Χίμαιρα corvids @autistikai@computerfairi.es

“Why don't you write about women? my mother asked me. I don't know how, I said. A stupid answer, but an honest one. I did not know how to write about women - very few of us did - because I thought that what men had written about women was the truth, was the true way to write about women. And I couldn't.”
- Ursula LeGuin, “The Fisherwoman’s Daughter”

someone make a new history series that's just reenacting every time in history colonizers got owned. an episode where captain cook gets murdered set to mama mia. a reenactment of the alamo but santa anna is the good guy and every time a slave owner gets killed it gets faster. custer's last stand but every time a white dude gets killed there's airhorns

story idea based on some conversation with @vyr

a demon who was sent to corrupt a little outpost of the church finds a paladin who easily saw through her disguise... only to ask her for help with the fact that she's lesbian/trans/both. so they talk (and do more than talk), and live in this uneasy truce. the demon doesn't try to corrupt things *too* much, and the paladin doesn't reveal who she is.

then, one day, the paladin is gone. the demon asks around in her mortal disguise for what happened, and discovers that the paladin's been discovered by the church, shipped off to be 'corrected'/tried/executed.

but, somehow, her sword was left behind. and the demon takes it up, and its enchantments of light yield to her. and the demon reflects on something the paladin told her: that unlike most of the holy swords, hers was special. it only kills monsters. she draws it across the back of her hand, experimentally. no blood.

but oh, does it draw blood from those that stand between her and her journey to rescue the paladin.

but not the paladin herself, during their confrontation. she'd been broken, twisted against herself, made to believe she was a monster that could only find salvation in destruction. but when the demon brings her sword to her neck, nothing happens. not even the slightest scratch. and the demon implores her to *remember*, to remember what they shared, the love they had. to remember that she's not a monster.

and the impossibly-bright halo shatters, the searing armor fades, and the paladin collapses in to the arms of the demon, of the only person who ever truly knew her.

and together, they find their freedom.

Tf (tensorflow) kink

I used to be one of those “words have to mean things” assholes until I remembered that all language 1. Is defined by culture 2. Changes over time with culture and 3. Labels are individualistic and shouldn’t serve to be shorthand for cishets to be able to put us in boxes

White people wanna be oppressed sooo badly

mecha are trans culture

it's transphobic that i don't have a bipedal heavy weapons platform to pilot and modify with ever-more-ingenious weapons as i'm deployed across far-flung worlds to fight the enemies of Union

cannot believe the lengths discord will go to suppress the truth

Every gay person falls into one of these catagories:
- war criminal power broker
- authoritatian femme
- Olive garden bomber
- fired from boy scout troop leadership due to constant discussion of Epstein
- accidental eldtrich worshipper
- 70 different bees pretending to be one person
- goth clown demon
- anime fan

most of the time, the most productive way to deal with a 'rude' interaction is to assume the other person was doing what they thought was appropriate and move on.

when we, as white people, feel like a person of color is addressing racism 'rudely'? we need to deal with that perception on our own. anti-racism *is* disruptive, because racism — which benefits white people! — *is* the norm. to disrupt the normal state of affairs is good when the normal state is bad. a conflict discussed out in the open is a strict improvement on a conflict we, as white people empowered by racism, can ignore; and just because white people can ignore a situation doesn't make that situation 'peaceful' or 'civil'.

just handle the emotion you're having, and take the criticism. don't let your kneejerk feeling of 'that's rude!' stop you from *listening,* because that kneejerk rejection is there in order to keep you from listening, to keep you invested in the racist norms.