#aliceace14

[amarantheia]

Hello, I LOVE your art! If you're still taking requests, maybe our bi disaster Vax?

Thank you both, OF COURSE you can have a Vax, and I even randomly landed on a very Keyleth palette ?? That bird boy sure is entangled with Fate

[beetlemancy]

if your friends don't hype you up like you're an eldritch being then you need new friends

[jacobtheloofah]

Don't wanna cause issues, but referring to 'queer' as 'the q-slur' is terf rhetoric and is something that many people have been pushing back against hardcore, many many people have been asked to tag their own identity as a slur, when it has long since been reclaimed. Prob not everyone saying queer is a slur is a terf, but they are repeating it from terfs and at that point how do you tell. Obv feel free to do your own research, if you choose to post this I'll come in the replies with some posts.

I’ve definitely read a lot about that, and frankly I vibe with it, but I feel it’s important to explain my perspective: aside from me being gray-asexual, for all intents and purposes im a cisgender straight white man. I abhor terfs, I think they are insidious and bigoted and should be silenced at all costs. And I think the reclaiming of the term queer is a good thing for those who embrace it, its a good catch-all. But as a cisgender straight man, I don’t think it’s my place to say what someone should or shouldn’t feel comfortable using as a term for themsevles. I’m not gonna criticize a black person for using the n-word just because probably not all black people are okay with it being reclaimed and still feel the pain it causes, and so the same applies to me speaking to the LGBT community.

(side note: i’m a long time advocate for ace inclusion in the LGBT community, the only reason i’m separating myself into basically beign straight despite my identification as gray-ace is cuz this shit is a very recent discovery for me, i’m still figuring out how it plays a role in my life, and i’m seeing what i feel comfortable with in terms of what box i put myself in, if i choose to put myself in a box at all)

So outside of who i am, from a purely thought-driven perspective, yes I support the reclaiming of the term queer. But it is still used as a slur out in the world against LGBT people, and if someone sees me, a cisgender straight man, touting it around like “Woohoo it’s so much fun for you LGBT people to reclaim slurs! Everyone’s on the same page so say I, hooray!” It’s gonna come across wrong, it’s gonna come across as someone outside of the community getting involved in shit like that.

So yeah from my perspective I think it’s good to use that term and reclaim it, but I also don’t want to alienate anyone who is not there yet, or not there at all, they can’t separate the negative aspects of that term from it. From what I’ve seen online, different parts of the LGBT community are at different speeds when it comes to reclaiming slurs. I see people online even reclaiming the f-slur, which from my perspective is WAY ahead of the curve lol, but that’s their prerogative. And if you use the term queer, you’ve got my support. But i’m not here to be prescriptive, I’m not here to paint in broad strokes. If someone I know uses the term queer then I will use it with them, but if someone I know says “hey could you not use that term, I’m not comfortable with it,” then I will not. And of course if said person ends up being a terf then fuck them. I’m not here to cater to terfs, I’m here to cater to people still on their journey of self-identification and growing comfort with who they are in this big community.

And of course, to my many LGBT friends, to my friends or anyone who does use the term queer, please share your thoughts! My main goal is to spread the message of the LGBT community and not just preach what I think like an armchair philosopher. Tell me what you think about a cishet man promoting this kind of stuff when its in the midst of people not being comfortable with the term and then terf’s latching onto that to promote their own bullshit. Please let me know if i’m off base or whatever, so yeah ramble is now over thank u.

[straightcriticalrole]

Bryce is a man and like a stereotypical New York Cop for no reason, like just inexplicably straight out of Law and Order. Man Bryce is immediately sus of the M9 and is a lowkey antagonist who keeps popping up everywhere trying to arrest them. Also there's no trans/nb characters in straight CR obv, J'mon is also a man bc he's in charge so clearly he's a man, so is the leader of the Cobalt Soul. Apologies for your suffering lmao.

i wanted bryce back but at what cost,,,,,,

[xombigirl]

Honestly as we know Liam is very not handsome, however he was almost acceptable when he had a goatee for a while for The Phoenix Incident, which obv I did not watch bc why would I, it is clearly a garbage movie w no redeeming qualities.

It’s literally the worst movie ever! The acting is horrible but you’re right, Liam’s facial hair is the only redeeming quality in a shit sandwich. 

[spectra-bear]

Hey, I was wondering if you've read Snipers Solve 99% of All Problems by silentwalrus? It's a HP/FMA crossover that's crack treated seriously and the characterizations of the FMA gang are so incredibly delightful and the comedy is hilarious. It's mostly the FMA crew being incredibly Done with wizard bullshit.

Ive actually heard of it, but the problem is ive never read or watched much of HP, and i dont even remember the last time i saw one of the movies (which is probably several years ago) so like, idk maybe i could check it out, i just might be clueless on most of the stuff theyre gonna talk about thats related to HP

[silentwalrus1]

zethsaire replied to your post “Ed waxes his downstairs oh god did i forget body hair again”

It's ok, he really just does wax. Gets in the way otherwise

aliceace14 replied to your post “Ed waxes his downstairs oh god did i forget body hair again”

He alchemized his hair follicles away.

pooslie replied to your post “Ed waxes his downstairs oh god did i forget body hair again”

you did do leg hairs tho!

skellerbvvt replied to your post “Ed waxes his downstairs oh god did i forget body hair again”

God burned the hair off

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[salamoonder]

Ok but re: my son Vax. I love him so dearly and his ending was painful but to me it makes the whole campaign. That bittersweet ending was so much more powerful to me than a happily ever after, not in a 'only sad shit is deep' way, but the utter truth and inevitable Fate of it spoke to me in a real way that hurt so good. The real emotions behind it, everything Liam was going through, Sam trying so hard, was so much more impactful than if the dice had rolled differently. Be not afraid of the end.

oh geez ;_; i am Trying hhh but i am very painfully aware that every moment i have brings me closer to the end. i knew molly was going to die but i didn’t know how or when and 26 truly knocked me sideways. even knowing that there are a hundred and fifteen vax-filled episodes...i love him so much already tbh. in the back of my head, even now at the beginning, my brain keeps going “okay, you’re down to 100 more episodes with vax”.

i know, i Know the ending is going to be good, and i’ve watched the saddest counterspell so many times and even without all that context it hits me hard, but i do get a weird...like...i’ll be really caught up in early campaign antics and having a great time and it will suddenly hit me that vax is going to die. and then it hits me that that’s not just a fiction thing. that’s an everyone thing. every time i talk to someone that is one less day i will have with them, because either they will die or i will.

so i’m trying to be like molly--and just accept it--and realize that that makes it that much more beautiful, and honestly i’m...okay this is getting weirdly deep but it’s almost five in the morning and i haven’t slept so you can’t blame me, but i’m not afraid to die. not in a suicidal way but in a just...i’ve accepted that we’re all going to end kind of way. and in dealing with death in my real life i’ve felt pretty alright about accepting the passage of people and pets and knowing that any moment could be your last, and i think that to try and hold on to things is to make them meaningless--one of my favorite short stories, when first we were gods, is about immortals and has the line “we murdered love when we conquered death”, because, yknow. love is beautiful because it is for fleeting things with beginnings and ends...but...i don’t know, there is something about the human psyche running up hard against that Reality of ending, of death, that just sort of...fundamentally knocks you out of whack.