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nervoustragedyluminary · 3 months

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Reductress is just spreading terf rhetoric now

The "joke" is that nonbinary people are somehow escaping from violence by being trans that we can opt out of fearing violence and don't fear violence when walking at night....

Like just yuck as a transmasc nonbinary survivor whose actually aware of the stats of violence against nonbinary people this just disgusts me...

Also I'm betting they have talked to zero Black trans enbies or men or women of colour about how being seen as "scary" puts them in danger from racist white people & or they're just assuming all enbies are white idk it's disgusting... There's just so many layers to the bigotry and white fauxminism of this "joke"

They've previously made posts like this so idk if they've got terfs on staff who keep trying to slip this in to pipeline people or people who think certain trans people they dislike facing violence including sexual violence is funny and that those trans survivors are lying and shouldn't be beleived.

They're priming their audience to disbelieve and mock nonbinary trans survivors. They're literally pushing the "people transition to escape/opt out of patriarchal violence like a fun game" terf talking point which isn't reflected in the stats of violence against trans people who face higher rates of physical sexual and domestic violence than cis people

Just "it's a coin toss!"

As a survivor fuck you

Like the comments section is full of transphobia and people going "har har they think they're in danger they're delusional " or spouting transphobic BS and a trans man whose talking about how he fears violence walking at night being called 'female' and misgendered like well done you've curated a comment section full of transphobes and people who think trans people aren't who we say we are fucking yikes

None of the transphobic comments have been deleted reductress seems happy to leave up comments calling trans men "female" and saying that trans people are a danger to children

#Reductress #Exorsexism #Rape culture #transandrophobia #Terf rhetoric #Erasing tpoc #When your “joke” is “haha enbies don't face violence people think you're men and trans men don't face violence” in current year just wtaf #Did a nonbinary person reject one of the writers or something there seems to be this persistent creepy obsession with mocking and belittlin #It really sounds like the “all my exgfs are crazy” shit but projected onto enbies like who hurt you and why are you hurting survivors?#Like they already tried a similarly transphobic joke and it went over just as badly then why do they keep trying to push this maga shit #Enbyphobia #Anti-Transmasculinity #This is what violent transphobes who harass assault & kill us WANT you to think when we try to talk about fearing for our safety #Why are you perpetuating this transphobic nonsense #Also I wonder if the stock model whose image they used knows its being used to mock&erase trans survivors

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ashenpages · 3 years

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Current Fic Ideas & Emoji Voting Key

Quick disclaimer that I’m a romance writer in all aspects of the term, so most of my fics will contain mature content. Engage at your own risk, you know the rules, you’re responsible for curating your own experience of the internet, blah blah blah. This post serves as a current mock up of fic ideas I’m either actively working on or considering working on next. You can drop me an ask about any of them, or just vote via the emoji combo I’ve assigned them.

Voting lets me know you’re excited about an idea and makes it more likely I’ll actually work on it. You can vote anytime, there’re no deadlines or winner announcements, just me gauging your interest by what I see in my ask box most often.

You can also ask me about the original stuff I’m working on currently. The current WIPs are Medusa centric and the emoji for them is: 🐍

- Lupin: 🤑🤠💍 These are all oneshot ideas, between 5-15K each. If you want to vote for a specific idea, send me the emojis and the number of the idea.

Lupin, Jigen, and Goemon always play rock-paper-scissors after a big heist to decide who’ll give the group a striptease, and who will get showered with money. Based on a piece of fanart that is basically this sequence of events in a 4koma (except in their version Jigen loses and in mine, it’s Goemon). (written, just needs editing)

Zenigata cuffs Lupin four times, and Lupin steals his heart. Very NSFW conclusion. Zenigata is the most caring lover you’ll ever find. Lupin is as thirsty as usual and twice as intense. (written, just needs editing)

Jigen protects Lupin from poison darts during a treasure hunt in an Aztec temple, and Lupin nurses him back to help--forcibly, since Jigen is a horrible patient. Born from my desire to spoil Jigen and talk about what ridiculous domestic husbands these two are. (WIP)

Born from the idea that Goemon and Zenigata probably couldn’t be an item, my brain decided to come up with how I could write for them. Goemon’s teaching an ikebana class as part of his training, and Zenigata shows up as a student on forced recreational leave for his health from the ICPO. Zenigata wins the samurai’s heart through flowers. But what happens when Lupin and Jigen find out? (Only good sexy things, I promise. These beans are in a healthy polycule--be gay, do crimes)

Trans!Lupin and Trans!Jigen premise: Jigen cares for Lupin after the master thief has top surgery, since Jigen has Been There and Done That. Caring, sweet, and a little sexy. Lupin is a much better patient than Jigen.

- Sonic Vampire Novelist Coffee Shop AU: 📚☕💐

Shadow is an immortal vampire who has seen the world change for the worse too many times. These days it feels like he only lives for his coffee dates with Rouge, another immortal who loves each new era they encounter, warts and all. He has to admit that the book series she got him into speaks to him, at least. If someone in this era can understand him without meeting him, it can’t all be bad. But he hardly expected the goofy blue barista at the new coffee place to understand him the way those books do.

This is a novel length romcom romp with some big feelings about what it means to watch as things change, grow, and die. Expect lots of Big gothic feelings from this one, emotionally charged kissing, and overly-adoring sex. But also expect shenanigans from everyone in the coffee shop, which include Rouge, Amy, Tails, Knuckles, Cream, and more.

- Sonic Blazamy: 💖🌸💎

Amy Rose has been in love with Sonic for a while.

Or has she?

When the Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, Shadow, and Silver are trapped as the fuel sources for Doctor Eggman’s newest evil scheme, Amy teams up with Blaze, Rouge, and Cream to save them. With Sonic out of the picture and Amy fulfilling his role, was she ever really in love with him? Or did she just want to be like him?

This is a novel length epic romance with lots of competent women and lots of romantic Blazamy content. Expect flowery hopes and dreams, badass self-actualization, and glancing hand touches that give way to cuddly and sweet sex.

- Persona 5: 🗡🍛☕

After bringing down the Metaverse twice, Ryuji didn’t think graduating high school and figuring out what to do with his life would be so hard. Akira’s back in town, and the gang’s more-or-less all in Tokyo, but everyone else seems to have a plan while Ryuji just floats. How’s he supposed to change the world when he’s not a phantom thief anymore?

This is a novel length fic that addresses how powerless one can feel being just one person in the face of all the corrupted systems and bigotry the world has to offer. It’s about holding on to what you believe in, working through the doubt, and fighting your way to a better tomorrow with the power you do have. The whole gang is queer, featured relationships being Mako x Ann, Ryuji x Akira, Futaba & Yusuke as platonic life partners. Akira is polyamorous and omnisexual, Futaba’s asexual and aromantic while Yusuke is demisexual and very romantic, Makoto’s a lesbian, Ann and Ryuji are bi, and Haru’s pansexual, demisexual, and aromantic. They’re one giant band of queer Phantom Thieves, and even if they’re not really doing the Metaverse thing anymore, they’re still gonna save the world!

Also, I’m gonna make Makoto not a cop. That super didn’t age well. Zenkichi and his boss can work on making them better/abolishing them for other better organizations.

- Hades Game: ❤️‍🔥💀

Oneshot. I just really need to elaborate on the threesome you can have with them in-game, okay? Healthy and canon poly relationships are so few and far between, so often I have to do a ton of groundwork to explain why it’s working in the fic, but NOT WITH THESE KIDS!

Get ready for Meg helping Zag and Than be better at expressing their feelings, lots of kissing, and probably pegging.

- Castlevania Animation Trevor/Sypha/Alucard: 🧛🏰🛌

Castlevania gave Alucard a threesome last season, and I just really need S4 to give me him being taken care of by his partners. They’re probably not going to give it to me, so I’ll need to do it myself. This is just an everybody loves Alucard oneshot, with the gang’s signature banter (to an extent), Sypha being sexy, and Trever being remarkably sincere. This fic is gonna feel like that Ann Hathaway picture with Trevor kissing Alucard and Sypha holding the end of Trevor’s whip while she leans her head on Alucard’s shoulder adoringly.

- Devil May Cry Nico/Lady/Trish: 💋✨😈

Nico’s gay, okay? Like really, really gay. And Lady’s bi and not into men who make her pay bills, but very into women who make amazing guns for her and demonesses with hearts who fight by her side. Trish is ace, but loves people and is pretty attached to Lady at this point. Plus it’s cute when Lady blushes and says nice things like they’re insults. I don’t have super solid ideas for them yet, and I envision these more like a polycule where Lady’s with Nico and with Trish but they’re not with each other more than seeing it as a threesome, but who knows what might happen. This is probably 1-2 oneshots depending on ideas, but might turn into a series of oneshots if people are interested (or I can’t control myself and inspiration strikes).

- Post FMA:B Blind Roy & No Alchemy Ed: 👀👑🙏

This is actually an old novel-length fic I wrote ages ago and didn’t post that didn’t turn out well because I was new to writing sex when I first wrote it. The plot is good, and is all about Roy learning to work with his blindness to reclaim his ambition of being Fuhrer and changing the system to something that actually cares for its people. He and Ed reconnect, fall into bed, and both set about working through their respective traumas about being “useless” having lost their sight/alchemy. They go to Xing as an ambassadorial party to offer Amestris’s collaboration on Al and May’s Alkahestry experiments--and uncover a plot that might threaten both kingdoms.

- Age of Calamity continuity Mipha x Revali: 🦚🐟💘

The first time Revali noticed Mipha, it was in the heat of battle. She stole his mark, taking them down with a flurry of quick blows from her spear. Violence rained from her like water--and then she healed him on her way to her next battle. No questions, no conditions, just pure kindness. The usual need to measure himself against those around him was quiet in her wake. And Revali couldn’t understand it. But how to get to know more about her? A fish and bird may fall in love, but where would they live?

This fic could be a oneshot or novel length depending on how far down the hole I fall. I need it to cover time, but it could be done in linked vignettes or with actually covering events in detail. I may elect to do a oneshot just to get it done and out of my system faster. So much fic to write, so little time.

Expect trans!Revali, polyamorous Zoras, scary competent Mipha, songbird Revali, love confessions that are made up entirely of berating Link for not loving Mipha the way she wants him to, and breaking these characters a little outside of their assigned roles in BotW and Age of Calamity. Background Link x Zelda, and Urbosa x Zelda’s Mom.

- Epic desert romance about Urbosa and Zelda’s mom: 🏜🏝⚡

I just think Urbosa should kiss women and Zelda’s mom should get more development and maybe a name or something. Also, lightning imagery/metaphors/play.

It also went way over my head that Riju wasn’t Urbosa’s daughter the first time I played BotW, so now I want to write about the Gerudo queen who refused to produce an heir. The Gerudo are fascinating and have a very interesting cutlure, but I think it could be examined from a nonbinary perspective that rejected pregnancy and wanting to find a husband. Not in like a hateful way, but in a way that examines if that’s really right for everyone. There’s that shop in town that sells Voe armor, after all. Maybe finding a husband and having children isn’t something you have to do if you don’t want to. And Urbosa really doesn’t want to.

#sonic the hedgehog #Lupin III #persona 5 #Devil May Cry #Hades Game #Castlevania #fma #Breath of the Wild #age of calamity

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aion-rsa · 3 years

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Donuts & Demons: Ryka Aoki’s Light from Uncommon Stars

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Shizuka Satomi, a violin teacher known as the Queen of Hell, owes one more soul to demons due to an infernal bargain she struck. Young violinist Katrina Nguyen needs to escape her homelife, where her transness is rejected by her family, and to start anew, hopefully making videos with her music. And Lan Tran and her crew are striving to build a stargate—before the Galactic Empire falls to the Endplauge—while selling donuts at Starrgate Donuts in Los Angeles. Light from Uncommon Stars is the story of how these three women’s lives intersect, and is a novel filled to the brim with music so beautifully described, readers can almost hear it in the narrative.

Katrina opens the novel with her flight and her passion for music; Shizuka comes in quickly after with her soul-contract deadline and her desire to find one last musician to condemn to hell. When readers first encounter Lan and her alien crew, they may wonder how author Ryka Aoki can pull off a story that is at once soul-bargaining-with-demons and refugee-aliens-building-a-stargate. But as the story progresses, the themes and characters dovetail together so beautifully that readers will wonder how they ever doubted.

Aoki explores what it means to be human, the nature of souls, and the importance of hope and love even in the face of what may seem hopeless, filling the novel with both good humor and acknowledgment of suffering. There is pain, and yet a sense that better things are to come. The love and care with which the characters imbue parts of their lives—whether it’s the music they play, the instruments they shape, or the food they create—gains a greater meaning by virtue of that love. The result is an incredibly powerful story of hope and redemption, of small voices shouting into dissonance and being heard. Ahead of the novel’s September 28th release, Den of Geek had the chance to pick Aoki’s brain about how this novel came together, and insights into her inspiration…

Den of Geek: First, what brought together the two very different speculative fiction tropes—soul-bargaining and stargates—together into the same story for you? How did you create a universe in your head where both things worked without contradicting each other?

Ryka Aoki: I respect both science fiction and fantasy, but I had honest intentions and reasons to mix them in Light from Uncommon Stars. I was a little bit worried about how people would accept this—or not. But I’ve been thrilled with how readers have embraced and accepted this book.

I think this book might resonate with readers because we all hold seeming contradictions. In the book, Shizuka Satomi mentions how great pieces of music contain such different-sounding sections and movements. And, as music reflects the soul, doesn’t that say something about us, and our own shifting arrays of motifs and counterpoints?

In my case, being of Japanese descent, and being queer, and being trans, means that I play a lot of different things to a lot of different worlds. Yet working toward true acceptance and love of self can be like composing your own sonata—you’re striving to express and share your entire music. The person who I am with my family lives in a different world than the person who teaches English and Critical Thinking. And that person seems very different from the writer, or the martial artist.

And yet, I don’t feel fragmented. I feel pretty whole.

And so, when I wrote Light from Uncommon Stars, I always had faith that it would work out, somehow—because I worked out, somehow.

(At least I’d like to think so…)

Demon Tremon Philippe and Shizuka’s relationship may bring to mind more of Mephistopheles and Faust than the devil at the crossroads. But there is a long tradition of musicians trading souls for greatness, brought into American folklore via blues musicians, who may have drawn on tales of Papa Legba rather than the European devil-bargaining stories. In the novel, you’ve brought many cultural traditions into play—where did you start from in the soul-selling elements? What did you borrow from earlier tales, and what did you invent whole cloth?

Thank you for asking this question because it lets me talk about another tradition. The early days of Internet message boards were the first time ever that trans people could speak freely yet relatively anonymously with people like them around the world. In fact, one of my dearest friends had such a board and they live in Iceland. We needed each other. We helped each other go through some horrible times… But there were also some goofy and fun times come as well—it was the first time that we realized that we’re all a bunch of science fiction and fantasy geeks. I mean, anywhere we can dream, right?

And I remember at the time being struck by how many trans women had created their own creation myths, to explain how their soul was placed in this other body. Many religions ignore trans people. Yet to know where one came from—and why—is a necessary question for many human beings.

In these stories, and the discussion surrounding them, there was much talk about having the soul of a woman, or the soul of a man if one were a trans man. “Do you have a female soul?” was a very relevant question to those with trans binary identities. (Discussions of nonbinary identities and gender fluidity were happening as well—entire vocabularies were being invented. Those were some exciting times.)

I think that even now many trans women, perhaps when first trying to make sense of who they are, still ask themselves this question.

And so, the cursed Shizuka Satomi, precisely because she is so focused on acquiring souls that she finds bodies irrelevant—offers Katrina the space and place to find her answers.

The descriptions and understanding of music and violins—and violin competitions—in the story are tangible. What is your music background?

I love writing music. I used to play in a band, and when I do my spoken word pieces, I compose all my own soundtracks. My main instrument is the piano, but I also play guitar, and some flute, and harmonica. For the most part, I am self-taught. However, I’ve been taking lessons for the past couple of years with a wonderful piano teacher—the irony is because I’m promoting this book, I’m on a brief hiatus from that.

However, I had no idea how to play the violin. I remember the first time I went into a violin shop. There were violins, but violins of different sizes, and cellos and violas and basses, and I was laughing to myself that I have no idea how to make music with any of this. I couldn’t put a tune together with one of these instruments to save my own life.

I did manage to teach myself some violin. And I really love the instrument. I have an acoustic violin from eBay, and I also have an electric violin now. This Christmas season, I am looking forward to jamming to some holiday music. We may never be ready for a committed relationship, but the violin and I have become good friends.

So, although I didn’t grow up in violin culture, as I researched violin culture, I found many parallels with a culture that I was familiar with—martial arts. Like many communities with overachieving children and parents with unrequited dreams, I found that in violin competitions, it was sometimes difficult to tell which was more important, the violin or the competition. This was so much like what I had seen as an annoying little martial arts kid. And so, those were the experiences upon which I drew.

The posturing, the pressure, the mind games…the nausea in the bathroom…so different, but not so different at all.

In addition to being a writer, you are a teacher. Are any of your own feelings about teaching reflected in Shizuka’s feelings about mentoring?

*giggle* ALL of them…the good, the bad, the obsessive, the self-serving, and the hopeful.

This novel felt, in many ways, like a pandemic novel–in a situation that should be full of hopelessness (the Endplague, a coming soul-deadline), there’s still this tonal quality, even in the early pages, that things will turn out right, even if we have no idea how that will happen. Was any part of the novel written during the pandemic? Do you see it differently now that it’s coming out as we’re still dealing with the coronavirus?

During the first few months of pandemic, most of the novel had already been written, and we were deep in edits. I was pushing so hard to get my story just right that the first part of the lockdown went by unnoticed. Plot hole here, inconsistency there…even without a lockdown, I don’t think I would have gone out, anyway.

These days, I’m feeling the pandemic more, especially because this is when I was to tour, sign books, and meet people in person. And, as I engage with the lockdown more actively, I do notice how the pandemic does seem to echo the themes of the Endplague. Although Covid-19 did not inspire the Endplague, I based the Endplague on how civilizations can often fall, not from outside cataclysms themselves, but from the conflicts and fissures they cause their populace…and a collective loss of hope.

In the book, without going into too many spoilers, Lan and her family come from a very advanced civilization that has conquered many diseases and social ills, but is still battling with divisions, suspicions, and fatalism.

Looking around at world today, the parallels are hard to escape.

Late in the novel, you use Bartók as a way of framing and understanding transness in a beautiful way. Could you talk about the theme of Katrina finding her voice through the violin, and about how music and self-intertwine in the novel?

Provided the instrument is well-maintained, when you play the piano, you’ll automatically play in tune. A violin can be perfectly in tune, but that is far from enough—you need to be in tune with yourself.

Furthermore, when I actually played the violin, I learned that certain notes resonate very well with other strings. In fact, sympathetic resonance is one way that a student can know if she’s in tune. If we listen for the resonances, we can feel the entire violin glow. There’s no better way to say it—it seems like the instrument glows.

This is very important to Katrina’s development, for human voices—and human souls—don’t have keys, or even frets, either. And when you’re playing in tune with yourself and others, you do get this internal glow. I think feeling this is very important to Katrina. It gives her security, weaves her into the songs of others.

But we are not always in harmony, nor should we be. Sometimes, our true songs are dissonant, or expressed in notes between notes. At that point, for all the rest of the world knows, your composition is wrong, or your intonation sucks. So, when your own music is so insistent, yet so at odds with what people expect—what do you do? Well, there goes Bartók.

There is a difference between playing with people in harmony and speaking to them in melody, after all. What does this mean for Katrina?

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I think I’ll just leave it there.

Starrgate Donuts cannot fulfil online orders for their delicious donuts, unfortunately, as it is fictional, and videos of Shizuka Satomi’s performances are still not available to watch, due to interference from demonic forces, but Light from Uncommon Stars is available at bookstores everywhere on September 28, 2021. Find out more here.

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//So I decided today to face my “demons” as it were and watch The Doctor Falls straight through to the end. This is directly because a conversation I had with @forgediinfire last night made me feel I have a suppport system of Doctors, Thirteen and otherwise, who can provide a way to cope with the incredible pain that canon has caused.

I have a bunch of new insights as a result of watching, and I’m pleased to say that with the time that’s elapsed since June, I’m somehow finding this episode less horrible than I did originally. That’s not to say I don’t still find the Masters killing each other to be any less OOC and problematic, but I found ways to scavenge the good bits. That’s the trick with Moffat’s writing. It’s not ALL bad, it’s just the parts that are bad are HORRIBLE, so sometimes you have to step away and process before you can absorb the good bits.

So, thoughts/ideas, in no particular order: --Still love the Missy/Master dynamic with all my heart.

--I love how when they were dancing on the roof, Missy says, “Oh, am I a woman now?” and the Master says “Well kinda.” It implies the whole Time Lord genderfluid/nonbinary/agender concept.

-- “I’m not begging you; I’d rather die than beg you.” Boy howdy do I have a long-ass meta in store for this. And yes I do think this is very ic of SIMM Master in particular. Powerfully reminiscent of the events on the Valiant. For now. *wiggles eyebrows* --I love the line where the Doctor refers to awful filthy things being inevitable and includes Donald Trump. Well done there, Moffat. I am not a fan of yours but I salute your courage there.

--Never is it mentioned that the Master immediately left Gallifrey’s Timelock, which means that it’s indeed free reign territory over what exactly happened before the “mutual kicking out.” And I refuse to believe that a Gallifrey run by Rassilon at his cruelest and craziest would allow the Master to be healed without him paying a steep price indeed. Insert all my headcanons about him being tortured and isolated for a time equivalent to the Doctor’s confession dial, which directly explains his backslide in character development from End of Time. Since as a writer, I can’t blame an intentional retcon for the inconsistency in his characterization. --I didn’t realize the Master “taking over and living like a king then being overthrown and hiding out” refers to MONDAS, not Gallifrey, but then that is really interesting. It poses the question of how much he was involved in the creation of the Mondasian cybermen. It looks like, just like with the Toclafane, he didn’t CAUSE the horrible thing, but he USED IT AS AN OPPORTUNITY to do ADDITIONAL horrible things (build a city with factories of cybermen who convert more and more people to cybermen). So I’m gonna say he was the temporary mayor of the city then finally a group of insurgents overthrew and attempted to assassinate him, leading to the Mr. Razor disguise. I’m gonna say right now, this is a hard thing to process, though it IS in keeping with his characterization. I personally think it’s the worst thing he’s ever done and that for this reason alone, he does not deserve to live. Which leads me to this: in order to continue to play this character, I absolutely have to get him started on a redemption arc. Thank God we’ve seen Missy capable of remorse in canon, so it’s my goal to see the Master go down the same path, voluntarily, with help from someone with a moral compass (like he himself used to have). I would like to ask @canspotatimeagent @onlyxsurvivor and @forgediinfire directly to be candidates for helping him learn the magnitude of his crimes, and atone, but in his own way. To Ashley, I think it’s worth noting that Jack, through Ianto, knows exactly how excruciating conversion to a cyberman is, and that might pose a new challenge for Jack and Koschei’s relationship. --The Doctor comments that the Master is an even worse driver than he is. Not sure I agree with that but it’s an endearing idea.

--Characteristics of Simm Master that were carried through to Moffat’s writing correctly: glibness and verbal precocity; indignation; impatience.

--They spent TWO WEEKS on Mondas on a “holographic level”? TWO WEEKS? I had no idea. My GOD, the potential for rp threads!!!! COME AT ME PEOPLE.

--The Doctor is really good with kids. “You’re being kind. Nothin wrong with kind.”

--The way Bill’s victimization is framed, as her being herself on the inside but only outwardly reflected to others as a cyberman, makes me wish with all my heart that the Master hadn’t sacrificed her just to get at the Doctor again. How fucking much collateral between them does there have to be? He should get on his knees and beg her forgiveness. He should undergo a similar process. He should suffer. I’m going to make him suffer. People who love this character might want to look away for a few weeks because I’m having trouble not killing him off altogether.

--Except. “People are always going to be afaid of me, aren’t they?” Look me in the eye and tell me that’s not something the Master realized as a kid. And learned to turn from something nefarious into a badge of honor. And now wears like Herakles’s lion’s pelt. “Look at me, I’m invincible. Don’t touch me.” So here I am, right back to loving a monster.

--”Kill it kill it kill it kill it kill it!” we heard you the first time dear.

-- “Turning into a woman is one thing but have you got empathy now?” Woo that hurt me to the soul. --The line about “is the future going to be all girl” is glaringly out of place and pointless and still makes me furious. I reject it wholesale.

--Nardole is surprisingly non annoying.

--Why is the Master so sulky putting on his eyeliner? When Missy calls him “dearest” and asks him where their TARDIS is and he just goes “Well I suppose,” looking out the window, he seems more sad than afraid. Can’t get a read on that yet.

--The Doctor is right. His speech is so good. And so true.

In all honesty, this was really hard to watch. I feel sick. I wish I’d never discovered this character, but now that I have, I don’t know how to abandon him. So here we are. Time to do the really excruciating work.

“See this face? This is the face of someone who didn’t listen to a word you just said.” With that line Moffat declares that this character is past saving, and only Missy, HIS version of the Master, is not.

Sometimes I believe him.

Sometimes my dash, my mutuals, the fandom at large, everyone, makes me believe him.

But I’m gonna try not to. I’m gonna try. Why?

“Hey, you know, maybe there’s no point in any of this at all, but it’s the best I can do. So I’m going to stand here doing it until it kills me. Why not, just at the end, just be kind?”

That’s why I write this character. That’s why.

#ooc #save tag #meta #psa

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youscheminglittlebitch · 7 years

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Degrassi live blog for episodes 6-10

Lola finding farts funny is so unsurprising

I know where the Yael plot is going and I’m so happy about it. Like I agree it has nothing to do with being a girl or not and also that gender identity is weird

Lola is fuckin DELIGHTFUL you know

Oooh yay it’s the Craig episode I’m actually so excited

POOR ZIG

Yael is so metal. “it doesn’t say no girls it says somebody wearing pants and I’m wearing pants”

I’m so proud of Tiny for turning is life around so much. He’s so smart and I’m just so happy that he’s doing something with it and isn’t being sucked into gang shit

Lola is the best I love her so much she is the supportive friend this show needs

Their farts thing went through and everyone did love it. Okay

I’m crying guys I’m so happy for Yael

I hope Craig is doing well. I always liked to think that he’s famous in the Degrassi world

I’m not surprised Craig liked Maya’s music when his songs were like Rescue You and My Window

I’m sad that Hunter is like this but I’m not surprised

I’M SO THRILLED ABOUT THIS BEING A LEGIT POLY GROUP

Ep 7

Lola I love you, Shay I love you

“have you tried being their friend?” you know Frankie, I believe she has not

Lola and Frankie being like “nononononono” to Shay makes sense but good on Shay for being transparent with her parents, like that shows a lot more trust and she’s going to feel way better with the full consent and not any sort of lies/lying by omission

I love how they’re camping in Degrassi’s one little clearing which we know is near the school but we’re meant to think that they’ve actually gone away somewhere

“and had I?” “No you’d just gone and cut the sleeves off all your shirts” TRU

I understand why Esme is upset and I know she has this whole thing against Maya for various reasons but she didn’t really think too hard before pulling out edibles now did she

That lil moment of Jonah/Frankie interaction made me happy?? I guess it’s a closure thing I like when Degrassi couples still talk to each other post-break up (but I mean there aren’t enough characters for them to not, usually)

MAYA NO look I haven’t even seen that many drugs in my life but I know you need to go easy on the edibles because they hit at once

Oh look Esme being manipulative who’d have thought

ZAYA YAS

Esme didn’t even use the epipen right like this is all going to add up but you gotta flick the cap girl if you’re anaphylactic you’d know that

HA SEE TOLD YOU I knew they’d realise she faked but I didn’t think that was going to be how

I like Esme as a character. As a person she annoys me and I’d like to slap her quite often (but also like the girl is so mentally ill???)

Yas Shay you go girl get your man

Fun idea: Esme gets some therapy and starts taking the meds she’s meant to

Ep 8

OH HEY TRIS

“relive Paris” oh right because everyone wants to remember what it was like when you were leading Tristan on and also were in a love triangle with Zoe and Maya and Tristan kissed Maya and so on and so forth

wow writers thanks for making Zoe’s promposal about Shay

“you dated both Zig and Esme” so that WAS how it was it wasn’t one of those one person two partners poly groups it was potentially a everyone has two partners group

Vijay and Baaz deserve more plots tbh. Like Vijay has sort of been reduced to hat jokes from Hunter and I want more Vijay??? Like not crazy amounts more necessarily but some more

Tristan’s therapy friend (Ollie?) is great?? I love him. The assumed straight but cool with gay friend Tristan needs tbh

AWW TRISTAN NO I feel so bad for him omg he didn’t deserve any of this

that promposal was so cute omfg go Tiny I was smiling so freaking big

Well I did not consent to that breakup.

Ep 9

Grace, Jonah, Maya, Zig, and Tiny is a really logical friend group. Like you have the band the rubber room kids with a huge overlap in the venn diagram so it all sorta works out and it doesn’t seem like Jonah is there just for being Grace’s boyfriend. Like he seems to actually be friends with everyone and it’s nice

Vijay hon you can’t say “she changed her pronouns, she’s using they/them”. Like listen to yourself for a hot second. But Baaz and Vijay are making the effort and that’s so nice. Ofc Hunter isn’t though he’s always been a dick like that. Look Hunter I love you but come on at least try

Zoe and Miles have all kinds of interesting little things in common and I never *shipped them* but I’ve always liked them as friends who have had sex

What a casual thing going on there for Zaya wow I’m so happy for them

SHAY LOOKS GORGEOUS

I hope Hunter comes around. Being with a nonbinary person doesn’t mean you’re not straight Hunter??? Calm down???? (also at least he’s not actively rejecting their pronouns)

This scene with Miles II and Miles III was so good???? Like it’s... resolution. It’s the happy ending that I needed for Miles. But it’s also been written in such a way that isn’t out of character for either of them

Everyone keeps using “they” with singular conjugations. Like “if they wants” and no just use want it’s the conjugation that matches the pronoun it’s not about it being singular or plural

HE’S NOT GAY VIJAY. But I’m living for this?? And they just suggested poly AND pan???? Oh man. “I don’t think we have that in Syria” bless

I love having Katie around. What a wholesome scene

I have a lot of prom feelings and ship feelings and you can probably fill all those blanks tbh

So I’ve cried twice this season: once at Yael when they looked in the mirror at Lola’s makeover, and now at Tristan and Miles having prom at the rehab centre. It’s like it came out of my brain omfg

Hunter’s reaction started out so well how did that scene end that way

GRACE IS ALL OF US

Esme needs help tho

Ep 10

YAY ZASHA and yay for Grace being so happy for them

I’m so happy for Zoe with her mum but I have a bad feeling about it too

Grace is so good for Maya

HOW CUTE I love call backs to old episodes

wait no I’m not ready for graduation

SIMPSON YAY I mean of course he’s there, I just like seeing Snake. Also when is Jack Simpson starting at Degrassi because I’m ready for that

Zoe you weren’t a freshman here lmao

I’m so emotional???? Imagine if at the beginning of Zoe’s time on the show you told these people what was going to happen now. Like Tristan wanted to be Zoe’s friend always so maybe he wouldn’t be surprised but like, these others didn’t really love her

Chelsea is an amazing actress omfg

Well that’s that then holy shit I’m not ready for a life post trash sons numbers 1,2, and 4 (#3 is staying) wtf do I do now

#Degrassi #Next Class #DNC spoilers

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Gnome Stew Notables – Brie Sheldon

Welcome to the next installment of our Gnome Spotlight: Notables series. The notables series is a look at game developers in the gaming industry doing good work. The series will focus on game creators from underrepresented populations primarily, and each entry will be a short bio and interview. We’ve currently got a group of authors and guest authors interviewing game creators and hope to bring you many more entries in the series as it continues on. If you’ve got a suggestion for someone we should be doing a notables article on, send us a note at [email protected]. – Head Gnome John

Meet Brie

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Brie is a game designer, editor, and journalist. They currently have a blog at briecs.com which features interviews and thoughts, a Patreon to support it at Patreon.com/briecs, and an itchio where their games are featured at briecs.itch.io.

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Talking With Brie

1) Tell us a little bit about yourself and your work.

I’m Brie Sheldon, a tabletop game designer, editor, and journalist. I’ve been working in games since like 2011 or so, on everything from more traditionally structured and complex games to simple narrative games. I write smaller games for my Thoughty. I worked on the main design team for the Turn’s core mechanic with Struggles and Powers and the 2d6+1d6 rolling mechanic is basically “Well I guess Powered by the Apocalypse is cool but what if I just took this, and I stomped on it, and make this mean something completely different,” and I love it.

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6) How does gender/queerness fit into your games?

Some of my work is about examining things about ourselves, including our gender and orientation, but I don’t know if it’s obvious. One of my original lonely games, Locked Away, which is in the Of the Woods collection, is actually about the loss of innocence and the familial suspicion when there’s social deviance. briecs.itch.io, and doing a project on teaching leadership through games. I’m trying to work on some smaller games as well, collaborations and some personal stuff. I am finishing grad school so my free time is a little limited, but I am hoping that soon I’ll be able to dig in a little more deeply!

11) Who/what games are some of your influences?

Some of the designers I particularly like are Nathan Paoletta and Jason Morningstar, Aura Belle. I try not to get too into the loving-designer culture in part because people are Notoriously Disappointing, and because I don’t want to design just like anyone else. I really love elements of these designer’s work, though – and I also just like how they do their work. Aura designs in a very visceral way – something I’d love to be known for but it’s not quite me. I’ve tried it, didn’t go.

Nathan creates clever designs integrated with visual design, which I envy but I’m not a visual designer so that’s harder for me. Jason does sooooo much research, which will never happen for me (that’s why I design what I know most of the time). Everyone has their own style, I guess? If anything, I’m more likely to design in rejection of someone else’s work (more destruction), and for politeness’ sake I’m not about to say whose work made me mad enough to make something.

As far as specific games, I like some thematic stuff like Shadowrun’s setting is great, Sagas of the Icelanders is awesome in the way it handles gender and social norms, and I try to learn from everything without copying. It’s sometimes hard because you see stuff and you’re like “oo cool I wanna do that too!” but then you’re like “I wanna do my own thing!” For me though, a lot of the time it’s like, “this pisses me off for [any given reason]! I gotta do something about that!” It’s fun that way, though.

Thanks for joining us for this entry in the notables series. You can find more in the series here: and please feel free to drop us any suggestions for people we should interview at [email protected].

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Gnome Stew Notables – Brie Sheldon

Meet Brie

brie

@briecs on twitter

briecs.com

briecs.itch.io

briecs @ Patreon

Talking With Brie

1) Tell us a little bit about yourself and your work.

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Sometimes breaking things is such a brilliant way to create newer, better things.

6) How does gender/queerness fit into your games?

11) Who/what games are some of your influences?

Thanks for joining us for this entry in the notables series. You can find more in the series here: and please feel free to drop us any suggestions for people we should interview at [email protected].

Gnome Stew Notables – Brie Sheldon published first on https://supergalaxyrom.tumblr.com

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kayawagner · 6 years

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Gnome Stew Notables – Brie Sheldon

Meet Brie

brie

@briecs on twitter

briecs.com

briecs.itch.io

briecs @ Patreon

Talking With Brie

1) Tell us a little bit about yourself and your work.

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+11

Reddit1

Sometimes breaking things is such a brilliant way to create newer, better things.

6) How does gender/queerness fit into your games?

11) Who/what games are some of your influences?

Some of the designers I particularly like are Nathan Paoletta and Jason Morningstar, Caitlynn Belle. I try not to get too into the loving-designer culture in part because people are Notoriously Disappointing, and because I don’t want to design just like anyone else. I really love elements of these designer’s work, though – and I also just like how they do their work. Caitie designs in a very visceral way – something I’d love to be known for but it’s not quite me. I’ve tried it, didn’t go.

Thanks for joining us for this entry in the notables series. You can find more in the series here: and please feel free to drop us any suggestions for people we should interview at [email protected].

Gnome Stew Notables – Brie Sheldon published first on https://supergalaxyrom.tumblr.com

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