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the privilege of being makes a strong case

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Wolf, 24, aro/ace. Masculine presenting genderqueer person (they/them or he/him pls) Multi fandom blog who yells a lot about video games (especially XCOM), their mental health (especially CPTSD + DID), TTRPGs (especially solo), and writing. I'm a therian + fictionkin as well as ficto (my aroaceness is for real people) and apparently I talk about those things here now too I guess.
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You know those things you have a hard time with? The stuff it seems other people can do really easily, or that is just so so so difficult for you? That you try to do and maybe you fail a lot at?

Your F/O sees how you try and they're so incredibly proud of you. They want you to keep trying-- it's more than alright if you don't get it the first time...or third... or seventh, just get back on the horse, OK? You're doing a good job, and your effort is noticed.

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Official "Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak" Concept Art: Canyne Knight Layered Armor illustration.

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Hundreds of Jewish anti-war demonstrators have been arrested during a Passover seder that doubled as a protest in New York, as they shut down a major thoroughfare to pray for a ceasefire and urge the Senate majority leader, Chuck Schumer, to end US military aid to Israel.

The 300 or so arrests took place on Tuesday night at Grand Army Plaza, on the doorstep of Schumer’s Brooklyn residence, where thousands of mostly Jewish New Yorkers gathered for the seder, a ritual that marked the second night of the holiday celebrated as a festival of freedom by Jews worldwide.

The seder came just before the US Senate resoundingly passed a military package that includes $26bn for Israel.

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Cis people getting trans surgeries doesn't scare me at all. I've seen cis girls who got top surgery for body mod reasons and they look cool as hell. I've seen ace people whose gotten bottom surgeries because they want to be less capable of sex. It's cool and normal actually.

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Now is a great time to pick up New Vegas on the PC because there is a modding renaissance right now since modders have finally figured out how to add new character animations - which is something people had a hard time with before. Now there are tons of incredible gameplay mods coming out that put the games clunky gameplay on the par of more modern games. Like animations for picking items up, opening doors, a side dash button, a sprint button, hotkeys, and lots of other cool little things.

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bramblesand

People, especially games, get eldritch madness wrong a lot and it’s really such a shame.

An ant doesn’t start babbling when they see a circuit board. They find it strange, to them it is a landscape of strange angles and humming monoliths. They may be scared, but that is not madness.

Madness comes when the ant, for a moment, can see as a human does.

It understands those markings are words, symbols with meaning, like a pheromone but infinitely more complex. It can travel unimaginable distances, to lands unlike anything it has seen before. It knows of mirth, embarrassment, love, concepts unimaginable before this moment, and then…

It’s an ant again.

Echoes of things it cannot comprehend swirl around its mind. It cannot make use of this knowledge, but it still remembers. How is it supposed to return to its life? The more the ant saw the harder it is for it to forget. It needs to see it again, understand again. It will do anything to show others, to show itself, nothing else in this tiny world matters.

This is madness.

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bogleech

Thank you for this good PSA because I’m still seeing sincere, published, professional writers doing “ahhhhh oh no this monster was SO UGLY i’m mentally ill now!”

forms of eldritch horror include but are not limited to - nobody will ever believe you, you must live alone with this knowledge - you will never feel safe again, and you realize you were never safe before - everything that was familiar is now strange and abhorrent to the point anything that now seems normal should be held in utmost suspicion - having this new knowledge has opened doors that will continually reveal new equally cursed knowledge without end - death and madness are no longer escapes

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darkersoul

I’ve always felt that the idea of madness or sanity in an eldritch horror sense were misnomers. If anything, I feel a better term is a change of perspective. There is nothing inherent in seeing a greater being that “drives you insane”, it’s that this being doesn’t fit into your previous worldview at all and you have to wrestle that. Every character can and should react differently, changing in ways that “make sense” for them. It’s either a change in worldview or attempting to fit the greater being into your preexisting one. Both will have negative results, but will be interesting as hell to explore.

You know what? Unironically, I think this is the best comment I’ve seen on this post.

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