Well, that’s where you and I part company.
what can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence
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Circumstantial evidence is still evidence.
I am just going to make my Drac’thyr cis, I don’t get how dragons are now queer, but some of my trans friends really love dragons.
And that’s a perfectly legitimate read, as well. Everything I listed make sense from an in-universe perspective.
There is a difference between objective reading and subjective. I would describe this as subjective, but if this is good for you for the whole representation thing then good on you.
I will also add.
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Pelagos has conjured too a visage, after all this entity was according to the story somebody who held a female body, thus making them just as valid as an object to create this stability.
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Trolls and gnomes had bold, vibrant and ostentatious colors and accompanying features in high regard for years, so if anything this is the norm in Blizzard’s development, not an outlier.
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Chromatic spellcasting being rainbow colored might be a little on the nose, but implying every single reference to the light spectrum is now queer is projecting and stretching things a little too, considering chromatic dragons have been since Vanilla one of the main villains of the setting; however, if a player is able to project and identify themselves as any graphical asset in this video game it seems like a success for the art team to have this graphical inclusion, this is why I still believe this company is a worthwhile investment despite the legal allegations.
People legit spend thousands of dollars to go to college for years to learn a bunch of nonsense words and terms in order to hyper analyze extremely lazy thrown together fantasy races in a dinosaur ancient video game.
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It isn’t about the money or time spent, it is about the journey.
I don’t know about these Dracthyr having Queer Coding as far as LGBT stuff… but the Dracthyr definitely are queer in the sense of strange and odd. Not my cup of tea.
Hey, at least I get paid well!
… wait.
I am blaming you that this race model is so bad. I will deduct this from your pay.
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I’m coming around to it. I just want them to add more armour customization. Shoulders and belt doesn’t cut the mustard. You can make anything look good with the proper coat of paint.
The problem isn’t the armor, its the lanky androgynous methamphetamine addled looking lizards trying to pass off as dragons.
https://i.ibb.co/FDkrfZb/drak.jpg
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Just saw this posted over in GD:
Reminded me of this thread.
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That’s me! Hopefully talon won’t see this. Though who am I kidding, he’s got 100 different posts already drafted.
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I’m pretty sure he just made one post in this thread calling me a “known homophobe” and peaced out. It was quite strange.
Also because his writing was bad and the acting was cringe. I hated Pelagos.
if they dont like it its called stereotyping
if they like it its called coding
Stereotype: a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing.
Queer coding is the subtextual coding of a character in media as queer. Though such a character’s sexual identity may not be explicitly confirmed within their respective work or they may in fact be straight despite their queer mannerisms, a character might be coded as queer through the use of traits and stereotypes recognisable to the audience. Such traits are greatly varied, but traits of exaggerated masculinity and femininity, vanity, and hypersexuality are frequent.
Hope that clears it up. Sometimes coding involves applying stereotypes but doesn’t necessarily.
For bonus points do you know where the name came from?