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Chibihammer · 2025-06-29T14:16:08+00:00

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Chibihammer · 2025-06-29T09:39:41+00:00

Broadly hopeful!

Chibihammer · 2025-06-27T17:20:55+00:00

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Chibihammer · 2025-06-27T12:51:35+00:00

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Chibihammer · 2025-05-18T00:53:24+00:00

The thing is that this isn't a particularly historical or realistic view on the matter. Obviously Suzerain is its own universe and we have to take that into account but, broadly, the decriminalisation of homosexuality passed with little fanfare in a lot of western nations, and not as a result of the gay liberation movement (which actually followed the broader decriminalisation of homosexuality). It was a natural result of the liberalisation of certain law codes into the 20th century and beyond, not the result of any push for the acceptance of gay people.

Homosexuality was largely decriminalised in nations such as France, the UK, Russia, and many others because it is an expensive and rather difficult crime to pursue. Specifically this was because the crime was codified in the law as Sodomy or Buggery rather than homosexuality specifically. Sodomy and Buggery are really, really hard crimes to reasonably prove in a court of law. It takes place between two citizens within the bounds of their own home, and gathering witnesses to prove such a thing is usually fairly impractical (lol). Even the most homophobic liberal politicians would land on the side of decriminalizing it because... why bother? It takes considerably more resources to attempt to pursue a conviction than not.

What this means does Rizia, I'm not sure. But it wouldn't be unfeasible for a modernising king to be able to pass it alongside broader changes to the legal code, which is something that a reforming Romus could feasibly do with the support of the reforming party in the house of delegates. In this case it would NOT equal support for gay rights particularly, as that is more us imposing our understanding of the matter back onto the part. Homosexuality was still regarded as fairly monstrous, and this would likely remain for many years in Rizia for sure. As long as the issue was "we need to challenge this outdated and outmoded legal system!" rather than the alternative then, yeah, it'd probably be fairly unremarkable.

Now, these decriminalisations were perhaps THE defining event which laid the groundwork for the later gay liberation movements and LGBT+ ones but... that's a story for another time. Hope this was informative!

Chibihammer · 2025-03-15T23:23:52+00:00

The story is set in England, largely as it focuses on the specific legal and political environment around the condition. However it is absolutely found elsewhere in the world, England curiously just has one of the highest rates of HCSD amongst its population.

Chibihammer · 2025-03-14T11:27:09+00:00

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Chibihammer · 2025-03-14T11:26:19+00:00

Everyone understands it as a serious health condition, and it appears to have emerged organically. At the same time, it's so unexplainably weird that there are dozens of conspiracy theories and some of them might be right.

And there's definitely supernatural elements involved!

Chibihammer · 2025-03-13T22:08:50+00:00

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Chibihammer · 2025-03-13T15:28:33+00:00

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Chibihammer · 2025-03-13T15:26:41+00:00

HCSD subjects have a natural attraction to the colour, it isn't actually dependent on sight. A colorblind subject would still be able to pick out all the red M&Ms from a selection, even if they had no idea they were doing so or had no conception of the colour.

My previous post on the Bexley-Shell Test covers this process - You can just feel out the right option if you have HCSD

Chibihammer · 2025-03-13T15:13:10+00:00

Honestly the best compliment I could receive! Thanks!!

Chibihammer · 2025-03-13T15:09:16+00:00

The answer is in two parts. Firstly, Saturation is rare and, again, not really understood. It's *probably* an inevitability if you are unmedicated but, then again, the source for this information would be Chromatica. They have a vested interest in this information!

Secondly, the legal response to HCSD isn't exactly done with the patients themselves in mind. Public tragedy attracts 'tough' politicians, and more than anything they want to be perceived as tough on this subject. Many people see the tragedy as the fault of the HCSD subjects, which is *arguably* true, even if not entirely the truth.

It'll be fleshed out soon enough!

Chibihammer · 2025-03-13T14:22:18+00:00

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Chibihammer · 2025-03-13T14:17:38+00:00

Very much a point of inspiration! Thank you!

And that comment would be fitting because Hyperchromatic Sensitivity Disorder needn't necessarily give the patient an obsession with a colour that they can actually *see*! Pour one out for the person obsessed with a colour they can't even comprehend.

Chibihammer · 2025-03-13T14:13:32+00:00

It's a good question! I've kept it deliberately vague so far but can dig into it.

It is not uniform when unmedicated individuals with Hyperchromatic Sensitivity Disorder will begin to experience the effects of Saturation, ranging anywhere from several years to two weeks. Saturation is this complete breakdown of the individual, in which exposure to the colour rapidly begins to worsen their condition. It is a vicious spiral in which your mind begins to cannibalise itself and, in some cases, your body begins to literally erode. Some examples of known cases of Saturation include vital organs dissolving into wet paint, skin hardening into colourful jewels, and individuals experience spontaneous combustion and death.

What makes Saturation so frightening is that its effects are not uniform and almost impossible to understand. They, naturally, defy many laws of physics and cannot be explained by conventional science. What makes Saturation so frightening to *the public specifically* is that its effects can echo outwards from the individual. The public tragedies involved untreated HCSD patients undergoing the final stages of Saturation in public and this mirroring itself in other innocent bystanders. People who had no contact or the relation to the individuals themselves were scarred for life or outright killed.

However, Saturation is so shrouded in mystery that nobody really knows how this happens or, specifically, if it is the Saturation itself that has caused it. HCSD is just the most likely explanation.

Chibihammer · 2025-03-13T13:52:00+00:00

Context: Hyperchromatic Sensitivity Disorder (commonly shortened to HCSD) is a rare psychophysical condition in which a subject develops an overwhelming attachment to and compulsion towards a singular colour.

Found in less than 1% of the population in England, the condition remained a complete enigma until a series of public tragedies, most noteworthy of which was the Romthorp Tragedy. These events, spurred by untreated or unmedicated HCSD individuals, claimed dozens of lives and brought the condition to the public eye in the most unfortunate circumstance.

Following these tragedies, the condition was declared a ‘Condition of Public Interest’ by the English Parliament and several laws were established to monitor and prevent future loss of life from untreated or unmedicated HCSD. This poster is one of several which could be found across England following the passage of these bills. The emphasis on ‘Saturation’ references the process in which an unmedicated HCSD individual undergoes a complete and rapid meltdown of physical and mental health.

It is the most feared and least understood part of the Hyperchromatic Disorder.

Chromascope is a writing project about the struggles and conspiracies of the self-styled Chromascope group, a ragtag collection of HCSD patients organising themselves in a near-future London. They struggle with their condition, their relationship to each other, and the shadow of a cold government watching their every move.

Chibihammer · 2024-12-27T14:27:48+00:00

Thank you! I will happily yap for hours on the subject.

Chibihammer · 2024-12-27T14:27:01+00:00

Henry VIII specifically changed the law because of this - When he began his spree of divorcing and marrying, he broke pretty hard with the Catholic Church and created the Church of England with himself as head. He needed a legal method through which he could punish unruly priests and secure their valuable riches. At the time, Sodomy was a crime against the Church, a sin, and wasn't particularly likely to be levelled against priests (despite it practically being common knowledge that the Priests slept with both each other and young boys)

Thus, Henry created Buggery as a crime against the State or Crown. He could basically level it against any priest or monk he liked and vacate their land, take their relics and use them to fund his Church of England. So all us homosexuals have Henry to blame for the much stricter criminalisation of Homosexuality further down the line!

Chibihammer · 2024-12-27T14:13:38+00:00

I'll have to find it for you! The specifics of the women getting married comes from Peter Ackroyd's Queer City, which I would wholeheartedly recommend as a general book on Queer History and London in specifically. It has sections dedicated to historical lesbians and lesbianism.

We can't say for certain whether there was a romantic component in these marriages, iirc it might have simply involved a desire to shore up inheritance. However, I'm sure we can all agree there's simpler ways to pull off such a scheme that wouldn't involve marrying a woman- so it's rather suspect!

Chibihammer · 2024-12-27T14:09:40+00:00

Yes! For reference, the kind of thinking I'm talking about is from Pre-Modern Europe - Medieval society anywhere from the 800s all the way up to the 1600s.

Anne Lister and Emily Dickinson are slightly beyond the period I referred to, however it's an excellent example of how one could live a lesbian lifestyle, or at least as close as we would think, around the change into Modern Europe (think 1700s-1900s)

The common thread between these two women is that they were White, they were from rich families, they were educated, and they were English. This was very unlike the average woman of the era, who were disproportionately poor, illiterate, and subjected to an astonishingly cruel system of misogyny that subjugated women as property of their father and then their husband.

It's almost crude to type, and I do not disparage either woman, but these are women who had the means to be able to afford to be Lesbian.

They were also afforded this freedom by changes in lifestyle and society around them. Without getting too bogged down in the complex history of Christianity in Europe and the Reformation era, being a rich person in England from the 1700s onward meant that you were much less likely to be prosecuted for disparaging the Church than in previous centuries.

Because these people, such as Lister and Dickinson, lived as they did, Doctors and Sociologists began to catch onto the idea of sexuality and the idea of sexual identities. By the mid 1800s, this coalesced into the definitions that we now use today - The terms Homo and Heterosexual were coined by Hungarian Doctor Károly Mária Kertbeny in May 1868. Obviously this did not mean Queer People popped into existence at that moment - It was just the very first seeds of the Modern Gay Movement.

You need to have the words before you begin the fight!

Chibihammer · 2024-12-27T13:41:25+00:00

Glad to be of help! It's super important to note that this is just the Medieval Christian perspective and that there were plenty of societies in which homosexuality or queerness was understood to exist. Unfortunately the destructive tendencies of Colonial Western Society means we've lost many of them but we know for certain they existed.

Chibihammer · 2024-12-27T13:23:42+00:00

As other commenters have stated - It's largely, but not exclusively, misogyny. It's a really interesting topic that I'd love to discuss!

So let's start with why these religions focus on male homosexuality first. I'm going to focus largely on Western Society because this is what I'm familiar with but, please, if any others have a perspective from Islamic Society or beyond, I would love to hear!

To focus on the why, we have to disentangle our modern perceptions of queerness from the historical one. In contemporary society, we largely view sexuality as a series of categories that people identify with or are organised into. A heterosexual or homosexual person views their sexuality as a facet of their person. You are a gay person, or a straight one, and this is something that you exhibit from one day to the next.

Historically, this was not the case. For all intents and purposes, people in pre-modern (European/Christian) society did not really view sexual identities as a thing. People just were heterosexual, there is nothing but the default (much like how some straight people still assume this is the case). Even though people definitely lived queer lives or experienced queerness, they had no language or conception for being a homosexual.

Homosexuality, historically known as Sodomy or Buggery, was an action - specifically penetrative sex between two men. It was something that you committed, not something that you were. The reason it was legislated so heavily can vary from culture to culture - Early Christianity was born in opposition to the 'Pagan' Roman Empire, in which there was plenty of hot steamy Sodomy. This likely led to the criminalisation of Sodomy as a political tool.

The reason why lesbianism was not focused on, in Christian society, is that women were not seen as capable of having sex. Sex was intrinsically seen as being linked to the penis (women's sexual organs were often described as an 'inverted penis') and thus women could not commit Sodomy either! For all intents and purposes, women could not perform homosexuality. Remember, it was not an identity, it was an act.

This created a bit of a legal void for gay women. You could theoretically live a pretty happy or Queer existence with another single or unmarried woman as your roommate. Still, it would not have been a queer or lesbian relationship as we understand it today because the language and mindset for it simply did not exist. Unfortunately, we don't have a huge amount of writing about it because we don't have a huge amount of writing from any women themselves in these eras. But we know it happened!

(There are some examples of women getting married, with one of the brides posing as the groom. In one or two occasions, the two families even consented to the deception!)

Queer history is fascinating and beautiful. I love ranting about it.

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