"Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble.” - Benjamin Franklin. ~
My name is currently Adam, but I prefer to be known as Ashley.
British. Wiccan.
AMAB. Trans. Not yet ready to use female pronouns RL, but on the internet, anything goes.
For years I have struggled to cope with depression and self-injury. I'm not entirely free but I'm better than I used to be. Good days and bad ones.
I'm a writer of fantasy novels. While none have been published yet this does not stop me from writing.
I love all things sci/fi and fantasy.
Love Stephen King, Terry Pratchett, Agatha Christie, Michael Chrichton, and a large variety of other authors.
Just started watching Delicious in Dungeon (about 7 episodes in) and here are my impressions of the characters if we popped them into DND, because that's how my brain works.
Laios - Human, Champion Fighter. Wisdom is his dump stat (poor insight) but he's profient in perception. (Example: identifying different monsters just by the sound of their footsteps.)
Falin - Human, Cleric of the Arcana Domain. I think her wisdom is decent but intelligence is her dump stat. She knows the countryside (survival is wisdom) and she figured the circle of life thing going on in that little cave/dungeon she found in her school years (nature is wisdom.) But she seemed to spend little actual time paying attention in that school.
Marcille - Half elf, Necromancer Wizard. With the Magic Initiate feat to get Cure Wounds from the Cleric spell list. High intelligence, low wisdom. Sage background. She only knows what she's read in books. She didn't even know raspberries were perfectly safe to eat!
Chilchuck - Halfling (lightfoot), Rogue thief.
Senshi - Dwarf (Hill), Gloom Stalker Ranger. With the Chef feat. He's probably a hermit background.
A satirical papyrus showing a lady mouse being served wine by a cat while another cat dresses her hair, a third cares for her baby, and a fourth fans her. The mice have hilarious huge, round ears.
1. They haven’t actually apologised for anything. She’s pre-emptively rejecting an apology that they have no intention of giving.
2. Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson are extremely well-liked. A lot of people are more attached to them in their roles as they are to the actual characters in the books.
What does JK Rowling gain by coming out with this?
It should be a bigger scandal that J.K. Rowling is threatening to sue small accounts for accurately calling her a Holocaust denier. So glad the Streisand effect exists. Now we can all rebuke her reprehensible views more than ever.
JK Rowling has used her billionaire legal team to silence a Jewish woman for telling the truth about her contempt for trans victims of the Holocaust.
Scotland’s network of “freedom of speech” organisations, as per usual, have nothing to say about the use of wealth to gag critics of the wealthy.
However fast they race to condemn the LGBT+ community for saying the names of those who harm us. Statements at the ready to insist that transphobes no one wants to work with anymore must be given every possible opportunity to gain from their bigotry.
But it's not the billionaires who are being silenced, as our media breathlessly echo their every hateful proclamation.
It's journalists and activists forced to publicly humiliate themselves under the weight and the threat of billionaire legal teams or be driven into destitution.
We deserve better. Freedom of speech needs to mean something