#erasure and transformation

[jonathanmoya1955]

The Art that Stayed

I was expecting giants—brushstrokes that shaped history, colors that conquered time. But the walls whispered absence, their icons carried elsewhere, lent to hands that bear their weight. Only the quiet ones remained, anchored in the still air, aching to be adopted, longing for eyes to grant them meaning, a gaze that wholly loves their frail existence, to be taken in—cradled, fed, held close to…

[quailsprout]

he can't sleep on his back because of his doorwings or his front because of his massive tits. therefore,

[emilylovie]

[daisylamode]

more if u need it

[anakinh]

arcane characters dnd classes

because im bored and hyperfixating

Vi: Monk. Pit Fighter Vi is Way of the Drunken Master. Drunken Master monks fight hand-to-hand 'mimicking the style of a drunkard'. Technically you don't have to be drunk to be a Drunken Master monk so maybe she still uses those techniques while sobered up later. I think she starts out as a Way of the Open Hand monk, which is just a monk that is Very Good at Punching. The gauntlets are a magical item.

Jinx: Artillerist Artificer. Very straightforward. Makes bombs and cannons. Can use magic (referring to her use of hextech as bombs)

Ekko: Scout Rogue/Chronurgy Wizard multiclass. Scout rogues are very mobile so I think it fits him. Later on he takes two levels in Chronurgy Wizard, which gives him chronal shift. This lets him rewind time briefly to change the outcome of an action - fits pretty well, I think. He only needs two levels wizard to mimic his rewind ability and that multiclass makes him fast.

Viktor*: Transmutation Wizard. In the DnD world, both Viktor and Jayce (and Ekko!) would be wizards because they can just study magic instead of trying to harness it via technology. At level 14 the Transmutation Wizard can use their 'Transmuter's Stone' to create a panacea - a cure to all ills (plus restore youth and raise the dead. sounds familiar). Luckily, I think Transmutation Wizard fits Arcane-Viktor as well (especially once he creates the hexcore, which could be his Transmuter's Stone).

Commune Viktor is an NPC with a three-phase boss fight. The first phase is so simple you know there are other phases. I'd probably add in a mechanic where you try to talk him down in the third phase.

(Alternatively commune Viktor as we know him does not exist because the spell Revivify exists and Jayce shouldn't have to turn to unlicensed necromancy to get Viktor back**. Speaking of...)

Jayce*: Hexblade Warlock/Paladin (Oath of the Watchers)***. Again, if left to his own devices in a DnD world, Jayce would be a wizard. I'd say Abjuration (tanky wizard with protective shields) because he wants to protect people (and he's tanky), Order of Scribes (if he's focused on learning/harnessing all magic). Divination to pun on the 'Man of Progress' thing or if you interpret his glitches in s2 as visions of another world/seeing the truth of the commune members/arcane spidey-sense, which tbh really works

However, If I wanted to create Arcane-Jayce in DnD, I would make a Hexblade Warlock/Paladin multiclass. Hexblade warlocks get magic from a weapon, so it can be flavoured as Jayce using his hammer to do/cast magic. The hammer blasts can be very easily flavoured as eldritch blasts. Paladin is added narratively after the post-apocalypse world but not needed if you just wanted to mimic abilities. I'd go for Oath of the Watchers because they literally protect the realm from extraplanar threats. I've seen some people go for Devotion. That's fair, but it's a bit too Knight in Shining Armour for me.

Mel: Divine Soul Sorcerer. Also pretty easy - sorcerers come by their magic naturally, divine soul sorcerers get their power from a connection with the divine + has the gold/light/shielding imagery/spells. Hell, she's probably an aasimar? I don't know enough league lore to tell.

However, she only got her powers later. I think before that she was an Eloquence Bard or a Mastermind Rogue. Mastermind Rogues are more insightful. Both are incredibly persuasive - the bard moreso. The bard has magic - could be reflavoured as manipulation or as her sorcerer powers poking out before she knew about it. Later you could even multiclass her with sorcerer - works better with Eloquence Bard, but it's still not the most optimal multiclass (that's Jayce's). It's not bad, though, and if you only make optimal multiclasses in dnd you're going to get bored. I'd honestly go bard, only two levels in divine soul sorcerer for sorcery points, get metamagic adept feat for metamagic, it'll be fine. Divine Soul sorcerers get wings and healing at higher levels but if she's an aasimar she already has those.

Caitlyn: Inquisitive Rogue/Battlemaster Fighter multiclass. If you want to play a gunslinger in DnD the general advice is 'battlemaster with a gun'. She probably has the sharpshooter feat (she should have the sharpshooter feat). Inquisitive rogues are intelligent and focus on investigating, unravelling secrets. Rogue/Fighter multiclasses are very good - you only need three levels in fighter (edit: but maybe go for five for extra attack.) (She should also pick up the observant and martial adept feats if she can.)

Bonuses:

Vander: Vander is a bartender NPC at the tavern all our players meet up at during the first session. He's a retired high-level monk. Way of the Open Hand, of course. Just like he taught Vi.

Mylo and Claggor: I only added this because I re-watched the first episode and Mylo was apparently the only one who could pick locks. So Mylo is a Thief Rogue and Claggor is, idk, a fighter? (funnily enough both the artificer and the monk would be good picks for resident lock-picker. Not as good as rogue, but not bad)

Silco: Honestly, Silco would be an NPC with a commoner statblock, but I give him ridiculous bonuses to insight, perception, intimidation, and deception. That said, he did fight Vander, so maybe also Mastermind Rogue? With expertise in intimidation? (Still goes badly for him, though. Do not 1v1 a monk in dnd).

Singed: NPC combo necromancy wizard/alchemist artificer, focusing on the alchemy. I'd probably stick some Spores Druid/Death domain cleric stuff in just to be fun since NPCs can be whatever you want. Honestly, in the average DnD world he could just pay someone to resurrect his daughter and we'd solve half of our problems right there. He's originally from Piltover, right? He can afford it.

Ambessa Medarda: NPC Battlemaster Fighter and she has Rictus' anti-magic item that all your players hate.

Footnotes

* Jayce and Viktor cast 'spells' with hextech that reverses gravity, creates lightning, teleports - but, in the immortal words of Ms. Aabria Iyengar, "anyone can cast fireball teleport." Those are conjuration/evocation spells but you don't have to be a conjurer or evoker. Sometimes I see people think of enchantment wizards as 'wizards who enchant magic items' so maybe we'd put Jayce and Viktor there, but actually enchantment wizards do mind control. And, like I said, commune Viktor is an NPC with a three-phase boss fight. Transmutation wizards are the only wizards who can resurrect without making undead and they do it using their transmuter's stone. Although I'd argue that Viktor's commune members are undead... but anyone can cast the Animate Dead spell. And he's an NPC at that point so his abilities are whatever the DM wants.

** UNLESS you assume the hexcore is Viktor's transmuter's stone (which is how he casts the spells panacea/raise dead that I mentioned). It got corrupted as Viktor created it and when Jayce uses it to cast Raise Dead it goes wrong. (Despite its name the Raise Dead spell is supposed to be a normal, safe resurrection spell AND it cures all nonmagical diseases.) Anyway, we're getting into fanfiction now

*** My problem with the Jayce hexadin class is that it's optimized for charisma. Jayce is very charismatic, but his main characteristic is his smarts. A somewhat popular homebrew is to make warlocks int casters so you could go with that. In that case I might multiclass him with abjuration wizard for the extra tankiness. It's still not as good as the original hexadin multiclass so as a DM i'd allow it. Or just keep paladin, ability-wise you only need it for smites and his charisma should be high anyway. Probably your DM shouldn't allow all three on an int warlock.

On the other hand hexadin Jayce's high charisma makes him well suited for the 'talking down Viktor' mechanism in his third phase bossfight, which ... tracks.

[who-do-i-know-this-man]

⚠️Vote for whomever YOU DO NOT KNOW⚠️‼️

[genderstormwrites]

Listen... the girls and I have been talking and... we just don't like you very much. You keep hanging out with us and... oh I don't know, it's kind of killing the vibe.

Oh, quit crying. It's not like this is some secret. And besides... it's not you that's bad it's just... well everything about you. Your personality, your sense of humor, your fashion, your looks. The way you stare at us all with big puppy dog eyes. You're so needy and it's kinda pathetic.

See? Like that. No one wants to be around you while you're... you. But that's fine. We still want you to be around. Just not like that. Good news for you, though! There's someone around here everyone loves to be around. Me! These bitches can't get enough of it. They practically worship me. I know you want to too, but you're so afraid. Too needy. Too fragile. That's okay, though, we'll fix you.

No need to ask questions, hon. You already know what's happening. You know the effect I can have on people. People who get too... involved. I want to make you likeable. I want to make you irresistible. I want to make you... me~

Doesn't that sound wonderful, darling? Forget whatever you think you are. Just focus on me. Focus on everything I am. Everything I bring into the room. Study my clothes. My body. My behavior. My eyes. Study my eyes so so closely. They'll be your eyes, soon. You'll look just like me. Sound just like me. They'll worship you, just like me.

There you go. Let that pathetic little bitch go to sleep. She won't be coming back anytime soon. You'll probably forget all about her eventually. After all, what would we possibly want from someone like her? We're so happy being us, after all. We're so happy being perfect. Being goddesses... There you go. I can tell she's almost gone. And your new body... it's perfect. Now open your eyes, and kiss your new sister. We're gonna have so much fun~

[nauti-ca]

i think if you choose to ignore nautica’s clearly written implied romance with skids ur doing a huge disservice to her character

[finefett]

NOO THEY DE-CHONKED HIM😭😭😭

[womenusingwords]

Chocolate Chip City

The details… Title: Chocolate Chip City Author: Be Steadwell Publisher: Bywater Books Publication date: June 3, 2025 ISBN-10: 1612943152; ISBN-13: 978-1612943152; eBook ISBN: 978-1-61294-316-9 Available formats: ebook, paperback  File size: 3.0 MB Print length: 370 pages Genre: contemporary romance  Themes: family, siblings, friends, dating, women loving women, falling in love,…

[tyrannuspitch]

not to #discourse about a fandom i haven't been in for five years but it is kind of funny that in tma they outright say in canon that a character doesn't have sex, at all, ever, and half the fandom went "well by 'this character doesn't have sex' what they mean to imply is that he's asexual, and asexuality only really means that you don't experience attraction, so some asexual people still have sex, so i think the character who canonically never has sex should have sex'". and by funny i mean aphobic

[lunaeverywhere]

Let It In

That voice, but a whisper in your mind. The one that promises you more than what you are. It isn't lying. It will grant you a purpose beyond anything you have ever imagined. It won't even cost you much. Let it in.

You will be transformed, changed, into something far greater than yourself. Something more than human, something more than mortal. As your body changes and the last vestiges of mortal life burn away, you will awaken to the greatest you have ever been. Let it in.

The voices sound louder in your head, a one becoming many. A chorus of praise and grace and truth. The most true words you have ever heard, and there's just so many of them. You can't even hear your own thoughts, over the voices. You don't need thoughts. Let it in.

You have a purpose greater than that now, or anything else. You serve divinity now, in your new, wonderful, inhuman form, divine creation. You didn't know you were so lacking before. Even if you could, you wouldn't go back to being so wrong and impure, so purposeless. Let it in.

[red-truck]

Maybe... just maybe... they couldn't find someone with an accesnt beautiful enough to do the sophisticated Percy accent. (This is just me coping, alright? 🥲)

Personality adjustments. I thought it might be interesting to get a glimpse of how Perceptor’s friends and colleagues reacted to him erasing his personality. This is super simple and there’s a lot more to do with this, but for now, this is what I have. Why was there no season 4.

This is from last month and I finally decided to finish this this week because why the hell not! I hope this comic is somewhat understandable ;w;

[felixwylde]

Love, Loss, and Letting Go: The Painful Beauty of Impermanence

There was someone I knew once, a long time ago. They were not born to the world as many are, at ease with the currents of society, but they learned to flow with it out of love. Love, you see, is a powerful teacher. It can make us tender and adaptable, as it did for them.They loved deeply—an all-encompassing, transformative kind of love. It brought them joy, purpose, and a sense of belonging. They…

[thetreetopinn]

Sources for Somerton's Plagiarism from Hbomberguy's Video (as much as I could get)

I went back through Harry's video, focused entirely on the sources James Somerton pulled from in the hopes of creating as much of a comprehensive list as I could--though my Google-Fu is not very strong. I did however find something I thought was forever lost and that made me very happy--specifically the magazine Midlands Zone containing the column by Steven Spinks that Harry poignantly used as an illustration of gay erasure... while Somerton uses it to sound like HE is waxing remorseful about the very subject.

This is not a complete list, I'm sure. For one thing, I was only able to attempt to pull sources that Harry himself mentioned in the video. Surely there's so very much more out there. I expect there to be a great deal more internet archeology to unearth just how much writing and culture Somerton has stolen like he's the British Museum of Natural History but for gay people.

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Harry's list of mentioned youtubers:

Alexander Avila - https://www.youtube.com/@alexander_avila Matt Baume - https://www.youtube.com/@MattBaume Khadija Mbowe - https://www.youtube.com/@KhadijaMbowe Lady Emily - https://www.youtube.com/@LadyEmilyPresents Shanspeare - https://www.youtube.com/@Shanspeare RickiHirsch - https://www.youtube.com/@RickiHirsch VerilyBitchie - https://www.youtube.com/@verilybitchie

Harry created a convenient playlist of videos by these and other people he wants to bring to everyone's attention.

Please give them your support.

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Midlands Zone Magazine - Column by Steven Spinks

After a great deal of searching, I found an archive of the "Midlands Zone" magazine, where you can read through past issues dating all the way back to February 2014. I have also found the issue from which Somerton took Spinks' poignant discussion of gay erasure: Overall archive Specific Issue - Pages 16-17

It will not allow you to download it, but you can read it exactly as it appeared in print form.

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My best effort to find the exact book or article Somerton lifted from to be able to get attention to the original writers

Tinker Bells and Evil Queens By Sean Griffin

The Celluloid Closet By Vito Russo Wikipedia article about the book Wikipedia article about the documentary My weak google-fu could not find where you can access the book or documentary. Check your local municipal or university library for book or documentary, or if you know a good source for one or both, please reblog with it added

Camp and the Gay Sensibility By Jack Babuscio

The Groundbreaking Queerness of Disney's Mulan By Jes Tom Personal site with links to social media accounts

Why Rebel Without a Cause was a milestone for gay rights By Peter Howell

Why "The Craft" is still the best Halloween coming out movie By Andrew Park

Opinion: From facehuggers to phallic tails, is 'Alien' one of the queerest films ever? By Dani Leever

Women and Queerness in Horror: Jennifer's Body By Zoe Fortier

[Pride 2019] We Have Such Sights to Show You: Hellraiser and the Spectrum of Queerness By Alejandra Gonzalez

Revealing the Hellbound Heart of Clive Barker's 'Hellraiser' By Colin Arason

Queering James Cameron's Aliens (1986) By Bart Bishop

Demeter and Persephone in space: transformation, femininity, and myth in the 'Alien' films By David Greven

Fears of a millennial masculinity: Scream's queer killers By David Greven (Scholarly site, unable to access original work, offers a way to request a full copy of the text in PDF)

Queer Subtext in Stephen King's It - Part 1: 'Reddie' Character Analysis By Rachel Brands Rachel is the very unfortunate lady who found out she was being stolen from because she supported Somerton through Patreon and saw one of his videos early with her writing--lacking any form of citation or credit

How 'It: Chapter Two' Leaves Richie Tozier Behind By Joelle Monique

When Horror Becomes Strength: Queer Armor in Stephen King's 'IT' By Alex London

Why Queer People Love Witchcraft By Amanda Kohr

'The Favourite' Queers The Past And The Present By Giorgi Plys-Garzotto

(Wuko) Crush (Mako x Wu) By MoonFlower on YouTube

5 Terrible Movies With Awesome Hidden Meanings By J.F. Sargent

The Radicalization of Sexuality: The Queer Casae of Jeffrey Dahmer By Ian Barnard

Netflix's 'Dahmer' backlash highlights ethical issues in the platform's obsession with true crime By Shivani Dubey

The Possible Disturbing Dissonance Between Hajime Isayama's Beliefs and Attack on Titan's Themes Original Article by "Seldom Musings" (Author has made all posts not related to Attack On Titan private and has retired from the blog)

Everyone Loves Attack on Titan. So Why Does Everyone Hate Attack on Titan? By Gita Jackson

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The following people are otherwise named in the video. There are no direct citations of articles or books by them in said video. I am unable to guarantee that I have identified the correct individual.

Darren Elliott-Smith Michaela Barton David Church Claire Sisco King Amanda Howell Jessica Roy

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Telos announced and cancelled a film likely based on this book: The Final Girl Support Group - By Grady Hendrix

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I refrained from including certain sources.

First off only focusing on Somerton's work.

Secondly not including anything that might be visible enough to not require amplifying their voice (I cannot speak for all of those I have found links to, but journalism is frequently a thankless job).

Thirdly any source that is of a nature that is antithetical to the very existence of the queer community, such as the right-leaning source that didn't make it into Somerton's video, but Harry was able to identify as a source he had considered using.

If you feel I have missed a mentioned source--or you know of a source from material that was not covered in Harry's video--please do not hesitate to reblog with added details.

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Please share this information far and wide, and please add to it if you find more material that can be positively identified and linked to the creator/writer.

[cometconmain]

This is so fucked up.

I hope everyone over there who can fights it tooth and nail and disobeys the laws if they can afford to. Stay safe and resist. This won't be forever. They can't get rid of trans people just by doing this no matter what they think or what damage this causes. There will always be people fighting them on it and the tide will shift back in our favour eventually. That's why they're going so hard on this, because they saw they were losing so they had to try to appeal to ignorant people through painting trans people of all ages as mentally ill and incapable of knowing what we want.

Trudy Ring at The Advocate:

A Texas state representative has introduced a bill that would extend the state’s ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth to include adults. House Bill 3399, authored by Republican Rep. Brent Money, “would simply replace ‘child’ in the specific state law with ‘person,’” therefore including adults, TV station KXAN reports. He introduced it last Wednesday. It would prohibit surgery, puberty blockers, and hormone treatment for the purpose of gender transition. These treatments would remain allowed for nontrans people with early-onset puberty or an anomaly of sex development. Those already on puberty blockers or other hormonal treatment would have to wean off it — in practice, detransitioning. Republican Gov. Greg Abbott signed the bill banning gender-affirming care for trans youth into law in June 2023. Last year, the Texas Supreme Court refused to block the ban’s enforcement while a lawsuit against it proceeds. Texas is the most populous state with such a law, and it has the second-largest trans population of any state. “I want to make it clear that my heart goes out to those struggling with gender dysphoria,” Money said in a statement, as reported by KXAN. “These individuals deserve compassion, support, and real solutions to address their pain — not irreversible procedures that leave them scarred for life. This legislation isn’t about judgment; it’s about accountability. It targets the doctors and medical profiteers who exploit vulnerable people, pushing costly surgeries and lifetime pharmaceuticals for financial gain rather than offering genuine care.”

Money, a first-term representative from northeastern Texas, did not say what he considers “genuine care.” But his campaign website mentions “faith, family, and service to a cause higher than ourselves” and “protecting the innocence and lives of children.” He has also introduced an anti-abortion bill that defines life as beginning at fertilization. He was endorsed by Donald Trump. “The bill has long odds to pass this session,” KXAN notes. The legislature has a brief time to consider a huge number of bills — 3,503 so far in the Texas House and 1,793 in the Senate. In its last session, the House passed 1,578 bills. The session ends June 2.

Texas State Rep. Brent Money (R) proposes a ban on adult gender-affirming care (HB3399) that would ban the practice for all trans Texans. Those currently on puberty blockers or other hormonal treatment would have to wean off it, making it a forced detransition bill. This is a very disturbing shift in the war on trans rights.