About this and this: I like mocking George R R Martin's "realism" as much as the next ecology nerd/feminist who isn't thrilled about rape in fiction being written in maybe-tittilating ways/whatever, but, specifically in the context of writing about wars that are morally ambiguous and do not have straightforward good vs evil sides, yeah, that's more realistic than orcs.
Yes, there are individual people who are pretty spectacularly awful, and movements etc that are overall pretty awful, but there are not entire societies or movements or alliances or any large groups of people that are just evil and morally OK to kill down to the last person. Not how things work.
nothing says "not a settler-colonial ethnostate" like the IDF having a semen retrieval team on standby 24/7 to milk the corpses of their dead soldiers to maintain birthrates
thinking out loud
a new character (or not really, they kinda got recycled) for a new pathfinder mini campagne !
they are called Lucien, they are a nephilim fleshwarp cleric!
saying “women should just stop dating men if they don’t want to be mistreated” is extremely similar logistically to “we can stop teen pregnancy if everyone is abstinent” like the flaw in it being that regardless of your moral opinion on (heterosexuality/teenagers having sex), people are going to do these things. accept it or don’t but it’s literally just the fact of the matter
two men
Pov you stan with your cult leader canceled wife
"say whatever u want about satoru but if a child handed him a fake phone he would answer it" ☎️🎶
Also From Microsoft’s own FAQ: "Note that Recall does not perform content moderation. It will not hide information such as passwords or financial account numbers. 🤡
there is such a trauma to daughterhood. it comes from the lack of agency - not only from being born as a woman but existing in the world as a child. an oppression on top of an oppression. people make jokes about girls with daddy issues but nothing compares to the kind of trauma you recieve from having a complicated relationship with your mother. people talk about it so often. and it's one thing to have a mother who hates you which is always awful, but often it feels worse to have a mother who doesn't. to have a mother who is simply exhausted by the fact you were born. a mother who doesn't hate you, but loves her men more. a mother who maybe wanted to be a mom, once, and then came to realize what a thankless job it was. and she didn't want to hate you, but it was hard to love you and even harder to like you. a mother who doesn't hate you exactly, but never outgrows her desire to be attractive and beautiful and makes you her enemy in that way. or a mother who has nothing more to her than being a mother and clings to coddling you in a way thats suffocating. so many daughters develop deep empathy for the mothers because they were women, daughters, girls once. everyone deals with it differently. but at the end of it, you still need a mother and that is the most horrible and wretched part of all. the trauma of being alive, of being a woman, and of having a mother but still needing one. such a uniquely miserable feeling