The Drac'thyr are Queer-Coding Done Right!

[Drahliana-earthen-ring (Drahliana)]

@Deathyeet-stormrage

Also because his writing was bad and the acting was cringe. I hated Pelagos.

Any particular reason besides the fact that he was trans?

[Drahliana-earthen-ring (Drahliana)]

@Irenaus-wyrmrest-accord

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.

I see a lot of “queer coding” when a character like Anduin is perceived to be insufficiently masculine.

At Rutgers I knew someone who was queer coded by his roommate when he wasn’t being as sexually active as said roommate, who was one of the most toxically masculine males I had the displeasure of meeting. It got to the point where said roommate threatened to kill him if “he made any queer moves” on him.

Things got better when that person moved out of the dormitory (which he hatged because it was “full of q***rs”) into a fraternity he had had to curtail his activities because his favored method of opening doors by punching them ended when on the last occasions his fist missed the door and went through the glass instead.

I wasn’t able to work up any sympathy for him though.

[Deathyeet-stormrage]

The voice acting was bad and the writing was overpoweringly goody, goody.

[Drahliana-earthen-ring (Drahliana)]

@Deathyeet-stormrage

The voice acting was bad and the writing was overpoweringly goody, goody

The game is written with the assumption that no matter who you are, you’re one of the good guys.

Cyberpunk 2077 might be more your speed.

[Irenaus-wyrmrest-accord (Irenaus)]

@Drahliana-earthen-ring

At Rutgers I knew someone who was queer coded by his roommate

You can’t code a real person. You’d just be trying to infer their sexuality.

[Deathyeet-stormrage]

@Drahliana-earthen-ring

Cyberpunk 2077 might be more your speed.

I enjoyed Cyberpunk but it got a bit weird with the engram implant Keanu Reeves stuff.

Anywho, WoW’s writing is not that great right now, admit it. I mean, Shadowlands was pretty much universally panned.

The setting, the story, the characters, the voice acting, the zones - none of it was any good.

I feel like the story / plot is really dumb - as in, this is Saturday morning cartoon stuff.

Lets go back to the tropes, the everyday RPG stuff, the everyday protecting the lands against a backdrop of long away battles that are more and more encroaching on our lands.

Lets go back to savage Horde and unwavering Alliance. Enough with the softening of WoW.

Bring the Diablo team in and dirty WoW up. Splash some blood. Give us the grit, the sweat and tears, the mourning that comes from losses from hard fought battles.

[Drahliana-earthen-ring (Drahliana)]

@Irenaus-wyrmrest-accord

You can’t code a real person. You’d just be trying to infer their sexuality.

That’s kind of the point. Anduin is queer-coded as gay because he’s not a carbon copy of his Hero Chin father.

[Raile-moon-guard]

I haven’t read a single post of this thread but Cindrethresh uses she/her pronouns (https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/Primal_Pests_(Horde)) and uses a masculine visage form (https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/wowpedia/images/9/91/Scalecommander_Cindrethresh_-_Visage.png). I thought that was neat.

[Akiyass-moon-guard (Akiyass)]

You say “Queer-Coding” I say “Blizz being too lazy to make more than one skeleton and model”

But to be fair, it is often difficult to tell gender apart in reptiles. Slapping boobs on a Lizard race is already kind of a meme.

[Bytalth-sargeras]

I never picked up on that!

[Zuleika-hyjal (Zuleika)]

@Akiyass-moon-guard

I say “Blizz being too lazy to make more than one skeleton and model”

It might be more of a time-saver than simple laziness. I’m seeing quite a few signs that this expansion was rushed out the door (talent trees and half-finished new interface, I’m looking at you).

[Delphire-wyrmrest-accord]

People are still posting in this thread!?

[Redsock-arugal]

/vomit

[Bytalth-sargeras]

I was pleasantly surprised to see it revived.

I just wish that people that are insecure or uncomfortable regarding the subject matter would just choose not to post, however. Or alternatively actually take the time to explain why they are “against” such coding when virtually all of the existing races are coded to other real-life group analogues.