The Blanketfort (crying and throwing up) - The Official Solas Thread [Spoilers]

I result of the tmblr hate. She deleted all her fics and closed down her tumblr. 

I result of the tmblr hate. She deleted all her fics and closed down her tumblr. 

Maybe ya'll have talked about this already but... what Happened to the Fanfic "Schooling Pride"? I was just getting into that story. :/

From what I know apparently for small sections of tumblr it's a crime to ship Abelas with anyone that is not an elf, so one of her more recent AbelasxTrev modern AU fics has been slammed by Abelas police  Other than that a bunch of people periodically waltzed into her comment sections and just poured hate on her works - nothing substantial, just hating her Lavellan and offering no constructive criticism other than some cheap shots. Apparently this has been happening for a while, so I do't think this is the BDSM thing - that might have simply added fuel to fire (=given some folks a pretext to attack her).

From what I know apparently for small sections of tumblr it's a crime to ship Abelas with anyone that is not an elf, so one of her more recent AbelasxTrev modern AU fics has been slammed by Abelas police  Other than that a bunch of people periodically waltzed into her comment sections and just poured hate on her works - nothing substantial, just hating her Lavellan and offering no constructive criticism other than some cheap shots. Apparently this has been happening for a while, so I do't think this is the BDSM thing - that might have simply added fuel to fire (=given some folks a pretext to attack her).

Couldn't it have been simple jealousy? The same thing seems like it happened to Feynites once her fics started getting popular, though she mostly sticks to Solas/Lavellan. You get a work on the first page of highest kudos results, and next thing you know you're a target.

I'm not saying that including the personal aspects of the Solas plot will alienate new players. I'm saying having the sole protag be someone whose entire emotional arc they didn't experience firsthand will. Out of all the people who will play DA4, how many will have played Trespasser? Not even everybody who played DAI will have experienced Trespasser. As far as plot events and Solas' evil plans go, a new hero can get caught up with in-world infodumps and stuff - like we did with Corypheus. But the highly personal conflict can't be front and center by default the way it would be for an Inquisitor. There's just a lot of baggage there, and not only emotional. The Inquisitor's famous in Thedas and every in-game character will have an opinion on their exploits and its effect on the present world. To be forced to play a character who you're always hearing about, who did things you didn't play through would be confusing at best, irritating at worst.

And this is exactly what happens in Mass Effect, but again ME was marketed as a trilogy. And even so, they've had to make consistent efforts to mitigate new player overwhelm by simply leaving out most references to past events that weren't imported from old game save states, or by merging outcomes from highly divergent past choices. Example: the Rachni return in ME3. Another example: If you didn't play the Arrival DLC, they don't bother to inform you in ME3 that Shepard blew up a Mass Relay and killed 300K batarians, which is a pretty big fucking deal. Now, they do make mention of it in my playthrough, but I was aghast at how lightly it was dealt with, and that my Shep had so little visible emotional fallout. The same goes for a romanced Thane's death. For most players, it's very moving. But Thanemancers experience Shep's interactions with him in ME3 as confusing, distant, and in my case amnesiac to the point of being bizarre. Why? Because not much additional content was added that was specific to a Thane romance. That's horrible storytelling, but it's what happens with carrying over a single protagonist who could have gone down different paths which all have to be accounted for. They committed to a three-game protag with the first ME game, so they had to deal with it, sometimes very clunkily. I think the decision to have DA's non-recurring heroes was influenced by that.

I'm also not saying Bioware never follow up on big outcomes or emotional payoffs, of course not. But they have also regularly fudged continuity for game design reasons. Example: a murdered Leliana's resurrection. It's significant to a lot of players, but not the majority of them. And I believe the sole followup to that pretty extraordinary event is some text in the epilogue of a DLC. Even though Leliana is a significant character, part of her story that was personally significant to a minority of players was left out of the main game altogether.

Again, the plot with Solas and the Veil is still going to be there. The personal conflict will also be there, but for some, not all. And so it probably can't be the central conflict of the story, even though it sure will be central in my headcanon. Bioware does have to stop writing for new people at some point, and they do. They have to juggle both sets of needs. I'm not going to pretend I don't want something different from them, but I'm thinking I'll be disappointed in that regard. If I'm wrong, though? I'll be much too happy to be bitter that I lost this argument

I would disagree.  I think WEAWH was a terrible way of introducing newcomers to previous arcs.  Most players had no idea Celene had murdered Bria's parents and burned an alienage, and game made several very poor attempts at making the Bria choice 'grey' which contridicted her from the book (if they'd really wanted to put some grey in there they should've stuck to the 'deliberatly drew out a war for her own ends' thing).

Aaaah guys i'm so happy to have found you back ! (thanks to CapricornSun btw)

Don't we just adopt most of our trolls?

I'm not saying that what other people should do, and it sucks that people would attack a writer.  I know the DA fandom has been on edge lately (there's been a lot of issues with racism in some areas of the fandom) but attacking over ships is just pointless.  I don't like Solas/non-Lavellan but I just ignore it an move on (and Sunny is nice enough to always say when something is leading to Solas/non-Lavellan in her art posts).

I would disagree.  I think WEAWH was a terrible way of introducing newcomers to previous arcs.  Most players had no idea Celene had murdered Bria's parents and burned an alienage, and game made several very poor attempts at making the Bria choice 'grey' which contridicted her from the book (if they'd really wanted to put some grey in there they should've stuck to the 'deliberatly drew out a war for her own ends' thing).

Also, it may be of interest that Weekes was the one who wanted to have an option to save Thane.