Skimbledankstheradicalcat - Messy

I finished Campaign 2 ! now i can finally jump into all the fanfictions and fanart yessss

you say youre queer but youve blocked multiple queer blogs. whats the truth?

I hate to break it to you but queer people are still capable of being annoying

400+ people were killed in gaza last night.

so many liberals decry palestine being seen as an ‘omnicause’ but when the us govt is using criticism of israel as an excuse to curtail free speech and imprison/deport non-citizens and when israel uses gay rights or women’s rights as a way to whitewash its murder of women and children amongst 19388493 other examples, how can it not be

I was gonna make a post that's like 'casual racism implies the existence of ranked competitive racism" but then I realized ranked competitive racism is just the U.S. presidential election

some lgbtq people get so so so so so so so pressed about identity terminology as if what somebody does or doesn't call themself determines whether you will be forced to consider them a dating prospect or not. behaviour near indistinguishable from cis people getting freaked out that if they recognise people's chosen pronouns then their orientation will technically encompass trans people and somehow this will materially impact their lives.

like, loading screen tip: if you don't think someone's self description is one of the Real True Identities constructed by the god of gender and orientation at the dawn of time, you don't have to date or fuck them or even join them for board game night. in fact I would hazard that they wish you wouldn't. sometimes you're just on some different shit and it's better if you leave each other the fuck alone.

Okay, okay. As a girl who grew up on the old swashbuckler films. Can I talk about the fucking romance of Nydas Okiro. Betrayed and backstabbed by his crew. Holding his wound. Panting in effort and grief. Telling his traitorous underling that gold means nothing if you do not use it to lift people up. That gold is a resource by which mortaldom climbs. That they are going to save the people of Avalir, and that cause goes above any oath he ever made in a past life.

You can picture so clearly in this moment the kid who joined a pirate crew to climb the skies. The dream he must have had. The dream he shared with Laerryn.

And it’s the end, and he’s betrayed, and he’s standing on what has to be one or two fucking hit points remaining, and he stabs that traitor in the front, and uses every resource he still possesses to get as many people as possible out and to defend them in the process.

And he’s … he’s not only betrayed, he’s rewarded. For the man he’s been. Because Alessander steps up, Alessander thinks to save the sorcerer school, this other piece of Nydas’ dream. When Nydas and his conjured dragon are standing alone and surrounded by devil puppets, the fucking sphinx from earlier, the sphinx from the parade, busts in and rescues him, and has been protecting them the whole time from further tampering of the constructs. Nydas was the first to step up, to try and protect the tree, to try and avert catastrophe, to try and hold the line, and that ripples out. His people stand up around him.

And an entire army of constructs, on Nydas’ word, burst out of the Golden Scythe to defend Avalir as she dies. His ships fly to evacuate her people. The world might be damned, he might be nearly dead, but by Avalir, he and this city will go down fucking swinging, and saving everyone they can.

The romance of this man. I can’t even.