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I don't actually care about hairy legs at all when it comes to them being seen by people I'm close to but if they're gonna be seen by randos I'd be more comfortable with them smooth.

In principle I'm politically super into women not bothering to shave legs but it still manages to poke at dysphoria a little :/

I did it a little bit when I was first figuring out teh trans and my gay boyfriend was like "please either do this more frequently or just let it grow out 'cause you're hella pickly."

Huhh. Maybe now that I don't have to shave my face every day, I might have the energy to shave my legs?

I haven't done that basically ever since I was spending the defoliating energy elsewhere and it was way lower on the dysphoria priority list.

IDK, maybe that's just what being furry means? It's a big umbrella.

I don't think of myself as kin but being a fox feels like more than just a costume or affectation and I don't know what to call that.

Conversation with @Soreth last weekend made me realize that even more of my traits than I was aware of fit fox archetypes.

Including most of the things I don't like about myself.

So I guess I'm a fox.

(I endorse Nikkita Oliver for mayor, and Jon Grant for city council seat 8.)

Hey reminder to Seattle folks, today is the deadline to get your ballot to a drop box!

I have learned so much about kobolds since joining this server.

Especially about the queer ones.

:D

Anyway, y'all. Thoughts?

But, the more I think about it, the more I'm uncomfortable with that moment of happiness coming on the heels of total genocide.

Does celebrating scavenging a little shred of hope count as a win?

The really beautiful part of the ending is the music. Two different songs which each on their own had been tragic ("mother, I'm here" being a *literal funerary song*) combined into something joyous.

(imo the way newgame+ works, plus some slightly altered narration on a second playthrough, confirms that a rewind doesn't change anything)

Which is... interesting. The moment that sold it for me was Zia saying "all of my best memories... happened after the Calamity, not before."

That, plus the heavy implication that rewinding time would just result in it happening again, made that being the Good Ending pretty obvious.

This is a game where the Good Ending leaves 1 + 3/4th civilizations annihilated.

The second was at the very end of the game: finding Zulf injured and trying to carry him out. Gave up the last dungeon superpower and can't fight, and there's dozens of Ura trying to shoot you down. Chugged health pots but only had so many.

This was right after it had been revealed that The Calamity was indeed a weapon of genocide.

Right then, I thought I was gonna die, for realsies and not come back. And, in that moment, I thought that was a fitting outcome.

There's two moments in Bastion that have really lodged in my head as game design I'm not gonna forget.

The first was the in-game achievement/reward for killing n "beasts of the wild"... which (I think for most players) was completed upon first meeting and then killing an adversarial human.

It took a goal you'd been working towards and then subverted it to show the racist, imperialist nature of your society -- without any words spoken.