#Bryer’s

[cjoatprehn]

Okay so…this was a poem I made in Escapril 2024, for @adventurerswritingguild’s prompts for the prompts, “A Childhood Memory,” and “Portrait.”

I initially thought it was too personal to post a spoken poetry video for this or to even post outside of the discord. But then I thought about it again, and concluded that it is because it is so personal, that I have to post it. Not for anyone else, but for me.

I have also scheduled a spoken poetry video. I must state this now. In the thumbnail and video is my late great grandmother Sadie and baby me!

👵🏼 👶🏽

Important disclaimer.

⚠️ No one is to desecrate, violate, or go after anyone mentioned in this video. I don’t want anyone going to fight or try to scrap over this. I don’t want anyone harassing or threatening or anything of the sort towards any names that are dropped. That is a boundary in place.

⚠️ If you do so regardless, you aren’t doing it because of me or even in my name. You’re doing it because you wanted to; not me. You will be removed from my audience and blocked.

This will premiere on May 17, 2024 at 2:30PM.

Yall get my baby pic and a picture of my late great grandmother, Sadie Jones. She passed in her 90s in 2008. I will forever miss her. She was the only one who showed me love.

[thegroovyarchives]

1958 Duane Bryers Hilda Calendar Cover (via: Pinterest)

[atomic-chronoscaph]

September - art by Duane Bryers

[gameraboy2]

Hilda Weeding the Garden by Duane Bryers

[theamericanpin-up]

Duane Bryers - July/August 1979 Hilda Calendar Illustration - Brown & Bigelow Calendar Co. - American Pin-up Calendar Collection - Happy Monday!

[linguist-breakaribecca]

Autumnal Hilda!

[highlandkall]

someone said Naomi reminded them of a pinup girl from the 50s-60s named Hilda! I can definitely see what they mean ^^

[murderofsomeone]

this is how lifetime achievement award went I think

[dash-n-step]

FEMALE HROTHGAR

FEMALE HROTHGAR ARE REAL

edit:

HER NAME'S WUK LAMAT, HER VA'S SENA BRYER AND TRANS!

[this-is-where-i-hide-my-bullshit]

I've been trying to find good references for drawing/painting double chins and GOD BLESS DUANE BRYERS!!!!!

That man did God's work!!!

[torpedopickle]

A small PSA about Dawntrail

In the wake of all the harassment and blatant bigotry being hurled at Sena Bryer for her performance as Wuk Lamat in FFXIV Dawntrail, I really think it's time we have a conversation about knee-jerk reactions and how the inability to process them can very easily be a slippery slope to hate.

Like most people, I have sadly at a few points in my life heard a trans woman speak and then my brain takes a second to process it and then goes "That doesn't sound like a lady. That's not a lady"

These knee-jerk reactions aren't uncommon when for instance first meeting a character voiced by a trans VA in a video game. But what's important is that you stop and tell yourself;

"I just had a thought I did not like. Why is that?"

It's SO important that you interrogate yourself whenever you have thoughts like that. You need to dismantle those thoughts, pull them apart and refute them. Only then can you start to unlearn programmed prejudice.

Teach yourself that "they don't sound feminine/masculine" is an invalid train of thought. Ignore it and go on with your life until you stop having that thought. Then you've grown.

It's important that you DON'T indulge these trains of thoughts. Don't follow them, they don't go anywhere good. They go to a place that starts to make you irrarionally upset every time you hear trans people speak because you're not allowing your brain to ignore the disconnect it believes exists between voice and gender.

Thats how you end up with dozens of forum threads where gamers rant about how angry they get when a rather inoffensive character opens their mouth.

[atomic-chronoscaph]

July - art by Duane Bryers

[emoshep]

so this is terrible.

not liking Wuk Lamat is one thing, but going after Sena is not cool. it is, dare i say, way fucking uncool.

and let's be clear: we know this case is because of transphobia. people will make all sorts of excuses for this behavior, like "oh this always happens to VAs," which doesn't make it okay regardless, or "well the performance was terrible," which wouldn't make it okay regardless, or whatever else. (also what the fuck were you listening to?)

well, we're not idiots and it's not fucking rocket science. the hatred against Sena is rooted in transphobia. it is so glaringly obvious that only a genuine idiot would fail to realize it.

and all the while, her industry is doing nothing about it. because of course it isn't. fuckin hell.

i'll leave it here: wuk lamat is fucking awesome and i thank Sena for bringing the character to life the way she did. she doesn't deserve to be treated like this.

[weirdlookindog]

Duane Bryers - Hilda, 1973

[theamericanpin-up]

Duane Bryers - 1970s Hilda Calendar Illustration - Brown & Bigelow Calendar Co. - Original art sold by Heritage Art Gallery - Happy Monday

[dataentryspecialist]

Hear me out: Jim Kirk pinup art done on the style of Hilda by Duane Bryers