mondfuchs:These are absolutely dedicated to​ caiab

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These are absolutely dedicated to​ https://twitter.com/caiabresebun caiabresebun to whom all my future yenneralts will be dedicated to as well :>

I recently decided to finally go to Skellige and OMG all the tension between Geralt and Yennefer? GOOD CONTENT! Love how much he’s into her ah….and I loved the funeral scene, and then that unicorn scene omg??? Almost missed it!!!!! òvó

I’m just throwing these sloppily coloured sketches out there to get them out of my system…the last one is a less direct reference to the game but…like very inspired….I love them (Your picture was not posted)

I just wanted to say thank you for your witcher fandom racism post with about that artist. I was not

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Thank you for letting me know! And that’s exactly what I wanted to accomplish– from some of the notes on the post it’s obvious people think I have some grudge or something, but really, I don’t know the artist, I have no interest in knowing the artist, I don’t know what backstory there might be or anything, and it doesn’t matter. I’m not even judging the artist as a person, that’s not relevant– though tbh it’s hard not to when you reflect on the concrete damage that’s done by racist depictions like this– all the comments on that vk.com post http://web.archive.org/web/20210208152600/https://vk.com/wall-157099776_6137 with Triss dancing in fringed shawls and hoop earrings that were chuckling over her being a horse thief and stealing Roach, come on, Romani are being falsely accused of theft in many countries as we speak and are being denied basic human rights– this is ongoing, current harm, and it’s not cute or funny. This kind of “joke” is harmful.

I don’t like to contribute to harm being done, which depictions like that do. And I think it’s important to warn other people, because most of the people I care to associate with also don’t like to contribute to harm being done.

But there are people that like to hurt other people, for whatever reason, and most of them have found they have better success if they keep it plausibly-deniable, so it’s not always obvious.

This isn’t a question of morals or purity or wokeness or my feelings or the artist’s feelings, it’s about the harm that racism does, in the real world and in fandom, which is very much a part of the real world as well.

If there had been a question about the artist’s intent I would have done it differently, but there really wasn’t, so the only remaining avenue was to make sure other people knew. (Your picture was not posted)

This Vote Is Legally Binding

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In response to all those articles about talking to women with headphones…

Someone always says it, whenever it comes up: “I guess I’m just not allowed to talk to anyone any more!”

Well. Yes. It is my duty to inform you that we took a vote all us women and determined that you are not allowed to talk to anyone ever again.

This vote is legally binding.

Yes, of course, all women know each other, the way you always suspected. (Incidentally, so do Canadians. I’m just throwing that out there.) We went into the women’s room at the Applebee’s at the corner of 54 and all the others streamed in through the doors into that endless liminal space, a chain of humans stretching backward heavy skulled Neanderthal women laughing with New York socialites, Lucille Ball hand in hand with the Taung child. We sat around in the couches in the women’s room (I know you’ve always been suspicious of those couches) and chatted with each other in the secret female language that you always knew existed. Somebody set up a console– the Empress Wu is ruthless at Mario Kart and Cleopatra never learned to lose and a woman who ruled an empire that fell when the Sea People came and left no trace can use the blue shell like a surgical instrument.

Eventually we took the vote. You had three defenders: your grandmother and your first-grade teacher and an Albanian nun who believes the best of everybody. Your mom abstained. It was duly recorded in the secret notebooks that have been kept under the couch in the Applebee’s since the beginning of recorded time. And then we went back to playing Mario Kart and Hoelun took off her bra and we didn’t think about you again except that I had to carry this message.

So anyway good luck with that it’s just as you always said it was. Hush now, no talking

hush. (Your picture was not posted)

Zoom Filters

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oh no I saw this on Twitter and this made me laugh until I cried.

[img desc: a Tweet https://twitter.com/JudgeFergusonTX/status/1359202090824966151 by Judge Roy Ferguson. “IMPORTANT ZOOM TIP: If a child used your computer, before you join a virtual hearing heck the Zoom Video Options to be sure filters are off. This kitten just made a formal announcement on a case in the 394th (sound on).]

link to a brief snippet of a video on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxlPGPupdd8&feature=youtu.be:

[img desc: A YouTube video entitled “Kitten Zoom Filter Mishap” showing a screen Zoom window, with four quadrants; the upper left is a black screen with white text concerning the subject of the meeting, upper right is a gray-haired white man in a gray suit looking solemn, lower left is a gray-haired white man in a dark suit looking blurrily concerned, and lower right is a Zoom filter of a little white Scottish Fold kitten with the eyes cartoonishly looking down and to the right in concern.] (Your picture was not posted)