Ramblings of a Mistwraith

By popular demand (and also because I really REALLY want to share them) here's some more pictures of my Flare :3 (and Lizzie!!!)

All taken by Photostegi!!!

ALSO HAPPY ANNIVERSARY TO THIS COSPLAY

Exactly one year ago I was panicking trying to squeeze this beast of a costume into 2 suitcases

This year I'm packing Roathe (also panicking but at least there's more suitcases)

I love Warframe so much

hallo...this is a commission from the lovely Gianni Matrograno, who takes VA requests on his KoFi (in case you were Unawares)

Please enjoy what I will now be considering the canon internal thoughts of The Stalker, upon spawning into a mission with Jade present. And go commission Gianni. Give this man money to say funny words.

Transcript below the cut!

Selûne and Shar

Art for Baldur's Gate 3

The only person who won’t be surprised by the call is Clark. Which isn’t to say he won’t be surprised at all, just at a different time. Clark will be the one who wakes up in the middle of the night. He won’t know why at first, the way few of us do when roused from a sound sleep by nothing at all.

And it really will be nothing. Clark will stare into the dark, thinking, listening, and realize the world has gone silent. The white noise at the edge of his hearing, his subtle companion for decades, has ceased.

"The 'God Made Trans People' billboard is stupid! God didn't make me! I'm an atheist!" Okay. The billboard sits along a major highway in Kansas. We can deduce that the target audience is not you—it's the centrist evangelical Christians driving along that road who could probably be persuaded to become allies as long as we choose our words carefully and don't make them feel attacked for not already knowing everything about trans rights issues. Another one I see a lot is, "We shouldn't be talking about how right-wing legislation catches [privileged in-group] in the crossfire when [marginalized out-group] suffers far more!" I know. I agree with you. Which is why you and I are not the intended audience of this argument!

The entire point of rhetoric is to win over someone who doesn't already fully agree with you. In this case, let's say that someone is Jennifer, the moderate center-right mom in your neighborhood who doesn't really know or care about transgender issues but would be absolutely horrified by the idea of her teenage daughter having to submit to an invasive inspection of her body just to be allowed to play soccer. Tell her, "Banning trans students from sports will inevitably subject all student athletes to invasive gender-policing," or "Legal restrictions on gender-affirming care will make it harder for you to access the hormone replacement therapy you take to treat menopause symptoms," and she is more likely to question her existing beliefs and listen to the rest of what you have to say than if you lead with leftist talking points that she already has a calcified opinion about or which she thinks do not personally affect her.