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@witheringfears

I'm here and I'm a 30 year old genderfluid person. 

anyway normalize women not wanting children as a happy ending

its NOT a happy ending, for a majority of women. Having kids, especially for women, is an intrinsic biological desire. If you are a person who genuinely has no desire for kids or god forbid dislikes kids, that is an anomaly - you might have some trauma or mental/emotional hangups that you have to work out of, or you could be autistic or some other thing. But Its not normal to not want kids. Living childless does and will make women miserable. Dying without kids in, in fact, a bad ending for the vast majority of women.

there is something so deeply wrong with you baby girl

Trying to find more on this, but it's hard.

Here's a vid from February of the protests in Chile, it's graphic, showing the pellet shot wounds, and you hear the gunfire.

No English subtitles but you don't really need them to see what's happening.

There a few bland articles from Renewablesnow (dot) com- (this one from 2022) (this one from 2nd Jan, 2023) Don't be fooled by the one that makes it sound like the company has decided to stop the project. Read to the end and you'll see that's just ONE site- they have two more in operation on the Pilmaiquen River.

If you want to know more about the person in first video, Ida Helene Benonisen, there's an article about them on Culturalsurvival (dot) org, where you can also read one of their poems about the struggles and pride of the Sámi people.

There doesn't seem to be much of anything on this on English news sites. If you have anything to add, please, I'd appreciate it.

Making a shitty one-page RPG called Oh Shit It’s the Killer. The premise is simple: you’re a high schooler spending the weekend in the woods with your besties. The Killer is there also. He is trying to the Kill you

I say shitty not to demean the quality of my work but because it’s less an exercise in good game design and more an attempt to induce paranoid internal conflict that turns into murder (in game of course). It has like three mechanics and one of them actively encourages you to murder the other PCs

Great news!

It’s done

I put like three braincells into this, so if there’s anything about it that outright sucks, uh. Sorry not sorry, L + ratio + let’s use the 1-page restriction as an excuse for any unfun mechanics

“What if there was a game about being a genre-savvy slasher protagonist murdering their way to the role of Final Girl?”

“Sounds cool when exactly does the PvP start”

“character creation”

the reason you're meant to read from a bunch of different sources and attempt to interpret and discuss them in school btw is bc your reading comprehension is based on your ability to discern different and varied meanings in a text

like some ppl on socmed wilfully misinterpret text and so many others entirely lack this critical skill and rely on tiktokers and youtubers to explain sentences to them and in the absence of someone to explain they just entirely go off their own projected vibes and make shit up

like it's. honestly frightening and bizarre, the takes i regularly see, that are so far beyond a "bad faith reading" and are literally not a reading. someone just saw three words they recognised, imagined a scenario they might be used in instead of reading the post, then got MAD

So honestly one of my favorite storylines in OFMD (other than everything about Gentlebeard of course) is the resolution between Stede and Mary at the end of S1.

There are lots of stories about the devoted wife waiting for her husband’s return (such as Penelope from the Odyssey) but this isn’t a story about devotion between Stede and Mary. It never was. They didn’t love each other and never would, so those iconic weirdos devised a whole plan involving a jungle cat, a falling piano, and a random corpse to beat the system.

I love that Mary built a new life for herself after Stede left. I’m sure she was upset and angry, but she still took her own carpe diem advice and created a new life with things she actually loved: her kids, Doug, and painting.

And that’s how you do feminism right there. I have no notes, only the hope that there are more stories like this in the future. 10/10

i also love that they are able to see that unhappiness that existed in their marriage was because they didn't love each other like that. they were stuck in a marriage where neither one of them felt fulfilled. they knew they didn't feel romantic love (or passion or desire etc etc) towards one another

but as soon as they were freed from that marriage?? once they opened up to one another? their dynamic is completely different! night and day! they could just be friends!

and i think they make good friends. they work well together. they support each other. they help each other attain the lives they really want. they're genuinely happy for one another. they know they are not in love, but they do share a love. a fondness. a camaraderie. ofmd shows us that love takes many forms, and this is one of them.

i will never not love watching them become friends in ep 10. it's a really beautiful depiction of the way that relationships can change and adjust with us as we grow.