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All-female character types/ units in longstanding game universes are in this really tonally discordant place right now

like, so I was introduced to 40k at a point when the Accepted Orthodoxy among the fans of it that I hung out with anyway was that the 40k universe is postsexist (and postracist, between nonmutated humans); the Guard is egalitarian, if Space Marines are all male it's only because they're created from the genetic material of a particular guy, and pretty soon it was made local canon that you can *start* with whatever sex of human actually, and also Orks can be gurlz if they want whatever they're all just mushrooms anyway..

..but this means the story of how the Sisters of Battle came to be makes no sense. It's not like they're speaking English (or Latin), why would the future tongue of a postsexist space empire preserve the ambiguity that allowed the Ecclesiarchy to go all Eowyn on the terms of the thing they signed?

(the story is that they agreed to have 'no armed body of men' or something, hence sisters of battle)

Anyway I just made it that in my Space Australian's local dialect of Low Gothic, 'man' has zero gendered connotations whatsoever; there are different words in the dialect that mean 'men'(male) and 'women', so she'd get really confused sometimes and then be all "ohh, you mean a bloke!"

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https://www.tumblr.com/wordcubed/748876174809235456?source=share

man... no shade to people for whom this makes sense as a description of themselves, but it is like the most annoying sort of almost but not quite getting it when people have seen this Type of Guy self-described before and figure that that description must apply to me.

(screenshot bc it's like off topic and not directed at OP)

#im just Actually Pretty Normal in the one area you most expect autistic people to be weird #while being pretty clearly not normal overall

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I've used "cishetmono" (also "monoheteronormative", which I guess is actually "monoheteroallonormative") before, but it's a bit of a mouthful

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yeah technically true, however it went completely unnoticed by me in the original post bc. Well frankly, I don't think cishet poly people are who we mean when we say "cishets", by and large

Practicing polyamory is just my way of giving back to the cishet community by providing environmental enrichment.

When they see me out getting coffee with my wife one day, kissing a man goodbye at the ferry the next, and walking down the boardwalk with a Twink the day after, it allows their minds to spin off into such inventive conspiracies that they might forget their troubles for a little while.

I hope you take a good long look, sickos.

#poly would be uncomplicatedly considered queer if we were more consistent about that imo

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@mercuryjellyfish and the host at his favourite date restaurant

Practicing polyamory is just my way of giving back to the cishet community by providing environmental enrichment.

When they see me out getting coffee with my wife one day, kissing a man goodbye at the ferry the next, and walking down the boardwalk with a Twink the day after, it allows their minds to spin off into such inventive conspiracies that they might forget their troubles for a little while.

I hope you take a good long look, sickos.

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3IQ Cop: "The individual proceeded into the square, whereupon he disengaged his firearm."

Oncologic surgeon: "We're going to put a camera in your tummy."

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Idly wondering what 'the elf should show full hog and balls' Tumblr would make of a character based on me

#basically im not sure bc it's usually media i only know by osmosis? #but i feel like i have several traits in common with characters my tumblr orbit has a tendency to decide to Code/hc as Something #and it's interesting to wonder what

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@kata4a

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#i am pretty sure i got into hardboiled in the first place vua pastiches in children's media

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So I have experienced the thing a lot of people talk about where if you're "of child-bearing age" doctors constantly ask if you're pregnant, but I have found "I have an IUD" shuts them right up, so. Life Hack

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This meeting could have been a fresh autumn pear

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The one good thing about cooking for myself is I can cut things small so they fit in my mouth. Why does everyone else like their meat&veggies in giant pieces.

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So I have experienced the thing a lot of people talk about where if you're "of child-bearing age" doctors constantly ask if you're pregnant, but I have found "I have an IUD" shuts them right up, so. Life Hack

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what the fuck did I just download

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"why suck the strap" why look at a sunset. why listen to your favourite song. why stop to smell the flowers. come on now

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saw some good trees yesterday

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maybe this is a fundamental difference in moral views because i think oppression isn't bad because it harms certain groups, it's bad because it harms people. it DOES harm specific groups, and that's a necessary part of understanding it, but the mistreatment is the problem, not the fact that that mistreatment is unfairly distributed