super hyped to play dw with my friends later. last session, they met an orc named Sir Persimmon Strapp and convinced them to finance an expedition north in exchange for liberating Strapp’s estate from some vagabonds. However, to do this, the gang has elected to pass through a territory where they are wanted for:

murder (it was an accident! sort of)

wanton destruction of royal property (they’re super guilty of this one)

deicide (also guilty of this, but fortunately the state is as yet unaware of this crime. only time will tell if it comes up)

plus, in the few months since they left this place, the political situation has just generally deteriorated. this is also sort of their fault because the deterioration has been exacerbated by the threat posed by the new storm king, a god whose ascension to power the players had an unwitting hand in. things were always bad thanks to the ruler being an easily manipulated boy king, but they haven’t historically been made better by the party’s presence. actually, that’s true of every place they’ve visited. the village they just left was razed to the ground literal hours after they moved on. after less than a month in the last city they were in, the aforementioned storm king’s apotheosis occurred after she usurped the old city god’s place. she renamed the city afterwards and everything. it was a bad time! the conses are gonna quence and im so excited!

god i love this game so much. one of the gm’s principles for dungeon world is to be a fan of the player characters and, man let me tell you, i am. sometimes, i get bummed that they’re just some guys that only exist between my friends and i because they would do numbers with the mutuals.

Shout-out to all the yuri artists who are having to buckle down and teach themselves how perspective works because of Marcille's ears.

“If a society puts half its children into short skirts and warns them not to move in ways that reveal their panties, while putting the other half into jeans and overalls and encouraging them to climb trees, play ball, and participate in other vigorous outdoor games; if later, during adolescence, the children who have been wearing trousers are urged to “eat like growing boys,” while the children in skirts are warned to watch their weight and not get fat; if the half in jeans runs around in sneakers or boots, while the half in skirts totters about on spike heels, then these two groups of people will be biologically as well as socially different. Their muscles will be different, as will their reflexes, posture, arms, legs and feet, hand-eye coordination, and so on. Similarly, people who spend eight hours a day in an office working at a typewriter or a visual display terminal will be biologically different from those who work on construction jobs. There is no way to sort the biological and social components that produce these differences. We cannot sort nature from nurture when we confront group differences in societies in which people from different races, classes, and sexes do not have equal access to resources and power, and therefore live in different environments. Sex-typed generalizations, such as that men are heavier, taller, or stronger than women, obscure the diversity among women and among men and the extensive overlaps between them… Most women and men fall within the same range of heights, weights, and strengths, three variables that depend a great deal on how we have grown up and live. We all know that first-generation Americans, on average, are taller than their immigrant parents and that men who do physical labor, on average, are stronger than male college professors. But we forget to look for the obvious reasons for differences when confronted with assertions like ‘Men are stronger than women.’ We should be asking: ‘Which men?’ and ‘What do they do?’ There may be biologically based average differences between women and men, but these are interwoven with a host of social differences from which we cannot disentangle them.”

— Ruth Hubbard, “The Political Nature of ‘Human Nature’“ (via gothhabiba)

Yes.

thinking about falin touden breasting boobily as she turns someone's head into tomato paste. i dont think they have a name for the disease i hauve.

Arlecchino sin el saco blanco, como práctica de renderizado de piel

why is it that whenever someone is doing SOMETHING unethetical, that man is involved

every autistic person watching this episode of dungeon meshi:

Man, people sure tell on themselves when their instinctive response to someone merely pointing out that m/m ships are disproportionately more popular than f/f ones is to say the most misogynistic, lesbophobic, and transphobic things imaginable. Like, my guy, I don’t think this is about the ships at that point. I think you might just suck?

Women

Hmm, I think that some of my new followers might appreciate this passage I just wrote for my paper:

Ultimately, caring about culture means caring about the bodies which practice that culture. Failing to care about those bodies, letting them become “bare life” means failing to care about culture. Or rather, I should say failing to care about bodies is a failure to care well about culture. Museums have historically served to preserve culture without necessarily maintaining it. A museum is a dead thing, a place where the artifacts of culture put on static display to be silently observed. The only bodies that move in museums do not interact with the artifacts contained within in the same way that the bodies who produced them would. As Shimrit Lee puts in her book Decolonize Museums:

By displaying humans, animals, and objects alike in detailed, simulated environments, curators sought to capture particular cultures and time periods. This act of “viewing culture”—from world’s fairs to the museums of today—results in what Johannes Fabian called a “petrified relation,” whereby various non-European societies are perceived to be living in a different historical epoch. Today, these types of exhibitions continue to deny the possibility of shared humanity and connection between visitors and the people whose cultures are on display. (Lee 2022)

It is bodies in living relation to one another that make and practice culture. In museums, culture becomes disembodied and thereby disconnected the human experience of it. Instead, cultural artifacts become props in a curatorial narrative: “These objects, violently plundered from the colonies, were first “decontextualized,” or extracted from the context of their original use, and then “recontextualized” in the sense that they were inserted into new settings” (Lee 2022).

Like, imagine how insane I felt listening to Winter in Hieron while this is the sort of thing I’m studying, thinking about, and writing. Hieron is literally built on physical and metaphysical recontextualization! And beyond that, even the mortals who are unaware of the metaphysical nature of Hieron’s reality are constantly struggling over how culture should be contextualized. Mother Glory’s death hit me so hard precisely because it was a symbolic victory of Rosemerrow’s recontextualization of culture. In turn, Fero’s decision not to stay and help the gnolls is such a monumental failure to care about (I’m using that in a technical sense, dw about it, iykyk) their culture and their, er, humanity..? Gnollnity? Whatever, that which makes them subjects. And don’t even get me started on the orcs, who have so completely mastered recontextualizing culture that they it enables them to DO MAGIC. Like, pattern magic clearly depends on culture in order to give facets of the material world meaning (libraries, desks, broken mirrors, stolen fiddles, and so forth) but it doesn’t actually have any interest in that context beyond that. Lem is able to do pattern magic without really what the materials he’s using really are beyond their place in the pattern. You know, now that I’m thinking about it, I’m not even sure he knows what the deal with his fiddle even is? I might be wrong, but the point is that the fiddle seems to be more important for its place in the pattern than for the thing it actually is as defined by its history.

Ugh, this show is making me feel rabid and I gotta stop writing this post and get back to the actual paper I’m writing…

Kiki and Namari! 💖

What I had in mind exceeds my ability to make a drawing, plus I have to do homework that I left for last as always 😭😭😭😭

Yeah

Man, people sure tell on themselves when their instinctive response to someone merely pointing out that m/m ships are disproportionately more popular than f/f ones is to say the most misogynistic, lesbophobic, and transphobic things imaginable. Like, my guy, I don’t think this is about the ships at that point. I think you might just suck?

quick comic bc i wanted to draw that last panel before finally working on other things

featuring pining farcille, izutsumi being their only braincell, and laios who owe them some explanation..?

(spoiler for succubus chapter)