Distance is a liar.
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In response to the racist fuckbags being racist fuckbags on my post about non-white elves, I want to promote a DnD 5e world setting I came across on Twitter called the Wagadu Chronicles.
You can find them here:
https://twitter.com/WagaduChronicle?s=09
They are self described as “An Afrofantasy World |
5e Pen&Paper Adventures & an upcoming online game”
Honestly it looks rad as hell, and you should all check it out.
apparently it’ll be out in steam sometime soon, and you can add to wishlist now if u want
An alternative, for TTRPG players:
[ID: The cover of the Pathfinder Lost Omens: The Mwangi Expanse sourcebook, displaying a group of Black people, one of whom stands in front and summons colourful birds, while the others play music and cheer on the summoner.]
[ID: a sidebar from the Mwangi Expanse sourcebook, reading: “EXCITING, NOT EXOTIC!
The Mwangi Expanse and its people, its places, its flora, fauna, and land are largely not new. People have thrived in this space for eons before your adventuring party will. They will continue to after. As creators, players, and Game Masters, we visit someone’s home,
not simply a backdrop. The experiences that player characters have and non-player characters express in this part of the world, like any other, will almost certainly be strange, but what is new to us outside
of the game has been long a part of Golarion in the fiction. The Mwangi Expanse has always been home to someone and we—the people outside of Golarion’s fiction—are the aliens getting to know the place together, like anywhere else in this world. Treat the homes of others well, even when those other people are your own characters. The fictions we paint in their spaces reflect and pull from real people and places, and your exotic is someone else’s existence.”]You can also see the blog post where the authors of the book introduce themselves.
If you’re interested in playing a one-shot set in the Mwangi Expanse, there was a Free RPG Day adventure released a couple of years back called “Threshold of Knowledge”, and one of the pregen characters that comes with it was indeed a Black elf.
[ID: The cover of the “Threshold of Knowledge” adventure, on which a Black elf monk and a Black human cleric confront a sea hag rising from the water of a canal.]
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i think it’s insane that nonbinary people went “hey i’m trans, i’m just not transitioning to one of the two very specific ideas of gender you have in your head” and so many cishet people and transmeds went “ah so you’re not trans, you’re just quirky.” like hello? i literally started the sentence with “i’m trans” are you okay? people can transition in more than just one of two extremely specific ways, carol.
You can change nothing about yourself and still be fucking trans.
Sometimes you already present in a way that is comfortable for you, but you realize something about your identity. That’s fine!
You do not need to upend your life or follow a specific narrative to be trans.
Fuck some of us are agender, or have that as part of our fluid identities.
Sometimes our transness explains some of our previous presentation choices but doesn’t need to change going forward!
And for some of us clothing and fashion have never been a big deal and that doesn’t change just because you are trans!
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This was intentionally manufactured by Facebook. Facebook implemented it’s “accountability culture” starting with its rule about only using your real name and photo on its service and encouraging you to disclose other information in your profile, and from there it just got normalized. It was entirely to gather data for advertising purposes, but now we associate that level of openness with “accountability”. Entire generations are now being raised with this as the norm. Privacy is no longer a priority, or even really seen as an option.
This is to your detriment. Your privacy protects you from predators of all kinds. You really should be guarding it carefully. Disclose what you feel is important on a case by case basis, but even your mental health status and beliefs are exploitable by big business and small-time bullies and abusers alike.
Even if you’re not overly fussed about what people know about you, just understand that not everyone has the luxury of feeling the same. Some people have stalkers and abusers they’re trying to evade, or don’t want to attract new abusers into their lives by being that vulnerable and open again. Some people have extreme social anxiety. Some people are protecting other people in their lives. Some people just don’t want their grandmothers to find their smutfics. Some people are Internet privacy advocates who keep their details private as a political statement and as a matter of principle.
You are not entitled to anyone’s information, and you do not owe anyone yours. You are allowed to just be an anonymous username until you feel safe to disclose more.
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@lgbtqcreators creator bingo - comfort
“The lawn drowned, the sky on fire, the gold light falling backward through the glass of every room.” — Richard Siken ❤(via lgbtqcreators)
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- #Films
- #Horror
- #The Strangers
- #This was formative horror for me
- #Such simple methods and execution
- #utilized to their full potential
- #The sound mixing was brutal too
- #And I loved the emotional context of the main couple
- #Gave the whole thing a unique feeling
- #Anyway if you haven't seen it go give it a chance for Halloween
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A reminder for anyone (including myself) who might need it:
In order to break the cycle of dysfunctional immediate families, you need cooperation with your family. It’s not on you alone.
If there’s a toxic cycle of broken parent-child relationships, it’s not your job to maintain a harmful relationship with your parent/s to “break the cycle”.
If there’s a toxic cycle of broken sibling relationships, it’s not your job to maintain a harmful relationship with your sibling/s to “break the cycle”.
You need more than one person to heal interfamilial estrangement and dysfunction. It’s not on you alone. If your parent/s or sibling/s don’t also put in an effort to break the cycle, it won’t be broken.
Taking on the burden all on your own won’t fix anything and will just lead to more hurt.
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we should set more tv shows in fake US states the way we make up fake european countries for disney channel originals and hallmark movies
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