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Kiss thy knights

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MtFtF. i did it again

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would you still like me even if i experienced emotions

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Something really powerful I saw someone say in a discussion around harm, conflict, and justice was that it's not our job to recreate the criminal justice system specifically in determining what happened between people. If someone is accused of causing harm and agrees they caused harm and has taken steps to be a safer person, that's really all an org or community space can ask for if the people they are in direct conflict with are not present. I thought this was really powerful, specifically this idea of not determining what happened between people. It doesn't matter unless you're a person involved or a mediator in a process between them. The rest is just social ostracisation as punishment.

The reason that there's a famous "anti-cancel culture" pivot from people who get "cancelled" is that the social technology of ostracisation sucks complete shit. It's torture by everyone's definition, actually. It's a punishment everyone who ever receives it agrees should never be done to anyone, even their worst enemies. Nobody who talks about this is able to adequately explain to the people who think that they aren't the bad guy in anyone's story and have never done anything wrong, so people just roll their eyes and say "here's the why I left the left pivot again", but yknow, sie wissen dass nicht aber sie tun es

We are facing impossible odds and need more robust community organising, having seen it from both sides multiple times it is very obvious that the desire to push and push until someone who hurt you ceases to exist is deeply unhealthy as well as being bad for everyone's ability to organise. People waste time in orgs that could be spent helping people trying to figure out what to do with someone that someone else read a post about.

Imagine a left wing movement in which there is a clear path to people embracing change and moving forward and get involved in helping people. It would snowball, it would be unstoppable. If we have made utopian bubbles for ourselves and our friends to enjoy all having the same politics together and we refuse to let that bubble burst and shatter and recoalesce and shatter again we never change the world around us towards our politics. The way conflict is so frequently handled in queer and leftist spaces is just policing the borders of the bubble

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i'm really soft by the way

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does anyone want to play themes and motifs with me

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Lowkey we should create a giant manmade blood device to attract ticks away from humans and its a giant blood container that pumps like a heart and emits phermones that attract ticks and mosquitos and we should call it Mother

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it's simple really: october is for horror movies with highly stylized villains and iconic monsters because they make for good costumes. early november is for gothic horror because of the fog and decay etc. late november is for zombies (commentary on consumerist culture). december is for psychological horror and stuff where they're trapped in a room because that's when you have to go to holiday parties with your family.

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Your podcast? o_o

Okay so apparently I've never mentioned it on my blog (because I am terminally bad at self-promotion) but for about the past 9 months my friend and I have been recording a podcast about ttrpg design. The format is each episode we pick a different RPG subsystem and talk about that system's function in design and investigate the different ways existing games have implemented it.

It's called System Shop and you can listen on like spotify etc.

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I am very passionate about how Portal is a very feminist game. I see a lot of people say that Portal is progressive because it could’ve had a protagonist of interchangeable gender, and that Chell being a woman affects nothing. But it completely does! Chell being a woman is inherent to the plot and theming of the narrative! Portal is progressive because it depicts corporate exploitation of women and actively shows a woman perservering and overcoming that abuse!!!

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I went to your moms house and your mom was there

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contrary to what the woke left would have you believe. it is sometimes possible for me to be puppy stressed even when i do my puppy best.

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I'm inventing something called "Devereaux weekends" where you take a weekend trip to a town you've never been to, packing only clothes you own but have always been too self-conscious to wear, and putting on a fake identity the entire time, which you can guitlessly shed once you return home

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automated text reply that just says YOU ARE NOT THE ONLY PERSON I AM LETTING DOWN

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YOU are a neurotypical cisgender woman. going about with your latte and such

[obediently] I am a neurotypical cisgender woman. Going about with my latte and such