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Holy shit Uncle Iroh takes no prisoners when it comes to being an ally

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odin is like “when thor was born the sun shone bright upon his beautiful face. i found loki on the sidewalk outside a taco bell”

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#stardew valley

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Hasbro's incompetence aside, it sounds like we may be getting more of the Divinity franchise, which is a good thing.

Incredible power move to make one of the most beloved crpgs ever made using a modified dnd 5e system, make a ton of money and shit on most AAA game studios in the process, then say “cool. Anyway fuck dnd 5e and wizzards of the coast. We’re doing our own thing now.”

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It makes me happy when they listen

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#Meanwhile in NeoSilver's head...

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My warning for cultural appropriation is to tread very carefully with that; it's entirely too easy to twist it into the same sort of purity politics the right is invested in, or to make it an excuse for segregation along cultural and frequently racial lines.

Educate folks about what they're taking; teach them why it's important to your culture, and why it needs to be respected. Create understanding of other cultures and their ways and traditions. That kind of thing is in short supply in the world today.

hey white leftists

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A home without a book is darker than one without a lamp. – Henryk Sienkiewicz #WorldBookDay #books #quote http://dlvr.it/T5vHrC

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🔹 Saying that it's okay to write or read about dark and taboo topics but only when they're portrayed in a certain way is still censorship.

🔹 Wanting to ban or forbid media that you believe portrays a negative topic in a positive light, by glorifying, romanticizing, or fetishizing it is still censorship.

🔹 There is no objective metric to decide if a story is portraying a negative topic the 'right' way.

🔹 Just because a piece of fiction doesn't explicitly condemn or portray an evil action in a bad light in the text doesn't mean the author thinks its good or is trying to persuade the audience that it is good.

🔹 Survivors of trauma will not always write fiction about their trauma in a way that seems 'right' or 'normal' to you.

🔹 Banning fiction because it portrays dark, taboo topics in a way you consider gross or disgusting is still censorship.

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Baldur's Gate has never been normal.

can’t get over how fucked the three city blocks of Baldur's Gate we explore is. vampire den, mummy lord, hag lair, no less than two cults, haunted mansion, a demon lord whoring it up, evil clowns. is the rest of the city normal. why do they have a Spirit Halloween district.

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I look at this, and I genuinely worry about how modern D&D players are gonna react to absolute craziness of some of the older D&D settings.

if you’re writing a modern AU baldur’s gate fic that’s great but I think Lae’zel should just be 100% the same.

make everyone else humans and give them careers or whatever but Lae’zel should still be an alien from another plane who grew up on a comet. throwaway line about some magic she can use to disguise herself.

ideallya single character will be onto her and descending into madness while they figure this out as a B-Plot to whatever the fic’s actually about

or the characters know but they’re cool with it and it doesn’t matter to the plot whatsoever.

just a normal barista…falling in love…..and my roommate is from another dimension please don’t ask

#Mystara springs to mind in particular #Owing to *everything* to do with Blackmoor

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Wizard worm just emerged from a wizarding hole! Lucky you!!!✨🪱🪄🍀

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Natalie Portman being confused by the fact that you have to say “hi” to someone before starting a conversation in France got me like ?????