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Writing fantasy and speculative fiction is actual Hell because achieving verisimilitude demands that you, the author, have a clear idea of how the speculative or fantastical elements of your setting work, but the story will almost always be improved by not explaining it to the reader.

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The whole anti trans talking point about saving women's sports for #feminism is crazy to me, it's so obvious none of these people know the history of women's sports. They literally exist because men felt upset and emasculated when women would beat them in co-ed sports. So women were banned from sports and only allowed to participate in their own sectioned off teams and events. Upholding that isn't all that feminist honestly.

The physical ability of athletes is not as dependent on sex traits as anyone in these discussions thinks it is, men are just encouraged to participate in sports far more so than women are. Many decades ago, male athletes did not perform nearly as good as the ones competing today; to the point your average modern professional female athlete could blow their numbers out of the water. Were these men just "biologically inferior"? No, that's stupid. They just weren't training the same way. The nature of professional sports is to Do Better Than The Last Guy. So yeah obviously, modern athletes that beat these records are going to be more physically capable than the ones of decades & centuries past. Female athletes are the same way, women have just been at this professional sports thing for much less time in comparison to men, and in smaller numbers, due to differing social pressures.

And every "biological advantage" that can be attributed to biological differences linked to sex traits shouldn't be considered differently from "biological advantages" between people with similar sex traits. Michael Phelps definitely has a biological advantage over other men but nobody's pissed off about him succeeding. The point of professional sports like this is to see what the human body is capable of. I dunno how to tell this to TERFs but sports are inherently unfair because of that. Some people just got lucky genetics and have crazy potential to be good at physically intensive activities, regardless of their sex traits.

It is not trans & intersex people's fault TERFs view being strong and fast and fit as inherently unfeminine.

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As I slowly go through the Devilman catalog through totally legal means, I want to ask the internet one thing.

I'll tell you mine. It was a "best of" video of the English dub of one of the old OVAs, and it changed my life.

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Bang! Blast! And here we go again

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imagine getting this review

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A demon simply called The Brother. It doesn't have siblings or any family, and it's ambiguous whether that creature itself is even male at all. It just keeps turning everything and everyone into broth.

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Devilman Crybaby

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Love seeing something from TikTok and going “girlie that is literally what led to the downfall of the Papal States”

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something i wish i had realized earlier: you can write poems on the same subject more than once. you can write, paint, draw the same thing over and over if you want to. you can spend your whole life making art about oranges. i think i always felt this pressure to get it right the first time like i couldn’t go back and use that inspiration again. but you can. you can go back and revisit it. you can pick up the conversation again and again if you have more to say.

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Question for the D&D lore nerds here: has there ever been a full list of Shar's 13 truths published anywhere? The wiki has a couple, and I've seen a couple more in fanfic, but I don't know if either of those has a canon source.

From the wiki, we have:

Love is a lie. Only hate endures.

Light is blinding. Only in darkness do we see clearly.

And these are the two I've seen in fics:

Trust is a fallacy. Betrayal will prevail.

Happiness is a fabrication. Misery persists.

Unfortunately I can't remember which fic(s) I saw them in, I just had them saved in my collection of miscellaneous Sharran lore. I have absolutely no idea if these have any basis in canon.

Then of course there's the secret 14th truth from The Leaves Of One Night, "All is meaningless. And nothing endures."

Does a canonical full list exist? And if not, has anyone made a fanon list that people can borrow from?

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I'd tell the Dark Urge everything I know for a tiny little kiss. Even just those chocolate once

Granted, all I know is that he's a white dragonborn from Baldurs Gate and that he's into some messed up stuff hobby wise

I think he should take up knitting. That might help

That is very valid and relatable, anon. If it helps, that's as much as The Dark Urge knows about himself as well!

Also in my heart of hearts, larian's lil' animation showing a cameo of Durge doing a hobby be canon. If there's one thing he didn't forget, it's how to use knitting needles in more ways than one.

I like to think he finished that scarf at some point

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Northern Gaza has been starving for 2 months now

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this callout couldve been a block button

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why does the US have a theme park ride thats just presidential speeches. who would want to visit that. that sounds like something yeonmi park would make up about north korea

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radfem: "yeah i support intersex people, unlike those evil transgenders!" *calls intersex women deformed* *calls intersex women deformed* *calls intersex women deformed* *calls intersex women deformed* *calls intersex women deformed* *calls intersex men a slur* *calls intersex women deformed* *calls intersex women a slur* *calls intersex wom

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“Davrin is so hot and his romance is one of the most content filled in the game! Why is he second to last-“