I thought I’d share some information on autism and trauma from Neurodivergent Insights. This is good source to go to if you want to learn more about autism/ADHD. I’ll leave the article below so you all can read it.
Honestly, this shit with Hogwarts Legacy is just like what happened with Chick-fil-A like ten or fifteen years ago. Some of y'all might be too young to remember it, but it went almost exactly like this shit today, only the target was technically gay people (not like we aren’t all lumped together when push comes to shove, but gay was the political scapegoat in US politics at the time, as trans people were still on the fringes of social awareness).
It came out that the people who own Chick-fil-A were donating to organizations in other countries that were actively working to get gay people there killed, and were also very monetarily invested in stripping gay people of any legal rights they’d amassed in the US. So a lot of queer folks were asking for allies to boycott Chick-fil-A to show solidarity.
And it turned into a giant fuckin circus for bigots to rally around. There was even a support Chick-fil-A day, I remember it because I was a server at the time and our restaurant was empty most the day - while the line for Chick-fil-A down the road was like a mile long consistently.
But while that was obviously annoying, that wasn’t what hit people the hardest. Cuz we expect clowns to wear the shoes, right, it’s not shocking.
What disappointed people, or really demoralized a lot of young queers at the time especially, was the allies who would still go there. Because they like the sandwiches or fries or whatever. The people who’d march with them in the parade or be supportive of marriage equality, who would then turn right around and give their money to people who were trying to actively harm their friends.
Because the chicken was good.
I remember a friend of mine being really just absolutely broken up over that, trying to understand some of her friends reasoning and at the time I couldn’t give her an answer. I could now, though.
And it’s this:
Talk is cheap.
It costs nothing to say things. A person can say whatever the hell they want, any feel good flowery thing, and it doesn’t really cost them.
But when they are asked to actually give something up - or put their money where their mouth is and just….can’t do it. Well then there isn’t much else for them to say, is there? At least nothing that’s worth anything.
Some people had to find out the hard way that the choice between a chicken sandwich and funding people who did not believe in their dignity as a human being was, in the eyes of certain allies, apparently really hard. Too hard, in fact.
These allies would march in the colorful parades and go to the bars for drinks, but in the end, you couldn’t actually depend on them to inconvenience themselves. They were fair weather allies, and they were there for the party and that’s about it . They wanted entertainment, and it didn’t matter if that came from having fun gay friends or a tasty sandwich.
This is the same thing, really, or pretty close to it.
These types of people just wanna have fun. Either you, their friend or whatever, are fun or the game is fun, and if you stop being fun by incidentally making them feel a little guilty about where they spend their money , then they might just choose the thing that doesn’t make them currently uncomfortable.
And I’m not saying these people who say trans rights online but who also really, really want to play wizard game and already have are horrible people or anything - they’re just not very good. They have no real character. And unfortunately there’s not much you can do to change that, other than investing time and energy in people who do.
Breath of the Wild Horse Stable Miniature made primarily from paper (also ft. floral wire, basswood and microLEDs) made fresh as a donation incentive for #AGDQ2023 for #GamesDoneQuick
A piece I’ve been wanting to create for 2 years and I think a great way to close out 2022.
what I really like about Pratchett’s work among all the other things, is that he basically opens all his books with exposure and “here is an immuable, very eternal law upon which the world is built” and then he spends the rest of the book trampling on that law
“it is impossible for a woman to be a wizard, so we’re going to follow this wizard girl’s journey”
“dragons are gone forever and dormant, here be no dragons. say hi to this one lady dragon tho”
“nobody can resist elves. that’s why Magrat is going to deck their queen in the face”
“everyone knows women can’t fight”
“everyone knows golems don’t have souls. they all have names and personalities and-”
“all dwarves are men. then they were introduced to gender”
“Death is eternal and unchanging. Let’s see what happens when he goes through all major human development stages in reverse starting with his retirement”
All in all “here’s this thing everyone knows is true, here’s why it’s bullshit, here’s how untrue it is, and here’s how nobody is going to learn a lesson from being shown that this law of nature is bullshit. We all know people never learn right. or do they”
And he mostly wrote those openings last of all. He’d write the book to find out what it was about and then wrote the openings when he was done with the first draft.
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