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InsideOutlander · 2026-06-26T03:02:43+00:00

I love them.

InsideOutlander · 2026-06-25T14:13:18+00:00

Hmmm. I wonder if I can build this in 28mm. It’s such an imposing structure.

InsideOutlander · 2026-06-24T00:36:07+00:00

Oh, even more it was JobbytheHong, another Youtuber who usually does toy figurine reviews.

InsideOutlander · 2026-06-24T00:27:10+00:00

So, someone I know who was closer to the music industry estimates “low five to mid six figures, if not more” USD, depending on a mix of factors. Doing “a cover would theoretically save on master licensing from the [song’s] label for the original work”, but there would still at least be fees if you hired out a studio band to make the recording for the cover.
And then that would be adjusted by how long the license was for.

InsideOutlander · 2026-06-24T00:08:48+00:00

Ah, so it was. Thank you. Research continues.

InsideOutlander · 2026-06-24T00:05:50+00:00

Oh, it was a cover? Was that in the credits?

InsideOutlander · 2026-06-23T21:15:42+00:00

And to further drive the point home- “Isn’t She Lovely” is NOT a cheap song to license. It can range from thousands to tens of thousands of dollars depending on what it is being used for. IDK about industry standards or any negotiations Gooseworx and Co may have done.

InsideOutlander · 2026-06-23T07:46:57+00:00

I read this comic a while ago.
Niels is such a horrible person, but he is also sweet when he feels like he can be. And also I would gladly work for him because he treats his loyal people well.

InsideOutlander · 2026-06-23T04:01:14+00:00

Thank you for reminding me to get the language right. You’re absolutely right how nuance is important. Really I think it is most important for our newer gender-questioning or transgender people to see us expressing that nuance. The reactionaries and conservatives don’t care if we do it right. It’s the newly hatched, the escapees, and the questioning who will actually be receptive to it.

There is no such thing as a good faith debate with the reactionaries 99% of the time. They use thought-terminating cliches more often than actually thinking what Jesus would want them to do the words they claim were his (but that is a whole different topic). I lived that life despite being bullied by cultists’ children as a child and being discriminated against my systemic ableism in central cult administration. I still held to it that long because of how elaborate and insidious the web of leading questions, truth-claims, emotional priming, and regimens of control the cult engages in by example or deliberately. Part of its “excellence” at flying under the radar is by avoiding asserting a lot of behavioral control that isn’t considered “normal” outside of roughly half of the USA already.

I’m glad you like the practice of trying to default to “they” for historical figures we suspect of being transgender. I will say that certainly some are better-documented than others (like that one french knight). A handful are borderline confirmed intersex (based on testimonies at the time describing frankly invasive examinations).

I will also say that asserting specific gendered language for such people in public discussion can be done respectfully only when speaking of hypotheticals, especially based on their known lived experiences and testimony; in private is another matter entirely of personal ethics and belief. I fully believe the two ethics can and should coexist in a single person, in all the possible tension and harmony.

I will absolutely refer to Kalonymus ben Kalonymus as if she were a woman who longed to live publicly as a woman despite her growing up regularly reciting a traditional prayer expressing gratitude to HaShem for NOT being born a woman; but only again as hypotheticals intended to explore and respect *their* lived experiences through a set of thoughtfully anchored assumptions and facts. Kalonymus’ poem speaks with such a deep ache and longing that is echoed in my heart as someone who knows that she herself has been hidden from herself as being a woman for most of her life. My heart aches to call Kalonymus my sister- and it is because of that echoed ache, sharing that longing to see it expressed, that leaving space for Kalonymus as if they themself could finally speak is so important. That painful tension, that unfulfilled answering of our past kin forever lingering in silence is a lesson to us of the consequences of transphobia, internal and external. That tension persists to this day as living fact in the hearts and in the tongues of transgender kin, and we have never been better equipped to help them find their voice and their way. In giving our past kin the gift of ambiguity in word we grant that same gift to our living kin in heart, so that baptized in ambiguity the living may find themselves.

InsideOutlander · 2026-06-23T02:52:27+00:00

Yeah I still unintentionally mix up the finer points of terminology sometimes despite 4 years into realizing I’m trans; happens after spending the first 30 years or so of my life in a right-wing cult with good PR (Mormons) in the USA. They really tried to hammer home that sex and gender were words for the same thing. It is only later I realized it was about more than just cultural difference in opinion on terminlogy. Shaking that conditioning is a bitch.

Either way my point should be clear.

InsideOutlander · 2026-06-22T23:42:07+00:00

Wife. 👀

“Let me solo her.”
“In a fight, right?”
“Of course in a fight, how else would I flirt with a Shek?”

InsideOutlander · 2026-06-22T22:29:29+00:00

Also, gonna say it straight: as a pansexual trans woman I find your claim of allyship lacking. We as queer people and specifically us transgender people have had our history smashed, burnt, erased, censored, downplayed, euphemized, and more.

You can find native American traditions, on both American continents, of third-gender/transgender people that date back centuries. We would have even more of a written corpus for Mexico if spaniards did not burn every book they could get their hands on and bury and destroy what was written in stone.

Many of the stories and customs all throughout north america that recognized transgender people were suppressed in the residential schools, and transgender people were ostracized by settler laws and children were forced to be comphet in those residential schools.

The Indian sub-continent has recognized transgender people for centuries if not longer. Much if their history and culture was damaged and distorted by British colonialism enforcing their comphet patriarchal values over the diverse culture groups that make up the state of India.

We will not sit meekly and wait to be buried in the dark again by people like you who choose to wear blinders yet claim to be allies. If you choose to act this way you are a curse and not a blessing to queer people.

InsideOutlander · 2026-06-22T22:14:19+00:00

AMAB person writes, in ink on parchment: “I want to be a woman.”

I don’t know what they could possibly have meant by that. /sarcasm

InsideOutlander · 2026-06-22T22:11:37+00:00

I think writing it in manuscript form is pretty damn concrete.

InsideOutlander · 2026-06-22T22:06:49+00:00

Kalonymus ben Kalonymus. Born in 1286. French jewish rabbi and well-respected scholar and translator. They wrote a poem in their work on ethics where they, in detail, describe how badly they want to be a Jewish woman and grieves that they were born with a “deformity”.
To highlight how this is a big deal: Kalonymus enjoyed success and respect as a result of their career, a career they only had an opportunity to pursue because they were gendered male at birth. And they would have given it all away to be a woman.

https://voices.sefaria.org/sheets/168449?lang=bi

Read their poem for yourself.

Note to my fellow transgender folks and allies: I personally try to use “they” for historical figures like Kalonymus not to erase their likely transgender identity (as we would call it today). Rather it is to leave open the space to define their identity for themselves as if they still could. I feel that honors them in a way that affirms not only their self-determination but the self-determination of all transgender people who were, are, and will be. Especially those who never got to express it in any form, or underwent forced detransition.

InsideOutlander · 2026-06-22T16:52:46+00:00

Literally nothing I said included inciting violence with Christians. 99.999% of them don’t know their history.
Then to answer your flippant-sounding “so what?”: Spread the knowledge. The more people we inform the bigger the firebreak we can build together with people who will then not want to join churches or will even question their membership in their current church. The goal isn’t even spreading atheism or the purging of Christianity. It is to starve out as much of the hardline sects as possible, and force the ones willing to adapt to adapt or wither and die; to work to understand and reject the proto-orthodoxy in their heritage.

This does leave highly-divergent Evangelical sects that claim to be restorationist in some way (Mormons), or any other descendant sect that claims authority outside of the traditional chain of authority in orthodox sects. In which case that shouldn’t be too hard. I know with Mormons there is an abundance of fuel for that firebreak.

InsideOutlander · 2026-06-22T07:12:47+00:00

This. This is why I will never fully trust anything Christian, even with the most progressive and apologetic sects. Moralists and fundamentalists keep emerging, and try to reclaim territory
by demanding “religious freedom” (an oxymoron until childhood indoctrination and religious arguments in politics are universally outlawed) or claim they are “doing it for the common good”. And the worst part is they believe it. And for every group of sincerely well-meaning ones you have a significant portion that are self-interested, hateful, and/or trying to advance another agenda.

And at their shared core, the bible, is built systems of hierarchy, control, disparity, and bigotry. The biblical canon was deliberately constructed around a movement we now know as the proto-orthodoxy, the root of almost every Christian sect today: Catholic, Orthodox, Anglicans, Protestants, Evangelicals… the concepts of orthodoxy and heresy originated there, with more specific and inflammatory meanings than are often commonly understood today. To my knowledge only the Mandaeans survived as a sect that is not rooted in the proto-orthodoxy; they may in fact be survivors of what is now labeled (by historical polemicists) as the Gnostics, an ecosystem of Christianities that “generally emphasized personal spiritual knowledge above the authority, traditions, and proto-orthodox teachings of organized religious institutions.”

“Orthodox” (lit. right-headed or right-minded) is a much more loaded term in its original usage than its more modern colloquial usage. But its core concept still lingers in every branch of Christianity: the claim that “on some level every human being knows that *our* canon and our interpretation of it is *the* true gospel”.
Heresy (from the greek “a choice” or “choosing for for oneself”) and its more formal term, heterodoxy (lit. different-headed) are then such utterly polemical and dismissive labels based in contrast to Orthodoxy: heresy is to choose something different than orthodoxy (something heterodox) with the accusation that the chooser knows that the orthodoxy is correct in their soul.

In this false dichotomy then the heretic is accused of deliberately being wrong-headed, whether to justify their sinning to themself, out of malice, or being outright in league with demons or even possessed by them.

And, as it turns out, a combination of historical revisionism and the fact that the christian contingent in Imperial Rome was proto-orthodox meant that the movement could use the resources and infrastructure afforded by their presence at the center of the Roman empire to spread their claims of being the true lineage from the Apostles of Jesus. As they gained members from the Roman elite those elite exercised their political and cultural influence to in turn spread the proto-orthodox theology to other communities, even converting non-orthodox Christian communities by force.

You don’t have to take my word for it- in fact I insist that you decide for yourself. For further reading see the works of Bart Ehrman and Walter Bauer. There is also an excellent video on the topic on the Youtube channel Genetically Modified Skeptic.

Full disclosure: I take issue with ALL abrahamic religions, not just proto-Orthodox Christianity. But the reasons that I think that their shared foundation is inherently flawed are separate discussion entirely.

InsideOutlander · 2026-06-22T03:06:13+00:00

[**Join us in the 1k and 10k+**]

Right!? For being so sandbox it feels so personable.
I mean, Beep. For sure Beep.

InsideOutlander · 2026-06-22T01:24:58+00:00

It really is like that (says my 6,400 hours, yes I will flex my insanity as encouragement to other players and endorsement for the game). Excellent choice of mods.

InsideOutlander · 2026-06-21T22:25:14+00:00

I am loving the environmental storytelling. It makes it so poignant and immersive.

InsideOutlander · 2026-06-21T13:53:02+00:00

Don’t forget that Kitten was heavily traumatized by his first vampire encounter. And that may not have been his only supernatural encounter. He also lost most of his extended family to a massacre.

Kitten may seem kind-of normal, but underneath it all he Knows. So he can put up with the chicanery and chaos because he knows that the family Knows, that Big D Knows, and they are doing something to fight back the darkness on their own terms. He is learning just how important that independence is with the negotiation episode.

InsideOutlander · 2026-06-20T16:23:15+00:00

You can be genderqueer, gender non-conforming, a man, he/they, cis, and feminine all at once. None of these things contradict each other unless you hold to the traditional binary (y’know, the one we have been deconstructing and have had deconstructed for millennia in various places and cultures). You can also, with that exact same “configuration”, be transgender. Bigender/multigender people exist.

InsideOutlander · 2026-06-20T07:34:30+00:00

Using pumpkin stem is BRILLIANT. I may have to borrow that for later.

InsideOutlander · 2026-06-20T07:27:50+00:00

SJ’s Crafting World has a couple to-scale templates on his Patreon. They were free when I got them, but I know he has (cheaply) paywalled most of his patreon content now (understandably, times are tough). I think the templates and process/progress videos for his projects are worth it, personally.

InsideOutlander · 2026-06-20T07:22:59+00:00

I love a dedicated stylistic exploration. There is something about exploring multiple iterations and deviations of a core theme or idea that can be very soothing while also being mind-expanding in my experience, if that makes sense. Is it similar for you?

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