We Walk In Harmony



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You know, I’ve noticed something about representation in Overwatch.

They don’t make a big song and dance about it. They just insert it into the lore, unannounced.

Symmetra being on the autistic spectrum, Tracer being gay, D.Va having PTSD, Soldier 76 being attracted to men.

These are things that we were shown within the lore, not announced ahead of time to drum up publicity or pander to these demographics.

This is what real representation looks like.








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In ancient times, Lothering was little more than a trading post that served the fortress of Ostagar to the south. Nowadays, it is larger, serving Redcliffe and the community of merchants and surface dwarves near Orzammar. Its location on the North Road gives it strategic value, so control of Lothering has historically been a matter of contention between the Southern Bannorn and the South Reach Arling. King Calenhad himself stepped in and awarded the town to South Reach in the Exalted Age, which has largely ended the feud, or at least the appearance of it.

From “In Pursuit of Knowledge: The Travels of A Chantry Scholar”, by Brother Genitivi



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homophobes are not allowed to use computers because the inventor of the computer was gay

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People think this is just a joke but Alan Turing was the inventor of the computer and his sexuality was illegal in his time (which was not even 100 years ago) and he was arrested. They put him on drugs that destroyed his genius brain and committed suicide a year after being covicted. He was gay and a war hero as well. He helped to break enigma which was a German code that they put all their messages through. He shorted WWII by two years and saved so many lives in the process.

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Friendly reminder that if not for Alan Turing you wouldn’t be reading this post and we might be ruled by the nazis

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The Alan Turing statue on my campus

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wait fuck this is soooooo important always reblog