#is this the worst thing i have ever posted? possibly.
I have seen several posts about your dislike for D&D and I wanna know if it's the same for Pathfinder? I love pathfinder but in my eyes it's just a crunchier D&D. (Though admittedly the "canon" worlds for Pathfinder are far more interesting to me)
Obviously that's a very baseline view of the two but I wondered if it's possible to like one and not the other due to their similarities.
P.S. I hope you've had a good week!
Truth be told, I don't dislike D&D! I dislike people treating it as a universal game when it's a very specific type of game! Note: what that specific type of game is also depends heavily on edition! But regardless, D&D will end up sucking big time if you don't play to its strengths!
Now, my opinion on Pathfinder is basically that Pathfinder 1e leaned in on some of the worst designs of D&D 3.5 (a quirky game that still had a lot to love about it): towards the tail end of D&D 3.5 its designers were at the same time getting really nutty with the design and coming up with some really inventive designs (Binders, Tome of Battle, a lot of individual systems in Complete Champion and Complete Scoundrel) but at the same time they were running out of ideas and they came up with the Worst Type of Feats: feats that made a thing that anyone could theoretically do into a thing now gated behind a feat. Player's Handbook 2 for D&D 3.5 had a few of these.
And Pathfinder 1e for some reason decided to really lean in on this type of feat. I will never shut up about the feat that allows gnomes to request their captors to loosen their shackles.
Now Pathfinder 2e is a much better game in my opinion because it seems to have largely rejected that type of design and focused on being a really crunchy D&D clone. It feels like a better successor to D&D 3.5's design ethos instead of Pathfinder 1e, that was ultimately a collection of D&D 3.5 house rules (some of which imo made the game worse than D&D 3.5!) coupled with following some of the worst design trends of D&D 3.5.
Also I refuse to ever shut up about Pathfinder 1e literally having feats that didn't do anything like Monkey Lunge and Prone Shooter. But anyway Pathfinder 2e actually looks like a fun albeit crunchy game instead of just being D&D 3.5 but somehow blander and with worse rules-writing. (now of course D&D 3.5 also kind of sucked in its own ways, but it kind of sucked in a "hey these example characters don't actually qualify for the Prestige Class they're supposed to be representing" type of way instead of a "our FAQ accidentally made it so you could qualify for the Eldritch Knight Prestige Class simply by virtue of being a Tiefling" type of way)
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Okay so going back to this post about whether or not Loki can actually be Lauffey's heir I *did* manage to think up a set of circumstances in which I would believe that a monarchy *might* be willing to infanticide a sole male heir and it was "what if he has no genitalia of any kind?" Because you can handle a useless king as long as he can produce his own male heirs so you'll get a fully-abled king *eventually* but if you take that away then *maybe* the slightly small child has no value. *Maybe.* So I was like okay, sure, perhaps Loki has no genitalia of any kind whatsoever. But then I remembered that whole "CGI Crotch" fiasco and the fact that there's at least one tumblr blog devoted to his... area. Oh no, the theory falls! Damn!
BUT WAIT! The audience has not in fact seen a dick, merely the *suggestion* of one. The implication. Which is easy enough to fake. And fakery is plausible, because vanity and trying to fit in and etc. So I think the options are: either that's a packer OR Loki is not in fact the heir to the kingdom of the Frost Giants. Choose whichever you feel most comfortable with. (I am open to other explanations of course - please! - but I think I may have cracked the mystery here and I am simultaneously proud and deeply ashamed.)
Now all that remains is the question of whether I am foolish enough to actually publish this post to tumblr.
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I love love love when trans women* give advice to trans men* about """manly""" things and when trans men* return that kindness with advice about """womanly""" things. I love the intracommunity commitment to supporting each other <<3
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Trigger warning: statutory rape, grooming
I haven't yet look at the reactions to the most recent episode on Tumblr, but I feel a little concerned about how there were comments in other places that just didn't acknowledge the fact that Non was taken advantage of by his teacher.
Like, this kid is so alone. He doesn't seem to fully be able to talk to his family, he has a group of kids who continually bully him and want to hurt him and he has no way to really get away from them. The only people he seems to be able to talk to are Phee, who goes to a different school and doesn't necessary see him on a daily basis, and (maybe) Jin, who is friends with the kids who bully him (this is obviously before Jin filmed him). He is in desperate need of money and doesn't know how to get it, he's scared and stressed out AND
a friendly face in the form of his teacher turns up. Someone who is offering kindness to this kid who is in desperate need of some. And then the teacher presents a solution to Non's money problem, saving him. But right after this offer, the teacher initiates a kiss. This is his TEACHER, who is a grown man, while Non is still a teenager. This is his TEACHER, who saw a vulnerable kid and decided to use that to get Non to seek comfort in him, to put Non in a position where he (Mr. Keng) has power over him and uses that to groom him.
It truly upsets me so much for me to see some people call Non a cheater and a terrible person for this when Non is a victim of someone who he should have been protected by.
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i’m. a little bit wrecked over ashton in episode 78 y’all. i’m a little sad. just a little . i just. damn.
they hurt themself really fucking badly. and they could have killed their friends chasing something that was never theirs, chasing a reality that never was, that they never actually wanted in the first place. all because he was just fucking wrong about something. they just—they made a mistake. and it was the worst possible mistake they could have made. and i’m just thinking about how awful that is, to realize how little you actually value your own life in the middle of a crater you made with your own body because you just died and reformed and all you can think is how much you would have deserved to stay dead, to hurt forever, for the fact that the people before you were cruel and horrible and you mirrored them without a second thought in a matter of days.
like that’s so fucked dude. how do you rebuild a self esteem you never had after doing something so monumentally wrong. you stop using that false bravado because it won’t do you any good anymore, now that they all know how weak you are. how do you start caring about yourself when there’s so much to loathe, so much to make up for, so much to apologize for. that’s fucking terrible. how is he literally ever gonna trust himself again? trust his own judgement? trust what he wants? the last time he wanted something that badly it killed him and nearly broke his friends. like holy shit. how do you. how. how?
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spectragus dont get enough credit for being a sun and moon ship but like. destructive sun and moon ship. sun and moon ship but they're the forces of nature the sun and moon actually are. the sun is harsh and relentless and unpredictable in its evil but also it's kindness, the moon is sharp and cold and cruel, a harsh light that doesn't allow you peace, but can also guide you, a light in the darkness. even on nights with a new moon, with no light in the sky, the moon is always reflecting the sun, and it'll be that way until they come to their end.
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I don’t know if this is what you are looking for exactly, but I enjoy writing for Postcards to Voters because they focus on non-presidential races. I am currently writing postcards against an anti-choice constitutional amendment proposition in Ohio.
I wish more people would do things like that, instead of making posts that guilt trip people for not being excited enough about voting for the Blue sexual harasser instead of the Red one.
Thank you for your highly sensible response.
I guess there's a thing where "just because someone takes 15 seconds to shoot their mouth off online about something that's annoying them doesn't mean they have the time/energy to do anything actually constructive, even more so for the people who took .5 seconds to hit reblog now on someone else's shooting their mouth of post" but I think it would be strictly better for people to spend that .5 second exerting a smidgen of self control and going "either it's actual GOTV or it's not, and if it's not I'm going to not reblog it."
And as the election is over a year away...I don't think "vote blue no matter who" is actually a Get Out The Vote action at this point in time. It's annoying enough when people do it in person but at least then there's occasionally some chance of having a reasonable discussion about it, but on social media between people who don't really know each other? Ha snowball's chance in hell.
(I haven't done Postcards to Voters the last couple years, but I did around 2019-2020 or so and they are fairly low barrier to entry as long as you have stamp money, super introvert friendly, you can be as creative or non-creative as you want to be, and as you can do it from your home on your own schedule pretty darn spoonie friendly as well. As well as covid-safe. And yes, there's a big focus on local/state campaigns, which warms my participatory democracy loving little heart.) (ughh sounds like an important campaign maybe I should pick this thing up again.)
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More Than Six Sentence Sunday
hello again! i have some of my original wip to share again this week. thanks for tagging me @letraspal last week and @forabeatofadrum today!
here's some Astyanax POV, more than six sentences today because i didn't want to cut any of this
"Where are you off to in such a hurry?" A voice behind me startles me, and I turn, hand already on my weapon, to find Odysseus leaning against a wall, peeling an orange and looking at me with an expression of mild amusement.
I scramble for a moment, then realise I actually have little to hide.
"I'm taking my sister some food. She isn't feeling well." Only one word of that is a lie, I suppose.
"Hm." He responds, picking at the orange with apparent disinterest. "You know, you're a pretty good liar."
"I'm not-"
"I should know." He interrupts, then looks up and smiles. Again, I'm reminded of a fox. "The only problem is, I'm better."
not too much background feels necessary here, basically: Astyanax is supposed to be dead, Odysseus was supposed to kill him as a baby, they both know he didn't do what he was supposed to do, and now 18 years later Odysseus has to deal with the consequences of not doing his job.
and on that note, here's this snippet's relevant song from my Astyanax playlist
and i tag @ileadacharmedlife @martsonmars @imagineacoolusername @confused-bi-queer @ic3-que3n @forabeatofadrum @tea-brigade @bazzybelle @aroace-genderfluid-sheep @theearlgreymage @aristocratic-otter @facewithoutheart @otherpeoplesheartachept-2 @whogaveyoupermission @shemakesmeforget and @larkral
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the pill is fucking with my hormones again which naturally brings me to my constant conflict of 'is pursuing my passions more important than appeasing my hometown' and seeing as the big issue here is 'if i publish gay fantasy stories they will think im Weird :((' the conclusion i came to was 'i need to start being a little bit weirder all the time so that they're less surprised by it'. like yes queen start microdosing on weirdness to acclimatise your small town you're so normal about things
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Maybe I can die after this weeks meeting idk but its hard its so so hard to just. Exist. I want to scream i want to scream i want to just grab someone and shake them and ask them why. ask them why the fuck theyre all smiles and shit when everything is so fucking miserable all the time ask them why theyre NOT miserable all the time. hit them stab them shoot them choke them im miserable but theyre doing just fine its NOT FAIR they have it so easy its NOT FAIR why should they get to be happy when theyve done nothing to earn their joy and ive had to do everything to earn it but its still not enough it will never be enough i cant even afford to buy my own life with my blood let alone my happiness let alone comfort or contentment. all of the hard work amounts to nothing. all of the subtle social crimes and complicated plots. it amounts to nothing. theres no point to any of it. i could be the smartest most hard working person on Earth and in the end id still be here with nothing but the quest to at least die in a satisfying way.
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So it’s definitely on me because my framing of my point wasn’t very neutral but wow are people being really bitter on that post about fandom sizes. like again, I can see how my framing and example comes across as condemnatory but really that post was never intended to be Big Fandoms Bad, People In Big Fandoms DESTROY Good Small Fandoms, not at all. It was more supposed to be about how differences between small and big fandoms (even the ones people understandably dislike and lament as a fandom grows) can come down to demographics and math, not some cabal of ~sinister shippers~ or whatever
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Had enough items to speedrun and read both parts to Silvio's, then found more items and was able to read the sweet end for both Clavis & Jin.... aw hell yeah, triple epilogues baby 👀
I still feel very torn about how they're running things lately though, Ikepri is starting to feel much more cash cow-y with the high point requirements, the premium ends requiring BOTH readthroughs, and no more bday stories but instead grinding through events... love the characters & the storylines but like.. damn. i'm getting genshin ptsd ngl💀
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This is awesome just remembered I get to write the frottage scene soon assuming I actually write more than 4 words this week.
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how to ruin jugdral characters and make them into shitty modern tropes: have two teenage girls cat fight over their romantic feelings for a grown ass man and make them aggressive rivals
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hrhrrrhhg. wwuz lookin 4 kissing gifs here on tumblr to put on one of eebs posts & one of them was a. s*riel animation ive seen before and i closed my eyes and scrolled past But even just that one look at it made me be like. ok Time 2 b on the verge of tears for a good 30 minutes now 👍 like ok. fucking loser.
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