Wobbly One Of Myriads @wobblewuffess@awoo.space

You probably have an unexamined, or at least underexamined, belief that there exists a correlation between a person’s appearance and their life experience and skills so strong that you can and should make predictions from it.

In one sense, it seems reasonable to conclude that the tall white man in a suit and the short, obese Black woman in a T-shirt have different lives. But in another, it’s a window for very pervasive racial bias - among every other form of bias you can fuel with visual observation (age bias, body-intactness bias, economic class bias...). Your brain isn’t good at ignoring information right in front of it when it’s learning patterns (false beliefs about learning patterns and getting better results as you learn are exactly why slot machines are addictive), so no matter how racist you think you aren’t, you almost certainly have racist beliefs when you make assumptions about people from their appearance.

To a limited extent, people choose how they want to present themselves from their attire choices. But the choices available, and the way they look on their body, are out of their control. Noticing what people want to say about themselves is important; doing so without reifying implicit racist beliefs is also important and also profoundly difficult.

"Get me the manager! I demand to know why I am in Hell!" the soul shouted.
The fallen angel sighed. "We rebelled against God."
"That's no reason to punish me!"
"You do not understand. You were not sent here to be punished by us. You were sent here as punishment to us."
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

Hot take: Orcs and Kobolds can be and frequently are friends of Humans, Elves, Dorfs and the like

D&D is just racist

keep this frequency queer

Statistically speaking, a violent right-wing insurrectionist actively attacking the Capitol is exactly as likely to get shot by police as they are to fatally taze themselves in the balls.

Radical Honesty would be easier in some ways and ruinous in more. Sometimes I wish I was courageous enough to do it; often I am glad I am wise enough not to. I *wish* it was a good, safe, appropriate, and not-harmful strategy though.

Kobolds raiding a strip club to try steal some shinies, only to end up stealing the show and being given MORE shinies by going up on stage themselves.

This piece by @/Hexacult_Beast on is so wonderful...

"Tiny dragons need kobolds too"

To fly is to be free.
To read the winds is to feel the pulse of the planet. To outrun a storm, to ride the roar of a hurricane, to flow and let all flow through you, is to live.
We left, we dragons. When humans became too much of a nuisance we left.
The winds are better on Venus.
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

There were many stories about her. When she negotiated away the dragon, or nursed a lynx cub, or taught the king's champion how to weep, or...
There were many stories told about her. She never told them herself.
"I know what I've done," she'd say. "Never did it for the telling."
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

Be the dragon kobolds think you are

Please, please, please. Everybody. As much as you can. Stay the fuck home. It's getting real scary out there and I don't want to lose any of you. Mask up. Don't expose yourself to anybody you don't goddamn have to.

I don't want to lose anybody. None of us wants to lose anybody.