This isn't just a poll, but also a place for civil, reasoned, debate/discussion

tell us your favorite Helltaker girl, and why she's your favorite

however, hot take I know, I'm not the biggest fan of people making Magnus dark skinned and considering it cannon

HOT TAKE, yes yes I am aware, but it just makes me so.. icky..? coming from the pasty white boy, my side doesnt hold any weight in the slightest, this is just a personal opinion.. obviously :3

its just for me, I see him as a dumbass white boy with ratty hair (transition goals), and I am very very cannon compliant and have a lot of anger (silent, I love everyone please keep making art I love u dont take my opinions to heart) towards people who go against cannon

An analysis done based on a post I’ve seen calling Gavin Reed a racist.

THIS IS PURELY A DISCUSSION. I AM OPEN TO OTHER INTERPRETATIONS AND COMMENTS. IF YOU’D LIKE TO DISCUSS OR EDUCATE ME IN A TOPIC PERTAINING TO THIS THAT WILL FURTHER MY KNOWLEDGE ON SOMETHING LIKE THIS, PUT IT IN MY ASKBOX OR COMMENTS.

TW: This analysis will include the discussion of whether Androids are considered a race within the DBH World, when they may have not been considered a race, and other racial topics such as if Gavin Reed is racist. I did minimal research on the topic and I am speaking based on the experience of being a minority in America and of my opinions.

Most of us do not care if you don't believe in what we do. We are very religiously accepting, because reality shifting isn't a religion. (if you thought it was a cult, surprise, surprise, it isn't. go look up the definition of a cult please.). We also do not care if you have trauma related to things like this. Please avoid us if need be. Take care of yourself. If you simply do not like shifting, that is perfectly okay.

The issue we have with you all is the fact that you come after us for no apparent reason. You leave hate in our inboxes diagnosing us with things we do not have, despite the fact that 90 percent of you are not doctors, and never will be, and even if you are part of that ten percent, you are not our doctors. You do not know any of our symptoms, nor do you have any authority to make these claims.

You mass report people who have resolved to keep to themselves and stay within their mostly harmless community. You attack us for no reason. Many of us do not interact with you, most of us have no connection with you. Yet, you claim that you are the victims because we're insane.

You all agree that we need to be stopped, when no one is convincing anyone into anything. No one is forcing anyone to believe in reality shifting, and no one is forcing anyone to do anything.

It's safe to say that we have no qualms with you having your beliefs. We have no qualms with you having your resolve or disliking certain religious beliefs. what we take issue with is when you become crusaders; attacking innocents because you believe it is your right and your duty to get rid of us.

Thank you for taking the time to read this letter. Please reconsider your arguments against shifting, and whether or not you have any authority over them.

Please be respectful when interacting with this post. Any comments regarding us being insane without proof or reason will be deleted, and any posts that are just insults with no substance will also be blocked. I am willing to have a calm and respectful discussion about this topic.

Margaret Atwood Being #BasedAF @ The Sixth Annual Christopher Hitchens Dinner in NYC

"Stay in your lane, Margaret,” I am sometimes told, to which I can only reply, “What is my lane?” Taking the positive view: Perhaps these reprimands from others are not reprimands at all, but well-meant warnings. They see me wandering fecklessly out into traffic, oblivious to the danger, and want to help me avoid being squashed. They must have been muttering secret incantations, too; many attempts have been made, but I remain unsquashed."

"I was never told to stay in my lane by Christopher Hitchens, I hasten to add. He, too, did not know what his lane was, and wouldn’t have stayed in it if he did. We had at least that in common: a failure to recognize lanes. It goes with a disrespect for the fences around the corrals where the sacred cows are kept, though they keep changing the cows, I notice. Hitch would have noticed that too.

On one memorable occasion, I shared a stage with Christopher Hitchens. It was a tent at the U.K. literary festival known as Hay-on-Wye. As the canvas walls flapped in the obligatory pelting rainstorm, and as smoke from Hitch’s conveyor belt of cigarettes swirled around me, I did my best to stand my ground, whatever it was. Meanwhile, Hitch did a kind of verbal sword dance around me.

I can’t remember what we were supposed to be debating—I hope it was not The Moral and Social Obligations of the Modern Fiction Writer, or Is There Such a Thing as a Woman’s Novel—but I do recall the skill with which he debated it. I refrained from saying, “Christopher Hitchens goes hoppity, hoppity, hoppity, hop,” although he did, in a manner of speaking, narrowing his eyes through the blue fumes he’d exhaled as he took wicked aim at the rhetorical targets he himself had just erected. It was bracing. It was a workout. And, dare I say, it was a draw. Or as close as you could ever come to a draw, with Hitchens.

At least he didn’t accuse me of hurting his feelings, nor did I accuse him of hurting mine. Having feelings was not a thing back then. We would not have admitted to owning such marshmallow-like appendages, and if we did have any feelings, we’d have considered them irrelevant as arguments.

Feelings are real—people do have them, I have observed—and they can certainly be plausible explanations for all kinds of behavior. But they are not excuses or justifications. If they were, men who murder their wives because they’re feeling cranky that day would never get convicted."

"The moderate center is a preferable place to live. There’s more respect for the individual, or that is the idea. There’s at least some desire for human rights for everyone, or that, too, is the idea. There’s less fear, and that is the idea as well. But the moderate center is also the hardest position to defend. It lacks a Big Slogan. It lacks hordes of robotic followers. It’s untidy. It resists the homogeneous. And it’s under constant attack from both extremes, those on the so-called right and the so-called left"

"I expect Hitch would join me in a distinction I have been making lately: that between belief and truth. It’s a comment on our special times that I’d even feel I have to make this distinction. A belief cannot be either proved or disproved. If you wish to believe that invisible flower spirits are causing your string beans to grow, there is no point in my trying to dissuade you, because these entities are invisible and immaterial. Something proposed as a truth can, however, be put to the test.

In recent years, people have confused beliefs with truths. From this confusion have come ideologies and dogmas—the characteristic of a dogma being that it’s proposed as an absolute truth and cannot be disputed, and if you try disputing it, you’ll be burned as a heretic."

"You can’t exist as a writer for very long without learning that something you write is going to upset someone, sometime, somewhere. Whether you end up with a bullet in your neck will depend on many qualitie actors—there are lots of bullets, and some necks are thicker than others—but let us pause to remember that the most important meaning of freedom of expression is not that you can say anything you like without any consequences whatsoever but that the bullet should not be your government’s, and it should not be fired into your neck for an expression of political views that don’t coincide with theirs.”

- Margaret Atwood