Hey guess what bitches Poland had a general election last Sunday and we said “fuck you” to the current fascist Orban-wannabes en masse, in a record-breaking historic turnout of 74% (that’s a better turnout than the 1989 election which toppled the Soviet regime), with people of all ages standing in lines till 3 am to vote, young people actually outnumbering the elderly for the first time ever; and the result is that the progressive pro-EU coalition won and will form the next government. Been in in a stunned-but-celebratory mood since Sunday night.
To a homophobe, even the most chaste kiss on the cheek between gay people is exactly as disgusting and degenerate as a hardcore BDSM orgy hosted in the town square, so you may as well ally with the BDSM orgy enthusiasts to throw bricks at the cops who are going to try and arrest all of you together anyway.
I once held hands with my husband at an event where my wife was also present, and a concerned parent lectured me about how she didn’t want us to “influence” her son. Our icky gay polyam hand holding was such a threat to this woman that she made a point to corner me away from my partners and get me on my own to lecture me about being “indecent.” If she had been inclined toward violence, I would have been fucked.
Hand holding. That’s all it fucking took.
So catch me at Pride in a leather harness and holding a bat, because if hand holding is all it takes, we owe it to each other to stand together.
We’re here. We’re queer. Get fucking used to it.
The sheer number of LGBT people who have called me a “degenerate” and a “pedophile” and an “abuse apologist” and a “homophobe” and a “woman-beater” over this post, in the less than 24 hours since I have posted it, is proof that it needs to be said.
Call me a degenerate if you want. I don’t care. It has always been the degenerates protecting each other when the cops raid our bars and inspect our clothing and haul us away for being cross-dressing, family-destroying, society-polluting, tranny dyke faggot freaks.
I know who I’d rather have on my side, and it’s not the self-loathing pieces of shit who would rather destroy their own people than dismantle systems of oppression.
You will never be wholesome and pure enough for the bigots, no matter how much you distance yourself from the kinksters. Once they’ve killed all us degenerates, they’re coming for you next. And we won’t be here to fight for you anymore.
people are so weird about lae’zel srsly. this woman is so Good i truly do not understand the majority of takes
like shadowheart mentions she’s half-elf once and lae’zel is like ok noted for the next time and doesnt get it wrong again
gale mentions how he’s impressed by her fighting and she immediately offers to teach him
she also answers any and all questions about the celestial realm and mindflayers that EVERYONE in the party asks her
she is the ONLY one with any experience and hands on knowledge about what the party is going thru but will still defer to the leader and help. for all she knows, they will literally be cured immediately if they find the creche but she still sticks around these fucking weirdoes because they ask her to
never speak bad about lae’zel in my presence EVER
Also:
On the nautiloid (which is about to crash and burn), she is extremely patient with us. We can poke around and decide we absolutely need to waste time on a prisoner in the pod, she will grumble, but wouldn’t leave us. Oh, we are done? Finally. Can we go already?
Shadowheart starts arguing with her from the get-go. But what does Lae'zel do when she goes at her with “Who put you in charge?” rant? Rolls her eyes and curses under her breath even though her kin would have probably had a much more lethal response to such insolence. Any other githyanki wouldn’t have settled for anything else than complete obedience - and if they have to slice someone up for a quick demonstration, so be it.
The fact that Shadowheart gets to talk shit unpunished is astounding. Lae'zel doesn’t joke about githyanki doling out cruel punishments for disrespecting their superiors. However, she doesn’t attack Shadowheart even when she accuses her of stealing the artifact of her people. She has every right to do so. But she doesn’t.
All this time, she is freaking out under her stoic demeanor. She is infected. She is at risk of dying the least dignified death imaginable: becoming the very monster, she was trained to destroy. She is stuck in an alien world with a bunch of locals who keep trying to poke their eyes out or derail her journey. She has dreams where a mysterious figure tells her to consume more tadpoles. She is so alone in this mess and yet, she still does right by us as long as we do right by her. Even though the githyanki way would have approved of her killing us all and leaving with an artifact to the creche: what’s more important than obeying Vlaakith, after all? And yet, she doesn’t go there.
Of course, she will respect or disrespect us for certain behaviors. But she goes out of her way to collaborate with us from the very beginning, and it’s incredible. Gaining her trust and respect feels very rewarding, being there as she discovers the truth and goes from worshipping Vlaakith to defying her is amazing.
Cool how if you even suggest that things like quality of life, quality of recreational activities, quality of available products, and so forth are becoming objectively worse, you’re instantly accused by a non-trivial number of people of being a luddite or an old fuddy-duddy. I genuinely think the world is getting worse! Not in a “children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book!” kind of way; in a “we live with declining life-expectency in an ever-widening surveillance state in the midst of catastrophic ecological catastrophe during a period of global fascism in which inflation is skyrocketing and consumer goods and even entertainment is becoming increasingly shoddier largely due to the decline in organized labor’s power” kind of way
I’ve drawn most of D&D’s races in isotype pictogram / bathroom / safety sign style, for all your fantasy signage needs. You can use these however you like, but credit me if you can and don’t claim the unedited images as your own.
seeing the terms “bad rep” and “good rep” applied to media that was created by and for an in-group makes me want to eat glass
“not sure if this is a good representation of the trans community :/“ right well a trans person made it, and they made it for other trans people, so. perhaps that logic is not applicable here. must we live our entire creative lives under the watchful eye of Cisgender Scrutiny? how can you compare self-expression to willful misrepresentation lmao
Under communism the wait staff will not ask if Pepsi is okay. You will not even find out that’s its Pepsi instead of coke until you take your first sip. Unless you train like me, to know the difference from the sound of the Fizz alone, that is the only way we can beat communism and I can teach you. Take my hand. Not like that you grabbed it gay. Stop. Giggles. I SAID STOP
