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I'm having my one-year Streamaversary on 4/4! I hope some of y'all can make it! It should be a fun time!

https://www.twitch.tv/artquilliam

#check out my stream #especially if you used to follow me for art #this is my art blog now #art #streamer #signal boost

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I'm doing a Pokemon Gijinka art series on my Twitch channel! This is my most recent one: #35 Clefairy. I was really happy with how this one turned out!

For more of my stuff and details about commissioning me, check my website: https://www.artquilliam.com

#art #from my art blog #this is the blog you should follow if you used to follow me for art #pokemon #clefairy

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"jk rowling does holocaust denial" is something that in 2004 would have been worldwide headline material for how shocking it is but in 2024 is frankly so expected that not a single person ive talked to has anything to say except "oh shes doing that now?"

#wow what a shock #fuck jkr

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White people will casually be like "yeah I GUESS some men experience oppression but it never relates to how they are men"

Like, I'm genuinely a little impressed that they managed to bury their head in the sand the entire time there were global Black Lives Matter protests. Were you on earth? What were you even doing? Were you hiding in a bunker with no internet access and only other white people that entire time? Did you slip into an alternate reality? Can I go there?

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trick or treat!!! 👻🎃🍬💀💖🕷️

You get Thanksgiving for Halloween!

#sorry it's so late #i won't hold out on treats tho

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Hey, Monster of the Week players!

The Pararomantic guide book has a move where one of the options a player can choose is "receive a gift from your Guide" after you spend quality time with them.

I was wondering if anyone has any experience with this particular mechanic? I'm a Keeper and one of my players chose to do this. I have an idea of what the gift will be, but I'm not sure what to make it do, mechanically. Any ideas? Anything you've done or received as keepers/players that went well? I want it to be rewarding for my player.

Any advice is helpful! And don't be afraid to give me ideas even if you haven't played MotW, but have experience with TTRPGs in general. Thanks!

#monster of the week #motw #ttrpg #need advice

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I'm gonna outlive that fucker.

support group for ppl who used to be the same age as their favourite character but then got older

#lol

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I'd like to add that Remus Lupin's very first lesson involves telling a 13-year-old boy to imagine Snape (a man who Remus used to bully at school) in his grandmother's clothes which then manifests as a joke to fight off a boggart. How original. Man in a dress joke. Isn't it *soooo funny* when men are acting outside of their prescribed gender roles? The transphobia's written in the text too, played for laughs.

Also played for laughs is Archie, at the World Cup in the 4th book, being told he has to change out of what he's wearing because he's wearing clothes intended for muggle women. To which he responds that he "likes a nice breeze around his privates." A hilarious instance of the wizard government harassing a random guy for not adhering to his expected gender performance.

Also on the note of Remus is the case of his relationship with Tonks, who really seems to be coercing him into something he doesn't want less than a year after his last old friend from his main friend group dies. We get all of it from her self-pitying perspective. And then they get married & have a child like she was right about ignoring his refusal to be in a relationship with her. (Not to mention the significant age gap & his hesitancy to even have a child in the first place for fear he'll pass on his lycanthropy.)

On a side note - this has absolutely nothing to do with HP - JKR was calling Trump supporters "sad virgins" on Twitter during the 2016 US presidential election. Which, like, yeah those people are worthy of criticism, but is "sad virgin" really the feminist slam dunk you think it is, Jo?

#jkr sucks #fuck jkr #harry potter #jk rowling

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Thinking about MLM transmascs who are seen as “fujoshis fetishizing gay men,” vs WLW transmascs who are seen as people who “would rather be misgendered than admit they have privilege” and are “invading” women’s spaces

But then you also have straight transmascs who are “stolen lesbians”

And it’s not like queer spaces want them to be ace or aro either so like…what exactly do you want from them?

Don’t tell me, I know the answer

#so true #transgender #the unlogic of transphobes

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Y'ALL

I felt like the fears in this style would be cute as hell, and I was right

#tma #the magnus archives #art #lol

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remember when good omens (2019) came out and neil gaiman made it clear in no uncertain terms that angels and demons were inherently nonbinary, that angels and demons (and crowley in particular) can and Do have a variety of presentations that they choose for themselves, and that the story is a Love Story between two nonbinary entities fighting for their right to love each other openly in the face of religiously charged black and white thinking that’d forced them to hide and deny their love for each other at the threat of punishment.

and then instead of celebrating the openly queer, openly trans, openly fluid and neutral and non-conforming relationships and people presented by the series people were just Legitimately like “Wow, can’t believe neil won’t say that aziraphale and crowley are gay (read: Cis) men, looks like queerbaiting is alive and well 🙄“ and nobody stopped them

#i love them #good omens #nonbinary #queer #queer rep

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I think the Hunger Games series sits in a similar literary position to The Lord of the Rings, as a piece of literature (by a Catholic author) that sparked a whole new subgenre and then gets blamed for flaws that exist in the copycat books and aren’t actually part of the original.

Like, despite what parodies might say, Katniss is nowhere near the stereotypical “unqualified teenager chosen to lead a rebellion for no good reason”.  The entire point is that she’s not leading the rebellion. She’s a traumatized teenager who has emotional reactions to the horrors in her society, and is constantly being reined in by more experienced adults who have to tell her, “No, this is not how you fight the government, you are going to get people killed.” She’s not the upstart teenager showing the brainless adults what to do–she’s a teenager being manipulated by smarter and more experienced adults. She has no power in the rebellion except as a useful piece of propaganda, and the entire trilogy is her straining against that role. It’s much more realistic and far more nuanced than anyone who dismisses it as “stereotypical YA dystopian” gives it credit for.

And the misconceptions don’t end there. The Hunger Games has no “stereotypical YA love triangle”–yes, there are two potential love interests, but the romance is so not the point. There’s a war going on! Katniss has more important things to worry about than boys! The romance was never about her choosing between two hot boys–it’s about choosing between two diametrically opposed worldviews. Will she choose anger and war, or compassion and peace? Of course a trilogy filled with the horrors of war ends with her marriage to the peace-loving Peeta. Unlike some of the YA dystopian copycats, the romance here is part of the message, not just something to pacify readers who expect “hot love triangles” in their YA. 

The worldbuilding in the Hunger Games trilogy is simplistic and not realistic, but unlike some of her imitators, Collins does this because she has something to say, not because she’s cobbling together a grim and gritty dystopia that’s “similar to the Hunger Games”. The worldbuilding has an allegorical function, kept simple so we can see beyond it to what Collins is really saying–and it’s nothing so comforting as “we need to fight the evil people who are ruining society”. The Capitol’s not just the powerful, greedy bad guys–the Capitol is us, First World America, living in luxury while we ignore the problems of the rest of the world, and thinking of other nations largely in terms of what resources we can get from them. This simplistic world is a sparsely set stage that lets us explore the larger themes about exploitation and war and the horrors people will commit for the sake of their bread and circuses, meant to make us think deeper about what separates a hero from a villain.

There’s a reason these books became a literary phenomenon. There’s a reason that dozens upon dozens of authors attempted to imitate them. But these imitators can’t capture that same genius, largely because they’re trying to imitate the trappings of another book, and failing to capture the larger and more meaningful message underneath. Make a copy of a copy of a copy, and you’ll wind up with something far removed from the original masterpiece. But we shouldn’t make the mistake of blaming those flaws on the original work.

#been wanting to reread these books #i really liked them when they came out #hunger games

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I just rediscovered how glorious this image is so excuse me while I laugh uncontrollably every time I look at it again.

#💜💜💜 #terry pratchett #neil gaiman

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ngl i wish anyone other than me would talk about how jkr is Islamophobic?

don't get me wrong, every single thing she's being called out for is valid and she's a nasty horrible person but every time i mention she's Islamophobic people brush me off? so is that not worth outrage as well?

anyway cw: Islamophobia and transphobia, 2 for one special, because this is an excerpt from her shitty crime novel

Sorry for the irritated tone but I am tired of people ignoring me. I don't get why it's not a bigger deal for people that she 1) Demonised Muslim women who choose to fully cover up. 2) Implied they were predatory in nearly the exact same way she does with trans women. 3) Implied that the acceptance of fully covered women in women's spaces puts other women at risk.

all this in a country that is already hostile to Muslim women /immigrant women?

and im sorry but what will it take to get people to realise that this conversation is also worth taking up space in the universe of discourse people are having about this shitty woman?

#op is right #ppl don't focus enough on jkr's islamophobia #nor enough on her blatant racism #transphobia's just the tip of the massive shitberg

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Thinking about getting this so I can play through them when I start streaming on twitch again!

the best thing you can do is give people an alternative

#witch #video games

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RIP Chidi Anagonye, you would've hated the new poll feature

#chidi my beloved #so true

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Aw man Snake is such a good game

What if instead of playing the new HP game you like, played a good game?

#snake #game #fuck that other game