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felis_ultharus) wrote2007-05-01 06:14 am
felis_ultharus) wrote2007-05-01 06:14 am
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Beltane
Happy Beltaine/Bealtaine/Beltane to those who celebrate it. I hope it's a good one for you all ^_^
Video Games
On a completely different note, I yanked this Salon.com article entitled Why can't gay dwarves get married in Middle-earth?" from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
jenjoou. Probably only of interest to people into gamer culture, which is about one-third of my friends-list.
Among other things, it's about the growing number of gay and bi male and women gamers playing video games, and how the people who write these things are responding.
I have to be reminded that gay and women gamers are a small demographic. All the passionate video gamers I hang out with these days are women, and I was *involved with* all but one of the guys I was hanging out with at the arcades, during my teenage years (and that one guy was the boyfriend of one of my closest male friends).
Video games have gotten a lot queerer since then -- I think Final Fantasy VII was a big turning point there. Any game where playing the passive role in sex with a guy not only restores your life and mana, but also gets you the lingerie you need to complete your drag outfit so you can seduce a mafioso, has to be among the queerest games ever made.
Even after all these years, I think Final fantasy VII still gives Shadowhearts and its man-festival a run for its money ^_^
Happy Beltaine/Bealtaine/Beltane to those who celebrate it. I hope it's a good one for you all ^_^
Video Games
On a completely different note, I yanked this Salon.com article entitled Why can't gay dwarves get married in Middle-earth?" from
jenjoou. Probably only of interest to people into gamer culture, which is about one-third of my friends-list. Among other things, it's about the growing number of gay and bi male and women gamers playing video games, and how the people who write these things are responding.
I have to be reminded that gay and women gamers are a small demographic. All the passionate video gamers I hang out with these days are women, and I was *involved with* all but one of the guys I was hanging out with at the arcades, during my teenage years (and that one guy was the boyfriend of one of my closest male friends).
Video games have gotten a lot queerer since then -- I think Final Fantasy VII was a big turning point there. Any game where playing the passive role in sex with a guy not only restores your life and mana, but also gets you the lingerie you need to complete your drag outfit so you can seduce a mafioso, has to be among the queerest games ever made.
Even after all these years, I think Final fantasy VII still gives Shadowhearts and its man-festival a run for its money ^_^
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I think they handled it well in Advent Children. I didn't feel it was missing something because Cloud didn't have a great romance in the movie; contrary to what Hollywood seems to tell us sometimes, not all movies need to end with a happy couple. Incidentaly that's one of the things the americans did when they occupied Japan after the war, they required all movies to have romance in them (or a kiss scene or something silly like that). I like that just like in the game, at the end of the movie it could still go any way with the romance; there are little hints to all possibilities but nothing concrete for any of them. ^_^