viva_la_juche [they/them, any]

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Cake day: November 25th, 2020

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  • I mean I think the biggest issue with it is the concept of “evil races” themselves echoes racist bioessentialist race science that has and continues to harm minorities. Drows are an example but virtually all fantasy is downwind of tolkien and is an inherent part of the genre that is pretty consistently critiqued by POC fans.









  • Nah I can remember people rightfully pointing out prior to 2017 that the only race of dark skinned elves being by default evil in dnd was kinda weird, among other such things. Idk if that’s just when it collided with the discourse culture of the internet but people were arguing about that stuff in forums and on reddit subs since I’ve been into dnd which goes back to at least 2012 or so.

    I feel like it’s just part of the long slow culture shift and more and more poc voices being in rpg/fantasy communities



  • during covid my landlord tried to raise my rent by like 300 dollars so I moved out to a shitty apt complex nearby that was meant to be a temporary thing but ended up staying there for a few years. I never saw more cops in my immediate community in my life Every other day there were cops just parking and sitting there, it was so disconcerting. And i dont even know why they were always there other than a lot of my neighbors were black and latino. I never felt "unsafe" there, there were a lot of families and young children and there wasn't like more crime there than anywhere else. I have to assume the apt owners were calling them all the time?