#gods are problematic

[gojosdiscordkitten]

[eliotbaum]

Savior.

a scene from our last Curse of Strahd session featuring my cleric PC

[thee-radio-host-is-a-kookaburra]

transmasc: “I did something to avoid getting clocked or assaulted or killed.”

dumbasses on tumblr: “erm.. that’s actually rlly problematic :/ u know you’re literally a male oppressor right?”

[hg-aneh]

I think it was about time I introduced tumblr to my book Crowley... who eventually became a walking love letter to Latino culture lmao

(You can think of him as a Book Crowley who spent way too much time in south america)

Language wise, he's an amalgamation of all latin american spanish dialects (+pt-br) so,, have fun translating some of the things he's saying

[tuurverheydepoetryandprose]

I don’t know if it’s cultural/latent Christianity or just standard media illiteracy, but people need to seriously read up on the nature of mythology in ancient cultures. Like seriously.

So many people treat myths as factual accounts of events. I have never seen any literary scholar, anthropologist or historian make the claim that this was the way the ancients viewed their myths. It’s metaphor. It’s allegory. It’s symbolism. It’s a narrativised ritual. It’s artistic social, political, cultural commentary, instruction or expression. The claim that a myth should be interpreted literally is never made by serious researchers, because it

1) is inherently unprovable and unarguable, which renders it scientifically irrelevant.

2) it blocks off many more salient interpretations that can co-exist with other contradictory non-literal interpretations.

3) it does not seem consistent with the way myth was treated by storytellers and scholars of the time.

Myth is an inherently flexible medium. It’s beautiful and elegant in its manifold meanings. Stop trying to make it a literal account. It isn’t. Never has been. Do your research about the culture, the medium and the traditions you discuss, before making wild statements, before writing ahistorical retellings, or trying to cancel gods or the people who follow them, based on texts that were written (and before that orally handed down) thousands of years ago in a cultural tradition entirely different than ours.

STOP PROJECTING YOUR OWN LITERALISM AND REJECTION OF COMPLEXITY ON OTHER CULTURES.

It’s ignorant, it’s incurious, it’s incorrect and frankly disrespectful, racist and colonialist to insert your misunderstood notion of mythology in a culture that you have barely researched.

Some people need to be a bit less concerned with being seen as perfect paragons of moral righteousness, and a bit more with not spreading misinformation, cultural ignorance and media illiteracy.

[mmothmanners]

My BBEG Aeron (from my homebrew campaign) in his cute little lounge wear. Totally not trying to gaslight, girlboss, and manipulate a PC. He's just a normal guy reading a normal little book.

And definitely not a full lich with a skeletal face under that mirage and charming veneer.

[shvroyism]

People saying that Alicent started a war the began the fall of the Targaryen dynasty… like that’s a bad thing

[monsterritory]

No I’m not several months late to this. It’s always a good time for shipping 

Part 2

[sophsun1]

Charmed – 3.19: The Demon Who Came in from the Cold

[causalityparadoxes]

The One Who Waits: what if its Death?

Death is what waits for everyone. She's inescapable. She's inevitable. It makes sense the Toymaker, a creature of eternal play, would stay away from the embodiment of Ending.

Not to mention rtd is clearly still going with exploring the Doctor's past and Death is tied to at least one version of the Doctor's origin

Between the duo in Can You Hear Me, Time in Flux, and the Toymaker in The Giggle, the show has been inching back towards eternals and godlike creatures.

Wouldn't it be cool if Death was next?

[fabioquartararhoe]

it’s time to gatekeep sports from 13 years old girls who think their favorite team is a boyband

[schneiderenjoyer]

This part has provided and honestly confirmed an insight that's been implied occasionally, but never openly stated as much as this moment.

Arcanists are less durable.

It's mentioned a handful of times how it's important for combat between arcanists to be quick and efficient. While they can be physically strong even beyond human standards, their limits are far shorter in comparison. They're far more prone to taking physical and mental damage quicker with their quick healing/recovery to make up for it, but not change just how fragile they are.

This is very insightful too as to why arcanists would be more inclined to fight using arcanum instead of physically as much as possible. Their arcanum gives them an upper hand where their physical stamina is lacking.

[the-jam-to-the-unicorn]

And that's why she's a Queen

[bmndz]

i started rewatching house md today and there’s an ep where there’s a baby situation and cameron can’t really talk to it’s moms that it’s dying. During it wilson scolds her when she gives the moms false hopes. And then when it dies house says to him “make her say it” and then wilson goes with her and ends up telling the moms instead of her cause cameron freezes. AND THEN house goes and scolds wilson for saying it instead of her. like THATS SO PARENTING CODED OMG. I LOVE IT SO MUCH.

[riotcat103]

A lot of shit had happened in the BTD/TPOF fandom recently, got death threats too lmao, But I don't really care about those, I still am not aware of what happened ENTIRELY( tho I do know some stuff just not the full story) but I am aware Gato is problematic/ not a good person ,did I expected it? yeah I mean she's a creator of a horror pornographic game and she also draws a lot of seemingly fetish art, so it isn't that much of a surprise...for me atleast.

So..

ElectricPuke is gone , And Gatobob is nowhere to be seen, Darqx still standing strong lmao

[eroticcannibal]

The attempt to wholesale replace "homeless" with "unhoused" is bad actually

They have overlap but they are not the same thing. Homeless is not a bad word.