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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
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.
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
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)
Lamppost Stickers
Having at last finished my Master’s dissertation, I find myself leaving Durham for - well, not the last time, I’ll come back at some point, but certainly this is the last time in the near future I’ll be spending a significant length of time here. And to commemorate my time here, I’ve decided to rate some political lamppost stickers I’ve seen in the last few days.
I’m not a graphic designer or an arts student (unless you count pure mathematics as an art, which isn’t that unreasonable a stance I suppose), and I know nothing about colour theory save what tumblr has taught me, so don’t expect that much insight.
Sticker #1: New Normal
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.
Before you say “Duh,” remember they are using the social contagion lie to make life saving health care from children and teens. Studies like this can be used in court to fight for the rights of children in our community.
How about “It’s about damn time.”?
Book mark this article, find the source study and bookmark that too. Drown them in facts, in truth, not to change their ways but to make sure they cannot spread their lies to others.
We just got handed a powerful tool against the transphobes. Use it.
Trans girls. Just be cause you're "boy-moding" or stealthing, that doesn't make you less of a girl.
Trans boys. Just because you're "girl-moding" or stealthing, that doesn't make you less of a boy.
Enby's. Just because you too are stealthing as your AGAB, doesn't make you less of who you are. You're non-binary.
It doesn't matter if you've got 5 o'clock shadow, no make-up, didn't bind, didn't pack, or couldn't for any other reason and walked out the door a mess. You're allowed to be fully you and just not put in all that extra effort. You're allowed to hit "screw it" every so often and still be 100% how you personally identify. Passing as cisgender may be your comfort goal, as it is surely mine, but it is NOT the metric of your worth.
Just because we have days we give up on the effort, where we can't bring ourselves to put the time in to look the way we want to, just because we have days we don't try to pass as true selves, does NOT make us less. Cisgender people have trash days too, we shouldn't be expected nor place the expectation on ourselves to be perfect all the time.
You're still you, and that's awesome and attractive.