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This is just my two cents on what is ultimately a very complicated issue, but I feel like too often we treat representation like it's a quality problem when it would be better approached as a quantity problem. For as many people want to see a serious grounded portrayal of their experiences, there are also those who just want to relax and have a good time. So for instance, if you're writing a trans woman for your story, instead of pouring all of your effort into research - trying to avoid every stereotype while simultaneously making her all things to all trans women - you could instead just add a second trans woman

mollyjames

This has the added advantage that you can make them kiss, but I digress

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okay transfeminist girls. bourgeois civilization is kind of like an egg, okay? it’s having a pretty bad life and it has to transition or it’s going to kill itself. the proletariat is like the repressed girl inside. until she realizes that she needs to come out, she identifies with the thing that she is trapped inside of. revolutionaries are basically trying to crack her egg, but there’s a lot of systemic pressure to keep her in the closet. it’s called liberalism. a lot of people see that pressure as natural, so they don’t even realize it’s there. some of them tell her that she could have reforms, which means a revolution is unnecessary—that she can just be a social democracy, which is like saying to a closeted tgirl that she is allowed to be a gender-nonconforming cis man. and when someone is against communist strategy they are basically doing discourse about how egg jokes are problematic

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communism for transfeminist bloggers lesson two: the dictatorship of the proletariat

some people want to go immediately from bourgeois civilization to a stateless, classless society. they’re all for communism in theory, but they don’t like "state socialism." they don’t like the dictatorship of the proletariat. these are like people who say that transitioning reinforces gender roles, and people should just abolish gender immediately instead. their phrase "state socialism" is like the rhetorical figure of the "binary trans woman." marxists are those who recognize that the dictatorship of the proletariat is the egg actually getting to be a girl, and that eggs getting to actually be girls is the concrete path to ultimately abolishing gender.

however, getting to actually be a girl is not the end of her troubles. she might be subjected to counter-revolutionary plots and even military attacks, which are like transmisogynistic smear campaigns and physical violence. their goal is to isolate her, force her back into the closet, or to kill her, and they will always play the victim if she defends herself. she will find that some of her old friends who liked when she was an effeminate boy fighting for higher wages, shorter hours, and public services don’t want to talk to her anymore now that she’s a woman expropriating the property of the bourgeoisie.

she also has to take on the tasks of running society, which is difficult because her only experience is the old way of doing things. there are lots of different ways to be a girl and she has to spend some time experimenting to find her new identity, and she might do things that are excessive in one way and then in another in the process. on top of this, she is still dysphoric and traumatized, and she might self-harm or lash out. the people who want to tear her down will obviously pounce on all of these opportunities.

this is why she has to learn to be self-reliant, and this is also why communists have to support her even though she has flaws. she can also learn from all the different girls that transitioned before her, even if they didn’t make it. she has to be a girl and she has to live

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okay transfeminist girls. bourgeois civilization is kind of like an egg, okay? it’s having a pretty bad life and it has to transition or it’s going to kill itself. the proletariat is like the repressed girl inside. until she realizes that she needs to come out, she identifies with the thing that she is trapped inside of. revolutionaries are basically trying to crack her egg, but there’s a lot of systemic pressure to keep her in the closet. it’s called liberalism. a lot of people see that pressure as natural, so they don’t even realize it’s there. some of them tell her that she could have reforms, which means a revolution is unnecessary—that she can just be a social democracy, which is like saying to a closeted tgirl that she is allowed to be a gender-nonconforming cis man. and when someone is against communist strategy they are basically doing discourse about how egg jokes are problematic

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communism for transfeminist bloggers lesson two: the dictatorship of the proletariat

some people want to go immediately from bourgeois civilization to a stateless, classless society. they’re all for communism in theory, but they don’t like "state socialism." they don’t like the dictatorship of the proletariat. these are like people who say that transitioning reinforces gender roles, and people should just abolish gender immediately instead. their phrase "state socialism" is like the rhetorical figure of the "binary trans woman." marxists are those who recognize that the dictatorship of the proletariat is the egg actually getting to be a girl, and that eggs getting to actually be girls is the concrete path to ultimately abolishing gender.

however, getting to actually be a girl is not the end of her troubles. she might be subjected to counter-revolutionary plots and even military attacks, which are like transmisogynistic smear campaigns and physical violence. their goal is to isolate her, force her back into the closet, or to kill her, and they will always play the victim if she defends herself. she will find that some of her old friends who liked when she was an effeminate boy fighting for higher wages, shorter hours, and public services don’t want to talk to her anymore now that she’s a woman expropriating the property of the bourgeoisie.

she also has to take on the tasks of running society, which is difficult because her only experience is the old way of doing things. there are lots of different ways to be a girl and she has to spend some time experimenting to find her new identity, and she might do things that are excessive in one way and then in another in the process. on top of this, she is still dysphoric and traumatized, and she might self-harm or lash out. the people who want to tear her down will obviously pounce on all of these opportunities.

this is why she has to learn to be self-reliant, and this is also why communists have to support her even though she has flaws. she can also learn from all the different girls that transitioned before her, even if they didn’t make it. she has to be a girl and she has to live

hxgrl

This is fucking awesome LMAOOOO

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theinstagrahame

This is peak game design

ofashandcog

Dont leave this in the tags, prev

Transgender Top Role Playing Game...

#i know some

bunnydracula

like how sad is it that so many artists are like Aw man too bad im really into this new thing that is a discrete commercial property that belongs to somebody else this is really eating up time that i could spend creating my own discrete commercial properties…. and by sad i mean totally infuriating that people think their inclinations towards derivative work is basically creative junk food (deliberately using a loaded term there) when what’s actually limiting their creativity is the market that systematically devalues certain kinds of transformative works at the behest of IP landlords and the fandom that thinks of themselves as temporarily embarrassed IP landlord billionaires

#political

shock

if fallout 76 really is a world where “every character is a real person” & there’s no NPCs im making it my civic duty to be like this lowly tavern barkeep and then once i’ve established enough of a rapport i’m going to nuke all of west virginia and it will be in character

b0gchamp-deactivated20230613

someone help where’s the screenshot of some post somewhere about the mmo player who barkept for a longass time then fucked absolutely everyone over

This one?

mood

Dude you have to listen to this DnD podcast the party has an edgy mean lesbian AND a melodramatic twink AND a muscle mommy AND a joke character. And get this: it's not good.

batmanisagatewaydrug

it's that time of year when countless people in countless schools and universities start thinking about running a d&d night, and I'm here to tell you: that's the devil talking. listen, I play a lot of games, D&D among them, and I run a LOT of events for college students. what you want is a game with dirt simple mechanics, character creation that can be completed in about a minute or less, and a contingency plan to split your attendees into groups if too many of them show up to reasonably play together. maybe something that doesn't even have dice idk. I'm not being a buzzkill I SWEAR I'm sincerely trying to save you from the horrors of a D&D night where 20 people show up and half of them have level 20 characters packing 16 magic items and a bad case of Main Character Syndrome and the other half are going to need to spend 45 minutes making their first character sheet ever. just play a different game man.

batmanisagatewaydrug

some games that my co-GM and I are planning to run this year:

Dread

Queer Coven

Fiasco

I'm Sorry Did You Say Street Magic

The Quiet Year

Raccoon Sky Pirates

Lasers and Feelings or one of its many hacks

Knave if the students are very good

conveniencestoreman

Goblin Quest!! the character creation is designed to be real quick and simple because your goblins are GOING to die. you design 5 at once. its also fantastic for one shots. its such a fun and neat gimmick and the character creation sheet looks like this:

you dont need any specialist knowledge and its pretty easy to run. its a neat little rpg and i think people should talk about it more!!

hrrkikshoard

Our God Is Dead is collaborative, quick, and fun, and doesn't require a GM. Play some devotees attempting to cover up their god's death right before an important holiday.

ostrichmonkey-games

The cool thing is that anyone can make a PbtA game.

The downside is, that this means there are PbtA games made by people with very little to no understanding of what makes PbtA games work.

And more often than not, those are the kinds of games that turn people off from PbtA games because they're not that good.

shneeb-hole

Prepared by these Amateurs

creepycrag

me: uh oh! if i fail to block any more of these spells, the evil wizard will take over my mind and make me suck him off!!! i need to be careful, i can feel it working already...

the evil wizard trying to blow my head off with lightning bolts: that's not what I'm trying to do

#wizards are constantly trying to do this

dungeonmastersdiary

alexaloraetheris

We used paper cutouts glued to toothpicks and stabbed into erasers, but I like this idea better.

inbabylontheywept

For a college game, I used an entire box of candy canes as a size colossal monstrous zombie grasshopper, and then when it died I ripped the box open and used the candy canes as size large monstrous parasitic horsehair worms erupting from its corpse. Nobody actually wanted to eat them after that so I took them home and ground them into a powder with a pestle, intending to add it to my hot cocoas. But I didn’t wash the pestle very well last time after using it to crush garlic and chilis, so I accidentally made chili-garlic-mint powder and then I tried serving that cocoa at a later D&D sesh, and we were all baffled at why it tasted so horrible until I was like oh my god it’s the ground up zombie ass worms. I contaminated them with garlic and chilis. And the group was like YOU GROUND UP THE ZOMBIE ASS WORMS AND FED THEM TO US which seemed like a lot of fuss over what would have otherwise been free and delicious cocoa. Then after that before taking any snacks they’d ask did you perchance put any zombie ass chili-garlic worm powder in this?, and then refuse to eat until I said None.

Which they thought was very funny, even if I was slightly less amused, but I bided my time until they got tired of the joke and stopped specifically asking. Then I poured all the remaining zombie ass chili-garlic worm powder into a bag of party mix. The first guy to take a bite spluttered, and I laughed, and everyone said WHAT DID BABS DO, and I said THE WOOOORMS… YOU FORGOT TO ASK… OHMYGOD… and then I laughed so hard I actually cried. Derailed the start time almost an hour.

Oh that was a wonderful day.

bonetrader

A good, a neutral, and an evil DM. In this order.

onlessdev

Anyone want to invite each other to Thirsty Sword Lesbians games in August?

I am available to run or play on the following dates/time:

August 18, 20, 21, 25, 27, or 28

at 4 PM Pacific / 7 PM Eastern / 11 PM GMT

I love high fantasy, intrigue and drama, swashbuckling hijinks, mythology, fairytales and folklore, and disaster queers. I have a few options already prepped and can share tons of free resources with you also!

If you invite me to a TSL game, you get a seat reserved at my August TSL game too! 💙