Some Complicated Feelings Regarding One Battle After Another Here

Let’s start with this again: This is one of those situations where I need to remind myself and anyone reading this that I am indeed white cishet male born and living in Finland with decent income and a good education. I do not want to try to push my point of view over that of any minority regarding any topic that affects them. Gladly, I did find a black voice that does uphold my views and, obviously, is more nuanced than what I have to say about that specifically. You can find that here: One Fetish After Another by Brooke Obie.

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E Review

First off, I had the opportunity to see a screening with Anna Eriksson, the director, introducing the film and having a Q&A session afterwards. I didn’t really know what to expect, but I did struggle through a horrific need to piss to hear her out, because she knew her shit. Also, I have been to such events previously and what was (gladly) missing from this one was the ego some of those people have regarding their work.

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[RPG] Player Mistakes 4 – Understand Your Character Better

Roughly eight years ago, I wrote about the opposite of this. While I still find that idea compelling, let’s look at this from the other side. Back then the message was not to set everything in stone, but if you have an interesting character concept, just research it. There is someone in history who’s life applies to what you are doing.

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