Well, this is then.

I wanted to make a long post thanking each and every single one of you, but I found that I couldn’t. Because you’re all too fantastic, too beautiful to put into a small message to each of you and I was terrified of forgetting one.

So here’s my message for you guys for the next few months instead:

I love you. I love this website. You guys have been more than strangers on the internet. You’ve been my support, my fanbase, my friends, my family at times. You taught me so much and brought so much into my life.

Thanks to you guys, I discovered so many things. I started watching Doctor Who, reading ASOIAF more seriously, listened to loads of music you introduced me to, got a hold of loads of show I don’t watch properly but still care about and made friends. I loved getting more in Martha and River’s characters and falling in love with them, and defending them and praising them to hell and back with a community which adored them as well. I loved sharing the entirety of the Mass Effect experience with you, cry as you did and working with you to get our ending back. I loved talking about ships, characters, writers, and universes. I am eternally grateful to the people who opened my eyes on my privilege and the ambient/internalized crap I’ve had for such a long time, and for sharing their painful experiences with me, so I could understand and try to help.

You guys made me a better person. A more passionate one as well. When I felt bad, you were there. When I lost someone, you told me you cared. When I yelled at the world about my anger and frustration, you stood alongside me and yelled with me. When I cried, you wiped away my tears. When I was elated, you all cheered and supported me. When I felt hopeful, you encouraged me. When I did something wrong, you told me how wrong I was and made me see. When I felt alone, you panned along and started chatting about things people in my life don’t care about or don’t want to talk about, even when I do, so badly.

I’m terribly sad, but I have to make this decision, for my future and my life. But it doesn’t mean I’m forgetting you guys. I’m keeping this blog. And I’ll be back in June/July, to talk and be passionate again.

I love you guys. You are such an important part of my life and you’ve helped me through so much. This website isn’t just strangers on the internet. It’s a community, with its good and bad sides. And the bad was definitely worth the good.

Good luck to each and everyone one of you. Whether in work, love, study, life, problems, fandom, or anything, I wish you the best and I will definitely be keeping contact with you guys on skype and other platforms that are less time consuming. And I want you to know that I love you. I really do. You are all beautiful, fantastic, brilliant, incredible, fabulous human beings, no matter what you tell yourselves. You really are. Keep up the fandom passion and the determination in pursuing social justice, don’t explode when the rest of Series 7 airs, try not to break down when the last piece of Mass Effect DLC goes online. I’m with you in spirit.

I, meanwhile, step forwards in the next few months with Martha’s strength, River’s determination, Ashley’s attitude, Eleven’s optimism, Garrus’ snark, Shepard’s badassery, Kitty’s stubborness and your memory and friendship in my heart. Now, with the bac in sight and a new found love in my life, I’m ready to tackle this, and it’s only thanks to you guys. You and your passion.

Goodbye everyone. Until June 25th. I love you. God bless and keep you.

— Sylvie (Sis’)

wei723:

“Are you sleeping, garrus.”

scootyshabooty:

I just sit here sometimes like

wow

sexism is still a thing

the fact that sexism was ever a thing

it just

it’s beyond me

a woman pushes you out of her fucking BODY

and you grow up to be like ‘ahahaha women r stupid and weak’

i don’t get how that happens

overtheunderpass:

people always say sorry for their tumblr to their followers

i’m not sorry,

you followed me, i’m awesome high five

soitgoeschild:

harbek:

Raúl Esparza and Anne Hathaway in Twelfth Night (Shakespeare in the Park, 2009)

I’m… aroused.

ampullae:

djavjr:

but why would you graffiti the quadratic formula

some thugs just want to watch the world learn

tankfromvenus:

enrychan:

I’m baffled by the fact that, while someone wants to transform Connor in a “minefield” subject for fanartists (don’t draw this, don’t draw that, this is disrespectful, this is insulting, do this and do that before drawing him, if you don’t this and that you’re racist…), when it comes to Ezio and Altair, “everything is permitted”. Evidently, Syrians and Italians don’t have their own cultures…?

No.

Native Americans’ land was stolen. Their culture was almost destroyed. Hell, they can’t go back to the way they lived before (and that’s the case for all aborigans) and embrace back their culture. They struggle to keep it alive. They are still oppressed, the governments still give no shit about them.
If a Native person tells you, a white person, that what you are doing is insulting and direspectful, then you better apologize and fix it. Because if you don’t, then you ARE in fact being racist and exercing your supermacy on them. It’s not a question of feelings or permission or whatever the fuck else, it’s a question of being a descent fucking human being.

Italians have their culture. Syrians do too. They never experienced genocide. They have suffered through their history, specially Syria now, sure. BUT THEY ARE NOT OPPRESSED. COLONIZATION IS STILL A SENSIBLE SUBJECT. Now go apologize.

Elise, while I agree with you on 80% of this, I reblogged this because a lot of people do completely misrepresent Arab/Muslim culture in general and white-wash Altaïr (and Ezio, on some level). And that is a real problem. I doubt the OP (who is truly a wonderful person and never meant any of that) meant “waaah native americans get too much attention and their culture shouldn’t be respected”. I think what she means is that the fandom as a whole should try to respect these other cultures as well, on a different level.

Enry has always been very respectful when drawing Connor and cultures that aren’t her own, especially Syrian and Native American culture. Her issue here wasn’t being called out on representing Native American culture, it was the fact that while there have been a lot of terrible and unexcusable screw-ups, AC artists in general now try to represent Native American culture in the best way they can, and then proceed to completely white-wash and appropriate Altaïr and Arabic culture in general, which is a real problem in the fandom.

I didn’t mean to interfere but I hope this clears this up. Screwing up the representation of Connor is terrible (especially as you said, when we consider the colonial repercussions on Native American culture today) but there must also be some effort to stop white-washing other cultures represented in the AC games.

is it really too much to ask to just want to spend your life learning things without being tested on them

darthempress:

This is what I want for Mass Effect 4:

Quarian male LI

Krogan male LI

Drell female LI

Turian female LI

Salarian female and male LIs

And moar Turian male LIs…like twelve to choose from because why not!

And why not some Batarian LIs as well