also im growing to hate the phrase ''hold accountable'' in discourse because its always so.... empty? like you see people saying ''sure this person apologized, but we need to hold them accountable!'' like cool. what does that mean. how can you get any more accountable than a public apology. do you want them to apologize... again? more? get a tattoo explaining their crimes so everyone they meet is informed? do you want accountability or are you repeating buzzwords because you cant find a nice way to say you just want them to disappear.

Holding accountable is the expression of secretly wanting to burn the person at the stake, but in absence of that possibility, harassing them within an inch of their life on social media will have to do.

Holding accountable = expecting apology and eventual reparations.

Bullying is NOT holding accountable

Stoat in his winter coat, Kodiak, Alaska

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Swing that spiky stick, white boy!*

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See kids, this is why we don’t do our video editing in a rush while travelling 🤦 although it tickles me that my phone thought that was a more likely thing to say than “pratting”

FAFO IN MINNEAPOLIS

this asshole had the entire city scared he was going to lead some kind of klan march and rampage through an immigrant neighborhood. he showed up yesterday with about 5 people and "marched" less than one city block before counter protestors super-soakered his ass in 10⁰ weather, pushed him back to his hotel, and ran him out of town. so so so proud of my city

one of the biggest cultural gaslights happened when people started to treat dracula by bram stoker as a dark romance story instead of the victorian og scooby doo shenanigans

Viktor Vastnesov (1848 - 1926) “Bogatyrs” ~1898 —–left to right: Dobrynya Nikitich, Ilya Muromets, Alyosha Popovich. A bogatyr is a stock character in medieval East Slavic legends (byliny), akin to a Western European knight-errant. •

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the leftism leaving people's bodies when they continue to hound someone over behavior that was accounted for, apologized for, and corrected years ago - people got on board for prison abolition then said "and let's replace that with perpetual ostracization and shame to the point where they can no longer function in society :) this is better because We, The Community, are pushing them toward suicide"

it’s actually wild how terrified of the general public most usamericans are. like you don’t realize it if you’re someone who mostly walks and takes transit and spends a lot of time in populous public spaces but then you talk to one of the thousands of people that seemingly never set foot in any public space besides a parking garage or a starbucks and you suddenly understand why it’s so easy for fascist rhetoric about the dangerous alien to take root. this country’s median voter pretty much never interacts with strangers who aren’t their coworkers or people they met on dating apps

saw a post on instagram that was literally someone citing statistics saying public transit is one of the safest travel options out there and the comments were literally just “ummmmm op this is so ableist and misogynistic of you :) don’t you know the average public transit user is a dangerous violent criminal who wants to set you on fire :)))”

it must be so terrifying and sad to go through life convinced if you set foot outside your car in public or interact with people outside your nuclear family you’ll instantly be raped and robbed by the Evil Poors no wonder so many of these people are reactionary tar pits

Eternally relevant read is True Crime is Rotting Our Brains by Emma Berquist, a woman who actually experienced a (rare!) stranger-attack while just walking outside, and thinks that people who panic about this shit need to chill the fuck ouuuuuutt and also recognize how much they're using it to launder their bigotries

Edit: I've attempted to add this link at least three times and Tumblr is being stubborn, so let me try posting it on its own:

not just true crime but the news is in on it too, especially local and right wing but not exclusively.

reblogging this to add that I often think about the old man yaoi mangaka on bluesky who said "the phrase that finally convinced me that the English language is truly beautiful was 'this shit is so ass'"

You know technology literacy is dying because I saw this meme with 76k likes

F11 the full screen button? You’re scared of the full screen button? F10?? It opens the menu bar???

Computers are so scary what if I accidentally hit F12 in a steam game and it takes a screenshot. What if I press shift + F12 while in word and accidentally save my document 😖

If you had to learn what the F keys on your computer do through me reblogging this post, then I'm glad you did. Computer literacy is not a skill that gets taught anymore, and it is absolutely one that needs to be taught in order to be learned. Don't ever feel bad for not knowing something, but ☝️ don't ever stop learning learning about your environment, the tools you use, and especially the people around you

Never stop learning+ Never stop sharing what you learned

More of my lady-knight

The fact that the purple worm isn't classified under the Dragon type shows a frankly embarrassing lack of knowledge about the game's history by WotC.

Why so?

I'm so glad you asked. Chainmail rules for medieval miniatures by Gary Gygax & Jeff Perren, 3rd Edition, page 35:

but they never got referred to as dragons in any AD&D book that i'm aware of. within this context, it's not even clear whether or not this version has legs or not, while the AD&D versions are all definitively worms rather than wyrms.

that said, i will certainly back you up that there is continuity between this Purple Dragon and the later Purple Worm due to the venomous tail sting, as well as the reference to Mottled as an alternative name. in 2e, the Mottled Worm became the term for the Purple Worm's aquatic variant

Note that even the text above refers to the purple dragon as a worm, so one would assume no legs, and the worm/wyrm distinction doesn’t enter the picture either.

And sure, they’re not called dragons again after this but, like, come on!

Factory exhibition engraved Winchester Model 1866 lever action rifle, United States, manufactured in 1872

from Rock Island Auctions

Player's Handbook - Paladin (Oath of the Ancient) by Polar Engine

Artist: Erick Efata for WotC

Bronze axes and a sword uncovered near Debrecen, Hungary, circa 1700-1600 BC

Some thoughts about the attachment to a fandom

Content Warning: This blog talks about the fandoms about works of Neil Gaiman and J K Rowling.

With regards to the Neil Gaiman allegations, I have read over here on Reddit how some fans are so attached to the show Good Omens they prioritize it over Gaiman’s victims. As in, they desperately want season 3 to happen, at any cost.

And this got me thinking. A fandom object can do a lot for people: Help them through a difficult time in their life, provide them with some comfort in desperate times. I’ve been there myself.

But ultimately, this can get unhealthy. After all, please remember: it’s fiction. All the characters are fictional. The victims of Gaiman are real people. The fandom object is entertainment. It’s escapism.

And it is not there to solve the problems of your everyday life.

In some spiritual communities, there is the phenomenon of „spiritual bypassing“. This means among other things that you try to avoid your everyday problems, trouble, conflicts etc. by escaping into spiritual practices and ideas. And as you can guess, this doesn’t help in the long run.

And the escapism into fantasy worlds and other stories is basically very similar to this phenomenon. Yes, fandoms objects can offer you moments of peace, of excitement, of joy. But if your happiness or even your sanity depends solely on a piece of fiction, better try and find something – or someone – else. Do not only rely on a movie, a franchise, a show, a book series, a game or other forms of entertainment to get you through life.

Because if these products of fiction suddenly get spoiled for instance by allegations like the ones against Neil Gaiman, or the horrible behaviour of J K Rowling or (insert other problematic artists here) … you might become desperate beyond measure.

So here are some suggestions to avoid this.

Find some other sources of comfort. Here are some examples:

If you feel like you cannot or won’t let go of the fandom …