Posts made by Kestrel

@bored said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:

@Kestrel Cool, so incivility is literally 'disagree with someone (EDIT: POC ONLY OF COURSE) in this topic.' We've come far.

I will leave it to someone else to blacksplain what whitesplaining means.

@bored said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:

re: civility, I don't actually see what's uncivil here? Did anyone call anyone names? If anything, calling this out is proof that we're all old and lame. Anyway, enjoy your champagne, guy.

tbh I think the whitesplaining is pretty uncivil but I'm joining @HelloProject over here in tipsytown and today has just been one of those days where I have reached my upper tolerance limit for white bullshit.

Thought Slime makes educational videos about Anarchism with bite and dry wit.

Currently relevant, I recommend his video on why All Cops Are Bastards.

@Ominous said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:

@saosmash
Do they utilize jew jitsu?

We utilise Krav Maga and throwing-stars of David

@GreenFlashlight

Ancient drama archive for your headdesking pleasure, because who needs craniums anyway amirite.

EDIT: sry @insomniac7809 ninja'd u like the sneaky jew i am

@Macha said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@Kestrel said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@Ominous

God damnit, I think I have a new fetish.

I second this.

Now wondering if Florence Welch has the same one.

@Three-Eyed-Crow said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:

@TheBigD said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:

"Okay, dude wants to play X, ban his ass because obviously he's a Y."

Where does this happen?

@TheBigD said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:

"Okay, dude wants to play X, so let's hear their reasoning and what they want to get out of it."

Or this.

You know in practice what actually happens is that nobody gives a fuck who or what you play until you do something overtly racist/misogynistic/queerphobic with your character archetype, like giving your Jewish character a hunchback and a hooked nose and making them a diabolical banker with gold telekinesis powers, at which point someone rightfully calls you out and you can do one of two things:

1. 'oh my bad I did not think critically about how this would look, you are right to point out I am furthering antisemitic stereotypes and although that was not my intention, I will take steps to rectify this mistake and educate myself so I can do better in future.'
2. 'omg how dare you call me racist that's so insensitive not everyone who disagrees with you is racist why are SJW snowflakes so easily triggered these days, I need a safe space away from these mean callout culture PC brigade unfairly accusing me of racism for your information my half-grandma was Jewish and so is my best friend's dog's vet.'

In the free marketplace of ideas I could not possibly make a judgement call as to which is the better response, just you know, think about it a bit and do some soul-searching and hopefully you'll arrive at the left conclusion.

But I'm just saying, actually nobody has ever asked me why I sometimes play men & non-binary people even though I'm neither of those, or sometimes use Maggie Q and Zoë Kravitz as played-bys even though I'm not black or Vietnamese either. Someone once told me to change one word in my description as (unbeknownst to me) its usage is sometimes controversial so I just did that and then everything was fine. MU cancel brigade, where you at? I'm waiting.

@Ominous

God damnit, I think I have a new fetish.

@Rinel said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@Kestrel said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

I thought it was a fun story full of action, adventure and great world-building

Having just read through Leviticus and Numbers I think you've repressed a few memories. x_x

Nah we definitely went over the genocide in school, and the part where God commands his best boi to kill his own son because ‘you’d do it if you really loved me’. (Years later my first sexual partner said this to me about anal and you know, it wasn’t cool then either.) And him fucking with Job, and killing all the Egyptian kids to prove a point.

I remember! And I always thought it was very fucked up. It was like a Grimm Fairy Tale. The appeal is similar to Dexter, You, Breaking Bad or House MD, where the protagonist is also a villain and you root for them but it’s awkward and makes you question yourself.

But it was fun and zany, you know how kids love these violent video games and stories with clandestine murder in them.

@GreenFlashlight said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

The version of the Bible I grew up with did not portray the Ten Commandments as single sentences. They were whole paragraphs listing examples and exceptions. I remember being really scared that the one against killing had a provision allowing for people who break into your home at night, because until then, I hadn't realized that was a thing that could happen. Don't let your kids read the Bible.

I went to school in Israel, and the Old Testament is part of the national curriculum. I studied the entire thing in Hebrew. Twice. (Basic & Advanced studies.)

People really underestimate children, because much as Harry Potter didn’t lead me to devil worship, the Bible didn’t lead me to God worship. I thought it was a fun story full of action, adventure and great world-building, but ultimately ridiculous and that the God character was wholly unlikeable. (Serious temper issues, abusive, bit of a controlling narcissist.)

Anyway that’s why I became an atheist at the age of 6. But Jewish culture encourages questioning the Bible and my answer to it was always ‘NO.’

Let your children read fantasy, there’s no harm in it.

@TheBigD said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:

The point is that back in the day, the more reasonable people would be willing to have a discussion about the implications of a white person portraying a black person in a roleplaying game. There would be rational, logical discussion about it. But due to changes in the past hmm, 20 years or so, those reasonable people are drowned out by less reasonable people. Where every time there are multiple reasons to do a particular thing, these people decide that you do this particular thing for the absolute worst reason.

And it used to be that you could safely ignore these people. Everyone could see that they were being irrational. Being contrary just to be contrary. Not any more.

I really wonder who you think are the more reasonable people in this debate, because it kinda sounds like this was never your discussion to have, to begin with, and stuff that was never OK is now actually being treated like it isn't OK. Whereas before the more reasonable people, who in this debate I'm gonna assume are people of colour, would be drowned out if they tried to raise their concerns.

Because this just sounds like the MUSoapbox version of that ol' 'PC culture has gone too far, you know back in my day we could call people a f— and a n— and nobody would bat an eyelid'.

And to that I just can't properly respond at the moment, because Stradivarius don't make violins small enough.

I might have coronavirus.

I'm a health-junkie so feeling unwell or lethargic is pretty unusual for me unless I'm experiencing the joys of being a woman. Thursday though I was taken to hospital because the non-emergency health line I called to describe some symptoms to thought I was having a stroke.

After a lot of tests including an ECG and chest X-ray, they confirmed my heart is fine, even though my heart-rate was very elevated and my blood-pressure was crazy low. They confirmed I have a virus of some kind due to my white cell count in a blood test + other symptoms but the coronavirus swab was inconclusive. So they told me to self-isolate at home for 7 days regardless, which is fine, because all I want to do right now is lie down and have hot baths and drink lots of tea.

Anyway I get a message to open my door today and find ...

1. A dozen roses.
2. Paracetamol + medication
3. Coffee

These are not all from the same person but at least one of the senders (the one I'm not related to) is someone I think I wanna marry right now, but maybe that's just the fever talking.

Hildegard von Blingin' is my new favourite musical artist. She does medieval-style covers of modern hits.

Pumped Up Kicks

All ye bully-rooks with your buskin boots
Best ye go, best ye go
Outrun my bow
All ye bully-rooks with your buskin boots
Best ye go, best ye go, faster than mine arrow

Somebody That I Used To Know

In sooth I do not need thy love
But thou makest me a stranger and that feels so rough
Hadst thou need to stoop so low?
To send a wagon for thy minstrel and refuse my letters

@HelloProject said in RL Anger:

So, my ex-therapist tracked down my Twitter (as I have a google info box due to releasing my music through a distributor, so google is like "Wait are you famous?"), after exactly two years when it would no longer be illegal for him to contact me. And then, after I had to figure out who he was, he confessed that he always was attracted to me. I always had weird vibes and like some things he'd say and the way he'd make physical contract with me kept feeling very inappropriate, which is a part of why I left. But then when he tracked me down today (literally this was like an hour ago), he said all kinds of wildly and blatantly inappropriate stuff.

So yeah I'm incredibly emotionally shook.

That is a world of not OK. I am very sorry. I cannot imagine the yikes you are going through, but I'd be pretty shaken too.

I'm fortunate to have never gone through anything like that but a while ago I did stop seeing a therapist who I noticed was starting to make me feel worse, and more dependent, rather than better. She had my full trust for the longest time, so it took me a while to both decide to stop seeing her and then to understand why I'd been feeling that way, once I was therapy free.

I found this article, among others on that same topic, helpful in processing the situation. Maybe it'll help you too.

I run a business and I try to do it as ethically as I can. I'm my only employee currently but perhaps that will change at some point in future.

I'm very over people saying to me, 'So you're a Leftist, eh? But you run a business, huh? Isn't that just a wee bit hypocritical of you? Your politics don't seem to align.'

That's not how this works. That's not how any of this works. Legit stahp. Why do people not understand the concept of criticising systems while being forced to operate within them or starve.

Also? Miles better than having an employer I'm at the whims of, and working for a company whose principles I don't agree with.

@Rinel said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

I'm not so much principled as I am chaotically pretentious.

Chaotic pretentious is my new favourite D&D alignment.

Above post: life is kind of stressful right now. I vented. Then I realised this probably isn't the place for that.

So, on the topic of RL peeves, disgruntlements and irks, I guess I'll just say life is weirdly, ludicrously stressful right now.

@JinShei

Yikes.

I suppose this is one way playing POC can teach one empathy.

I’m not black, but I have played a black man, and uh ... yeah. My character did get hit on IC with the query as to whether he’s hung like a porn star.

Am I the only one whose sexual orientation changes depending on who I'm dealing with?

I'm gay when machismos come a-flexin' and straight as a board when MU* lesbians want a giggly pillow-fight.

Then I go back to being gay anytime I'm in the vicinity of linen shorts.