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Actually Jasnah Kholin | 35 | aroace | he/they | Cosmere, DnD, Dragon Age, Monster Hunter, Dr Who | icon by @badgering

[maya-kholin]

combat frustrations aside I'm delighted veilguard patches up the biggest character flaw in my forever husband dorian

[maya-kholin]

hi I know I died and disappeared again but I hate the combat in veilguard ok bye

[maya-kholin]

no seriously how do I prevent getting wombo combod by 17 guys on my dick all at once this is so frustrating

[maya-kholin]

I LOVE WHEN I DODGE AN ATTACK AND STILL GET HIT BY THE ATTACK. THAT'S GOOD SKILL BASED GAMEPLAY

[maya-kholin]

hi I know I died and disappeared again but I hate the combat in veilguard ok bye

[maya-kholin]

no seriously how do I prevent getting wombo combod by 17 guys on my dick all at once this is so frustrating

[maya-kholin]

where is the fucking crowd control I'm so serious please help me

[maya-kholin]

hi I know I died and disappeared again but I hate the combat in veilguard ok bye

[maya-kholin]

no seriously how do I prevent getting wombo combod by 17 guys on my dick all at once this is so frustrating

[maya-kholin]

hi I know I died and disappeared again but I hate the combat in veilguard ok bye

[cat-cosplay]

Palico Appreciation Post

[drbatsponge]

I figure like I should post this given how terrible that was.

I still believe you should vote, idfc, you're not only voting for president but a whole slew of other things, just remember that.

[teathattast]

Wake up babe new fish dropped

[bogleech]

I can't believe none of this post shows off the actual most unique feature of this squid!!

One eye of this species is normal, the other is more than twice as big and bugged out. Each has different sensitivity to light levels so she can aim one up (towards the brighter sky) and the other down (to the darker depths) as needed.

No other animal has this setup that we've ever found!! You can't ignore her monocle!!!

[teathattast]

unmatched queen energy tbh

[carrotchipper]

You won! The enemy Red Dragon dropped something! (Gained 20,000 EXP and Falin's Body)

[tannerhansenart]

Oh I forgot to post this. Garangolm lass with a big hammer :)

[glorianas]

listen i have no real attachment to this phrase but if you can't understand that it's a fucking metaphor you're the dumb one

there is a long history in feminism of association with the witch as a powerful outsider, it is not and has never meant to be wholly historically accurate more in the sense of the way women have been treated when they dared to step outside their roles, that phrase means the opposite of what you're implying it means patriarchy will never be able to murder and subdue every woman who fights against it, this is a pretty basic sentiment

but as usual you people seem to think women are too fucking stupid to use a metaphor and chomp at the bit to explain to us why we are wrong,, no one uses it thinks witches are real or anyone murdered for witchcraft deserved it like what are you actually talking about? go outside, for $1 name a woman

[glorianas]

@mariemariemaria

#thank you that post pissed me off too lmao#'an oppression their ancestors never faced' ???? ah yes. none of our female ancestors faced oppression. none of them lived in patriarchy#that sentence has to be the stupidest thing i've read in a while

remember according to tumblr dot edu no women have EVER faced misogyny, a fake form of oppression that is thousand of years old and exists globally because it makes them feel bad about their favourite white man :(

@binickandros

#good god#and also this is ignoring European witch trials#in which ppl WERE often burned#no not in Salem#but witch trials happened more than just there#I know that’s not the point but#if you’re gonna be pedantic#be pedantic correctly

BE PEDANTIC CORRECTLY, omg....exactly lol

[nightingalesighs]

Mmkay. This post really sorta pissed me off. Cooled down a little. But it still sorta rubs me the wrong way.

And the part that’s bothering me is the sort of casual dismissal that the ONLY factor in the witch trials was gender.

Like 1. Some basic comprehension would tell you that that reblog point isn’t talking about women of the past not experiencing patriarchy.

Thats stupid. Misogyny was very much a key factor in the witch trials. Automatically assuming that’s what that statement in the cap is saying is…such an awful and bad faith take imo. (I’m not going to say “no one would ever argue that take” because I’m aware that people *have* tried to argue that but. Automatically assuming *that* is what someone is trying to say is…yeah.)

Considering they may be talking about a different facet of oppression is much more likely and considering how much of the research into the various witch trials across the world has largely only considered gender, yes that’s going to be our primary gut instinct when talking about a witch trial.

However, more recently we’ve been looking at how race and ethnicity may have a played a part in witch trials. Which obviously misogyny has clearly had an impact. But…that’s not the only form of oppression and saying that’s the only one that could be the focus of this statement and someone’s issue with it…bothers me. For obvious reasons.

If we take the sort of era that comes to mind when USAmericans (which is primarily where I personally have seen this slogan the most, which is to say, white USAmerican women which I realize is very US centrist of me) talk about witch trials— those were fueled by fear. Particularly fear of the Other.

And. As you can imagine, the Other often includes slaves and indigenous peoples (ie the racial aspect)

So yes. I completely understand that it is a metaphor and a general statement that there are too many of us but something something I wish we could view things with a little nuance as to why some people may hate the phrase. It really bugs the fuck out of me personally as a person of color because it feels like a very white feminist sort of take in a society where white feminism dominates the feminist movement as a whole.

So like if we are being pedantic and being “pedantic correctly” let’s acknowledge that race and ethnicity were also factors here. Yes, even in Europe where racism isn’t exactly the same as USAmerica.

Also something something someone having a view different than your own doesn’t automatically make them stupid or wrong.

ETA: I would also like to point out that within Western society, there’s a reason why a witch in a lot of media, mirrors the antisemitic caricatures of Jews.

[stripedroseandsketchpads]

OP, while I’m sure a lot of people use it metaphorically, I’d be a lot more inclined to agree that (my fellow) feminists ~don’t need to be educated about this topic~ or that it’s just a phrase and not indicative of anything in particular if there wasn’t a decades-long fairly extensive cottage industry of pseudohistory of witches and witch trials originating out of neopagan-feminist circles. But there is. Like. Have you heard of The Burning Times? Bc I regret to say that shit is still with us way later than it should’ve been. There are a lot of people, especially in witchy/spiritual circles who very much do believe that the people who were burned at the stake were burned for being actual pagan witches, and there are a lot of my fellow feminists who I’ve heard parrot other common myths (accused witches were all midwives, or healers, or they were doing secret abortions/ye olde birth control, or there was otherwise something “rebellious” and anti-patriarchal that they did and were being punished for).

The “not your oppression” stuff is coming from the fact that while it was absolutely misogyny at the root (in most places anyways, barring the countries where men were primary targets because beliefs about what a witch was differed), not every woman was accused or suspected of being a witch, and ostracized women (especially ones who were multiply-marginalized—elderly, disabled, non-Christian, non-white, widowed, etc) in communities were thrown under the bus by larger groups of people who often included women, although patriarchal institutions were responsible for the vast majority* of trials executions. The person right above me is absolutely correct in pointing out that the demography of who uses the phrase does skew white and American/British. To be a woman is to be marginalized, yes, but it is not inherently to be pushed out of one’s own community. Men haven’t actually figured out a way to get by without us.

The point the second person is making is that a lot of the folks saying the slogan are more likely descendants of bystanders—who also suffered under patriarchy and misogyny, but not specifically due to being implicated by their community or church in a misogynistic, antisemitic conspiracy theory positing a secret satanic cult performing underground rituals to increase the devil’s power in the world before the Second Coming. That is in my opinion a bit of an issue because I think keeping in mind that it’s entirely possible for women who live under a patriarchal society to be part of a collective which ostracizes and harms “bad” women IS a key part of feminist understanding of how the world works, any feminism (I’m going to assume you’ve heard of Right Wing Women). For every town with a “witch” there could be dozens of good wives and good mothers and good daughters and good sisters, or wives and mothers and sisters who weren’t good, but weren’t so bad (or frankly just unlucky) that someone claimed Satan is involved. And good wives and mothers and sisters were still oppressed under patriarchy, often violently, and may even die as a result (child-related mortality, eg) but they were not put to death by the state because of it.

Someone aligning themself with the feminist movement doesn’t make them immune to conspiracy theories, or to practicing ostracism, or to ganging up on other women (the essay Trashing: The Dark Side of Sisterhood by Jo Freeman talked about this inside feminist communities in 1976). There are in fact both historically and presently whole subsets of feminism that are pretty exclusively focused on ostracizing specific groups of multiply-marginalized women (homophobic feminists/“lavender menace” feminists; TERFs—JKR is really big into calling herself a persecuted witch, for one, and it’s because she’s dedicated her life to trying to destroy the rights of women with less power than her!). Consider: maybe we’re the daughters of the witches patriarchal institutions couldn’t burn, but we could be the daughters of the bystander, the “witness”, the accuser. I think that matters, actually.

Why am I going on? For the same reason I’ve studied witchcraft persecutions: because I’m a feminist and I care about women’s history and institutional and structural misogyny and how it actually works, and feminist pseudohistories and misinformation about this topic absolutely kill me because of what it does to historical victims of trials, who don’t need to have been underground radicals or rabble-rousers or 16th-century JANE to get killed. They don’t need to have been secret heroes or role models or anything else to not have deserved death. And I care way more about who they were than who anyone else wants them to be.

Also fwiw I would like to point out that despite generalized complaints around associating the phrase with TERFs being bad, the notes of this post are crawling with people (I counted bc I’m bored and stopped when I hit 40 people who self-describe as such) agreeing that The Genderists are hurting women by uh, talking about history and harassing people on the original post for being trans.

*There are some exceptions of noblewomen kicking off accusations/persecutions; Elizabeth I was the person who reinstated the English Witchcraft Act; etc.

[3000s]

ohhhhhh theyre so epic

[msexcelfractal]

When this animal finds itself in a predator's mouth, it coats its ribs in venom and extrudes them from its body, using their sharp tips as stingers. This does not hurt it.

[fatale-distraction]

I love that 90% of the War Room operations are

Cullen: our soldiers will do it!

Leliana: our spies will do it!

Josephine, taking a massive toke: Some shitty noble in the area cheated on his wife AND his secret wife with his secret girlfriend’s mother, he’ll fucking do it if he knows what’s good for him

[quikyu]

The only Ogre to master the power of 4 separate types! Who gave her that.

[maya-kholin]

so I don't post about vgc much but someone needs to hear about the nightmare format that came to me in a dream

in it they once again announced a new format right before worlds, and it would be no-restricted with the additional requirement that every battle was a "wet" battle where every team had to have an aquatic pokemon and that pokemon had to be brought to every game (like that joke magikarp format they did but for an actual world championship)

I wish I could tell you exactly what pokemon qualified as aquatic but my dream only gave me something that looked like a cross between a sharpedo and a wailmer with its model sunk into the floor so the fin stuck up jaws-style

[fuckyeahgoodomens]

David Tennant interview at the British LGBT Awards, June 2024 (x)

Int: You being an ally to the community isn't something new. You've been doing it, but recently you've obviously really stepped up for trans and non-binary people in a time that's so, so needed. What made you do that?

David: I don't know that I feel like I've done anything that I wouldn't just sort of be normally doing. I mean, it's for me it's just common sense that there's there should be any suggestion that people aren't allowed to live the life they want to live and and to be who they want to be with and to express themselves wholeheartedly. I mean, as long as you aren't hurting anybody else, everybody else just needs to fucking butt out. I don't really understand why...

Int: ...it's controversial.

David: Yeah, there is and the thing... the thing, if there's something that's particularly sobering and depressing, it's that certain debates are being weaponized by certain elements of the political class, often for no... it seems it's not ideological so much as opportunistic. And I just think that's pretty disgusting, really.

Int: I couldn't agree more. What message would you like to send out to trans youth?

David: Please don't feel like you're not loved and that you're not accepted and that you're not... you know, most people in the world are good and kind and just want you to be able to be who you are. Most people in the world don't really care. I mean... you know what I mean?

Int: We're all narcissistic.

David: Exactly. Everyone's so self obsessed that really, the sort of noise that comes from a certain area of the press and of the political class is... it's a minority. It really is. And please don't let that make you feel diminished or dissuaded or discouraged, because, you know, you just... you have to be allowed to be yourself, and you are, and you are yourself and you must thrive and flourish, and we're all here for it.

Int: Amazing. I think, yeah, it's so important .I think sometimes it feels like there's so many people, but it is a minority. It's such a minority.

David: It's a tiny bunch of little whinging fuckers that are on the wrong side of history and they'll all go away soon.

Int: Like what happened with gay people 20 years ago.

David: When I was a kid, when I was a kid, exactly. You know, I was at school when Clause 28 came in and it all felt like being gay was something to be terrified of. And gay men in particular were demonised as paedophiles and now that just feels historic and ludicrous and, I mean, I don't see all those... all those battles aren't won, but we're in a very, very different place. And I feel like.I feel like history is on a progressive trajectory and it might get knocked sideways now and again by people for all sorts of reasons, which are often quite selfish and quite, as I say, not coming from a place of any sort of genuine belief system, but other than a place of opportunism. And that's something that we... I hope that in 20 years time, we're talking about, you know, these culture wars as something of the past.

Int: I believe we will. I'm a huge Doctor Who fan, so.

David: Oh, good, me too!

Int: You are my Doctor.

David: Oh, thank you very much.

Int: But recently, obviously, you came back for the 60th anniversary and you got to work with Yasmin Finney.

David: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Int: What was it like working with her?

David: Oh, she's brilliant. She's fantastic. Yeah. And she's in the show again now, she's back in it, so that's fantastic to see. She's lovely, talented, cool as a cucumber, articulate, brilliant. I learned a lot from her as an actor and also as someone who, you know, who's become a sort of de facto activist just because of who she is and where she is, and she becomes a sort of symbol of hope, and she's wonderful.

[hawkeguard]

i made this for fun where are you sitting

[mountainsboyhowdy]

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Voting ended onJul 3, 2024

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