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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
chrysalicefiasco
evilios

So if a “true bearer of magic” (through uterus and ovaries of course) decides to cut their reproductive ability off through one of the available options, does the magic dwindle? When you’re on birth control your charge is at 7/10 and when you tie your tubes it’s 5/10, but if you become infertile or take a part of your reproductive system out it becomes 0/10 and they kick your ass out of the magic society? Do people who have some sort of sex development condition get abridged version of magic? So is estrogen and progesterone HRT like a subscription to full pack of magic?

anotherdayforchaosfay

When I informed a now extremely formal friend that I was getting my tubes tied and uterus cauterized, she informed me my “powers” would dwindle and I would become mundane. I asked her to elaborate because wtf. Apparently the blood of my maiden stage in life would be unable to evolve into the sacred mother. I would become a crone and lose my connection to the sacred female divine. She insisted I have at least one child first so that I may grow and become closer to the holy mother.

I was LMAO at this point. She, on the other hand, was getting upset. Like full on ugly crying.

When I informed her that I don’t want babies, will likely die before reaching full term (multiple medical conditions), and my menstrual cycles are so heavy I’ve needed a blood transfusion, not mention cramps that scared my gynecologist when she saw them on the ultrasound (apparently it looked like I was in heavy labor), she got angry.

Why?

Because dying while pregnant or in labor is holy and guaranteed to bring me to the “sacred mother.”

TERF radfem bullshit combined with her being a former catholic and new wiccan…I kicked her outta my apartment and told her to never contact me again.

Genitals and reproduction systems have nothing to do with magic or witchcraft unless you decide to involve your own in your own practice.

libraford

All of this, but also-

Maybe I dont understand, but isnt the Crone also celebrated in this particular system? Like she’s an important archetype of the triple goddess, so I dont see why choosing to become the Crone is a bad thing. And im not sure what the deal is with ‘powers dwindling’ if you do? Like Crones dont have power? What?

I know it’s not the point, but I’m stuck on it because it sounds like bullshit.

kakaphoe

That is no form of wicca I recognise, that’s just batshit “god(dess) has a plan” misogyny.

It was very empowering to stop my periods from making me violently ill every month.

Also the crone is supposed to be the most powerful aspect.

tw misogyny tw miscarriage
maximumsunshine
noodlebutts

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Post you cat markings! this is Arwen the Tortie Oriental Shorthair. She is 3 and very fit!

followthebluebell

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Yardstick is 5 year old domestic shorthair. He's a brown mackerel tabby.


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Saia is a 3 year old savannah mix. She's a brown spotted tabby.


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Kaylee is a 15 year old domestic shorthair. She's a muted tortoiseshell, which is also called a dilute tortoiseshell.

kakaphoe

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Honey is a 11 year old medium-hair British tabby with Siamese ancestry. Her colouring is called Lynx Point Siamese or Tabby Point Siamese.

my sweet honey cat
thessalian
thelastundeadbraincell

Triple A game devs really out there showing their asses, huh?

"BaLdUr'S gAtE 3 sHoUlDn'T bE tHe StAnDaRd"

And why the hell not? Why shouldn't players expect more than half-finished, bug-filled games with tons of microtransactions? Why should they settle for playing regurgitated copies of whatever games have been popular for the past ten years when they could be playing games that the devs were actually passionate about making?

When you have access to a bigger budget and more resources than Larian did when they made BG3, what's your excuse for shipping a broken, half-assed mess of a game?

warlockfemale

AND forcing your people to crunch near the end when this studio did it without trying to kill their employers? That being the standard of the industry needs a big change as well and being able to have a studio we can point at and go "Ha ha look at them being not horrible and making good games" is making the big studios mad

thessalian

I have issues with Larian writing, but their development cycles? *chef’s kiss*

Look, I’ve been seeing, “OOH! BG3 IS FINALLY COMING OUT!” and I’ve been sitting here like, “...I’ve been poking at it for literally years”. Because a friend of mine threw it at my head while it was in early access.

Should you expect the full game in early access? No, and I never did. But Larian put the game out on early access back in 2020 going, “Look, if you’re willing to invest in us, we will listen to you when you tell us what this game needs”. Bug reports, suggestions, generalised issues ... for about three years, people have been submitting reports before the game’s actual release, and a lot of those voiced concerns got responses, whether it was “Okay, let’s see what we can do” or “Sorry; this is kind of a core thing but we’ll do what we can to give you options to get around it”.

While most AAA gaming companies are going, “Just release it however so we get the money; we’ll get around to bug fixes at some point”, Larian went, “You know, the money would be helpful to have while we’re developing this game, and the feedback would be invaluable to actually making the game we want people to have, so let’s put it out in extreme early access and make it like a semi-closed beta”.

The game is this good because players have been bug-testing it and making recommendations for three years, and because Larian listened when they talked. Larian put the thing out in early access ages ago and thereby rewarded players who trusted enough to give money in advance by letting them shape the course of the game, and Larian not only got development money and effectively a QA team, but also free advertising. Maybe AAA companies should do more of that instead of putting games out in whatever broken state they feel like and then moving on to the next thing as quickly as possible so that people don’t have as much time to notice how badly they got scammed.

kakaphoe

People saying Larian is AAA fundamentally do not understand what AAA means. It is not a big studio with a big budget, it is a game that is published by a big name publisher (eg. EA, Ubisoft etc.). Larian is not AAA because they publish their own games.

And it should be the standard because games should be made with love and care, not crunch and micro-transactions.

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bluehairedspideypolls

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Feel free to leave the film title and year in the tags! :)

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This post has gotten a bit of traction, so if anyone's interested I've been making a letterboxd list of movies from the tags!

a trip to the moon 1902 if you don't count the Roundhay Garden Scene from 1887
diversegaminglists
diversegaminglists

Unfortunate


So if you've been reading my off-topic posts in here you might be aware my cat Honey has been treated for mammary cancer. She seemed to be doing fine.

Unfortunately on Wednesday evening I found a tiny worrying lump.

Yesterday I took her to the vets and while it was such a small lump that it took two vets and lots of cat wrangling to verify it, it is not a good sign.

She's got an operation booked for next week to get it removed and sent to the lab, but who knows what this means for her long-term.

My girl is so sweet and the world is so unfair.

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diversegaminglists

Honey's operation went fine, her x-rays were clear and we just have to wait for lab results.

Post-op cone pic:

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diversegaminglists

It was just a cyst, not cancer.


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Originally posted by tuesdayschildd

kakaphoe

She’s all good!

my sweet honey cat
stavvers
amarguerite

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Oh my God I’m not sure of the accuracy of this scale but I made one anyways.

1: Jane Austen. Theoretically Romantic, mostly a clever satirist more interested in the novel as the perfect vehicle for social commentary than in poetry for capturing emotion. Very little chance of swooning and/or dramatic death. A very safe spot on the Romanticism scale.

2: Dorothy Wordsworth: Actually a Romantic, though not excessively so! Enjoy your long walks in the country. Keep those diaries. Your brother can mine them for publishable material until people consider them finally worthy of academic interest a century or two later.

3: Wordsworth. May result in later becoming annoyingly conservative but mostly harmless. Go ahead and wander lonely as a cloud. Gaze upon that ruined abbey.

4: Charlotte Turner Smith. Recover that English sonnet and transform it into a medium that mostly expresses sorrow! Help establish Gothic conventions! Have what Wordsworth called a true feeling for rural England! Die in penury and be forgotten by the middle of the nineteenth century!

5: Blake. ?? Who even knows man. Talk to angels. Create your own goddamn religion. Confuse all of your contemporaries.

6: Mary Shelly. Go ahead and run off with that unhappily married poet who took you on dates to your mother’s grave, but this may result in carrying your husband’s calcified heart around in a fragment of his last manuscript the rest of your life. But also, arguably inventing sci-fi as a genre… so that’s some consolation.

7: John Keats: listen to that nightingale but be forewarned: you will die of TB in Rome and everyone will mock you for dying of bad criticism instead of, you know, infectious disease.

8: Coleridge. May result in never finishing a poem and a severe opium addiction.

9: Percy Shelly. May result in being expelled from Oxford and in premonitions of your own death by drowning.

10: Full Byron. Never go full Byron.

kakaphoe

I had suppressed how much I hated studying Keats and it just came back so hard I wanted to punch something.

diversegaminglists
diversegaminglists

Unfortunate


So if you've been reading my off-topic posts in here you might be aware my cat Honey has been treated for mammary cancer. She seemed to be doing fine.

Unfortunately on Wednesday evening I found a tiny worrying lump.

Yesterday I took her to the vets and while it was such a small lump that it took two vets and lots of cat wrangling to verify it, it is not a good sign.

She's got an operation booked for next week to get it removed and sent to the lab, but who knows what this means for her long-term.

My girl is so sweet and the world is so unfair.

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diversegaminglists

Honey's operation went fine, her x-rays were clear and we just have to wait for lab results.

Post-op cone pic:

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kakaphoe

Look at my little astronaut.