why does this make me think of N?"
And then I went and looked in my music and it Florence and the Machine was there, staring at me in an odd frightening following way.
#19785
Posté 10 avril 2011 - 07:29

(He wanted kittens. I wanted him mostly naked.)
Modifié par AnniLau, 10 avril 2011 - 07:41 .
#19786
Posté 10 avril 2011 - 07:32
ipgd wrote...
God I wish Karl had Progeria
Poor guy. RIP.
Can Karl even rap?
#19787
Posté 10 avril 2011 - 07:35
Deathispink wrote...
Trophonius wrote...
That Karl mod doesn't look too bad. While he wasn't such a bad looking guy, his gray hair and beard kind of made him look pederastic. Anders was probably only 18 when they dated, right? Either Karl has Progeria or he really is THAT old.
On another note, it's possible for Meredith to grab Anders. I controlled him for a few minutes to heal my warrior. Sure enough, Meredith grabs him from the neck, gives that "tell me champion, how does it feel to have the life of the one you love in my hands?" speech and proceeds to thrust her ginormous sword through his chest. She definitely deserved that beatdown I gave her.
Someone needs to get a vid of this happening!
The Order Dictates!
I second this.
Though TBH I'm glad it didn't happen my game and that I built little bro as such an epic warrior. Because if it HAD happened, I would've charged Meredith with my squishy mage Hawke, tactics be damned.
No one hurts Anders and survives my Hawke's slightly maniacal wrath.
#19788
Posté 10 avril 2011 - 07:36
payroo wrote...
Trophonius wrote...
On another note, it's possible for Meredith to grab Anders. I controlled him for a few minutes to heal my warrior. Sure enough, Meredith grabs him from the neck, gives that "tell me champion, how does it feel to have the life of the one you love in my hands?" speech and proceeds to thrust her ginormous sword through his chest. She definitely deserved that beatdown I gave her.
WHAT?! Oh gahhhh I had no idea that could happen!it oddly satisfies my weird distress/rescue fetish. Freaking Aveline, tanking Meredith to death before I had a chance for TEH DRAMAHZ
ETA: thanks for playing the dress up! glad you guise are enjoying
FU-
I have to speed through to the finale now. And let Meredith beat on me, so that I can get this scene. BECAUSE IT WILL BE WORTH IT. SO VERY WORTH IT.
Although... you know, it occurs to me that grabbing a Templar-hating abomination by the neck and proceeding to ram a sword through his chest is not conductive to one's health.
I mean, we all remember what happened to the last templar who tried that ****, amirite?
This problem is also inherent in Grace's Anders-napping. Congratulations, genius. You just coldcocked an abomination who hates blood mages, and took him away from the one person who can calm him down.
I'm starting to think that Kirkwall isn't just afflicted by a dangerously-thin Veil. Clearly, it is also struggling to cope with the Stupid Plague.
Modifié par Ashwraith, 10 avril 2011 - 07:39 .
#19789
Posté 10 avril 2011 - 07:38
I don't have the heart to kill Carver that long. ;____________;
#19790
Posté 10 avril 2011 - 07:41
I don't know if the deconstructions it will inspire are worth having to constantly DEFEND THE ASSAILED INTERNET HONOR of anything I like that shares even the smallest thematic elements with Twilight as if said thematic elements had anything to do with why Twilight was bad harfugfhdngjghfrglPseudocognition wrote...
ipgd wrote...
I knew he'd cave eventually. No one can resist the allure of fashionable maternity armor.It's funny, because the Edward/Bella romance is certainly very dysfunctional -- but the book spends its entire time focusing on possibly the one part of their relationship that is never, ever an issue. Honestly, Twilight probably could have been good if it had skipped the hackneyed baby plotline and explored their relationship once Edward's vampirism was no longer an issue, forcing them to deal with all of the things that actually make their romance self-destructive (the obsessive stalking, Bella's submissiveness, the age gap, the fact Edward is a 100 year old virgin, etc.). It has a pretty excellent setup for a deconstruction of rushed teenage romances and power imbalances in relationships and it's completely squandered by an incompetent writer who doesn't even realize how fundamentally toxic (in the "these people are too ****ed up to be ****ing" sense) the romance she's writing is. why do i spend so much time thinking about twilight
Fortunately she left all the interesting dynamics that she could and should have addressed up in the air for claiming by a more... well, by anyone else.
Someone pointed out to me that Twilight would be marginally more worthwhile if everyone genderswapped. Interesting thought experiment at least.
I don't know, but I believe in Karl the Rapper now.Trophonius wrote...
ipgd wrote...
God I wish Karl had Progeria
Poor guy. RIP.
Can Karl even rap?
#19791
Posté 10 avril 2011 - 07:43
Kawamura wrote...
It would be really neato if someone fraps'd Anders getting his ass kidnapped.
I don't have the heart to kill Carver that long. ;____________;
Some will more then likely have it already or get it before me, but I am close to doing that quest and I killed Bethany >_>
#19792
Posté 10 avril 2011 - 07:43
Kawamura wrote...
It would be really neato if someone fraps'd Anders getting his ass kidnapped.
I don't have the heart to kill Carver that long. ;____________;
#19793
Posté 10 avril 2011 - 07:44
Kawamura wrote...
It would be really neato if someone fraps'd Anders getting his ass kidnapped.
I don't have the heart to kill Carver that long. ;____________;
Modifié par Lady Dino, 10 avril 2011 - 07:44 .
#19794
Posté 10 avril 2011 - 07:46
ipgd wrote...
Kawamura wrote...
It would be really neato if someone fraps'd Anders getting his ass kidnapped.
I don't have the heart to kill Carver that long. ;____________;
Yusssssssssssssssssssssssssssss.
He's surprisingly nice when he gets his ass knocked out for a few hours. Maybe they should try that more often.
#19795
Posté 10 avril 2011 - 07:53
ipgd wrote...
I don't know if the deconstructions it will inspire are worth having to constantly DEFEND THE ASSAILED INTERNET HONOR of anything I like that shares even the smallest thematic elements with Twilight as if said thematic elements had anything to do with why Twilight was bad harfugfhdngjghfrgl
If you genderswap, nobody will be able to tell they were ever similar ohohoho.
Edward and Bella, meet Edwina and Beau.
Hnngngngn Twilight is so fun to rant about >_>
Modifié par Pseudocognition, 10 avril 2011 - 07:53 .
#19796
Posté 10 avril 2011 - 08:03
#19797
Posté 10 avril 2011 - 08:06
I dunno if Twilight genderswap would work, because it would require a writer who was consciously subverting cliches which would mean they wouldn't have the requisite baffling blindness to make Twilight so ****ty in the first place and then there would be no twilightPseudocognition wrote...
ipgd wrote...
I don't know if the deconstructions it will inspire are worth having to constantly DEFEND THE ASSAILED INTERNET HONOR of anything I like that shares even the smallest thematic elements with Twilight as if said thematic elements had anything to do with why Twilight was bad harfugfhdngjghfrgl
If you genderswap, nobody will be able to tell they were ever similar ohohoho.
Edward and Bella, meet Edwina and Beau.
Hnngngngn Twilight is so fun to rant about >_>
Modifié par ipgd, 10 avril 2011 - 08:06 .
#19798
Guest_Yenaquai_*
Posté 10 avril 2011 - 08:08
Guest_Yenaquai_*
Pseudocognition wrote...
ipgd wrote...
I don't know if the deconstructions it will inspire are worth having to constantly DEFEND THE ASSAILED INTERNET HONOR of anything I like that shares even the smallest thematic elements with Twilight as if said thematic elements had anything to do with why Twilight was bad harfugfhdngjghfrgl
If you genderswap, nobody will be able to tell they were ever similar ohohoho.
Edward and Bella, meet Edwina and Beau.
Hnngngngn Twilight is so fun to rant about >_>
*whistles and points over to this blog again
Rant at your hearts delight, please.
#19799
Posté 10 avril 2011 - 08:18
Yenaquai wrote...
Pseudocognition wrote...
ipgd wrote...
I don't know if the deconstructions it will inspire are worth having to constantly DEFEND THE ASSAILED INTERNET HONOR of anything I like that shares even the smallest thematic elements with Twilight as if said thematic elements had anything to do with why Twilight was bad harfugfhdngjghfrgl
If you genderswap, nobody will be able to tell they were ever similar ohohoho.
Edward and Bella, meet Edwina and Beau.
Hnngngngn Twilight is so fun to rant about >_>
*whistles and points over to this blog again
Rant at your hearts delight, please.![]()
I love that blog. Really the thing with the series that got me, and I admit never touched the books or movies. but I did read a small bit from the first book at a friends, all I could think was "This passes for good now?" I was upset that people considerd her to be good. Also I read in an interview, the whole thing started as a fanfiction for herself...that explains Bella on so many levels.
#19800
Guest_Yenaquai_*
Posté 10 avril 2011 - 08:29
Guest_Yenaquai_*
There is some truth that like in Twilight, declarations like "You are my life now" seem hollow if the romance just hasn't been established or was so superficial and forced and.... well what Stephanie Meyer sees as romance/love.
And it's a little bit like the Anders romance.
When the whole romance scene fired up I was a bit ... surprised, to be honest. In Act 1 we have one/two conversations that could lead to potential flirting or proof that they are interested in each other. Sure, you somehow get to know Anders if you take him with you very often, but ... it's not exactly the same.
And then in Act 3 there are all those lines about "aching for you for three years" and "I want you right here, until the day we die" and "I couldn't stand to loose you to the templars" and "It would kill me to loose you".
It just seemed to be out of blue, for me, personally. In ME (or especially ME2) this might work, as it seems that the relationship you start is very fresh, and for example with Thane you get the feeling that at the end they agree that they feel something more than friendship for each other, and want to try to start a relationship. - But not more.
But I guess the timeskip of said three years negates any tension or feelings or "building up" of a relationship between Anders and Hawke. And we are left with what we are told, and we just should believe that it was so.
While I certainly don't play videogames for the romances, I do think relationships and their dynamics are very important (romance, platonic friendship, mutual disdain etc) and shouldn't be glossed over.
One of my favourite relationships ingame is the one of John Marston and Bonnie MacFarlane in Red Dead Redemption. - While obviously they are just friends and nothing more, it is hinted that Bonnie got a little crush on John.
But she is very aware that there won't be anything happening between them and wouldn't make a move, because he is
a) older than her and
But you can clearly read it in her attitude. She teases him a lot, calls him names, and plays tougher than she has too, while he seems pretty distant with being overly polite and calling her "Miss MacFarlane", and keeping a certain distance between them.
I really, really like such dynamics between characters. And I think it is a shame that some great character-development was glossed over in DA2. - While there were really great moments between the characters, sometimes I felt that certain nuances were lacking.
I hope I make some sense...
Modifié par Yenaquai, 10 avril 2011 - 08:31 .





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