my toxic trait as a writer is that I’ll be like “I have free time. I am going to write right now” and then I. don’t
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my toxic trait as a writer is that I’ll be like “I have free time. I am going to write right now” and then I. don’t
"Reproductive coercion involves elements of ownership, control, and violence. This kind of abuse can take many forms, like poking holes in condoms, or pressuring a partner to become pregnant using threats of violence or other kinds of abuse. It can occur at any time in a relationship, and is sometimes classified as being “pre-intercourse,” “during intercourse” and “post-intercourse" depending on where in a sexual interaction it falls. Reproductive coercion includes:
Pressuring a partner to get pregnant and/or create a pregnancy.
Threatening or manipulating someone about contraception, like one partner telling another that they will leave them if they have to wear a condom, or if they use birth control.
Trying to exert control over birth control methods like hiding or throwing away a partner’s birth control pills, condoms or emergency contraception; forcibly removing a partner’s intrauterine device, or pulling off contraceptive patches.
Controlling -- like stealing -- a partner’s finances so they cannot pay for birth control methods or abortion.
Birth control sabotage – like poking holes in a condom, refusing to pull out when that’s what has been agreed upon, or ejaculating inside a partner without consent.
Coercion during intercourse can also involve removing condoms during intercourse without a partner’s consent, a behavior recently called “stealthing" by some of those who engage in this abuse in an attempt to normalize it, and make it seem like something that isn't abusive (it is). A new study argues that “stealthing” is an act of gender-based violence that should be punishable by law, as it puts the individual at a potential and unagreed upon risk for STIs and/or pregnancy. The same study found that "stealthing" is alarmingly common.
Pushing for unprotected intercourse (or intercourse, period) when the other person made clear before or during sexual activity that is not something they want to do.
Pregnancy pressure, or pregnancy coercion: Pregnancy outcome occurs after someone becomes pregnant, and their partner, usually through emotional manipulation and abuse, coerces them to remain pregnant or terminate a pregnancy, for example threatening to leave or hurt themselves, the partner or others if they choose abortion.
Raping a partner with the intent to impregnate them is also a documented form of pregnancy coercion.
Pregnancy outcome control involves someone coercing their partner to make a decision about an already existing pregnancy against their will."
From Reproductive Coercion: An intimate partner violence you might be overlooking by Caroline Reilly
So the banner ad didn’t scale down for the mobile browser and it took me multiple minutes to realize that this stock photo of people in business suits was not, in fact, an illustration of what oathbreaker paladins in service to an evil power are supposed to look like
An earnest question in regards to D&D not being queer (side note, I agree): short of having queer mascots/main characters or being called something outright queer with its title, what would an example of a queer TTRPG look like? Like, your characters being queer has a mechanical impact? The themes of the game being more in line with a queer experience? Something else I'm missing? All of that and more?
All of that and more. It's better I explain through examples:
Monsterhearts is an RPG written by trans woman with an explicitly queer perspective. The genre of Monsterhearts is urban fantasy, specifically young adult urban fantasy featuring teenage monsters in school settings. Its themes are growing up, adolescence, and queerness, and it uses monsters to explore this theme. It is thematically thus openly queer, but the queerness is also present in the mechanics, in both the Skins (the game's playable classes and archetypes) and in the core mechanics.
Dungeon Bitches (by site user @cavegirlpoems) is less coded and more explicit and it is explicitly a game inspired by D&D's genre of dungeon-crawling fantasy: it starts by accepting D&D's premise of dungeon crawling as an occupation in a medieval fantasy world and then asks who actually would end up doing that sort of thing. And the answer it comes up with is marginalized people, especially queer women, and Dungeon Bitches is about playing disaster lesbians in dungeons. The queerness is front and center and the game gives mechanical weight to the fact that the characters are outcast women living outside of polite society, and the mechanics support the bitches getting fucked up, falling in love, and other such cool dungeon activities.
Thirsty Sword Lesbians is probably the biggest name queer RPG on the market and I feel it deserves mention despite my own personal issues with it. It operates in the nebulous genre space of She-Ra and Revolutionary Girl Utena and is very much about lesbians crossing swords and flirting while doing swashbuckling adventures. It gives mechanical weight to flirting and romance as well as combat, and while I think it's quite simplistic in how it touches on queer themes, it is still engaging with queerness on some level.
And like, those three games bring the queerness to the table explicitly as part of the game text, the rules, and the buy-in. Unlike in D&D, where sometimes there's a gay elf, there really is no way to play any of the above games without a queer lens, because at that point you would be playing a fundamentally different game. In D&D the queer lens is optional and has to be brought by the players
I haven't done a queer reading of Night Witches, the ttrpg about playing as members of 588th Night Bomber regiment on the Eastern Front during World War 2, flying in outdated biplanes across open fields to bomb the German advance night after night, but I think it might also check a lot of boxes as far as textually queer ttrpgs go. Could be worth a read!
I actually have Night Witches but have not ever stopped to actually read it, but based on what little I do know of it I do think you're right!
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In light of the news that Hasbro is considering using multiple properties it owns for NFTs, including D&D, I would just like to remind everyone that PDFs of virtually all D&D source books are available online for free if you look and it's always moral to pirate from WotC
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"Deep waters" I don't really like this set but surprisingly it's one of the most requested one! weird... more on ig/fb@dicent
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I asked my best friend Avery, who has synesthesia (where you see color when you listen to music and voices), what color Joey Batey's voice was.
She told me his lower range was purple (cornflower) and red (sweetheart miniature roses) and his higher range was yellow (buttercup) and green (fern). She told me it was unusual for a voice to have more than two colors. All the flowers and plants are from my garden I picked and pressed between the pages of my many tomes.
I inked them in white first with a layer of antique bronze over it so that the bronze is "hidden" from the inside of the dice and doesn't overtake the brilliance of the flower colors.
The name comes from a lyric from The Horror and the Wild, a song by Joey's band The Amazing Devil. Do check them out!
new dice for my fightlock and theyre GORGEOUS!