Worlds Beyond Number Fireside Chat For Episode 14, About 9 Minutes And 35 Seconds In Brennan Said In

a moment to check the gears and cogs

feel like i want to talk a little on the message of a recent post because i think it is an important point. when i say that you do not need to QUALIFY OR DEFEND your love of tinglers or my work in general, i am pointing out an interesting social anomaly that happens with my art and with queer art.

as an autistic buckaroo i notice patterns, and on social media i see them a lot. little phrases that come up again and again with my art. ‘yes THAT chuck tingle’ ‘its ACTUALLY good’ ’my favorite author i have never read’ ‘so bad its good’. these are always added after a POSITIVE comment about me

they also all have something in common. they are trying to distance the posters SINCERE JOY and give them an out socially. it is very very very subtle, but they are all saying ‘yes i like this but here is a sliver of acknowledgment that it is also weird or bad or ironic. in not REALLY fully in'

essentially these are added because it means the poster can escape their very real joy if needed. try applying these phrases to any other popular author. its much more subtle with the first two: ‘i liked all fours by miranda july, yes THAT miranda july. its ACTUALLY good’. what does this imply?

the other examples are a little more blatant but lets try them with other authors anyway. imagine saying ‘youre my favorite author i have never read’ to stephen king. would you EVER say that to someone? what does that imply? how about 'i love your books theyre so bad theyre good'. horrifyingly rude

lets dive into saying 'CHUCK TINGLE is my favorite author i have never read’ sounds unusual when substituting other authors because theyre usually not queer or autistic or making outsider art. to be blunt, why CHUCK gets it all the time is because it really means 'i like chuck tingle but im not gay’

while we have mostly culturally evolved past the idea that saying ‘no homo’ is some kind of joke, that FEELING is still around. it has just burrowed a little deeper. honestly it might never go away, or at least take centuries. remember these people GENUINELY LIKE MY BOOKS but feel they MUST qualify

should also be pointed out that LEFT and LIBERAL people are the ones who say this stuff to chuck. they do not MEAN to harm, and if you ask them directly how they feel about queer or neurodivergent people they would not express the same opinion as their subliminal comments might imply

the final elephant trotting by is while some of this is homophobia and fear of a neurodivergent other, it is also just plain old IRONY POISONING. its conditioning from being raised on an internet where sincerity was ‘cringe' and loving something was a weakness or joke. these problems work in tandem

so whats the point? what can we do? first of all, just recognizing these patterns is a start. i didnt HAVE to write all of this today but i think its important to be aware and to look inward and think about the gears and cogs that churn behind the things we say. NEXT step is trying to push past it

if you have done these things in the past, i want you to know i am NOT AT ALL UPSET. i am not mad or hurt and i do not think any less of you. you can trot by my side any day and you are trying your best to prove love. we are ALL just tryin our best, just consider this a friendly chat between buds

proving love can happen in BIG WAYS and it can happen in SMALL WAYS that we barely see. just take a moment and think ‘WHY am i saying this? WHY am i in this pattern to distance myself from outsider or queer art?’ a little moment of consideration goes a LONG way buckaroos. LOVE IS REAL

Mulligan you’ve DONE IT AGAIN 

Anyway if you haven’t started watching Neverafter, JOIN NOW HOLY SHIT.

Props to the entire cast - I love EVERYONE.  (yes I’m caught up, no do NOT post spoilers) 

dance in the way of the fireflies

Goblin Mode

New Vox Machina s2 Trailer Reveals!

Sooo much to see in that new trailer!

First off it looks like some in the party have gotten outfit upgrades (Keyleth, autumn edition, Grog with his new beard and Kraven’s Edge, and Vax with the Deathwalkers Ward presumably)

We get our first real good look at both Raishan and Throdak

First looks at Zahra and Kash!!! Plus presumably a Slayers Take episode

Osysa the Vasselheim Sphynx, plus Kayley and Dr Dranzel’s band!

First looks at some of the Vestiges including Fenthras and the Titanstone Knuckles, feat. Kevdak too

Our first find-a-Matt of the season, being dissolved by Raishan’s acid

Vex gets some new toys including her broom and her definitely-not-a-pokeball for Trinket

and a look at the Raven Queen herself perhaps!

Plus it looks like they’re possibly swapping in K’Varn the Beholder from the Kraghammer arc we missed instead of the Rakshaka for the Slayer’s Take arc.

What do you guys think, see any more easter eggs that I missed?

just listened to the eldermourne short rest where emily said she always wanted to play a character where it made sense to take gift of gab

Lady Vex'ahlia de Rolo, Baroness of the First House of Whitestone and Grand Mistress of the Grey Hunt and Lord Percival Fredrickstein Von Musel Klossowski de Rolo III

biggest jumpscare of the episode

musk is going to die in a Tesla explosion in 6 months after sticking his nose where it doesn't belong and we will never get a conclusive answer on whether it was a CIA car bomb or just a normal Tesla malfunction