Ignore the username, would ya?

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

[quinn-of-aebradore]

I know Sam doesn’t like to do the same game too many times but like. What if we had Rulette every season from now on. Because it’s genuinely one of the best games they’ve ever come up with, both episodes have been so fucking funny it’s unreal, and I think it fits the Concept of Game Changer so well, like it develops so organically as it’s played, the random factor of the wheel, prompts with (intentional or not) loopholes… I don’t think I could ever get sick of it. It’s truly a game for the ages.

[crippled-peeper]

“Psychotic people aren’t homeless in the streets or psych wards!!! some of us are playing video games” some psychotic people ARE homeless in the streets and in psych wards and they don’t deserve to fucking die for it or be forgotten or swept aside because they aren’t a convenient poster child for your symptoms RAAAAHHH

[jiabisu]

[depsidase]

[redstonedust]

unfortunately i dont think its queerbaiting if the creator is just so terminally heterosexual that they never remotely considered the same gender relationship their show is centered around could be read as romantic. it is deeply painful however.

[melanqueerly]

Maybe accidental queer baiting? The way someone may not mean to say something rude, but it may come off rude, so it's rude. Frustrating either way.

[phinarei]

Not being a dick, just a friendly clarification.

By definition you can't accidentally queerbait. Queerbaiting is specifically using a same sex pair from the show to market the show to queer audiences with no intention of ever following through on a romantic relationship.

There is officially licensed Destiel merch signed off on by Kripke. Teen Wolf had a commercial with the actors for Derek and Stiles draped over each other talking about being "on a ship." Both shows actively used scenes between them as marketing while actively mocking fans for wanting them together. Sherlock has multiple characters refer to Johnlock as a couple, including characters we're supposed to believe are never wrong about human behavior and pushed those scenes in marketing. Then they acted insulted when fans saw them as a couple.

That's queerbaiting.

Done on accident it would just be queer subtext. Done because they had no other choice due to censorship is queer coding.

The specific meaning of the word is really starting to get lost and it's a pretty important one to keep accurate. It describes a very specific phenomenon that was done repeatedly and maliciously for decades and is meant to examine that specifically.

Doing it on accident sucks, but it isn't a tactic of capitalism intentionally intended to suppress queer representation while making money from queer fans.

[tacticaljorts]

every piece of media would be better with a butch in it

[securityunit-ese]

Martha Wells is pretty cool.

I like how she encourages people to just keep on creating. Doesn’t matter if you’re good or bad, what your goal is, what you’re writing. Just write.

Don’t let them take the joy away.

Don’t stop.

[ave-the-rat-king-deactivated202]

exclusionist can fuck off

[schrodingers-fyke]

I am loving the:

Bi-pan solidarity

Lesbian-ace solidarity

And the

NB-trans solidarity!

[the-based-brit]

Anyway, pansexuality is both biphobic and transphobic, thus pan people don't belong in the LGBT community.

Asexuals aren't inherently LGBT and don't belong, either (unless they also happen to experience same-sex attraction or gender dysphoria). Some aces are also pretty homophobic.

As for nonbinaries...well, I'm nb-neutral, but I do find it odd how no one identified as nonbinary before it was cool.

[lily-orchard]

[rossisrad]

Someone should remake that image, but with @the-rains-of-castamere's new user.

[folk-ever-lore]

[ellowynthenotking]

Anyone who says stuff like the-based-brit did is just trying to tear the community apart because we're weaker when we're separate groups.

We are stronger as a united front!

A rising tide lifts all ships, and rights for one are rights for everyone!

[the-haiku-bot]

A rising tide lifts

all ships, and rights for one are

rights for everyone!

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[rocks-in-space]

Campaign 4 episode 1 // episode 28

[Image ID: 5 screenshots from Critical Role Campaign 4 with captions. The first three show Valeus and Thaisha speaking to each other, with Murray sitting between them. The captions read: "THAISHA: I don’t know if an elf like yourself has experienced enough loss to know that the way you are speaking is incredibly rude and will not be tolerated." / "VALEUS: That’s true, I haven’t experienced any loss in all of my years" / "THAISHA: Well other than your god, 70 years ago." The last two show Valeus speaking to Hannan. The captions read: "HANNAN: Who did you lose?" / "VALEUS: I lost them all." end ID]

[bruzum]

[lastvalyrian]

This is literally what people are talking about when they say AI will be used to mainstream widely held bigotry. LLMs are trained on frequency and probability -> straight relationships are more well represented in the dataset -> straight pronouns and terms become the "correct" normal.

This is a form of backdoor bigotry from both normative facts (there are more straight than gay relationships) and well represented bigoted beliefs (men are superior to women).

Combine this with the mass of people inclined to believe (and being encouraged to believe) that if AI says and does something it must be correct

[meowmeowgrrrl123]

Dr Romano

[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.

[ilikecrocssuckit]

I'm extremely curious what Einfasen and Cormoray think about this as well. It seems Cormoray trats knowledge this way. They hoard it, but seemingly only distribute it in ways that they find beneficial and completely pervert the idea of the Penteveral. Einfasen is maybe a little harder to pin down simply because it seems like what they treat this way is manpower. Specifically loyal soldiers. They aren't interested in much else seemingly other than a loyal army. Anyone else who's picked up something different please feel free to add.

[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 14 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.