Sometimes I Doodle Comics

(sighhh) yeah I should make one, huh.

okay I made one, it's mmstinks.bsky.social

As if Joanne couldn't get any shittier, she misgendered and insulted a woman who called for support, all because the woman had PCOS/PMOS and "didn't sound feminine enough."

Fuck her.

if your love for a shittily written FICTIONAL world is greater than that of real living, breathing, suffering minorities you dont deserve to say you care about us, you dont

By definition you can't accidentally queerbait. Queerbaiting is specifically using a same sex pair from the show to market the show to queer audiences with no intention of ever following through on a romantic relationship.

There is officially licensed Destiel merch signed off on by Kripke. Teen Wolf had a commercial with the actors for Derek and Stiles draped over each other talking about being "on a ship." Both shows actively used scenes between them as marketing while actively mocking fans for wanting them together. Sherlock has multiple characters refer to Johnlock as a couple, including characters we're supposed to believe are never wrong about human behavior and pushed those scenes in marketing. Then they acted insulted when fans saw them as a couple.

That's queerbaiting.

Done on accident it would just be queer subtext. Done because they had no other choice due to censorship is queer coding.

The specific meaning of the word is really starting to get lost and it's a pretty important one to keep accurate. It describes a very specific phenomenon that was done repeatedly and maliciously for decades and is meant to examine that specifically.

the associated expectation of performative anger

the notion that this is "a game" that everyone is playing that you can't opt out of no matter what

the way people keep telling me that it's definitely a fun game and I just don't get it

the very specific experience of The Game as a school bullying technique used to mock me personally for being unable to follow a social script that everyone else intuitively understood

some traits that Loss has:

people do sometimes pretend to be annoyed about it, but I've literally never seen anyone receive actual pushback for not reacting to it "correctly"

it is a reference that people choose to make sometimes and. not a thing that presents itself as a set of rules you're expected to follow

in addition to never having been told that I'm not reacting to it correctly I've also never seen anyone even suggest that there Is a "correct" way to react to Loss. unless this specific ask counts

Problem Player: The player who insists their PC is the only canon PC and all the other players characters are "non-canonical OCs"

Solution: Declare their PC non-canon. This will, in their mind, render the entire game non-canon, allowing them enjoy the game again as a non-canon AU where the other PCs exist.

Problem Player: The player who keeps powerscaling your setting and insisting the goblins are "haxx-based low diff mutliversal" or some shit.

Solution: Just use your chain-scaling outerversal massively FTL smurfing to solo stomp 10/10 the argument

Problem Player: The player who never shows up, and none of you remember meeting, and when you search their social media you just get images of your own death.

Solution: Leave a message carved into the bones of an unburied heretic beneath the new moon asking them if they're still around and, if there's still no reply, you may need to find a new player.

Problem Player: The player from an 80s PSA who thinks they're here to pledge themselves to Satan and is clearly disappointed this is a roleplaying thing.

Solution: Sadly, this is just a find a different game group thing. Luckily, there's plenty of Old School Revival games that apply modern game design to the old-school satanic recruitment style that you can recommend them.

Problem Player: Jock who doesn't care about this nerd shit and is just here to impress their nerd crush.

Solution: This one is just a waiting game - by act three, they'll realise that they actually love RPGs in a big emotional climax. Make sure to have the game involve heavy-handed symbolism for the jock's personal problems to speed up the narrative.

Problem Player: Inhuman creature who's wearing the skin of one of the game group and is clearly planning to devour you all.

Solution: Don't be racist! This thing came from the Andromeda galaxy to hang out with you, the least you can do is let it play our human games and give it some snacks.

Problem Player: Sheldon Cooper

Johnson's Dictionary Online (thanks @yellowbelliedtoad!) – 1755 and 1773

Green's Dictionary of Slang – 1300s to today

A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue – 1788