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Michaela Joffe @joffeorama.bsky.social · 6h

do I need therapy or do I need a larger Cabinet of Curiosities? the eternal question

Michaela Joffe @joffeorama.bsky.social · 8h

"According to the Durai Papers, long lain concealed in Church archives, this forgotten man was in fact the true hero. Also there was a decade where he walked around forcing minotaurs to lay eggs so he could get a spear he wanted before stores officially sold them. We... we like to skip that part..."

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Michaela Joffe @joffeorama.bsky.social · 9h

those two free cards with each precon must have really been hurting wotc's bottom line, huh?

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Michaela Joffe @joffeorama.bsky.social · 11h

the ultimate cozy game move is still letting your farmer poison the entire town at the potluck and then cutting to a somber credits roll.

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Michaela Joffe @joffeorama.bsky.social · 11h

this is very true for the classic harvest/story of seasons games that became the backbone of stardew. harvest moon 64 had its simmering small town dramas just under the surface, harvest moon ds had its mine full of creepy shadow animals and every girl version had additional hidden horrors.

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Michaela Joffe @joffeorama.bsky.social · 22h

Agrias was assigned male at birth by her dad as part of a medieval heir scheme and was "socialized male" until adulthood when she left her family to live as a woman. they finally did it, they finally made a cis trans woman. Gaffgarion even calls her agp if you bring her to the gate fight.

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Michaela Joffe @joffeorama.bsky.social · 1d

another time I finished a buddhist art history final paper five hours before it was due, at least a little drunk, at a train station with a dying laptop, the same night I had sex for the first time. A- and I had my second time the same morning. fuck your ai, get good scrub.

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Michaela Joffe @joffeorama.bsky.social · 1d

pulled a 20 minute power point lecture on emu farming out of my ass in an hour once. there was no grading involved and I tried telling them I was an art student, but the point remains!

Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 1d

I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.

wrote 20 pages on Faulkner's The Bear four hours before final papers were due on trucker pills and coffee and cigarettes and got an A, fuck you.
You people couldn't hang with real slackers.
finn
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It's fuck Al till your homework due in 25 minutes

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Michaela Joffe @joffeorama.bsky.social · 1d

and what happens when, even if by some miracle every queer audience turns to these scenes, straight and cis audiences get funneled away from them because they don't bother to think about how media companies actively keep them sequestered from us unless they already KNOW us enough to watch for it.

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Michaela Joffe @joffeorama.bsky.social · 1d

while I'm coping with the idea of queer audiences possibly going "fuck this, time to buy independent comics or games or writing by queer people" I'm also worried about how many cishet people will be content enough with scraps and occasional thrown bones and ignore growing queer indie creative scenes

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Michaela Joffe @joffeorama.bsky.social · 1d

its harder to get people to be bigoted against people in their daily lives and communities. not impossible by any means, but harder. and with corporate media being too many peoples' community-substitute... even with how rancidly bigoted fandoms are whats depressing is how that is still a step up.

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Michaela Joffe @joffeorama.bsky.social · 1d

like, I hope its "get angry and cultivate a healthy if long-overdue distrust of corporations" but also "give money directly to queer creators doing independent work." but still the main benefit of mainstream corporate IP queer content was that it made cishet audiences less likely to want us dead.

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Michaela Joffe @joffeorama.bsky.social · 1d

as more media companies use the current political situation as an excuse to ditch queer content and creators asap, I wonder what audiences who grew up or came out in a "post-subtext" world are gonna do once they realize subtext scraps are once more going to be the best they get on a corporate level.

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Michaela Joffe @joffeorama.bsky.social · 1d

Ramza: Your very words admit to gender's subjectivity!
Argath: Admit to it? I champion it! Gender is not a binary, Ramza. It is a hierarchy in which we sit on top. The stratum beneath defined by proximity to our needs. We give them identity, Ramza! 'Tis the Father's will that we serve this purpose!

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Michaela Joffe @joffeorama.bsky.social · 1d

Argath: Yes Ramza, I called her "this person." Have you not yet learned that gender is but a performance? Is it not our right as cis to judge that performance? To let them know when they have made themselves useful enough to us that they we may deign to grant them the title of "woman" they seek?

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Michaela Joffe @joffeorama.bsky.social · 1d

“Yes, I see your ‘Artificial Turk’ dreams himself a dictator. Hiding deep in the ‘Number Jungle’ he facies himself a ‘Tiger.’ But it is MY hand that presses his buttons to unleash his ‘Disinformation Age.’ See how easily I render myself in the ‘Ghibli Style’ the lowlies adore!”

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Michaela Joffe @joffeorama.bsky.social · 1d

Jack Kirby would’ve had a field day with AI. there’d be some hooded guy saying “My lord Darkseid, the Fire Pits of Armagetto burn to fuel Micro Mark’s ‘Poison Pen.’ See how his Copies remove the Imperfections of Creation? Anti-Life given flesh!” then Darkseid’d go “Not Anti-Life, something worse.”

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éclairwolf 🏳️‍⚧️ @pastry.dog · 2d

supping on knot, butt, broth of bean

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Michaela Joffe @joffeorama.bsky.social · 2d

its genuinely funny that Argath heard Milleuda coin "sup on broth of bean" and then stole it to use himself three battles later. even in the middle ages, the right can't meme and has to steal from the left.

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Michaela Joffe @joffeorama.bsky.social · 2d

streamer Argath like "Chattel, is this real?"

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Michaela Joffe @joffeorama.bsky.social · 2d

"well what about one piece?" I am going to feed you to raccoons.

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Michaela Joffe @joffeorama.bsky.social · 2d

even when it is well meaning, I do not think it should count as trans rep at all because it only gets used to artificially inflate the numbers so people go "see? we don't need more trans women characters, look at all the hulking fist-of-the-north-star-ass monster men they already get!"

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Michaela Joffe @joffeorama.bsky.social · 2d

Vinland Saga is a good comic but if you think it has "good trans rep" I don't think you should be trusted to operate heavy machinery or advocate for my rights.

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Michaela Joffe @joffeorama.bsky.social · 2d

you're excited about a stealth new pikmin reveal, I'm disappointed that nintendo games are apparently now going to go for an illumination cocomelon style. we are not the same.

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Michaela Joffe @joffeorama.bsky.social · 2d

its a minor thing, but it does bother me whenever someone is described as “talking like sephiroth” when they’re actually “talking like martin prince.”

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