#wow this year was bad

[utilitycaster]

If I could indelibly brand just one actual play fandom thing into everyone's brain it would be this: you are without question permitted to dislike player and GM choices. You are not entitled to them making choices you prefer. That's it. It IS their game! You're allowed to say "I don't like their game". You're just deeply embarrassing if you gnash your teeth and rend your flesh and act like Matthew Mercer has reneged on a blood oath with you when this happens.

[dandelion-roots]

i wrote a little one shot about the gukgaks because i am sick about them

[ID: a digital drawing of sklonda and pok gukgak from d20 fantasy high. they're lying on their bed and their faces are close together. sklonda is looking down at pok, expression smug and soft, hands propping her up on either side of pok's head, and is blushing a little as she says, pushover. pok is looking up at her with an enamoured expression and blushing, one hand on her ribs, as he replies, yes, ma'am. End ID]

[that-sad-guy]

Don’t worry about it Sebastian Eustace! There’s plenty of prosecutors on the nepotism spectrum; just look at Franziska Von Karma!

[bylrndgm]

JULIE AND THE PHANTOMS (2020) // JULIE E OS FANTASMAS (2011) 1.01 - Wake Up // 1.01 - Enfrentando Fantasmas -> Julie meets the Band.

[lunarharp]

hehe. almost christmas!

[bread--quest]

i feel like one major flaw in the "if you can't name [x amount] of [something] then you [ARE BAD]" (to give an example: "if you can't name FIVE WOMEN you're a BAD FEMINIST") logic is that it is in my eyes a universally understood truth that people's brains do bizarre things when asked to name items of any category. one time i was trying to name as many european countries as possible and i, a geography and history nerd since the age of 3, forgot spain existed and kept trying to put in czechoslovakia

[al-luviec]

juvie buddies

[chappellrroan]

people who still hate Joe Alwyn need to get a life asap

[elviraaxen]

I'm probably not the first to admit this but goddamn was I a narcissistic prick when I wasn't on stimulants

[morphestic]

i love rare pairs

[butchdiaz]

was listening to mitski, thought of them & blacked out

[that-butch-archivist]

"For femmes in particular, feminism's failure was its pejorative understanding of femme as equivalent to patriarchally imposed femininity, rather than alternatively a positive understanding of femme as a critical approach to femininity. In its (mis)conception of femme, feminism denied femme its radical and critical nature. In doing so, feminism elided differences of class and race in relation to femininity, therefore not recognizing the range of femininities assumed for divergent purposes across different communities. While feminism's analysis of femininity as oppressive was useful for some women, certainly an understanding of the way that femme femininity is subversive and empowering seems crucial for many women. In reading femininity through femme, our project takes as its subject a femininity that is transgressive, disruptive, and chosen. For example, some women, who might otherwise reject dominant cultural standards of feminine beauty, graft a chosen and empowering femininity onto their bodies as femmes."

-- "An Introduction to Sustaining Femme Gender," written by Laura Harris & Liz Crocker. (Emphasis in bold mine.)

[dani-luminae]

"Disney's princess needs to have more diverse personalities!" Yes true, sure, but also

Disney's first three Princesses (Snow White, Cinderella, Aurora) are all graceful, sweet, like singing songs about dreams and wishes, and do not actively fight: "omg they're such anti-feminist caricatures!!!"

Disney's next princesses have more established emotions and personalities, alongside the establishment of the "I Want" song as applied to motives outside of love (exploration, adventure, making their family proud): "OMG Ariel traded her voice for a man, how stupid!" "Belle's so stuck-up!" "Jasmine's just a spoiled brat!"

Tiana's a dedicated hard worker, loves her family a lot, and wants her loved ones to be very happy even at her own expense and gets... totally ignored in this conversation, gee I wonder why

Rapunzel, Anna, and now Asha are a little bit awkward, silly, but exuberant and get written off as "stupid adorkable" despite the other tenets of their personalities setting them apart, like Rapunzel's creativity, Anna's dedication to her family, and how Asha strives to help those around her

Moana gets called a disobedient brat for seeing beyond her father's narrow-mindedness

Disney Princesses have many wonderfully different personalities. It's just that people are dedicated to misinterpreting them, and that's why I never take the "Disney Princesses need more diverse personalities!" comment at face value.

[kalashtars]

oh god they made chaos in hades ii so fucking hot oh my god oh my g

[cxndiedvi0lets]

"You can't help everyone,"

But, I have to try.

"Then, who helps you?"

[lunarharp]

pretty & cute witch men