I am the They/Them your parents warned you about

R. They/them, genderfluid enby. This is mostly a les mis blog, though it also includes left wing politics, various fandoms including Hadestown, ATLA, LOTR, Doctor Who, Dragon Age, Steven Universe among others. Links: My Singing My Writing Genderfluid Eponine My Headcanons Buy me a Kofi? Classic Who Sideblog

[penumbralwoods]

every time someone realizes they dont have to pick between being a boy or a girl an angel gets its wings btw. and also extremely loud cheering can be heard in the distance from me specifically

[roscolux]

need to beam this tweet directly into everyone's minds right now

[iesika]

“Pratchett went back to older throwaway jokes (like dwarves being apparently unisex) and used them as metaphors to discuss social change, racial assimilation, and other complex issues, while reexamining the species he’d thrown in at the margins of his world simply because they existed at the margins of every other fantasy universe. If goblins and orcs and trolls could think, then why were they always just there to be slaughtered by the heroes? And if the heroes slaughtered sentient beings en masse, how heroic exactly were they? It was a long overdue start on redressing issues long swept under the rug by a parade of Tolkien successors who never thought of anyone green and slimy as anything but a notch on the protagonist’s sword, and much of the urgency in Pratchett’s last few books seemed to be related to them. ‘There’s only one true evil in the world,’ he said through his characters. ‘And that’s treating people like they were things.’ And in the last of his ‘grown-up’ Discworld books, that idea is shouted with the ferocity of those who have only a few words left and want to make them count. Goblins are people. Golems are people. Dwarves are people, and they do not become any less people because they decide to go by the gender they know themselves to be instead of the one society forces on them. Even trains might be people, and you’ll never know one way or the other unless you ask them, because treating someone like they’re a person and not a thing should be your default. And the only people who cling to tradition at the expense of real people are sad, angry dwellers in the darkness who don’t even understand how pathetic they are, clutching and grasping at the things they remember without ever understanding that the world was never that simple to begin with. The future is bright, it is shining, and it belongs to everyone.”

— John Seavey, The Evolution of the Disc (via liquidlightandrunningtrees)

[dalishious]

Adventures in Thedas are waiting for you!

Nearly 14,000 words later, and it's finally finished: My own take on a Dragon Age modification of DnD 5E! It is created with thought for those who are pre-existing fans of Dragon Age, but potentially new to Dungeons and Dragons.

In this handbook, you will find everything you need for a TTRPG in the Dragon Age setting:

4 lineages (human, dwarf, elf, qunari)

3 classes (warrior, rogue, mage)

5 specializations for each class

16 sample backgrounds

And more!

There are three main reasons I decided to put my lore knowledge to work and make this:

The official Dragon Age Tabletop game is just not that user friendly, in my experience with it; especially for anyone new to TTRPGs. This book I have put together is based on Dungeons and Dragons 5th Edition, which is a system that far more people are familiar with, and therefore is a) well known by many already, and b) easier to access further information on for those new to it.

While I was able to find a couple versions of similar modifications other people have made, those versions were out of date with the lore, and/or did not meet my personal taste/standards.

I love being a Dungeon Master, and I want to run more games set in Thedas in the future. But like I said, the official rules just aren't good for me, and I would prefer something like... well, this!

This handbook is free to use by anyone who wants it. (You are also, of course, free to make changes for your personal games as you like.)

My only ask is that you please reblog this post so more people can find it. I worked really hard on this, after all. Thank you!

[sphyrne]

she

[kactusnz]

#oh SO true#discworld#you've nailed it op that's it exactly#she is a prophet of retribution set aglow from within by the fury of her righteousness#and he's in the dictionary next to the word 'scrungly'

[maryellencarter]

this captures their kermit and miss piggy energy better than anything else i've ever seen

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

no one is too young to write fanfics and no one is too old to write fanfics!!!!!!!

anybody can create, make art and have fun. age is irrelevant when it comes to making art and having fun

[sanayarita]

PREACHHH

[ltwilliammowett]

The Danish training ship “Georg Stage” (1934) dresses in rainbow colour, 2021 

[dragon-in-a-fez]

not the kind of gay ship I’m used to seeing on tumblr but cool

[dubiousculturalartifact]

ship georg is an outlier but SHOULD be counted

[skippyisntfunny]

[bisexual-engineer-girl]

Pulitzer Prize type shit

[wizardshark]

Why's this dude built like crash bandicoot

[spooky-narwhal]

Everything about this damn post is so funny to me. The lighting of the arm from the flash. The posing of the arm like a dramatic death from a novella. The fact the photo somehow got taken still and looks this good. The subreddit name. The fact this guy really is built like crash bandicoot

[whyiswingdingsafont]

I think it’s really cool that in Project Hail Mary the astrophage, which are literally killing all life by eating stars, aren’t really treated as the villain or evil? From the very start Ryland is treating it with curiosity and fascination, wanting to understand more than destroy.

One of the most memorable scenes in the movie is when he’s IN the Petrova Line, and he’s having a moment. Because it’s beautiful. It’s destroying galaxies, uncountable lives, but it’s still beautiful.

The astrophage is a problem, yes, but it’s treated as any other organism. It’s just doing what it does, because it’s also alive and happens to eat stars. Ryland is just happy to have the chance to study it because it’s from space.

[macabro]

I don't understand why "Adrian doesn't like Grace at first" is as popular as it is on fanfics.

Imagine for a second you are Adrian surname The Eridian. Your spouse has been missing and presumed dead for around a decade, and suddenly one day an alien spaceship comes into orbit. And you cheer "Yay alien species have realized we have the same problem and have come to either give us a solution or join or efforts, too bad my mate is still gone."

Except he is not actually gone, because the eridian equivalent of a carebear decided to save them. And he doesn't want anything in return, in fact he is well aware that he might die A PAINFUL SLOW DEATH, shortly after fighting just to get the love of your life back to you. But it's ok :) because Rocky (yes he gave them a silly name) is my best friend! Oh- Are you ok-

[macabro]

No, Rocky is first and foremost a Grace hater (affectionate)

[caffedorzo]

spin the wheel to be assigned a mysterious source of income - who will grant you 10k usd every month without fail!!

will you take the money?

yes

no

bald / nuance

Remaining time: 4 days 8 hours

[mwahahahahahahaa]

Genuinely it is so unfair that the Hadestown Proshot doesn't come out in the UK until October. I want to watch it damn it! I keep seeing people from the USA posting about it and ahhhh I want to watch it so much!!

Can't wait until I get to drag (they do actually want to go) my twin and my partner to see the proshoot!

.....WHICH IS NOT UNTIL OCTOBER.

[nedlittle]

people always talk about the doomed love timeloop when they talk about hadestown. look i love that shit as much as the next homosexual but can we please talk about the revolutionary politics. genuinely one of the best anticapitalist pieces of art of the 21st century. can we watch act 2 with our brains please

[chalroe]

From Lost In Translation by @quekerahkerah (which is so fun, go read it rn!!!)

[rohirric-hunter]

"We're gonna achieve immortality by turning ourselves into machines" buddy I want you to find yourself a 15 year old laptop and try to run a 10 year old piece of software on it please. Connect to the internet, if you can, and attempt to log into any of your online accounts

[techav]

Good luck cyborg buddy, I wish you the best.

Capacitor plague - Wikipedia

Failure of electronic components - Wikipedia

Also, previous tag:

fun fact this is a big issue that museums/archives/preservation professionals run into

This is something I bring up a lot. Digital preservation is not a thing to rely on. Anything digital is inherently ephemeral, fleeting.

All current and former digital storage will eventually fail. Paper tapes and punch cards cards wear and rot. Magnetic tape and disks grow mold and shed their magnetic coating. Hard drives seize and crash, their controllers fail. Optical media scratches, rots, or simply fades. Solid state media loses its charge over time. Cloud services shut down with no warning.

Long-term digital storage is a never-ending process of copying to new media.

And then there's the problem of format.

It took less than 30 years for digital works by Andy Worhol — one of the most popular artists of the 20th century — to be lost to obsolete technology.

Warhol works recovered from old Amiga disks

A dozen previously unknown works created by Andy Warhol have been recovered from 30-year-old Amiga disks.

We had the disks, we had the computers, we had modern emulators for the computers. But reading the images (PDF Archive) required very specific combinations of operating system and software versions, and in some cases required reverse-engineering image formats for which the correct combination of software could not be found.

This wasn't some obscure machine. Millions of Amiga computers were sold, and Amiga users are among the most dedicated to keeping the platform going long after its discontinuation.

And still the image format had to be reverse-engineered to recover Worhol's images.

How much of our culture from the past 30 years has been entirely digital?

To be fair, this isn't exactly a new problem, or even one unique to the digital era. But I do wonder what will remain for future generations looking back. How much of human history has been pieced together from shards of pottery and clay tablets? With our communications, our documents, our art all moving to digital media, what will be left of us to dig up? What will it tell of our story, of who we are, what we believed, what challenges we overcame?

[succubusboyfriend]

you have permission to pick that 2 year old "abandoned" project back up. it's not mad at you for setting it aside. and maybe time and distance have helped ease or erase the things that made you put it down in the first place.

[mwahahahahahahaa]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 10/? Fandom: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Josephine Montilyet/Original Character(s) Characters: Original Non-Binary Character, Original Characters, Female Trevelyan (Dragon Age), Leliana (Dragon Age), Josephine Montilyet, Varric Tethras, Cassandra Pentaghast, Solas (Dragon Age), Original Male Character, Original Female Character Additional Tags: Modern Character in Thedas, Nonbinary Character, Genderfluid Character, Thedas isn't transphobic, Anxiety, Depression, the relationship won't be for a while, Spoilers, Trespasser Spoilers, Inquisition spoilers, Canon-Typical Violence, first person POV, will not stay canon compliant but is for now, later on they will realise they can change some things..., Neurodiversity, neurodivergent character, no veilguard spoilers as I planned this before it came out, my laptop also does not run veilguard so i can't play it Series: Part 1 of What a deadly wish Summary:

Arden was meant to be going on a camping trip with their friends. They were NOT meant to be waking up in some sort of ruin, with a green globe and a pile of skulls next to them. With no phone signal, and no idea where they are, they try to get away from whatever creepy place they woke up in - only to run into people who are either very invested larpers, or people heading to a place Arden only knows of from a video game. And oh, there's magic. Fuck.

Chapter Summary:

The days blend into each other. It doesn't take long to get into the routine. There's a lot I need to learn to do my job as so-called Herald. The schedule changes a little from the first day, but mostly stays the same. Every morning I get woken early, usually before the sun has risen, by Leandra bringing in clothes and food.

Arden is getting used to the exhausting and punishing schedule they have to follow in order to learn how to be the Herald when news finally comes back from the Chantry. It's hard enough to be the Herald in Haven - now Arden will have to prepare for a trip to the Hinterlands.

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So it’s only been 6 days since I uploaded the last chapter! That’s a lot of progress from two years. 

I doubt anyone is still reading this but I will still be writing it! Hopefully I’ll manage to get Chapter Eleven done fairly soon too.  Hope you enjoy! Please let me know if you read it!