scream into the void

You can be – you should be – furious with people who voted for Trump, for wilfully trying to sabotage those rights and make them conditional, a privilege for the "deserving", a privilege they can deny the "wrong" kind of people.

And when the MAGA crowd are hit by the consequences of their actions, and denied basic human rights because it turns out their Great Leader doesn't actually include his followers among the privileged, it's tempting to say that they deserve to be denied those rights, because that's what they wanted to do to others.

But if you do that, you don't truly believe that those rights should be universal; you just have a different idea than the MAGA crowd about who should be included among the privileged.

Consent at any ttrpg table is important.

Me and my wife just had to remove one of our good friends from a long term campaign she runs. We just got through an area that really heavily focused on his character, and he had to make a tough decision between an old friend and the party.

We have a discord server where a lot of our table talk happens, and he started making comments that his character would kill himself in order to not have to make this decision fully. Now, our table has a really clearly defined red light consent system, so the moment that was said in chat I made it clear it was an action I’d red line. He implied he’d do it again anyway, and only stopped after me and another party member both told him why it made us so uncomfortable.

It took a full day to hear from this person again, at which time he

1) made excuses for his actions

2) repeatedly said it was just a game/fictional

3) said it shouldn’t matter what he was saying because me and this other party member get very descriptive in combat anyways, so if gore is fine this should be too

Consent at any ttrpg table is important.

And I don’t welcome people into my home or into our games that don’t believe the same thing, because it’s hard to trust someone who isn’t willing to respect consent.

We have to figure out now how to proceed with this character, but a bump in the story is a small price to pay for the safety and comfort of all of my friends.

They have not apologized.

They also have done several other things in other games that are awful and make me uncomfortable.

I recently finished my first full campagin as a player. Here are some thing that happened

Chaining myself to the god of death for my girlfriend

We weren't dating yet

Our oracle gave up memories of one of their human parents to get information.

Said oracle also lost a leg

My girlfriend died, and the player who was the only cis het person in the group played another gay chacter

Said gay character got into another relationship with another pc

Oh we also stabbed and shot the god of death that I chained myself to

My girlfriend opened a ditch to the underworld in the middle of Europe.

Dolos kidnapped us to get us to Europe on no sleep

We had a ghost dog

I had to kill my half sister. Twice

I also punched Hermes and stole his helm

Our satyr started a rumor the zues has rabies

We licked rocks and drank from underworld rivers

My girlfriend became the leader of the broken, the beaten, and the damned

We called Orpheus a sad simp

We got a dinosaur made out of bones

"The box that held these monsters is open. To get rid of them close the box" -dm

"what's the box made out of"-me

"metal"-dm

"Cool I close the box with my metal powers"-me

"Shit"-dm

Good article by David Hunter on how to survive the Trump presidency, both on the personal and on the political plane.

MY MOM SAID IF I COULD GET 100,000 NOTES I CAN GET A DAGGER

PLEASE HELP ME

IM NOT ALLOWED TO REBLOG OR SPAM MY OWN POST SO HELP ME OUT GUSY

What I’m sayig is that somewhere, someone’s mother is quite likely approaching the realization that they may actually be compelled to live up to their end of this little bargain.

We'd like to think that things will back to how they were before covid 19. They are not. For better or for worse our world has changed. Hopefully we'll get a better healthcare system, realise that grocery workers are essential, and give each other more love.we will be weary of hugs and of touching a stranger's hand for a while. We will have moments of fear when we see an empty asle in the grocery store, thinking that it's happening again. We'll panic for a moment when we hear someone cough. But we will heal. We won't take for granted the arts, or our parks that we can no longer enjoy. We'll go on more walks and read more books and know that things have changed. We will hopefully be kinder to strangers. Hopefully.

Things aren't going back to what they were. This is what defines our generation..those of us that don't remember 9/11, just its effects. Who know that stories of what happened that day. In the future, our kids will.ask us what we did during the quarentine. Did we break it? Did we get the virus? Were we an essential worker? This is our day. It's just one really long day. It is up to us what we do with it now and when it's over. Do we fill the world with fear and hate for others? Are we going to be our parents where when they found that the attacks were done by someone Islamic they decided every person who is or was Islamic was bad? Or will we learn from their mistakes?

Furthermore, they also use race portrayal in the books against her. While she did make mistakes, like in the naming of Cho Chang and the reference to Angelina Johnson as black being someone making fun of her hair(or so i hear? I don't personally recall), she made these mistakes 20 years ago. I fully believe she is well aware of the issues and has grown as a person and would not make the same mistakes today.

Stop using things from 15-20 years ago against her.

And @themathterf​, just fyi: Cho Chang’s name is not necessarily a mistake and the character who told Angelina that her hair looked like snakes was Pansy Parkinson, a Slytherin bully who was framed in a very negative light.  Anyone who claims that JKR is racist for having a racist character say something racist is... well. Not to be taken seriously  as far as literary criticism is concerned.

2) most people in the community understand why she doesn't have Lgbt writings in her books. It comes from the fact that years later she claims Dumbledore is gay and than in the current movies, after making this claim, has done nothing to support the claim. Like from a writer's standpoint, you've already made the claim. Might as well act on it.