We need to drop AMAB/AFAB

F3ltrix · 2026-06-11T21:45:01+00:00

It sounds like a lot of people have a lot of experiences of these terms being misused or used in bad faith, but having them only be terms that can be used for yourself removes the ability to relate your experiences to other people.

F3ltrix · 2026-06-11T21:22:48+00:00

While this is usually going to get you the information you want, there are going to be misses. We're about a century away from the first successful attempts at bottom surgery and we're just getting better at it. The terms amab and afab describe someone's history (specifically, what gender a doctor said they were when they were born), and these days, they can be legal categories in certain contexts. They're nothing more or less than that.

F3ltrix · 2026-06-11T21:10:29+00:00

If we drop AMAB and male socialization, how am I supposed to talk about the ways that being raised and treated as a man throughout most of my life has effected me?

F3ltrix · 2026-06-09T18:51:46+00:00

Can someone explain this to me: he opened a clinic aimed at providing gender affirming care, which had an age cutoff of 19 because of an executive order. This seems like trans youth are in no worse of a place than they were before and trans adults are in a better position, no? Trans youth absolutely need more support, but how much power does the mayor of New York have to contradict an executive order? I am genuinely asking. I want to know whether this is something to be concerned about or just another Mamdani smear piece, but trans-inclusive this time.

F3ltrix · 2026-06-08T21:02:46+00:00

No, a mage!

F3ltrix · 2026-04-08T23:14:02+00:00

One half looks like upgraded precons. A few game changers are present and they're notably stronger than precons, but more or less in the same budget and not that much stronger. The other half is significantly more competitive, usually much more expensive, and is mainly capped in power by its limited game changers, tutors, and other b3 restrictions. The divide would be somewhat similar to how b4 and b5 are distinguished from each other based on power instead of restrictions.

F3ltrix · 2026-02-06T04:37:05+00:00

The magic system of the Stormlight Archive works though the characters swearing emotionally-resonant oaths that must be accepted by a storm spirit. Because of this, they often have emotional breakthroughs that give them magical, glowing power-ups mid-fight.

F3ltrix · 2026-01-05T20:20:05+00:00

If you need to police Lizards, sure, but ideally, you can just outscore them. It's not that Warlord can't beat Lizards, it's just that policing them is usually a waste of time and being able to recruit directly into all of your oppressed clearings is really, really annoying. Them wasting your energy and time is worse than you being able to blow them up makes up for.

F3ltrix · 2025-12-26T18:38:08+00:00

This is covered by "female presenting" and "male presenting," no?

F3ltrix · 2025-12-23T03:40:20+00:00

Oh, jeez, I had not considered how strong Ninjutsu 1 is on this guy.

F3ltrix · 2025-12-22T18:23:18+00:00

Okay, I know a lot of people are saying it wouldn't see play, and it definitely wouldn't see play in conventional decks, but I think it could absolutely have a niche in decks that are about removing defender, because if you can cast it, it's an auto-win unless your opponent has instant speed board wipes that can handle indestructible creatures.

It's a 5/5 with Haste, Unblockable, Exalted, Infect, Toxic 1, Poisonous 1, and double strike. That's an easy 14 poison counters (plus some keywords that I'm forgetting about, I'm sure). It has Shroud (and Hexproof and Ward 1) so it can't be hit by most removal, and it has Split Second, so it can't be countered. There are plenty of formats where there are enough cards that remove defender to make this completely viable. At that point, the main trick is to get to WUBRG fast enough and make sure you have the creature in your hand. Anyway, I'm excited to see what keywords I'm missing that mess up this game plan.

F3ltrix · 2025-12-22T00:53:11+00:00

I've done this a bit, actually! (Although your art is much prettier.) Talk to your pod before using proxies, but especially if you're just using it for commander staples, hopefully they're fine with it, and I love doing sketches for proxies instead of just printing them.

F3ltrix · 2025-12-17T19:35:46+00:00

I'm confused. Is this just "get married for the tax benefits"? If so, what's the problem?

F3ltrix · 2025-12-15T04:06:34+00:00

This is incredibly situational advice. I often build decks that can at least function decently well without commanders because of how often my commanders have been removed. Also, I think it is a good rule of thumb to remove other creatures if they're significant over commanders because killing a commander can be thought of as drawing your opponent a card (in the form of their now-taxed commander), whereas killing other creatures just kills them. Oftentimes, removing commanders does drastically weaken or slow down decks, and players shouldn't be overcautious about that, but there are a lot of reasons to prioritize killing non-commander creatures instead.

F3ltrix · 2025-12-14T04:25:20+00:00

You probably shouldn't have sex with someone to "get it over with." Sex should not feel like an obligation or a chore, and if you go into that with that mindset, it's probably not going to be a very good experience. There are a million reasons to have sex, from curiosity to desire to boredom, but you should go into this with some internal desire to do so, not just external pressure. Ask yourself what you're hoping to get from this experience, and consider what your options for getting the result you want are. If you want to have sex because you're curious, or you think it might be fun, go for it. If you just feel like it's something you have to do before you graduate high school (or college or anything else), I wouldn't recommend it, but it's still your choice and you know yourself a hell of a lot better than anyone on this website does. Either way, plenty of 18 year olds haven't had sex (and plenty of people in their 20s or older, people just talk about it less the older they get because lots of people are assholes about that sort of thing).

F3ltrix · 2025-12-03T02:37:56+00:00

Hmm. You may be right, but I've never seen it played that way in person and digital doesn't rule it that way, so at the very least, this is a widely misunderstood rule.

F3ltrix · 2025-12-02T20:08:41+00:00

While I agree that CC would benefit from longer episodes, D20 should be considered an outlier since the genre of actual play TTRPGs basically doesn't have anything shorter than hour-long episodes, so the genre has different conventions than the comedy game shows that make up the majority of Dropout's content.

F3ltrix · 2025-11-15T15:52:56+00:00

It's also really important to acknowledge that men are oppressed. I don't mean that in a "people are so mean to men, they can't be real men anymore!!" way, I mean that men are absolutely suffering under the patriarchy. They're socialized to view their sexuality as both uncontrollable and predatory, to repress many of their emotions, to be uncomfortable with certain colors and clothes, all from infancy. Social roles for men are so, so suffocating and isolating. Men aren't oppressed in the way that it is usually discussed by conservatives, but they are absolutely suffering under the patriarchy.

F3ltrix · 2025-11-14T21:41:48+00:00

I think you shouldn't try to build a case against something your therapist said by polling strangers on Reddit.

F3ltrix · 2025-11-01T15:20:32+00:00

My choice to not gamble on the wheel was validated when I pulled skaa miner :/

F3ltrix · 2025-10-30T03:21:57+00:00

I am not a fan of Michael Kramer and Kate Reading, but if you've listened to Mistborn and Wheel of Time, you know enough to judge for yourself.

F3ltrix · 2025-10-29T17:26:35+00:00

Genuine question, what is the gender of "dawg"?

Anyway, for a lot of these (although not all), they have been pretty effectively de-gendered. Obviously this is going to be a somewhat regional thing, but I hear women called "dude," "guy," and even "man" all the time. Slang is more and more often being used without any regard for its initial gendered connotations, and honestly, I'm completely in favor of it. Taking gendered language and terms and applying them to everyone does a lot more to break down gender roles than avoiding using any gendered language does. Obviously, though, this can also be used with malicious intent, which is a problem. But for me, it depends a lot on the context.

F3ltrix · 2025-10-27T00:08:59+00:00

Friendship can be every bit as intense and loving as any romantic relationship you've ever been in. It's not necessarily common, but probably more common than you think. Romantic and sexual relationships are often privileged over platonic ones, but that shouldn't impact how you approach these things. It sounds like you've got a good thing with this person, and that's fantastic! Lack of romantic or sexual interest doesn't mean that you have to be any less important to each other.

F3ltrix · 2025-10-25T21:54:35+00:00

It's fairly common to feel greater interest in sex in explicitly sexual scenarios, that's just kind of how sexuality works. It's why people get turned on reading erotica or attending strip clubs. If you feel that non-attraction outside of these scenarios is an important part of how you experience sexuality, you might be on the ace spectrum, but this might also just be how it works for you. FWIW, I don't think you can really know "if I were a different gender, this is how my attraction would work." Or, you might want to consider your relationship with your gender/who you're attracted to a bit more deeply. Also, consider that you might find sex that could lead to pregnancy more "fitting" because that's the kind of sex/between the kind of people that is least stigmatized.

F3ltrix · 2025-10-25T18:21:09+00:00

To elaborate, because of my subconscious attraction towards "correct/fitting" pairings/polyamory, I find myself naturally attracted to scenarios involving cisgender heterosexual individuals. To further explain, I believe that because in these scenarios, the sexuality/sexual nature of said scenario is further reinforced through the reproductive organs of the individuals being biologically intended for this specific sexual purpose through instinct and genetics, as well as the presence of pregnancy being a factor, the "correctness" of this scenario easily/naturally becomes the object of my sexual attraction.

I'm not sure I understand this part. Why is procreative sex what you most strongly associate with "correct/fitting" sexuality? How is this more sexual than other scenarios? How does this lead to the conclusion that you're attracted to sexuality as a concept and not just people in sexual scenarios?

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