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[vainamoinen]

I support those who have done no wrong. Yes, even the people you hate with a passion. Those people too. I don't care about your sensibilities, only the rights of those forced under the feet of everyone else.

I am a safe place for EVERYONE. I do not judge, no matter what your attraction.

If you need a place to vent, or a friend, I am here, and my DMs are open.

Lord knows I have no room to judge.

Previously banished during The Great Purge, but I am back with a vengeance.

You are beautiful, inside and out. Do not let anti-xs tell you otherwise.

[whitepeopletwitter]

[whitepeopletwitter]

[legsdemandias]

Another hill for me to die on: it’s not YOUR trauma. People [likely] aren’t jacking off to YOUR specific trauma. Most people probably have no idea what YOUR trauma looks like. People are reading about A trauma. A type of trauma. Like car accidents, fires, earthquakes, war, etc. 

You don’t own abuse and you don’t own rape. It’s A trauma that looks different for lots of people and people like you make it hard for people like me to even talk about my sexual assault and my experience. If we can’t even write or read about it, what are we supposed to do? Sit in silence and suffer? You don’t get to control the way I decide to read and write about my experiences. Even if I’m doing it wrong. Shut up. I seriously don’t want people like you speaking for me. 

[anti-censorship-vi]

So I'm in a queer server that's got a lot of antis in it, apparently.

And proshipping conversations are on the trigger list to be spoilered(which is fine!! I don't want to trigger folks with exhausting conversations, so spoilering it is fine)

The owner of the server is effectively an anti-anti like me, so anytime I get myself involved in shipping discourse with some rando, they come in and side with me every single time xD

It's just kinda funny to me lol

[anotherhazbinhotelfan]

[hazbin-hotel-aesthetics-quotes]

Depicting all members of the LGBTQ + community with extremely high standards, sometimes impossible to achieve is just wrong and unfair for all those people who don't fit that kind of narrative.

LGBTQ+ people can have flaws, they can make mistakes, they can have trauma, they can be depressed, they can have mental health issues, they can suffer from addiction and abuse or be in a toxic relationship.

Also not all LGBTQ+ relationships are perfect and idyllic and to say the opposite is fucking dangerous for the victims of toxic or abusive relationship.

[demilypyro]

The discord is going wild with the concept of a demon girl streamer

[demilypyro]

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[demilypyro]

My lastpass search bar keeps autofilling to “clowncum.mortgage”

No idea why.

[vainamoinen]

Oh, I think we all know why.

[demilypyro]

Demily fights other demon girls for territory by grappling them with her horns

[vainamoinen]

EMILY CHEFRAM

[daddypooltm-archive]

[zebrabaker]

The katanas, and the symbol on his sword holder have masks

[whitepeopletwitter]

[demilypyro]

Wait, if demon Emily possessed someone, are they like... okay?

........ Dont worry about it.

[vainamoinen]

*intense borgar sounds in the distance*

[whitepeopletwitter]

[demilypyro]

What rarity do you usually get your burgers? Little pink? No pink? Lots of pink?

What? Rarity? Like.. loot drops? Is that a thing? Is there such a thing as a legendary burger? How do you know what rarity you have?

[whitepeopletwitter]

[whitepeopletwitter]

[24ozsteak]

thinking about that WoW epidemic

[24ozsteak]

[swampgallows]

i was telling my dad, ever the skeptic, about corrupted blood back in March at the start of lockdown, and how the cdc studied it. how it can be used as a model for what to do and how people might act in the event of an unpredicted pandemic, and how people were playing out the same behavior during covid.

he said “so they fixed it, right? how did they fix it in the game?” and i told him the truth: they didn’t. they couldn’t control it. they had to reset the servers and roll them back to the time before the ZG encounter.

a CNN article recently referenced another “viral” event in world of warcraft: leeroy jenkins facepulling as a metaphor for the expedited reopening of businesses. what it fails to mention however is how the video ends. everyone who charges in with leeroy dies. he wipes the raid.

it really feels like that meme where it’s like “wow, cool video game reference!” and the point soaring over their head says THE DAMAGE WAS IRREVERSIBLE. THE THREAT SPREAD TOO RAPIDLY AND EVERYONE DIED.

[wheel-skellington]

weird reframing of the corrupted blood incident to make it seem, for some reason, like it was all selfish actions that people said was unrealistic because real people would help others. in fact its literally the opposite, it was used as real world data specifically because of the player driven efforts to fix it

[the-jellyfish-galaxy]

The reason this plague in the game was a good model is because we had all walks of life type people reacting in different ways.

Those with healing magic would go into infected areas to see if they could save the infected or at least keep them alive through the disease. Those that couldn’t do that tried to warn players before they entered infected areas. NPC could be infected and have “no symptoms”; they could be asymptomatic carriers and pass it to nearby players.

The best part though was by the time Blizzard had finally come out and said “if you are infected, try to quarantine yourself so you don’t spread it!!” the player base was ALREADY DOING SO. The players had recognized the problem and worked together in myriad ways to fix it.

They also had negative reactions as well, another reason this was such a good example of a real outbreak. They had a couple people report healers or alchemists who were claiming to sell cures/treatments to the disease that ultimately would do nothing. They had a group of players that would hide in the mountains near cities and just pass the disease back and forth between themselves and then raid cities to infect them all over again. They had higher level players start rebelling on the servers. Saying it was an overreaction and if you get it you’ll just die and you can come back and be fine, etc. Since they could get the disease and survive, ie it didn’t do enough damage to them since they were higher level, they felt it unnecessary to care about whether they got it or not. They complained about not getting to play like normal just because this plague could kill lower level players.

ALL of these reactions, good and bad, were real enough to what we assumed a real life epidemic would play out that people started to use it as a model. And now look, we have proof that it was accurate.

However, what we needed to learn from it was primarily that it wasn’t reversible. The bad reactions and lack of care from the few players that weren’t cooperating made it impossible in the end to contain. The only reason it was fixed at all is the game had to reverse time, literally just delete their entire game log a few weeks and time travel weeks into the past to before the plague even began.

Think about that.

The reason no one believed it was a valid model is that it was a video game and thus the consequences weren’t permanent. “No one would act like that in real life.” But look at how we are handling this outbreak. Is it not eerily similar?

And we can’t time travel.