The Main Bundle Has 69 (heh) Games For $60. The Sister Bundle Has 66 Games For $10.

I just found this but we STAN!

Hi Robyn: I have a question that concerns me a little bit. I worry that the LGBTQ+ community are beginning to become a bit over-represented in GH. Don’t get me wrong here, I very much do support the LGBTQ+ community, but from the knowledge that I do have, being that approx. 4% of Americans (for clarity’s sake, say GH takes in America, it’s still low world-wide) identify as LGBTQ+. Having read previous posts and context clues in-comic (1/2?)

I’d like to believe your message was sent in good faith, so I’ll address it in several parts:

I’m not well-informed enough to judge the accuracy of the numbers you’ve cited, so I can’t contest them, regardless of any suspicions I might hold.

I don’t believe that eight LGBTQ+ people being acquainted with each other is a “misleading” statistical anomaly, especially considering that one of the major locations in the story is an LGBTQ+ bookshop where the main character works.  Yes, 8 out of 54 recurring characters is more than 4%, but it’s still only a fraction of the cast, and queer people often befriend other queer people–eight queer people living near each other isn’t wildly unrealistic.

The only potential harm I can see is a queer person entering adulthood and finding there may be fewer queer folks in their social circles than there are in Lucy’s–but there are queer spaces IRL and online that can be sought out, and they have even higher percentages of queer folks than in GH.

Otherwise, I don’t understand what harm you foresee in “over-representing” the LGBTQ+ population, especially in a story like Gourmet Hound.  I take great care to ensure that all the LGBTQ+ characters do not perpetuate harmful stereotypes, and that they get equal character depth and discussion of their sexuality as the cis-het characters.  GH is not a story about sexuality, and I’ve never claimed that it was–but I believe that LGBTQ+ characters can and should exist in every type of story, including ones that do not focus on sexuality.

LGBTQ+ characters are incredibly underrepresented in media in general.  My eight characters–who should barely register, considering how little they discuss their sexuality in-canon–are a drop in the bucket in the scope of all media.  Unless you also intend to write to every creator with 25 cishet characters and zero LGBTQ+ characters to inform them that their stories are statistically inaccurate as well, “misleading readers” cannot be the reason for your concern.

If having slightly more queer characters than what is “statistically expected” means that 1) an LGBTQ+ person feels represented and/or less alone, or 2) a reader finds themselves empathizing with a queer character and becomes more tolerant – then I don’t mind being inaccurate.  Those are good results.  Those are my intentions.

Because of this, there will be more LGBTQ+ characters in Gourmet Hound the future.

The main bundle has 69 (heh) games for $60. The sister bundle has 66 games for $10.

The sale runs Feb 10-24, 2023

Edited to add: the three games discluded from the $10 bundle are:

YOU ARE A WIZARD

Our Minerva, and

TOMBS: Toot on my balls skeleton

Happy woke up thinking it was Wednesday Sunday Friday Tuesday but all of you fuckers are wrong because it was actually Thursday

you heathens will reblog day specific posts any day of the week. i woke up thinking it was wednesday

This is not a natural disaster. This was not inevitable. They didn't grow up like this. It was inflicted on them by the vilest sadists on earth.

give me barefaced changbin or give me death

Why am I being forced to relive this

Ma-ia hi

Ma-ia ho

Ma-ia ha

Ma-ia ha ha

rkgk gojaur

Sweetheart sings softly when they take a shower and they think no one else is home/around. They have an (un)surprisingly good singing voice.

Milo comes home from work sometimes while Sweetheart is doing so, and he'll stand in the hallway/bedroom and listen for a bit with a smile on his face and love grabbing at his heart.

Fatphobia in the Marauders fandom

I have spoken briefly on this before, but I think perhaps it is time we stop making Peter a prude, or unable to find a date, or "a late bloomer". I'm really fed up of regularly seeing posts saying these things with no explaination or supporting headcanon for why.

I think if you want to make him asexual or aroace for legitimate reasons then that's fine, as someone on the ace spectrum I love seeing good representation, but so often it feels like people do it because they can't think of anyone to ship him with because they don't want to ship someone with the fat kid. It's not because he turns bad later, because he's not bad during the Hogwarts years. But it is consistently Peter, someone who is not conventionally attractive, who is portrayed as some undesired sexless character who betrayed his friends because he couldn't get laid or have some great love like them.

Guess what, fat people date too!! Fat people are capable of having interests that aren't related to food or proving their worth through other ways. "He's fat but it's okay because he's really good at chess". NO. Peter can want to date, Peter can participate in talking about sex, Peter can have a partner and it not be a big deal that "him of all people" pulled someone.

If you don't think that this is a genuine problem in the fandom then you might need to re-evaluate. This is not the representation plus-size people deserve.

"But Lily is made plus-size and gets put in ships, plus-size Lily is hot". Plus-size Lily is still usually drawn in a way that is acceptably fat by society's standards. She's curvy with thick thighs and an hourglass figure, with a jawline and a small stomach. Give me fics of her an apron belly and a double chin and a realistic waist where James or Mary or Pandora or anyone still thinks she is the hottest shit. Please. We deserve this.

reminder to:

straighten your back

go pee goddAMN IT STOP HOLDING IT

go take your meds if you need to

drink some water

go get a snack if you havent eaten in a while

maybe wander around the house/stretch a little if you’ve been sat at the computer a while (artists especially: sTRETCH THOSE WRISTS)

reply to that text/message from earlier you’d forgotten about

maybe send a nice lil message to someone having a bad day?