yup, that’s about the right reaction.

In the US, despite the fact that anime - including the infamous “tentacle porn” kinds - have been available for decades, there are enough people who consider
animation “for kids” that they are basically dumb about it.

The service I use for posting doesn't let me set alt text, so I have it here.

Yeah, I did a playlist about my transition, and now I did a blog post about it.

The problem there is some of those old tomes give a compulsion to read out loud and for you to ignore it.

Have you had any food cravings?

The last time I played a kobold, he was suave, debonair, and stylish, with a mechanical butler following him around…

and then the fight started and the party realizes what “artillerist specialty artificer” really meant.

I feared she wouldn’t survive too much when Jennell passed.

Her memory will always and forever be a blessing and an inspiration.

Also, yes, fuck cancer.

Or Darksaber.

We know for certain that the hoard of the ketamine dragon was bought with the blood of many, and if we split it one hundred thousand ways it would still be enough wealth to change lives. Then we could go on to the Zucking Wyrm…

JD Vecna.

As AI health insurance reviewers begin killing our friends, neighbors, and families I am once again calling to Make Adventuring Great Again.

Usagi is bi-curious, Ami/Makoto is real, Rei will grow up to be a pan serlal monogamist, Minako to be a pan ethical slut, Michiru and Haruka are lesbians, Pluto is aroace, Saturn is ace, and
Chibi Usa is in inpatient therapy for her Electra complex.

A joke around the studio is that the original big 4 are more like “The In Universe Movie Version”, in the same way that Macross: DYRL is the in universe movie version of the original Macross series.

As somebody who has written and still has plans to write for UF (both my deadname and name are on stories on the site), I can tell you that, honestly, the Deep Straightness is a relic of the early days, and while it hasn’t appeared on screen both will say they’re pan if asked.

It is an issue, yeah. When I was worldbuilding for my book I had to ask myself some questions about the background and the whole “apparently always evil” groups as to why. (Came up with one and had the dominant power recognize it as reasonable.)

If/when I run the Shadowrun game with a full crew of adults who are okay with in-game sex, this is going to be in it.

...I wonder if it would be better or worse with a rigger having direct control of it like a drone...

Well, the Grey Swan is a highwaywoman, not a pirate, but she's very much in that kind of genre!

Also, as the warning, the epilogue has a scene with pretty explicit sex, and a magic sex toy. Just to warn. ;)