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[ID: tumblr tags from e-the-village-cryptid reading: # terfs are like 'saying 'pregnant people' harms women because it diminishes the role women play in reproduction!' # as if everyone doesn't know that the majority of pregnant people are women # no cis women have ever been turned away from pregnancy-related healthcare because 'sorry you're a pregnant WOMAN # 'and this here says pregnant PEOPLE and everyone knows women aren't people'

# however trans and nonbinary pregnant people have been turned away because 'this clinic is for WOMEN' # gender neutral language helps trans and nonbinary people and is completely irrelevant to cis women. End ID.]

0 cis women have been harmed by gender neutral language around pregnancy

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The point of fiction is actually to put that guy in a situation™️, and he might try to tell you the point is to then get him out of the situation, WRONG, second situation

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[Plain text ID: Day after day I think of you as soon as I wake up. Someone has put cries of birds on the air like jewels.]

Excerpt from "Short Talks" by Anne Carson

[text ID: Day after day I think of you as soon as I wake up. Someone has put cries of birds on the air like jewels.]

#ohhhh

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You keep dreaming about the ocean

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[ID: an illustration of a ring-tailed lemur on a branch, facing to the left. It is gazing curiously at a small blue butterfly and reaching for it with one paw. The background is light blue with yellow spots. End.]

Ring-tailed lemur! Endemic to Madagascar. They hang out in troops of up to around 30 lemurs, grooming or sunbathing. They’re the most well adapted lemur to terrestrial movement.

#i love it!!

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Honestly funniest thing Dragon Age could do is confirm that the only people who were ever correct about Andraste were that one mountain cult. Like yes actually she WAS reincarnated as a dragon and she DID live on this mountain and now her chosen are all dead thanks the the wardens and the chantry.

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#keyboard is easier and faster and doesn't hurt my hands like a phone does

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wip wednesday - soulmate AU style

“Hey,” Jim whispers, tracing nonsense patterns on Oluwande’s lovely skin with one fingertip, hours before he will be dragged away from them. “How many colours do you see?”

His voice is drowsy, sated, mouth soft when it presses against Jim’s forehead. “Just one. It’s real pretty. Bright, like – like what I imagine the sun to feel like.”

That’s not what their colour is like. Jim’s feels like the ocean, the starry night sky, the soothing cool of aloe on their skin.

“Huh,” they say. “Weird.”

--

(later, later)

Izzy’s leg goes in the ocean. Jim and Archie leave Frenchie with Fang, and slip away to wash the blood off their bodies. And she’s almost expecting it not to come up again, but as soon as they’re alone Jim turns to her, hands cupping her face, kissing her just as softly as before. Archie’s head goes a little blank, and she lets them hold her, kissing back until Jim breaks away and presses their forehead to hers.

“Tell me why my colours changed when we first touched,” they whisper. “Tell me why touching you now makes them so much brighter, just like when I touched him.”

Oluwande, Archie’s mind supplies, the lost soulmate. “I don’t know,” she whispers back, “all I know is that I’ve never seen colour a day in my life until I met you.”

It’s the cheesiest thing she’s ever fucking said. But Jim makes a low noise deep in their throat, and then they’re kissing her with a desperation that she understands far, far too well. And then their mouths are occupied with better things, and they stop talking altogether.

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AN: These two snippets are from a longer Jim/Archie/Oluwande/Zheng soulmate AU that I'm doing for @garlicsoupweek!!

If you're a Jim/Olu or Archie/Jim/Olu/Zheng fan, go check out Garlic Soup Week, it's a prompt week focusing on our beloved TealOranges and Garlic Soup Polycule (and any mix and match Archie/Jim/Olu/Zheng pairings)!! Prompts got shared last week, and the week is in late June!!

#self reblog for the today crowd!

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I know "60s housewives who invented slash fanfiction" has taken on a life of its own as a phrase, but Kirk/Spock didn't really exist until the 70s and THOSE WOMEN HAD JOBS. They were teachers and librarians and bookkeepers and scientists and they damn well spent their own money going to conventions, printing zines, buying fanart and making fandom happen. Put some respect on their names.

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[ID: screenshot of a tumblr post by @ dkpsyhog that reads "My favourite kind of poll is ones where OP clearly made a VERY incorrect assumption. End ID.]

Just checking.... We all pronounce Miette like My-TAY in our heads, right?

#mee-yet here #saw it and figured it was obviously french

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[image description copied from alt text: four sketches of an npc from my d&d game, mahety (she/her), drawn in bold inky lineart. mahety is a fat fire genasi with flame-like hair that's shaved on one side.]

practicing this art style is going well! i am having fun!

(pssst this was a redraw of these sketches i did forever ago - i will be redrawing these sketches of mahety until i'm dead, probably, bc i love them sm)

#oh fuck shes so gorgeous!!! #i love her omg

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This beautiful pup was the first of two commissions for my lovely friend @pammarie-gx! Thank you so much for the commission, it was a delight to draw!!

[ID copied from alt text: Marker art of a Bernese Mountain Dog, close up on it's head from the shoulders up. It is looking at the viewer, and has it's mouth open and tongue hanging out in a doggy smile. Stylized teal hatching makes up the background. The watermark reads @ watercolour critters. End ID.]

Instagram | Etsy | Tip Jar

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It's a bit late, but just wanted to say that we're so excited for everyone's WIPs!!! If you're ever sharing snippets for WIP Wednesday and the like, feel free to tag us and we'd love to share what you're working on!!

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wip wednesday - soulmate AU style

“Hey,” Jim whispers, tracing nonsense patterns on Oluwande��s lovely skin with one fingertip, hours before he will be dragged away from them. “How many colours do you see?”

His voice is drowsy, sated, mouth soft when it presses against Jim’s forehead. “Just one. It’s real pretty. Bright, like – like what I imagine the sun to feel like.”

That’s not what their colour is like. Jim’s feels like the ocean, the starry night sky, the soothing cool of aloe on their skin.

“Huh,” they say. “Weird.”

--

(later, later)

Izzy’s leg goes in the ocean. Jim and Archie leave Frenchie with Fang, and slip away to wash the blood off their bodies. And she’s almost expecting it not to come up again, but as soon as they’re alone Jim turns to her, hands cupping her face, kissing her just as softly as before. Archie’s head goes a little blank, and she lets them hold her, kissing back until Jim breaks away and presses their forehead to hers.

“Tell me why my colours changed when we first touched,” they whisper. “Tell me why touching you now makes them so much brighter, just like when I touched him.”

Oluwande, Archie’s mind supplies, the lost soulmate. “I don’t know,” she whispers back, “all I know is that I’ve never seen colour a day in my life until I met you.”

It’s the cheesiest thing she’s ever fucking said. But Jim makes a low noise deep in their throat, and then they’re kissing her with a desperation that she understands far, far too well. And then their mouths are occupied with better things, and they stop talking altogether.

--

AN: These two snippets are from a longer Jim/Archie/Oluwande/Zheng soulmate AU that I'm doing for @garlicsoupweek!!

If you're a Jim/Olu or Archie/Jim/Olu/Zheng fan, go check out Garlic Soup Week, it's a prompt week focusing on our beloved TealOranges and Garlic Soup Polycule (and any mix and match Archie/Jim/Olu/Zheng pairings)!! Prompts got shared last week, and the week is in late June!!

#ofmd #garlic soup week #jim jimenez #oluwande boodhari #archie ofmd #jim x oluwande #jim x archie #jim x archie x oluwande #tealoranges #garlic soup polycule #tragicallynerdy writes #wip wednesday

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just a reminder to COMPLETELY boycott Eurovision this year; Azerbaijan and Israel, despite committing genocide, are STILL allowed to compete & have NOT been banned. by refusing to ban both countries, Eurovision is profiting off of the genocide of Palestinians and Armenians.

do not listen to the artists. do not pirate or stream the artists' music, and this applies to ALL the artists who are competing and performing this year. do not listen to the songs on ANY platform, do not give them ANY attention.

write to your broadcasters and tell them you REFUSE to watch the channels until they recognise the Armenian and Palestinian genocides & that you find it disgusting how they are allowing Eurovision despite Azerbaijan and Israel's entries.

do NOT give eurovision OR the competing artists ANYTHING but silence.

boycott ALL of eurovision.

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I think a lot of folks in indie RPG spaces misunderstand what's going on when people who've only ever played Dungeons & Dragons claim that indie RPGs are categorically "too complicated". Yes, it's sometimes the case that they're making the unjustified assumption that all games are as complicated as Dungeons & Dragons and shying away from the possibility of having to brave a steep learning cure a second time, but that's not the whole picture.

A big part of it is that there's a substantial chunk of the D&D fandom – not a majority by any means, but certainly a very significant minority – who are into D&D because they like its vibes or they enjoy its default setting or whatever, but they have no interest in actually playing the kind of game that D&D is... so they don't.

Oh, they'll show up at your table, and if you're very lucky they might even provide their own character sheet (though whether it adheres to the character creation guidelines is anyone's guess!), but their actual engagement with the process of play consists of dicking around until the GM tells them to roll some dice, then reporting what number they rolled and letting the GM figure out what that means.

Basically, they're putting the GM in the position of acting as their personal assistant, onto whom they can offload any parts of the process of play that they're not interested in – and for some players, that's essentially everything except the physical act of rolling the dice, made possible by the fact most of D&D's mechanics are either GM-facing or amenable to being treated as such.*

Now, let's take this player and present them with a game whose design is informed by a culture of play where mechanics are strongly player facing, often to the extent that the GM doesn't need to familiarise themselves with the players' character sheets and never rolls any dice, and... well, you can see where the wires get crossed, right?

And the worst part is that it's not these players' fault – not really. Heck, it's not even a problem with D&D as a system. The problem is D&D's marketing-decreed position as a universal entry-level game means that neither the text nor the culture of play are ever allowed to admit that it might be a bad fit for any player, so total disengagement from the processes of play has to be framed as a personal preference and not a sign of basic incompatibility between the kind of game a player wants to be playing and the kind of game they're actually playing.

(Of course, from the GM's perspective, having even one player who expects you to do all the work represents a huge increase to the GM's workload, let alone a whole group full of them – but we can't admit that, either, so we're left with a culture of play whose received wisdom holds that it's just normal for GMs to be constantly riding the ragged edge of creative burnout. Fun!)

* Which, to be clear, is not a flaw in itself; a rules-heavy game ideally needs a mechanism for introducing its processes of play gradually.

#yeaaah #i notice a significant difference in my own GM burnout between running the campaign for my friends who know the game well #and can take a lot of initiative and roleplay on their own for like a half hour in a session #and my friends who dont know the rules and who dont have a lot of direction or motivation that i dont give them #its a big difference! #the second group is learning and becoming a bit more engaged but it is a harder group to DM for and i get more tired of our campaign #and i love playing with them a lot! but like besties we've been playing monthly for five years #i should not have to tell you what dice to roll (i have a sign up now. i just point to the sign) #(and i dont mind telling ppl how to do things and helping but you should know how to roll an ability check by now) #(you are no longer a beginner player by any means) #(also pls know that none of the 2nd group follow me on tumblr so if you're one of my dnd players and u see this you are so lovely to GM for) #(thank u for taking so much initiative and being so invested and wanting to expand the world with or without me)

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[ID: three photos of the same leopard coat Appaloosa horse, which is white with roan red spots, lying in the snow. It's legs are buried in the snow, and it lays partially on its side with its head resting upright on the snow too. It looks to the side, then at the viewer. End ID.]

#behold #the leapord seal