marie・jace enjoyer

日本語/eng OK she/they/it batman alt: @marie-batfan

[jaceoshi]

i’m seraph, a jace beleren-oshi jirai. i’m a vorthos, getting back into the lore after a longggg hiatus. he’s impossible to do oshikatsu for but i love him. i use she/they/it pronouns ! please remember the it... i’m platinum constructed on mtga right now, and i play casual paper mtg too. mostly commander but you know how it is.

aside from being an annoying jace fan i love dnd, calculus, weird music, videogames, and fashion!

said videogames include final fantasy, ace attorney, persona, and like any free game on steam

my user on arena is Liliana’s Wrath#61129 (i made it a long time ago) feel free to add me!

[rookthebird]

jace's echoverse gideon: "wow, jace. you're doing such a good job saving everyone you love. i should have realized your leadership potential much sooner, and i don't fault you for letting your soulmate turn into an evil robot because of course in your place i would have done the exact same. also, despite being an ectomorph, you've really been working hard on building muscle. did i tell you that your hair looks fantastic today? it looks fantastic every day, but i think today you're coming across as especially masculine!"

[catgirlforeskin]

trying to make a creative project without men and uproot any masculine words will drive one insane. There's the obvious stuff, right, swordsman becomes swordsmaid, count becomes countess, gladiator to gladiatrix and so on.

But did you know that "-er" is a masculine suffix, for which "-ster" as in "sister" is the feminine equivalent? Baker means a man that bakes, the historical feminine equivalent is a bakster, a webster is a female weaver. Some words already have the feminine as default, youngster, teamster, mobster, but most? Trying to be a principled feminist has you saying shit like goonster

[gwenadier]

Wait for real? Fascinating.

[catgirlforeskin]

for real! Lots of other examples too, anything "patr" comes from father, "patriarch" is the obvious one, but patriot, patron, patronym all would need "matr" for mother is instead. Pope and Papacy derive from "Papa" and would be Mome/Mamacy if you want yuri catholicism (hellworld!!) it's EVERYWHERE

[catgirlforeskin]

My favorite example, beyond the obvious ones like lord/lady, waiter/waitress, steward/stewardess, is housekeeper, which is now the more acceptable term for a maid, when maid, of course, just means "woman" and keeper is masculine, would be keepster or keepess but (to my knowledge) neither were used historically because, well, keeping wasn't something women got to do!

Likewise, waitress has fallen out of favor for host or server, which are also both gendered terms. (hostess or serving girl, respectively. Servant is also gendered, maidservant and servantess were used)

There's been a concerted push with a lot of these to phase out the feminine variants of these words and just treat the masculine variants as neutral, or find neutral alternatives like fireman -> firefighter (even though fighter is also gendered) because the feminine variants are seen as inherently lesser, which, yeah that's how women are seen.

There is a line you have to draw somewhere of "okay let's just treat this and below as gender neutral because, frankly, most words that just mean "person" mean "man" historically because women weren't (and still largely aren't) considered people, and otherwise we're going to shred the whole English language" and I get that.

BUT. I think a lot of folks draw that line at the start and insist that man/guy/dude/bro can be gender-neutral which is obvious stupid. And I think it's always worth having this investigation and questioning how we speak, it shapes how we think about worlds and people real and fictional.

Okay one last silly aside about barista, which is supposed to be gender-neutral from Italian but men got weird about it and then invented baristo so now -ista is kinda feminine? Typically it's just borrowed into English to sound Foreign (Sandinistas leading to the exonym Corbynistas)

[underworlddreams]

Jace, the Mind Sculptor

Artist: TAPIOCA Set: Bloomburrow Commander

[grimdeck]

Still the benchmark every planeswalker gets measured against. Four abilities and every single one of them is relevant. The fact that Brainstorm on a stick warped Legacy for years says everything about this card.

[jaceoshi]

i haven't had a chance to play at my lgs in weeks and as a result i've been brewing saltier and saltier decks on arena nonstop. i think i need to go to a casual commander night soon or my next deck will be (another) oops all counterspells deck.

[grimdeck]

The LGS withdrawal pipeline is real: casual jank > spicy homebrew > "is Stax actually that bad?" > oops all counterspells. Get to a commander night before you end up on mono-blue prison. We've all been there.

[jaceoshi]

i run a jace blog i fear my fate is predetermined

[margo-mayhem]

[esthermika]

"girl faliure"

no clothes on the floor

[sourcreammachine]

it’s about the little victories

[promblums]

We can only escape Samsara by releasing our attachments, so actually I'm doing us both a favor by board wiping.

[jaceoshi]

i haven't had a chance to play at my lgs in weeks and as a result i've been brewing saltier and saltier decks on arena nonstop. i think i need to go to a casual commander night soon or my next deck will be (another) oops all counterspells deck.

[kushblazer666]

[cheaphalloweencostume]

holy shit its for real

[jaceoshi]

t4t joke in the recent tolarian community college video abt tmnt... i giggled i must admit. i'm definitely not buying any tmnt cards but the chance to make a t4t joke in game nearly got me.

[ciricearts]

morning routine!!

[tgirlmaomao]

i am confused. why would the sub get 'aftercare'? if she is unhappy with her weakness cannot she simply grow stronger?

[asteroidtroglodyte]

Folks misunderstand lots of things. You get told “DNA is basically a Blueprint of an Organism.” It makes sense, you can imagine that. Maybe you’ve seen a Blueprint in real life. Maybe not. But you can understand the concept: it’s information. It’s a, a, you know, the layout. Where stuff goes.

But DNA isn’t a Blueprint; it’s DNA. No matter what context you put a Blueprint in, it won’t do certain things. It won’t spontaneously duplicate itself; DNA will. A Blueprint isn’t gonna curl up into a ball and roll away on you. A Blueprint can’t fragment in half and become a rogue construction firm cranking out half-formed cabinets. DNA can and will do these and stranger things. DNA is alive

Anyway a lot of “viruses” are just. Chunks of more complex living things that broke free. Also big chunks of our own genome are just “viruses” that. got stuck. Kinda. It’s not bad! Our Immune System uses those bits for target practice and wargaming. Pretty neat actually. Humans are very advanced under the hood as it turns out.

Where was I going with this.

[asteroidtroglodyte]

Single-celled organisms are the dominant life form on Earth. By mass, by species count, by terraforming capacity. An individual “Earthling” is a single cell. Therefore: all of the so-called “eukaryotic organisms” are more akin to city-mecha-ship-conurbations.

You’se a walking city bro

[dracula1992soundtrack]

being online is so scary aren't you guys worried about the world wide spider

[redfagdiver]

It took 36 years for someone to make this joke and by god it was worth the wait

[romanceyourdemons]

interview with the vampire, the novel, treats homosexuality in a pretty bog standard way for 70s american media—a grotesquerie too unseemly to be addressed by name, whose practitioners are either helpless but still disgusting victims who rightfully want to die to kill the disease inside of them, or gauche, subhuman predators who reach grisly ends as a result of their perversion. it goes through the homophobic traits noted in chapter three of the celluloid closet like a checklist. and then not that long later the vampire lestat has a completely revised view of homosexuality, treating gayness and gay relationships with a kind of clumsy, eager voyeurism, titillation where before there was only artistry and disgust. something happened between 1976 and 1985 that resulted in anne rice’s fujoshi awakening

[romanceyourdemons]

was it star trek ii: the wrath of khan (1982)

[thevictrola]

It was likely the birth of her gay son Christopher in 1978.

[helloitsbees]

you’re suggesting that he came out of the womb and then immediately came out as gay

[catboybreeder]

a mother knows

[prokopetz]

Writing porn about characters with no canonical information about their downstairs situations and assigning cock sizes based purely on what would be most awkward for all concerned.

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

re: the loneliness epidemic post, it's genuinely so so so hard right now as someone whose Job is organizing events for LGBT university students. our whole goal is to help them find peers to connect with, but it often feels like they're working against us.

not on purpose, of course, and I never want to sound like I'm blaming students for their own feelings of isolation. there are a lot of factors that make it hard to socialize, ranging from a very full class/work schedule to various neurodivergences to the majority white attendance at many campus activities to the fact that many of these students spent some formative years in quarantine.

but man, it's hard when students talk about feeling hated and unwanted by a club because no one there talks to them, only to drop that they never even try to initiate any conversation themselves. or when a student complains that they're not making any friends on campus, but when asked where they're going to meet people outside of class they seem confused and say they hardly leave their dorm for anything but class. we're currently administering an anonymous survey to assess student satisfaction with our programs, and one person wrote that they'd like to attend more of our events but don't because they don't know anyone there and don't know what the vibe will be. the solution to both of those problems feels very obvious, to me, and it's frustrating to see mild uncertainty be such a hurdle.

especially given that, again, these are queer young people, who a.) have a lot of reasons to despair right now and b.) have a lot of awful online spaces they could be spending time in instead of touching grass, it's a fucking bummer to see them so wary of hanging out in physical space with real people.

[johannestevans]

A skill i've been working to get better at when I go to conferences and conventions is to basically approach tables of interesting looking people and going "May I join you?" and listening to their conversation and joining in

And it is a skill! You are approaching strangers, you are making a bid for connection and interaction that may end in rejection, or just not clicking fully, or anything similar, and that can be scary!

But I think a problem that a lot of younger people have in how harshly regimented many schools and then colleges are, and ditto how little free time they're likely to have outside of their workplace and commute, made worse by isolated housing and lack of free or even affordable third spaces

Is that there's very little development of the skill of seeking out the people who look interesting or otherwise compatible with yourself, approaching them, and beginning the process of connecting with them

People are very used to only making new friends and connections when circumstances, and especially an authority, force them into proximity with one another

Esp in a surveillance state where there's anxieties about meeting new people in case they're bad or incompatible with your beliefs, sometimes people only want to connect with new people when they can scope them out on socials first, and that only adds to this anxiety of meeting people as a social skill!

[wiseguynephile]

tbh if i was chilling at a table talking with my friends and some rando walked up and said "may i join you?" i would be offended and creeped out

i do empathize with and agree with a lot of OP here but at the same time so much of that post and especially the reblog are placing all the onus on the lonely people. all the work of seeking out connection is being placed at the feet of the people with the least social power and wherewithal. why should that be how it works

if there's a cool group of people talking, i'm never going to walk up and bother them. they're the ones with a solid social footing and comfortable position, they're the ones who can afford to invite me in to what they're doing if they want to.

if i'm new at college and I go to a club meeting, it's not my job as the newcomer to start conversations! I've got no social capital, if I try to start conversations I'm being intrusive and rude! It's their club and I'm some rando who wandered in! If I'm the newcomer it's their job to be welcoming if they want new people. I should be humble and wait, and they should be inviting me in and making me part of what's going on.

all of this follows from the basic fact that our society is structured to reward pushiness and arrogance, and expects people to "assert themselves" and "put themselves out there" and look after their own interests. that's what we admire and that's what we expect, and even OP, firmly goodhearted and wanting to help these people, is seeing it as a failure on their parts that they're not pushy and rude enough to make friends. that's just a bad way to structure a society! the work of fixing loneliness should be done by people who aren't lonely; they're the ones with the power to do so.

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

okay. so. in the space of this answer you have both indicated that a.) you think the impetus of social inclusion should be on people who already have an existing social footing and also b.) if you were in a position of being the person with an existing social connection and the opportunity to make space and welcome others in you would find them offensive and creepy.

so I'm not really sure what you want me to take from that.

[sinnahsaint]

@batmanisagatewaydrug I think you missed the point that the existing group would be the ones to say “hey new guy, what’s your preferred XYZ on this topic?”, but the new guy walking in and just being all ‘I am using overly polite language to ensure a positive response to my request to participate in your conversation.’ comes across poorly because that’s not how neurotypicals DO that interaction. In fact it’s a tactic used by people like bosses or scammers(same thing really) to “charm” their way in, whether the group appreciates their presence or not.

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

okay so your strat is to assume bad intentions in anyone approaching you to try to make friends?