neil gaiman: was a staunch ally for queer people and included a lot of rep for decades, back when that could have easily ruined his career. married a bisexual woman and loves his lesbian daughter.
neil gaiman: also believes firmly in death of the author and won’t call a relationship between two genderless/sexless celestial beings gay, repeatedly states that it was written as a love story and all interpretations of that are valid
fucking tumblr dot hell: immediately gets to work trying to dig up as much dirt as possible, reads everything he has ever written in bad faith, twists and reaches on anything that can even remotely be considered “evidence” so they can write call out posts about how he’s a horrible homophobe/transphobe/racist etc. etc. whatever the fuck.
like… this is so fucking transparent that this is being caused by folks who think that asexual rep isn’t queer enough, and the only rep that counts involves two people of the same sex making out on screen.
like… do y’all even realize that shit like this directly causes less rep to be made? like fuck I would have loved to make my own book or comic years ago but now it’s like… fuck that. if I write it I will stick it in a desk drawer until I die. I really don’t feel like being a good person who writes nice things only to have abusive entitled shitheads write smear campaigns about how I am a terrible person and combining through my internet history with a fine tooth comb for receipts, and this working because nothing and no one is perfect and flawless who says everything right the first time and is immune to future changes that make work age poorly.
hmmm the beau and caleb conversation is fuCKING ME UP MY PALS
I caught the tail end of it live when they’re talking about Caleb’s uncertainty re: Nott, and it hit so so many nerves re: aroace existential fears of when your closest friends get distant from you once they get romantic partners, and the terror of the looming loneliness growing as you get older and this happens again and again and again
Even Beau couldn’t fully reassure him, downgrading her “you’ll always be partners” to “you’ll always have the memories of the times you were partners.”
But what I didn’t realize is I missed the first part of this conversation, where Beau had just. Flat-out said “if you end up in hell I’ll be there with you.” That changes everything about this conversation. He isn’t going to be left alone or unsupported even if his place in Nott’s life has changed. Even the very fact that he could share these fears with Beau shows that. The fear is so viscerally, painfully relatable, but the best antidote is to pause and look around at the people who are still there for you.
[A gifset of Sam Riegel and Laura Bailey on the set of Critical Role, with appearances by Taliesin Jaffe and Matthew Mercer. Taliesin is generally uninvolved and looking at his notes, unless otherwise specified.
1. Sam, as Nott, is holding something out to Caleb and saying, “Here, identify that.” Laura whispers to Matt with her hand cupped around her mouth, “While Nott is distracted with that-”
2. Continuing from the previous gif, Laura finishes, “I’m going to try to grab her flask and put it in the haversack.” Sam sits beside her with one arm up on the table, bent at the elbow. His index and thumb rest against his face, with the remainder of his hand obscuring his mouth. Upon hearing her, he turns away, eyes narrowed and cheeks rising in a hidden smirk.
3. Matt responds, “Make a Sleight of Hand check.” Laura begins to pick up a die to roll. Sam, attempting to appear nonchalant and unaware, keeps his hand pinched and resting against his mouth. He steals a glance at Laura’s dice tray, raising an eyebrow in anticipation before quickly looking elsewhere.
4. Laura’s hand lingers in the air from rolling for a moment, lowering to the table as she leans forward to inspect the die. After a moment of scrutiny, she sucks in air through one side of her mouth and shrugs her shoulder, apparently less-than-impressed with the result. Sam, apparently involved in other conversation, leans in to check his notes, taking a sidelong glance at Laura’s dice as he does so.
5. Laura silently responds, “Twelve,” sitting back in her chair, a sheepish, uncertain smile settling on her face. Taliesin almost appears to see her answer, turning from his notes just as she speaks and looking in her direction. Sam does not seem to react in any way; he is looking down at his own notes and does not see Laura reply.
6. Sam and Laura are both leaned forward, looking at their respective notes. Matt asks, “Nott, what is your passive perception?” To which Sam replies, “Passive perception is…”
7. “…Ten.” Sam looks up at Matt from his notes with a carefully neutral expression, one eyebrow innocently and only-slightly raised. Beside him, Laura stares at his notes. Upon hearing the result, she turns to Matt with a sly smirk, quickly masking it by rolling her tongue over her teeth underneath her lips. At this point, Taliesin is involved with other conversation, completely unaware of their discussion or of Laura’s secret rejoicing.
8. After Sam’s clarification, Matt responds, “Okay,” immediately and quickly winking at Laura afterwards. He looks to the other players with nonchalance, absentmindedly rubbing the fuzz of his goatee with his index finger.
9. A cropped gif of just Sam, as he’s searching through his notes after the exchange. His eyebrow remains fully torqued, and a thin pressurized version of his smile stretches across his face, as if to say, “Well played.”]
Tarot DnD. It’s DnD but you replace the dice with tarot cards and the DM has to interpret the results by symbolism instead of numbers.
Ooh! My friend proposed an idea similar to this. CAH DnD. It’s basically the same concept but instead of tarot cards, you use Cards Against Humanity cards. As she put it:
“Perception check”
“Bees?”
“BEES???”
That sounds absolutely HORRENDOUS, your friend should be very proud
Guys we need to get drunk and do a one-shot.
(I can’t be arsed to tag you, you know who you are,)
Tarot DnD. It’s DnD but you replace the dice with tarot cards and the DM has to interpret the results by symbolism instead of numbers.
Ooh! My friend proposed an idea similar to this. CAH DnD. It’s basically the same concept but instead of tarot cards, you use Cards Against Humanity cards. As she put it:
“Perception check”
“Bees?”
“BEES???”
That sounds absolutely HORRENDOUS, your friend should be very proud
Guys we need to get drunk and do a one-shot.
(I can’t be arsed to tag you, you know who you are,)
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Anonymous said: idk if you've seen this already but this survey seems to be for the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights lgbtisurvey(.)eu/lgbti/ and... of course if you say you're asexual they don't let you take the survey. this is beyond irritating, they're collecting data for an EU agency on queer experiences and ace people don't matter at all, nevermind that plenty of us are also in queer relationships.
Them : If aces are oppressed why dont yall provide us statistical data about it?????
The surveys conducted to prepare said statistical data :...
