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[tom4jc]

Jeremiah 19:15 Result Of Stiff Necks

Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will bring on this city and on all her towns all the doom that I have pronounced against it, because they have stiffened their necks that they might not hear My words. Jeremiah 19:15 People can often be very stubborn and stuck in their ways, refusing to change or do anything differently. Those who are like this are called a stiff-necked…

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[malerek]

Under Radar YA #13

Under Radar YA #13 | So many cool sounding books that you're probably missing out on! ~~ @allthoseblogs @lovingblogs #bloggingbeesrt #Bloggerloveshare #bookblogger #book #booklover #bookworm #bibliophile #underradarya ~~

Under Radar YA is a weekly (normally Sunday) feature list of YA books turning one year this week.

How does this work?

📚 The YA books featured have less than 150 reviews on Goodreads and were published one year ago this week. 📚 There are no sequels featured, only standalones and first books in a series. 📚 The book list used for reference is YA Novels of 2018. 📚 I’m not personally recommending any…

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[hedgedinacs]

Hey so, we here at Hedged In have something important to say, and that there is some shit going on with White Wolf, and we don’t like it.

In December, 2017, Onyx Path Publishing publish a new book of White Wolf’s system, Werewolf: the Apocalypse. This book, Changing Ways, contains canonical worldbuilding information for their game that is deeply transphobic, homophobic, and sexist. What's more, we can’t dismiss these messages as incompetence and lack of a single queer person on staff: these messages were intentionally included.

For information about what exactly is going on, you can look under the cut. This is more about what we’re doing about it, but what’s going on is very important as well.

World of Darkness was originally about telling the stories of the downtrodden and the strange. The potential to tell a story of beauty and desperation, to tell a story about people who are in-between definitions (not human and not fey), but are different and lost in a turbulent world, this is what drew us to Changeling: the Lost. And it hurts that the creators are trying to push queer people out of it.

We have decided that we are not going to be pushed. We see what is happening, and we are going to tell the queerest fucking story that we can.

Of course, we were already doing that, but now it is important that we talk about it. We are aware that this podcast is basically free advertising for the system we’re playing in, so it is crucial that we are honest about what is in the rules, and what is going on behind the scenes.

We hope that constantly shouting that White Wolf’s politics are bad is enough. We have a responsibility to do what is right, but it is hard to know what precisely that is. If you have anything you’d like to say, we would love to hear from you. Our askbox is open, and you can also email us at [email protected]. Keep in mind that we record pretty far in advance and any changes we make will take a while to appear on the show.

Thank you so much for reading!

And now here’s the lowdown:

For those who aren’t familiar with the companies involved, here’s a bit of background. White Wolf Publishing created a number of ttrpg systems. Generally it is best known for Vampire: the Masquerade, but there have been many successful systems beyond that. It 2006 it merged with a video game company, a merger that did not in the end work out (source). In the meantime, many former writers of White Wolf created Onyx Path Publishing (source). While Onyx Path is now the publisher of all World of Darkness, Chronicles of Darkness, and Exalted books, the licenses to these games and their worlds are owned by a company called Paradox Interactive (often referred to as nuWW), who bought White Wolf in 2015 (source). Onyx Path writes and publishes these books, but they do so under supervision of Paradox/White Wolf (source).

This is pertinent because the way their publishing agreement works allows nuWW to demand any cut, inclusion, and edit that they want, and they can cut pay/funding if their demands are not followed (source). This is what happened with the bigoted inclusions in Changing Ways.

The specifics of what was included is that werewolves cannot have abortions, werewolf culture is very homophobic so that gay werewolves would not be accepted, and that trans werewolves would not be accepted because “gaia doesn’t make mistakes” (source, source). No matter what in-universe explanations are given for these decisions, no explanation would make them okay. A thing about fiction is that it is all made up. There is no real werewolf society that this is based off of. NuWW included these things because they don’t want stories about gay werewolves to be told, or at least not stories about gay werewolves that get to be happy. They think it’s logical that a culture would believe that transness goes against the will of nature. And why would they ever even mention abortion, unless they wanted to make some political statement about it?

Of course we can all hope that good Story Tellers will ignore these statements. It is after all, your game. However, bigots will find shelter in these rules. These rules can be used to push queer people out of the community, to pressure people playing female characters into uncomfortable situations, and to spread these ideals to others. None of these things are acceptable.

[haleyoats]

They call us problem child💣 we spend our lives on trial🔨we walk an endless mile🚶we stand and we won't fall🙅we're one and one for all👌 the writings on the wall📝 We Are The Youth Gone Wild😈

[manamojo]

Episode 15

VIDEO: Episode 15 is here! @B1ackSword & @_Tahlia_ head down to @MovieComicExpo!

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