Da May :3

she/her 21 girl who's also gay or something read comics on the regular as well as old AD&D books & other old school rpgs

[madam-cronenberg]

Hi, I'm may, I mostly write and try to make movies. I'm also trans

my pronouns are she/her

18+

[madam-cronenberg]

Rereading chainsaw man is so interesting, understanding the full context. Chainsaw man chapter 1 is such a powerful opening, I think it does a great job showing the level of desperation Denji feels. He's unloved, starving and slowly dying, and yet he still has aspirations, ones that make him stand out amongst the rest of the devil hunters we later see, who expect death and in somecases fully welcome it. Denji is dehumanized by the Yakuza. This sorta parallels the end of part one with Makima, viewing him as a dog, which the yakuza refers to him as such. Once Denji has killed the Zombie devil, Denji feels what is like the first form of affection in his life. Naturally, he latches on to this and does anything to get into Makima's good grace. He's being used, and ultimately, he doesn't really care. He is taught that this is how affection is transactional.

[kekiiro]

someone needs to end this man now please

[madam-cronenberg]

Fuck.

Spoilers for chainsaw man from chapter 1 to chapter 92.

I had gotten spoiled if only vaguely on many of the parts of these later chapters, and it still hurts. I love these characters. This is the panel that broke me. Just the way Denji is completely defeated after essentially killing both Power and Aki, how casual Makima acts after committing unspeakable acts. This panel, in particular, feels like the aftermath of sexual assault. On a lighter note, I really appreciate the moments earlier when Denji is fighting Aki as the gun fiend where normal Japanese citizens are feeding Denji their blood. It was a more classic superhero scene, something very similar to a scene in Spider-Man 2, where after Spider-Man saved a bunch of civilians from dying in a train crash he faints and several hands catch him before he falls. Denji, in a way, became a superhero after killing Aki (at least to the public eye), and with that, he suffered greatly. He tries to blame himself and then make a situation where he doesn't have to engage emotionally with life. He gives himself to Makima, not out of some sexual fantasy, but because he believes he failed and can't handle the burden of that failure. Ultimately, this is some incredible stuff, and I can't wait to read more. I may go back to talk more in depth about earlier chapters cuz there's a lot there to say, but bye for now.

[madam-cronenberg]

Ok so I've been like actually obsessing over chainsaw man, i might do more in depth spoiler posts later. But god its sooooo good. Just its characters and how it depicts loss and grief its truly a work of art and may become a modern classic.

[selfish-wanderer]

Met Fujimoto due to CSM part 1, stayed to know what he's all about after finishing Fire Punch.

I wanna see where he's going now. Not only for part 2, but as a creator.

[madam-cronenberg]

Ok so I've been like actually obsessing over chainsaw man, i might do more in depth spoiler posts later. But god its sooooo good. Just its characters and how it depicts loss and grief its truly a work of art and may become a modern classic.

[madam-cronenberg]

There's often a strange discourse on the internet I come across. A sort of purity test, in a sense, where your favorite fictional characters have to be morally sound or else you're a bad person. Now I understand this line of thought when it comes to relatability, I.E. the old he's literally me edits of Patrick Bateman or Homelander, this is not what I'm talking about. What I'm talking about is when a person who say their favorite character is Patrick Bateman because they understand the commentary and the complexities of the character, even though understanding he's an evil man. I've also seen this with people flanderizing a character into single individual traits, even if the text itself showcases far more complexity in that character. It's an interesting phenomenon that I find a little disturbing, one that encourages consumers of media to disengage and understand the media only on its surface level.

[imsobadatnicknames2]

Thinking about that annoying comment someone left on @thydungeongal 's post about character death as a failure state in D&D and like. How legitimately bizarre it is to me that D&D play culture has arrived at the place of considering that a GM should by default work under the assumption that the rest of the table doesn't "consent" to the possibility of characters dying unless they've explicitly had a talk about it and decided otherwise.

Like idk I think by agreeing to play a game where the mechanics explicitly say "characters die at 0hp / -10hp / 3 failed death saves" (depending on edition) you *are* agreeing to character death unless explicitly stated otherwise.

[greatwyrmgold]

I think this logic would be more patently absurd if applied to literally any other game mechanic. "I don't consent to attack rolls hitting if they equal the target's AC." "I don't consent to needing a full action to drink a potion." "I don't consent to leveling up."

The problem, I think, is that people (or at least that one annoying commenter) don't recognize death as "a mechanic". They recognize it as "a story beat" because they've been told D&D is a collaborative storytelling engine, and can't recognize the game design purpose of death because they don't think about TRPGs as having game design.

[tenleaguesbeneath]

this combination of expecting the DM to get affirmative agreement from players to allow certain game-mechanical states to happen is really interesting when juxtaposed with the strong tendency among D&D players to refuse to play any other game.

like, I know we're talking about different phenomena, but now I'm imagining a player (making up a guy) who is adamantly against learning any game that excludes character death from the states the game mechanics are capable of outputting, but despite their insistence on playing a game where the mechanics for the primary situation the game's character creation mechanics are concerned with describing your character's ability to act in can kill their character, they consider it a consent violation on the DM's part if that happens.

there's gotta be some overlap between these incredibly common D&Dysfunctions.

[thydungeongal]

I think that is definitely a factor at play here: having game mechanics happen to characters without player consent is a consent violation. The mere suggestion that this is not a good way to engage with the game and that there are games without those mechanics is pretty much the same as gatekeeping. D&D has to be the game for everyone, even players who don't want their characters to take damage in dungeons, and if you're not willing to make D&D that game for them you're not only gatekeeping but also violating people's consent.

And as always, what this means is more work for the GM.

(there is also what @anim-ttrpgs said: to many people D&D is not actually supposed to be a challenge game. Instead the challenge is supposed to be some smoke and mirrors that the GM is always bound by a code of honor to make sure the player characters get through. Which, what do you know, means more work for the GM!)

[zybilna]

Really funny when people sound like an unironic version of this dndcirclejerk post

[reimidy]

Tactical Soldier Girl Solid Snake (戦術的な兵士の少女 ソリッド・スネーク)

settei for solid snake (more to come)

[sapphling]

sitting anti-kink posters down in front of a wrestling match and explaining kayfabe to them with the patience of a preschool teacher

[sapphling]

You see that one? He's called the "heel." He looks mean and says a lot of scary things, but it's not real and he's actually very nice. When he says "I'm going to break you in half" you don't have to be scared because it's pretend. These two talked about this beforehand, and now they're playing pretend together. Can you think of any other situations that might be like this?

[sapphling]

no that part was real

[madam-cronenberg]

These winter swept streets are obnoxiously dangerous. However after work im going home to my lovely wife and watching something maybe :3

[ace-disgrace-on-the-case]

You are not immune to getting caught up in the wave. You are not immune to your own internalized biases and bigotries. Yes, even if you nominally consider yourself a transfeminist, or antiracist.

[ace-disgrace-on-the-case]

@habbadax your tags deserve to be on this post

[prommytheus]

People on this app will show a patently horrifying example of an adult media creator being blacklisted from all product platforms and payment platforms. Because adult creators are being pushed out of basically everything. You cannot make or take payment for sex work, you cannot upload a porn game anywhere, you can barely even post written erotica. It is revolting, that this entire industry of sex workers and the broader category of just anybody producing anything vaguely sexual is being mortally wounded by the digital economy.

...But then the Tumblr user posting an example of this horrifying thing, their takeaway is "THIS IS SO SCARY BECAUSE HOW LONG UNTIL THIS HAPPENS TO QUEER PEOPLE?!"

And, like, look. That is a warranted and scary thought. It is entirely valid to have that on the mind. The targeting of sex workers & associated persons does often lead directly into the targeting of queer creators and media in general.

Yet, I need you to tell me, why the fuck does it sound like you don't actually care about sex workers? It sounds like you only give a shit about what happens to sex workers because you see it as an omen of what will happen to you.

You don't recognise that anything actually terrible is happening right now. NSFW creators getting blacklisted from all means of fucking expression or any livelihood is CLEARLY not any concern to you, because you only take issue with it when someone reminds you that it "means you are next." You do not think about the lives already decimated by this, or even about the art that they produce. You fear only for yourself, and all of your good and pure people, meeting the same fate.

Like I said before, it's not that it's incorrect to be afraid of even more, queer, lives being ruined by this movement of censorship. But I implore you to think about where your priorities lie. And if they do not lie with NSFW creators just as they lie with the Queer community, you need to change them.

[tpwrtrmnky]

[ttrpg that has no idea if it's for collaborative storytelling or if it's a crunchy dungeon crawler] remember to grant xp for resolving social encounters. what's a social encounter? uhhhh. well you've probably rolled to converse at some point during it. some jobs have the converse skill, but for balance reasons it can never prevent a fight

[ouroborosorder]

I will give it to GQuuuuuux. I think all heterosexual love triangles should involve the two girls teaming up and using the show’s metaphor for sex to kill the man

[bbbutterfingers]

any part of you I can claim

[madam-cronenberg]

The urge to join a polycule just so I can force them to play the west end games star wars ttrpg is great.