just vibing here

I think better depictions of Orcs include works like Dungeon Meshi (Delicious in Dungeon for those who didnt read it before the official translation and must be resigned to sounding like a pretentious weeb) or even just Warcraft III. In Dungeon Meshi the Orcs are explicitly porcine in appearance and absolutely do raid and kill. The story touches on this as a conflict of cultures, economic conditions and more. In Warcraft III, coming after a game where the Orcs were heavy metal dag-blasted evil, the story focuses on Orcs living in the aftermath of a failed invasion, abandoned by their demonic overlords and oppressed by the human victors. The story manages surprising depth on the subject of their culpability in the evil they wrought upon the land as well as the injustices they face now. Both takes are, I think, more interesting, more honest, and more, well, intellectually valuable takes on the topic. I don't hate the Orcs from 5.5e, and generally don't like to harp on people depicting things how they like. And there's still plenty of good monstrous Orcs out there. But something always gnaws at me about it when I see "green elves". Some kind of stolen valor for monster-fuckers I suppose. "Yeah, I love the monstrous" says someone talking about an generally attractive woman with muscles. I could really do a deeper dive on this, but that would perhaps just be indulgent. Im going to cut myself off here. Zug Zug.

Normally, people tend to get frustrated, even jokingly, if they miss out on something. This comment was on a song from 1974 and it made me smile quite much. Simply appreciative. Like a dessert after dinner.

no no this is an excellent addition thank you

to quote brintnall: In his essay, "Masculinity as Spectacle", Steve Neale seeks to extend Laura Mulvey's work on the male gaze and to challenge her assertion that the male or male-identified spectator can never look upon the male body as an erotic object. To challenge Mulvey's assertion, Neale identifies the mechanisms mainstream Hollywood cinema uses to represent the male body as erotic. One way of doing this, Neale argues, is by making the male body the target of violence. In the war film, a soldier can hold his buddy – as long as his buddy is dying on the battlefield. In the western, Butch Cassidy can wash the Sundance Kid's naked flesh – as long as it is wounded. In the boxing film, a trainer can rub the well-developed torso and sinewy back of his protege – as long as it is bruised. In the crime film, a mob lieutenant can embrace his boss like a lover – as long as he is riddled with bullets. Violence makes the homoeroticism of many "male" genres invisible; it is a structural mechanism of plausible deniability. and that may be a leftover ripple of the hays code that we might never fully lose, but it is still a very real aspect of homoerotic relations in fictional depictions of male bonding. i also get at what they're getting at but i do not fully agree with "#because that would require a personal authentic relationship to their sexuality that they do not have" either. because, like, plenty of these men do have personal authentic relationships to their sexuality. or do have a genuine and sincere attraction to women. and that doesn't necessarily change that they also hate women. because in this society, misogyny is inherently baked into Straightness because the societal function of Straightness is to legitimise and launder misogyny and homophobia. it is why compulsory heterosexuality, in the feminist actual meaning from rich's essay and not the one it's taken on lately that basically just means internalised homophobia, is a thing that affects all women in the first place. and i am here obviously not talking about straightness as in the experience of being attracted to only the "opposite gender" in a neutral sense (though how neutral can that ever really be when so much about that is socially constructed too) but explicitly capital S Straightness as a social hegemony which functions as an extension of patriarchy. like, yes, these men can hate women and be legitimately and genuinely and authentically attracted to them at the same time because we live in a society in which male attraction to women is supposed to look like violence and dominance and ownership, and so men who engage in sexuality through that lens are fully engaging authentically. and that isn't to say that there isn't a healthy way for men to experience attraction to women, obviously not. but the idea that experiencing authentic attraction and and wanting to dehumanise or hurt them are two discongruent states is something that can very quickly turn into the very dangerous idea that sexuality and attraction are all inherently morally neutral or affirmative.

Xar's science words sound like SBR dialogue idk

A little bit of me inside a can (ah!)

this man fucked Sufjan Stevens

Slowly getting back to hearing my own self think.

Context for this is a German learning app I've been using but I really love the picture it paints outside of that. 9,951 genders.

Jigsaw is super apologetic throughout the whole thing but the victim has worked retail so theyre like “no don’t worry, take your time. i understand”