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HEY ARTISTS!

Do you design a lot of characters living in not-modern eras and you’re tired of combing through google for the perfect outfit references? Well I got good news for you kiddo, this website has you covered! Originally @modmad made a post about it, but her link stopped working and I managed to fix it, so here’s a new post. Basically, this is a costume rental website for plays and stage shows and what not, they have outfits for several different decades from medieval to the 1980s. LOOK AT THIS SELECTION:

OPEN ANY CATEGORY AND OH LORDY–

There’s a lot of really specific stuff in here, I design a lot of 1930s characters for my ask blog and with more chapters on the way for the game it belongs to I’m gonna be designing more, and this website is going to be an invaluable reference. I hope this can be useful to my other fellow artists as well! :)

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Calendar!

I saw @hansaera mention that we didn’t have a Solas calendar for next year and since I have a ton of art of him and redbubble makes calendars I thought why not put some of them together and make one! It is not remotely as awesome as the one we all made last year but it is..better than none I guess haha 😅 you can get it at my >Redbubble here

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I just want you all to know T-Rex is the real hero of the Jurassic movies. Human’s killed: only one. Human’s saved: everyone’s asses, three times! So jot that down.

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Just like Slughorn, Albus Dumbledore collects people. Only, instead of focusing on those with influence, he looks to the outcasts.

The expelled half-giant. The young werewolf. The repentant Death Eater.

He protects them and gives them a second chance. All he asks in return is their loyalty.

And, if on occasion he requests that they undertake a certain task, invoking their debt of gratitude - well, that is no more than he is owed.

He once thought to add a certain disowned Black to his collection, but quickly realised his mistake.

Sirius is not an outcast, but a rebel. He knowingly chose his path, and chooses what price he is willing to pay for it. He refuses to be used.

So Albus Dumbledore abandons him.

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Today, this article went up on the mothership stating that actions have been taken against perpetrators in the harassment of Christine Sprankle. What actions have been taken? Judging from Jeremy Hambly’s twitter feed, he appears to have just received a lifetime ban along with the destruction of his MTGO account.

Justice begins here.

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Thoughts on the Ban...

For those that don’t follow the MTG side of things, this might not interest you as much: Long story short, some folks have been harassed, others have been banned because of it.

Now, I have been seeing the usual ‘they did nothing wrong’ posts here and on twitter. So I’m going to make things a touch more clear here:

Jeremy of MTGHeadquarters/unsleevedmedia/thequartering was hit with a perma-ban in all things Magic for harassment. This is very good news. For too long, his brand of garbage has been deeply rooted in just about every corner of really every fandom if we are honest. For Magic, this means LGS, Protour/grand prix, Twitch chats, Twitter, Amino, and here in our little corner of the net. He is one of many, but it’s a solid start. Wizards, as well as our community as a whole have put up with the garbage enough and it’s time for everyone to get with the program of ‘inclusivity’ or just get out. Getting a perma-ban is really the least that can happen to the sort of crass, garbage spewing, super negative, red-pill swallowing, alt-right/nazi sort that Jeremy is.

In short, good riddance.

As for Travis Woo. Even setting aside his ‘thought experiment’ about Hitler (please read as much sarcasm as you can into ‘thought experiment’), and even ignoring his racist slurs against Japanese people, and even accepting his word that he didn’t know what was going on in his little ‘Magic for Bad’ facebook group (which, seriously? You named it that, what did you freaking expect would happen?), there is an important fact that remains: He was creator and mod for that group, and as per his statements it was months ago the ‘First pick draft’ ladies thing happened. My dude? You are still responsible. You DO NOT turn of your alerts for a room you create/mod. That shows a lack of respect and an ignoring of responsibility. And on top of that, rather then deleting it, he just locked it.

Look, I get it in some cases, you are worried about these toxic people finding new homes… thing is, they will only learn (if ever) by being shunned for their actions. If every group does this, kicks out of or closes down ever room that these jerks are hanging out in, while informing them as to the why, even if they are thick, they are going to eventually start to think that maybe the problem is with them. Not all of them, mind, but more then you would expect would start to come around.

Some of these jerks are just brats that were never forced to grow up (ironic consider many of them think folks like us are the babies because we ‘can’t handle a few words’).

Leaving them to just fester without appropriate action can actually cause the issues to be come worse not better.

And the cherry on top was his active stating on twitter about ‘disavowing’ the actions of folks like Jeremy and his own facebook group. My dude, again: You DON’T GET THAT LUXURY. Your room, your responsibility. You accept responsibility, you accept the mistake you made, you make apologizes as appropriate, and you SHUT THE DANG THING DOWN. He did not do these things. Part of me feels like if it were just this one thing, that -maybe- a year ban is a bit much… But then you bring back in his history, and it almost doesn’t feel enough.

Be happy, Travis Woo, that you got just a year with option to appeal. Your history puts you into a precarious position

Four others tied to these issues were also banned for 4 months, but I have no further info on them, so not going to go on any longer on this part…

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Now, all this said: Things everyone should take from this:

1) “They are just words” is not a justification. “Just a joke” isn’t a defense. And “They did nothing wrong” is just a flat out lie. As far as Jeremy alone goes, even if you discount the tweets in the Professor’s video, there where long enough clips of Jeremy’s actual voice and statements that a clear case can be made. If you honestly still think he did nothing wrong, then there is literally no convincing you and no point in continuing any conversation.

2) Creating a place the like of “Magic for bad”, even as a joke, has large potential for harm. If it was meant to be satire, remember that satire is not an easy thing. Far too often, even well meaning satire can be used very easily for awful. A satire, poorly aimed/understood is no different from the real thing. A room like Magic for Bad should have either been sharply modded or never created in the first place.

What we need is more places of honesty and respect rather then more places of sarcasm and “satire”. Sarcasm and satire only work in small doses, and are even harder to create and spread on the net due mostly in part to who many social media platforms are text based. Sarcasm especially can get lost without the right tone behind it. A place of honesty and respect will build a stronger, healthier community then one based on jokes that are assumed everyone understood (and that is giving benefit of the doubt that said ‘jokes’ are not just being an asshole and using a BS defense)

3) Putting an emphasis here: We, as a community, on tumblr, twitter, at your lgs, on twitch, at protours and grand prix, need to respect and hold each other accountable. To raise the standard and to continue make the world around us that much more welcoming.

We are all human. We are all deserving of at least the most basic of respects. And Magic, as a game and a culture, is not the property of one aspect of this community, but for the whole.

IMPORTANT:

 If you feel the need to defend the named people above, or people like them; if you honestly think that the Prof’s vid didn’t have any evidence, if you think we are all ‘snowflakes’ or some garbage like that, and especially if you are some alt-right, red pill, nazi, unfollow me.

No, I’m not joking. I have zero time for you. This post is not a debate, it’s a statement of history and purpose going forward. We, as a community on tumblr and twitter, came together over the last week plus. Many of us declared a standard of respect and acceptance. We raised a banner around each other.

Tolerant of all but Intolerance.

A paradox, but one necessary for society to grow in a healthy, vibrant way. And Harassment is a form of intolerance. It’s someone saying ‘no, you don’t belong’. I’m sorry, no. People like Jeremy are like brats in a crib, crying that other kids are getting toys too. Stop being a brat. Share. Be welcoming or get out. That simple.

A cosplayer is doing something because of passion, because of love. A spike can even show compassion for a timmy/tammy White, Black, Yellow, Red, and any others, all are human And let love be love, let people be who they are, even if it doesn’t make sense to you.

It’s that simple, and it’s not hard.

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I want you to know that while I may not always prove worthy of your friendship… I will always value it.

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Modern air has historic low levels of oxygen. Listening to Republicans will get you killed.

Being the biggest imbecile is the goal in conservative politics.

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@markrosewater @wizardsmagic

So based on twitter, it seems like the community finally chased off CSprankle. What went wrong? This may be beyond fixing, but what can we do from here? How do we make this community better?

(For those unaware of the Twitter scene, popular Magic cosplayer Christine Sprankle is selling many of her MTG pieces and is stepping away from cosplaying at GPs due to a steady stream of harassment that exploded after a vile Magic youtuber set his sights on her)

There isn’t a quick fix, but we have to speak up when you see people being mistreated. The people responsible for this were able to repeat their behavior ad nauseum because there was never any meaningful consequences for their actions. 

Rape threats, threats of violence, gendered attacks.It is not enough to merely avoid these and similar actions. We have to actively fight against them when they occur from others.

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@markrosewater @wizardsmagic

I figured I'd ask privately to be safe, but can you possibly name which youtuber this is? I'd like to block them on all platforms if possible so I don't have to ever run into their vitriol. I'm just now getting back into mtg but Sprankle has always seemed like a really cool gal and her cosplays are excellent, and I'm super disappointed this is happening to her :c

No need to protect his identity. Sprankle herself has made clear who the worst offender is.

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Grumio is coming over to say hello!

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@wizardsmagic @markrosewater

Also frankly if @wizardsmagic doesn’t issue some kind of official statement regarding harassment after the highest profile cosplayer that they promoted got chased out of Magic by misogynists, I’m gonna be super mad.

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Also frankly if @wizardsmagic doesn’t issue some kind of official statement regarding harassment after the highest profile cosplayer that they promoted got chased out of Magic by misogynists, I’m gonna be super mad.

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My girl spoke nothing but fucking TRUTH. Now that’s this kind of Women we need our girls to look up too.

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You know I’m not always proud of what my libido wants but at least I’ve never wanted to fuck Pennywise.

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PEAS 🦆