Too Nasty About Characters

there's only two men I trust, one of them is me, and the other is not you

[houseofpurplestars]

[houseofpurplestars]

"Seeing people pushing back brings me out of the paralyzing horror. It challenges me to have a fraction of their courage."

[houseofpurplestars]

Really appreciating everyone in the d20 fandom recommending other actual plays to folks who felt disappointed with the finale instead of just being like, "oh you didn't like it? Well you're just a fucking idiot." Yall are the real ones.

[houseofpurplestars]

Reject "consuming" art. You "consume" food or tissues or toilet paper you don't consume art. You engage with it. You study it. You interact with it. You learn from it. Another human made it with their hands and time and skill and passion. That's worth more than the effort of idk drinking a beer or something.

I know we live in capitalism but we didn't always think of ourselves as "consumers." Advertising conditioned us to do that. Because we are their cash cows. They consume us. Refuse to be a product.

[theseventhcrow55]

i get so emotional every time i think about fanfic culture. it's just so beautiful that people are writing and anonymously posting these thousand-word stories about characters we all love and not even getting any money or public fame from it. it's literally just for the love of the game.

shout out to everyone who participates in fanfic culture, be it reading or writing fanfics. you are contributing to such a lovely thing <3

[paperplateprose]

writing challenge!

open up your document and put words in it

[houseofpurplestars]

I hate the way yall have made "discourse" a dirty word and I could get on my soapbox about how it's indicative of your lack of true desire for a free exchange of ideas. Acting like discourse, literally the "interchange of ideas," something necessary for communities to function, is somehow always bad, disruptive, or annoying is how you end up in an echo chamber. Like I cannot stress enough how important it is to learn to let people have different opinions.

[houseofpurplestars]

I CANNOT believe any fan artist/writer could look at a Yautja mouth and say "nope its gonna be a normal mouth for me" like EVERYONE HAS A NORMAL MOUTH WHATS THE POINT

[wallpapersronme]

Brian Murphy as Darkness Man comes at Zac as Zaeth Bondana after writing down some insults, "You would have sex with a motorcycle."

Zaeth, with no hesitation claps back "Yes, I would."

[oddarette]

Leave it to tumblr to be the only place where people be horny posting about my xenomorphs :|

[boss-of-armadildos]

Apparently in GQ nowadays

Inside the Booming Business of Monster Porn

Teratophiliacs were once a niche group that bonded over their sexual attraction to monsters in obscure forums. Now—as online communities pro

[houseofpurplestars]

Love that for them. It's 2026 let monsterfuckers live free

[houseofpurplestars]

The way yall are suddenly acting like drama and comedy have never existed in the same universe together and people are unreasonable for wanting *checks notes* ongoing narrative threads to be addressed in the finale.... iiiisss exhausting

[houseofpurplestars]

It sucks to see so much of Brennan's work and research into local politics go to waste (like Maya with her binder full of solutions) but, in the spirit of It Is What It Is, this season perhaps stands as a comment that some people might choose to chase the bit rather than do the work.

Like there definitely were decent moments for sure, and the spirit is there, because Comade Brennan brings the spirit of Community Engagement with him wherever he goes. I do believe this season may have genuinely inspired some people to do real life work for their communities, all bits aside. But there's a nagging feeling that it could have been more. But it is what it is.

[houseofpurplestars]

I kinda feel like some of you learned nothing from the season that was supposed to be about participating in community lol

[houseofpurplestars]

The way people can't tolerate anyone disagreeing with them even slightly has left me not really wanting to talk about the finale but yall should be fine with this one since i won't be committing the cardinal sin of critical engagement.

I loved that Brennan let Bat Child live. The stakes were high enough that there was a shimmering moment of real drama but also I felt safe in trusting Brennan enough to know that he doesn't want to kill a character. I love that Brennan wants the characters to succeed. A lesser DM would be like "well you got shot. Sucks for you." But Brennan has more creativity and imagination than that. I love that he doesn't just go for being a dick to his players to raise the narrative stakes.

[oddarette]

Leave it to tumblr to be the only place where people be horny posting about my xenomorphs :|

[danskjavlarna]

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Newsworthy: a collection of weird headlines and book titles.

[athena5898]

(Quds) Six-year-old girl Habiba Omar Abu Qasem was killed alongside her parents after an Israeli strike targeted her family’s home in Deir Al-Balah, central Gaza Strip. Her 4-year-old brother, Sami, was injured and became the sole survivor of his family.

[e-von-dahl]

“Trans men don’t make good music it’s all cringey ukulele indie pop” name a trans male musician who makes music like that other than cavetown

You know what? Name any trans male musician at all who isn’t cavetown

[totalmoralfag]

i dont want to derail from op's original point, but there have been a lot of wonderful reccs on this post, and i DO think we as a community need to do more to uplift trans men/transmasc musicians instead of stereotyping all transmasc musicians as "cringy". so, i sat down and went through every comment, tag, and reblog on this post (at least, all of the ones that are visible to me) and compiled a list, and i included some of my own favorites that i didnt see mentioned!

this list is not in any order, and i am not familiar with most of these artists, so an inclusion on this is not an endorsement of anything! if ive made a mistake anywhere, just let me know!

schmekel - transmasc jewish folk band (they seem to have deleted the majority of their music off most platforms, unsure why? but this link is to a playlist of re-uploads)

exiliahu - very vocally pro-palestine jewish trans man

noah finnce - british trans man, pop rock

ellyotto - canadian trans man, hyperpop

jesswar - fijian-austrailian trans man, hip hop

2am ricky - Black american trans man, hip hop/soul/jazz/house

rahim redcar - french trans man, indie/alt-pop

elio mei - american trans man, indie folk

anjimile - Black american trans man, indie folk

the oozes - queer punk band w/ a trans man lead singer

sushi soucy - transmasc, folk rock

dopamine - band of scottish transmascs

boy jr - transmasc, indie/alt rock

great grandpa - queer indie rock band w/ trans man lead singer

riotnine - transmasc punk band

the muslims - transmasc poc anti-fascist punk band

TR sun - Black american trans man, hip hop

billy tipton - american trans man, 1940s jazz star

mal blum - american trans man, indie rock/folk punk

dayflower - british transmasc "dreamcore" indie pop band

ryan cassata - american trans man, folk punk

ezra butler - british trans man, indie pop

bells larson - canadian nonbinary trans man, indie pop

sasha allen - american trans man, indie pop

boy bowser - american trans man, energetic hip hop

mikah amani - Black american trans man, folk music

jake edwards - british trans man, pop music

jakey bake - trans man, super indie/underground

king aiden - Black american trans man, indie pop

addison grace - american transmasc, indie pop

dylan and the moon - british trans man, indie folk

searows - american trans man, indie folk/bedroom pop

elio kennedy yoon - Asian-american trans man, indie pop

beverly glenn copland - Black canadian trans man, art/folk pop

REVENGEOFPARIS - nonbinary transmasc rapper

V3CTORGRAPH1CS - nonbinary transmasc, hyperpop

Um Jennifer? - american indie rock duo ; one is transmasc, the other is transfem

jigsawllie - transmasc, indie "weirdcore" vocaloid music

Jupi77er - brazilian trans man rapper

[sodomit]

Do you know any bands with trans guys that would be black metal, power metal, deathcore, or industrial metal?

[iridescentdepths]

The singer for metal band Saevire is a trans man and recently released a song titled Self-Made Man