Ignore the username, would ya?

I regret my teenage choices. (he/him) 29

[anonym-potato]

It seems like a uniting theme of C4 bad guys is treating people as objects. You get this with the Shapers obviously - Azgra treated the orcs as weapons, Sylandri treated the elves as toys, but both of them fundamentally regarded the people they shaped as not people.

But you see the same thing with the Sundered Houses, specifically Tachonis and Halovar. Primus treats other people (including his children) as expendable resources, as tools towards a goal.

It's more subtle with Yanessa, but despite designing the Creed for mass appeal she doesn't seem to understand why Wick could find value in its ideas even after learning the horrible truth. She doesn't seem to understand why the things that make it appealing are appealing. Like, she knows "treat your neighbor with kindness" gets the suckers in line but doesn't seem to realize why people would treat their neighbors with kindness other than external reward.

This has...interesting implications for several of our PCs.

[nyantara]

oh i've always wanted to ask people who aren't mostly indians/chinese where sex selective abortions are criminalised this question.

does banning sex selective abortions (by making it illegal for doctors to reveal the sex of fetuses before birth) infringe on reproductive autonomy?

yes

no

Remaining time: 3 days 16 hours

[nyantara]

the additional position some indian feminists take against the criminalisation of sex selective abortions is that its better for an unwanted female child to be aborted than to experience neglect (on average, female infants in india are more likely to die before the age of 5, experience malnutrition, stunting and complete fewer years of schooling compared to male siblings.) it may also be better for their mothers to not be punished for not birthing a male child.

[boltlightning]

do allow me, will you? ➢ THE SOUND OF MUSIC (1965)

[masterqwertster]

Was thinking about Sylandri's sterilizing of the elves so that they have to get her consent to have a baby, and do you know what else that means?

Aramán is a world without half-elves.

Well, at least since the last 4,000 years or so.

Because the thing is, I don't think Aramán had mixed ancestry kids, at least in the open, during the Shapers' reign. It would have been a conflict of interest between the Shapers, trying to decide who gets to claim the kid who's half of one's people and half of another's people.

But with groups like the druids who were already in hiding, you get the potential for mixing out of the Shapers' sight. And/or a place to send mixed kids that happen otherwise if you can spirit them away in time.

However, neutered as they were, the elves could not participate in secret mixed children simply because they couldn't beget kids without Sylandri's blessing.

Which, this also makes Hero an interesting case in that she's probably the first mixed ancestry in her bloodlines in a long while. Half-orcs and the like are probably only just starting to happen in bigger numbers now that there's been some generations of mixed cohabitation since the Shapers' fall.

I dunno. It's just any interesting demographics thing probably going on in Aramán.

[charliecornwalls]

something I don't see discussed as much (but, then again I am very off and on with visiting the tags) is how much wick really wants to take care of tyranny. since it's quite literally her job to protect him that tends to get most focus in game and in fandom, but he feels the same towards her.

and it's not even about him being her teacher in being Good (because, really, they're so far from those days now.) but he wants to keep her safe and he worries over her too much and he tries to protect her in his own clumsy, awkward, ways. and I just find that aspect to their dynamic really cute and underrated.

[queer-as-in-fuck-12]

drug addicts deserve housing, food, water, and healthcare btw

[mushroom-punk]

i love polyamory i love aromanticism i love QPRs i love communal child rearing let’s all get weirder forever

[jiabisu]

[trailertrashgrog]

i love the little tidbits we get of the shapers and their marriages. sylandri, a rigid totalitarian trapping her subjects in a gilded cage of verdant nature, was married to the king of faerie, a creature who ruled over the still beautiful and immortal, yet inevitably more chaotic, realm of the fae. when her dolls broke, their afterlife was promised to be that realm of freedom.

we know that the shaper of dwarves, the goddess of the forge, extracted all the material value she could out of her earth titan wife, killing her.

we know rauwyn the trickster was wed to memnir, father of winds, but we don't know what she did to her husband. we can guess it wasn't anything good

[dragon-in-a-fez]

ever wandered around in an open world video game and noticed there are no children? no elderly people? no fat people? no one using a wheelchair? no one with a guide dog? this is supposed to feel like a living world and there's so much of life that's just not there

[sleepyrogues]

She’s grown on me so much I love her

[animentality]

[what-even-is-thiss]

There’s an organization called Advance Peace in Fresno CA that combats gun violence by providing mentoring and social services to people likely to commit gun violence that has singlehandedly reduced our local violent crime rate and recently the federal funding for it has been denied for some reason and surprise surprise the violent crime rate is going back up OH WHO COULD HAVE PREDICTED THIS

[what-even-is-thiss]

The city council is considering rededicating the city’s marijuana tax funds to Advance Peace and I sure hope they do because frankly by removing funding from organizations like Advance Peace the Feds are killing people.

Fresno has a lot of gang activity and drug trafficking and a lot of poverty and the population is always growing as the rest of California becomes less affordable. The murder rate in this city has gotten to some of the lowest rates I’ve ever seen in my whole life since Advance Peace became associated with the local government a few years ago and the federal funding being taken away from it is really pissing me off.

Also, it saves the city money. Every murder prevented is a lot of resources the city doesn’t have to spend on investigations and other expenses. Even beyond the saving human life bit, this organization benefits everyone.

[goldcrescent]

[spaghettioverdose-deactivated20]

It's really funny that redditors convinced themselves that the stupid Tiananmen Square copypasta is going to get chinese people forcefully disconnected from their internet service or something while the UK government will get your ass if you complete the sentence "Soldier F is ___" and has actively worked with google and with social media websites to censor posts or search results about Soldier F

[spaghettioverdose-deactivated20]

Like 90% of the shit people make up about China is actually true for the UK

[crionic-dubs]

Explainer: Why can 'Soldier F' not be named?

A man charged with the murders of two men and five attempted murders on Bloody Sunday in 1973 will not stand trial. Who is 'Soldier F' and w

David Cleary, mass murderer, aka Soldier F, named in Ireland's parliament. - Village Magazine

Deputy Peadar Tóibín, leader of Aontú, referred to Soldier F by his real name, David James Cleary, in  Dáil Éireann, the Irish parliament, y

[kropotkindersurprise]

In case the links ever go down, Soldier F is David James Cleary, a British paratrooper.

He murdered two Northern Irish people in Derry, in occupied Northern Ireland, who were demanding their civil rights on what was later called Bloody Sunday, January 30, 1972. He wounded five more. In total 13 Northern irish unarmed protesters demanding equal rights were murdered by British paratroopers that day, with one additional person dying later on from their wounds.

[yvasartsparagus]

And with the convergence of all the tables in the latest episodes of Critical Roles Campaign 4 I can finally present my sticker designs I worked on. I cannot wait to see the next episode when shit is going down guys.

[gaytanic-panic]