Breaking down borders in video games.
Hot Tramp
Twentysomething girl gamer from Southern California. Currently playing entirely too much WoW.
Homepage: http://tacky-tramp.livejournal.com
Posts by Hot Tramp
Plate Mail Bikini
Dec 4th
When Gunthera1 posted High heels and female warriors, I found myself thinking, “Well, I’m sure glad that doesn’t happen in World of Warcraft!” And it’s true that you won’t find high heels in Azeroth. However, the chainmail bikini lives on.
A lot of the game’s armor is gender-neutral. Male mages and priests wear lovely, long, luxurious dresses most of the time, just like female casters. My dwarf warrior woman is covered head to toe in titanium plating, just like our guild’s human male paladin tank. Skimpy gear can look the same on males and females, too.
A low-level quest reward, Cobalt Legguards are equally revealing on male and female models.
The Raptor Hide Harness actually covers more on a male model than on a female one.
But sprinkled throughout quest rewards and loot drops are items that look very, very different depending on your character’s gender.
Your face is a mess
Nov 29th
My WoW mains: Suffragette in T9 tank gear, and Amazonne at the height of Outland absurdity.
For the last little bit, I’ve been going by Hot Tramp online, as a nod to Bowie’s hip-shaking classic “Rebel, Rebel.” My blogging waxes and wanes; sometimes, I’ve got opinions coming out of my ears, and sometimes it’s a chore to find anything to rant about.
I’m a pansexual polyamorous feminist ciswoman who’s working on being a white anti-racist ally who doesn’t suck. I’m a fat-positive in-betweenie. I’m mentally ill, and struggling to understand disability, ableism, and my own ability level. I’m an agnostic who was raised vaguely protestant and whose family is now Jewish.
Although I sure loved Mario Brothers and Duck Hunt back in the day, my video gaming ground to a halt once the NES went out of style. Pen-and-paper RPGs were my thing in high school and college — second ed AD&D, third ed D&D, and Exalted mostly. You know how politicians say they “experimented” with drugs in their flaming youth? Let’s say I “experimented” with LARPing. A sordid, shameful experience, really. This year, the peer pressure finally got to me and I installed WoW. Seven months later, I’m an altaholic achievement addict in a hard-mode raiding guild. Mammas, don’t let your babies grow up to be tanks.
When I’m not wiping on Algalon, I read and write fanfiction and give people relationship advice despite my stunning lack of qualifications. I just finished Stephen King’s Dark Tower series and Mad Men season 2. My Pandora stations play mainly disco-heavy house, classic rock, laid back nineties hip-hop, and disgustingly catchy girlpop. I knit sporadically and go dancing far less often than I should.
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