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there is absolutely no reason why i can’t romance this absolute cutie. this is the DLC i want
gods, can you imagine if you could be in a relationship with karlach and halsin at the same time? dates with your gigantic archdruid bf and your huge barbarian wife? spending chilly nights squeezed between a bear and a very warm tiefling? staring up at them both while they smile down at you?
Personally I think anyone doing this should kill themselves
It's not even funny how every single time they have to resort to use the "worse than Hitler" line. No, the bolsheviks, Lenin, Stalin, Mao were not worse than the German white nationalist who genocided jews and roms across europe to the point that the global jewish population still hasn't recovered to this day, caused 20 million of soviet citizens to die in a genocidal war campaign to the east, had in plan to kill or enslave most slavs after the war to create a German Living Space and no, they are definitely not worse than 15 iterations of this guy.
"The best thing we can do with power is give it away" - On the leftist critique of superhero narratives as authoritarian power fantasies:
The ongoing "Jason Todd is a cop" debate has reminded me of a brilliant brief image essay by Joey deVilla. So here it is, images first and the full essay text below:
"A common leftist critique of superhero comics is that they are inherently anti-collectivist, being about small groups of individuals who hold all the power, and the wisdom to wield that power.
I don’t disagree with this reading. I don’t think it’s inaccurate. Superheroes are their own ruling class, the concept of the übermensch writ large.
But it’s a sterile reading. It examines superhero comics as a cold text, and ignores something that I believe in fundamental, especially to superhero storytelling: the way people engage with text. Not what it says, but how it is read.
The average comic reader doesn’t fantasize about being a civilian in a world of superheroes, they fantasize about being a superhero. One could charitably chalk this up to a lust for power, except for one fact…
The fantasy is almost always the act of helping people. Helping the vulnerable, with no reward promised in return.
Being a century into the genre, we’ve seen countless subversions and deconstructions of the story.
But at its core, the superhero myth is about using the gifts you’ve been given to enrich the people around you, never asking for payment, never advancing an ulterior motive.
We should (and do) spend time nitpicking these fantasies, examining their unintended consequences, their hypocrisies.
But it’s worth acknowledging that the most eduring childhood fantasy of the last hundred years hasn’t been to become rich. Superheroes come from every class (don’t let the MCU fool you).
The most enduring fantasy is to become powerful enough to take the weak under your own wing. To give, without needing to take.
So yes, the superhero myth, as a text, isn’t collectivist. But that’s not why we keep coming back to it.
That’s not why children read it.
We keep coming back to it to learn one simple lesson…
The best thing we can do with power IS GIVE IT AWAY."
- Joey deVilla, 2021
https://www.joeydevilla.com/2021/07/04/happy-independence-day-superhero-style/
Messenger! What news have you from the Yaoi front?
i can't feel my legs
A shame. Rest in the dining hall. The Yuri nuns will attend to your wounds.
Egads. Perhaps you may wait here. The nuns appear occupied.
Ok me and the other nuns are done with our pre-occupations we can help
Wait hold on
Give us a few more months actually
Such devotion...it seems the work of God is never done
what do u mean they made a disembodied brain and discovered it has consciousness
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