#giantitp

[slurmcore]

Divorce Selfie!!

[rayjbraz]

Elan e Harley Starshine das tirinhas “The Order of the Stick” |  Commission by Carol Montenegro, Digital, 2017.

[greatwyrmgold]

I got another infraction at the Giant in the Playground forums, and I just have to rant about it for a little bit on a separate website.

The forum has a rule against discussing real-world religions. Which is tricky, because it's a discussion board for both D&D (a game which often takes blatant inspiration from various real-world religions and mythologies) and the Order of the Stick comic (which inherits much of that inspiration and also has gods named after gods in various real-world mythologies).

Yes, talking about gods from dead religions counts as talking about real-world religion. Even if it's in a discussion of those gods in the context of fantasy. Guess how I know. Guess how often I've been infracted for discussing real-world religion.

Today, I sent messages back to the moderator, complaining about the unclear moderation policy. The specific message I got dinged for was part of a discussion about the Seven Deadly Sins as inspiration for fantasy demons/devils. And I was the only one who got dinged.

I admit, I took a bit further than most of the other commenters when I named a real-world pope. But one of them was paraphrasing real-world theology in detail, and they didn't get punished either.

Anyways, that's not the important part. That's happened before. What I want to talk about is a couple lines from the response I got.

We typically do not elaborate further not because we choose not to, but because we can't. It's a constantly shifting target and what we say is not allowed one day may be another.

Oh, okay. The reason I can never get a sense of what's allowed and what isn't is that the moderation team is willfully inconsistent. And somehow, that's my fault.

Fuck this forum's rules.

[kryonic]

A shoutout to Red Fel of the giantitp forum for providing amazing guidance to Lawful Evil characters

Seriously, check this out if you never did, it's a lot of inspiration for writers, for TTRPG characters and a small insight into psychology

Just about here

[aerspyder]

No!

[lmcfly]

And after letting the thousands of "What is V's Gender" threads run unopposed for ages, the Giant in the Playground mods locked the one thread discussing the potential for trans characters existance in the comic.

Not because of the repeated bad faith comments and questions on behalf of transphobic users, mind you, but only once a trans commenter had the nerve to call out one such user.

I am not happy

[masonicon]

My opinions on TVtropes' spinoffs/mirrors

All the Tropes: allows people like me troping around when they're banned from TVtropes for their views

Project A.F.T.E.R.: biased toward fanworks no matter how good the fanwork in question are

Giantitp forums: there's someone defaming my works

Itjustbugsme Forums: the most current of TVtrope's spinoff I took residence on

[curlicuecal]

Wtf is that other person even talking about???? As a bi person, I define bisexual as having sexual attraction to ALL genders, but preferring one/two. For instance, I prefer girls. I define bisexuality as a bisexual, not some weird pan person.

Well, I mean, I guess hypothetically words require at least some level of group-sourcing or we end up in chaos, but, yes, I tend to agree that labels are going to be best defined by their group members and also that inclusivity and flexibility in these kind of spaces is to everybody’s benefit.