thy dungeon gal (non US citizen mode)

New post, gonna use this to document my journey as a trans woman

Going to the store

Oh, to be a little kitten who just got vaccinated and then taken to a high-end restaurant and tasted the best food the chefs could offer and then fell asleep in a basket.

my notifications are once again devolving into a spirited debate about the ethics of actions that could potentially make someone uncomfortable, and at risk of sounding like someone about to get a lot of irate anons I think we're frankly giving way too to much moral weight to hypothetical discomfort

the thing about discomfort is that it's an extremely nebulous category that can be triggered by virtually anything and that's far too broad a category to have any inherent moral quality to it. like. my mom was mad uncomfortable when I stopped shaving. that didn't mean I was doing violence against my mom it just meant she needed to get over herself. many such cases it must be said.

the qord argue is just the word agree if somebody fucked it up really bad and awfuls, which is deep

the world Sever is just theSevere without an e. which is kinda nnothing ar all or ever will be

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I think it was the poison grapes

Ohhh… POISON grapes.

If Star Wars was awesome they would say. "Peam me up, Scotty."

Reminding everyone to include their favourite edition of D&D! This is important data. Just edit your post to include it. :)

you think game designers are all perverts who are into kinky role play and shit and that is in fact true but that's just the basic level of perversion where they truly get depraved, decadent, downright dyonisian with it is when the spreadsheets get involved

i don't really like it when western mythological terms are applied haphazardly to essentially unrelated ideas. this is a completely lost battle but a lóng is really not a dragon, it is its own thing with only surface level similarities

i especially dislike many works that try to fold all sorts of different mythologies into a single consistent schema because they tend to heavily privilege western conceptions in doing so- see 'dragonology' books twisting basically every mythical reptilian under the sun into the mould of 'a species of dragon', implicitly centring the beowulf-style firebreather as the default from which all other mythologies derive, or basically anything that does worldwide vampire bloodlines

relatedly a qílín is not a unicorn, a fènghuáng is not a phoenix, and a jiāngshī is not a vampire, and it can impede understanding when they're approached from the standpoint of being the 'chinese version' of these concepts from western myth