Twilanore

🌺 transfem 🌺 24 y/o 🌺 she/her 🌺

[storm-of-feathers]

yeah yeah rainbow capitalism is bad and whatever but like. when I was a child, being pro gay was not the popular or lucrative choice. I'm happy that times have changed.

[storm-of-feathers]

I miss rainbow capitalism. I do. I miss when it felt like public opinion was still pro gay. I understand it was always an empty gesture, but it mattered in a sense of knowing how socially acceptable being queer is. If that makes sense.

[beardedmrbean]

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[captain-price-returns]

[transmechanicus]

Revealing the ignorance of my youth here, but who is this and what is she known for?

[boybeetles]

Anita Sarkeesian, feminist who interpreted media under a feminist lens. She did a series about video games and she was the subject of targeted harassment. That was the start of gamergate

[flurrin]

Minor correction, the start of gamergate was based around a different reporter, Zoe Quinn, but they were both absolutely violently threatened over their involvement in video game criticism and development. A hate campaign was started by Quinn's ex-boyfriend when he wrote a post falsely accusing them of dating video game journalists in order to receive positive reviews on their own game, Depression Quest, which led other bad actors to accuse all women in the industry (Zoe identified as female at the time) of perceived sexual immorality. Anita Sarkeesian's brilliant Youtube series Tropes vs Women in Video Games (which everyone should watch, right now) sparked a particular nerve for criticizing popular games of killing and/or victimizing any important female character (there is a CHILLING bit that borders on ludicrous where she describes the plots of a seemingly endless parades of games as "In [title], [male player character's] wife dies, and you then have to rescue [his] daughter."). That series did actually make a huge change in the industry, especially when touted by progressive legacy developers like Tim Schafer (Monkey Island, Psychonauts), who went on to expand hiring in his company to front women and minority voices, but the shift didn't really show for a long time and echoes of the sexism that plagues the industry at its core are still rampant.

[crazy-pages]

In all seriousness, if you live in the US and you aren't familiar with the misogynistic harassment these people in the game industry faced during Gamergate, you need to watch this series right now.

This was the beggining of the current form of the US fascist movement and it underpins the entire thing about it to this day. If you live in the US and Gamergate isn't familiar to you, you're missing critical history to understanding US fascism. I'm not joking even a little bit here, you will understand modern United States fascism so much better if you are familiar with Gamergate.

[goth-queen]

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

I have no idea whether this is true, it seems way too stupid to be real and I have to assume it's made up, but I'm sharing because it has the vibe of something that would happen in a cartoon from the 90s that has characters burn a hole in a door by bouncing a laser pen beam between two mirrors

[twilanore]

hi! it’s real

here’s the 404media article and a BBC article about it

meta did have a failsafe to try to prevent this it seems, but said failsafe was just “does the current user’s location match the target user’s location” (which is insane to be the only thing preventing an exploit like this cause it’s super easy to spoof location)

[onegiantmeep]

hey man, chill

[sunwornink]

me born in 2002 watching this

[just-another-cat-blog]

pride month!!!

[lemonsharks]

Is that a miette?

[jeanjauthor]

Pride for you!  Pride for a thousand years!!

[lost-and-cursed]

you COME OUT to miette? you come out to her as queer? oh! oh! pride for mother! pride for mother for One Thousand Years!!!!

[makesomenoise]

🌈

[energyprison]

new enemy i came up with called the "false mimic" this is just some guy that hides in chests and bobs the lid up and down like a mimic breathing. he has 1 hp and if you smack the chest he starts begging for his life snot and tears running down his face

[bigscaryartist]

Cool expression i just learned

[wizard-loving-wizard]

Estelle really said "My next book is age gap yuri. And it's starring you." Legendary move, maam. Legendary lesbianism happening

[unseenbox]

At this current rate, Madelaine will have the entire sapphic population of Purpee in her polycule by May

[twilanore]

get Maya and Amelia in there STAT

[pixxeidust]

[ewoly5]

'that blows' and 'that sucks' are both negative, which means moving air in any sort of way is inherently bad

[islandoforder]

there’s something about the way that siobhan is essentially playing an entirely different game to literally the entire rest of the table like madelaine is just soooo optimised to being a cool hot sexy vampire

[from-and-for-nerds]

Agent Clark was a whimp, my girl Nancy Danderhoof would've caught on to the Hilda Hilda/Wanda Childa scheme in an afternoon but wouldn't have published it because fig would tell her so much dirt about everyone else