A friend of mine keeps posting the most delicious-looking chicken gnocchi soup on bsky, so I had no choice but to make a mini version! I'm very proud because I made a lot of this myself, including handmaking the gnocchi and sundried tomatoes, dyeing the resin, and casting the bowl from a mold! The spinach, chicken shreds, and spoon are miniverse ingredients
No, Gatekeeping is good, it prevents subversive people from ruining an IP, as has been done now dozens of times, to many deeply beloved franchises.
Star Wars, LoTR, Halo, DnD, etc etc, the changing of an intellectual property into something it isn't destroys it.
Gatekeeping is especially important considering that the subversive elements push to other and demonize the original fans of an IP, because once they are past the gates, the colonizers can't let the original natives enjoy their fandom in peace, they force them through their subversion to conform or be exiled.
Were there really D & D fans clamoring for a cartoony cute portrayal of a beholder, like they were upset that it's scary? Or was that just a thing the company did to pander to an audience it imagined would want this.
Also I really don't care because I don't think you're supposed to take it seriously. It's a joke. Haha, the beholder is being cute and lovey dovey! Isn't that ridiculous? Like why else would it even be in this scene?
Many subversive fandom colonizers have made their own cutesy reimaginings of DnD, and that's fine, but they push their way into the inner workings of the very companies responsible for the IP, and push their view of how the fandom should be on others, mandating it.
This is from the official Instagram of Wizards of the Coast;
It's subversion, not a joke, the current management of Wizards is listening to the subversive colonizers, they're making the game what it was not, everything is gay, everything is safe, racism, slavery and everything else seems as "icky" in the setting is being erased, despite these elements making for good story telling.
Hell, Wizards, even though they claim the game is for everyone, explicitly stated that if you're a fan of the old DnD, or TsR, that's you're a racist, fascist bigot and unwelcome in Nu-DnD.
I’m a long time fan of Dungeons & Dragons, and have been playing since I was 12, they've destroyed the IP, there are no more objectively evil races, mixed racial heritage no longer exists in game, racial stats don't either.
Objectively evil races such as the Drow and Orcs are deemed problematic as the way they are depicted because it supposedly empowers essentialist notions of real-world human ethnicities.
The supervised pushed that the Drow and Orcs are hurtful as they have, up until now, acted as stand-ins for different non-European ethnicities, despite being based on European pagan cultures, and histories.
Now Orcs and Drow aren't evil, the Illithids who eat human brains, not evil, Beholders, not evil, etc etc, all because subversives cried racism.
You know what, this article does a better job than I am currently, at going over the subversion of DnD;
“These gentlemen think that when they have changed the names of things they have changed the things themselves.
I genuinely can’t tell: Is the capitalization some kind of code like those posts that tell you not to pirate media while directing you to piracy websites, or nah?
do you have an "about" page with relevant information about yourself (eg pronouns, a name you go by, etc)? only i like your blog but always feel strange about following blogs with no face so to speak
I’ve answered this before so we’re going to do this bullet points style
-If there are categories of people you don’t want to follow please assume I belong to all of them
-If you need my demographic info before you can decide if you agree with my opinion or not please disagree with my opinions
-Please assume I am up to no good - this is a good thing to assume with any blog on here - even blogs with faces may be no-faces in disguise
-All of the information you want has been posted here at one time or another if you want to know but I like having that threshold of difficulty in place - if you want to get your creep on I want you to have to work for it
-I am hoping the irony of your having sent this ask anonymously is not lost on you
And, for all bloggers everywhere, a quick reminder: you don’t owe anybody jack shit!
okay i know we normally do this with more pop-focused festivals but i wanna see how many metalheads are on this site: how many groups do you recognize?
It's a shame your a terf. You'd be so much cooler if you were a cute lil enby like me, you could be spending your time getting kisses and cuddles and headpats from other enbies, and resisting capitalism, and sacrificing to ancient gods, and covering your body in cool tattoos and piercings, and maybe getting top surgery or nullification, and never having what society considers a real job. Instead you're stuck living the miserable life of a conformist, becoming angry at those more free then you are.
“It’s a shame [you’re] a [woman]. You’d be so much [more palatable] if you were [to assume a performative, trend-driven identity] like me, you could be spending your time [seeking validation] from [others], and [prioritising superficial aesthetics over meaningful action], and maybe [undergoing unnecessary, invasive medical procedures to disassociate from the reality of being female], and never having [financial independence]. Instead you’re stuck living the miserable life of [an adult], becoming angry at those [who choose to live in fantasy].”
The amount of glossing over linguistics in Project Hail Mary does make me a little crazyyyyyy because even on Earth it takes months/years for people to build up fluency in another language. And even if we are just focusing on the translation dictionary, so just very simple word to word correspondences, it's still crazyyyyy that they are able to get 250+ words in a matter of days including abstract words. Especially since they have completely incompatible nonverbal body language! Auggggh
Anyways my headcanons I am Coping with:
Ryland is actually kind of a savant for language learning but he's an amnesiac so he doesn't know and even before that was genuinely "What, like it's hard?" about it. Like he secretly has an incredible ear for language, but he thinks humans evolved to learn language and everyone could do what he can if they tried but they just don't care. He can pick up the basics of languages and accents in a matter of days/weeks for fun, and was an absolute menace in grad school and during the "living on a big international scientific collaboration boat" phase of the project because absolutely no language was safe to gossip in, if you had tea he WOULD figure out what language you were kiki'ing in and start listening intently and teaching himself it from context clues and spring it on you when you least expected it
They are actually not that good at language learning and made a large number of incorrect assumptions at the start, and have learned a number of things completely wrong. BUT Rocky's memory means he remembers what all the wrong words are and he's like "Whatever, it's easier to use west for left then to correct the leaky alien" of whatever.
Building on previous idea, especially once Grace becomes confident in his ability to recognize Eridian words and is less reliant on his translation program- they are engaging in true freak2freak communication and are using extremely impressionistic vague meaningless language with each other but are such mathpilled science geeks that they can intuit what the other means because they are so good at engineering. Like they are sort of using each other as Ouija boards, they know what SHOULD come next as they're problem solving so they 'hear' the other say it regardless of what's actually being said
Like it makes a group of Eridian linguists absolutely apoplectic to listen to a recording of Grace and Rocky problem solving together and it's just them speaking in nonsense words and sentence fragments punctuated with math. Like 30 minutes of "And what if we...question?" "Oooh you could!" "And then-" "Exactlyyyyyy" "Amaze amaze" "Grace and Rocky save stars 🥰" "Yes yes yes 🥰" and the Eridian linguists are like HOW. Did you possibly save two worlds. While communicating like THAT. QUESTION!?
The running theory among Eridian linguists is that humans' ability to perceive electromagnetic radiation gives them mild psychic abilities and that's how Grace was able to intuit the meaning of multiple abstract words. He denies it but they absolutely don't believe him. His insistence that somethings just have 'a vibe' in particular seems suspiciously psychic to them.
they should invent a bus that never gets stuck in traffic because it's on its own path separated from the roads. and then chain multiple of them together and put it on rails. has anyone had this idea before.
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