“Matty Groves” – Fairport Convention
“Matty Groves” is one folk ballad I will listen to any version I come across. I have more such songs, most of which also involve some form of violent death. And I really, really like this version.
I love Fairport Convention. And Steeleye Span.
Screw you and your gender prescriptivist ideas. There’s more than one way to be a woman.
“She runs around with a giant sword or daggers or a huge staff killing monsters and bad guys in her spare time, but she needs to be more dainty and skinny, tall and burly isn’t pretty!”
Reblogged for commentary. And awesome “shut up” gif. The only thing that ever sort of bothered me was femHawke’s walk animation, and that’s only because my femHawkes are…really not that femme.
Saying that Nickle Creek’s “The Lighthouse’s Tale” is a murder ballad and summing it up as “When its keeper falls head-over-heels in love with a girl, a lighthouse feels threatened and takes action” boggles the mind.
You, “murder ballad” playlist creator, are either trying too hard, or you are trolling. The song is not about murder. It’s not grisly.
Boggled.
“Loreley” – Blackmore’s Night
This is another song that tends to earworm on me. I first heard it on NPR, on either Thistle and Shamrock or All Things Accoustic.
go for it! the mass effect games are really, really great games and you can go through the first two without romancing anyone if you choose to. also, ignore all of the gross comments devs have made about liara and f!shep/liara—she identifies as female and the asari having a single sex does not invalidate that. (i’m hoping the reason the liara wasn’t included was because people like to shout about how LIARA ISN’T A REAL WOMAN!!! all over the place. otherwise, s/s does not exclusively mean m/m and you need to check yourself, op.)
and to the people being like THAT’S DUMB BLAH BLAH if op here is a queer person then let’s not rag on them for having their interest piqued when they heard they could play a fantastic game series with characters that have a lil’ something in common with them especially if they are coming from the dragon age side of things where they can, you know, do that. how many people reading this rn got into mass effect when they found out they could play a fantastic female lead instead of the same ol’ white dude?
like, sure, there are a bunch of people who make a point to let everyone know how little they care about representation and think it is 4 BABBYS THIS IS AMERICA (FUCK YEAH) but i am not even looking at y’all right now. enjoy your BOO HOO I AM PERSECUTED ON THE INTERNET BECAUSE PPL WANT OPTIONS I HAVE circle jerk over there ok bye.
i’ve seen more than one person say f!shep got them interested or kept them interested in mass effect, and y’know what, it’s the same damn thing. chill out.
Reblogging for tuchanka’s commentary. I can honestly say that I probably would not have gotten into Mass Effect or Dragon Age if I had not been able to play a female character.
I find this…confusing.
My understand of games like Dragon Age and Mass Effect is that all the files and other information necessary to be able to play them is, ya know, stored on my harddrive, not a server out there somewhere they way MMO worlds are stored. So…if my understanding is correct, there is no need to have any fear of servers being shut down.
If I’m incorrect in my assumption, I would welcome more information on this matter.
It takes all of five seconds of Googling to find this out, yet people often prefer not to bother because there’s no way their assumption could possibly be wrong. This also is true of many other things that it takes all of five seconds to Google.
I should stop watching these.
I know I should stop watching these.
I really, really, really, really should stop watching these.
But… they are getting better.
Incrementally.
This episode addresses several of the inconsistencies I had issues with: Tallis’s combat skills, the fact she was a slave before, her less-than-complete acceptance of all tenants of the Qun. It even namedrops Cassandra (although bugger me if I could decipher what that gal was actually saying about her, or why common Qunari and low-ranking Templars would know that she is the head of the SUPER SEKRIT organization, the Seekers).
Although the line “Can’t you see she’s a Reaver?” did happen. (Because yeah, dumbass Templar, how could you possibly miss her giant “I’m a Reaver” button pinned to her lapel? Or that giant “The Blood of My Enemies Is Yummy!” trucker hat? I thought Reavers were supposed to be SUPER SEKRIT too?).
Still, I do think they’re getting ever-so-slightly better. Or maybe I’m just getting used to the pain.
This one is less painful to watch than the last one, even it continues to perpetrate “LOL, WHUT?” moments re: lore (in this case, game mechanics re: reavers). I like Nyree, though. She says she “even fought beside mighty Templar Cassandra, once” best I could tell.
Upon getting to “A New Path” on my replay of Dragon Age II, I’ve found myself wondering what would have happened if Marethari had chosen not to withhold key information from Merrill and act on her own to save her, but instead to explain to her what the demon’s plan was. Some people speculate she…
Another amazing article. It hits on a lot of the reasons I adore Merrill, and on basically all of the things people who hate Merrill as a character don’t take into account.
Would love to discuss medieval marriage soon! Ack, it’s killing me that my books are all packed up at the moment. 🙂
Having enjoyed reading a book about Reformation family life (which included marriage and the changes that the spread of Protestanism brought to it and other aspects of life, as well as common treatments for childhood ailments and pregnancy) for a Renaissance/Reformation class, I am looking for to the more medieval side of things. I did once read a children’s book about a peasant wedding contrasted with a noble wedding (all participants were under sixteen) but I don’t remember much of it.
Kirkwall Was Totally Built On a Hellmouth 