probatio diabolica

Leviatano or Lev for short. Speculative fiction posting, all sorts of peculiar things, always mapping some territory or other. Here I write about weird fiction in Italian.

[automatisma]

[maxxie-or-smth]

goddddd and i just UGH but also UGHHHHH and aughhhh.... oughhhhhhhhh...... ACK !!! and.... aghhhhhhhh. ughhhhh ! UGH !!!!! and i can't even because AGHHHHHHH. UGHHH

[dwellordream]

a very common thing i see posited is the idea that historically, fathers could not both love their daughters and see them as their personal property to dispose of as they saw fit, and i think it comes from this difficulty people have in understanding that a parent can be affectionate and loving in many ways, but also put their own desires before that of their child/have misogynistic views about women's roles in society.

i also think it's very common for modern day commentators to overlook the fact that many men who genuinely loved their wives also pressured their wives to keep having children until they died or were physically disabled by it.

[thewindowofthesummerhouse]

Dora Abodi

[automatisma]

Shibou Yugi de Meshi wo Kuu. 44: Cloudy Beach, Yui Kamura

[emiranun]

Magicaborne Sayaka! Revisiting my au :)

[soulspark]

[adz]

im in the pussy like turmeric in tupperware

[adz]

nods serenely

[automatisma]

Like a Virgin (2006), Lee Hae-jun

[deadgenerations]

the way that people critique "the western family" drives me completely up the wall because 1 the implication, often intentional, that families in eg India, china are actually good + woke 2 the fact that most people are qualifying "western" because they are afraid of being accused of being racist/imperialist so they instead imagine a mythical East of englightment

[seren-starlight]

Nice try nerd, but your "statistics" and "data" are no match for my emotionally resonant anecdote

[horrorwomensource]

I'm your freaky Nikki. OBSESSION (2025) dir. Curry Barker

[geospiral]

Java Sparrow: mistakenly thought to be dead upon arrival and thus discarded by recipient

[louceph]

Last picture of the old house

[necroman666]

paper meshis

[eriiiiiik]

Spy Kids (2001)

Source: https://tenor.com/sv/view/spy-kids-movie-title-movie-spy-kids-gif-4391027813078441517

[zybilna]

One thing that makes me kinda sad is seeing people who feel like TTRPGs just aren't for them because they bounced off of some element that is clearly just a symptom of them trying out D&D5e. Like people who have had a hard time with learning the rules would probably do well with any system where the rule formatting and play culture around learning them aren't a mess. One friend of mine didn't like waiting a long time for turns to come up in combat, not even knowing that many games don't even use a turn-based structure.

A lot of D&D5e defenders on here like to claim that asking someone to learn a new system is "gatekeeping" somehow, but I'd argue that acting like one game is emblematic of the entire medium to the exclusion of people who don't click with that one game is way more meaningfully a form of gatekeeping, even if it's fully unintentional.

I strongly believe that not all RPGs are gonna appeal to everyone, but there is an RPG out there for everyone, and I just hope that people who haven't clicked with the most common option to be introduced to can find something that works for them.