Matthijs

Fortunately I'm perfectly fine being IDed as male and it helps my passport says so

Very sweet though was the lady running the body scanner asking me what sex I wanted her to enter for my scan. Apparently they have to enter one and there's no nb option

All the wrong incentives really!!

"Whatever be its antiquity" is basically a meme phrase to me at this point

Whoopsy doodle turns out that airport security really doesn't like massive platform boots with LEDs in them. I got interrogated by the cops and they extensively tested my boots and everything 😳

I mean Tacitus, who was a soldier himself, comes pretty close to saying between the lines that the Roman campaigns had little justification and were largely destructive

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one of the most obvious glaring differences is how all of the Legendarium is never more than a step removed from being about the history of Earth - our real, actual history. But post-Tolkienian fantasy virtually uniformly takes place "on some planet"

there's so much imitation of Tolkien's form but very little of his actual substance and method

it's cause Morn doesn't talk

if you mean GNC people are used as a rhetorical device by the relatively cleverer kind of transphobic ideologue, certainly true. But like, their reactionary patriarchal allies make it pretty obvious how fake that is anyway. Also nobody who hates one kind of gender transgression likes another

aside from everything else, I don't think it's practically possible to separate the two. If some transphobe sees me in a skirt, how can they know whether I'm GNC or just a not very passing trans woman? Why would I, or anyone, believe they care about the difference?

The various attempts to pit GNC people and trans people against each other are so transparently absurd and manipulative that nobody can lend them any credence, except Atlantic editors (who are all scum)

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Well many of them did tbf

I like using it precisely because it's incongruous for me to do so

Yes 😳

My character is a total Mary Sue of me of course so he's a stubborn but goody two shoes paladin. But obviously into some kinky stuff with an aggro lady 🥺

people think I'm an Astarion fucker but of course I went directly for La'ezel (albeit somewhat by accident)

real

hij was altijd al erg maar hij is nu wel echt totaal onuitstaanbaar geworden

bloo bloo my holiday to Omelas is ruined!!

The only positive of this war is all the crying and whining from the influencers and "expat" scum who love hanging out in fucking Dubai

blue is a woke color

es ist in Deutschland immer noch nicht verboten, "Israelfeindlich" zu sein. Bin ich auch.

they're gonna need it to sub for me ^_^

aka a sub?

I got my colleague to do it for me, who was quite entertained in an eyeroll kinda way. Honestly ideal

pretty good summary of my daily life too

Things that are harder with giant stiletto nails than expected:
- putting in earplugs
- eating pretzel bites
- opening Monster cans
- doing bootlaces

I'm trapped and under attack in Dubai - while back home in Chichester my daughters are furious, the labradoodles are sick and, worst of all, I left my Mounjaro pen in the fridge

new iconic meme format just dropped

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I'm for it cause Japan's gay scene is dull af