#piss goblins

[ms-boogie-man]

Ta-dah!!!…

I love how the racist left thinks they can hijack the high-ground with feelings. They always do this in a lame attempt to elevate themselves above others who do not agree with their weakness and victimhood

Fig1:

Ola kala!! Bring your critical thinking feelings over here and debate me… on any political, social, or economic subject… I double-dogg dare you

il stupidos, telling me I am happy due to ignorance … you can kiss my narrow little bottom yo! *nods

Angie/Maddie🦇❥✝︎🇺🇸

[theythemmer]

phinktober day 11: ur fav AU

i dont rlly do AUs so i just drew them how i wish they would dress xo

(dan’s tats r carnations and snowdrops and phil’s r roses and honeysuckle. for no reason 🤗)

ALSO bonus version w makeup bc i couldn’t pick <3

[philsbignaturals]

This video was so insane I haven't even seen anyone mention how the *first* thing they talked about with the colour changing trousers is how it would be obvious if you pissed yourself in them

[not-poignant]

The latest UtR update on AO3 got me hooked and I could no longer constrain myself and had to read the other chapters on Patreon. Now I need to know: does Lucien have any redeeming character traits in the series or can I add him straight to the list of characters that deserve the worst? That attitude of his towards Faber made me so mad lmao

Hi anon!

This actually reminds me of the ask I got recently about how awful Augus is as a character and how it's impossible to consider him through a positive light after reading Falling Falling Stars. Because that's how he seems if you've never read him in anything else of mine!

My narrators are unreliable, anon. We only ever see Lucien very briefly through the jealous eyes of an insecure man.

(Spoilers for a future brief verbal encounter between Lucien and Faber in Underline the Red).

Lucien is an extremely vulnerable omega who is in an institution that has temporary custody of him. They control what he eats, what he does, whether he leaves or not (i.e. he's functionally imprisoned), who fucks him, if he gets to see anyone else, if he can talk to his partner and family back home and how often. He has significant psychiatric issues around his own insecurities re: jealously and his partner, and he clocks Faber as being in love with Caleb, and he's right.

And that's incredibly unethical of Faber, honestly, to not have disclosed any of this to Dr Gary (like Dr Gary will be right to consider firing him over this in the future). It puts Lucien's mental health in direct and severe jeopardy, and is ironically likely what causes his relapse that causes Caleb to suggest domestic discipline in the first place (oh, Faber, the irony).

Because Lucien's there to learn that actually a lot of his jealousy and insecurity is unfounded. Instead, he learns the opposite, that no matter who he bonds with, someone else is there loving his potential partner while he perceives himself as having very little control (and in the case of Hillview - this is true, all he has are his words).

He's a chronically disabled omega who needs a disability aid (walking stick) to get around, he's a second class citizen, he's agreed with his partner to stay at Hillview because they both recognise how sick he's getting.

Faber is not a mental health patient/omega like Lucien is. He's a staff member who is nursing unrequited loved to an alpha companion, that he's refused to disclose, while still interacting with Caleb and his omegas. Imho, while Lucien is very good at lashing out, he's not wrong to, and that's why Faber fully acknowledges what Lucien is saying and listens to him, and basically never interacts with him again, and avoids Caleb where possible.

Lucien's mean about it, but Lucien is right re: Faber trying to hide his feelings because he knows what will happen if people find out, and that it's also wrong/unfair to put Lucien in that position.

And Faber knows that.

So yeah. The reader is meant to hate Lucien on a surface level, in the same way that Faber does.

But consider that Faber also sometimes seems to hate all omegas. He finds the smell of their heats disgusting. It's actually pretty normal for people to go through a phase of rejecting the thing that they are, if that's something hated in society. Faber's oscillating mixed feelings of bitterness, resentment and cutting attitude is actually mirrored in Lucien.

Faber has thought extremely savage, scathing and unforgiving things himself to the people around him (and himself). Lucien responds to Faber like Faber is an omega (something Faber doesn't recognise yet), because Faber...kind of acts like one in moments like that. (Efnisien also picks up on this, Faber is not great to him in the beginning of Underline the Black, in a very specific way designed for Efnisien to pick up on, and for Gary to miss. Faber behaves jealously, and constantly suggests to Gary that he should get rid of Efnisien, before he finally adjusts to the absence of Gary in his life. Faber is possessive and manipulative!)

Lucien ultimately doesn't need any redeeming characteristics because he's a victim who is at Hillview to heal and Faber is jeopardising that. We can hate him, but that's just the fact. He didn't try to kill Kadek when he arrived at Hillview, he hasn't tried to destroy memories of James, things Efnisien has done even though we love him all the same (ideally). Lucien felt understandably jealous/insecure (literally the thing he's at Hillview to be treated for, safe from people who will be in love with his lover until Faber) and he lashed out meanly.

If a staff member of Hillview can't handle some rude words, they shouldn't work there.

But yeah, I like the Lucien and Faber encounter because they are both extremely similar people in some ways. They are both bitter, jealous, resentful people capable of very scathing thoughts (and words). The only difference is that in that moment, Faber is the recipient and we feel bad for him. I mean, I do feel bad for him. Faber is in a bad place psychologically, it's a horrible thing for him to experience.

If we were getting Lucien's story from his perspective, and saw the panic attacks he had afterwards, and the regression he went through, etc. it might be different. But it doesn't have to be! Lucien in that moment functions as a reality check for Faber, and a very effective one at that. We're meant to hate him, but also meant to understand that Faber's love for Caleb is not as subtle as he thinks it is in the sense that - omegas can see it for what it is.

I personally like the one moment where we see that Lucien might have a heart when Faber admits his parents are dead, and we can see that he doesn't react with savage satisfaction, but like Faber broke the narrative he'd built for himself in his own insecure, jealous, scared mind.

[lunalikestowriteanddraw]

How the fuck did my eyes stay mostly dry while watching episode 46, but then I immediately start crying by hearing Torbek sobbing in episode 48. Nothing sad is even happening, just Torbek’s cries are shattering my heart and I just want to give him all the hugs in the world :(

[harpers-tartarus]

Me writing the goblin king riz au: I'm about to make Nara the most toxic person in Fallinel and Riz HATES HER

[ping1n]

i just sent my militia out on a raid i didn't expect them to capture a BREEDING PAIR OF CAVE DRAGONS

oh boy.

[name-doggo]

Idk

[pinacoladamatata]

I'm still so mad about the Wyll rewrite actually

[demonsandpieohmy]

Politics under cut

So goddamn sick of seeing posts about how Democratic strategy, voter outreach etc cost us this election.

The Democratic Party didn’t put a gun to anyone’s head and force them to vote for trump.

PEOPLE did this. 72 million people looked at a rapist, felon, and an insurrectionist and said “yep, imma vote for that guy.” PEOPLE with brains and eyes and ears or some combination thereof looked at his words and actions and decided that was acceptable. PEOPLE actively and knowingly voted against the interests of just about every disenfranchised group in the country.

Everyone is responsible for their own actions. No one gets a pass because the Democrats didn’t run enough ads in a certain state or county. They all have access to the exact same information the rest of us do.

And now we all have to live with the fact that 72 million people in our country are either willfully ignorant or actively malicious. And honestly I don’t know which one is worse.

[eggcats]

I strongly believe, that about 5-10 years into Maia's reign as emperor, when he's finally confident/able to REALLY shake things up is when he's going to make HUGE sweeping changes in the culture

Every school/university/higher learning has to take in women or risk losing any kind of imperial funding or being sued for discrimination

No discrimination in any workplace or anything based on gender, marital status, race, sexuality etc

Legalizing marriage for marnei/ decriminalizing being marnei

Somehow doing something about nobles forcing their daughters to become wives and mothers to complete strangers JUST to give their fathers more power

(my brain's not working, but shit like that. that like, if he did any earlier his entire court would try to assassinate him for, but now it's just everyone noble OUTSIDE the court who wants to)

Just like, absolutely FUCKING UP the entire power structure that's been the norm for centuries the SECOND he has enough people in his court and enough knowledge to let him do so

...

The week before the announcements go out for the new laws, he sends a letter to Thara Celehar asking if he is available for a meeting. And he's, Freaking Out. What has he done now? Has His Serenity finally decided to execute him for some offense he's done????

Meanwhile Maia is just SUPER EXCITED to tell him that he's FINALLY made it so he can get married! And Thara is HORRIBLY embarrassed. This is his worst nightmare. Let him sink into the earth this second and no longer exist.

--

I LOVE the books on Thara Celehar, don't ever get me wrong he's my babygirl and I love him. But I ALSO want more on Maia and how he's handling his reign (maybe not right now, but once he starts bringing in people he can trust and who have progressive opinions) bc I trust him so much and I KNOW he's going to do so much good as emperor!

[silver-horse]

BG3 writing is lacking when it comes to the main character's autonomy and boundaries. Even though these are central themes in the main story and every companion's story. (People praise Larian for how well the game handled consent but there are oversights. so please read this if you have the time)

It's especially jarring if you are romancing Astarion. It's almost a teaching tale to be sensitive towards your partner's boundaries. But they didn't make sure that this is mutual. And I don't think spawn Astarion was meant to be a hypocrite in this regard, I will explain why in the last paragraph. It's a mistake that they could still fix... but I doubt they will)

Astarion often tries to encourage the main character to do weird submissive things and he makes gross sexual degrading comments. If Tav said these sort of things to him, he would be so insulted he would scream "I will kill you on instinct!" (Like he did during early access if we joked "I didn't think you would enjoy a master in the bedroom")

A line that especially disgusts me is what Astarion sometimes says to romanced Tav when he uses "help" action on Tav. "You look good helpless" with delight in his voice! If you want proof, here is a video (he says it at 1:32 ) He would be disgusted if we said this to him in a moment when he is incapacitated. It wouldn't matter what the intention is, if it's flirtatious or playful. But he can say it to his love interest? YOU LOOK GOOD HELPLESS?? 🤮🤮 ew

Maybe you think it's a mild comment BUT whenever something just as mild is said to Astarion in a flirty way, the game is hitting you on the head how it's not okay to say that to him. If it's said to him, he gets angry. If he says it it to his love interest, love interest cannot respond. Double standard. Perhaps the greatest example is the Araj Oblodra scene and the goblin feet licking scene...

Astarion says "go on give it a lick" referring to goblin feet. He ends up also approving when I do the opposite and make the goblin lick my feet. Doesn't erase what he suggests in the first place. (Yes it's funny if he has a foot fetish, I agree. But if he said "tell the goblin to lick your feet" that would still work and he wouldn't be pushing Tav to taste something repulsive and degrade themselves just because a stranger NPC told Tav "kneel and lick my feet")

In comparison when a stranger NPC tells Astarion "drink my blood" we are doing a very bad thing if we tell him to go along with that. Even telling him to choose on his own is a bad option. Tav is a good partner only if Tav stands up to the NPC. But Astarion in the same situation behaved in the opposite manner (even if he is already sleeping with Tav when they meet the goblins)

There is even a reward we can snatch if we choose to lick. It's just like when he can degrade himself for the potion Araj offers. If that happens, he breaks up with his partner. But he encourages his partner to lick dirty feet for scraps. Maybe you think well it's before his character development. It doesn't matter. If the game doesn't address it and 1 of these situations is never treated as something bad, only a joke, it's a double standard. They just let him say that and never apologise. (And the main character is motivated to get companion approval lol so even the game mechanics support that comments from companions, especially romanced one, is pushing the mc to do it.)

If you play AS Astarion, Shadowheart flirts with You/Astarion by saying "A dose of honesty. careful people don't take advantage of that. unless you want to be taken advantage of…" After this, the game gives you/Astarion the option to "imagine squeezing a neck pushing out every drop of blood" that's how angry Astarion gets from this flirty comment that a female character said to him, even though HE flirts in the SAME manner regularly.

Important context 1. She doesn't know about his trauma. 2. he said "I want to get to know you better" so she is responding AFTER he approached her. 3. he said "you are not wrong" when she implied that he is looking for direction. he basically gave her the green light twice 4. after the angry "imagine…", she notices something is off and offers to leave him alone. She is not the dickhead for saying that line.

Astarion says "don't you dare say no" when Abdirak wants to whip and beat the main character. sorry Astarion, I dare say no (unlike someone... and the fact that he can't say no and yet he talks this way to his partner makes it worse)

he calls the romanced main character "my little treat" during the celebration party and there is at least one occasion when spawn astarion says "pet". Also hilariously this "pet" comment is dropped when HE is establishing HIS boundaries in the brothel. But our character is unable to establish that this is a disgusting way to refer to them.

IF you ascend him you CAN challenge him when he calls you "pet"! Ascendant was written as a hypocrite, he turns into an abuser, the writing acknowledges this and allows players to say "Don't call me pet" and "It doesn't feel like a joke. It sounds like you mean it". You can call Ascendant out on his bullshit in SOoo many dialogues. The game makes it a point that you can ask him to stop and Ascendant ignores what you asked. But with spawn you can't even ask? lmao because they didn't notice it's insulting? The same word "pet" is used during a convo around consent with spawn astarion and we can't say we don't like that. If someone in real life called me "my little treat" or "pet", I would probably punch them

If the story explores consent then they should make the boundaries mutual. It would require one response option in the goblin camp or during the act 1 party. "Don't say that to me" and then he could just NOT say this "uwu my little treat/pet" shit later on. because his partner established a boundary. Even better, he could not say these things in the first place because he would be angry if it was said to him.

In short this should have been better handled by the writing because I don't think this hypocrisy was intentional. Ascendant is a hypocrite and the writing addresses that! It's a point of the story that he can BECOME that. But that guy is not the same guy who opens up about his past etc. Also when Haarlep is using Tav's body, Astarion is the only one who shows understanding. It's similar to his experiences so the writers were conscious of that and he reacts accordingly with empathy. I think his hypocritical comments are a result of the writers thinking "it would be funny or sexy if he said X" and they didn't realise that's not necessarily true. It was never meant to be deep but that doesn't change how it comes off. It's presented as cutesy when said BY Astarion. And the exact same type of lines are presented as outrageously insensitive when said TO Astarion.

[tempesttz]

gonna start calling people who attempt to devalue or invalidate my personal experiences and perception of myself as a plural individual because i don't fit into their weird suffering quota as disorder goblins

[khytal]

TERRIBLE SEQUENCE OF EVENTS

[trisockatops]

Okay I lied, one more post about the blatant antisemitism that isn't getting as much as attention as the creator's cissexism.

Thread from Unsidhe, Artist&Vtuber|Illust/Live2D OPEN on Twitter:

cw: antisemitism 1 of the 'goblin artifacts' you can find in That Wizard Game is literally just a shofar, a Jewish musical instrument, described as being 'used to annoy witches and wizards'. In it's description is the year 1612, which was when the Fettmilch uprising took place.

This uprising was followed by an outright massacre of Jewish people. If you STILL think it's just "a coincidence based on unfortunate folklore about goblins" and not literally an antisemitism propaganda simulator, fucking BLOCK ME. I want nothing to do with you.

People are trying to tell me "but it's not a shofar because it's painted" like, you're grasping at straws for excuses at this point.

Learning that they wrote 'stuffed with gorgonzola to silence it' about the horn, and finding out that gorgonzola specifically is not a kosher cheese... when they could have just written 'stuffed with cheese' for the Haha Funney Points really says a lot someone had to think.

/end thread

Thread from Yonah Gerber on twitter:

For those saying Hogwarts Legacy isn’t antisemitic, the game devs made it canon that goblins use shofar

“Generally annoy witches & wizards” literally the text in the game is that Jewish practices are just an annoyance like what the fuck

To address the dumbassery in my responses: assume good intentions must be earned. If this was the first time a Rowling property has been antisemitic, that's a woopsie. But it's not.

Here's the facts as they exist: - The object is a war horn - The artifact in the game is located at a place named after a pig & stuffed with dairy products to stop its music - The year of its most famous use is also the year major antisemitic pogroms happened in Germany

If ONE of these things were true, but Rowling & the franchise otherwise hadn't made any major missteps, that's when we give the benefit of the doubt. But I'm not willing to give said benefit when considering all the in-game context AND ALSO prior antisemitism in the franchise.

At a certain point, "benefit of the doubt" becomes "any plausible deniability is sufficient to ignore all context to the contrary" & to me, & to many Jewish folks, we are way past that point.

Hogwarts Legacy is not the first time the Harry Potter franchise has been accused of antisemitism. If the franchise & its creators wanted to avoid further accusations, they could've done some basic historical research to make sure these alleged coincidences were not included.

Once you have harmed a marginalized demographic, it's on your as a creator to prevent *further harm*. If you're using an IP that another creator once used to harm others, then I'm sorry, you do have the responsibility to undue that harm where you can in your own work.

EVEN IF these are coincidences, had the development team made a point to avoid antisemitic caricatures & educated themselves on that history, this wouldn't have happened. They chose not to care. And that's not much better, really.

Obviously I don't know what the team at Avalanche thinks or believes & frankly that's not my business. What matters to me is the end product & that end product either is purposefully antisemitic or was made by folks who don't care if they're accidentally antisemitic.

However you twist this, there's a tremendous lack of care going on here, & a choice to perpetuate cruelty that didn't need to happen.

Don't yell at folks in my mentions who genuinely don't understand the layers of context here. This is a great education opportunity. Block the obvious trolls, I sure am, but some folks have only seen a piece of the whole, & education is the best solution to ignorance.

Deleting my last tweet because I saw the point on Mastodon, but I can no longer find the post. I don't want to share what I can't currently verify.

To add, though: - The shofar is located at the Hog's Head (aka pig) Inn - The music of the shofar is prevented because a wedge of gorgonzola was used to stop the music, & while many cheeses are kosher, that one is not Take from that what you will.

/end thread

Thread from moby dickgirl on Twitter:

// CW: antisemitism; discussion of Islamophobia Concerning Gorgonzola (expanding on a comment in Yonah's thread) N.B. Once again, I am speaking as a gentile

It's a really common trope in right-wing propagandistic fiction for the "heroes" to desecrate the graves of religious enemies by putting profane items in them. The example I'm most familiar with is endless post-9/11 masturbation about putting pig products in Muslims' graves

I understand that there's a prohibition, deriving from a law given by Moses at Sinai, on seething a kid in its mother's milk, and that this is generally interpreted pretty broadly as meaning having meat and dairy in the same meal, or otherwise combining them, is unkosher

Some cheeses are kosher. Traditionally, Gorgonzola is not. This is because the production of Gorgonzola requires the use of a complex of enzymes called rennet. Using animal-derived rennet to make cheese is unkosher because of the prohibition mentioned above.

Now, this doesn't always apply to Gorgonzola today; you can get Gorgonzola made with non-animal-derived rennet which I understand may be kosher. However, this was unequivocally not the case in 1612. Gorgonzola made then would have been made with animal-derived rennet.

It's also been noted that the year of that goblin rebellion is 1612, the first year of the antisemitic purge called the Fettmilch Rising in Frankfurt. Both the real Fettmilch Rising and the fictional rebellions may have been based partly on allegations of financial misconduct.

There is, however, a shorter path. A distinctive quality of Gorgonzola — unique to it as far as I can tell — is that it's made with unskimmed milk, that is, milk with the milkfat still in it. The German word for "milkfat" is "Milchfett" — "Fettmilch" with the syllables reversed.

(I've heard that "Fettmilch" is literally a dialect German word for "unskimmed milk," which would make the link even more direct, but I don't have a sufficiently comprehensive German–English dictionary on hand to confirm this. German speakers are welcome to chime in.)

/end thread

Not to mention that the basic plot of the game is suppressing the rebellion of a canonically oppressed race that has always been an antisemitic caricature (hooked nose, beady eyes, hoard money, apparently control the wealth, manipulative, sneaky, greedy). We didn't need to look far to find the antisemitism, and yet here it is, ratcheted up times ten.

[begaydodrughailsaten]

Dndads fan artists I need yall to know how actual stick and pokes look

When ever I see lark and sparrow drawn with the tattoos of each others names its always like a pretty good decent tattoo, thats not how stick and pokes look (when done but 13year olds without proper training or equipment at least)

There are some people who have done a shit ton of SNP's and can get them to look really good but as someone who gave themselves a stick and poke with pencil lead and sewing needles (probably what lark abd sparrow had access too) when I was 13 (so around there age in S1) those tattoos do NOT look that good

Instead of looking like writing you would do with pen and paper it looks like a bunch of tiny dots, that are not uniform at all and weirdly faded. 

Examples under cut