Anonymous asked:
What is your Hogwarts house?
oh sorry I don't have one of those, I have sex!! sorry!
Blasphemous is such a good couple of games and is a great way to understand what it’s probably like to be someone who’s never grown up in the cultural soup of Christianity encountering Catholicism for the first time
It’s like being an English speaker listening to Simlish and going ‘ohhh that’s what we sound like huh’
It’s world that borders on outright absurdity is also a great commentary on the intense focus of guilt and inherent sin in Christian sects to the point of fetishization
It’s bizarre and absurdly creative visuals and gorgeous pixel art also just outright slap
Blasphemous is such a good couple of games and is a great way to understand what it’s probably like to be someone who’s never grown up in the cultural soup of Christianity encountering Catholicism for the first time
It’s like being an English speaker listening to Simlish and going ‘ohhh that’s what we sound like huh’
It’s world that borders on outright absurdity is also a great commentary on the intense focus of guilt and inherent sin in Christian sects to the point of fetishization
Blasphemous is such a good couple of games and is a great way to understand what it’s probably like to be someone who’s never grown up in the cultural soup of Christianity encountering Catholicism for the first time
It’s like being an English speaker listening to Simlish and going ‘ohhh that’s what we sound like huh’
Happy 225th birthday, Mary Shelley!
Mary was born on August 30th, 1797. You probably know she wrote Frankenstein, but you mightn’t know:
- Mary described herself as “apt to get tousy-mousy for women” - in particular, her friend Jane Williams
- In 1827, Mary obtained a false passport for her friend Doddy, who was assigned female at birth, to leave England and start a new life as a married man in France.
- Mary was one of hundreds of thousands of Britons to give up sugar during the early 1800s in support of the abolition of slavery, at a time when most of Britain’s sugar was produced by slaves.
i really think rose quartz is the voice of our times she was suicidal she was bisexual she was a libra she was fat she was horny all the time she was pink she went to war against herself she fumbles people who demand emotional intimacy from her she has a very loose grip on reality she loves everything and hates herself she somehow has mommy issues despite belonging to a species where mothers do not exist her boobs are self-made she was into soundcloud rappers she has committed identity theft and a hundred other war crimes she has several pet lions one of which is a zombie and she couldn’t break out of herself. peace and love on planet girl
#finally some good fuckin rose/pink takes#she’s honestly one of my favs int he shows for jsut how complex she is#she’s a deconstruction of the saintly dead mother trope and a fascinating examination on what it is know - or not know - someone#to only ever know them through memory or story#Rose was no more understood in death than she was in life until Steven came along and it wrecks me I think
Yes we could have some interesting and productive conversations about how to better accommodate different people irt romance and sex scenes in videos games
But I’m going to have those conversations with and for people who were already having them and who have a wider interest in the topics of accessibility for all as a whole, and not w/ the dudes only weaponizing those topics now because they’re upset they didn’t get to sexually dominate one female character in one game
REDDIT DUDES ARE MAD ABOUT KARLACH TOPPING THEM
People can gloat all they like, but people probably shouldn't be "jumpscared" into sex acts they don't want to perform.
It's not so much that they were jumpscared into "sex acts they didn't want to perform" because ultimately it's a fictional character and pixels on a screen. What's really happening here is that these men were fully expecting a sex scene where they would assume the dominant role because in their minds that's the role for men and women are meant to be submissive. But instead this character didn't act according to their cisheteronormative standards and they felt emasculated because they felt she didn't behave the way she's "supposed to".
They didn't consent to it. Pixels on a screen, sure, but it doesn't take much mental effort to examine why "unwanted sexual penetration" is very much a bad thing. You don't get to pick and choose with this. Someone coming out of a sex scene rattled and uncomfortable is *bad*, even if they're a straight dude.
Yes, if any of them were showing genuine discomfort in those screenshots that would be one thing, because people should not be made to be uncomfortable in many situations. But discomfort stemming from bias and bigotry isn't justified, and they've all made thar very clear in their comments that that's where it's coming from.
*apparating out of the mist of my internet hiatus*
I just find it so interesting that women have been talking for decades about how our gender is represented in video games and how often female characters are made to be sexual objects for the enjoyment of an assumed male audience and how this representation is hand-in-hand with our treatment in the wider gaming and game industry sphere. And how women have faced intense backlash for it, told that they’re just games, just fantasies. Get over it. Play a different game or just don’t play games at all.
But the second some (I’m assuming cishet) dudes don’t get to RP their sexually dominant fantasy out in one(1) relationship in one(1) game, we’re suddenly whipping out the language of consent and boundaries and assault.
And like… what about the consent of women who don’t want their character to be the bottom/submissive? What abot the consent of men who don’t want their character to top/dominate? Where is that concern? Or is this weaponization of the language of consent only here to protect the hierarchy of assumed gender roles in sex?
Just so interesting.
#don’t get me started on how this stinks a little not being disappointed at not being able to dominate the dominant woman#and ‘put her in her place’ as it were…#‘there’s an interesting discussion to be had about being able to choose your sexual role in games’ yes but#it’s interesting how the discomfort of a few men is sparking that#and not the decades of women and queer people questioning our representation in games#just… hm. fascinating
Your grandmother gifted you a house, some money, a small plot of land, and a satchel of seeds and said “Go make something of yourself.”
So that’s what you did.
Has anyone done cosmic horror but with, like… the Christian god?
Like, a lot of themes of cosmic horror are of unknowable, indifferent - if not cruel - creatures beyond our comprehension, and boy if that ain’t the Christian god…
As an ex Christian the horror of god actually being real isn’t terrifying because I was wrong and will suffer the consequences, but because god is an unknowable, cruel, vindictive creature who treats its creations like playthings and punishes even those that follow and worship it
Has anyone done cosmic horror but with, like… the Christian god?
Like, a lot of themes of cosmic horror are of unknowable, indifferent - if not cruel - creatures beyond our comprehension, and boy if that ain’t the Christian god…
kiss has to be one of the most disappointing bands ever. imagine hearing about this crazy rock band that dresses up in insane costumes and wears face paint and the one guy looks super demonic and has a really long tongue and everyone says they're satanic and then you listen to them and they're just singing about how they wanna bone but it's in a socially acceptable tongue in cheek way that your dad likes
warrants and indictments are not enough i need Consequences For Rich Men
More male characters who are interested in their mother's legacy. As a trope there's a lot of sons and daughters who follow in the father's footsteps and there's yes, girls who honor their mother, ect. But let's have more dudes who are like. Stumbling on their mom's secret fairy cottage or some shit. And they're like aight gotta make the tea
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dishwashing affirmations
- the dishes are more scared of you than you are scared of them.
- if you put on a little song you can have a dish washing party.
- washing dishes is a great way to make new friends (e.g. frying pans, cups, etc.).
- despite any misinformation you may see online, a fork has never bitten anyone. they are gentle, even-tempered creatures that often just want to nap.
- warm water and slow repetitive motions are good for your metal health. Dishes enjoy being able to share this time with you and making it a regular routine is good for their enrichment.
- soap bubbles are fun
Y’all I made such a good pie yesterday and all I can think about now is going home and eating some after work
Pie!!
I have so many thoughts about the discourse surrounding the live action Snow White that I’ve already ranted about on Twitter but I could write another 10k word essay on why the people thinking making her a badass is feminism and the people who think her original character was actually feminist because ‘she was nice in the face of evil :)’ back bending are both wrong and how this movie is almost 90 years old and the first of its kind and can’t be meaningfully examined without context of it’s time or place in film history and certainly all the people with not takes online are no where near qualified to do that and that it’s a waste of time anyway because this is all actually just culture war bullshit-