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"backstage at a live event" is perhaps my favourite human collective emotion ive ever experienced. From running through the creepy empty school hallways before a theatre show, to the staff only breakroom at a convention or event where youre running a stall, to the bridal suite getting ready before your bestie walks down the isle.

Theres a little wall between the guys who are 'in on it' with you, whatever it is, and your audience or customers or guests or just all those people who are *not* in on it. Youve got a wallkie talkie, or a backstage pass, or an exhibitor badge, and youve never felt more alive

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my initial reaction to partial ceremorphosis was that it was ugly, and that was enough to put me off it for a whole playthrough, but now all I do when I play is stare at the veins on my character’s face. they look vastly different depending on the lighting (bright daylight seems most forgiving, actually, it washes them out). they’re raised in addition to being dark. they cover the entire body, not just the face.

and I respect the hell out of Minthara for having the face and body that she does and going nah, power is more important. feels so very Her. her having a conventionally attractive face was so far down the list of reasons I was attracted to her that it doesn’t matter at all. and my Tav loving someone with the same physical traits she’s so self-conscious about will help her accept them in herself and hfjlfkjhsdfgfh it’s just GOOD, and fun, and narratively tasty. more people should try it out, but so few do because they hate how it looks. and because no one in the party is on board with the change aside from Minthara (who most people don’t recruit).

I do wish people reacted to it more. I want to walk into a shop, have the ordinarily friendly shopkeeper scream the second they see my face, and have to roll to persuade them I’m not here to kill them. if you want me to confront what it means to be a monster against one’s will then make me confront it.

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stoned and autistic at a party trying to make conversation: I find the comparative lifespan of organisms so interesting. Spiders are comparatively long lived animals. Female black widows can live up to 3 years but their male counterparts rarely live four months. Some tarantulas live upwards of 20 years. The longest lived spider was around 43 years old when she was cruelly assassinated by a parasitic wasp. Domestic rats have a lifespan comparable to female black widows. To put things into perspective, there are spiders that remember a pre-pandemic world but it is likely every rat on earth was born post-COVID. There could be a spider out there born when Reagan was in office.

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the years have made me weird and strange to talk to. but still i must post

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(cw: sexual assault) the pedophile -as it is understood outside of academic circles- is a mythical creature. the idea that a complete stranger who kidnaps and sexually assaults kids is their biggest threat is absolutely insane; not one case of CSA (child sexual assault) in a hundred looks like that. CSA is committed almost uniformly by adults in a preestablished position of authority (such as family, family friends, clergy, or teachers) and in a way that a victim who doesn't know what sexual assault looks like will be left unsure what happened to them. without knowing concretely how sex and sexuality works, would you be able to tell the difference between molestation and the various other forms of unwanted physical touch and abuse kids are regularly subjected to? would it even seem that different? but parenthood and the submission of youth to adults as institutions are threatened by the reality of CSA. adults need to justify their ownership of children through an imagined outside threat constantly held at bay through their diligence. the truth - that putting yourself in such a position of authority over children directly enables abuse (including sexual abuse) - is thrown aside.

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A thing to remember about the American political candidates you see in the news is that they are, 90+% of the time, the ones who have corporate funding. On a national level, the exceptions are mostly those who were already famous and/or wealthy themselves.

As far as these people are concerned, their job is getting corporate sponsorships. What voters want is secondary at best: their policies are chosen for their sponsors. They're supposed to sell them to us when they can, and lie about them when they can't.

This was already the case to some extent before the 2010 Citizens United decision - but that decision formalized our current "corporations choose the candidates" model.

Candidates who want to do popular things like tax billionaires, cut military spending, increase funding for health care and schools, simply cannot get past corporate. They will not be on the news, and they will not be mentioned by corporate astroturf "political bloggers"/meme repost accounts.

You will not find out about worthwhile candidates/initiatives from a social media dashboard full of depressed people, contractors RPing as 20 gay anarchists for $200/month, and unintentional shills who have noticed that their streams get more donations when they talk about how voting is useless and you should buy a gun instead.

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daily affirmations:

i am kind

i am in control of my emotions

it does not bother me when someone is in the kitchen while i was planning to be in there alone

everyone in the house has the right to be in the kitchen

i am kind and in control of my emotions even when someone is in the kitchen while i was planning to be in there alone

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You know what I'm gonna COMPLAIN!

Vanilla sex isn't "wholesome sex"! Sex is not more pure just because it's done within the framework of a monogamous relationship and free from elements of kink!

"Person is so pure they probably don't even know what sex is." Purity isn't defined by the distance from sex! As if the more a person encounters sex in any context the less pure their soul becomes!

You🫵are not immune to propagating the beliefs and ideas of purity culture!

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Menzoberranzan #1 jokester, everyone.

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god Gale always happens if I’m playing a Tav remotely like myself because like

the gods are beyond question and Gale should do what Mystra wants him to, it would be wrong of Gale to ascend to godhood instead. and his actions wouldn’t be beyond question once he became one, because…he started off mortal. as many gods did. the gods that currently exist wield their power correctly, obviously, but Gale specifically shouldn’t have this power for Reasons. reasons like he’s too ambitious, so ambitious he’d become a god. even though all the previous gods who ascended to godhood, who definitely wield their power righteously now, were once so ambitious that they became gods.

it’s just circular “the status quo should remain because it’s the status quo” logic. fuck Mystra, fuck the gods, get my guy up there he deserves it

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may I come in, darling? prints | patreon

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I had no idea that if you told the Emperor you don’t care about his relationship with Belynne, he says “and yet you emulate it so well” hello?? she was always aggressively telling him she didn’t give a fuck what he was talking about? I am FASCINATED

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Minthara is strong, terrifyingly competent, understands the situation better than anyone as a former victim of the cult—so many reasons for her presence on the team to reassure everyone about their chances. and yet when I kiss her she says “you give me courage.” me! I mean, I’ll rip out Orin’s spine if she touches you. but you give me courage.

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United Healthcare getting sued by its investors, because it didn't warn them that the CEO getting murdered (by the tendrils of their unmitigated greed) was going to lead to them approving more claims (for covered services that they had no right to deny) is a cartoonish example of exactly why their CEO got murdered.

Their argument is essentially "You promised us a specific profit margin that is not possible to achieve under this increased public scrutiny of your unethical practices. We only agreed to invest because of those unethical practices. So we demand compensation because you didn't warn us that you'd be behaving more ethically"

And idk. Satire isn't just dead. We've pissed on its corpse and now it's dissolving in lye.

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— requested by manbunjon

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Yenna running up and asking for help is so fucking funny when you're a partial illithid.

"Um, excuse me, I can't find my mum." cut to

like, really, kid? this is the adult you decided looked most trustworthy?