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[stickandthorn]

Me doing my morning affirmations: There was no dancing. There was NO laughter. There. Was. No. Limbo. You were scared the entire time. The threats will haunt you to the end of your days.

[stickandthorn]

One of my biggest problems with the current pop culture “feminine rage” stuff (and trust me, I have a lot more problems than just this) is how so much of it refuses to actually engage with rape and sexual violence. Patriarchal and misogynistic harm does not begin and end at sexual violence, but it is one of the most damaging and taboo aspects, which feminine rage content gestures towards all the time. It gestures towards imagery of wounded prey animals and wolves and pretty bleeding women in fields (and let’s not ignore that it’s almost always pretty bleeding white women) and other iconography associated with sexual violence. It’s always a yelling woman, and one must presume that the yelling woman is angry about something. But the content always refuses to actually specify what, to delve into the trauma of the sexual violence they so often aesthetically reference.

Perhaps they think it’s disempowering to explicitly talk about women getting raped or assaulted, but by removing the specific cause of the “feminine rage,” they sanitize the conditions of violence that women live in. They turn “rage” into some spiritual woman power that they have been denied by men, cutting actual violent misogyny out of the picture. They constantly reference Salem witches being burned at the stake, but almost never talk about the plague of sexual violence and femicide that exists today, especially towards trans and POC women, who I likewise almost never see included in this content. It is a fake rage with no cause, no direction, it is whitewashed aesthetic “rebellion” that refuses to challenge any taboo or even fully face the oppression it’s supposedly fueled by.

[stickandthorn]

One of my favorite things that happens on dropout shows is when someone randomly summons Robert Reich, former Secretary of Labor, to do a bit for them.

[stickandthorn]

the posts I put thought into never go viral (well, tumblr viral). It’s only ever the posts I write in 30 seconds on the bus and forget about that get 20k+ notes.

[loveridden1999]

if i was a soccer player i'd simply kick that ball in the goal instead of wasting everyone's time

[summerscaries]

9 textposts bc the mighty nein animated has taken over every crease of my brain

[stickandthorn]

I was talking about the Mexico v England game with a friend I ran into at the convenience store last night, and as we were checking out the cashier went “are you talking about the game today?” and we said yes and he silently lifted up his work shirt to reveal a Mexico jersey underneath.

[revvethasmythh]

i know i have never shut about that meta that posited veth as Happily Married Straight and Neurotypical, but i think that's because it's kind of this horror story image of veth. like, imagine having all this internal struggle over your own happiness and desires and having grown up being horribly bullied for being different and when you look out at the world, thousands of people can only see Happily Married Straight Neurotypical Veth Brenatto. it's such a blatant act of willful blindness toward a character. it's propping up a puppet of the real woman and saying, no, this is what's real. can't you see she's so happy to be back with yeza? can't you see how happy she is with her normal life and how easily she fits into society? and now that i've fed you this false reality, let's talk about what's really important: how sad her normalness made my neurodivergent queer white male fave feel

[revvethasmythh]

imagine Real Veth coming face to face with the creepy unreal puppet Happily Married Straight Neurotypical Veth Brenatto. she’d be haunted by the fact that that’s what she thinks she should be, and also she’d have to kill that version of her with a knife

[fidelcostco]

can't believe the only options are 30 minutes early or 10 minutes late. if only there were some other way. but what can you do

[stickandthorn]

Had a day at work that included a pretty large amount of blood in a job that should include absolutely no blood, so no critical role for me tonight.

[stickandthorn]

I love the fairy tale vibe Brennan has put into Araman, in fact it might be one of my favorite ever uses of a “fairy tale vibe” (which is admittedly a very broad category). I think this is because a lot of fantasy that tries to use a fairy tale vibe doesn’t take fairy tales seriously in the first place. They feel fairy tales must be subverted or darkened or in some way changed to be used as inspiration. But Brennan clearly takes fairy tales seriously, he not only respects their tropes and forms, but respects their stance as a serious genre of story. Fairy tales served a serious social function, and Brennan includes their themes and tropes just as seriously as he includes the other themes and tropes, not devaluing them in the face of say, political intrigue. Obviously this is not a direct fairy tale adaptation, but he takes creatures and tropes and themes from fairy tales and uses them in a way that I think is far more true to fairy tales than most direct adaptations.

[stickandthorn]

Julien is such an excellent PC and Matt is such an excellent player, I think because after years being hard locked as a DM, he views his character as an element of the larger story more so than many other players do. Players don’t often want to make the “bad choice” because they care about their PC and care about the story turning out okay, and obviously Matt cares about those things too, but he consistently makes choices for Julien that add interest to the overarching narrative, and those are often “bad” choices. Those “bad” choices are often what a DM needs to make a really complex and compelling story, and Matt designed a character who is not only likely make those choices, but follows through and actually does make them, while also not making bad choices for the sake of making them.

[mushroom-cookie-bears-deactivat]

send me a character and i’ll list:

favorite thing about them

least favorite thing about them

favorite line

brOTP

OTP

nOTP

random headcanon

unpopular opinion

song i associate with them

favorite picture of them

[stickandthorn]

RIP Teor but I’m also sooooo excited to see what Travis will do with a mid campaign character. Because of the party’s size and the scope of the story, there are so many different niches for a new character to fit into, and I just know Travis is gonna do something fantastic with the opportunity.

[stickandthorn]

We’ve observed that every time a cast member has a baby, a character dies. Therefore I’d like to posit the theory that if a cast member dies, a PC will be brought back to life. I suggest we test this theory by letting Sam kill someone during an ad read.

[kerosene-in-a-blender]

Wicander, trying to let Petra and Ryah down easy: If I were not betrothed... Well, it has been lovely to meet you

Petra and Ryah: Strange thing betrothal... so many of our betrothed have died just say the word we'll kill yours and marry you ourselves, both of us

[stickandthorn]

Oftentimes twincest is an invention purely of the fandom, but right now the twincest is writing itself. I’m sure someone will be having fun on Ao3 tonight.