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Horror short film/video game idea

Setting is a fake Zoom meeting. A bunch of participants are on webcam with their different studies and living rooms as background. There are cute interior design details and occasionally someone's kid, spouse, cat or dog can wander through. One person (or more) do(es)n't have webcam on.

Things start happening in the backgrounds of some participants. Starts subtly with people who aren't talking at the time. Gets more overt.

Characters start remarking on Things in the meeting chat.

As tension escalates, someone's power goes out and they leave the call abruptly.

Player participation (if game) can involve getting screenshots (using a button provided within the fake Zoom interface) of Things appearing on camera and/or warning people. But you also have to advance the meeting slideshow when prompted or you'll be kicked off the call and probably fired!

Use this idea if you like! You can credit "Suitov" for the concept if you use significant portions of the idea.

TERFs and REGs can't use this concept because if they do they'll get a really embarrassing illness.

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Writing ideas: Occupational surnames

(Like “Tanner” or “Wainwright”; family names that refer to an occupation.)

Wikipedia: English occupational surnames

Wikipedia: Occupational surnames

Ideas for use:

🔵 Your generic medieval village needs a bunch of generic NPCs and you’ve already used Thompson, Dickson and Harrison in so many campaigns your players have started riding into towns and asking for them by name. Thus: Jane Carter, Adam Cooper, Betty Smith... easy money, more time for thinking of ways to kill the party (idea: there is a local “Thompson”, but she’s a bugbear crime lord).

🔵 Similarly, you need a name for a shop or other business (Charbonnier and Daughters Smokehouse).

🔵 You want to hint at your main character’s family history through her name (to give her a strong connection to her home setting, or to introduce a sense of irony to play off, or to set up the family occupation as a plot point down the line).

Drawbacks:

This isn’t always the most creative way to go.

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Darrow, 1991

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And do you think you can cure it by hanging these two [murderers]? Do you think you can cure the hatreds and the maladjustments of the world by hanging them? You simply show your ignorance and your hate when you say it. You may here and there cure hatred with love and understanding, but you can only add fuel to the flames by hating in return.

Clarence Darrow, closing argument, Leopold & Loeb trial

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Speaking of D&D, NPCs and diversity, when I'm coming up with a rando NPC, I'll quite often roll dice for gender, race and species. (Race being ethnicity, species being orc, lizardfolk etc--so yes, you absolutely have both light- and dark-skinned orcs. Elf race is a thing unto itself because DG's elves are a little dryadic and can have skin from green to red to gold to brown.)

For major NPCs I generally already have a mental image in mind going in, and just manually make sure there's a range. Some species are gender-skewed, such as nymphs.

I don’t have hard-and-fast tables for my setting yet, not least because I haven't fixed on population numbers of the city's various species beyond "lizardfolk are most common, dwarves are rare, gnolls don't really do city living at all" and you’ll probably want percentages to make a d100 table, but here’s a simple skin example I just made and will probably use fairly much as-is (full size link):

(Image description: A table showing numbers you can roll on a d10 and what skin tones your result could represent, divided by character species, and listed in the form of possible adjectives the DM could use to describe the NPC’s appearance. Full transcription on request but it may be more fun to create your own.)

It’s your choice as a DM to describe everyone’s appearance or just make every NPC some indeterminate guy of no known features. Personally, I like describing. I find it opens up more possible types of interaction and just makes the setting more colourful and alive. It can also thwart the kind of “they used three adjectives for her! She must be the villain” metagaming some players might try.

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TERFs love aphobes. Aphobes copy TERFs. Here's proof.

Proof #1: Aphobes/acephobes are copying TERF rhetoric. (Biphobic rhetoric too.) Last post on this thread conclusively demonstrates beyond any doubt.

That's the main link in this post; it has many links to supporting evidence, more proof that aphobic rhetoric is copied from radfems, etc.

Proof #2, expanding on part of proof #1: Aphobic/acephobic ace discourse is being promoted by TERFs. This is no longer up for debate. TERFs admit it in their own words.

By promoting ace discourse you're helping TERFs and hurting trans women. (If you can't see how, the first link above explains.) That's aside from hurting aces and legit forcing them into hiding - ironic that TERFs have to disguise themselves on tumblr but so do some of their victims, huh? - because maybe you don't care about that because you think aces are evil and deserve it, but you're wrong.

Proof #3: Think you can spot TERF rhetoric? Here's evidence that many people can't, again in TERFs' own words, boasting about spreading their rhetoric by stealth and laughing at their mutuals for falling for it.

Side note: If you see 'lesbians' gleefully engaging in aphobic discourse, try to keep in mind that RADFEMS CALL THEMSELVES LESBIANS and MAYBE THERE IS A CONNECTION THERE.

Here's the bottom line.

If you claim to hate TERFs but you promote aphobic hate that recycles TERF arguments, YOU are a large part of the problem. YOU are normalising bigotry. YOU are helping their divide-and-conquer agenda. YOU are marching with the reactionary thugs shouting for purges. YOU are being a bad queer ally. YOU are singing from the TERF hymnsheet. And do you think they'll respect you for it? I call your attention again to link #3 above. You're unknowingly working for them and they're laughing at you.

If you look at all the evidence linked in this post and many similar ones, and you still hold to aphobic discourse, I will consider you their willing ally.

This is why learning all your social justice knowledge from Tumblr, instead of from people who've spent their entire adult lives protecting their queer community, is a terrible idea.

I'm so sick of this. I'm not up for debating this. I don't respect or acknowledge a 'debate' about whether I should have the right to exist and feel safe. I don't care if you consider me separate from the 'bad' aces because I'm also trans, intersex and queer. If you come for one of us, you come for all of us, and you have no right.

Edit: bonus link because Tumblr mobile is screwing up my formatting. Link #4: Further demolition of aphobic arguments with sources.

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Thread by @Iron_Spike: "Black Hair for Non-Black Artists: a Cheat Sheet Thread. Hi, folks! Just spur-of-the-moment decided to put together sofor folks who want to draw/model black characters in their work, but aren't confident they won't make simple, […]"

Brilliant tutorial for black characters' hair. Art refs and descriptions for writers.

Also goes into historical reasons for hair straightening, which I knew a little about, but didn't realise it was that long-standing.

Here's the original Twitter thread.

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nice feedback, for personal use

Completely gratuitous self-positivity post consisting of nice things people have said about IKCT.

This is for me when I need it, which may be often, because I’m depressed and rather weak. Kind words about things I spend this much effort on mean more to me than is possible to say. I like sort of clutching them all to my chest as though they are the filling for a stuffed lion.

(spoilers within, obviously)

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