kissing under the rain

Hello! I still badly need work in narrative design or game writing etc. I’ve been in games for 20 years and I’m responsible for the mobile smash hit Lily’s Garden. I will take on full-time or contract work but I really need to pick something up soon. Please get in touch if you have/know of something

I don’t “network,” I make friends. Other artists are not my competition, they’re my beloved peers and sources of inspiration. We all have the same goal; to share our art. I’m not gonna corporatize my human relationships with them. I am in my sandbox playing and I hope they join me.

The original 10pt plan

sahar is trying to get urgent medical intervention for her son odai, whose birthday is today. please consider sending some help of you can, he is in desperate pain all the time chuffed.org/project/1656...

Thinking about my DnD characters and how 3/4 of them are immigrant/displaced/exiled and missing home is a big part of their character and it wasn’t even a conscious decision.

It didn't matter. People don't burn building or shoot political figures because of sound charts. Events will occur in spite of your wisdom and you will complain impotently forever

It’s easier to get through all this if you make yourself believe powerful people have your back. But they don’t. They really don’t.

I am in the mood for starting shit because I am absolutely livid at the moment so let's talk about a particular aspect of AI use in Iraq.

“alpha wolf” is not a thing but it is sort of funny how many men claim that for themselves considering that the hierarchal behavior that was demonstrated only happened to wolves in captivity. there’s something deeply ironic about that

Does anyone miss me

if you wanna know what it's like being a particular kind of trans person in the UK then my friend is now on her fourth court mandated victim of crime compensation award. I guess being assaulted is one of the more viable pathways to funding gender affirming healthcare.

New followers: I’m vehemently against this war and against the Islamic republic.

Twitter is censoring Iranian accounts against the war. So the space is devolving into pro-war Iranians and “anti-war” campists (read: siding with Iran in the war, which they want to continue) and it sucks.

Getting shadowbanned on twitter is kinda ass

Twitter's been shadowbanning a bunch of Iranians I like hearing from. Waves like this tend to happen when conflicts start, but it's been particularly intense and there's no one at the wheel. Definitely give @atrophous.bsky.social a follow. Trying to nudge them into making a starter pack

We, here, can do basically nothing to support the people in Iran who took to the streets. And we can do basically nothing to bolster the regime that fucking massacred them. We can try and stop our government making things much much much worse. Why the fuck do we need to say anything else?

Like, in the UK now, it is probably possible to stop our government lending direct military support to the attack on Iran and it may be possible to stop indirect support. That's what we can do. That is the practical action. Why the fuck would we even argue about the Iranian government?

Like, the question has to be "what can I do, where I am with the capacity I have, to influence this situation?" And quite often the answer is "fuck all". Like, all the fucking western lefties with their "positions on Syria" that didn't matter a fuck and spiky so much fucking ink.

So like, this was always my problem with feeling like I had to take a "position" on a conflict I can't influence. With orgs feeling like they had to do "critical support" or "condemn both sides" or whatever. It's so abstract. So impotent and ridiculous.

Her vote aside, among white people across the political spectrum, it IS taboo to talk openly about their politics. This is a grift designed to maintain white supremacy across political divide. To keep them communing along whiteness with their enemies & ideological opponents.

One of the most depressing things about the war in Iran is how a bunch of grown ass men are acting like this is a fucking video game.

Cross-post from twitter

Sorry I’m not here much. My TL here is dominated by trans discourse and during this time somehow being a brown trans woman in the US is not on the top of my priority list

The squirrel account on the bad place is now arguing in favour of genociding Kurds. Somebody really needs to doxx her and make her pay the consequences for her vile speech.

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Perhaps if the cause you’re primarily concerned with does not compel you to learn, investigate pr critique the complex network of alliances between various oppressed peoples in SWANA, you’re gonna start Kurdish people “Israeli”

I think the entire political spectrum in the west and frankly also in SWANA, including most Iranians frankly (including the ones in Iran), simply wants Iranians to be subjugated forever.

You are not put in danger by people making inferences about your shitty politics. And I don’t really care what marginalized statuses you have when the primary thing you are in this conversation is “not personally involved”. When both I and the person you have chosen to willfully lie about, are.

So what happened here is 1. You read "oppose further bombings" and inferred it to also mean "support previous bombings" 2. The person who posted it clarified that's a misinterpretation 3. Instead of moving on, you did whatever the hell this was Everyone reading can tell you're doing this on purpose

The Israelis just bombed Beirut.

Israeli media claiming 6 rockets were fired from Lebanon. All intercepted. Videos on Lebanese media show cars fleeing the south. No one has claimed responsibility for the rockets.

Hey, how about you fuck off about whether or not I’m tokenized? I know my life and my partner way better than you randos, and he has far more integrity and cares more about Iranians than people like you ever did.

the way a bunch of white leftists instantly charged in to prove me right by scolding me for making fun of this bitch idiot’s stupid dead dog while saying nothing about her doing apologia for the mass murder or Iranian people.

Sorry that your dog died. In Iran people actually aren’t allowed take their dogs outside it goes against Sharia law, because Iran is a Theocratic dictatorship.

Lmao

Life so fucked I forgot I’m a trans woman

I don’t think the tweet you got mad about implied that we shouldn’t have been opposing the bombing before the killing of khamenei, or even the bombing that took him. Only that you people don’t get to police how we feel.

and yet when a theocrat mass murder who killed thousands if not millions of people dies and his victims celebrate your response is “ermmm should be we weawy be cewebwating impewialist aggeession in the gwobal south? ☝️🤓” I wonder what the difference is between them and your European ancestors 🤔

Is your mother currently in danger from US and Israeli bombs? Because you seem like you’ve deputized yourself to police how Iranians with much more stake in the situation feel about the situation.

Celebrate dead dictators alongside the people they oppressed for generations, no matter what circumstances they die under or who kills them. If Trump died in a Russian drone attack, we would still celebrate.

Your political analysis is worth about as much as a fishnet umbrella.

It’s normal to feel a sense of dread at what will happen now, but any Western “Leftist” posting weepy memorials to Khamenei or tirades about how it’s bad that we killed a dictator, as Iranians are dancing in the streets, should immediately cut off all of their fingers so they can never type again.

Damn have you considered that your instagram feed might reflect your politics

Intense scholarly debate between “queer Muslims” on twitter dot com

tbh it sounds like you’re illiterate on the subject and are mad about someone else bringing complexity to the discussion.

"Don't you feel silly for caring about the plight of Iranian women under their theocratic regime now that they're under attack by a foreign power" I DON'T, ACTUALLY! I THINK IT KIND OF SUCKS THEY HAVE TO DEAL WITH BOTH!