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the idea that restrooms, locker rooms, etc need to be single-sex spaces in order for women to be safe is patriarchy's way of signalling to men & boys that society doesn't expect them to behave themselves around women. it is directly antifeminist. it would be antifeminist even if trans people did not exist. a feminist society would demand that women should be safe in all spaces even when there are men there.

#feminism

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The icon for Banishment is so funny.

Just get outta here. Leave.

#bg3

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recently i reread a bunch of my favorite sherlock holmes stories (norw my beloved) and felt compelled to create my own diagram for 221B

#sherlock holmes #art #miss queuenion jack

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Hi guys, I've had some unexpected medical expenses recently, with having to see my psychiatrist to renew my yearly prescription, and her rates went way up -- and I am about to be behind with my bills this month. I need about 130 bucks, and I decided to just put the goal on my ko-fi page for more convenience and transparency. Any shares and help will be greatly appreciated, thank you!

26% of $130 - thank you so much for all the help so far! I have about 5 days left to get the rest and I should be ok!

#donation request #signal boost

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Do Not Seperate™️

#sherlock holmes #granada holmes #miss queuenion jack

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One thing about me is I'm going to play a fantasy rpg with a romance option and go "well I think it was a bit more complicated than that" and then write several thousand words to that effect

#last time it was 75k words and took me four years #so here's hoping it's not. that. again #my life

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oh my god

#good omens

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WIP Wednesday: BG3 Gale romance fic

A little something I've been working on because I thought my particular Tav's romance arc was fascinating and I want to study Gale like a bug :) Here's the scene with the love druid at the circus

“If the wizard were given the choice, what food would he be?”

Oran thought a moment. Nothing heavy, nothing common or plain. Something… luxurious, but you would have it every day if you could. He thought of the feeling in his chest when Gale had first made him laugh, and Gale’s sly little satisfied smile. There was a sharpness to his humor that surprised him at times. And there was the smell of his hair when he curled against Oran’s chest: lavender and citrus.

“A lemon merengue!” Oran blurted, remembering the treat he had savored once at a confectionary in Baldur’s Gate—a bright, cheerful memory. “Tart, and…” He hesitated over his words, thinking of the soaring feeling he had felt when they first kissed. “…light.”

To his surprise, Gale’s face twisted in disapproval. “Is that all you think of me?”

Oran’s heart sank. He didn’t know what was so wrong with lemon merengue, but clearly he had offended.

Before he could untangle his faux pas and explain himself, the dryad tutted disapprovingly and continued. “When is Gale happiest?”

This one at least was easy. Though Oran had declined Gale’s offer of whatever weave-touched lovemaking he had been envisioning, he did enjoy a tour of the wizard’s rooms in Waterdeep. Gale hadn’t needed to tell him the balcony was his favorite; he could have guessed by how vivid the illusion became as soon as they stepped out the door. He remembered the fresh sea smell and the sunset painted across the sky.

“When on his—his balcony in Waterdeep,” Oran said, tripping halfway through as he doubted himself. What if he had missed something else obvious? He had offended Gale once already. But his fears were quickly assuaged by Gale’s smile. So far so good.

#athena fic tag #bg3 #gale/tav

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I've had a hard time articulating to people just how fundamental spinning used to be in people's lives, and how eerie it is that it's vanished so entirely. It occurred to me today that it's a bit like if in the future all food was made by machine, and people forgot what farming and cooking were. Not just that they forgot how to do it; they had never heard of it.

When they use phrases like "spinning yarns" for telling stories or "heckling a performer" without understanding where they come from, I imagine a scene in the future where someone uses the phrase "stir the pot" to mean "cause a disagreement" and I say, did you know a pot used to be a container for heating food, and stirring was a way of combining different components of food together? "Wow, you're full of weird facts! How do you even know that?"

When I say I spin and people say "What, like you do exercise bikes? Is that a kind of dancing? What's drafting? What's a hackle?" it's like if I started talking about my cooking hobby and my friend asked "What's salt? Also, what's cooking?" Well, you see, there are a lot of stages to food preparation, starting with planting crops, and cooking is one of the later stages. Salt is a chemical used in cooking which mostly alters the flavor of the food but can also be used for other things, like drawing out moisture...

"Wow, that sounds so complicated. You must have done a lot of research. You're so good at cooking!" I'm really not. In the past, children started learning about cooking as early as age five ("Isn't that child labor?"), and many people cooked every day their whole lives ("Man, people worked so hard back then."). And that's just an average person, not to mention people called "chefs" who did it professionally. I go to the historic preservation center to use their stove once or twice a week, and I started learning a couple years ago. So what I know is less sophisticated than what some children could do back in the day.

"Can you make me a snickers bar?" No, that would be pretty hard. I just make sandwiches mostly. Sometimes I do scrambled eggs. "Oh, I would've thought a snickers bar would be way more basic than eggs. They seem so simple!"

Haven't you ever wondered where food comes from? I ask them. When you were a kid, did you ever pick apart the different colored bits in your food and wonder what it was made of? "No, I never really thought about it." Did you know rice balls are called that because they're made from part of a plant called rice? "Oh haha, that's so weird. I thought 'rice' was just an adjective for anything that was soft and white."

People always ask me why I took up spinning. Isn't it weird that there are things we take so much for granted that we don't even notice when they're gone? Isn't it strange that something which has been part of humanity all across the planet since the Neanderthals is being forgotten in our generation? Isn't it funny that when knowledge dies, it leaves behind a ghost, just like a person? Don't you want to commune with it?

#fiber arts #SAY THAT

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The Norwood Builder

Ahhh! Inspector Lestrade!

#granada holmes #sherlock holmes #miss queuenion jack

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video game characters do not need to be grunting & groaning like that. Have some decorum

#bg3 #when they're at 0hp moaning dramatically while I'm trying to strategize. please.

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When you and a mutual both appear in the reblog chain of a sufficiently popular post, you share a warrior's bond

#and sometimes you weren’t mutuals before the post but that’s how strong the bond was 😔🤘 #tumblr stuff

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from that day on I was his

#WOW #bg3 #Art #blood

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redesign for lesbian visibility week 🩷🧸🫶

click for quality (my shop) (instagram) (tip me) (shirts)

#queer stuff

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I might make my own post at some point about how interesting and odd it was playing through BG3 as a half-orc but I do really want to highlight these tags on another post from @/goddess-bound

This sums up so much of the experience lol

#bg3

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New PC for Icewind Dale since my dumbass wizard died :) her name is Grace Shoemaker, she’s a cleric of Helm, and she is perhaps the first character I’ve ever made to have well-considered mechanics lol

#bg3 really helped a lot for understanding how to combine ability scores + class traits + items to achieve a specific build #I got very interested in the idea of a high-damage cleric #also she has the infernal constitution feat for cold resistance #and she’s twilight domain in a region that’s always in dim light. always get my special abilities then #dnd #my ocs #Grace Shoemaker #my art

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PRAYER FOR WEREWOLVES from We are Mermaids by Stephanie Burt

#werewolves #verse #stephanie burt #miss queuenion jack