@lasalette777 caesar himself was a “pagan” — he was the bloody pontifex maximus for god’s sake. his depiction of gallic customs in his commentarii de bello gallico is exoticizing and sensationalistic for his roman audience at home
@PTogekiss that’s very different IMO to “Türkiye” vs “Turkey”. Turkey and Türkiye render the same term in the donor lang. Iran & Persia don’t & have semantic differences
it’s more comparable to “Beijing” vs “Peking” (though note it’s not “北京”) or “Côte d’Ivoire” vs “Ivory Coast”
are all our politics totally given over to moralism now? and not even a kind that promotes anything good, just “good/evil”, “forgiven/irredeemable”, “metaphysically ‘harmless’/‘harmful’”, etc.? i fall into it too. it’s just so fucking bleak
@oldhhabits i think sexual freedom has to include the freedom to not like/want sex in a general sense
is there no way to redirect the rightward swing you are talking about towards a ‘sex positive movement’ (or whatever etc) without essentially forcing people into something they don’t like?
i wanna laugh but this genuinely just feels evil you’re conducting a witch hunt against this girl blowing her up on the internet and harassing her for literally no fucking reason
scarcely am I truly baffled by bigotry but this is genuinely incomprehensible to me. this is perhaps the most normal thing I have seen ever in my entire life
@kazskruge elphie is powerful but she isn’t god & glinda knows that. elphie has had access to the grimmerie (abt which she knows near nothing) for all of 5 mins. there are no grounds to reason elphie’s vague non-plan to be viable
i’d argue it is in fact *supportive* to check elphie here
@kazskruge say you have a friend who wants to cure cancer. you are extremely supportive of their goal, expecting them to spearhead revolutionary research & change the world
however they then decide they actually don’t need any medical expertise to cure cancer bc they’re super smart, right?
@AllyKeyoni i mean male fertility tends to drop off pretty dramatically after like 50 or so IIRC. however I do think talking abt some stranger’s “biological clock” in pretty much any instance is extremely weird and probably bad behavior