storytelling

introvert, musician, hopeless artist and sometimes writer | loves video games, posthumanism and bunneh rabbits | they/them

[esorydoolb]

journey's beginning

fallout london - curtis (the wayfarer)

🎵 sound on (music is my own)

[subwaybug]

More people should get into poly shipping. Both because polyamory is awesome and because it's really fun to make complicated ass diagrams

[star-mom-selkie]

happy pride month

[tieflingkisser]

[lesbianslimefriend]

here's where to find it on windows 10

[the-tiny-dragons-tea-room]

Ugh, it was in mine. It's off now.

[the-tiny-dragons-tea-room]

IT GETS WORSE

I had to turn this off, but it's something that allows Windows and anyone using your device to generate text/images.

LOBOTOMIZE YOUR MACHINES

[fforsythiaaa]

Once when I was in undergrad, someone described something as “problematic” in class and our professor was like, “That’s cool, but ‘problematic’ doesn’t really mean anything. It means that the thing you’re describing has a problem, and in and of itself that’s not bad. Art, especially, should always have problems, or else it’s not interesting and not art, either. It sounds like you’re trying to say that this is bad, but you don’t want to say ‘bad.’ Is that right?”

So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”

Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.

Anyway. Whenever I see the word problematic, I can’t help but think of this professor being like, “Good starting point, now let’s get specific.” I think when we have to commit to saying “that’s ___” it requires a lot more careful thought about the truth and impact and complexities of whatever we’re claiming. Sometimes there really is some bullshit afoot, and also sometimes it’s art, and it should be full of problems, because that’s what art is.

[hypokeimena]

#'this is present in the text' is often a good first step #but those second and third ones (naming it; describing its function) are vital (via @elucubrare)

[hirsuteandcute]

I'm just going to say it - body hair (and beauty standards in general) is truly one of the final frontiers of women's issues in the West. Too many women just love their gilded cage too much. It shocks me how virulently women will defend it. I barely open my mouth and the "well I like how it feels. it just makes me feel cleaner. sensory issues. I do it for me. feminism is about choosing (to conform)." brigade come rushing in by the dozens.

Well I don't like how it feels. I don't feel cleaner without body hair. I don't prefer not having body hair. But who will advocate for women like me, but me? For women who do like hair removal, they are advocated for every time they step out of the house and see 99% of the female population also conforming to that standard, or when they watch a movie and see all the shaved actresses, or view an advertisment, or open a magazine, or watch a music video, or scroll through social media, or walk down the streets without receiving insults and glares for having a completely normal bodily feature.

You genuinely can't even point out that hairlessness is a man-made standard without women losing their shit and acting like they are totally immune to propaganda they've been exposed to from birth. I'm so tired.

[ganicmanic]

I highly recommend this reddit:

The Racist History of Body Hair Removal in the US : r/Feminism https://www.reddit.com/r/Feminism/comments/1tgamlv/the_racist_history_of_body_hair_removal_in_the_us/

[lyraisnotonfire]

favorite thing about tumblr is having a fandom in law. no i haven't watched this show and i'm not planning to. but my moot is having fun!! look how much they love it!!! i'm supportive from the sidelines!

[esorydoolb]

just read a beautiful paragraph about poets (writers)

"nur aus Erzählungen und Schriften müssen sie mit dem reichen Inhalt, und den zahllosen Erscheinungen der Welt bekannt werden. [...] Dagegen wird ihr empfindlicher Sinn schon genug von nahen unbedeutenden Erscheinungen beschäftigt, die ihm jene große Welt verjüngt darstellen, und sie werden keinen Schritt thun, ohne die überraschendsten Entdeckungen in sich selbst über das Wesen und die Bedeutungen desselben zu machen. Es sind die Dichter." (Heinrich von Ofterdingen, Novalis)

rough transl.: they should familiarize themselves with the rich content and innumerable phenomena of their world only through narrated stories ... their sensitive senses are already occupied by small and petty events around them, and they will never walk a pace without making the most surprising discovery about the nature thereof and the meaning of it within themselves. They are the poets.

[creatingblackcharacters]

what are the correct uses of people of colour and which ones are to be avoided?

Okay. Grammar lesson!

"People of color" is a noun. So use it as a noun.

"I am speaking about people of color."

People who are of color. People. People is a noun.

It is not, as the Internet likes to use it, an adjective!

"POC characters!" is the color blind racist equivalent of "colored characters!"

Do you want to call me colored? Is that the racism we really want to use? Old 1960s racism? Shall I go to the colored water fountain next? I'm sorry- the POC water fountain?

If you are talking about all non-white people as a group, use "People of Color".

"White people are used to being the default- which is why they get to be White and the rest of us are People of Color. The Other."

If you are talking about a specific group of people, and you KNOW that, then SAY their group and NOT "people of color".

"I am not just a person of color, I am Black. Antiblackness is about Black people, not all people of color. Otherwise, I'd just say racism. Words have meaning!"

Further resource:

Find definitions for over 300,000 words from the most authoritative English dictionary. Continuously updated with new words and meanings.

[esorydoolb]

ok i have a hypothesis for myself

is this a case of a game where the more often you play it, the easier it will become to sympathize with the "villain" characters rather than with your "alleged allies"

you know what i mean.

my reasoning: i finished the main campaign for the first time and expected to enjoy getting rid of "the bad guy". well guess what. that charismatic mf actually was so convincing with his nonchalant but obviously "disappointed" act that i actually felt no motivation at all to pull the trigger. there was no resistance. (except the verbal manipulation). i was rather intrigued by his perspective of things.

meanwhile the supposed good guys who want to bring change to kyrat are constantly exposing each other as being insufferable and bluffing.. and leaving you with feelings of guilt and betrayal for following their orders. well. pagan didnt really force ajay to do anything.

so its kind of twisted. actually i have no coherent thoughts on this right now as im mostly just rambling. im not saying that sabal and amita aren't really good at their manipulation game though, but i can see myself becoming more intrigued by this interesting case of a villain who's history with ajay seems to be all implied or relayed by secondary sources which ... woahhh its so interesting how this can shift your perspective.

also really funny how i find this to be an advantage of what could/should be seen as the symptom of lacking storytelling, lacking game content and lacking character development ... but i find myself actually *liking* that there is so much room for additions. i like that about games in general. just let the player fill in the gaps :D its fun this way too.

conclusion: damn pagan min got to me after all. i want to find out what his story is. i do not necessarily support him (as a player), but im so intrigued now.

[esorydoolb]

known as Enzo; Vincenzo Damasio

[esorydoolb]

sorry i was too lazy to put a description but i should:

enzo is the protagonist's best friend, a gentle and loving family man despite his involvement in the mafia. he tries to leave that life behind to protect his wife and son, after they too become too involved, but the boss doesn't like that ...

enzo is a good man at heart. and robert, who's the man holding the lighter, knows that, even as a cop. but robert is also a hopeless closeted homosexual who's in love with someone he shouldn't be. so can they really help each other?

[esorydoolb]

known as Enzo; Vincenzo Damasio

[cranky-kyrati]

opinion on sajay and amita/ajay/sabal? c:

Ok I had to sit with this one a couple of days because. There are so many possible permutations...

Like, for starters, I think the sajay dynamic will be heavily influenced by how comfortable they each are with being attracted to guys. What with Sabal being a traditional sort I would expect his answer to be "not very", but who knows? Maybe he had a huge childhood crush on Mohan and is just transferring that to his son. Or, as in one fanfic I read, maybe he's happy enough to use Ajay's attraction to him to manipulate him.

Regardless of how Sabal feels about it himself, I think he would absolutely want to keep a gay relationship secret, under the assumption that it would undermine his authority in the GP if it got out. Ajay would probably find this mildly annoying but, being a complete doormat, he would go along with it without complaint.

Throw Amita in the mix and you have a recipe for delicious disaster. Amita and Sabal are already fighting over Ajay like it's a custody battle and this would be multiplied 100-fold if there were romantic/sexual entanglements. Any time Amita and Sabal were having a fight, Ajay would be stuck in the middle trying to get them to make up and make out.

At least he'd get some absolutely mind-blowing sex out of it. For all their flaws, they are passionate people, and I think they bring that energy into the bed chamber. (Or the tent, or the back of a truck, or, you know. Whatever's available.)

[icarrioniicarian]

Neon Street Rat Fiore Everwind | Freestar Ranger 🌟

[thangkas]

[doyouremem8erme]

hi,my name is Normal About Characters and youcan always trust me to be normal about the cahracter

[inferno92000]

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