So … waitaminit. This means that Sten really does approve of the Sten Approves cookies.
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I was born this way!
Nooooooooo
no
“Born this way” is not a viable defense against something as irrational and hateful as heterosexism. It’s just not.
I’m not suggesting that most people aren’t born the way the are. What I’m suggesting is it doesn’t fucking matter. Whether you’ve known your orientation since preschool, or only after 30 years of marriage, you are valid and so is your sexual identity. Queer people need to stop policing each other!!
And honestly, if the best defense from bigotry we can come up with is “I can’t help being this way, it was forced upon me at birth!”… FUCK THAT. The world is a fucked up, scary place for queers, but there’s also joy in being who you are. Lots and lots of queer people, if you asked them, wouldn’t want to be any other way.
I don’t need to justify my identity to hateful fuckheads, and neither do you. It doesn’t matter how you got here. Because there is nothing wrong with who you are.
/rant
CO-SIGNED. Everything about this rant is perfect.
Co-signed. The only person I need to justify myself to, ever, is me.
I just wish I knew why any of us had to justify anything to anyone ever when it comes to who we invite into our hearts and our beds. There isn’t enough love in the world as it is without restricting it to the heteronormative binary. Besides, at the end of the day, is it really anyone’s business? Does one person’s love for another hurt anything but the propriety of narrow-minded bigots?
I don’t care why people love who they love. I just care that they treat the people they love with respect, and that people respect the choices of other people that do not have any particular bearing on the lives of said other people. And frankly? My neighbour’s sex life only matters to me because they are rather enthusiastic about it and I have to listen to the headboard bang against our shared wall, among other things. That’s less ‘who’s s/he shagging?’ and more ‘why must I be allergic to earplugs?’
If gay sex is not your bag, that’s fine. No one is asking you to have any. Gay marriage, ditto - no one is going to make you marry anyone you don’t want. But it should go both ways; no one should ever dictate, ever, who someone can or cannot marry, so long as both parties are human, of age and consenting.
And as to religious reasoning? I refuse to believe that God - any God - is an omniscient voyeuristic bigot. Deity’s supposed to be better than us; love and acceptance and seeing into the hearts and minds of mankind. Which do you think Deity prefers: true love between two of Deity’s children? Or a bunch of hateful bigots perverting Deity’s message of love to fit their own personal prejudices?
Still following Gaider on Tumblr, re: cookies
FANTHRAX?!?
No better kind. :3
The knowledge that the writing team found that blog has pretty much made my day.
SCARRED FOR LIFE.
SCARRED FOR LIFE
Oh, come on. That’s your mom, not you. They must think that you’re a lovely fan who has come out just fine despite having a mother who takes the Gordian knot approach to their lovingly-crafted storyline. :3
skiesovergideon replied to your post<span >: <em >Oh, and while we’re owning up to shit…
WAIT WAS IT YOU WHO ASKED ME ABOUT MUSIC? WAS THAT YOU?!
Yes. Yes, it was.
Oh, and while we’re owning up to shit…
So … about three of you received anon asks from DA characters. Zevran, Varric and Alistair. At least one of you sort of hopped up and down wanting to know whodunnit.
…hi?
Seriously, I was going to do more. I just couldn’t figure out who to write asks to for which characters. I wanted it to be the right characters and the right message and some of you are really hard to guess for.
So instead of randomly guessing and possibly getting it not as right as I wanted to, I thought I’d just say this:
Drop an ask or a reply or something and I will write a note from character ‘specially for you. (Yes, those of you who got the surprise ones can ask again.) If you have a character you’d prefer, please feel free to name.
EEEEEEEE HE LIKES THEM!
I have never got the hang of Tumblring Tweets, but I’ve been following David Gaider and hey, Reg? He likes the cookies. :)
I’m like. Borderline sobbing, it’s gross. I’m so glad the present was received well. <3 All credits to you for the recipe.
Hey, you’re the one who thought to send ‘em. I just thought, “Hey! Spicy cookies!” And really, @subterraneanbunnypig deserves credit for inadvertently pinging my brain in the direction of “Dragon Age food”. :3
C is for Cookie
- Look up various chocolate chip cookie recipes
- Find one to bastardise
- Add 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg, 1 teaspoon ginger and 1 teaspoon cinnamon to flour mix
- When melting butter for sugar/butter/egg mix, add cloves to softening butter. Strain out cloves when butter is melted satisfactorily
- Mix well
- Smash 1/2 a bar of gourmet chilli chocolate and 1/2 bar of gourmet orange chocolate; add chunks to cookie dough, mix well
- Taste cookie dough
- Force self to actually make cookies and put them in oven rather than just eating all the dough
- Realise there are not enough baking sheets for whole bowl of cookie dough.
- OMNOMNOM raw dough while waiting for cookies to bake.
My Sten Approves +100 Chocolate Chip Cookies with Seheron Spice are apparently going to be something of a hit, if the cookies taste as good as the dough…
So, okay. The cookie recipe thing has exploded. I have been asked to reblog this because people are asking for it over on Reg’s blog and her Ask box is probably screaming for mercy. So … here you go!
(Oh, and for the record? The base recipe that I bastardised is Felix’s best ever chocolate chip cookies, but pick the one you like best, obviously.
EEEEEEEE HE LIKES THEM!
I have never got the hang of Tumblring Tweets, but I’ve been following David Gaider and hey, Reg? He likes the cookies. :)
iapetusneume replied to your post<span >: <em >How did you people DO this?
The Mako is the number one reason I keep ragequitting ME1, and why I finally threw up my hands and started a game of ME2. Only Mako-like vehicles in ME2 are in the DLCs. I totally get your rage.
Oh, I’m determined to get through it. I want one playthroughthat spans all three games. But I probably won’t be playing it again. Stupid f’ing Mako.
How did you people DO this?
I am going to do something … incredibly geeky now. I am going to liken my relationship with video games to interpersonal relationships.
When I first played Dragon Age, it was like meeting that person you just instantly click with. You know - the one that you can sit and chat with for hours and not realise how much time’s gone by until you happen to glance out a window and see that the sun’s gone down (or come up, depending) or your stomach growls and you realise you meant to have lunch three hours ago or something like that. Where there is a connection and it is good. Friend or lover, this is one of the keepers.
I … want to love Mass Effect. I really do want to love Mass Effect. And I do! I love the story! I love the characters! I particularly love charging in and kerbooming shit with the supergun. But Mass Effect is like meeting that person you know you have a lot in common with and sometimes the conversations go really well but sometimes you just want to PUNCH THEM IN THE FACE. There are conversations you just don’t want to have but they keep coming up anyway and you have to get through them until you can find a suitable point for a topic change and then it’s all good again but until then, you have to put up with this bit of conversational topic that either does not interest you at all or worse, infuriates you beyond all hope of expressing it.
Yes, I am talking about the fucking Mako. I may be pretty good at piloting the thing, comparatively speaking, but it’s still a chore I don’t want to have to go through in order to get through the game.
It is harshing my squee.
I’m halfway through Feros now but I have had to stop because I tripped over YET ANOTHER FUCKING TRIP IN THE MAKO and I just do not have the emotional energy to deal with it right now. It’s the equivalent of hiding behind an Invisible message on AIM because you see that topic coming and if you deal with it at that specific moment in time you will say something you regret.
I honestly want to know how everyone who played managed to play when every single core mission involves bouncing around in the bumper car from hell - twice in situations where one wrong move is insta-death.
Mass Effect … I want to love you. LET ME LOVE YOU. Just … take the Mako away…
skiesovergideon replied to your post<span >: <em >Reblogs
If they’re rereading the Dragon Age According to Mom blog, I linked to it :3
And they probably are re-reading the … have you seen the ACRONYM that turns up, if you ditch the ‘to’ (which is pretty standard for shorter words, if to do so makes the acronym a word)? It’s the DAAM blog.
Anyway, of course they’re rereading it. It’s the epitome of funny.
Reblogs
How are people still finding that cookie recipe post of mine?!? I made that post AGES ago!
skiesovergideon replied to your photo: skiesovergideon: My day just went from horrible to…
jsyk, I totally mentioned you. :3
I don’t know whether to thank you or call you evil. My face is making Kermit-scrunches trying to find a combination of both.
My day just went from horrible to slightly better. These people are wonderful :3
……….ohgods. *HIDES*
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