There's good in this world, and it's worth fighting for.

Taking the "like a vampire but toned down for game balance purposes" implementation of dhampir and doing it with succubi instead would be such an evil thing to put on a character like hey. you've got some weak Seduction Powers whether you're into that or not. do people actually like you or are you using the evil powers on them without knowing it? are your feelings genuine or do you want to feed on the people you think you care about? haha people think you're an evil sex demon and every interaction you have with others is going to have that lingering in the background

Not full shapeshifting but a body that subtly contorts itself according to local beauty standards. Noticing yourself looking up at a friend who's normally the same height as you like okay guess we're heading into "women need to be small and dainty" country. Sigh. It's never a place where the mainstream idea of an ideal woman is tall and muscular.

Having to get really good at bullshitting about makeup and perfume because you have No Fucking Idea, it's succubus bullshit altering your actual skin to make it look like you've absolutely mastered a skill you don't have, your scent is some subtle magic nonsense and actually differs from person to person, you don't know what smells they like, how the fuck are you supposed to know what it it's they're asking questions about? You roll out of bed like this in the morning and if you're too honest about that people get aggravatingly jealous about it.

All your adventurer friends have cool scars with stories behind them except you. Your body isn't allowed to have a history like that.

I wonder how society would respond to an explicitly orientalist work, like "this fantasy story is set in the fake version of Asia that the romans and medievals made up". so like with the blemmies, the dog-headded people, and the men with one gaint foot they use as a sunshade.

i do think theres something sad about how largely only the literature that's considered especially good or important is intentionally preserved. i want to read stuff that ancient people thought sucked enormous balls

I've spent a ridiculous amount of time on Project Gutenberg sifting through forgotten old fiction and lemme tell ya. a lot of that stuff sucks ass.

Tremendously comforting, really.

Lovely to see we have spaces where you can gain access to so much literature!

I'm sure it's been added a million times, but that's not how you spell Gutenberg. Here's the correct link to Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/

I'm gonna be honest 'cowboys were a sort of itinerant warrior class common in meiji-era texas' always annoys me a bit because it's a funny post but also No They Weren't. They were an itinerant pastoralist class common in Meiji-era Texas. And indeed the wider western region of post-Risorgimento America

I strongly advice against anyone bulk ordering overpowered unregulated laser pointers off ebay and frying the camera sensors with them. Definitely don't do that (without eye protection).

And face protection! Don’t forget to wear a mask of some kind when you DEFINITELY DO NOT DO THIS, do not show your face or post about it on social media that you have ABSOLUTELY NOT DONE THIS.