#she’s your standard anti-vax lady

[mysticalcoffeequeen]

A security officer at my job participates in a ‘Moon Blood’ Circle which is the act of going out into the wilderness on a New Moon with other women on their periods to sit around on a circle of chairs with holes in them & essentially bleed on Mother Earth as divine connection to her spirit. Once completed you have the option of taking the blood infused dirt for spells or dilute your own for your garden, it’s the wildest thing I’ve ever heard.

i understand people who have periods wanting to learn more about how the menstrual cycle affects their body and being mindful of certain things, what i hate is turning it into something divine and transcendent. it's just a bodily function! what's next? finding the divine in my piss? me and my feminine piss.

[laurasbailey]

I’m new to critical role. My friend who introduced me (who is also new) told me Marisha gets a shit ton of hate and we’re both baffled. He’s straight and I’m a lady queer so we see different aspects of fandom. I just don’t get it. Marisha seems lovely and Beau is one of my faves?? I don’t know if it’s because people obsess over Matt and Laura (I love both too), and somehow get possessive or whatever. Beau and Yasha makes sense for the characters, Beau and Jester really doesn’t. Ship and let ship, but why is it people always demand their ship becomes canon. Btw I’m new to your blog too, I love it, thanks for providing peak gay content!

marisha has gotten shit since the beginning of c1 because she’s a woman who dares to challenge the beliefs of ugly nerdbro men. it’s because she speaks up in a realm where people think women should not speak up. “nerd fandom” like dnd and video games is historically a sphere where Women Aren’t Welcome but she’s always challenged that openly, to the irritation of the misogynists around her.

she consistently calls out the double standards within the fandom and the fact that men are praised for things women get shit for (hell, she even said it again on last night’s talks like a legend). anyway, people thought keyleth was “annoying” when honestly vax and percy took that title a lot of the time and yet? nobody said anything. marisha gets shit because she refuses to bow down and she does whatever the fuck she wants, that’s all it really is.

this might be controversial opinion, but i’ve always said it: people like jester more because jester’s sweeter and more amiable and also more typically feminine and people just, unfortunately, like those types of characters more by default. especially men. people see beau as abrasive and “more masculine” and are “irritated” by her. marisha also plays a lesbian which only negatively impacts people’s opinion of her, whether it’s actively or subconsciously. that’s just how people in the world think and it always has been. again, especially men. also laura doesn’t typically call out double standards or make waves in those sorts of spaces (which she doesn’t have to obviously!) then again, laura did get a lot of shit as vex as well (but... again... could be contributed to the fact that vex was not always necessarily “kind”). it’s just that marisha takes the brunt of the fandom’s sexism and bullshit because she happens to speak up consistently and (brilliantly) play characters that might go against the grain. secret: marisha is lovely. at least, she is as much as we know her as a public figure.

as for the anti beauyashas, that’s just, sadly, typical lesbophobia. i’d list some of the excuses the fandom has thrown around but there’s a new one every week and they’re more ridiculous each time. really it just comes down to people being upset that bj isn’t canon and it’s come out in a childish way. but yeah, it’s kinda telling when marisha is the only one getting the criticism when every ship has two halves and laura’s character showed no interest whatsoever. but anyway!

anyway that’s my long winded opinion dfskjsdfjk