I'm the Reverend Doctor Wrath, and this is some sort of a blog! Some folks seem to think I'm pretty neat, and I'm the best in the world at keeping staff paper in a camera shot. Follow for whatever I feel like reblogging, a lot of stuff in the tags, and the occasional fun with the english language. She or They series pronouns, mid 30s, located in California somewhere. Unless the tags say otherwise, anything is rebloggable if you want. Header by Laurie Raye
First contact, or a miscommunication about which miniatures you were supposed to bring to tonight's game (John Karp, The Space Gamer 17, May-June 1978)
the improv impulse is so dangerous. one time a little kid asked me where the friend I was with went (she walked off to grab drinks for us) and, before I could think about why this was a bad idea, I pointed to the river and said "I drowned her" complete with a motion of pushing down someone's shoulders
Technophobes need to apologise for "just put it in plain English you stupid machine!" because, well for one the decline in accurate error messages in favour of simplicity has contributed to the rise of tech illiteracy, but also because now whenever an "app" has a net connection error it will pop up a box saying something like "oo ooopsie! Your super duper feed went poo poo. We'll try again soon!" which having said to me by a corporation is about 8 million times worse than having to hear the word "network".
the idea that restrooms, locker rooms, etc need to be single-sex spaces in order for women to be safe is patriarchy's way of signalling to men & boys that society doesn't expect them to behave themselves around women. it is directly antifeminist. it would be antifeminist even if trans people did not exist. a feminist society would demand that women should be safe in all spaces even when there are men there.
"Medieval Europe' and 'Indigenous Americans' are very similar in that whenever someone asks a question about either on r/askhistorians I want to pin them down and hold a sabre to their throat until they narrow it down to at least a specific region/culture and particular century.