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Happy Pride to all who identify primarily outside of both manhood and womanhood and to our active allies exclusively. Everyone else go fuck yourselves, ESPECIALLY if you're a nonbinary man and/or woman who talks about gender issues like only men and women exist and thinks being nonbinary absolves them about that.

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See the thing is that I do really like fantasy and as a result I am so very aware that fantasy as a genre has been white dudes' playground for a very long time. And as a result even entries that I find incredibly engaging in other ways tend to fall desperately flat in terms of racial diversity, and so I am usually happy to snap up whatever I can get.

But.. it is also quite noticeable, these days, when there are no black people present. I have been (slowly) working my way back through Children of Morta which I very much have been enjoying. And, there sure are people of color in the various NPCs that need rescuing. But the family in itself? Is entirely white.

Now I can forgive it a little when it comes to being a family thing if only because as a mixed race individual I am so very much aware that people will not think about the possibility of a mixed race family unless they are forced to or unless they themselves are mixed race. So the mom, dad, and three children plus the grandma and uncle? Yeah sure fine whatever.

But then we're joined by the uncle's estranged son who is a hulking giant. And then we're joined by a "tribal woman" shortly after. And, you know, I understand hesitating to have either of those be people of color due to then falling into some pretty fraught stereotypes... but then my next thought is that you could have avoided fraught stereotypes being your only POC depictions by simply having the family... be people of color.

This is furthered by the devs stating that the Bergsons have a "non-specific ethnicity". That is all well and good. But why does opting out of stating ethnicity always look so... pale? If you mixed every single person in every single country in the entire world all together, the majority of what you would find are various shades of brown, not white. It is really very few countries that your average person is so specifically a peachy color, and those countries have very specific ethnicities as the dominant group.

This is especially true when other characters are not pale skinned- but they are (largely voiceless, as the unseen Narrator voices all of their lines) NPCs that exist only to either sell you things, be saved from oncoming doom and destruction in the form of various brutal monsters, or enemies in their own way especially in the incredibly sandy and Agrabah-ish levels which is its own problem.

Which means there was an active choice to make the playable good guys only family characters white, when the rest of the world is so varied in color, and when there are enemies who are decidedly less so. And saying that they have "no specific ethnicity" does not fly when ethnicity is clearly depicted elsewhere within the story.

I have to be clear that I do really like this game, and that it is a visually stunning masterpiece with a wonderful story, and I'm enjoying the journey.

But it is something that I notice whenever it comes up, game after game after game. At some point, it gets exhausting. This family could be black, and there would genuinely be no difference in any of these characters. So why make the choice for their non-specific ethnicity to still be a white one? Why continue to make white the default?

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“This headmate is oceangender”?

creator's note ; so sorry this took so long but here you go! Hope you like it! /gen

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psychotic system host is listening to "the soul eclectic" on loop and feeling your soul expand beyond the limits of your body and your brain shake and looking down at the rest of the human race and your own body and your partner who is on a walk with you and not recognizing them as people but instead as ants and it starts to rain and you Know you caused it and then you tune back in on the rest of your system and they're all yelling at you to stop and that they're scared you're going to try to get rid of them by force and you maybe start to cry a bit bc you didn't mean to upset anyone

<-w->

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theres such an expectation of the host as a "real" and "normal" one and i think its because or related to the general idea of DID, plurality, and neurodivergency in general as like, a curable infection. like, the flu, you know? i think a lot of people really think therapy is supposed to give you medicine that makes you Normal™ and thats why people complain when it takes too long or whatever.. anyway i think its related because, people see alters as just, symptoms of the curable infection they think plurality is, and think the host is "the one whos ACTUALLY real/the body/person i know" instead of seeing plurality as the way we are.

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Musicative culture is the system is collectively songum, attragenic heavy, hyperrose and autorose so we keep introjecting songs and discographies we find attractive.

And then the musicatives find ourselves and each other hot even when I'm conventionally kind of meh looking. Face? Eh. Me? Hell yea.

Yet I love my boyfriend as a person, not a discography 🤔 But I love me as a discogrative.

If this doesn't make sense I'm blaming the weed 🌿

-- Haze (hy/it/dream+)

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LOL we have one too and yeah lmao

benrey hlvrai fictive. i dont need to say more i think thats enough

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Happy Pride to all who identify primarily outside of both manhood and womanhood and to our active allies exclusively. Everyone else go fuck yourselves, ESPECIALLY if you're a nonbinary man and/or woman who talks about gender issues like only men and women exist and thinks being nonbinary absolves them about that.

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smut that is NOT tasteful. smut that IS like other smut. smut that does NOT exist to be an exploration of character. smut that IS designed to titillate. for that matter let's start calling it "pornography." I am tired of half-hearted defences of some types of pornographic writing in only some contexts. pornography is not inherently morally suspect because of its sexual nature.

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Normalizing loving plurality. Not even your own.

Normalize treating new potential headmates in other systems like a default positive until otherwise. Normalize hearing "I think there's a new guy in here" and saying "Wow! Do you wanna talk to them?" instead of "Oh, no :(" And, of course, normalize treating new headmates who front out of nowhere with no idea where they are with kindness, patience, and understanding. Normalize being a rock they can stand on while they get their footing.

Normalize being frustrated you can't physically hold all your friends in a separate system the way you might hold a non-plural friend group. Normalize adoring your friend's headmates. Normalize being happy for them when they talk about their plurality.

Normalize loving plurality.

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I love being a selfish selfshipper

I love reinterpreting/reimagining characters so selfshipping with them feels easier

I love being very serious about selfshipping

I love also treating selfshipping as a fun hobby I do

I love minding my business so I don’t get in the way of anyone else

I love doing whatever the fuck I want

I love existing loudly as a selfshipper!!

Yipppeeee :33

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jon being silly-goofy for so much of season 5 ("methinks the spider doth protest too much," playing I spy, etc) but it's because the eye is in full power and pumping him with so much dopamine that he actually has the energy to goof around. he's full of energy and endorphins but it's all because he's powered by everyone else's suffering. makes you think.

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the mother of all queer living spaces: a cavernous underground chamber where you and your boyfriend move in with your ex-girlfriend, her current girlfriend and the cult they accidentally founded

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i love in fantasy when its like “king galamir the mighty golden eagle and his most trusted advisor who would never betray him, gruelworm bloodeye the treacherous”

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auughaghj UAUGHG IM OBSESSED WITH THIS . THSI IS WHAT IVE BEEN WAITING FOR !! OH MY GOD!!!

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im having fun and learnig

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spring break object stuff lala