Gecko551

He/Him, 24, just a boring average dude studying history, sociology and political science. I like Warhammer, TTRPGs, video games and a good few other things. Occasionally NSFW so minors best DNI. Fuck Nazis, TERFS, and all their ilk.

[gecko551]

Hey everyone I'm Gecko, your friendly neighbourhood communist lizard with 40k fan characteristics. Jokes aside, I'm a big 40k and ttrpg fan and I'm also some kind of communist (don't ask for an exact label, I'm too smooth to keep them all separated). I won't really keep this blog to a specific topic but rather just post/reblog whatever strikes me so I'll try to tag things as follows below, if you're uninterested in smth just block that tag I guess.

#40kart - for my own 40k stuff, everything from my miniatures and (maybe) writings over analysis and takes to maybe someday posting my gaming activities #Flaming Geckos - Posts involving my homebrew salamanders successor chapter #Ophelian Guard - Posts involving my homebrew imperial guard faction #House Deimos - Posts involving my homebrew knight house #lizard answers - responding to your asks

[no-sharks-on-the-sun]

[no-sharks-on-the-sun]

they killed him for this

[ryoyamadaily]

its pride month you know what that means

Day 339: happy pride month

[so-much-for-subtlety]

[magnusttsisgay-official]

Jarvis, pull up that variable meme.

[maplecinnamonbun]

i’m reminded of the developer of a mapping software who had a variable named ‘legend_handles’ that got refactored into ‘leg_handles,’ ‘leg_hands,’ and finally ‘feet’

[thelensart]

Local bumpkin tries to navigate Not New York

[thelensart]

shoutout the one person in the tags being thankful that she looks like a realistic scruffy teen because I know you know what it's like to look up fanart refs of her for inspiration and be reminded that my greatest wish is being able to strangle people over the internet one day

[raccoonmilf]

Me, surfacing for air: “You saw that fish? That was a parrot fish that has not transed its gender. They do that, you know. Trans. Their genders. In the wild. It’s natural. It’s free. It’s in the ocean. Not all of them do it and that’s ok it’s up to them. Sometimes cis male parrotfish do it too. It’s all the same, in the end. Ok, I’m going back down.”

[hmantegazzi]

It's through the DMRT-1 gene, and we have it too! Here's an article about what it might mean for future trans health procedures, as the gene editing tools available today (the article is from 2023) aren't precise enough to manipulate it safely:

What if We Didn't Need HRT Anymore?

DMRT-1 and what medical transition might look like in the future

[raccoonmilf]

Holy shit that is so cool!!! What a wonderful world we live in where fish are providing insight into the next generation of trans healthcare

[rookiebe]

rushing to get one last golden week post in 🏃 💨

[charl0ttan]

huge fan of the depth of a good purple but another area that draws me is definitely around aquamarine/turquoise/seafoam. you can not go wrong once the green starts getting just a tinge more blue. a gal could certainly do worse than to pull over there and stay a while

[charl0ttan]

something earth shattering going on here

[emily84]

this is why one of my favorite all-time paintings is Ship in Stormy Seas by Ivan Aivazovsky... he was really onto something there

a close up to just... light shining through those waves, makes me feel faint with exhilaration every time

[is-there-a-boat]

THERE IS A BOAT BY IVAN AIVAZOVSKY!!

[clayandsorcery]

Ivan Aivazovsky could paint glowing water. One of the GOATs for sure.

[gingik]

[standwithdaanes]

having a process for people who have done morally horrific things to make amends, rejoin community, and do right going forward is actually fundamentally crucial for the left. having a clear and accessible pathway for people to be socially (if not interpersonally) forgiven is how you get people radicalized against capitalism and imperialism and white supremacy and patriarchy. its how you turn "these people think i am a bad person" into "these people think something and someone coerced or forced me into doing bad things, and these people want to help me do something about that."

if you want more revolutionaries, you must have a system to turn guilty, traumatized, angry bystanders and collaborators into revolutionaries. and I say a system and process because its not "oh the drone operator said they were sorry and felt bad so its all good now :)" there is no shortcut here. but it is absolutely necessary. no revolution is comprised of morally pure people. in many cases, the most devoted revolutionaries are the ones who know exactly what it is like on the other side.

[vexwerewolf]

Okay, but are they willing to take the biggest risks to make things right?

Like, if these people have done the most damage to society, to the safety and dignity of minorities, to the basic decency upon which the world functions, are they willing to stand at the front of the effort to fix that damage?

As a trans person, I'm not particularly inclined to forgive transphobes unless they've put themselves in harm's way instead of us.

[magicrainbowkitties]

Part of the issue is for that sort of thing to happen, people have to want to change and do better.

Many don't.

[standwithdaanes]

And many do. Why would we waste that desire? Just because many people don't? It's a pessimistic perspective that only hurts the goal of meaningful progress. Progress will not happen because all the Bad People just stop existing.

I am genuinely begging people on this post to realize that our current system CREATES the issues y'all come onto this post to use as proof restorative justice won't work. There are many reasons people resist change, but one very relevant one is that a system where accountability is inherently tied to suffering does not motivate people to put in the effort to change. A deeply hurt person who has developed a lot of very toxic habits, who struggles to imagine a life for themself where they don't rely on those habits to have a sense of identity and safety, may seem like someone who "doesn't want to change." If we assume that is true, then no one tries to help, then there is no reason for that person to believe change is possible or that they could ever be cared for by society given what they've done, so why try?

I am truly fucking begging y'all to talk to like. Any poor white person from the rural US South who realized how evil and systemic white supremacy is, and becomes extremely personally invested in fighting that in their community. This is not some abstract hypothetical. & there are MANY people who would very much be willing to change, if change actually seems feasible. If you see yourself as unforgivable, because everyone around you seems to see you as unforgivable, is it not easier to just dig your heels in?

We NEED!!!!!!! people to be willing to come over to our side and that simply will not fucking happen if your every reaction to "we need to have a process that allows people to make amends and which incentives meaningful change" is "ohhhhhh but that's hard tho :("

Compassion is a practical revolutionary necessity. It's not a thought experiment. Yes, it will be hard, and complicated, and cause a lot of discomfort for everyone on a lot of levels. It will take a hell of a long time to get where we actually want to be. We will fuck it up a lot along the way. There is still no other choice. Pessimism is a self-fulfilling prophecy and it does nothing for anyone.

[vexwerewolf]

You're moving the goalposts and I'm starting to lose my patience. Your original post started with this premise:

having a process for people who have done morally horrific things to make amends, rejoin community, and do right going forward is actually fundamentally crucial for the left

Then, when me and @magicrainbowkitties rightfully pointed out that people who do the worst things have to both accept that they've done those worst things and also that to make amends they'll have to accept the greatest amount of risk in making things right.

You then promptly shifted entirely to

Any poor white person from the rural US South who realized how evil and systemic white supremacy is

Motherfucker, I'm not fucking talking about some guy from Biloxi who said slurs a couple of times - and neither were you, until it became useful to completely misrepresent our caveats.

[unspeakablearchives]

(Source: Sen the donkey)

[akashicrecord]

[doubleca5t]

[monidoll]

yeah ok [splits you into several smaller girls representing different aspects of yourself]

[toskarinfr]

Using your skills of logical deduction, identify which option the fewest people will choose:

$1

$2

Voting ended onMay 14

[ace-trainer-alice]

Sometimes I think about doing an angel chaser bit but I don't actually talk to very many angel girls so there wouldn't be much basis for it. Plus most of my interest will always be in corruption. So really it's less like chaser and more like angelbreaking. I do think a lot about doing some kind of "wellllll I guess I'll go on a date with you, but first you have to let me corrupt you a little". But I haven't found a sufficiently cute/mean signifier of corruptive action to use for it. Much to consider.

[captain-price-returns]

Trump on oil: "Even if it went to $200, it would've been worth it. I understood that. We had just set a record -- 50,000 on the Dow."

[captain-price-returns]

NBC: Iran has refused to submit

TRUMP: Why do you say they've refused to submit? You don't know that

NBC: They were firing on US ships a few days ago

TRUMP: A few days ago is a long time ago, in the world of war.

[captain-price-returns]

Q: What is the status of these talks?

TRUMP: Well, we've had some good talks before and all of the sudden the next day they forgot what happened

[captain-price-returns]

Trump: "Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon, and they've agreed to that"

Trump: "As far as the Pope is concerned, it's very simple: whether I make him happy or I don't make him happy, Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. And he seemed to be saying that they can. And I say they cannot. That's my only message."

[pixiecaps]

big fan of whatever the youth is doing to torment scientology buildings

[pixiecaps]

they couldnt take the heat

[doctordotdj]