People might try to spin this as negative based off the headline alone, but look into why it happened because it is a positive development! Doxxing, scapegoating, and harassing Square Enix employees and siccing people on them is not "criticism", it's witch-hunting.
if i say that game of thrones' problem is that men don't get raped in it more it sounds like i am being facetious but i am 100% serious when i say that the gendered problem with how this worldbuild works is less in the fact that women get raped a lot and more in that men don't also in the sense that if you create a brutal, hierarchical society that is incredibly preocuppied with emasculation and with sexual violence it logically follows that men are raped by other men a lot as a method of domination and as an emasculation and we don't see that very much the presence of so much castration highlights this also because like the narrative itself is aware that this worldbuild implies sexual violence to men a way of emasculating them and displays that violence in the form of castration but it mostly doesnt want to think about men being raped
i was trying to articulate this point and realized i had already written a thread on it. my mind
it continually surprises me how few people seem to put together that the asoiaf universe is incredibly preoccupied with castration. everyone understandably discusses the incest and the way everyone is underage but the castration thing is roughly as prevalent and yet seems to fly under the radar
Finally takes the step of adding 'plural' to my bio. immediate nerves
A solo journaling roleplaying game. Each year a monster calls, intending to eat your heart. An A6 zine designed to be taken on the run.
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One girl injecting a girl with estrogen, who is injecting a girl with estrogen, who is injecting the first girl with estrogen, while they're on the floor surrounded by injection supplies such as needles, bandages, alcohol wipes, a sharps box, and vials
three-person estrogen circle for my friend who just started her injections
oh yikes what the Fuck, yeah that place sounds like a cesspit i am so sorry
i have seen so much to grimace at re: people treating tabletop as unlicensed *trauma* therapy in irresponsible, inappropriate ways that it hadn't even occurred to me to consider that that would extend to other things. i feel like the shadow of a great and terrible iceberg just passed under my boat
WHHHHAAAAAAAATTTTTT ARE PEOPLE SMOKING IN TABLETOP DESIGN SPACES GOOD GOD
"Jazz music stops" meme.
ASHDHSHFJDJFHFJ OH MY GOD???? I HAVEN'T EVEN MANAGED TO READ CARMILLA YET AND EVEN I KNOW ENOUGH BY OSMOSIS TO KNOW THAT'S AN INSANE THING FOR PEOPLE TO WALK IN EXPECTING. FAMOUSLY WHOLESOME LOVE INTEREST CARMILLA. AMAZING
RIGHT IT WAS. SO BAD. cannot emphasize enough either that it wasn't even a case of someone saying 'i personally haven't experienced sexual violence from women and therefore it feels safer for me to write stories where they're perpetrators,' they were just presenting it as a Universal Fact and LOL NO
and it drives me up the wall how many people seem to think that feminism is, like, treating women like cutesy little purse dogs to be cooed over because they can't actually meaningfully hurt anyone. it's anti-survivor, misogynistic, often racist and childist and bigoted in other ways, and it Sucks
oh yeah no absolutely!!! i love fucked up women whose fuckery is taken seriously by the narrative and honestly you've hit my feelings about it right on the head; i want more female walter whites that explore the horror and tragedy of 'hey so you have the power to Hurt People and that, like, Matters'
"you aren't allowed to write rape, it must be handled delicately! But if it's women it's fine, they never rape anyone irl" mfs think they're being progressive 💀
genuinely it sucks so so much how many dead dove tropes i have to AGGRESSIVELY avoid and curate when it comes to female characters, which i would otherwise love, bc the likelihood of getting 'tee hee rape and abuse are ✨️girl power✨️ in action, good for her' apologia sprung on me is through the ROOF
(the memory was not fond) (i wish the block button could also fry people's motherboards from a distance) (hate and war on planet earth)
only to then immediately turn around and show their complete entire ass by going 'wow has anybody else noticed how all stories with creepy men are all traumatic and icky and gross, bc men actually victimize people irl, but stories with creepy women are all fun and cool and sexy and empowering? :)'
fondly remembers how one of my first unfollow-and-blocks on this site was some asshole getting prissy about how if you're wondering whether you should include SA in your story the answer is probably no, because only the most skilled of the most skilled could ~possibly~ write it well so don't bother,
The Canal at Night, painting by Reg Mummery.
gonzo in a snazzy fit
hello, it’s Gonzo
He fucked my wife, so guess what, I'm gonna fuck the Earth! That's right, this is what you get: MY SUPER LASER PISS!! Except I'm not gonna piss on the Earth, I'm gonna go higher. I'M PISSING ON THE MOON! How do you like that, Obama?! I PISSED ON THE MOON, YOU IDIOT!
A screenshot from Tomodachi Life about a time traveler: "It was none other than Raha, who was presumed to be on vacation but claimed to be "from 10 days in the future."
A screenshot from Tomodachi Life: "Future" Raha made some strange predictions about Shtola's future before disappearing without a trace, leaving Shtola confused and annoyed.
Shadowbringers (2019)
"Here's a quick, easy recipe for when you're too tired to cook."
Uses four knives, three cutting boards, five bowls, seventeen ingredients, a stand mixer, and an oven, has a prep time of 45 minutes and cooks for 60 minutes.
fray has been given armor
Close up of a small dilute calico kitten with half her nose tan, the other half grey
Close up of a small dilute calico kitten, with grey, tan orange and white markings
Close up of a dilute calico kitten, a tan stripe from forehead to nose
A most gorgeous trio 🥰 #FosterKittens #cats
wuk lamii
tfw a moot deactivates suddenly who you didn't have any other contact info for and you feel weird about asking people if they're okay. hope so :(
WELCOME TO TOMODACHI LIFE CUNO
On the anniversary of Tim Curry’s birth I would just like to say that there are few actors who are as good as him at putting exactly the right amount of unhinged overacting and camp into a role to make it memorable.
The man is quite literally an acting genius and we are all better for knowing him.