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Sparkle, 30+ trans man. (he/him) | English, French, Spanish | I spend way too much time thinking about fictional gay idiots.

[iwritesnortsintragedies]

Sparkle | he/him | English / French / Spanish

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[iwritesnortsintragedies]

I didn't start out my durge run planning on romancing Minthara but I'm glad it turned out like that xD

Look at my murder babies happy together ^^

[iwritesnortsintragedies]

Also I like that he looks so tall and buff compared to her but he's the sorcerer and she's the tank

Deadly giraffe and his emotional support pigmy hippo wife

[iwritesnortsintragedies]

My only regret is that it started accidentally at the very end of act 2 so I missed the one romance scene you can get with Minthara but honestly I'm satisfied with having her grab him down for a kiss while Astarion literally grind in the background and Shadowheart makes fun of them

[iwritesnortsintragedies]

Truly the diversity of human experience and also climate conditions is absolutely infinite

Europe is melting under 37+ Celsius for many perfectly reasonable reason and meanwhile I'm both getting my socks on and turning the ac on at 29c to trying accommodate for both dodgy blood circulation and too high humidity/temperature in the house reasons

Every life is unique etc etc

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

god the Bratz boy characters (Boyz) were so funny. there's so much gender going on here. these five utterly swagless men were as good as it got in the early 2000s.

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

loving this confirmation that da boys were all wearing the same pair of shoes. there was a buy one get four at the old navy and the lads had to get in on it.

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

Thad™... they call me "SHARK" cuz' my CHARM sneaks up on you!

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

at risk of outing myself as a Bratz fan on a post where I'm talking about the Bratz Boyz, they definitely weren't going for ambiguous. even as a kid I was very aware that the lore for the main four was that Jade was (East) Asian, Yasmin was Latina, Sasha was Black, and Cloe was white. they weren't any more ambiguous about it than Barbie was, they just weren't all white

[oldmanpusspuss]

yeah you're not "womanphobic" you're misogynistic hope this helps

[apollo-cackling]

[transcript:

#i dont wanna sound womanphobic or something, be that is simply not true. #but like its really hard for me to have conversations with women #for some reason its very off putting for me #its a lot easier for me to talk to men tbh #so i dont really mind what gender characters are unless they ar3 like annoying or something about it

/end transcript]

[hopeymchope]

PlayStation Bad

In just the past two months, Sony has:

Said the PS6 will be more than $1000 at launch

Announced the end of all physical PS game releases

While simultaneously announcing the end of two of their console game stores — ensuring multiple games will die forever

Declared that they are wholly dedicated to (A) leveraging A.I. when making games and (B) creating live-service games above all other game types

Announced that if you bought any movies through their PlayStation Store, over 550 of them will soon be deleted from all users' libraries — with no restitution offered of any kind

Gamers, it is time — to paraphrase Robert Vann — to turn Sony's picture to the wall. Any one of these insults would be bad, and taken alone? Maybe it could be swallowed. But this is an ongoing campaign of disdain towards customers, with each declaration worse than the last.

PlayStation does not deserve your patronage any longer. The PS6 must fail. Leave them behind.

[ruthlesslistener]

Don't forget the fact that despite the fact that they claimed to be pushing for live service games, they cut service for Destiny 2 (aka a live service game that's been ongoing for years) while they were 80% of the way through development into a new expansion (at the start of a new storyline with a minimum of 5 years of planned new content btw), then did not tell the developers until right before they made the announcement public. This lead to pretty much the entire Destiny 2 team being laid off. Sony is a piece of shit.

[iwritesnortsintragedies]

The good news is that I'm nowhere near as nauseous today as I was Sunday or yesterday (unsure if food poisoning or stomach bug)

The bad news is that I am once again having one of those evenings where the thought of eating actively repels me but not eating would be worse

Forcing myself (a bit) it is I guess x)

[iwritesnortsintragedies]

... I think I'm gonna have to erase several hours of gaming to get to the goodies re Gortash/Durge... Woops x)

[all-vampires-are-gay]

Every glasses-related poll honestly needs to be separated into diopter ranges like wrestling weight classes bc every timeeeeee these +1.25 bitches are in the notes like "OMG why would you wear glasses in the shower!! why would you wear glasses having sex!!" because without them i am functionally blind. you may as well turn the lights off at that point bc i am feeling my way to the pussy like Velma. those are my eyes, bitch

[romanceyourdemons]

guy working on an artwork they knew would push them technically: what the hell why do i keep doing this wrong. am i haunted by malevolent spirits and such

[iwritesnortsintragedies]

Young, French queer icon in an interview: there's a hierarchy in the queer community

Me: I mean, this could use nuance but yeah kinda

YFQI: [collection of terms that, as far as I can tell, have never been widely used for anyone in the community]

Me: oh boy

[tsunflowers]

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

[bisexualhunterbiden]

Something that annoys me is the constant whining about "more queer spaces, more queer communities" but then they're immediately like "yeah! And we need ones that don't cost money or require a purchase!"

Girl that's exactly why they close down after a year. You NEED money to keep these places open. There's no magic Gay Money Pot with endless cash to keep these places open. It requires YOU to put your money where your values are!!

[bisexualhunterbiden]

Like there was a queer coffee shop in my city. Owned and operated by a bunch of LGBT people. Not a cishet on the schedule. Tons of young people raved about it.

And it made it about 2 years before shutting down completely. Because all those young people who begged for a place exactly like this would just show up, not buy a single thing, and leave. You cannot build a community without putting your money into it. This isn't about capitalism, this is just reality. You can't open a restaurant where no one buys your food. You can't have a gay bar that only serves 5% of the population and actively excludes everyone else. This is what I mean when I say people confuse "community" and "friend group." You're not obligated to spend money when hanging out with your friend group. But if you want a lasting community centered space, you need to open up that wallet.

[iwritesnortsintragedies]

I didn't start out my durge run planning on romancing Minthara but I'm glad it turned out like that xD

Look at my murder babies happy together ^^

[iwritesnortsintragedies]

Also I like that he looks so tall and buff compared to her but he's the sorcerer and she's the tank

Deadly giraffe and his emotional support pigmy hippo wife

[teaboot]

Being Transmasc is wild because first you’re a girl and you’re weak whiny emotional irrational annoying and uppity and “on your period” and you’d be prettier if you smiled and stopped making everything about feminism all the damn time

and then all of a sudden you’re a man and you’re ‘the problem’ and you just want to oppress girls and talk over women to validate yourself and make it all about you because all men ever do is take over the conversation and be abusive and use their toxic masculinity to bludgeon everyone around them and like

The whole time you’ve always just been you

[deafmangoes]

Hate to tell you this teaboot but it's the same in reverse for us trans femmes

Solidarity in always "doing it wrong", eh?

[teaboot]

Masc spectrum 🤝 Femme spectrum

Being reduced to the worst gender stereotypes when we just want to be human people

[teaboot]

It’s not that a prison can’t be nice sometimes, it’s just that you can’t leave

[iwritesnortsintragedies]

I didn't start out my durge run planning on romancing Minthara but I'm glad it turned out like that xD

Look at my murder babies happy together ^^

[littlewildmother]

Studies show that engaging in ritualized behavior significantly improves outcomes on measures of grief and feelings of control, even when the person participating in the ritual has little or no belief in the ritual’s power. Just a reminder for no one in particular.

[littlewildmother]

Research has revealed that, while rituals are universal across human cultures, the content and actions of those rituals vary widely even when they have the same intended purpose. This suggests that it is not the actions that matter, but that you are taking any action at all and naming it ritual. It can be an elaborate ritual with dozens of moving parts and participants, or it can be as simple as lighting a candle alone with the intent to remember someone.

The healing is in the doing.