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who would win? 1000 year-old mind control wizard or 3 insane women who are also proficient in wisdom saves

Ludinus Da'leth's nightmare blunt rotation

Also my three weed smoking girlfriends

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Anyone else feeling feral about Scanlan failing to save a second twin with his only reaction? He watched Vex fall out of the sky and eat a brutal Otohan Special™ from Ozo Cruth, and at the pivotal moment, his timing was off.

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"Ultimate suffering. Completely antithetical to everything I am. And the strangest part is that he just lets it happen." Round here we call that the Cassida Special.

More seriously, I really appreciate the way Robbie playing Dorian's resistance/resentment/skepticism towards the gods and their influence over Exandria. Tangentially related: POC, you ever been told you need to lend your support to oppressive structures because they are more stable than the alternative?

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Comparing the privilege of marginalized men vs similarly marginalized women doesn't work the same for trans people as it does for cis people. Cis men and cis women who are marginalized in the same way will both suffer from their shared oppression(s), but cis women will be suffer from that shared oppression and misogyny, while cis men largely won't be (at least not as systemic targets of misogyny), giving them relative privilege over the aforementioned cis women.

But trans men and trans women are both targets of systemic misogyny. The claim that trans men and trans women both suffer from transphobia, but only trans women suffer from transphobia and misogyny, would be false. Similarly, it would be false to claim that only trans men suffer from both transphobia and misogyny, while trans women suffer from transphobia but not misogyny.

Trans men suffer from transphobia and misogyny, and trans women suffer from transphobia and misogyny, and neither group of trans people has the relative privilege of not being systemic targets of misogyny.

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Hard agree. Bless you for for saying this, OP.

Bit of a rant incoming but truly, this is some tired ass "house-slave" type discourse. Not that it compares 1:1, but like we knooow that enslaved people working in the house are not better off than enslaved people working in the field, and in fact, having to work in close proximity with racist slave-holders comes with it's own unique set of dangers and traumas. But more importantly, we know that the comparison/measuring/who-has-it-worse game is a waste of time, and energy, and solidarity which would be better spent protecting each other and surviving oppression. Plus, idk if people are aware of this, but before the queer usage, the term passing was literally used by mixed-race people in the US who would sometimes try to pass for White in order to gain rights and personhood or to escape slavery. Again, this was an extremely dangerous way to live. Even if they gained a bit more peace, these passing Black (google one drop rule) people still had to live under the constant threat of violence and ruin from their proximity to racist people, organizations, and systems. It definitely was not "opting out" of oppression and it sure as hell was not "gaining Whiteness".

I mostly wanted to highlight that it's basically never appropriate or productive to treat someone's "passing" as if they are more loved, or accepted, or lucky, or safe, or even that much better off. Because in actuality, passing is erasure at best and often comes with the threat of violence as well as the loss of vital community protections. Sure, it's not an option for everyone, but that doesn't make it like ... a good option.

All that to say, it's painful and frustrating to see other queer people not learning this lesson despite the fact that this kind of discourse has been with us for centuries across many different liberation movements.

Honestly if there's ONE thing I wish I could get all queer people to understand is that if you're in a situation where you know everyone would treat you differently, especially to the point of it putting your life in danger, if they found out you're queer, you aren't experiencing privilege, you're in a hostage situation.

Like sorry experiencing "passing privilege" is actually just being trapped in a room with a bloodthirsty t-rex and having people tell you that you should be thankful because thier vision is based on movement and you can just stand still. It's not a privilege to be erased, to have to lie to everyone around you to stay safe-ish, to have to closet yourself because you know even a single step out of line could be the end of your entire world.

None of us should have to be thankful to stand in front of a loaded gun while the person holding it goes "haha, don't worry, I only use this on faggots, and you're not a fag....right?" Like this is not a net good and it has almost nothing in common with actually being part of a privileged group.

Anyway, Happy Pride, let's leave this shit behind.

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Shout out to Matt and the cast for some great payoffs this episode. Hidden* (his DM ass knows they love to read minds) assassination mission putting major urgency onto the group into the first ever real conversation with Liliana? This is pure juice.

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#real constitutionally bisexual hours

I'm part girl on my moms side

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#i hate sci-hub #and I definitely don't have it bookmarked

Beware!

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Missed Her by Ivan Coyote

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ID - text in a screenshot reading:

"All the way into the city the next morning, I thought about it all. I've heard the stories. Trans men who are saving up for top surgery and haven't had a breast examination or a mammogram in years because they felt the same prickly lump of panic in their chest at the thought of a stranger touching the breasts they didn't like to be reminded that they still had. The lump of panic weighed more than the lump the doctor would be feeling around for, so they didn't go. Trans women with prostate glands afraid of judgmental doctors with unkind hands. (Highlighted part starts) All those bodies that belong to my people, people who have learned ways to hide their breasts and tuck their penis away and shave and pluck and bind parts of themselves. People who can't be touched in certain places by their lovers in the dark, much less a stranger in a white coat under a fluorescent glow. When was the last time I had a pap test?

I thought of all the small-town queers and trans folks out there, who don't have access to the (sometimes) progressive-minded inner city clinics that fly the rainbow flag, because their postal code gets in the way. I realized that finding a doctor who I felt comfortable and safe with was only the first step. The hardest part was convincing myself to go." (Highlighted part ends)

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Tonight's going great. Love this narrative, can't wait to see what lesson Ashton takes from this. And honestly, there's nothin better than some absurdly high-stakes rollies.

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C3 75 FIGHT SPOILERS

Targeted endurance challenge softening the barbarian, putting the pieces together, kiddie pool lava (8d10 instead of 18d10) to ensure nobody goes down tooo too fast, Classic Villains appear to swoop the artifact, keep away with the flaming football, the action surge of all time, telekinesis hostage taking as a teleblock, wizard fight (telekinesis > wall of stone + blinding zone > dimension door: absolutely beautiful sequence y'all), actual counterspell-duel, and the simulacrum takes a cyanide pill to end it all. PLUS, meta-wise this did double duty as a warning shot and a confidence booster cause information gathering goes both ways. No notes, this was a perfect encounter. Beautifully planned and executed.

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ASHTON WHAT ARE YOU DOING I LOVE THIS

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No, wait, this is better. Nobody does it like Fearnie

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Team Issylra really putting the hells in Bells Hells tonight. You love to see it.

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they dont want us to know this but the real cure to the agonies is to engage in shenanigans. tomfoolery even