rubyvroom:

amazighprincex:

transjupiter:

transjupiter:

anyway something I hate about video games is when they make some assertion about the fictional society not being homophobic and yet the society is still heteronormative like. that’s not how things work

example: skyrim
sexual orientation isn’t really talked about at all afaik and every person who can be married can be married with either character gender but like: everything is straight. I haven’t played skyrim in a while but like it’s all straight I feel like also there’s things people say in it that are heteronormative and are in there bc the people creating it didn’t see it as a problem or at odds with their apparent homophobia free society and like how can you create a fictional homophobia free society when you ain’t free of your real life assumptions. Anyway

I’ve noticed this with misogyny too, like when you go to pick your character’s gender in dragon age it says something about how men and women are considered equal and there are equal numbers of men and women in the army and in leadership positions etc.

and then you go to actually play the game and the overwhelming majority of the soldiers are male, soldiers are constantly referred to as “men,” there are characters who will say blatantly misogynistic or sexually aggressive things to you (like, blatant enough that it must be misogynistic on purpose)

and it makes me die

Some of this has to be because the people who made these games are almost exclusively straight white dudes - and while they may have had the intention of being inclusive, they literally cannot imagine what a world without heteronormativity and misogyny would look like. They give us the game mechanics to be a woman warrior or to marry a character of the same gender, but they didn’t extend this train of thought to imagine how a society where this was normal would be different from ours.

In Dragon Age, for example, the major world religion is centered on a woman, lead by women, with all-female priestesses. AND YET in everyday life characters still interact as though men are naturally in charge and express surprise at a woman issuing commands. This is directly contradictory and frankly lazy world building to suggest that people raised in a system lead exclusively by women would still somehow end up expecting male leadership, as though sexism was a sort of natural law that would happen in any society. It’s not. Also, the founding myth of their religion has the original sin as sexual jealousy rather than punishing female sexuality, which would suggest totally different social norms around monogamy, sexual orientation, and the whole idea of promiscuity. Instead they’re… More or less exactly the same as our society, slut-shaming included. This makes no sense!

It’s a complete failure of imagination, not to mention frustrating and sad. And a big part of the reason why inclusion can’t be limited to the characters in a game. We need more developers and writers of all races, genders, and orientations so we can make better worlds and better games.

dailysandersidesaudoodles:

yayroos:

For everyone’s information:

The plan for the 17th, when the adult content ban comes in, is to protest.

To do that, we are making as much noise either side of the 17th as possible, and using the site as normal.

On the 17th, dead silence.

People are saying log off but what they really mean is don’t open the site or the app.

But, on the 17th make as much noise as possible on every other platform. Tweet about it and post on facebook and instagram and everywhere else.

What this does is causes a massive dip in ad revenue for one single day. That does not make staff think ‘oh everyone’s gone let’s shut down.’ What it actually makes them think is ‘oh shit people aren’t happy and if people don’t keep using our site we’re out of money and out of jobs.’

A boycott reminds a company that the users (consumers) have the power to make their site (business) worthless with one single coordinated decision.

If you want to join in, here’s what to do:

Do:

• Close all open instances of the app and site on all your devices before the 17th
• Make posts before and after the 17th on tumblr and other platforms, talking about why this ban is bad
• Make posts on other sites during the 17th. Flood the official tumblr staff twitter and facebook with your anger and your opinion
• Come back on the 18th and check in

Don’t:

• Delete the app from your phone (this doesn’t affect their revenue and since it’s off the store at the moment it’ll be hard to get back)
• Delete your account. I mean you can if you want to, but if you keep your account and don’t use it you’re saying to staff that there’s still time to save it. If you delete it’s hard work to come back.
• Open the app or website (including specific blogs)
• Make any posts (turn down/off your queue and make sure nothing is scheduled)
• Go quiet elsewhere. Make it clear that this is just about tumblr, not a mass move away from all social media.

Remember: the execs don’t care about anything but money. Shutting down the site means there’s $0 further income from it. That’s their last possible course of action. If we make it clear we’re not happy, they’ll have to do something or we can do more and more until it becomes too expensive.

Protests take commitment. They’re a defiant action against a business that is doing something wrong. They will try to scare you into not participating, because they’re scared. We hold all the power here, sometimes the execs just need to be reminded of that.

!!!!!!

pissvortex:

mintkupocream:

captain-moonstone:

LOVING THE NEW LAYOUT…… KEEP IT UP GUYS………

Now you have 128 rare candies in your inventory!

the xkit icon being the only thing intact on the screen is the perfect metaphor for this website’s functionality

garrettauthor:

tallgreenlady:

worldsworstfather:

worldsworstfather:

“tall/small couples are problematic because there’s a power imbalance” is NOT one of the cold takes i expected to see at the end of 2018, and YET,

*breaking up with my s.o.* it’s not you, it’s just you’re 6'4" and tumblr told me that means our relationship is unhealthy,

This is apparently the discourse in question?

You can tell this is an idiotic take not worth a blink of consideration SIMPLY BY THE FACT that this person is so ignorant that they don’t know dwarfism exists.

kidzbopdeathgrips:

magimerlyn:

kidzbopdeathgrips:

jesus: if you literally do nothing else just please. be nice to people

american christians: so basically i should just be really mean to people. just like be super cunty for no reason and get really self-righteous about it. right jesus?

Grrrrrrrrrr…..