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  • Revelation 18;23: "(...)

    For your merchants were the great ones of the earth,

    because all the nations were deceived by your sorcery.”

    24 And there was found in her the blood of prophets and saints, and of all who had been slain on the earth

  • Can y'all help me determine if my frustrations are misplaced?
  • You gotta be able to hit back the neolibs back, verbally, in a manner that exposes their shitty behaviour, if feasible. Become a pillar of the community, if possible. Maybe raise your concern when they say something crass, wait for an opportunity to bring up that it must be nice to afford that much cosplay, small nasty ways to show they are not the same as the rest of the community (if the community is overwhelmingly petit bourgs or LA or porky-happy, don't bother too much.) I am at the same spot with a bunch of people and if you are in a place to put them down without losing access to vital ressources and have taken precautions, there are only so many ways we can fight back rn and wrestling control from shitty "community leaders" is the best we can hope for, often.

    I don't mean to talk down to you, your irritation is valid, I just think it shouldn't be the end point, otherwise it will just turn into stewing resentment. I am not excluding myself from needing to do that more often,

  • You can thank me later
  • tagging @AOCapitulator@hexbear.net coz they asked as well

    verbose explanation of the joke

    the original painting is "Freedom of Speech" by norman rockwell, the head is this instance's meme for a stereotypical bottom, i.e. shy, submissive and needy. Since the guy in the painting also adopts a shy pose and manner, it was easy for me to plant the bottom head onto him. Only now he talks about how he needs tops top-use-words instead of making some point about America's freedom or shit like that

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    [CW: ableism being mocked] Autism discussed on Reddit starter pack
  • This is not meant as a rebuke or lecture, mostly thinking aloud.

    I am unsure about reclaiming terms from the shitheads. I suppose it is necessary.

    Arguments of positionality are a curse and there are counters to them, but they need to be expanded. For example, tokenism and showing how that person is harming their own group would be a start.

    Fakeclaiming requires a lot of looking at individual cases to be even semi viable. It is in my experience mostly harmful.

    Arguments should be dealt with in a principaled manner while recognizing identities in a way that stops presupposing that Identity X has a right to opinion Y, I think.

    This is not meant as a diss, I just kinda feel tired being suspicious all the time and wanted to give some thoughts(funny thing for a 1 month account to say, but I have been around for some time, I just occassionally delete my acc bc of OPsec, believe me 🥺)

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    [CW: ableism being mocked] Autism discussed on Reddit starter pack
  • I appreciate your perspective. I do not share it, but I do understand why you would hold this view, even if there was no ableism at all or if we lived in an anti-ableist society. This is not about saying your wishes are rooted in false consciousness. This is meant to be making fun of people that despise us and actively participate in the system that keeps us down and those who suck up to them. If I hurt you, I would like to apologize.

  • Can I get a clean file version of the bottom speak emoji, please?

    I need it for a very edit I thought off, pleaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee !bottom-speak

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    Writing groups with a bit of chill?

    Hi everyone,

    I want to write more and hopefully get better, but I got really turned off from writing coms by what I heard and saw on Discord and !reddit-logo. I am looking for a group where I don't receive unnecessarily caustic/bitter/passive-aggressive criticism for mistakes, especially since english is not my first language and I am probably not the most innovative/daring writer around (I just wanna write fantasy). If you need an example of stuff I take issue with, look at the r/writingcirclejerk mega and reccs for what turns me off.

    I get that you have to show your stuff to other people eventually and get criticism for your mistakes, but I would prefer a space that is not so emotionally frustrating, lowkey to highkey transphobic/ableist etc etc. I get screamed at and have to deal with condescending assholes enough on the job/politics. I don't want that in something that is supposed to be FUN.

    Do you have any recommendations for online groups or places that are relaxed, ND- and trans-friendly? They should still offer criticism and not white lie about things. Becoming "Better" means avoiding clear, objective mistakes, better structure, producing enjoyable, if not super groundbreaking works of fictions in the english language.

    I don't want any "the world is hard, you have to be hard on yourself, you should suck it up" shit. There has to be a less gnarly way.

    Thank you so much (insert unobtrusive, yet friendly heart emoji here)

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    went to a queer bar thing and they just talked about hamilton

    to be fair, they also talked about other musicals i didnt care about, but I wasn't feeling it, lmao. i would have been happy with literally any other topic, but i fall asleep during this shit, cant help it

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    Pronouns check but only if a cis "ally" has clocked trans people [vent-ish]

    I had like an interaction where I had some decent clues that a person only introduces their pronouns after they clocked me, e.g. other people didn't do pronoun intro before, the way the "ally in question" did it felt pretty artificial (I am willing to write that off on being paranoid).

    The message is "I know you are trans, you are not passing, but I am graciously allowing you to exist in this group setting". Same goes for only doing pronoun checks in a group setting when you clock a trans person. I find it worse than assuming wrong pronouns and switching after being gently corrected. Maybe because I have higher standards of would-be allies than the average person. After all, allies are supposed to have my back, not just not having a !hitler-detector moment when I pass by. On the other hand, I have it easy for being okay with being a semi-binary trans woman, so obv enby struggles are another thing, but clocking still stings like a bitch.

    Pronoun checks should be normalized to a point cis people do it intuitively, but idk if we will ever get there. If you wanna chime in, when and how did you call that behaviour out or point it out, if you saw it? Did your response work?

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    Pen and Paper is a decent test of players' character

    If your ass is not making it to the session on time at 2 pm like we agreed on multiple times in a row, I will not trust you to be on time for an event.

    If you are making absurd demands of the DM and try to bully them to include your overpowered item (including homebrewing it for you and then you throw a fit when you don't like the results), I will not trust you with real power. etc etc

    EDIT: I am not looking for DMing advice here, I already do sessions 0, read articles and have dmed and played a lot. I am mostly noting how small shit can tell you if you can rely on/trust somebody for more serious stuff and that TTGs have a lot of small shit coming together at once.

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    vomit_sounds [any] @hexbear.net

    mentally ill beyond measure

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