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imagine being forced to do all of the courting in your relationships. now imagine having gendered expectations around doing that courting. now imagine having dysphoria that is triggered by those gendered expectations but still being put in a position where if you do not do the courting you will not have a dating life. text that trans gal first.

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This is an amazing FGO part 1: Observer in the Timeless Temple fan made video I found in nico. Full of spoilers for the ending mind you. Credits to the maker,  izayoi

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Thank you Type-Moon for Medea…

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i don't know the etiquette for posting other peoples tiktoks but the delivery of this punchline hit me like a FUCKING TRUCK please

NikhilClayton <- you should follow this guy on tiktok he's fucking hilarious

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I don't know I'm not done talking about it. It's insane that I can't just uninstall Edge or Copilot. That websites require my phone number to sign up. That people share their contacts to find their friends on social media.

I wouldn't use an adblocker if ads were just banners on the side funding a website I enjoy using and want to support. Ads pop up invasively and fill my whole screen, I misclick and get warped away to another page just for trying to read an article or get a recipe.

Every app shouldn't be like every other app. Instagram didn't need reels and a shop. TikTok doesn't need a store. Instagram doesn't need to be connected to Facebook. I don't want my apps to do everything, I want a hub for a specific thing, and I'll go to that place accordingly.

I love discord, but so much information gets lost to it. I don't want to join to view things. I want to lurk on forums. I want to be a user who can log in and join a conversation by replying to a thread, even if that conversation was two days ago. I know discord has threads, it's not the same. I don't want to have to verify my account with a phone number. I understand safety and digital concerns, but I'm concerned about information like that with leaks everywhere, even with password managers.

I shouldn't have to pay subscriptions to use services and get locked out of old versions. My old disk copy of photoshop should work. I should want to upgrade eventually because I like photoshop and supporting the business. Adobe is a whole other can of worms here.

Streaming is so splintered across everything. Shows release so fast. Things don't get physical releases. I can't stream a movie I own digitally to friends because the share-screen blocks it, even though I own two digital copies, even though I own a physical copy.

I have an iPod, and I had to install a third party OS to easily put my music on it without having to tangle with iTunes. Spotify bricked hardware I purchased because they were unwillingly to upkeep it. They don't pay their artists. iTunes isn't even iTunes anymore and Apple struggles to upkeep it.

My TV shows me ads on the home screen. My dad lost access to eBook he purchased because they were digital and got revoked by the company distributing them. Hitman 1-3 only runs online most of the time. Flash died and is staying alive because people love it and made efforts to keep it up.

I have to click "not now" and can't click "no". I don't just get emails, they want to text me to purchase things online too. My windows start search bar searches online, not just my computer. Everything is blindly called an app now. Everything wants me to upload to the cloud. These are good tools! But why am I forced to use them! Why am I not allowed to own or control them?

No more!!!!! I love my iPod with so much storage and FLAC files. I love having all my fics on my harddrive. I love having USBs and backups. I love running scripts to gut suck stuff out of my Windows computer I don't want that spies on me. I love having forums. I love sending letters. I love neocities and webpages and webrings. I will not be scanning QR codes. Please hand me a physical menu. If I didn't need a smartphone for work I'd get a "dumb" phone so fast. I want things to have buttons. I want to use a mouse. I want replaceable batteries. I want the right to repair. I grew up online and I won't forget how it was!

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My office divvies up part of our caseload alphabetically, and one of our secretaries just sent me a new file that's not in my part of the alphabet. Because I'm so very helpful I responded:

Moments later, the printer in my office fired up and spit out this piece of paper:

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I’ve gone insane and started writing a cliche fantasy novel

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fat porcelain dollgirl with lovingly filled in cracks for stretch marks

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Cannot FUCKING stand when my loose leaf tea says to add tea in tablespoons instead of teaspoons. I'm sorry, bitch. Am I making tea or am I making a table. Let me double fucking check.

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Exerpt from Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy. (with art by @theblackwarden)

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laurie 😔

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...All right!

This lines up nicely with what I was already up to while learning Eureka - I have an OC from a detective novel that I built in the system. This post might get verbose - that's because if the creators of Eureka are seeing this, I figure it'd be useful to explain my logic in detail so as to show how a total lay(wo)man might be interpreting some of these ideas and concepts.

Name: Thomas Reaper

Truth: People deserve help, even if it hurts me.

Traits: Comfort Item (Alcohol), Bottled Up, Hard Under Pressure (Physical), Woo-Woo.

Potential Traits: It's For A Book, Quick Draw

Explanations under the cut.

Truth: When the Eureka handbook suggested a need to help others even at their own expense, I realized that nothing else fit Thomas better. At multiple points in his story, he notes in narration that the pay he's being offered for this job is well below his usual rate, and isn't enough to cover his rent, but he accepts it because he can't stand to see people fail to get closure because the cases he's working have been abandoned by the cops. Everyone deserves closure after a tragedy.

Comfort Item (Alcohol): This is the most straightforward one. Thomas is an alcoholic, self-medicating an inability to sleep normally due to constant noise in his brain that's resisted all other medication.

Bottled Up: Thomas is the type to just keep going and going until he hurts himself and has to stop. I could have used Burnout here, but I felt that Bottled Up fit it better. It's not a constant "run myself ragged until I finish this case" mentality, it's more like he'll ignore his health until he's starving, and then have to back away from the case to take care of it.

Hard Under Pressure (Physical): Thomas isn't a specialist, and is a bit too bad at taking care of himself to make a good interpersonal impression, but the saving grace is that he's got a sort of adrenaline-fueled desperation that fuels him physically.

Woo-Woo: This is probably the biggest stretch of the ones I picked, but the noise I mentioned in Thomas's brain earlier sometimes gives him hints and leads to follow. It's not exactly a "ritual or ceremony", and Thomas canonically can't control when it happens, but I didn't find a better way to mechanically represent "The voices in my head gave me a lead in the case" than the Woo-Woo trait.

Potential Traits - It's For A Book: I considered this one after reading its description. Thomas does get through a lot of situations without drawing police attention because he's a known quantity to them and has friends on the force, but I ultimately decided against it because he draws the suspicion of a three-letter agency instead, so this aspect is mostly just quibbling over what the in-universe "police force" actually is.

Potential Traits - Quick Draw: Thomas wields a very strange weapon - a large folding scythe with an electrical generator (Long story). It has a substantial start-up time, but Thomas is extremely good with it and can shave down the awkwardness of using it considerably. I considered representing that with Quick Draw, but decided against it because he's only good with the scythe - hand him another weapon, especially a gun, and he'll fumble around with it.

And there you have it! Hopefully this has given the Eureka team what they want out of this exercise. I'd be interested to see if I'm misunderstanding any of these traits, or if I could have made better picks, though I'm sure y'all are busy.

Fun Game: Make Yourself in 3-6 Eureka Traits!

There's a bit more to Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy character creation than just picking Traits, but this is a meme not a serious character creation session.

Make yourself in three to six Eureka Traits. Here's a big list of them. This isn't literally all the Traits, just the ones that have finished art. If you want to pick from all the Traits, feel free to download the free rulebook linked above! If you want to go a little further, you can explain your reasoning for why you picked each Trait and what they mean to you and about you.

Tag us, or just reblog your results onto this post! You don't have to make yourself either, it could be a character from pop culture, your friend, your OC, whatever! We wanna see what you do with it!

List of Traits (Non-Exhaustive)

Ambidextrous

Are You Thinking What I’m Thinking

Arithmomaniac

The Ascot

Ask Questions Later

Believer

Blissfully Ignorant

Bumbling Detective

Burnout

Cheerleader

Comfort Item

Dangerprone Damsel

Death Wish

Did You Know

Elementary!

Femme Fatale

Final Girl

Hard-Boiled

Hardy

It’s for a Book

I’m Okay, You’re Okay

Just Built Different

Just One More Thing

Kleptomaniac

Lovecraft Protagonist

Lover

Moneybags

My Glasses!

Night Owl

Nightstalker

Ninja

Not Finished Yet

The Other

Perfectionist

Push It

Predictable

Quick Draw

Renaissance Man

Rumbler

Showboater

Skeptic

Sleep on It

Smalls

Technically

Therapist

Unpredictable

Wicked

Wizened

Woo-Woo

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Im gonna take a swing at rephrasing this one. If you are not yourself transfeminine but are genuinely worried about "transfem seperatism", the best thing you can do to stop it is to make sure that you and the queer spaces you inhabit are welcoming to transfems- loud transfems, big transfems, kinky transfems, transfems who may not look like what you think they should. Check your biases, notice how many trans women actually stick around and act comfortable in your friend groups or game nights or clubs. Notice how you treat them. Ask yourself if you're holding them to a higher standard and quick to believe they're an aggressor or predator.

If that sounds like too much work or like it's not your problem, then you have no right to complain when we pack our things and leave.

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