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"[...] and put it out there for people to consume, it is fair game to be criticized[...]"

"[...] when you put something out there, it's no longer your home game, it is now a show[...]"

How fucking long have we all been saying this?! It's really so fantastic to finally hear a name in the TTRPG space outright say this!

She's talking specifically about diversity at the table, but I think we can all agree that this also holds true for other aspects as well (narrative, pacing, romance, etc.)

I bet the sycophants are still calling CR a 'home game' and think they sound intelligent.

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OK so I'm rereading CR's content policy like a bible study and this is truly taking me out. it's REALLY funny bc they're not enforcing it obviously but I want to see them sue every single guy on social media with a character related handle

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(Take this with a grain of salt because I haven’t actually played the game, so all I’m going off of are videos on YouTube and fandom content on Twitter and Tumblr)

Lae’zel seems like a great character, she has good writing, a good voiceover performance, and her fandom content is good

But I am never going to get over how fugly the githyanki are. If she were any other race, I’d be happy to see her.

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No but I absolutely am going to blame Sabine for the rest of forever for making it possible for thrawn to return and for everything that will happen because of that, she put the galaxy at risk just so she could see one person (also she spat on his work to get rid of thrawn by doing this)

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They really made Ahsoka excuse Sabine's traitorous spineless behaviour by making her say it was Sabine's "Fate" to chose this.

UwU it's not poor baby Sabine's fault, she was fated to make that shitty choice. I wonder if Ahsoka also believes that Anakin was fated to be a mass murderer and it excuses his turning to the dark side.

SW deals with prophecy in interesting ways in parts of canon, but this is making me as mad as the dogshit idea that "anyone can use the force and be OP if they'd just stop and listen for 2scd" already introduced in past episodes.

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Listening to people diss on modern Star Wars is fun, but at some points you just feel lost with all the shit being thrown at you.

#sw negativity

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Fjord looking less like a pc and more like a romance cover would be funny if f*orester and cr didn’t annoy me so much.

The differences between his first art and current art are staggering.

#cr negative

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Jester still looks like she’s had work done and Yasha still looks like a scrawny Karen.

#cr negative

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Now, as a continuation from my previous twitter rant...

While I was doing my digging, I found out that beau/jes is the same person I screenshotted in my 'FJ was weird in the reunion' post. Here's the tweet link. (I was genuinely surprised. I tend not to remember handles once I gray them out in a screenshot.)

They're apparently 'new'. Like, started last year, new. Along with most of the people they interact with.

The thing about them, as evidenced by their complete dislike of FJ, is that they're actually NOT a complete dumbass. They genuinely ship BJ, list it as their #1 ship (over BY), and agree with our gripes about how BJ was handled...

Along with a bunch of other stuff. (Even their mutual in this screenshot is talking sense.)

That's why it boggles my mind how a person with seemingly this much sense, can still have such a dense take on such a casual comment.

But now, here's where my general gripe with new fans comes in...

'Canonically lesbians from ep1' WRONG

In the very beginning, people kept going back and forth on whether Beau was gay or bi. Because of the slightly odd way Marisha was playing her at the time. I still remember the confusion and the speculation that followed Beau's interaction with a male captain. (I'm blanking on which ep this was, if someone can help me out, that'd be great. I think the party was talking to some soldiers on the road. That's not the best hint but it's all I've got.) Later in the ep, when Beau and Jester were having 'girl talk', Beau asked Jester about the guy and asked her if she thought he was 'checking her out' or was 'into her'. People were very confused, myself included. She didn't seem to be asking because she was bothered by it. She seemed... intrigued? It was fucking weird.

Much later in the campaign, there was an episode of TM, where Marisha received a question about the fandom calling Beau a 'disaster lesbian'. And all Marisha said was, "Yeah, that seems accurate." And it was only UNTIL that moment, that we had gotten any kind of official confirmation that Beau was for sure gay, and not possibly bi. (It was a very lazy confirmation, but a confirmation nonetheless.)

As for Yasha, well, I addressed this in the retcon post. She was also not confirmed as even being into women UNTIL the wife reveal in ep46. FORTY-SIX! Even then, there were people saying, "ok, but she could still be bi." And for all intents and purposes, she could've been. At the time, she was still not really responding to Beau's advances, and she never gave any hints on where her general interests lied.

So, what the fuck are these people talking about? That BY were 'canonically lesbians' since episode 1? Where does it say that? Who told them that?

It's impossible for me to take new fans seriously on most of their talking points, because they weren't here while it was happening. They have NO CLUE about all the conversations, and speculation, and drama over this shit. These people have never watched TM either. They don't know about any additional information that was disseminated or gleaned from that show that clarified some things and added depth to others. (And now, unfortunately, they never will, because CR took down all of the episodes. With good reason of course, but still, it sucks. Unless someone had the sense to rip the episodes from YT, then all we have are the little snippets/clips on Tumblr and twitter.)

So these people's takes are very often warped. Filled with either misinformation or missing context or both. A lot of the in-fandom stuff are things that you'll never find on a wiki page, or YT highlight reels, or official 'recaps'. That's why when I find a person who was not in the fandom when all this stuff was going down, yet feels bold enough to start speaking on developments in the show or fandom drama, and pontificating over what's right and what's wrong, and policing how people should feel about certain things (i.e. BJ not going anywhere), it makes my blood boil.

This has happened in almost every fandom I've been in, but it was worse with this one. Especially when we had such a large influx of new people just before and after the hiatus. And it was obvious the BY's had gotten to them right out of the gate, because these people immediately boarded the BY train, while simultaneously boarding the BJ hatewagon. They were turned against us as soon as they showed up. That misinformation I mentioned, no doubt came from BY's. As we all know, BY's LOVE to misinform people.

They're the ones who are constantly making up stories about our fandom. About the kinds of people we are. About the kinds of lives we must be living. Claiming "If they're saying this, [insert idiotic assumption here]: "they've never been in a relationship before" or "they must be straight" or "they just hate gay women being sexual" or "they must be virgins". Then there's the two most prevalent ones: BJ's are biphobic, and BJ's are TERFs.

Again, I can't take these people seriously. I cannot stand them.

Last thing... there were at least two people in the replies (of the 'heteronormative' tweet) calling BY butchfemme. In what universe is BY butchfemme?

They'll say wild shit like that but expect not to be mocked for it.

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y’all (jester) be weak in the knees (dating fjord) stand up (break up with him)!!! 

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Fuck Ron, and fuck that other tweeter too.

So, I was doing my once-in-a-blue-moon 'beaujester' twitter search, and usually expect to find some nonsense. And I found this tweet...

(Well, I've definitely blocked you now, RON. What is it with the MEN in this fandom constantly commenting on/trying to police wlw ships/shippers?) Anyway, it was a reply to THIS:

Look at the amount of likes on the first tweet. Jesus... (update: I just checked again and the likes are over 600.)

Here's the LINK to the tweet, so you can go read all the infuriating replies. Free block list, ya'll!

And I also had to wonder, if that second tweet was possibly referring to me. And holy shit, I was actually right. Did a little digging and bingo...

It's THIS post, that I made on November 20. For some reason it took her 8 days to find it/comment on it. All I tagged it with was 'op' 'ask' and '2 asks 1 post'. This person wouldn't have even been able to find that post unless they were following me or already stalking my blog.

And then brought me up NINE MONTHS LATER.

And all while sporting that handle lol

Wild.

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It's a CARTOON.

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(please note that I think the artist is great and they’ve done a lot of amazing work, I’m just venting a little and censoring myself so that I don’t appear in search results)

Every time I see pro-*lador art from *oringmark, I fear that the force of my eyerolls will roll them out of their sockets. It is too early in the morning for this shit

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'greatest romance in tv animation' and you are talking about catradora. are you well.

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What’s the best anti catradora tiktok?

This, probably.

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One of the few stupid reactions from the finale that I saw was “thank you Dana for not redeeming an abusive parent in your series finale”.

There was no need. They did that in season 2.

#toh criticism #fuck alador #i love toh but that whole subplot was the show's only flat out failure #this post has been in the drafts of my mind for weeks

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After that bombshell from Monday, I saw Laura trending on twitter and my initial gut reaction was “what the fuck now? Is she okay?”

Not a good reaction to endure, it must be said.