Day 1- Missing

RANCHER CRUMBS?? WAHHHHH

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Tango (in clip): I hate pvp….

Jimmy: now come on! You say I do stupid stuff! Man was on one heart- half a heart, and he did not eat. He was not eating!

Jimmy: I have no words- Tango? Tango! Come on now, man.

Jimmy: maybe that’s why we’re ranchers, holy moly. That was silly, and I’m silly, *zoom in on Jimmy putting his fingers together* put two together. Double silly. Double life. Double rancher.

Jimmy, zoomed in: I miss you…

Never have I been more grateful for Philza’s borderline paranoid cautionary tendencies built from being a hardcore player. I was so worried for Chayanne but the man built him a a reinforced bunker with no entrances

Happy Indigenous Peoples Day!

Sorry that I haven’t been able to stream much this month as well and raise money for the charities I’ve put down, so I’ll add a couple more for the month than usual when I’m back! If you have any good ones let me know!!!

trump is 78, putin is 72, netanyahu 75, biden 82, lukashenko 70. if you kill yourself now, you'll never see them die. keep going

"We have a new AI feature!" "With the power of AI..." "Our AI..."

I am going to abandon technology and start only inscribing things on clay tablets

The LGBTQ community has seen controversy regarding acceptance of different groups (bisexual and transgender individuals have sometimes been marginalized by the larger community), but the term LGBT has been a positive symbol of inclusion and reflects the embrace of different identities and that we’re stronger together and need each other. While there are differences, we all face many of the same challenges from broader society.

In the 1960′s, in wider society the meaning of the word gay transitioned from ‘happy’ or ‘carefree’ to predominantly mean ‘homosexual’ as they adopted the word as was used by homosexual men, except that society also used it as an umbrella term that meant anyone who wasn’t cisgender or heterosexual. The wider queer community embraced the word ‘gay’ as a mark of pride.

The modern fight for queer rights is considered to have begun with The Stonewall Riots in 1969 and was called the Gay Liberation Movement and the Gay Rights Movement.

The acronym GLB surfaced around this time to also include Lesbian and Bisexual people who felt “gay” wasn’t inclusive of their identities. 

Early in the gay rights movement, gay men were largely the ones running the show and there was a focus on men’s issues. Lesbians were unhappy that gay men dominated the leadership and ignored their needs and the feminist fight. As a result, lesbians tended to focus their attention on the Women’s Rights Movement which was happening at the same time. This dominance by gay men was seen as yet one more example of patriarchy and sexism. 

In the 1970′s, sexism and homophobia existed in more virulent forms and those biases against lesbians also made it hard for them to find their voices within women’s liberation movements. Betty Friedan, the founder of the National Organization for Women (NOW), commented that lesbians were a “lavender menace” that threatened the political efficacy of the organization and of feminism and many women felt including lesbians was a detriment.

In the 80s and 90s, a huge portion of gay men were suffering from AIDS while the lesbian community was largely unaffected. Lesbians helped gay men with medical care and were a massive part of the activism surrounding the gay community and AIDS. This willingness to support gay men in their time of need sparked a closer, more supportive relationship between both groups, and the gay community became more receptive to feminist ideals and goals. 

Approaching the 1990′s it was clear that GLB referred to sexual identity and wasn’t inclusive of gender identity and T should be added, especially since trans activist have long been at the forefront of the community’s fight for rights and acceptance, from Stonewall onward. Some argued that T should not be added, but many gay, lesbian and bisexual people pointed out that they also transgress established gender norms and therefore the GLB acronym should include gender identities and they pushed to include T in the acronym. 

GLBT became LGBT as a way to honor the tremendous work the lesbian community did during the AIDS crisis. 

Towards the end of the 1990s and into the 2000s, movements took place to add additional letters to the acronym to recognize Intersex, Asexual, Aromantic, Agender, and others. As the acronym grew to LGBTIQ, LGBTQIA, LGBTQIAA, many complained this was becoming unwieldy and started using a ‘+’ to show LGBT aren’t the only identities in the community and this became more common, whether as LGBT+ or LGBTQ+. 

In the 2010′s, the process of reclaiming the word “queer” that began in the 1980′s was largely accomplished. In the 2020′s the LGBTQ+ acronym is used less often as Queer is becoming the more common term to represent the community. 

The Wicked curse:

The actresses will always kiss, whether in character or not.

personal lore dump cause I binged all of limited life at once and I have feelings:

going off of Martyn’s lore, I am SO GLAD he won the way he did, it’s such a cool ending and also set up

each player doesn’t remember past lives/seasons when they start but sometimes can recall memories of past life seasons throughout the game, especially if they’re a past winner, this rule doesn’t apply to Grian who remembers everything (watcher sees all lmao).

when Grian started 3rd life he was a player, like Martyn stated, taken from HC as someone who had rejected the watchers. He’s not one of them, he has a corporeal form and he flat out defies and refuses them, though his past experiences with the game have led him to resort to chaos (he knows where everyone goes when they die, which I hc as either back to hermitcraft or empires, so his goal is just to kill as many people as possible anyways). Throughout the series’ he’s gained more and more power along with knowledge, at this point he could probably take a lot of control of the world they’re in but he knows the watchers would object and probably come down to face him.

Speaking of, the watchers hate Grian, they also hate Scott (for defying him in s2). It’s why they’re so adament about Martyn killing him (see also s2)

Scott and Pearl regain some memories of their previous wins, and realize that Grian is a watcher. Pearl’s not exactly a watcher but she is connected to them, she was a player back in Evo so she still has that connection. Scott still believes that if they win they could end the games and take down the watchers once and for all, but they’re hesitant to trust each other and Pearl is angry with him, saying they have no chance and that it’ll just end the way it did last time. They both know about Grian and are wary of his power, but Scott is more concerned about Martyn whom he suspects of having a watcher connection. He knows Martyn is important and doesn’t want him to succumb to their curse.

Eventually everyone just feeds off the watchers bloodthirst as usual, fighting for their lives. Scott fights to the end because he believes that he can face them a second time with Martyn, but in the very end he watches Martyn’s eyes go purple as he is fully possessed by the watchers and kills him.

Martyn doesn’t face the watchers at the end the same way that the other’s did. To escape the world you have to die, but Martyn ran out of time, and fell back into his home-world, the world of the listeners, and ?? I don’t even know what the soul fragment thing meant but it’s something

and to end it all. BigB is also a listener. Nobody knows, not even Martyn, but it’s part of why BigB played into the secret soulmate thing with Grian in s3, to get closer to him. there’s some mystery surrounding him. we don’t even know what he’ll do.

Be careful: nostalgia likes to link arms with fascism.

I've seen a lot of talk about how millennials are especially prone to nostalgia. How technology's rapid evolution left our childhoods as a distinctly different world than our present. How we cling to our childhood hobbies and IPs as a way to heal our inner children, etc etc.

And there's nothing inherently wrong with nostalgia. I still play pokemon games and am in the middle of rewatching Yu Yu Hakusho. You're allowed to love the things you grew up with.

But we need to be careful.

Conservatives, nationalists, and fascists *love* to evoke a ☆mythic☆ idealized past- when men were men, when America was great, upon which to build a fixed and solid identity. Any progress away from this idealized conception of the past is thus decay- corruption and ruin. Nostalgia underpins a fascists worldview and allows them to justify any violence against the forces that would further degrade society away from its perfect past. Protecting the past comes to justify all sorts of things in the present.

We need to be very careful about what we allow our nostalgia to mean to us, what we allow it to excuse or justify.

This is not *just* about Hogwarts Legacy, but Hogwarts Legacy is a good example of it. When you can invoke your nostalgia- that golden beautiful past where you felt safe and special- what are you willing to ignore? What harm are you willing to allow? What will you turn a blind eye to if doing so makes you feel like you've recaptured some of the magic from the past?

Tread carefully, friends. This HP bullshit may have been a test that you passed, but it will not be the last time when our sense of nostalgia may conflict with progress and morals. Always remember that you can love something from the past without letting it dictate the future.

Congrats to The Owl House for avoiding

Major character’s death trope

Unfound the found family trope

Magic is gone trope

Main character losing their power trope