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Cake day: July 14th, 2023

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  • > “Woman” is a well defined term and has been for millions of years of combined human history and experience, across all cultures and civilisations.

    Funny that you mention that, because there are several historical examples of transgender individuals throughout time, and across several civilisations.

    > Not feeling like you belong to a set called “man” doesn’t mean you belong to the set called “woman”

    That is true, but it’s not like I just “flipped a switch” overnight and went “Oh, if not man, then woman.” I ruminated on the subject for the better part of two months figuring out what the hell I was, experimenting with different masculine, feminine, and non-binary forms of expression until I figured out that being a woman was most comfortable for me.

    Thankfully I’ve come to that conclusion, though it was difficult to accept it at first, considering the society I’m inserted in is transphobic by default, not helped by people preaching some twisted form of gender prescriptivism rooted in their own, static perceptions of masculinity and femininity. Because of that, I and several other people have to justify their right to exist unmolested in this world when we just want to express ourselves genuinely and be happy and comfortable in our own skins.

    For real, mate, I’m not in the mood to argue that I am allowed to exist and be content with my own body.














  • Well, my lady, Inverness of Tarrow, was devised as a knight (actually a homebrewed hexblade warlock, we were playing in DnD 5e) who would fall to one of the dark forces we’re antagonising in the campaign and struggle with an allegiance to a higher being of much greater power than any mortal could imagine, while also remaining loyal to her party. This caused one of the party members (in-character) to abandon the group entirely.

    …it just so happened that the edge quickly wore off after my soft ass realised I couldn’t deal with being mean in-character, plus the others being very cute. Due to being charismatic, she drifted into a leadership position in the party, and had a full redemption arc which ended in one of her arms being lopped off to sever her connection to her patron. She keeps the dark aesthetic while trying to make up for her misdeeds via just being as cosy of a person as she can. That explains the Goth and the Party Mommy.

    As for the Finnish… long story short, the nation she hails from is basically fantasy Finland and she was always described as having a pretty strong accent, being far too used to monstrous beasts and other crazy shit that happens in her country, and enjoying saunas a lot.

    All because I made a ripoff of Yuria of Londor that went a bit too far with stealing from Dark Souls.