#because again

[myreitha]

The Kid, patron saint of the exploited, abused, unheard, who's honored in a city in my D&D campaign. She acts for those buried in shallow graves, and those the monsters thought so unimportant that they didn't even bother.

The Kid straddles the line between reckoning and revenge, since that's as close as Bassuras' powerless ever get to justice.

For the concept and design, my GM was inspired by by Nalo Hopkinson's novel Midnight Robber and Diane Dillon's cover art for it!

Apparnetly this is a series now. See the Muckraker here

[voidmetal-alloy]

I was gonna wait until I worked out a cooler background for these but I’m impatient. Maybe the thirds will get a cooler presentation

[celestialswonders]

Wanna say something.

I hate Ahsoka’s outfit she wears in season one until the new one she gets in I think season three.

The thing that makes me hate it more, is how there are people trying to defend it. Like, oh, more clothing would restrict her movements, especially with her fighting style.

I haven’t watched all of the Clone Wars yet, so you can correct me if I’m wrong, but name me one male Jedi that has her fighting type that is wearing revealing clothing like hers.

Heck, Anakin uses it. Yet, he’s allowed to wear all of the robes he wants and no one bats an eye.

Jedi Master Adi Gallia also used Form V, and while she’s also a female character who, again, uses the same fighting technique, Form V, as Ahsoka, her outfit is no where near as revealing as Ahsoka, who was 14 in the first season.

Another argument is that she’s appealing to young girls. No one I knew at that age dressed like that, save for a few exceptions. It’s something I would maybe find an older teen wearing, not someone her age.

Also, and this irritates me so much you have no idea, she’s in an active war zone. What do you mean she’s wearing that in a war zone??

Both of her shoulder and the entirety of her arms are exposed, including some of her stomach. She has no coverage, and like no armor either unlike Anakin and Obi-Wan who wear some armor pieces. She has nothing to protect her if she gets shot, and sorry but that personally irks me considering she’s fighting in a war.

I hate it when any characters going into an active war zone are dressed like that. I don’t care if they’re male, female, or nonbinary. No one should be wearing something like that in a setting they’re in.

The fact that she’s not the only one either. Aayla Secura is another female Jedi who also seems to fall under this, but at least she gets a sleeve. But guess what? No armor. And while Aayla’s outfit also upsets me, she’s an adult.

Ahsoka is a minor.

And the thing is, I’m pretty sure this is all systemic sexism considering that the production team working on the show had a huge male to female ratio.

I like her later outfits, after her second one, way more. Actually gave her some armor. Just wished she could have worn that from the beginning since it’s way better than what she was wearing before.

If I got anything wrong, or anything I said came off wrong, please correct me.

And sorry for the rant. I needed to get it off my chest.

[arya-saphira]

So ive been thinking about Avids Vampires SMP backstory.

spoilers for avids backstory and episode under the cut

So, something Avid(creator) loves to do is have unreliable narrators. Avid has said on stream, that he killed his partner, and the first episode immediately happened after. This man stabbed someone he loved, and ran for it. According to the intro animatic, he also grabbed the bloody stake from their body as well. Now, I have a question to ask everyone. Avid's intro animatic makes it look like the vampire turning happened behind him, that she attacked him immediately. However, there are things that dont add up. First off, her hunting gear on the wall. If they had just been bit, wouldn't they be coming home from a hunt? Wouldn't the gear be on them? So how would she have hung up the gear AND gotten back out of the room with a bitemark without Avid noticing, or turning quickly? We've seen from the person who got turned ep 1(not saying any vampire names bc this isn't what this is about but you know who) that turning is instant when all the bloods been drained(what i'm assuming killing them is.) Not only that, but this bit from Avid's Video. He was talking to Shelby, about what she would do if her dad was a vampire. Shelby asked if her dad would eat her if that was true, and then Avid spoke and said: "I mean he would remember you probably so like, he would probably be like 'Hey, I'm sorry you had to see me this way' would probably be how it goes. And then y'know 'Do you want to join me as a vampire', which clearly then you would say..." "No, you'd say No." That doesn't sound like a complete hypothetical. That doesn't sound like a immediate attack to his turning. If his partner hadnt said those things, if it happened like in the intro, wouldnt avid have said something like "they wont remember. He'd be overcome by his hunger and attack anything that held blood." But he didnt say that. Now that, that sounds like his partner tried to offer to turn Avid to me. Now, back to the unreliable narrator bit. The intro animatic shows It was an accident, she ran into the stake as he lifted it instinctually. As it pierced her heart by her own forward movement. Now, thats a pretty story, a nice thing to think about. Because then Avid had to kill them to save himself. It was either her or him. He had to survive. She would have wanted him to live. Because... he killed his partner. Stabbed them through the heart. And the only way thats even remotely okay is if its in self defence. So it has to be self defence. He cant think any differently, or else he will break.

And him saying vampires are monsters, need to be eradicated? Well, that also has to be true, or else she could have stayed alive. But shes dead, and he had to kill her, so they have to all be monsters.

They have to be, or at least thats the story he's telling himself

[adeline-art90]

i know i said in (my now deleted) post that people have the right to criticize gameoverse's fanservice but there is a difference between actually critiquing the sexualization of female characters in media and how it can be tied with misogyny, and just being a puritan/anti. if the only reasons you have on why you dislike it is similar to purity culture such as "ewww so icky and gross" and it's "unnecessary" don't say anything. just keep that to yourself please.

[hellypoison]

I want to write some propaganda for Bloodypyre because there's another shipping bracket coming soon, with pairings for different Pyros characters.

But when I think about it, I realize there's no way for their polycule to happen in canon, Louis is, like... dead. Yeah, yeah, weak aura, strong aura don't need any canon interactions, they can ship characters from completely different universes, not just with those who are already dead. Whatever.

It just means I need to go purely from the vibes when writing for them. Like how Pyro would win Louis's heart by also being autistic, a loser, an outcast, a wet cat, helpless (when he becomes a vampire, Pyro is very vulnerable because he doesn't understand his new abilities and he needs someone to rely on, and Louis... I mean... I always thought he liked being the one who saves people). And Pyro has his weird charm, just like Owen.

So they could easily be Owen 2.0. Not in the sense that Louis isn't satisfied with just Owen, or that he'd want to replace him... Rather, the fact that Louis could find room in his heart for another wet, angsty rag of a man. With these vibes, their polycule could definitely work. But I need to think more... it's just sooo not enough

Hmmm

[theexhaustedqueer]

Built to lean over someone cockily against a wall with my arm resting over their head, cursed to be 5’2” and too short to do this to literally anyone.

[acurlyhobbit]

the thing is...

...it's not even like, a man thing, it's a people thing?

I'm seeing a lot of people not understand there are legions of grey when it comes to tactile communication, and claiming that we're misinterpreting it because buddie shippers are "young women" (which is a lovely, sexist generalization that erases anyone in this fandom who doesn't identify as a woman, which I'm sure is fucking many)

like plenty of people, I have friendships that are extremely tactile, and that touch ranges from soft and grazing to rough-housing that could maybe be interpreted into something else by an outside perspective, but it's never harmful

more importantly, however, is that these two characters we're discussing, touch, all the time, soft and heavy, but more than that constant constant constant

a hand on the shoulder, sudden or not, between these two people who implicitly trust their emotions and bodies with each other...

...well it's not this horrific abusive thing you are twisting it into, it just isn't, and it's demeaning as hell towards portrayals in media that are about abusive/toxic situations