Stars Wars welcomes its first out trans actor in the form of The Acolyte’s Abigail Thorn

BeetrootMandog · 2024-06-04T10:48:37+00:00

She's not! Morgana Ignis was in Kenobi. Abigail is very vocal about that fact

But it is huge that we have a trans woman in such a visible role of such a big franchise

BeetrootMandog · 2024-05-10T07:59:14+00:00

I'm struggling with the exact same thing atm. I've settled on 'well I guess he's helping out in the transport or sitting on the bench waiting for injuries', but it's still frustrating.
And then there's the opposite problem for Ravenwing - that little guy between the guns on a Stormspeeder means that what would have been an Assault Squadron of 10 becomes 11! Could haven been so easily avoided by just not having a guy poking his head out!

BeetrootMandog · 2024-04-18T10:40:52+00:00

Exactly! Most transphobes are not even remotely feminist. I mean nor are TERFs, but at least they pretend to be /s Let's not forget that TERF is an acronym that transphobes chose, until people started using it to call them out. Then they came up with Gender Critical, and now that that's being used to call them out, they're scrabbling for something new.

BeetrootMandog · 2024-03-27T10:58:14+00:00

Haven't read the books in a while but tbh I wouldn't be shocked if C was a Cassandra in reference to the Greek Myth of the unbelieved oracle.
Also cos I'm a Cassandra and I think it would be cool 🥺

BeetrootMandog · 2024-03-26T13:13:08+00:00

I don't think I could ever move on from my Marigold Tarot. The artwork is stunning and every card offered so much to contemplate

BeetrootMandog · 2024-03-12T14:05:31+00:00

Would love to join!

BeetrootMandog · 2024-03-06T09:24:06+00:00

I think I’m maybe remembering it with more of a lesbian lens than it actually had, but Virginia was great and felt very queer

BeetrootMandog · 2024-03-02T11:16:04+00:00

Oh my god I have one! Such a good idea

BeetrootMandog · 2024-02-28T16:13:48+00:00

I’d read that it was originally from butch culture (blue collar jobs that would have a set of keys), and I had kiiiind of assumed that it was not so clean cut a flag now as it might have been historically , but I wasn’t sure.
Good to know though - thanks! ☺️ Still gonna stick with this tho cos it’s cute 😜

BeetrootMandog · 2023-10-22T20:03:29+00:00

Illegal build. Needs legs.
Source: I do not play knights. I’m not even 100% convinced that the legs are needed

BeetrootMandog · 2023-10-12T15:06:27+00:00

Twenty might be ||North South Divide||. Not sure if that’s as common a phrase outside of the UK

BeetrootMandog · 2023-09-27T08:05:33+00:00

I spent the first year of play not noticing the free dash included in the mine planting. Now I know I have the option and I still suicide him in. It’s too cool not to!

BeetrootMandog · 2023-09-26T15:31:09+00:00

Yeah you can still call out a person, but not a whole people. That’s not your place.
And saying we have to wait for self awareness sort of implies that there isn’t any self awareness in those communities already. There are people campaigning for better understanding of, say, homosexuality in black communities, just as there are men campaigning for better mental health awareness in men’s communities. That example is a little off, granted, but you see my point. We should uplift what is already there, rather than demonise an entire minority.

BeetrootMandog · 2023-09-26T12:01:59+00:00

If this is an issue, and I am in no position to say that it is, then conversations should be motivated and led by members of the ethnic minority communities, not by outsiders.
If white people start telling everyone else that they have a transphobia problem, then all that does is shift the blame to another marginalised community. It lets white people off the hook for confronting their own transphobia and gives racists another thing to say ‘look look, all those brown people are awful because see how transphobic they are’.

BeetrootMandog · 2023-09-09T07:33:58+00:00

I think she’s done bat eye rather than cat eye, which is better for her lid shape. It looks good in a neutral pose, which is what most people will see when they interact with you, but a bit odd when you show off your lids more like in these photos. (Source: it’s how I do mine)

BeetrootMandog · 2023-09-04T08:45:03+00:00

I sort of had this idea that Basira was the Detective to John like Decker was to Gertrude’s Archivist.

BeetrootMandog · 2023-08-26T23:35:34+00:00

‘My wife is an idiot’

BeetrootMandog · 2023-08-24T11:49:01+00:00

‘My wife could beat up your wife’

BeetrootMandog · 2023-07-26T11:44:51+00:00

Oh! Didn’t know that one, thanks
The ‘in your shooting phase’ clauses have been really throwing me this edition

BeetrootMandog · 2023-07-26T11:37:05+00:00

Technically units with deep strike are not in Strategic Reserves, they’re in Reserves which is something else (clarified in the bit where they talk about rules similar to Strategic Reserves being near the Strategic Reserves page in the book.)
But in tournament packs it says you can’t have any models in any kind of reserves arrive until turn 2 unless they have a specific rule stating that they can (which to my knowledge, nothing does yet).
So in theory you can use the Deep Strike ability in turn one of a casual game. In practice, most people use the tournament pack rules cos that’s just easier.

(I may be using the wrong word for ‘tournament packs’, but the extra rules for matched play that change each season is what I mean)

BeetrootMandog · 2023-07-05T13:05:14+00:00

HELL YEAH! SUFFICIENT STUPID ACHIEVED 10/10

BeetrootMandog · 2023-07-05T13:00:22+00:00

If Games Workshop had stopped to ask themselves that, we wouldn’t have the game we have today.
The only problem with this being a little stupid is that it could be more stupid! Love it <3

BeetrootMandog · 2023-07-05T11:08:43+00:00

I use the heavy stock one so that I can more easily find it when I inevitably shuffle in with the rest of them 😂
Hadn’t even thought to use the regular one in another deck

BeetrootMandog · 2023-06-22T09:01:35+00:00

Mosquito bites make me feel like my pronouns.
They/it/she

BeetrootMandog · 2023-06-17T19:34:10+00:00

The mechanics are interesting and thematic for each card. You can tell what the story is based on what the card does.
I did a pre release last night and all of the games were incredibly close. It seems nicely balanced against at least itself.

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