It's mentioned in various sourcebooks (I can't be bothered to dig up them all right now, I'm lazy) that becoming a lich, by its very nature, requires rituals involving vile, unspeakable acts. The common concept is "You make a poison from the blood of sentient races and other such nasty ingredients, which kills you when you drink it, but stuffs your soul in a phylactery."
5e specifically states that all orcs are naturally inclined to chaotic evil because they were created by a jerk god, and thus all half-orcs are inclined to the same.
For what it's worth, 5e does say that half-orcs can fight against that CE instinct, and often do. And it does go out of its way to suggest that your prissy elf character might be hermaphroditic and that your bearded dwarf woman might have gender issues.
Eberron didn't have The Demiplane That Lives or a silent sentinel who kept the gods at bay and flayed alive anyone in her shadow or The Plane of Radiance or the petrified corpses of dead gods spinning throughout the silver void.
this is the kind of thing that makes me wary of talking about this kind of emotionally-charged stuff; people don't respond to your ideas, they attack the person they think you are for saying it and make really nasty assumptions about you
i mean the first post strikes me as a useful observation, potentially, but if i'd made it and gotten that kind of a response i'd be like shit shit shit and then i'd avoid tumblr for like a month
Multiheaded is one of the SJ people who hang around with the Less Wrongosphere, who tend to be self-loathing and constantly underlining that they're not one of "those" feminists.
if this person has a history of self-loathing i guess that probably changes things, but without that context, i didn't see anything wrong with the original post
and i mean, surely it's not self-loathing to point out that the whole geek 'dumb jocks, some day i'll be successful and you'll be flipping my burgers' thing is crappy
wait, no, Multiheaded is the self-loathing one so never mind
idk, it's evident there are a lot of people who identify as geeks who get very upset at discussion of misogyny and toxic masculinity in geek culture, i mean, that's probably a big part of the feeling behind gg i would guess
and not all of those people getting upset are dudes, and some of them are trans
this frustrates me and i can't seem to quite articulate why it's so frustrating
like a lot of the geeks v. jocks thing is about male posturing, and it can't be exorcised from geek culture without attacking the defense mechanisms that geeks have built into their identities
but as long as it remains unaddressed it's only causing more hurt
i considered responding to Multiheaded, but didn't. You're braver than me, or at least more patient.
that post is way more aggressive and blame-oriented than the OP so whatever.
and like, it's not even that any of the stuff they're saying about SJ stuff is actually false, it's all stuff SJ bloggers have done, but there wasn't any of it in that post
makes it impossible to discuss these kinds of issues
None of what this person is saying is wrong to me, and a lot of it rings painfully true to me, but the OP wasn't really mentioning any of that.
On the contrary, what the OP says also rings painfully true to me because it almost happened to me. To me, the attitude that the OP describes is more likely to obfuscate trans identities than what the responder is talking about.
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It's left vague as to what "unspeakable evil" is necessary, probably intentionally so that setting-builders can define exactly what for themselves.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
weird, right
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Oh God, THAT guy. Fuck that guy.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
#planescapehijack
i mean the first post strikes me as a useful observation, potentially, but if i'd made it and gotten that kind of a response i'd be like shit shit shit and then i'd avoid tumblr for like a month
still tho
the armchair psychology thing is something i see a lot from anti-sj people and it's rude and a bit cruel i think
if this person has a history of self-loathing i guess that probably changes things, but without that context, i didn't see anything wrong with the original post
and i mean, surely it's not self-loathing to point out that the whole geek 'dumb jocks, some day i'll be successful and you'll be flipping my burgers' thing is crappy
wait, no, Multiheaded is the self-loathing one so never mind
idk, it's evident there are a lot of people who identify as geeks who get very upset at discussion of misogyny and toxic masculinity in geek culture, i mean, that's probably a big part of the feeling behind gg i would guess
and not all of those people getting upset are dudes, and some of them are trans
this frustrates me and i can't seem to quite articulate why it's so frustrating
like a lot of the geeks v. jocks thing is about male posturing, and it can't be exorcised from geek culture without attacking the defense mechanisms that geeks have built into their identities
but as long as it remains unaddressed it's only causing more hurt
that post is way more aggressive and blame-oriented than the OP so whatever.
and like, it's not even that any of the stuff they're saying about SJ stuff is actually false, it's all stuff SJ bloggers have done, but there wasn't any of it in that post
makes it impossible to discuss these kinds of issues
like before i saw the odd art person or two asking not to have their art tagged like that but now it’s this huge brouhaha and idk what changed
None of what this person is saying is wrong to me, and a lot of it rings painfully true to me, but the OP wasn't really mentioning any of that.
On the contrary, what the OP says also rings painfully true to me because it almost happened to me. To me, the attitude that the OP describes is more likely to obfuscate trans identities than what the responder is talking about.