Yeah. Hi. I’m the friend being referred to here. And congratulations, anon, you’ve gotten me to out myself AND break a year-long Tumblr hiatus because this is bothering me so much.  Just to give a little background, I started identifying as genderqueer fairly recently (about nine months ago, according to my Twitter archives) after a long process of questioning my gender. For years I’d identified as a masculine-of-center cis girl, despite the increasing feeling that it wasn’t right. If I hadn’t been lucky enough to attend a gender diversity conference and talk with a lot of great people who opened my eyes, I probably still would be. And one of the reasons it took me so long to figure shit out was because I didn’t know any non-binary people who didn’t use gender-neutral pronouns.  So when Molly described his gender as “fabulous” and Taliesin specifically said that his pronouns are he/him, that was a pretty big deal for me. (And yes, Molly is chill about it, but that doesn’t mean he doesn’t have a preference.) I thought maybe for once, I had a character I could identify with on that level. And honestly, I don’t think this would even be bothering me as much if it wasn’t EVERY fic that used they/them when writing Molly as non-binary. Because yeah, that really does give the impression that I can't really be non-binary without gender-neutral pronouns, whether people intended it that way or not.  As my friend said, people can write what they want. We’re not the fandom police and neither of us are interested in censorship. But if you’re gonna make that choice, the least you can do is be aware of how it’s affecting real people. 

Matt loves his DM mini.

I’ve long suspected an awful lot of conservatives in this country would be perfectly happy to laugh and dance on our bones if a full-out disaster ever hit Seattle, but reading tweets like this is still…really something.

Not that anyone whose opinion actually matters takes Ann Coulter seriously, but I just wanna point out that the naval base here has the largest stockpile of nuclear weapons in the country. If we get taken out, there's a fairly good chance EVERYONE IS FUCKED.

Jogger's fitness tracker captures how she fought off an attacker

Kelly Herron stopped while jogging in a Seattle park to use a public restroom, where she was set upon by a sex offender. After a brutal fight, she managed to escape, thanks to a recent self-defense class. Her GPS fitness tracker captured the ordeal.

Naturally, scumbags in Seattle backing the anti-transgender I-I552 “bathroom bill” tried to capitalize on Herron’s sexual assault to score some points about bathroom predators, even though the predator was not transgender.

The group later walked back their comments with a classic nonpology.

In a statement, Herron said, “I refuse to allow anyone to use me and my horrific sexual assault to cause harm and discrimination to others.”

https://boingboing.net/2017/03/15/joggers-fitness-tracker-capt.html

She also wants them to refund the money they raised using her story.

I long for the day when fandom stops shitting on the importance of platonic relationships.

This looks like the cover of a Stephen King book.

Platonic love is not a runner up to romantic love. Platonic love isn’t second place. Platonic love isn’t less real, less valid or less powerful than romantic love. Don’t let your platonic love take a back seat to romantic love.

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character: hate them | don’t really care | like them | LOVE them | THEY ARE MY PRECIOUS

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I long for the day when fandom stops shitting on the importance of platonic relationships.

also! sidenote! since people seem confused!

taliesin hasn’t contradicted anything or “redacted” anything related to percy’s resurrection to focus on percy/vex over percy’s friendship with keyleth.

percy clearly stated that he saw keyleth’s hand reach out and sever the connection to orthax - which was before the ritual itself; an important distinction. he saw that.

vex was the only thing he heard from the ritual itself, and she most likely only cut through to him because her roll was a nat20; percy’s soul was literally being used as a chewtoy for a demon, so it makes sense that he’d have a higher dc for him to actually hear anything when his spirit was so battered.

Just to add to this, the things that scanlan heard and the things that percy, and in fact anyone else heard, suggest that a nat 20 is needed for the message to pass over. Since both pike and kayley rolled nat 20s and I don’t recall anyone else other than vex rolling that in a ritual.

... I'm pretty sure Kaylie didn't, though? Matt rolled a nat20 on the final roll, but that wasn't her performance check. I have a feeling this is something that's entirely up to the players to decide.

(You'll have to excuse me if I'm sensitive about resurrection rituals at the moment because I'm FUCKING SCARED that my fave will be the one who doesn't get to come back, but I'd really like to see Keyleth's high roll on a skill she's normally terrible at to save her best friend acknowledged by the fandom, whether or not he heard her in game.)

critical role fandom but every time it gives percy a pass on something vax would be crucified over it gets faster

People often say to me: “You draw like some kind of inhuman machine.  If I eat your brain, will I gain your power?”  The answer is yes, but there is another way. The key to precise drawing is building up muscle memory so that your arm/hand/fingers do the things you want them to do when you want them to do them.  Teaching yourself to draw a straight line or to make sweet curves is just a matter of practice and there are some exercises you can do to help improve. If you’re going to be doodling in class or during meetings anyway, why not put that time to good use?

This is super true and an often overlooked but very important aspect of drawing!

HOLY SHIT, I thought I was the only one who felt this way.