Author: peasantchick

emberdm:

D&D 5e Monster Creation Table (Version 2)

Here’s a remake of the monster creation table I released awhile back.Β  Very small tweaks were made to it, nothing big.Β  But I just wanted to update it visually a little bit and add a little more for anyone interested in using it.

This is what I use for creating my own custom creatures and making stats for the creatures of various games.Β  This table was made after I collected all the averages of monsters in the Monster Manual and Volo’s Guide then tried to makes sense of all the numbers.

As before, feel free to use as a baseline for your own creations.

Source: emberdm

blackkandgayy:

positivityviolet:

I hope that all lesbians who once thought they were bi know that they aren’t contributing to the β€œbi is just a stepping stone to gay” stereotype. That stereotype was made up by straight people who refused to try to understand bisexuality. I also hope that all bi women who once thought they were lesbians know that they aren’t contributing to the β€œall lesbians must secretly like men” stereotype. Again, this was made up by straight people who refuse to try to understand lesbians. It’s not anyone’s responsibility in their journey of self discovery to dismantle every harmful stereotype along the way; sometimes you’re just figuring yourself out and get mixed up along the way and that’s okay. We have each other to support each other as wlw regardless of whether or not we got confused down the line at some point.

I needed this

pustluk:

β€œmale-socialized children are allowed to have a childhood!” is an extremely strange argument to make about members of a demographic, who, regardless of education and political inclination, have consistently, publicly grieved personal histories in which they can’t locate themselves subjectively or which they can’t remember at allβ€”a grief which is often construed specifically asΒ β€œi didn’t have a childhood”.

but, you know, Believe Women!

that post about who prisons should/shouldn’t be for is really surreal like I Do Not and Probably Will Never Have The Spoons To Get Into It as much as this topic deserves but. it’s wild how leftists on this site see very clearly how

  1. police are corrupt, racist, ableist to their core, originally founded to capture escaped slaves and crush protests and riots
  2. police only exist to protect capitalist interests and, i guess to give the illusion of safety to white upper and middle class people
  3. criminalisation has always failed, always does more harm than good, and always targets marginalised groups. see the war on drugs, see how it hasn’t affected white people and our drug use in the slightest, see prohibition, see sex work
  4. prisons are dehumanising by design and do not act as a deterrent to potential criminals
  5. crime rates are a direct function of poverty and quality of life, and the presence of cops and Tough On Crime policies haven’t been proven to have any impact on crime at all
  6. all judicial systems are imperfect, and risk people being imprisoned for crimes they didn’t commit. this applies even in a perfect world to hypothetical courts free of all racism and biases, which we’re currently failing at

but we’re only up for prison abolition Until A Certain Point. i get why that is, the idea of rapists and unrepentent/unjustified/cold-blooded murderers On The Street where they’re β€˜free to strike again’ is terrifying, on a close and personal level. but it’s amazing that i’m seeing people say they don’t trust cops, don’t trust prisons, don’t trust capitalist states to have our interests at heart, Except for when it scares us to go without those things. like if you’re for prison abolition at all, if you think in principle there’s nothing a human being could do to deserve their human rights being taken away by the government, then that needs to include the Scary Crimes done by Scary Bad People. because you’re falling for the illusion that the current system is protecting you from them already, and they’re not.

Do you have any posts that are solely about and go in-depth on ancient transgender history? I read somewhere on your blog that trans people are documented to exist in ancient sumerian tablets but I can’t find that post

patrexes:

makingqueerhistory:

Hi there! We have articles on Sappho, Khnumhotep & Niankhknum, and Zimri-Lim. The post you’re referring to comes from tumblr user @patrexes , this editor’s roommate Avia. I’ve referred to her for the entirety of this answer. She is not a part of this project, so if you like her content, consider supporting her ko-fi.Β So, from Avia herself:

the post you’re asking about is probably this one, of which i’m the op and afforded the translations. there’s also another post here but personally i’m a little….well, it’s pretty damn [cis voice] if you know what i mean.Β 

the original texts i excerpted and translated in that post are inannaΒ c [transliteration | cuneiform fragment], inannaΒ i [transliteration],Β inanna’s descent [transliteration | cuneiform], and the erra epos [transliteration and cuneiform].

inanna i is one of several extant texts which describe inanna’sΒ own genderfluidity (and do so in the first person; it is inanna’s own self-description), and the descent describes the creation of the kurĝarru and gala-tur. erraΒ is not about inanna but describes the kurĝarru again, alongside the assinu, and is nice to have, as an akkadian text rather than a sumerian one.

inanna c, in addition to the classicΒ β€œto transform men into women and women into men is yours, inanna” quote also describes the creation or transformation of the pilipili,Β and has this… really cute quote,Β β€œdam dam tuku UR-bi LU níĝ dΓΉgΒ ki Ñĝ-ĝÑ dΓΉgΒ dinana za-kam”, translated typically asΒ β€œto have a favorite wife to love is yours, inanna”.

theΒ kurĝarru, gala-tur, assinu, and pilipili are all various terms for people which the CAD and ePSDΒ obliquely describe asΒ β€œcultic performers” andΒ β€œreligious functionaries” because they’re too prim and proper toΒ say β€œsacred prostitutes”, a term i’m using as a fsswerΒ myself both becauseΒ β€œfsswer” just doesn’t have the same ring to it and the specification of full service is too important to just call them sex workers, and becauseΒ β€œsacred prostitution” is the generally academically accepted term.

now, while the precise differences betweenΒ the kurĝarru, gala-tur, assinu, and pilipili, also called ur-sal, sag-ur-sag, and some others are sometimes a little bit lost in translation (it’s unclear, for some, if these are separate categories or simply multiple words for the same people), and β€œtransgender” is a modern word which will not necessarily perfectly encompass an understanding of gender that is some 6000 years old, it’s still quite reasonable to describe these people as overwhelmingly what today we would consider transgender and/or gender non-conforming, and there is evidence suggesting a wide range of personal identity, lifestyles, and forms of embodiment; as wide a range as we find in modern trans communities.Β 

what’s especially exciting to me, and hopefully to you as well, is that it’s not only that there’s documentation of trans people in sumer, it’s that we as trans and gnc peopleβ€”as trans and gnc sex workers, evenβ€”aren’t even tolerated, but sacred. in this theology, we are created for inanna, in inanna’s own gnc image, as sacred things. in a world that thinks of us as expendable, dirty, subhuman… that’s so important. i really cannot overstate the serenity which comes of seeing yourself in your theology, and being explicitly told that you are valuable, that you are supposed to be this.

but anyway. if you want to do any further research yourself, there’s a surprising amount of scholarship on transness in sumer, and you’ll find germanΒ to be a particularly useful scholarly language. there are also some interesting comparative approaches, particularly with roman and hebrewΒ contact. here’s an article on each. fairΒ warning if you dig deeper, though, and aren’t super familiar with academia: theΒ language usedΒ in scholarly work tends to be… impolite. transphobia andΒ whorephobia abound here particularly, and they won’t shy fromΒ slurs.

hope this information proves helpful!

oh hey yall here’s some sumerian bullshit instead of scandinavian bullshit for once! enjoy