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reading a historical romance novel and reflecting on the way these stories often present woke nobility for the contemporary reader. a big thing is servants. you can’t not have servants in those times but many modern readers think “but I would never have servants. it would be so weird to have servants” and in order to make the protagonists of the story more relatable they are actually friends with the servants. but flip your perspective and think of it from the side of the servants. wouldn’t it be so awful if your boss was always trying to be friends with you. a really common thing you’ll see is the woke baronet having tea in the kitchen with the servants bc he’s not like other baronets. but what if your boss wanted to hang out and talk during your lunch break every day. not so charming when you think about it that way

handsaniti

Imagine your old, weird manager who kept trying to be besties with you because you were a captive audience.

prokopetz

Discussion about Types of Guy in tabletop roleplaying groups is always "the Rules Lawyer", "the Method Actor" and never "Guy Who Always Plays A Human And Invents New Setting-Specific Slurs For Their Character To Call A Specific Type Of Nonhuman Characters" even though I see the last one a lot more.

prokopetz

At some point you've gotta sit a player down like "okay, in our fantasy game you played a guy who hates elves and made up new slurs for elves; in our transhuman cyberpunk game you played a guy who hates robots and made up new slurs for robots; I think your actual goal here is just to be a guy who says slurs".

architectureofdoom

Atatürk Library, Istanbul, Sedad Hakkı Eldem, Hamdi Şensoy, 1974

gauntletqueen

Never gonna forgive Disney for making people think Alice had a good time at that tea party

gauntletqueen

Does this look like the face of a child who is having a good time?

im-mender

Alice at that party

strangestcase

>walks in

>random guy #1 calls her ugly

>random guy #2 calls her dumb

>forced to drink from someone else’s mug

dreamatduskk

i like this guy :)

hemipenal-system

forcemasc but it’s whatever the hell this is

hemipenal-system

youtube should stop screening for fetish content. i would like more fetish content on youtube actually. you know how hard it is to find dragons stepping on people and ancient animations of snakes eating humans? you gotta deep search for that shit. it should be on the main page

lilsammy89

Needy puppy thoughts

epicsause-official

i think we are long overdue for a game that does the reverse of 90s first person shooters and actively makes fun of the player for picking the hard difficulty

epicsause-official

heres kinda what i mean

only-cat-memes

pinklocksoflove

maccamania

My humble rarepair 🪲🧁

fallout-lou-begas

something that i find interesting about independent animation nowadays is that if you don't have studio/streamer backing, you have to release your work yourself on the internet, but you have to do it for free on the internet because virtually nobody is going to be willing to accept a paywall just for one original show, so what you have to do in order to make any money off of it is make all of your money from merchandising, but then this means that you show must be merchandisable and have very toyetic character designs that translate easily to plushies and whatnot, but then you also need to cater your show to people who are disproportionately inclined to buy merchandise like that in the first place so that your sales can be enough to sustain you, which means that even if you want to communicate complex or difficult ideas in your work, your independent animation project must attract (at least on a first impression) and retain viewers who are both very consumerist and very capable of rabid passion, which unfortunately has a single-circle shaped venn diagram with a lot of the most toxic fandom tendencies known to man, and this explains a lot of things about independent animation and its fandoms nowadays I think

fallout-lou-begas

why, i haven't the foggiest notion of what you're talking about

coseulidi

[AF 2026] Philo of Thalleria 010726

Many are the paths to god-given success. Pindar, Olympian 8.

ArtFight piece for J-NAZ.

aevris

someone drew the boys as Jack and rose from titanic for art fight and i love a yes-and

aevris

endless possibility

prokopetz

The real problem with D&D's contemporary culture of play is that it's basically a worse version of what Paranoia was doing forty years ago. It's a faux pas for players to display knowledge of the mechanics and the GM is expected to maintain an elaborate kayfabe where they merely pretend to be moderating a game with rules while actually doing something completely different, and they're not even allowed to kill players with orbital laser strikes for talking back.

prokopetz

Like, I'm not keen on any framing of play where the GM is expected to do literally 100% of the work of making the game happen, but it seems to me that if you're going to do that anyway, the GM being both allowed and encouraged to kill you with lasers whenever they want is only fair compensation.