i have a very important contribution to make to the development of transfeminist theory
(good at board games meaning, you often win at them, it has been oft remarked on that you are good at board games, your family jokes that you have a mental spreadsheet for winning catan etc)
reblog for reach because it would be really really funny to me personally if this had a statistically significant result
I take off my clothes at the end of the night,
and she disappears,
and I question if she could ever really be there,
without my comfortable cloak of social deception.
It takes time
Both shorter and longer than you think
But eventually
She disappears less each night
Until one day you notice
She'll never leave again
Sometimes, she is quiet
Sometimes, I can hear her screaming
And I let her scream into the darkness
And I wonder
Why I am not screaming too.
listen I ended up regretting saying anything about this on my old blog because people will interpret literally any and every statement maliciously on this hellsite but I want to start like. a helpline for people who are like “hey I pretty much only read YA but I’m like 22 now and don’t relate to teenagers as much, it’s such a shame that there are no fun books written for adults :(” because boy HOWDY are there some fun books for adults
maybe I’ll start a big google doc or something one day but for now *deep breath*
Books I haven’t read but I’ve heard good things about
A great way to get back into the habit of reading and discover new authors is to pick up an anthology of shorter works. You can find them in any genre, on all kinds of specific themes, by diverse authors, and if one story isn’t your jam you can move on. A couple of my favorites are:
Biketopia: Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction in Extreme Futures;
Solarpunk: Ecological and Fantastical Stories in a Sustainable World
A People’s Future of the United States
Sisters of the Revolution: A feminist speculative fiction anthology
plus a few more full length books i like:
Singing the Dogstar Blues by Alison Goodman - space college punk with a harmonica what time travel crimes will she commit, queerplatonic human/alien relationships, very fun all around
Becky Chambers has several excellent books in the same setting as Long Way to a Small Angry Planet!
Nnedi Okorafor also has a bunch of great ones including sequels to Binti and other scifi/Afrofuturist works do NOT sleep on her
The Last Girl Scout by Natalie Ironside - if u like trans lesbians fighting zombies and nazis and vampires in the Appalachian nuclear wasteland I CANNOT recommend it enough.
Jesus Christ kids, can you please use an office suite for writing. "I use google docs because it gives me the wordcount" are you insane??? You write your fics in the tumblr drafts?!?!?
But there is hope for you yet. No need to be afraid.
Take my hand. I will lead you to civilization.
Go to https://www.libreoffice.org/ right now. Click on "Download". Choose your operating system. Download and install. Enjoy reliable spell check, formatting assistance, and yes. Word count.
(If you write on your phone a) that's unhinged, I'm kind of impressed b) here's a list of open-source note taking apps/software. Not all are mobile apps, but something should work for you)
Store your writing on your device, where no one else can tamper with it. You are beholden to no masters. Free yourself from the yoke of google.
they should make a job application process that doesn't feel like a deep and fundamental rejection of your humanity or right to dignity and respect
Every 5000 years, the terrible Nightmare Knight returns to terrorize the world of Dreamside. And every time, a Legendary Hero will appear to fight the Nightmare Knight. Every time until now, that fight probably sounded like this. mp3
The other side of the Down With Cis Bus.
About ten years ago I decided that the next step I needed to take in my life was to accept and explore what it meant to be a failure and to have failed. This infuriated almost everybody in my life and clearly terrified a lot of people. People do not want you to accept failure. They dont want you to like... Sit with and think about it and pick it up and turn it arpund in your hands and really examine it. They want you to keep throwing yourself against the impossible walls until your body explodes! They do not want you to say "alright then, I've failed. What does that mean for me? Im still here. What does the life of someone who has failed look like?"
This makes people very angry and panicky.
My mental health improved in ways it had not in the previous DECADE once I stopped. And. Sat. With failure. And thought about what my failure ... Was. And looked at the structures that produced it and examined them critically.
It is so taboo to fail and admit it openly and talk about it. It is so taboo to talk about or think about failure in an accepting way rather than hiding it shamefully until you experience a degree of success in some area which allows you to present the past failure as "a stepping stone" to your current situation. Fuck that. We are put in positions of guaranteed failure by society every day and then punished and shamed for it. Lets fucking talk about failure
You're kinda- no, really cringe, yk?
If just the mere thought of me makes you in any way upset or uncomfortable, by all means keep doing it. Every single second of your life that you waste thinking about me is mine now, and I wouldn't give them back to you if I knew how. Look at my blog, boy.
wait ok now i'm curious how old were you when you joined tumblr and how old are you now
publisher executives will actually tell their studios to have an inflated install size because gamers will assume that Bigger Install Means Better And More Game.
I couldn't find any sources on this, it seems more likely that it's just because optimization costs more than it worth to AAA devs
source: i work in the game industry and coworkers who experience it firsthand have told me this. not to say that optimization costs isn't one factor but. this is certainly another
There's a very good piece of software that compresses games with ***NO DETRIMENT TO PERFORMANCE***
I'd say it's magic but honestly it's just fixing corporate's bullshit junk data
For folks who want MELE and Veilguard on their pc’s at the same time
The “Necromancy is evil“ we see in most fantasy worlds stems from a christian view of having to honor the body after death in a certain way to ensure the soul’s safety in the afterlife. And while I encourage you to explore societies that don’t see necromancy as evil, I also encourage you to explore societies that see necromancy as evil for different reasons.
Drow might believe that after death, your body belongs to Lolth and must be fed to spiders. Reanimating a body means stealing from Lolth and must therefore be punished.
A Zoroastrian inspired society might believe that with death, evil starts infesting the body, so dead bodies must be kept away from the community, and reanimating them keeps them in the community and is therefore bad.
Ooh, sounds fun! Let me come up with some more.
~~a culture that recognizes the effort and emotional strain their people go through in life, and when someone dies they throw a huge wake and celebrate their break from life before joining their god/reincarnating/guarding something/etc. Reanimating someone or trying to bring them back to life is seen as a huge taboo because it’s like asking someone who constantly works and finally gets a time of rest to go straight back to work before they’ve recovered. Except it’s the hardest job/adventure ever. For the same reason, motherhood, illness, leadership, recreation, personal growth, and winter are all highly venerated concepts/times in the culture, as times of rest or things in need of a period of rest eventually. To honor these times as sabbats is commanded by one of their gods after a great catastrophe. The whole community is involved with these things, and so too are is the whole community involved with death and picking up the physical or emotional slack of the person who died. If permission is given from the person who is being reanimated, then maybe maaaaaybe it’s ok, but that’s only happened once when a guardian was once needed, and it’s pretty hard to verify if it really was the person.
This is a good follow up to the post about necromancy and enchantment a few days ago.
All I can think of now is some kind of weird Jewish comedy where a Cohen gets reanimated and then has to figure out a way to avoid himself.
In Brandon Sanderson’s Warbreaker, the main characters come from a society where necromancy is taboo not because of the dead bodies themselves, but because the magic used to reanimate them takes a bit of a person’s soul. ALL magic there is soul magic, actually, and necromancy is one of the most cost-effective uses of soul magic (one unit of magic per reanimated corpse), so the majority of people think that necromancy and magic are perfectly fine and normal. Necromancy is commonplace, there are dead bodies walking around and doing work all over, but the main characters are from a place where all of this is seen as unholy and wrong.
