Transfem She/her You can call me Ramie :) Check out my Itch! I publish games sometimes: socialistwolfgirl.itch.io Big fan of ttrpgs, game design as a whole, and a lot of other stuff Pfp is from Citizen Sleeper 2 by Jump Over the Age Background is from Nasa James Webb other socials: Bluesky: @socialistwolfgirl.itch.io
Hey y'all, I'm Ramie, welcome to my blog! I'm a weird trans girl who loves tabletop role-playing games, mecha, board games, horror, math, science, and storytelling! My hobbies include painting minis and folding origami. If you have any questions or considerations, please tell me!
I write ttrpgs, check them out here: https://socialistwolfgirl.itch.io/
Bluesky: @socialistwolfgirl.itch.io
Magic: the Gathering player? Check out my current commander decks here: https://archidekt.com/folders/921877
Important posts:
Old pinned post (a call to action): https://www.tumblr.com/justaboutdead/733270259035963392/emergency-notice-there-is-a-severe-lack-of-sexy?source=share
Daisy Bell Essay: https://www.tumblr.com/justaboutdead/741112113719918592/house-of-leaves-2001-and-daisy-bell-and-why-its?source=share
On the Beach Essay (that got fully eaten by the tumblr algorithm before): https://www.tumblr.com/justaboutdead/738034545041014784/on-the-beach-by-nevil-schute-and-running-out-of?source=share
Darnielle, Cowboy Bebop Essay, and more essay:
💬 0 🔁 0 ❤️ 0 · Darnielle, Cowboy Bebop, and My Fixation on Media Hyperfocused on Our Personal Past- Another lightly edited ranty essay
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Quick Recommendations below the keep reading (trying to avoid super duper common ones):
Video-games: Rainworld, Outer WIlds, Lunacid, South Scrimshaw Pt. 1, Soma, Darksouls II (it's the best one, sorry), How Fish is Made, Devil Daggers, Dusk, Northern Journey, Citizen Sleeper 1+2, Caves of Qud, Armored Core For Answer (6 is very good too and more accessible), A Short Hike, Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag..., If Found
Tabletop Role-playing Games: Mork-Borg, Deadlands, Ex-Novo, Dialect, Orbital Blues, Do You Remember Rock?, Death in Space, Worm
Books: Annihilation, Wolf in White Van, Roadside Picnic, Cat's Cradle, The Lathe of Heaven, Always Coming Home, Monstrous Regiment, Gravity's Rainbow
Films: Only Yesterday, The Wind Rises, Cowboy Bebop: Knockin' on Heaven's Door, Blood Tea and Red String, Abe Lincoln Vampire Slayer (great Discord movie), Stalker (1979), The Wicker Man (1973)
Shows: Cowboy Bebop, Gunbuster (1988), Skip and Loafer, Midnight Mass (pretty neat for a modern netflix show) (sorry i dont watch that many shows)
(Recordings of) Plays: Vanya w Andrew Scott, 2008 King Lear with Ian McKellan, Falsettos pro shot, and (for Sillys) Overly Sarcastic Production's Macbeth,
Bands: The Mountain Goats, Laura Jane Grace/Against Me!, Dear Landlord, Sincere Engineer, This Will Destroy You, Onsind, Rutterkin, HappyHappy, Flavor Folly, hkmori
Other: Oxventure (ttrpg actual play studio), Libre Office Suite (Free computer software)
My Setup:
Keyboard: Keychron Q14 pro + Duckypad diy macropad
Mouse: Razor Deathadder v3
Headphones: Beyerdynamic DT 770 pros
General Specs: AMD Ryzen 9 5900x, NVIDIA RTX 4070, 64 gigs of ram, and 7 noctua nf-f12 ippc 3000 PWMs so I can rev it like a motorcycle
(yeah, im lucky enough to have disposable income, and people from which I have been able to source a lot of parts/peripherals used for cheap over the years)
sorry to be a broken record every month but christ menstruation is a stupid concept. oooooh excuse me for not getting pregnant, why the fuck is there goo falling out of me about it? grow the fuck up and reabsorb that shit for nutrients.
“If a society puts half its children into short skirts and warns them not to move in ways that reveal their panties, while putting the other half into jeans and overalls and encouraging them to climb trees, play ball, and participate in other vigorous outdoor games; if later, during adolescence, the children who have been wearing trousers are urged to “eat like growing boys,” while the children in skirts are warned to watch their weight and not get fat; if the half in jeans runs around in sneakers or boots, while the half in skirts totters about on spike heels, then these two groups of people will be biologically as well as socially different. Their muscles will be different, as will their reflexes, posture, arms, legs and feet, hand-eye coordination, and so on. Similarly, people who spend eight hours a day in an office working at a typewriter or a visual display terminal will be biologically different from those who work on construction jobs. There is no way to sort the biological and social components that produce these differences. We cannot sort nature from nurture when we confront group differences in societies in which people from different races, classes, and sexes do not have equal access to resources and power, and therefore live in different environments. Sex-typed generalizations, such as that men are heavier, taller, or stronger than women, obscure the diversity among women and among men and the extensive overlaps between them… Most women and men fall within the same range of heights, weights, and strengths, three variables that depend a great deal on how we have grown up and live. We all know that first-generation Americans, on average, are taller than their immigrant parents and that men who do physical labor, on average, are stronger than male college professors. But we forget to look for the obvious reasons for differences when confronted with assertions like ‘Men are stronger than women.’ We should be asking: ‘Which men?’ and ‘What do they do?’ There may be biologically based average differences between women and men, but these are interwoven with a host of social differences from which we cannot disentangle them.”
— Ruth Hubbard, “The Political Nature of ‘Human Nature’“
they are sexually mature at ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OLD.
their (live!) young gestate for. wait for it. eight to eighteen (??) YEARS. can have up to 10 at a time. good grief.
longest lifespan of any vertebrate, up to five hundred years
toxic flesh
has giant eyes but is usually blind because of a weird little crustacean that's evolved to live on and eat their eyes. this doesn't seem to bother them much.
lives in deep cold water and has the lowest swim speed and tail-beat frequency for its size across all fish species. just generally lives life in extreme slow motion
largest genome of any shark
eats everything including moose and polar bears
ma'am you are delightfully strange and I'm privileged to share a planet with you
Over twenty years ago my big brother got me a job at a Taco Bell in the St. Louis suburbs-West County. He warned me that it was the “gay Taco Bell”, but since I was coming from the “gay Howard Johnson’s” I wasn’t shocked. It turns out it was the black trans women Taco Bell complete with black trans women in management. And they’d worked out an arrangement with the local teen Narcotics Anonymous group so that twice a week we would shut down the drive thru and the dining room and exclusively serve 60+ teens in various stages of recovery. And many of the women I worked with were in various stages of being out or transitioning and they were from all generations from teens to over 50. One woman I worked with had a regular corporate job presenting as a man 9-5 Mon-Fri and then came to Taco Bell and worked 6pm -2am Friday and Saturday night so she could be herself surrounded by other black transwomen in those stolen weekends. And we had customers come from all over the metro area because they knew they could be themselves in the dining room. I only worked there from 1999-2001 but for young me, this was a vital, formative experience. Some of the girls came from north city all the way out to the “gay Taco Bell” on Manchester in west county because they heard it was safe to work there. Like- I know times have changed but they haven’t changed much in 20 years. I’m still convinced that for lgbt youth, finding a job at your city’s version of the “gay Taco Bell” is key to survival.
i stopped giving a shit about "legit" purchases of digital products after i spent $80 on the entire Dark Horse collection of Trigun/Trigun Maximum ebook mangas, learning that I only got access to reading them through a proprietary website ereader function, couldn't download them, and couldn't get a refund, and then literally only a year later, getting an e-mail stating that Dark Horse was shutting down that part of their company and I wouldn't even be able to read them anymore. Fuck that
Pirate shit. Don't feel bad for it. It's not "your fault" that artists, independent or otherwise, can't make a living. You downloading an album or ebook for free isn't the cause of the problem. The cause is capitalism, plain and simple, and pirating is a lucky loophole that companies are still trying to stomp out.
I spent more time trying to get an audible.com audiobook playing than it took to listen to the book. I have lost every other piece of DRM-locked music that I ever paid for.
