oh no...

BeBe 28 - she/her or whatever - fruit juice bitch - nonsense collector

[lleyksie]

✸ starcrossed swans ✸

[website-com]

ive heard if its all gone wrong and is fucked beyond repair you can actually use it for banana bread

[homucifer-ryotan]

PSA for Canadians. EDIT (September 16th): The petition is up until October 25th. You have plenty of time still to sign.

Link source

[sporesgalaxy]

"obsessive compulsive disorder"? ha....i think you mean i have a Philosopher's Soul. and also The Demon

[blessyouhawkeye]

at our weekly allstaff meeting at work we always do an icebreaker question. today it was just tell us your hobby. that was the question. and i watched my coworker next to me go into chatgpt and ask it "hobbies." am i working with fake people am i being truman showed what the fuck is going on in here

[undead-knick-knack]

You know what

Fair

[memories-of-ancients]

Drinking horn with gilded copper mounts, Europe, 15th century

from The Hunt Museum, Limerick

[tarvek-sturmvoraus]

[willow]

you know what? I’ll say it. Hi

[discodeerdiary]

Back when I used to walk around my college in a corduroy blazer and slacks I didn't call it "dark academia" I called it "professor drag" and the purpose was to smoothly walk into parts of campus I wasn't supposed to access

[ikarons]

and if i said that the emasculation of the (mostly-male) templar order through being positioned as subservient to an all-female order of nonviolent chantry sisters in a setting in which men (and warrior men in particular) are otherwise expected to dominate the social hierarchy incentivises violence (including sexual violence) against the mages in their care, a class that is culturally seen as feminine and subservient through subjugation & the Only other kind of person a templar regularly sees, in order to reclaim dignity. which the non-violent order of chantry sisters is conditioned to disdain. which itself drives the need to reclaim dignity too. would that be something that made sense

[ikarons]

ok hang on that’s not all though . because as a few people have mentioned (and a core idea behind this post) the relationship between templars and chantry sisters is actually like…. A Bit Complicated

because chantry sisters are positioned as hierarchically Superior to templars… the templar order answers to and exists to protect the clergy, and the knight commander outranks (and is directly within the chain of command of) the grand cleric. but outside of the chantry, andrastian nations are usually patriarchal, and andrastian men culturally understand themselves as Above the woman around them (and furthermore, templars are Warriors, and in many andrastian nations (think: battling for the throne in ferelden, tourneys in orlais) the Warrior role is also held in esteem; by comparison, the clergy is explicitly nonviolent and at least theoretically preaches peace and compassion). so that creates some dissonance in the chantry, where that dynamic is flipped and the new dynamic is strictly enforced, which might create resentment… which might lead a templar (who is likely to be a man) to want to put chantry sisters in their place. except that they Can’t. because chantry sisters are untouchable and violence against them will not be forgiven by the chantry.

but nobody cares what happens to a mage. and mages are completely under the templars’ power.

and from that perspective it’s understandable that chantry sisters and templars don’t always get on— templars because chantry sisters are symbols of their emasculation, their frustrated entitlement, their impotence (#lyriumimpotence mentioned)… and chantry sisters because as *women who are *specifically taught to see violence as sometimes necessary but also terrible… well. maybe they don’t always (or even usually) sympathise with mages, but it would be hard to watch the way templars treat them and not wonder if that violence is actually intended for You.

& this is like. text a bit also. i don’t have game screenshots but here’s some ambient dialogue from DAI:

in conclusion.

[ikarons]

and of course violence against mages as a way to reclaim dignity and gendered pride creates the implication that it is a mage’s responsibility to support that dignity and that pride to begin with; that a templar’s violence can be defused by a mage who is Meek enough, Subservient enough, Solicitous enough to soothe that injured pride.

which makes it the mage’s fault when it doesn’t work.

[makingqueerhistory]

I humbly recommend to your fans a little book in which I am finding great comfort: The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions. Written by Larry Mitchell in the post-Stonewall pre-AIDS era of the 70s, I am finding it still resonant now. Archive.org has the PDF and an audiozine version recorded by Resonance with a new introduction and interstitial music. Obviously read the PDF, but I also encourage people to print it off and make their own physical copies.

Thank you so much! I haven't read this one yet, so I am excited to add it to my list!

[beardedmrbean]

I love the midwest so much

[theslowesthnery]

maybe i'm just not american enough but i'm getting really fed up by people - even ostensibly progressive people - holding sexual art to the kind of standards that no other art is held to. like i saw someone on bsky say that there should be conversations about what kind of art should be allowed to exist, "especially sexual", and i'm just like ???? what the fuck do you mean, "especially sexual"? why? why not violent art? why is it okay for people to create violent art just because, without needing to defend or justify it, but the moment art is sexual you need some deep reason for it that justifies its existence?

[wildehacked]

[lolmatdi1]

You are on this council, but we do not grant you the rank of master.

[tattahitotsunosaetayarikata-dea]

Wasting away again in Tumblrinaville

[mlarayoukai-archive]

I love flavor text. I love reading a sentence or two about the item

[zisurru]

people sometimes lament the “decline” of satire but in the 18th century people were just churning out reams of political cartoons featuring a tiny little man next to a giant brutish woman and the tiny man is saying Lady Mary O Do Not Crush Me To Death and the giant woman is saying I Am Going To My Women’s Group To Discuss Politicks. I Have Six Lovers And One Is A Papist.

and the caption is something like If The Poor Should Be Suffered To Vote.