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artemis

@artemis@dice.camp

#horror and #ttrpg enthusiast.

I'm a bisexual anti-capitalist, and I strongly believe in (at bare minimum) punching Nazis. Reproductive rights and civil liberties for all! Trans rights are human rights. The Palestinian people have a right to self-determination, life, and freedom—just block me if you think otherwise.

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artemis, to random
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I still haven't gotten over the fact that Rowling created a wizarding world that was plagued by institutionalized racism (and patriarchy!)—a fact she frequently highlighted—but actually never planned to upend that hierarchy.

Even as a kid when the books were coming out, I truly believed and expected it was going somewhere. It seemed to me that Rowling was laying the groundwork for the Ministry of Magic to become the true villain.

artemis,
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Her impoverished worldview, her limitations, bigotry, and privilege made it impossible for her to write a satisfying conclusion to the story she created. She couldn't see her way through to an actual "happy ending" because she didn't understand what she wrote.

It blows my mind that she never intended to address the institutionalized inequalities that she introduced into that world and HIGHLIGHTED.

artemis,
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I assumed we would find that Voldemort thrived because the bigotry he used to gain power was enshrined in the institutions of the wizarding world and that until those institutions were somehow transformed, there was no real victory.

Part of the beef I have with Rowling as an author is that I'm really irritated by the fact that she didn't seem to understand the story she was telling—her own story!

artemis,
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A fantasy author with absolutely no imagination is a pretty pathetic thing.

Holberg, to random
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Wait. Kristi Noem put the Cricket execution story IN HER BOOK? This wasn’t an ill-advised anecdote some outlet unfortunately picked up while she was talking to an audience she expected to be sympathetic—for some unfathomable reason—to such a story?

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@Holberg
I just looked up what you're talking about, and Jesus Christ this is horrifying. She shot a dog because she couldn't train it? Did the thought occur to her at any point that maybe someone else would be able to care for this dog? That, even if it was a dog with behavioral issues (although I'm going to blame the dog-killer for the dog's behavior because that seems most likely), there could be a safe home for it somewhere?

Did she watch Ol Yeller and think it was a comedy?

mvario, to random
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US FDA says about 1 in 5 commercial milk samples tested positive for bird flu traces | Reuters

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-fda-says-about-1-5-commercial-milk-samples-tested-positive-bird-flu-traces-2024-04-26/

> About one in five samples of commercial milk in the U.S. tested positive for traces of bird flu in a national survey, with a greater proportion coming from areas with infected herds, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said.

artemis,
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@mvario
I feel like this sentence
>>There is no evidence that the milk poses a danger or that a live virus is present, regulator have said.
is immediately counteracted by this one:
>>The FDA said late Thursday that additional testing is required to determine whether the intact pathogen is still present and if it remains infectious.

SaltiredPopcorn, to Blog
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http://foritismansnumber.blogspot.com/2024/04/immaculate-2024.html

Yep, I finally got to the new @horror flick, Immaculate.

#blog #blogger #review #MovieReview #immaculate #SydneySweeney #MichaelMohan #AndrewLobel #horror #nunsploitation #film #filmastodon

artemis,
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@SaltiredPopcorn @horror
Ooh. I have been trying to decide whether I was interested in this. Sounds like it's worth a shot.

artemis, to random
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I'm working on some sort of theory about neurodivergent "incels" and "Red Pill" guys and how when you feel dependent on other people to explain "how things work" (because you are told that all your behaviors are constantly judged against an invisible standard) you can be trapped into bigoted and reductionist worldviews that don't reflect the person you want to be. After all, lots of things society tells you are true do not "feel right" to you, but you are forced to accept them anyway.

artemis,
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I feel like the way we treat neurodivergent people—forcing them to be inauthentic and look to other people to define reality because the world they are presented with doesn't make rational sense to them—is a big setup for neurodivergent guys to end up in these groups obsessed with patriarchal norms and forcing people into boxes.

We force neurodivergent people into boxes all the time. What even is authenticity & individuality to someone who constantly has to pretend to be someone they aren't?

artemis,
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I have neurodivergent friends whose undiagnosed neurodivergent parents seem to have internalized the belief that you must brutalize people until they fit in the prescribed box because that's what happened to them. And so their treatment of their kids, trying to get them to conform, was harsher than some other parents seemingly because they have experienced this type of thing and been told it's not only normal but good to hurt your child this way—it's what has to be done.

artemis,
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I don't have a fully formed thread or argument here, but hurting and punishing someone for reasons that appear irrational to them may (for obvious reasons) make it appear to them that hurting people for arbitrary reasons is supposed to be a good thing societally and that it doesn't matter what someone wants, all that matters is that they play the role assigned to them.

artemis, to random
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Being homeschooled as a neurodivergent person has both huge benefits and huge drawbacks.

From an education standpoint, I, a very academically motivated child with ADHD, often thrived on independence and an education tailored to me. Sitting in a classroom of my less academically inclined peers probably would have been excruciating. Being in classroom settings where everyone needs to understand something before we move on is hard on the ones who understand fastest.

artemis,
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But ADHD makes it hard enough to relate to neurotypical people—being isolated a great deal from my peers on top of that meant that interactions with kids of my own age were terrifying. I had no way of knowing how I was "supposed" to act in any situation, but I was painfully aware that children and adults alike were judging my behavior.

If you homeschool your child, whether they are neurodivergent or not, please for the love of God take the "what about socialization?" question seriously.

artemis, to random
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This is really funny to me, but writing alt text was a bit of a challenge! I did my best!

artemis, to Autism
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I'll be honest, sometimes I have a hard time telling how much actually similarity between #autism and #ADHD there is and how much of it is simply that we share similar traumas (people imputing motives to us, being unable to discern neurotypical social rules that you're supposed to just "know", being forced to adopt a "normal" persona, etc).

@actuallyadhd

artemis,
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There are similarities, and it's not uncommon for someone to be both, but also...I think a large reason I've always found it easy to relate to autistic people (and a lot of autistic people seem to gravitate to me) is that it's great to connect with another person who doesn't decide for me what I mean, doesn't assume malice or carelessness when I didn't meet their expectations, and doesn't react with hostility or disdain to deviation from social norms.

@actuallyadhd

artemis,
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@actuallyadhd
I mean, it's just hard in general for me to distinguish what is ADHD and what is trauma from being punished for having #ADHD.

bedirthan, to DnD
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Why did I make a Midwife background for 5e #DnD?

First and foremost, this design is to honor my late mother-in-law. She was a maternity nurse, and through her I met many other nurses. Secondly, the background leans into Call the Midwife, which my wife watches regularly. There is a bit of inspiration from Nynaeve al’Meara (Wheel of Time) and her time as Wisdom of Emond’s Field when she cared for the community as a healer and confidant for the women of the community.

https://fullmoonstorytelling.com/2021/06/13/call-the-midwife-a-5th-edition-dd-background/

artemis,
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@bedirthan
I like it!

Spare the Dying has always seemed like a crappy cantrip to me as every time I play a magic user, they have SOME actual healing ability, and so it seems like a bit of a waste of a cantrip that could otherwise be an unlimited offensive spell or a general-use utility cantrip, but for a non-magic user, it would be a nifty trick to have in the ol' back pocket: a pretty decent ability to gain from a background.

artemis, to random
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I hate this so much. It's disgusting to me.

If people getting killed in prison is a problem, let's fix (abolish) prisons! Why does Trump deserve to be protected and other people don't? Why is his life any more precious? Other people get killed in prison, but we don't give everyone a Secret Service detail, do we?

If some specific person being sent to prison is "a death sentence", then something is terribly, terribly wrong with prisons (but we all already knew that).

https://crooksandliars.com/2024/04/alan-dershowitz-predicts-trump-would-be

artemis,
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I feel like one of the implications of this type of worry is that there are certain classes of people who should be protected from violence and some who should not.

artemis,
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The horror "oh my God! Trump could get killed in prison" is strange if you aren't otherwise advocating for safety for prisoners.

It betrays that what scares you is that this specific sort of person who has had certain privileges their entire life could actually have those privileges removed and have to deal with the fear and violence that other people who never had those privileges do.

artemis,
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Accepting that people can and do get killed in prison, but clutching your pearls when it's a (formerly) wealthy person at risk just says that fear, violence, abuse, and exploitation are fine for some people but not for others.

artemis, to random
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It's kind of funny trying to get people who aren't into getting connected with online communities (which is fine) to understand what using social media means to me.

I appreciate everyone who interacts with my posts and everyone who posts the interesting things I interact with. This is, for me, very social and very enjoyable. I'm not exactly close besties with most of my mutuals, but I love the fact that I am getting to know several folks on here.

artemis,
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Totally valid to not "do" social media, but I also sometimes think people don't know what they're missing.

Connecting with "strangers online" makes the world feel less hostile and isolating, less disjointed and disconnected, less corporate (honestly even on corporate social media if you're able to use it to find and connect to people), more interesting, more varied, more exciting and hopeful.

artemis,
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Not that I haven't had to take breaks from social media, especially sometimes when there's a lot of rough and depressing news out there, but largely I think being able to build online communities is amazing. And if you interact with my posts from time to time, whether by commenting, boosting, or even just favoriting, you are one of the people who really helps make my world a little bigger and more hopeful and friendly.

I appreciate y'all.

artemis,
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I should probably mention how much I appreciate folks who educate on here as well! Being active on Twitter (and now here) has been educational as fuck, and I think has made me a better, more compassionate, more informed person.

POC, disabled people, neurodivergent people, fat people, trans people, queer people of all sorts, and so many other folks have helped me see the world in new ways, analyze and reject my own prejudices, and learn things I need to be a better ally and friend in many areas.

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