Iris 🪑

70s ttrpgs were aping genre fiction. 90s ttrpgs were aping 70s ttrpgs. 2020s ttrpgs are aping a social media post summarizing a video of actors riffing while a ttrpg book was in the room.

"learn queer history" means memorizing all the social media beefs that have been documented in callout posts. anything that happened before the internet probably wasn't important anyway

51% of patients at Oslo University Hospital's gender clinic have been subjected to treatment which qualifies as conversion therapy, according to a new report by the Patient Organization for Gender Incongruence

Not to be all 'back in my day' but I feel like the assholes on the internet 20 years ago were at least more confident in being assholes.

Today you have endless waves of aggressive trolls who then immediately start crying and acting the victim when hit back.

It's pathetic.

It's alarming to me, as someone who understands that good intentions outweigh imperfect language, that covert transphobia has been so normalized because cis people hear more about us from transphobes than from trans people ourselves.

This supportive message using "trans-identified" is a siren.

When you think of the struggle for gay marriage, if you're not thinking about hospital rooms and who was allowed in them, you're not a fucking queer activist you are a tumblr cosplayer whose appreciation of history is about as serious as someone who thinks bisexuality is a white identity.

Yeah, the reason is it has a massive marketing budget and 40 years of historical fanbase - if you released 5th edition without the D&D signifiers, people would glance at it and go, "huh, this kinda sucks" and then go back to playing literally anything else

I have encountered way too many cishet women whose ideal partner is basically "a violent sociopath to everyone ✨EXCEPT FOR ME✨".

No wonder half the "dark romance" genre is just "He came home from a long day of fag-bashing and ethnic cleansing and held me with bloodstained hands <3"

Many people seem to only be able to "include" trans women if everyone is welcome, if gender itself ceases to hold any meaning.

I'd like for that to happen, too, but in this world, this patriarchal world, gender subjects trans women to misogyny, womanizes us.

Do you believe that?

A "sex" that's immutable even if you change every single sex characteristic you have is not a biological one actually

Validity Transmedicalism is probably easier to spot if you've already been through a system that thinks you're valid without medical transition AND THEREFORE don't need access to healthcare unless you've got Clinically Significant amounts of Suffering

What does the ruling mean in practice? Public bodies - from the NHS and prisons to sports clubs and businesses - will already be reviewing their policies. Women's toilets, changing rooms and other single sex spaces will be for biological women only. In theory, that means a transgender man or woman should use facilities that correspond to their biological sex. However, this is likely to present other difficulties as the person will be presenting as their gender identity to the outside world. Baroness Falkner argues that transgender people should use "their power of advocacy" to persuade organisations to provide third spaces such as unisex toilets. Cases such as that of the nurse, Sandie Peggie, who was suspended after refusing to share a changing room with a transgender doctor, are likely to be reviewed. NHS Fife, the health board involved in the case, told the BBC that it noted the clarity provided by the ruling and would "carefully consider the judgment

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

For every worthless platitude offered by our liberal friends about how this ruling changes nothing can you please explain how today I woke up and was immediately threatened by the authorities you say will protect me from discrimination?

PSA: You can no longer say the sentence "You don't need to transition to be trans" without donating to at least six trans people's DIY funds.

Once everyone has the option to transition, once we no longer live in a world denying us transition care, you may litigate this philosophical quibble.

bluesky thread screenshot sage: babe wake up, another opt-in list of rapist supporters just dropped michachu (@michachu.me), user subscribed to the opt-in list of rapist supporters: or hear me out. i don't want to be involved in your bullshit little dispute between the two camps and muted everyone for my own sanity. touch some fucking grass sage. i thought you were better than this. katie tightpussy: big fan of rape, huh? michacu, rapist apologist: big fan of i wasn't there, i don't fucking know, and i'm not judge jury and/or executioner katie. i don't see her camp putting out hit lists of people. [editor's note: that's what he first list is]

sometimes i can't believe bluesky is free because people will come onto here and say with their whole chest that you shouldn't be mean to them for being friends with serial rapists.

really did not want to post publicly about this but LB is trying to bait people into unblocking her to hear out her "hard proof" that all the decades of victims and documented snitching were lies all along. please do not fall for the bait.

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I find it totally unbearable when a genre story stops dead to have some fantasy princess be like "pronouns are important!" in the most straightforward internet-speak terms possible. On a craft level it destroys momentum and believability, and socially, you aren't reaching anyone that way.

Skeet reads: Can I ask people something? Before I post over there? Atthis Arts is struggling hard. I promised no more GFM and I won't do another. We have an empty account and almost no sales. Our Patreon keeps dropping. I can't pay AJ. We'll have to personally borrow (somehow?) to pay due royalties.

I’m going to be very blunt and say: do not send Atthis Arts any money or manuscripts. The four-alarm red-flag phrase here is “borrow … to pay due royalties.”

Let me explain for those who don’t already know roughly how money works in small presses.

Is it the "meangirl" people again? They always manage to be at the center of shit

The older I get, the more I realize that thought experiments like this are designed to make you feel bad for having principles, make you feel selfish for setting boundaries, and to freeze you into passivity out of fear that each of your actions is not universally consistent. Gotchas are for insects.

Sexed biological characteristics DO matter in healthcare

The thing that does not matter in the slightest is the vibes-based teleological construct of Biological Sex At Birth.

The heart doesn't check whether you used to have a penis before deciding how to have a heart attack.

Shopify is run by fucking *evil* people and the fact that ~99% of Canadians have no idea is reasonably terrifying. They're Musk-lite sociopaths.

remember kids, never speak to the fucking cops UNLESS youre exercising your right to talk to a lawyer. this idea that all lawyers are scumbags is literal copaganda. the cops WILL fuck you and defense lawyers exist to keep you out of prison.

white people will believe anything about any asian country. you can just say “In North Korea you have to get out and push the train from the back” and white folks will just sit there, slack-jawed and going “ooah waow”

Every question that cis people with power over you ask that makes no sense is there for two reasons: 1) to confirm their own insane transphobic assumptions about trans people, and 2) to try and find an excuse to delay or deny you healthcare

Family Guy meme: A hand is holding a card in front of Peter Griffin. The card has a series of skin tones ordered bright to dark, with a red line drawn in the middle. The upper half is labelled "I wonder how many of those allegations have been pushed by cis women" while the lower half is labelled "Are we really going to wait for victims to come forward"

I'm picking up on some interesting vibes here

you know i think some people missed the point here that i meant folks you have issues with that are minor in the grand scheme because the important thing is broadest solidarity. i was not recommending you smuggle hrt to a cop.