Posts made by Rinel

People generally prefer sitting with their backs to walls, though I imagine it can be amplified. I know lots of NTs who can't stand people behind them as they write or work on their PC.

@GreenFlashlight

I'll get out the Song of Songs again stg

@Ganymede

Always happy to thrust the Song of Songs into conversations where it might be remotely applicable.

Tomorrow I call my endrocrinologist and tell her that while I understand the need for me to come in and get blood work done,

1. I don't give a fuck what her stance on telemedicine is, because
2. there's a deadly pandemic going around, and
3. if she keeps bitching at me about coming in in person I'll fucking fire her as my doctor and find someone else to give me spironolactone.

@reversed said in [NSFW] Erotic RP Concepts:

I feel like "agriculture fetish" could get taken a lot of ways and as such I can't even formulate a good response other than to threaten you with lawyers

@Roz said in [NSFW] Erotic RP Concepts:

@reversed ooh bb you till so good

"How graceful are your feet in sandals,
O queenly maiden!
Your rounded thighs are like jewels,
the work of a master hand.
Your navel is a rounded bowl
that never lacks mixed wine.
Your belly is a heap of wheat,
encircled with lilies.
Your two breasts are like two fawns,
twins of a gazelle.
Your neck is like an ivory tower.
Your eyes are pools in Heshbon,
by the gate of Bath-rabbim.
Your nose is like a tower of Lebanon,
overlooking Damascus.
Your head crowns you like Carmel,
and your flowing locks are like purple;
a king is held captive in the tresses.
How fair and pleasant you are,
O loved one, delectable maiden!
You are stately as a palm tree,
and your breasts are like its clusters.
I say I will climb the palm tree
and lay hold of its branches.
O may your breasts be like clusters of the vine,
and the scent of your breath like apples,
and your kisses like the best wine
that goes down smoothly,
gliding over lips and teeth.

I am my beloved’s,
and his desire is for me.
Come, my beloved,
let us go forth into the fields,
and lodge in the villages;
let us go out early to the vineyards,
and see whether the vines have budded,
whether the grape blossoms have opened
and the pomegranates are in bloom.
There I will give you my love.
The mandrakes give forth fragrance,
and over our doors are all choice fruits,
new as well as old,
which I have laid up for you, O my beloved."

@Caryatid

"Why don't you want to share your kinks tee hee I like werewolves and blindfolds" they say and I just nod and smile while sliding the ██████████ under the bed with my foot.

@HelloProject said in Gauging Interest in a new Erotic RP MU* (with anonymous survey):

I thought ERP was only something people into VR said.

It's the only term I ever saw used in the MMO RP communities. TS is a linguistic remnant so vestigial it makes goosebumps look useful.

ETA: astonished that @Jennkryst posted without asking about how mummy wrappings can be used in shibari

Yeah, and especially when you get into roleplayed nonconsensual stuff. There absolutely has to be a barrier between public and private there, OR you need to make it excruciatingly clear to everyone from the start what people are getting into.

honestly I just like that your handle is "bliss" in this context

IF IT HAS A PULSE
TAKE ITS SKULL
IF IT BUILDS A HOUSE
SMASH IT FLAT
STRENGTH IS MY GOD
THE GOD OF SHAPES
IF MY GOD SHOULD FAIL ME
I WILL KILL HIM TOO

ETA: I wanna be a demon
ETA2: in the game. already sufficiently eldritch horror irl

Ennio Morricone.

Chet Factor 9000

@silverfox

I actually used those when writing Rinel's description, though I chose to use wood despite the ambivalence in the post. I want to say I used "chestnut," "mahogany," and "emerald" for Rinel, and "pallid," "black," and "blue" for Alina.

If I could, I'd go back and change Rinel's "emerald" to "green," for reasons that are probably pretty obvious.

@Kanye-Qwest said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:

no one should be expected to play anything. what is even happening now

I agree and transphobia was happening but I think it's over at present

@Pandora said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:

The fact that "No, everything is fine and not liking the way lesbians are represented in games is dogwhistle terfery" is the response

The response I'm seeing is "why are you bringing trans women into this," not "everything is fine."

Yes, people do a poor job of roleplaying lesbians. Cis and trans lesbians have every right to talk about this. And being shoddy (at best) with your definitions by moving from "men and male socialized people" to "men" and back again is going to raise eyebrows, because casual conflation of men and trans women is a thing TERFs do.

As is claiming erasure when people push back on their nonsense, which is why

@Pandora said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:

lesbians don't get a voice in lesbian diversity representation unless they're trans, and that's disturbing.

is not only eyeroll worthy but yet another dogwhistle. You claim that you "try to be really honest here," so I don't know if you just constantly speak out of both sides of your mouth and don't realize it, are actively lying, or are simply terrible at formulating and communicating your thoughts. Because a bunch of people have had alarm bells go off when you started talking about this topic, and the fact that you're not backing down after the reasons for that have been explained to you means that you're either stupid, utterly callous, or an unrepentant bigot. Those aren't mutually exclusive, of course.

The most charitable interpretation of your posts is that you're really fucking dumb, but I've read enough of your posts since I've been here to doubt that your intellect suddenly evaporates when this particular topic arises. So I'm somewhat at a loss as to how to proceed charitably.

@Pandora said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:

@Rinel I'm not trying to pick a fight here, but when you divide the line, in text-based gaming, between trans/not-trans lesbian representation, you are ignoring the fact that men who play lesbians are almost universally not playing trans characters, they are speaking for and over female-socialized lesbians.

I don't know why men playing lesbians should be expected to play trans lesbians instead of cis lesbians. The ways in which cis lesbians and trans lesbians differ is not something that means a man is more suited to play one over the other except in perhaps the most basic and vulgar concepts of anatomy, assuming you have a trans woman who has yet to begin any form of physical transition.

That is what I keep harping on in this discussion with you: trans woman does not mean "basically a man." Trans women are not proto-women, or somewhere in between men and women.

@Pandora said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:

It would be, in my opinion which you may disagree with, a disservice to trans people playing lesbians to say 'Let's lump you in with the lesbians played by men because that's easier/safer than talking about "mesbians" as their own problematic category'. I know problematic is a trite word these days, but work with me here.

I think it's a disservice to trans people playing lesbians to act as though their "male socialization" leads them to RP lesbians in a way similar to men, which is what you're implying here with your comments about "male socialization" leading to sexually aggressive hyper femme lesbians.

ETA: @Pandora said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:

I didn't dance around any points, I said what I said and you chose the most uncharitable interpretation possible

Trust me, my giving someone who uses the phrase male socialization any posts, much less three, in which to explain themselves is basically Christmas when it comes to charity.

@Pandora said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:

Non-binary, genderqueer, genderflexible, trans, agender people exist, and some have male socialization, and some play lesbians without a lot of regard for female socialization differences, and that's not been great for lesbian representation on games and it's hardly hating or fearing trans people to say so.

See it would have legitimately been better to just lead with this instead of dancing around the point, because then I could have just said "you mean it's not great for cis lesbian representation since trans lesbians exist."

Because, yeah, the experiences of trans lesbians are often really different from the experiences of cis ones.

@Tinuviel

Sure, and some people genuinely think that sexism is scientifically supported. Some people are wrong and should be mocked and have their toxic ideologies driven out of society.

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

@HelloProject
Mostly I'm trying to figure out how the detour into TERF-ism happened, but that is the cultural moment in which we live, so!

Someone used the "male socialization" dogwhistle and some inquiries were made as to whether it was innocent (it wasn't).

ETA:
@Tinuviel said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:

Have you lot never interacted with Pandora before?

From what I've seen in the past she's an asshole about the actions people take, not an asshole about who people are. So, no, this is a new and particularly ugly side of a person to see, but if there's another Tyche lurking around I guess I'm glad I know who it is.

@Pandora said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:

@Rinel Well now that you've gotten them out, I hope there is peace in your head.

honestly I'm pretty pissed off that you're such a shitheel