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I'm just saying, the majority of video games still have an all Hetero cast. Canonical andexplicit Bi and Pan representation is still rare to find in media and outside of head canons.

So why is it that when we finally get a game with a cast of bi and pan adjacent characters suddenly all we hear is "playersexual this" and "playersexual that".

I am once again pointing out the fact there is canon dialog in early access alone that explicitly states Astarion is into men. If you fail the perception check with the dream sequence you can ask him about his dream person and if it was a sexy man in which he'll play along and say yes rather than admit his secret. It's not just playersexual, their queerness is intentional.

Gotta escape the void

2 weeks to bully this mf

12 more days until we're no longer shamed by the mind flayer 'under construction' screen, how are we feeling?

vermin

(consumed with lust voice) omg what a fucking weirdo

This is probably the most inclusive post ever made on Tumblr

“What country is this about?”

“Yes.”

So apparently Across the Spider-Verse has MULTIPLE different versions of the movie out in theaters right now???

This reddit thread by Hohoho-you goes into the details but so far all the differences between the versions include

I've only seen the film once so far but based on other people's comments online the changes seem to be mixed and matched depending on when and where you go to see the movie

(edit: added more changes)

Will never see eye-to-eye with anyone less than the people who treat their pets like wandering ronin instead of valued family members. Like oh there goes Bronson our uncollared, chipless chocolate lab out of the permanently open back door again. If he comes home in three days after subsisting on garbage we'll be mildly thrilled to see him again but if he succumbs to his natural predator, the 2006 Toyota Camry, that's just the circle of life

Yeah any kind of domestic pet animal let loose should be considered giving up all rights. That’s not your pet that’s your invasive species/zoonotic disease vector how about we make him or her into someone else’s actual pet.

Zoonotic disease vector? That’s right. If you need more reasons to hate pets getting let loose outside, these people are increasing the chances all of us experience another pandemic.

the issue with the advocating for “giving up rights to the cat because it’s outdoor” crowd is it fails to factor in the all too common dynamic of parents deciding if a cat is outdoor or not and the child daughter being best friends with her cat. she has no control over the situation and fiercely loves the cat and the cat loves her back, and they will both be devastated if you steal the cat away

That’s fair but an owl or coyote or other predator or car accident or poisoned rat is going to steal the cat anyway. Their life expectancy outdoors is 5 years max.

Same goes for dogs, birds, snakes, gerbils or whatever other kid’s pet a parent might thoughtlessly put outside. Yeah it will traumatize the kid when someone takes the animal to a better home. But probably less than finding the half eaten or car flattened or poisoned corpse. Or having it disappear and limp back so injured euthanasia is the only option. That last one happened to me with a dog who escaped. It isn’t a good time.

Loose dog or whatever other pet is rolling the dice on that happening every day, on purpose.

Also the more outdoor cats are seen as normal the less chance someone’s lost cat is noticed and picked up and returned to the family. It causes more trauma and heartbreak to not respond to loose domestic animals as lost pets that need to be captured.

I’m not against advocating to adults all the reasons they should consider having an indoor only cat. What I’m never going to support is people stealing cats from little girls. A missing cat or stolen cat is more traumatic than a death of a pet which provides closure. This assumption that you have that the cat is destined to die from a coyote in the suburbs, is not a guarantee like you think it is. Just because there is a risk of loss doesn’t mean you should make that risk a reality for a child

If you let your cat roam free outside it is not a pet nor is it your cat, it’s irresponsible to let your fucking PET wander unsupervised. Sorry to that fictional 9 year old but I’d rather not see the decimation of wildlife populations and diseases spreading. It’s the fault of people WHO LET THEIR PETS outside to free roam that we have people who keep or bring cats to shelters to prevent this.

Also, ‘my cat survived being an outdoor cat’ well you have no fucking clue if other cats did. What wildlife didn’t. Shut up lmao.

you’re mad that my cat as a two year old child was outdoor and you want people to take revenge on me for the rest of my life for something out of my control? your reading comprehension is lacking if you forgot to read the part where children, like myself at the time, have no control over the cat being outdoor or indoor

No one is taking revenge on you personally. Since you were clearly a child, you were not the primary owner of the cat and no one is trying to hold you personally accountable for this. absolutely no one in this thread is saying that YOU personally as a TWO YEAR OLD CHILD were somehow responsible. But since you were a child, your parents were the primary owners of the cat. And your parents, by letting the cat roam loose outside, were irresponsible owners. Point blank. Your love and bond with that cat is not really relevant here, since you were a child and not responsible.

I’m terribly sorry that your childhood cat disappeared, and as someone who has owned pets, I can imagine how devastating that loss was. But if my parents let my childhood dog roam the neighborhood at his leisure and then he was picked up — for his own safety!! — that’s not the fault of the rescuers, that’s the fault of my parents for not watching the dog.

The fact of the matter is that outdoor cats ARE an invasive species to their local environments, they DO spread diseases to other animals, and as such, responsible cat ownership involves doing what is best for your cat and others — keeping them in the house (or maybe leash training your cat, if you’re the outdoorsy type and insist on bringing them out). It’s not cruelty to see a loose cat outdoors and decide to rescue it. Even if it is someone’s pet and not a lifelong stray, roaming loose means that that cat is both in danger itself and poses a danger to other animals. Even if the potential risk of death to that cat never comes to fruition, outdoor cats virtually always wreak havoc on their local ecosystems. My next door neighbors had 2 cats, both of which they let roam outdoors basically all the time. The cats both lived long lives, but in the process, they were CONSTANTLY killing birds, mice, chipmunks, destroying plants, fighting with other outdoor cats, and getting other cats pregnant, therefore perpetuating the problem. The people who want to prevent an outdoor cat from both enduring and causing harm are not evil kidnappers. Even if YOU loved that cat dearly, your parents, as the proper owners, were not providing proper care for the cat. Proper love for an animal means doing what is right for it, even if it might upset the humans. I know my neighbor’s kids loved those cats dearly, and I don’t doubt that. But their parents were still totally irresponsible owners and if those cats were taken away, it is their parents fault for being irresponsible. And irresponsible pet owners shouldn’t have pets, no matter what. That animal is its own being, and it’s life and welfare shouldn’t be in constant jeopardy just to spare a human’s feelings. We can get over it.

Be mad at your parents, don’t project that anger onto the people who actually care about that cat’s wellbeing and the wellbeing of other animals and local ecosystems.

I was replying to parachism’s tags to me

my cat never went missing as a child

I’m not even planning to have an outdoor cat. I’m just solely against adults stealing the pets of children

my parents were not irresponsible, but if you are an american I can see how you might reach that conclusion

Regardless of what your nationality is, your parents were, in fact, irresponsible.

my parents are not irresponsible. I’m assuming you’re an american, if so then you and your family have caused more ecological damage than my family ever has from just having a pet cat

Again: this is not a problem unique to any one country. Ask Australia. Canada. The Caribbean. The UK. Cats cause boundless ecological damage. One cat kills 10x more wildlife than native predators. Where I'm from (you don't know where I'm from, btw, and don't fuckin assume) does not change the impact that cats have had on the ecosystem globally and that owning an outdoor cat is irresponsible. It's genuinely not hard to have an indoor cat. Bring them inside and ensure their needs are met (again: not hard. Food, water, litterbox, a few places to hide, and some toys).

I know that people (including you!) get defensive and angry when people suggest that their animals might have been mistreated or they've done something wrong, but you don't know until you know. Just, y'know. Do better going forward. Keep your pets inside.

I know no one has read my bio (besides those who have sent me hate anons today about my childhood cat) and they don’t have to in order to interact with me on a random post. However all day I have found it ironic that americans have been screaming at me in tags or on anon or directly that they wish they could show up at my parent’s home and yell at them about ecological damage and steal any cats they find

and like I’m just imagining a bunch of non-native americans showing up to the reservation and trying to steal from us again (as if stealing native kids and land wasn’t enough) and yelling at native americans about ecological damage and calling us irresponsible when they all live on stolen land they took from us

Honey I need you to know I'm also native american but that doesn't change the fact house cats have been bred to hunt for sport rather than food, which back in the day was useful when they had jobs to deal with rats and mice in the millet and wheat, but now they're pets, not workers, and still have that drive to hunt. They do insane damage to OUR ecosystem. If you want the data for it here's a wonderful chart. And data.

House cats are just another thing the white man brought over that's done damage to our land. They aren't native here, they don't belong here. They are pets. Left to their own devices they cause damage to the ecosystem.

Cats are wonderful little gremlin creatures, but they aren't made to live outdoors, especially not here. They're domestic. Felis Catus has been been selectively bred for thousands of years to rely on us. Just because a street dog can survive on its own, doesn't make it natural fauna. It's our duty as humans to try and keep balance where we disturb it.

this whole thing is more about my strong stance that adults should not steal pets from children. which then turned into a barrage of replies and anons, that I know are coming from non-natives, which I found ironic

my childhood cat (which again was not my choice that she was outdoors sometimes, so I would have not wanted her stolen) was part-time outdoor for work reasons you mentioned above to help save the plants and food we had

I’m not against advocating for indoor cats, I’m against adults stealing cats from little children who love them

I have no issue with barn and working cats for that reason. I love animals that are considered vermin, there's a reason my account name is named after a rat, but as someone who's gotten into working with animals, I'm also WELL aware of the zoonotic diseases they can bring with them. That being said. About people taking in cats they see on the street.

There's more than one element to look at with this unfortunately.

Abroad is unbelievably complicated and so for simplicity's sake the parameters of what I'm about to say fit into north America specifically.

I absolutely fully agree people nabbing random cats they see on the street is shitty and not ok, and technically there is law around that at least in Canada if you've discovered that someone's taken your cat or dog there's a good chance you can get them back legally speaking as animals are considered property (we'll get into that in a bit) there's a major movement that I know of that if you have an indoor cat, put a bright orange collar on them, so if people are out and about and see it, they know that cat is in fact a runaway, and not just an indoor/outdoor cat that's realized if they act a certain way they can pull your heart strings into pampering them. Cats are smart.

All that is to say: that's if a random person is trying to figure out what's going on with the cat they've found, and are trying to figure out if someone's let it out or if it's escaped.

If you're looking at a shelter getting involved like the SPCA, you're going to run into far more issue, and this is where the legality of animals as property comes in. If your cat or dog has found its way into a shelter, whether because someone's called about a stray, or they've been dropped off by someone, hell even an ex. If no one claims that animal after 4 days, the shelter can legally rehome and adopt out that animal. Since animals are property, once that animal has been adopted out there's a HUGE legal issue surrounding to get your little friend back. At least that's how it is here. That's why you'll see a lot of local Facebook groups that look to try and find the owner rather than a shelter.

Like it or not animal welfare and rights are unbelievably complicated and far from perfect, and that goes for if people are honest and sincere about everything and the legal system actually works. So yes, people nabbing animals off the street is illegal, however the rights surrounding that animal is quite complicated. It took me 7 months of fighting to get custody of a geriatric dog after his owner passed because i wasn't the legal owner of the dog and as such it was considered theft, despite the animal being... Ya know... A living being. It took me ages to be able to get the little man into a vet's office because they'd have to take him and he couldn't handle being rehomed so he'd be euthanized. My advice: learn and advocate. Regardless of the ethics of an outdoor animal, there's still a lot to factor in about animal welfare.

Will never see eye-to-eye with anyone less than the people who treat their pets like wandering ronin instead of valued family members. Like oh there goes Bronson our uncollared, chipless chocolate lab out of the permanently open back door again. If he comes home in three days after subsisting on garbage we'll be mildly thrilled to see him again but if he succumbs to his natural predator, the 2006 Toyota Camry, that's just the circle of life

Yeah any kind of domestic pet animal let loose should be considered giving up all rights. That’s not your pet that’s your invasive species/zoonotic disease vector how about we make him or her into someone else’s actual pet.

Zoonotic disease vector? That’s right. If you need more reasons to hate pets getting let loose outside, these people are increasing the chances all of us experience another pandemic.

the issue with the advocating for “giving up rights to the cat because it’s outdoor” crowd is it fails to factor in the all too common dynamic of parents deciding if a cat is outdoor or not and the child daughter being best friends with her cat. she has no control over the situation and fiercely loves the cat and the cat loves her back, and they will both be devastated if you steal the cat away

That’s fair but an owl or coyote or other predator or car accident or poisoned rat is going to steal the cat anyway. Their life expectancy outdoors is 5 years max.

Same goes for dogs, birds, snakes, gerbils or whatever other kid’s pet a parent might thoughtlessly put outside. Yeah it will traumatize the kid when someone takes the animal to a better home. But probably less than finding the half eaten or car flattened or poisoned corpse. Or having it disappear and limp back so injured euthanasia is the only option. That last one happened to me with a dog who escaped. It isn’t a good time.

Loose dog or whatever other pet is rolling the dice on that happening every day, on purpose.

Also the more outdoor cats are seen as normal the less chance someone’s lost cat is noticed and picked up and returned to the family. It causes more trauma and heartbreak to not respond to loose domestic animals as lost pets that need to be captured.

I’m not against advocating to adults all the reasons they should consider having an indoor only cat. What I’m never going to support is people stealing cats from little girls. A missing cat or stolen cat is more traumatic than a death of a pet which provides closure. This assumption that you have that the cat is destined to die from a coyote in the suburbs, is not a guarantee like you think it is. Just because there is a risk of loss doesn’t mean you should make that risk a reality for a child

If you let your cat roam free outside it is not a pet nor is it your cat, it’s irresponsible to let your fucking PET wander unsupervised. Sorry to that fictional 9 year old but I’d rather not see the decimation of wildlife populations and diseases spreading. It’s the fault of people WHO LET THEIR PETS outside to free roam that we have people who keep or bring cats to shelters to prevent this.

Also, ‘my cat survived being an outdoor cat’ well you have no fucking clue if other cats did. What wildlife didn’t. Shut up lmao.

you’re mad that my cat as a two year old child was outdoor and you want people to take revenge on me for the rest of my life for something out of my control? your reading comprehension is lacking if you forgot to read the part where children, like myself at the time, have no control over the cat being outdoor or indoor

No one is taking revenge on you personally. Since you were clearly a child, you were not the primary owner of the cat and no one is trying to hold you personally accountable for this. absolutely no one in this thread is saying that YOU personally as a TWO YEAR OLD CHILD were somehow responsible. But since you were a child, your parents were the primary owners of the cat. And your parents, by letting the cat roam loose outside, were irresponsible owners. Point blank. Your love and bond with that cat is not really relevant here, since you were a child and not responsible.

I’m terribly sorry that your childhood cat disappeared, and as someone who has owned pets, I can imagine how devastating that loss was. But if my parents let my childhood dog roam the neighborhood at his leisure and then he was picked up — for his own safety!! — that’s not the fault of the rescuers, that’s the fault of my parents for not watching the dog.

The fact of the matter is that outdoor cats ARE an invasive species to their local environments, they DO spread diseases to other animals, and as such, responsible cat ownership involves doing what is best for your cat and others — keeping them in the house (or maybe leash training your cat, if you’re the outdoorsy type and insist on bringing them out). It’s not cruelty to see a loose cat outdoors and decide to rescue it. Even if it is someone’s pet and not a lifelong stray, roaming loose means that that cat is both in danger itself and poses a danger to other animals. Even if the potential risk of death to that cat never comes to fruition, outdoor cats virtually always wreak havoc on their local ecosystems. My next door neighbors had 2 cats, both of which they let roam outdoors basically all the time. The cats both lived long lives, but in the process, they were CONSTANTLY killing birds, mice, chipmunks, destroying plants, fighting with other outdoor cats, and getting other cats pregnant, therefore perpetuating the problem. The people who want to prevent an outdoor cat from both enduring and causing harm are not evil kidnappers. Even if YOU loved that cat dearly, your parents, as the proper owners, were not providing proper care for the cat. Proper love for an animal means doing what is right for it, even if it might upset the humans. I know my neighbor’s kids loved those cats dearly, and I don’t doubt that. But their parents were still totally irresponsible owners and if those cats were taken away, it is their parents fault for being irresponsible. And irresponsible pet owners shouldn’t have pets, no matter what. That animal is its own being, and it’s life and welfare shouldn’t be in constant jeopardy just to spare a human’s feelings. We can get over it.

Be mad at your parents, don’t project that anger onto the people who actually care about that cat’s wellbeing and the wellbeing of other animals and local ecosystems.

I was replying to parachism’s tags to me

my cat never went missing as a child

I’m not even planning to have an outdoor cat. I’m just solely against adults stealing the pets of children

my parents were not irresponsible, but if you are an american I can see how you might reach that conclusion

Regardless of what your nationality is, your parents were, in fact, irresponsible.

my parents are not irresponsible. I’m assuming you’re an american, if so then you and your family have caused more ecological damage than my family ever has from just having a pet cat

Again: this is not a problem unique to any one country. Ask Australia. Canada. The Caribbean. The UK. Cats cause boundless ecological damage. One cat kills 10x more wildlife than native predators. Where I'm from (you don't know where I'm from, btw, and don't fuckin assume) does not change the impact that cats have had on the ecosystem globally and that owning an outdoor cat is irresponsible. It's genuinely not hard to have an indoor cat. Bring them inside and ensure their needs are met (again: not hard. Food, water, litterbox, a few places to hide, and some toys).

I know that people (including you!) get defensive and angry when people suggest that their animals might have been mistreated or they've done something wrong, but you don't know until you know. Just, y'know. Do better going forward. Keep your pets inside.

I know no one has read my bio (besides those who have sent me hate anons today about my childhood cat) and they don’t have to in order to interact with me on a random post. However all day I have found it ironic that americans have been screaming at me in tags or on anon or directly that they wish they could show up at my parent’s home and yell at them about ecological damage and steal any cats they find

and like I’m just imagining a bunch of non-native americans showing up to the reservation and trying to steal from us again (as if stealing native kids and land wasn’t enough) and yelling at native americans about ecological damage and calling us irresponsible when they all live on stolen land they took from us

Honey I need you to know I'm also native american but that doesn't change the fact house cats have been bred to hunt for sport rather than food, which back in the day was useful when they had jobs to deal with rats and mice in the millet and wheat, but now they're pets, not workers, and still have that drive to hunt. They do insane damage to OUR ecosystem. If you want the data for it here's a wonderful chart. And data.

House cats are just another thing the white man brought over that's done damage to our land. They aren't native here, they don't belong here. They are pets. Left to their own devices they cause damage to the ecosystem.

Cats are wonderful little gremlin creatures, but they aren't made to live outdoors, especially not here. They're domestic. Felis Catus has been been selectively bred for thousands of years to rely on us. Just because a street dog can survive on its own, doesn't make it natural fauna. It's our duty as humans to try and keep balance where we disturb it.

Con O’Neill coming out shows the best side of fandom. It should be a bunch of people celebrating what they love and supporting each other. Fandom spaces so often devolve into toxicity and negativity, but there is so much potential for people to find safety and community in their fandoms.

And as many people have already said, please don’t make Con regret coming out. Be cool, be respectful and continue to show the positive potential of fandom through your actions and interactions.

con coming out as queer actually adds so much context and so much more weight to how he talks about watching taika and rhys film the e5 moonlight scene and how he always finds a way to gush about the central romance between ed and stede in almost every panel and interview he does.

like, he’s is a middle-aged queer man who has kept his personal life extremely private for years. that "oh, this is our show" moment he's said he had while on set watching them film the “you wear fine things well” scene must have been a personal realization for him. this story about two middle-aged queer men falling in love is just as impactful for him as it is for us.

it’s reminding me of when the show first came out and there were so many people opening up about how much this show meant to them, like how the op talks abt in this post:

knowing now that con mustve had a similar experience while filming the show, and that this show as a whole has made him feel comfortable sharing a piece of his personal life that he’s kept private for decades, it’s just reminding me how special ofmd is and how it means so much to so many people.

all of these ALSO coexist, specially in a p!nk concert

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