Yonah (they/them) 🎲 ✡️ 🎶 🌈 🏴‍☠️

Educator, game dev, ASL interpreter, sometimes pirate. I don't agree with myself half the time, let alone what I retweet

[Yonah (they/them) 🎲 ✡️ 🎶 🌈 🏴‍☠️ @yonahsienna]

Apparently it's my Twitter anniversary. Perfect time to tell y'all to find me on the new fabric-themed app that shall not be named. Same username, more chance of being slightly active. 😄

[Yonah (they/them) 🎲 ✡️ 🎶 🌈 🏴‍☠️ @yonahsienna]

@HydroForge Pick me! I created the Chanukah RPG Miracles & Maccabees last year as well as hosting the #MenorahJam on itch!

[Yonah (they/them) 🎲 ✡️ 🎶 🌈 🏴‍☠️ @yonahsienna]

Are there ANY rules or mechanics in D&D (any edition) that you like better than what you get in other ttrpgs? I feel like there have to be SOME!

[Yonah (they/them) 🎲 ✡️ 🎶 🌈 🏴‍☠️ @yonahsienna]

RPG friends, I spend a fair bit of time in spaces that dunk on D&D, but I know LOTS of people really love it (+ I've had moments I have too). So, genuine question for y'all: what's your favorite thing about D&D?

[Yonah (they/them) 🎲 ✡️ 🎶 🌈 🏴‍☠️ @yonahsienna]

I'm especially wondering about systems and mechanics, more than lore and settings. Especially if you have played other systems, like Pathfinder/FATE/PBtA/WoD/etc...

[Yonah (they/them) 🎲 ✡️ 🎶 🌈 🏴‍☠️ @yonahsienna]

@chrisperrywolf Counterpoint - isn't a d20 just a d6 with an obnoxious amount of granularity? 🤔

[Yonah (they/them) 🎲 ✡️ 🎶 🌈 🏴‍☠️ @yonahsienna]

@chrisperrywolf This is d100 erasure

[Yonah (they/them) 🎲 ✡️ 🎶 🌈 🏴‍☠️ @yonahsienna]

@Malcolm_Ocean As Amy Kraus Rosenthal said:
"for anyone trying to discern what to do w/ their life: PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT YOU PAY ATTENTION TO. that's pretty much all the info u need."

[Yonah (they/them) 🎲 ✡️ 🎶 🌈 🏴‍☠️ @yonahsienna]

For humanity to be created "in the image of God" IS for us to encompass both male and female, and everything in between them, and everything beyond them. Just as God, in Their gender-breaking magisty does.

Shabbat Shalom.

[Yonah (they/them) 🎲 ✡️ 🎶 🌈 🏴‍☠️ @yonahsienna]

Yep. An God and humanity are also CANONICALLY beyond the gender binary. A thread 1/🧵

[Transvangelical @transvangelical]

Since we are on the topic of pronouns in the Bible:
The pronouns for the Holy Spirit in the Old Testament are she/her and are gender neutral in the New Testament.

[Yonah (they/them) 🎲 ✡️ 🎶 🌈 🏴‍☠️ @yonahsienna]

26 "And God said, Let Us make a human in Our image after Our likeness..."

Plural and gender neutral.

27 "And God created the human in Their image, in the image of God They created them. Male and female They created them."

This isn't creating a gender binary, it's rejecting it.

[Yonah (they/them) 🎲 ✡️ 🎶 🌈 🏴‍☠️ @yonahsienna]

So already in verse 1-2, God is established as beyond the binary. Then in verse 26-27, when God created humanity, it's reinforced AGAIN.

[Yonah (they/them) 🎲 ✡️ 🎶 🌈 🏴‍☠️ @yonahsienna]

The Bible COULD have denied any feminine involvement in creation. It could have said "God is male" and left it at that. But while it REJECTS the idea that creation was a sexual and violent power struggle, it is VERY explicit that Elohim DOES act in both masculine & feminine ways.

[Yonah (they/them) 🎲 ✡️ 🎶 🌈 🏴‍☠️ @yonahsienna]

Now, if we look at the myths of ancient Israel's neighbors, they all center on male-female sexual union in their creation stories. You might be familiar with the Mesopotamian Apsu & Tiamat, or Egypt's Geb and female Nut. Farther away, in Greece, you had Uranus & Gaia

[Yonah (they/them) 🎲 ✡️ 🎶 🌈 🏴‍☠️ @yonahsienna]

In the first verse, we have masculine grammar for God. "Bara" - "[He] created". But in the second verse, we have feminine grammer. "Ru'ach Elohim merachefet" (the [feminine] Spirit of God, [She] moved)

[Yonah (they/them) 🎲 ✡️ 🎶 🌈 🏴‍☠️ @yonahsienna]

"Elohim" is also a way of describing the whole PANTHEON of Canaanite gods - who contain both female and male members - another hint that God's gender is not so cut and dry.

[Yonah (they/them) 🎲 ✡️ 🎶 🌈 🏴‍☠️ @yonahsienna]

(And yes, I will use singular They for God - because God encompasses both singular and plural, AND because They are beyond the binary, AND because They are just that majestic.)

[Yonah (they/them) 🎲 ✡️ 🎶 🌈 🏴‍☠️ @yonahsienna]

God (Elohim) uses a form called the "plural of majesty". The -im suffix is usually plural, but is singular here. The rabbis have many interpretations of this, but suffice it to say that we're getting a hint that God is so beyond ordinary experience, They defy ordinary grammar.

[Yonah (they/them) 🎲 ✡️ 🎶 🌈 🏴‍☠️ @yonahsienna]

Let's start at the very beginning. As in, the third word of the Bible. Bereishit Bara ELOHIM. "In the beginning God created". (I have Issues with the KJV translation but that's for another thread).

[Cas ➡️ @[email protected] @cassolotl]

I've started a short and less official survey where you can rate how you feel about all the pronouns on a list.

It is open to EVERYONE regardless of gender or cis/trans status.

https://t.co/rmn9eKjbwl

Open until at least 12 noon UK time on Tuesday 26th July 2022.

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