text post – Kirkwall Was Totally Built On a Hellmouth

That feeling when you really want to link someone to a Snopes article, but you are also pretty sure it will “start shit” because you already know where the person stands on a certain issue because there was, unfortunately, very little doubt about which side they would stand with even before they made it public which side they were on. And you keep hiding things they post related to that, and if it was anyone else they’d be gone from your FB friends after that first post. And you know if you unfriend them, they will ask you or someone else why, and that someone else would ask you, and you really don’t have the energy to get into it, even though you know you wouldn’t be obligated to explain.

On the subject of what the Inquisitor and the companions might wear to a fancy Orlesian ball, because it’s popped up…

I really hope they just polish the Inquisitor’s armor until it shines like the sun and they wear that.

Why?

Because as disappointing as it might be not to see the Inquisitor in fancy clothes, it removes the disappointment that would inevitably occur over whatever else the female Inquisitor would wear otherwise. Because it occurred with f!Hawke in MotA.

Personally, I was overjoyed when I my f!Hawke showed up in a doublet and trousers. 1) It worked for her as a character and 2) for me it was so great to be able to play a character who wasn’t forced to wear a dress (or other coded-female clothing item) because I myself am a cis woman who is not comfortable in dresses. I wish Bioware had put a little more work into not making f!Hawke’s outfit look like she stole it from m!Hawke’s closet, but I was still so, so glad she wore it. It meant a lot to me.

Not everyone felt the same way, of course. Some people’s f!Hawke’s were women who would have worn a dress to the party if the game had given that option. And someone made a mod that would allow those f!Hawke’s to do that. Which was great.

Except for the part where they also said, “You cannot go to an elegant party wearing trousers!”

Women go to elegant parties in trousers all the time. It takes less than five seconds with Google to know that. Not every woman is comfortable wearing dresses and no one should judge them for that. If you are woman who likes wearing dresses, rock that dress! If you are a woman who feels more comfortable in a suit, rock that suit! You do you and let other women do them, because it’s not always easy for any woman to feel good about how she dresses or likes to dress.