@monorail @hierarchon *penny snapcube voice* you know me, penny parker, notorious conservative
i have a dnd character who is a wizard and studies thaumatology, literally "study of miracles". she's into writing spells and tearing apart how magic works. but unlike a lot of fantasy like "oh you must read the works of the elders who had a deep connection with magic" she's very much a scientist about it, doing experiments and publishing papers
when she explains what she does to people, she often gets questions like, what specific kinds of things is she trying to figure out. her go-to answer is that a huge unsolved mystery in her field is why everything in magic seems to happen in multiples of six seconds. it's this constant throughout different schools of magic, independently discovered by spellcrafters from different cultures... it seems fundamental, but why? what's special about six seconds?
of course, the dnd rules state that six seconds is the length of a combat round, but she doesn't know that
@raekh
cis person: so did you, uhhhh, get the surgery?
me: *nods and pulls back my hood, revealing a pair of horns with visible scarring at the base where they meet my forehead*
cis person: oh shit
@lynnesbian My personal favorite is referring to "allism" as if it's a disorder, talking about its symptoms, using phrases like "people who suffer from allism" or else just "the allistics," etc
there's something really powerful about saying shit like "the neurotypicals are at it again"
like you cannot escape the fact that pretty much everyone treats people with mental illnesses as weird and easy to make fun of and lesser than "normal" people, and rejecting it and turning it on its head feels really good
Ableism (~+) (1)
Finding my 'fuck 'em... I live' energy- a headspace that's gotten me through when actual self esteem or motivation can't be found.
Just the sort of... Defiant spite mixed with survival instincts, to look at a world that would rather you died, that treats you as an inconvenience and say 'you know what... Nah. I'm worth preserving, fuck 'em.'
Doesn't matter how much shit is in my way, how many people are indifferent or worse towards me, how far into a mental breakdown I am...
ay fuck it, full disclosure: our parents literally gave us the middle name danger just. starting off. & all we did was change what language it was in
a bug, not a feature.
Genderless* cyberfae & co. at your service
assigned adult by the inexorable passage of time
don't use he/him or she/her pronouns for any of us without express permission
note that if we ever make you uncomfortable in any way please tell us so we know to stop. we're not always good at figuring these things out on our own