I really don’t like the way most straight girls in the fandom treat Dorian.

They fetishize him, they label him with the ‘gay best friend’ trope, they use him as a matchmaker for Cullen and their Inquizzi ALTHOUGH HE HAS NEVER BEEN IN A RELATIONSHIP AND HAS NO IDEA HOW RELATIONSHIPS EVEN WORK.

They completely ignore everything that’s been done to him.

They don’t see how lonely he is. Open your fucking eyes. He’s trying to find common ground with everyone. Why? Because he doesn’t have friends.

When the Inquisitor tells him he actually likes him, and that he wants more that just sex, Dorian is speechless, because he wasn’t expecting that. Because he thought he didn’t deserve to be loved, because he thought sex was all he was ever gonna get.

Everyone who’s played his personal quest knows about his father… but do they realize there’s so much more than just that? Think about all the guys he had a crush on, who rejected him, because they wanted nothing but sex. Think about young Dorian, who was trying his best to impress his father, and who, upon discovering his sexuality, became utterly terrified of being rejected. And then he, not only got rejected, but was also labeled as a deviant, somebody whose obscene activities had to be hidden at all costs.

Think about Dorian discovering that his father, who had taught him to HATE blood magic, was ready to perform a blood ritual to make him ‘acceptable’. He didn’t care about Dorian. He cared about his legacy.

Dorian is more than “that sassy gay mage”.

I get it. Straight people are sometimes obsessed with queer culture and like to objectify queer characters.

But it’s hurtful. Ignorant, and hurtful. To queer people. To us.

tumblr alt culture might tend towards the self-important and it’s cathartic to make fun of it every once and a while, but ultimately it’s a harmless, if not outright positive, force. it’s giving a bunch of weird teens emotional support, community, and an outlet for their weird teen bullshit at a time in their lives when they need all three

like, every so often some fool tween knee-deep in “uwu” soft-grunge shibboleth puts a trigger warning on a picture of Pikachu because it’s looking straight at the viewer. that’s patently absurd, it’s funny. but it’s an act motivated by sensitivity and an (extremely misplaced) sense of social responsibility. those are fundamentally good things. hopefully that kid is gonna grow up and use that energy in a more sensible, helpful way. this is a callous world, and we need all the empathy we can get.

from what i’ve seen, the cultures that harp on this sort of behavior or treat it like a genuine threat (read: 4chan) follow up with a contempt for women/minorities that they don’t even bother trying to hide any more. if you think a bunch of excitable kids drawing POC Original Characters with undercuts and heterochromia for comics they’re never going to make are a negative presence in this world (or even in your life), you’ve really got to reevaluate your priorities

so godspeed you little weirdos (former little weirdo, now large weirdo, speaking). i hope you have fulfilling lives and never stop looking out for your fellow human being, even if i never want to see another post about Sailor Moon again

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god bless the tumblr teens, honestly and truly

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