fanfiction writers when a character is remotely non-human

if I must suffer, so shall my blorbos.

"average crawl has a 25% casualty rate for hunters" factoid actualy just statistical error. average crawl has a 2% casualty rate. This season, the one with crawler carl who has what seems to be a maddened agenda against hunters, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

like it’s written in the stars

@rayless-reblogs

Feel insane trying to explain to people how emotionally moving the fucking Dungeon Crawler Carl series is, especially and specifically the audiobook version.

It's so sexy of dungeon crawler carl to be like here's our exmilitary protagonist. Then several books later be like just to be clear, He joined because he was 18 years old and homeless.

Donut

the System AI when carl told it to stop going ham with weird descriptions

Carl/AI as text posts (but mostly AI @ Carl)

Grand Champion, Breed Winner Regional, National Winner Princess Donut the Queen Anne Chonk

it does still make me insane specifically how many queer people lovingly embrace astrology. I went to a poetry workshop yesterday that was genuinely quite good but also included an option to disclose astrology designations during introductions and so many people broke out some variation of "I'm a [x] sum but I have a [y] placement and it SHOWS" girl no it doesn't. that's meaningless correlation you completely invented the causation

I'd say that rejecting biological determinism in favor of space gas determinism isn't the slay the astrology queers think it is but if I'm being completely honest I fear that many members of our community haven't even really rejected biological determinism so much as sprinkled a layer of glitter on it

well I think the main difference is that psychology is real

I hate to break it to you but much of psychology is just brain determinism. The idea that your neurological makeup or mental disorder fundamentally determines who you are as a person.

Psychology is historically built upon a basis of systemic bias. one of the earliest psychological diagnosis was Drapetomania, which was diagnosed to enslaved people that wanted to runaway. Homosexuality and female hysteria were in the DSM until the 70s.

In the modern day, disorders such as Oppositional Defiant Disorder are several times more likely to be diagnosed to Black children. BPD is more likely to be diagnosed to people who were AFAB.

"Psychology is real" is not the own you think it is. Psychology as a study continues to be largely based in the bias of researchers and functions as a tool of systemic oppression.

you understand how there's a difference between a a field of study being influenced by societal bigotries (ie, every field of study) and something just being completely made up tho right

Ok but why queer people specifically /genq

well you can see why I might expect queer people not to be jazzed about systems that dictate people who are born as x identity are bound to follow y behavior. like I thought we were all pretty over the idea that putting people in a prescriptive box at birth and using it to predict behavior.

my blorbo who did some things wrong. he did do all of that. and he was right.

Luke + Asch

First attempt at drawing them properly...

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