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forget choosing what items to get, the real hardest part of Estival is choosing quotes for the wiki’s historical page epigraphs

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DoMA stats

There's this really cool podcast I adore called Deck of Many Aces. It's an actual play podcast whose cast are all somewhere on the aro and/or ace spectra, set in a fantasy world undergoing an industrial revolution. (Also each PC's past, present and future has been determined by a card drawn from the Deck of Many Things, but that doesn't come up much.) One of DoMA's selling points is its very long, chaotic, banter-filled introductions, and because my love language is statistics I've compiled some fun facts about those intros!

Length

• The average DoMA episode is 15.3% introduction
• The longest introduction (as a percentage of the video) is that of episode 18, Out of the Closet, which is a whopping 24.9% introduction. The shortest is episode 2, Trouble in Tepmet, which is 7.4% introduction.
• The last time an episode was less than 10% introduction was episode 25, Law and Disorder. The last time before that was episode 8, Snowglobes and Secrets.

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Well, DoMA has reached episode 52, a full deck, so it seems like a good time to update these stats.

The average episode is now 20.2% introduction, the highest intro percentage so far is today’s episode, The Empty Village, which is 27.1% introduction. The bwams have reached a length of 4 minutes 5 seconds, and Katie has described Morgan as a wizard who can fly 10 times.

The longest Demisexual ____ may now be Muahahahahahahahahaa, depending on how you spell it.

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[beguines]

Debbie Blue, Consider the Birds: A Provocative Guide to Birds of the Bible

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[saintjosie]

i fucking love estrogen

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Tongues

I have some Thoughts about languages and theology that have been just. rotating in my brain for ages, so I’m just going to vomit them up here.

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[fipindustries]

man this sucks, being trans should have been an anthropological curiosity, not a political movement, it should have been a quirk of humanity, not a fight for survival, it should have been like being colorblind, or having six fingers, it should have been something science teachers taught their students excitedly because it was this interesting bit of trivia, it should have been no more exciting than being a furry or being born with edietic memory. it should have been this little vibrant community whose only care in the world was to share tips about how to customize your presentation it should have been an off hand remark while hanging at a bar to the tune of “hey, isnt joan of accounting trans? crazy stuff my cousin tom changed too and now is nora”

i look back at all those old news papers from like the 30′s and 40′s and the way they seemed to talk about the subject and is like fuck, how can we get that back

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[ladycrowleviathan]

Hey… guess what time it almost is in London?

HALLOWMAS! I am excited. I love Hallowmas in Fallen London. Even though you can get neat affiliations at the end, provided you did enough for that “spooky faction,” I always even up a moth (nightmares). There was talk last year that the Queen of Air & Darkness would not be attending London’s Hallowmas this year & would instead be rotated out for one of the others (since we now have four & only three spots in London for venues). 

If there is no Pavillion of Butterflies this spooky season, I will probably end up a demon or a crown. Or… maybe there will be a new faction in town!?

That would be exciting… though 4 menaces probably means four factions. Alas. (Or maybe 6 locations for 6 kinds of confessions? That could be fun…)

While there is a description of the Pavillion several places during the event, telling an AI ONLY that gets you some… well, greenhouses. But explaining who’s INSIDE the Pavillion? Gets you much cooler greenhouses. Adding extra touches (victorian era, architects, interior or exterior, etc) makes the outcome even neater. However, it also makes my brain start wondering how other people see the Pavillion in their mind’s eye. Do the candles give it a warm glow or do you think it’s all tinted a bit red because the Queen is there? Or maybe the colour is based on the butterflies inside? Perhaps it’s just an ordinary greenhouse, only made extraordinary by the festivities? 

Feel free to send a message or comment (or reblog) & let me know how you see it. I’d honestly love to know! Also, Hallowmas is my favourite Neathy holiday! So, if you want to share in the excitement, I’d love to see your posts about that too!

(If you want any other locations done, let me know… I get distracted easily by AI ideas & forget to finish my Fallen London prompts. @failbettergames)

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UUUUUU wanted to play around with maeking simple little pride edits so i did a small handful of edits of the generic master icon..... rainbow capitalism moments

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so there’s this dumb argument the terfs were making a while back, and it really stuck with me - for some reason my brain finds it fascinating. it’s the bones one - ‘when the archaeologists dig you up they’ll know what sex you were’ - and obviously it’s fascinating on the level of 'how did this sentence make it from your brain to your mouth without you realising that cremation is a thing’, and on the level of 'actually sexing skeletons is way less reliable than you seem to think it is’, but mostly on the levels of motive and ideology.

motivation is simple; this isn’t going to convince anyone of anything, the only purpose to saying this is to try and upset trans people. the cruelty is the point, etc.

but on the level of ideology - why do they think this matters? like yes, eventually I will die and everyone who every knew me will die and the people of the future will know nothing of the things about me that matter - but the same is true of them! just because their hip bones are a particular shape doesn’t mean that their likes, dislikes, hobbies, politics, taste in music, religious beliefs won’t all be forgotten too. “time as an ever-rolling stream bears all her sons away/they fly forgotten, as a dream dies with the dawning day”; this isn’t some great win for them, they’re just describing the human condition.

(and if I may ramble about religion for a sec - I think the reason I personally found the argument very uncompelling is best captured by these song lyrics: “And when you lay me down you’ll only bury bones/for oh, my heart and soul are going home”. Who cares what future people conclude from my grave - no part of me that matters will be present there.)