#gary bias

[jt1674]

[mitjalovse]

The 10's also shocked us by causing many veteran musicians to stop their recording hiatuses as if the world was on fire or something. I mean, if I told you Earth, Wind & Fire continued to release records during the previous decade, you might've done a double take. Sure, you can expect them to tour, but to record? Then again, the 10's did show their influence to be present in the opuses of many of their genre, which is why one can be slightly disappointed that Now, Then & Forever sounds so safe. Mind you, the album is a pleasant listen, yet you wish they would've done something more … in the style of their past? No, you just want to hear them stretching themselves more, yet the absence of some key members on that one might have something to do with that.

[sanuue]

I’ve been listening to a lot of kpop lately, and while I’m not some huge fan that knows every member’s name or anything, Stray kids make some absolute bangers.

So because of that, I’m giving the head canon that Gary is a closeted K-pop AND vocaloid fan.

On another note, I made myself a personal blog for when I wanna post things that aren’t Bully related, I’ll probably make an about me post with it if y’all are interested in seeing more of my art.

[daincrediblegg]

Obsessed with this paragraph for some reason. 200 pages in and that’s when it clicks for River

[dooxliss]

hiii gari for the expressions chart could i pleaaase request either 3a for talia or 5g for peri 🤩

(send a mario character and an expression!)

talia’s my favorite mario character 🔥

[not-poignant]

Hi! I don't know if this has been asked yet. But reading falling falling stars, there's a bit where efnisien talks about how he was meant to be a culmination of the 'worst' parts of Crielle and penny (penny's brutality and Crielle's ability to control it). do you think instead he got the 'best' parts of them (beauty and brains) instead and is why he was still preferred to Gwyn, but not in the specific shape they wanted him in?

Hi anon,

I think Efnisien's assessment is understandable, but it's also like...just his thoughts about something, and not reflective of reality.

He didn't get the best or worst parts of Penny or Crielle. He was raised by abusers, and there were good things and terrible things in that household, but most of the things were terrible. Efnisien's beauty is 'fragile' because he was malnourished so badly, that's not a 'best' thing that he inherited from his family, that was something inflicted on him. His thinness is a symptom of his upbringing and abuse. His pretty face is genetics, he got that just as much from his ancestors as from Penny.

Likewise, his intelligence - as Crielle actually rightly points out - works against him often. It's not a 'best' part at all. People who are highly intellectual but raised in abusive homes often are prone to coping techniques like intellectualisation and catastrophisation, and highly intellectual people are actually more prone to mental illness. Efnisien's ability to think things through without wisdom or guidance or maturity meant he was able to convince himself that he was evil with far more complexity than what Crielle was saying, to reinforce everything she was saying.

These things are not 'best' traits for everyone, anon. Someone being 'ugly' is not the worst thing it's possible to be, and someone being intelligent isn't always the best. Crielle's intelligence was used to manipulate, torture, and sadistically brainwash Efnisien. Is that really her best quality? Her beauty was used to manipulate, deceive and convince people that she was harmless, because folks mistakenly think that 'beautiful' also means 'good' and 'pure' (they're wrong, but it's for this reason that attractive abusers are actually less likely to come to justice than 'ugly' ones). It wasn't one of her best qualities. And it also wasn't something she had a choice over. That's 100% down to genetics.

Also, he didn't inherit that from her anyway, he's Penny's son. And her beauty is also 100% down to genetics.

I'm very wary of attaching words like 'best' or 'good' to traits like beauty (subjective) and intelligence, anon. Like, philosophically, I would not say those were 'best traits' and nor where Penny and Crielle using these qualities in helpful, compassionate, useful, or caring ways. Efnisien didn't either for a long time. In fact he himself makes it clear that he used his prettiness and his beauty to deceive people, and this is why the story makes him look less pretty outside of scenes as the story goes on. He wears less handsome clothing, he wears more comfortable clothing, he doesn't make his hair fashionable any longer, etc.

The story itself is like 'uh, being beautiful and smart can still turn out psychopathic torturers.'

Not best traits, anon. Not worst traits either. Just things that exist, that are used as tools by people both consciously and unconsciously towards all ends. Be wary of thinking this way yourself anon, it sets up an unconscious bias towards believing that people who are ugly and not as smart are somehow 'worse' than people who are beautiful and intelligent.

And the world doesn't work like that at all.

[theoutcastrogue]

In 1976, after Dungeons & Dragons co-creator Gary Gygax, the most important person in roleplaying games was a Los Angeles woman named Lee Gold. She still contributes to the hobby and still runs a campaign using her Lands of Adventure (1983) game. ...

The shabby state of D&D’s original rules inspired much discussion, and Lee’s [fanzine] Alarums & Excursions served as the hub of this network. “All the role players I know, when we looked a Gary Gygax’s game with its “% liar” and all its typos said, ‘this stuff needs tinkering.’ ... Everybody tinkered with D&D because it needed tinkering to be playable. The nice part about D&D was that it obviously needed player help. ...

Soon though, Gary came to hate APAs like A&E. Partly, he seemed to see APAs as ringleaders for thieves, and not just the sort who—in Gary’s estimation—stole a ride on his coattales. Remember that Lee Gold started with a photocopy of the D&D rules. Early on, copies of D&D, especially outside of TSR’s reach in the Midwest, proved scarce. The $10 price of the original box struck many gamers as outrageous. In the first issues of Alarums & Excursions, some contributors argued that TSR’s profiteering justified Xerox copies of the D&D rules. Gary wrote a rebuttal and Lee told readers that Gary deserved to gain from his work and investment. Surely though, he remained incensed. ...

Meanwhile, Lee published A&E and began writing games. Much of her work showed an interest in history and particularly Japan, where she lived 4 months during A&E’s first year. Land of the Rising Sun (1980) extended the Chivalry & Sorcery system to Japan. Her game Lands of Adventure (1983) aimed for roleplaying in historical settings. Her other credits include GURPS Japan (1988) and Vikings (1989) for Rolemaster. ...

Meanwhile, the men in gaming tended to suppose that only men contributed to the hobby. Lee remembers visiting the Origins convention and spotting shirts for sale that identified the wearer as a “wargaming widow.” Why else would a woman attend a gaming convention?

After Lee finished writing Land of the Rising Sun for Fantasy Games Unlimited, she met publisher Scott Bizar at a local convention to sign the contract. She recalls discussing the game’s credits.

“Do you want to say this game is written by yourself and your husband Barry?” Bizar asked.

“No,” I said. “Barry didn’t write any bit of it. He did the indexing, and I gave him full credit for that. I wrote all of the game. Just say the game is by Lee Gold.”

“Most female writers say they wrote a game with their husbands,” said Bizar.

“I don’t care what other people do,” I said. “Just say the game is by Lee Gold.” And so Land of the Rising Sun came out as written by Lee Gold.

Her one personal encounter with Gary Gygax revealed a similar bias. Early on, Lee sent copies of A&E to TSR. After a couple of months, she received a phone call, which she recounts.

“This is Gary Gygax,” said the voice, “and I’d like to speak to Lee Gold.”

“I’m Lee Gold,” I said. “I gather you got the copies of A&E I sent you.”

“You’re a woman!” he said.

“That’s right,” I said, and I told him how much we all loved playing D&D and how grateful we were to him for writing it.

“You’re a woman,” he said. “I wrote some bad things about women wargamers once.”

“You don’t need to feel embarrassed,” I said. “I haven’t read them.”

“You’re a woman,” he said.

We didn’t seem to be getting anywhere, so I told him goodbye and hung up.

[somewhereincairparavel]

Literally where do people get the idea that Jason was full of himself and that he thought he was better than Percy? This is legit brought up in so many 'why-i-hate-jason-grace" arguments it just screams lack of reading comprehension and obvious Percy bias saltiness. Like just say you are bitter that Jason is written as percy's equal and that you want Percy to have nobody rival him 💀

Never once in his povs did he ever think about how much better he was, on the contrary it's just him not feeling good enough about himself. He and Percy NEVER said anything bad about eachother.

His and Percy's rival is just a joke between two powerful demigods who have rival dads, that's literally it. Even if Jason did indeed think he's better, so what about it? What's the big deal?

he has worked hard and accomplished great things, so he has like, every right to be confident in his power, stop acting like hes all weak and inferior when he canonically killed a titan with like his bare fucking hands till the point Krios swore vengeance on him. No he's not "weak" or morally inferior to Percy as a person. You are merely trying to cope. Not to mention the way people judge a character's worth SOLEY based on their abilities is a huge red flag in itself, but that's a discussion for another time.

he shouldve canonically had more achievments and power than he originally got in the books as a son of jupiter. but rick made Percy too OP and fumbled jason for the sake of keeping percy's spotlight intact. Has it ever dawned on people that Percy is shown to have cool abilities like bending tears but Jason is never shown to have abilities like controlling lungs? Yeah, that's authors privilege for ya.

Y'all put Percy in an obnoxiously high pedestal and that's not a good thing. It diminishes his flaws and makes him appear so saint like and Gary Stu even though he's not. the fact that ppl get so sensitive over their rivalry and try to belittle jason by making up scenarios (like claiming jason thinks he's superior and shit) and go around saying that to ppl to reduce his value DESPITE being well aware that he has like enough hate already, is so insanely petty. BOTH Jason and Percy deserve equal amounts of respect.

God forbid a teenage boy say he's better than the other as a joke, he's such a terrible, stuck up, and shitty person who deserved death for that, isn't he?

[hyde-the-toad-bard]

Having love for something doesn't let you look past the ugliness of something. It lets you into the beauty of that grotesquerie.

Disco Elysium has some... Not conventionally attractive characters. I think first of Gary, the Crypto fascist.

Yeah, this guy.

How I conflict with this fake person's appearance. I connect him, like all other characters, with my love of the game. In this, I see his long well-groomed hair, his sharp chin, and his deep set eyes as beautiful.

I connect him to an image of the coward fascist. Yes, nearly all cowards are fascists, but some can hide this with stupidity, like the Racist Lorry Driver, or with delusional rationalism, like Measurehead. Gary here is a crypto fascist. He is too cowardly to speak in anything other than coded language. In this, I see his greasy hair, his unwieldy chin, and his glossy eyes.

Beauty is perspective. We see beauty in how we see an individual. The halo effect is a bias one must constantly be vigilant of, but it's strange how our minds often correct ourselves to it. In those who we find to have inner beauty, we create outer beauty.

Joyce Messier is gorgeous. Aged like fine wine. Morally bankrupt. Once we start seeing the flaws, we may begin to see them everywhere. Rather, one may start subconsciously looking for them. Signs that this person can fit in a more understandable box. Maybe that's just me, but I suspect it isn't. Luckily catching this particular bias can be practiced. At least I hope so.

Evrart Claire is, by all appearances visual and audio, an ugly ugly individual. Defining the word "grotesque," the game preys on our biases to make us distrust this man. Luckily for him, that's what he wants. His true moral character is shown through the striking workers. He is a man who is willing to stoop his entire self into the mud and sick to achieve, what is to him, a noble goal. And you, as a cop, cannot be trusted to be a part of that goal as an ally. Only as a tool. Perhaps that itself is part of why he looks like this in the game. If he were real, he might look somewhat different, but our perspective as a cop means we only see the side of him he shows cops. Naturally, it wouldn't be his best one.

But hey, at least he's helping me find my gun.

[jt1674]

[smokeskoomaworshipdaedra]

maybe it’s cause I’m disabled and hang out with disabled people but sotha sil looking like he does in eso and then how he does in morrowind just feels like. A friend who has a degenerative disease. He’s still my friend, y’know? Like, oh here’s my buddy Gary in 2011 and here he is in 2024. He’s still my friend Gary. He still deserves attention and care. I know they were trying to pull the ‘he went crazy and became all robot’ thing but my bias as a disabled person just reads it SO differently. One of my first reactions to seeing him as he is in Morrowind was ‘his nails are too long. Someone isn’t cutting his nails’ lmfao. His face too, I was thinking— ‘someone isn’t brushing his teeth! He isn’t able to do that, why isn’t someone doing that for him?’ I know they were going for the grotesque but to me his face in morrowind is just… the face of someone who’s got difficulty moving their face. That’s just how some people’s faces are and i don't find anything grotesque about it. idk. genuinely no hard feelings to people who do have a different reaction, it's not a moral failing to feel initially uncomfortable about things you aren't used to. for some reason sotha sil just made me have a lightbulb moment of perspective and what i was used to versus what somebody else might be used to.

[brainsqueals]

I attempted to reblog something earlier with these but it didn't seem to go through... so I'll post them separately.

I saw The Libertines this Thursday just gone, it was my first ever show of theirs and I was just behind the first row at barrier. I came out sporting a few bruises but I'd say it was worth it...

A lot of these are pictures of Carl and I won't deny my bias. Love me a tortured poet

More talking under the cut:

Just at the end of the show when Gary shouted free Palestine, some bloke behind me made a remark about "not wanting politics, just drums" which I thought was rather silly - considering you're at a Libs show, and as far as things go they're quite openly political. You don't need to be a genius to hear and understand the lyrics to half of their songs.

I think it's funny when people will be surprised when openly political people who are consistently vocal about world issues are, well, vocal about world issues. You can enjoy the music as much as you like without wanting to personally "get involved" so to speak, but why should you be surprised at them doing exactly what they've been doing all this time? Was interesting. Not sure if I've worded that very well but it's going out anyway

Free Palestine! Do your daily clicks. Donate.

[uneducated-author]

Doctor Who Interstellar Song Contest was actually quite a compelling episode in my eyes, and it has a return to what I feel has been missing from a lot of the new series, which is irrelevant side characters having interesting lives and self contained character arcs. Like, much of Ncuti Gatwa's era has had side characters that exist almost solely parallel to the plot. The closest we've gotten to genuine fulfilling character arcs was maybe in fact the three side characters in Boom, the two soldiers and the child raised on a battleground. We get interesting side characters, the nanny from space babies, the mother from Lux, Mo the barber, but generally a lot of the recent seasons have had the side characters only important as they relate to the Doctor or the Villain. (Rogue is interesting, but only as the Doctor's love interest, Ricky September is interesting, but only as a foil to the Doctor to demonstrate Lindsey's racial bias.)

I want to draw parallels to Ida, from the Impossible Planet/Satan Pit episodes, or Rita from the God Complex, or the Sheriff from A Town Called Mercy. Even the soldier who asks Peter Capaldi's Doctor if she can travel with him in Asylum of the Dalek. Characters who don't change the plot, or have a recurring role in the series, but are just trapped in the same circumstances as the Doctor or his companion. Just, normal people. Not the target of an alien plot, or the focus of an episode, just people who are caught up in calamity. Sometimes they act kindly, sometimes they make the problem worse, but they flesh out the story.

The characters in Interstellar Song Contest are pretty plot relevant, having either a personal connection to the villains, or relevant information that the Doctor can use, but they have independent character arcs that aren't relevant to the plot. Gary and Mike love each other, but are frustrated by each other, and grow an appreciation towards each others interests and skills throughout the episode. Cora and her manager/partner have a dispute where he feels betrayed by her deception, and discriminatory towards her species. Even the lady running the tech for the song contest gets repeated scenes of pleading or attempting to entreat the antagonists to help the people.

I do think it would be more compelling if instead of getting starstruck, Gary and Mike actually react in fear to the Doctor, forcing him to truly confront his cruelty, and how he is acting. The recent seasons of Doctor Who have had a bad habit of never letting the Doctor be held accountable for their cruel actions, or treated as anything other than a hero (unless of course the person criticising the Doctor is clearly villainous).

I do like Belinda's moment of reproach, telling the Doctor that she doesn't know what he's thinking in clear concern but also apprehension, and I like it a lot more that Yaz insisting that the Doctor is the best person she knows in her first season, but I'm more happy that Doctor Who remembers that, even though it's a show about space and aliens, it's always a story about humanity.

[sooniebby]

resurrected myself 😭 mcyap again

about the part where some last names were made up, they can be. i mean isnt that true for all names, technically 💀 but from my experience w my last name at least, it is a made up mix from our old chinese family name and thai-nized (omg istg idk how to phrase that fr 😭) and boom theres a last name. for fiction, undoubtedly many last names will be made up fr cuz if someone uses a real last name (thats not a celebrity's last name) thats kinda like doxxing and kinda rude imo 😭

i think bls are good (bias alert 🚨). ig it's kinda hard to find those trashy telenovelas unless you have the name (even i forgot the names too tbh) but if you dig deep enough you might find them 😭 ong i hope not cuz theyre so boring and repetitive... (imagine smth along the lines of the mary sue perfect middle class/country girl gets the attention of a rich trust fund picture perfect gary stu man, but doesnt want it. then the jealous rich bitchy exgf/sister/girl friend is tryna sabotage their romance at every turn but the man doesnt relent. the MIL and DIL are evil and plots with the jealous one and try to ruin the femmc's life, but the gary stu man saves her and they live a happily ever after and the three villains get karma smthsmthsmth)

honestly, i can imagine เสือ looking like a scary af mob boss 💀 thats also right tho a lot of thai people are named after how they look fr. someone i know was named after her chubby cheeks as a baby.

dont sweat that theres not a lot of thai lessons online 😭 tho i kept getting ads during on youtube about this one website called thaipod101 but i never used it so idk how good it actually is. honestly even my thai is ass as a native speaker smh i should probably sign up 💀

i understand how u feel abt not knowing enough to feel confident about writing a full fic. i'll need to think about what more to say in terms of super traditional thai culture 😭 i know a fair amount of history i think. but if you have any specific questions i can do my best to answer them !! tho i might reply super late cuz college stuff fr 💔

good luck with whatever u got going on rn, wish you the best and believe in u !!

Yea you right, all last names are technically made up. I guess I kinda meant it in a way that people said Thai people would take other names and kinda mix them into a new one, like you said how you got your family name.

It’s just interesting to me cuz y’know… lots of black people got their last names taken from them by colonizers lol. I don’t think I could even find what place my original ancestors are from to change my last name. So I’m stuck with this Scottish last name fml fml

I lowkey want to watch one of those shows just to see—I like watching trash sometimes, just to turn off my brain

I saw Thaipod 101, I learned how to write some of the alphabet cuz for my mom I wrote I love you in Thai lmfao. She’s really into Thai dramas—she can’t read it but she finds the alphabet really pretty lmfao. I dunno if Thaipod is like legit but the lady I was watching was from Thai and lowkey I was learning a bit when she was teaching me how to write. Thais actually so easy to write once you learn, I prefer the writing system from Chinese lol

Don’t worry about being late, I know colleges are probably still going for other countries lol. Take your time. I guess any questions really would be in relation to Thai universities? I kinda know a little cuz Thai BLs love college settings lol, but getting info would be great

Thanks so much, I hope you pass your classes!

[astro-tag-9]

Hi, so I’m like desperately eager to get into astrology, but I don’t really know where to start. Do you have any tips or advice for beginners?

As much as reading stuff online can be helpful, I would actually start with books. Having the written knowledge around for reference is nice to have. Plus you know the source, were on the web, sometimes you get bias answers or descriptions. I would go to your local book store or library to get a start.

A couple of books I would recommend offhand are the following:

The Secret Language of Birthdays: Personology Profiles for Each Day of the Year by Joosh Elffers  and Gary Goldschneider

The Only Astrology Book You'll Ever Need by Joanna Martine Woolfolk

[caterpisser]

I would lovee to hear the lore dump about your otherworldly ocs :]c they're such cool designs and id love to hear more!! <3

AUDHAIUCFGEQIUDHWIQUEFHIUWDHE YAYYY!!!!! YAYY!!! YAY!!!! HI THIS IS RLLY RLLY RLLY LONG SO STRAP IN LOL Other Worldly is a story I've been writing for like 3ish years and it's gonna be a psychological horror comedy set in a modern fantasy world. I want it to be a video game that I'll hopefully start actually making next year hehe Gonna put a really really long-winded worldbuilding explanation below the cut but dw if you don't wanna read it it's a lot lolololol

So on Urf the terrain is a lot more than it is irl. The wildlife is essentially a lot bigger, and so are the predators. Depending on the area, humans have animalistic traits originally there to help them fend against these predators. However, this is set in modern day so humans have a lot more technology now and over the generations they've lost things like natural camouflage and such. That's why characters like Robin and Piper have unnatural skin tones and different pupils (although the pupils are hard to see bc their eyes are so short). Not all humans have remnants of the past, though! Larry and Gary's families have evolved past them so they look completely human. There's also nature spirits who are kinda personifications of things like forests and bodies of water who are there so take care of said piece of nature. They can kinda take whatever form they want and most of them stay away from humans (theres more to it but that might have to be a separate post lol). OK SO THE ISLAND was originally a piece of Urf but it was taken and lifted into the sky by two spirits named Madre and Pater who wanted to start a new society. I tend to imagine the island the size of a small town. The island itself is floating in Urf's atmosphere but is invisible to humans because it's covered by thick clouds always surrounding the planet (there is a reason for this). It was lifted way back when around the 1800's so that's the basic reference point I have for a lot of the fashion and architecture. It is flexible though since it isn't the 1800's and I imagine Pater goes to Urf frequently. Madre and Pater are treated as the gods of the island, ruling over the citizens tightly. Some people worship both equally, but many have a bias toward Pater since he's more outgoing than Madre. You might be wondering, who is living on this island??? It isn't humans, but star people. People born from stars. Tbh they can also be explained in another, longass post but to point out something important, Starborns don't have sex organs or genitals. They're regarded without gender on the island and Madre and Pater are the only ones referred to with gendered terms up there, making them divine in nature. (to overexplain it a little, being a man/woman isn't really a thing up there and is basically a status symbol to show Madre and Pater are above their citizens). TO FINALLY EXPLAIN SOME OF THE STORY, Ernest grew up heavily worshipping Madre. They're extremely loyal to her and go to her for advice a lot. They sincerely love her deeply and couldn't imagine her ever doing anything bad. So completely unrelated, she sends Ernest to Urf after Pater's mysterious death. I wonder what happened. So anyway, after falling, they meet a forest spirit named Lenore who takes them to live with Larry, her best friend. That's kiiinda where the mandatory story ends. I have a few routes planned and there is technically a canon storyline but that's just what happens until the player is set loose to have fun. SO YEA THAT'S THE BASICS OF MY STORY LOLOLOL I HAVE A LOT OF FREE TIME TO WORLDBUILD SO THERE'S A LOT HERE ALSO TYSMSMSSMSMSM FOR ASKING I GOT SO ELATED SEEING THIS ASK TYSMSMSMSSM