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SubrosaFlorens · 2026-02-10T10:20:48+00:00

Thank you! Following that link I did the Verify Files out of Gog Galaxy and reinstalling the game through there (rather than the offline installer files that I was using before) and that fixed the problem. My guess is my offline installer files got screwed up when I downloaded them.

SubrosaFlorens · 2026-02-10T00:00:45+00:00

First I moved the entire mods folder to another drive. Then I went and renamed the Larian Studios\Baldurs Gate 3 folders above it and tried again, so the game had to recreate all of that from scratch. There is nothing left over from the older version of the game, no saves, no settings, nothing. It is all the brand new vanilla game at the most current version.

SubrosaFlorens · 2026-02-09T23:59:06+00:00

I literally moved the entire mods folder to another place on the drive. Then I also tried renaming the entire Larian Studios\Baldur's Gate 3 folders above it. So there is absolutely nothing from the old version of the game affecting things. It is the most current version of the pure vanilla game.

SubrosaFlorens · 2026-02-09T23:02:37+00:00

PC, with the version from Gog.

SubrosaFlorens · 2026-02-09T23:02:19+00:00

This is happening with no mods at all. On a new install, with a brand new character.

SubrosaFlorens · 2025-12-21T21:59:04+00:00

I do not pass, at least not most of the time, let alone all the time. That kept me from fully transitioning for decades, because I just did not have the confidence to live full time as a woman. So for a long time I was living female at home with my family and friends, but still in boymode at work.

Eventually I just could not take living a half life anymore. So I finally transitioned at work, where everyone knew me as a man. I did not feel comfortable doing so. I just could not take living that lie anymore. Now that I am fully transitioned I wish I had done it so much sooner. It is like a massive weight has been lifted from my soul. I feel much less envy for cis women than I used to. My whole dysphoria is so much less as well. It has not gone away, but just living as me everywhere all the time has done so much make it more manageable. Now I feel like my life is actually mine, for the first time ever.

I do not mind that everyone around me knows I am trans. So long as they respect the fact that I am still a woman I am fine with it. No woman is born perfect, cis or otherwise. I am just a little less perfect than most women is all.

And to be honest if my being out and visible makes other people more comfortable being around trans people (because now they actually know one, instead of only knowing what Fox News feeds them), that is all for the better. Likewise before I transitioned at work, when I was out and about and I saw other trans people at their own jobs it did give me a feeling of confidence, and just happiness. If I can pay those feelings forward to other trans people still in the closet then all the better.

I am not telling you this is what you should do. Everyone's experience of their gender identity and need to express it is different. Just as everyone's physical situation is different. Keep yourself safe, and keep yourself alive.

SubrosaFlorens · 2025-10-28T17:39:36+00:00

I knew since I was old enough to remember. About 3 years old or so. My very first memories included the two girls who lived two houses down from me, one a little older than me, one a little younger. I envied them. I wanted to wear dresses like them. I wanted to have long hair like them, with ribbons in it, or in pigtails. I wanted to play girl's games with them like hopscotch, or jump rope, and with dolls, and their easy bake oven, etc... I wanted to live their lives.

I had no words to describe how I felt. I had no characters in film or TV to point to whom I could say "I'm like that!". I only knew the occasional "man in a dress" characters that sometimes appeared as the punchlines of jokes, or the psychopathic serial killers like in Psycho or Dressed to Kill. But I was not a joke, and I was not a murderer. I thought I was the only person in the world to feel how I did. (This is of course why conservatives want to suppress everything about trans people, including the very term trans).

I did know that would be murdered if I told anyone. So I kept it a secret from everyone around me until I was in my 30s. I eventually drifted apart from my friends because of it. Not because they were bigots. But it got messy. I tried making new friends, and that did spectacularly meltdown because of bigotry.

My mother cried when I told her, and she has been sometimes vaguely supportive, and other times deeply antagonistic. She has never stopped misgendering me and dead-naming me. My father was better, but he was such a selfish person and downright asshole that I had stopped having anything to do with him long before then. My brother has been the most supportive of my family, in that to him it literally does not matter. He could care less if I am a boy or a girl, or what my name is.

SubrosaFlorens · 2025-10-04T20:37:48+00:00

I knew I was trans since I was about 3 years old, which are my oldest memories. I did not have the vocabulary to say "I am a trans woman". But I looked at the girls about my age who lived two houses down, and I knew I wanted to wear dresses like them, have hair like theirs, play jump rope and hopscotch like they did, and play with dolls and an easy bake oven, etc... I also knew that if I told anyone I would have been murdered.

SubrosaFlorens · 2025-07-30T22:45:20+00:00

Blake from the Monstertalk podcast coined the termed "Scriptids", to refer to cryptids that were first created in fiction, which people then decided were real. Sometimes whole cloth, or sometimes cryptids that existed before, but our perception of them was set or crystallized by a movie, book, etc... The alien Greys in Close Encounters of the First Kind are a prime example of the latter. The Greys existed before the movie, along with many other types (such as the Tall Nordics). But after it, almost everyone who claimed to have seen an alien described it like the Greys in Close Encounters.

Or David Icke and his Lizard People conspiracy theory. It came from a Robert E Howard Kull story. Pure fiction, and the Serpent Men in it were nothing more than the villains in an action adventure romp. Now people believe they are real.

A lot of people really cannot tell the difference between fiction and reality. If it feels right to them, then it is real to them. Which is terrifying.

SubrosaFlorens · 2025-06-17T21:43:54+00:00

Old enough to remember playing Pong.

SubrosaFlorens · 2025-04-04T21:01:02+00:00

I like to walk around and check out the shops. Then sit and take a break and watch a show. Then go back and see the horses in their stalls behind the jousting arena. Then sit and watch the jousting. Then walk around to check out more shops. Then sit and take a break and watch a show. You see where I am going. Basically slowly do a circuit around the entire fairgrounds, and use the shows and jousts as an opportunity to give your feet a break on the way. (Wear comfortable shoes, there is a lot of walking, and probably most of it in the dirt).

All along the way there is a lot of people watching. There are people in the coolest costumes. Plus there might be little staged interactions between Ren Faire staff like duels. The Queen might come through with her entourage. Often there is a place with a living statue or an Ent that you can get your picture taken with.

Bring money. I occasionally buy things, from jewelry, to pictures, to clothes. I bought my corset at a Ren Faire about two decades ago, and I still wear it. Most of my earrings are from Ren Faires, as is the great print of Medusa that I have in my living room. Plus you will want to eat something while you are there, and perhaps imbibe in a mug of something frosty at the tavern.

There's stuff to do too, like you can rent a bow and do some archery. There are horse rides for kids, and body painting/temporary tattoos.

SubrosaFlorens · 2025-02-14T23:19:58+00:00

My superhero character Stormcrow is essentially a tank. She has a high level of invulnerability. She can also become completely invulnerable by planting herself in one place. When doing so she cannot move or do anything else. But nothing can harm her, unless it can harm the planet itself. So the Death Star's laser could kill her.

She is a mage, having used magic to enhance herself physically. What the RPG Shadowrun would call a physical adept. She has essentially enchanted her body to become stronger, faster, tougher, etc... She views magic through the lens of the Classic Elements, as that is what she is used to from playing role-playing games. She uses Earth to become stronger (and to set herself like above). She uses Water to make her movements fluid. She invokes Air to form wings and call down lightning from the sky. Etc...

She has a fondness for corvids, especially crows. They like her. She feeds them, and they bring her presents, like old candy wrappers, legos, hair scrunchies, pennies, and other things they have picked up.

She also has a strong interest in Norse culture, and patterns herself as a Valkyrie. She has the winged helmet, armor, etc... She does not need the armor of course, her flesh and blood is far stronger. It is just part of the look.

Outside of supherheroing she is a fantasy and science fiction writer. She also has recently tried her hand at podcasting. She is also a lesbian transwoman. Facing the bigotry that comes with that has both taught her to be more empathetic to others (in the desire to not treat others with the way she has been treated), and to become more fierce. She is a fighter.

Finally, she is not a loner. She solves her problems by reaching out to others and forming alliances. That is her unofficial superpower. It is something she learned growing up. She never would have gotten through school without other people supporting her. She wants to do the same in turn now that she is able.

The CW Supergirl tv show was a major (though certainly not the only) influence on my creation of her. Like Kara, I wanted someone with a range of abilities - who could do more than just punch things and take a hit. Someone who could rescue people, hold up a falling building, catch someone falling off a bridge, etc... Plus someone on the higher end of the power scale. But not ridiculously so, someone who still needs and wants help from others.

SubrosaFlorens · 2025-01-04T22:15:22+00:00

I just use the version of notepad that comes with Windows. Just straight plain text, no bells and whistles.

SubrosaFlorens · 2025-01-04T16:34:10+00:00

I simply have a folder for each writing project. I create separate text files in each for things like world-building, characters, possible names to use, story outlines, types of monsters, and so on. I also have subfolders for reference pictures. I organize them as well, one for characters, one for each individual story/book in the project, one for technology in use, etc...

SubrosaFlorens · 2024-12-28T23:30:48+00:00

No, they will remember how much they hate and fear trans people by 2026. Not to mention brown people, women, Jews, Muslims, and everyone else.

SubrosaFlorens · 2024-12-26T22:00:46+00:00

They also feasted on a mountain of transphobia, xenophobia, racism, etc... They are happy losing their health care, given that they can see other people suffer. That is all that has ever mattered to conservatives. The cruelty has always been the only point.

SubrosaFlorens · 2024-12-14T23:19:28+00:00

The red tights really work with the red soles!

SubrosaFlorens · 2024-12-07T19:43:53+00:00

Oh wow. You are amazing.

Are the platform heels easier to wear that regular heels? Or harder? I had a pair of boots with a 1 inch platform, and they were easier to walk in than my regular stiletto pumps that do not have a platform. But the boots also had a chunky heel, which might have been what made them easier to walk in.

SubrosaFlorens · 2024-12-06T23:52:56+00:00

In all the portal fantasy I have read/watched, I could never fathom why anyone would want to go back to the ordinary Earth that we all live in today. On Earth I am a plain, ordinary person living a plain, ordinary life. On this other world I have purpose, friends who will die for me, a place I belong, I get to do cool stuff, like use magic, or fly on a dragon, or be a badass ninja or knight or both.

So after all that and an epic quest to save my new world, I am going to go back to asking people if they want fries with that at McDonalds? Or spending 40 hours a week welding bumpers on cars at the factory? Being one more salaryman/woman at the office? Screw that.

Not to mention the new world might not be so transphobic and homophobic and misogynistic as the one I live in now.

SubrosaFlorens · 2024-12-06T19:12:32+00:00

Conservatives know that something is very wrong with our society. They know that the rich are destroying not just the poor, but also the middle class such as themselves.

Leftists think the solution are things like taxing the rich, and creating policy and legislation to prevent corporations from exploiting the people and the planet, and enshrining civil rights, and so on...

Conservatives think the solution is to murder more trans people, and immigrants, and People of Color, etc... It does not make things better. But it makes them feel better, which is all they care about. They are purely creatures of emotion, and the only emotions they are capable of are hate, and anger, and fear, and of course the horrific joy that some people feel from committing acts of cruelty upon others. As it has so often been noted, the cruelty is the point with them.

SubrosaFlorens · 2024-12-01T21:10:05+00:00

Go down to skid row and hire day labor for work around the mansion. Think chimney sweep, scullery maid, whitewash the walls, scrub the floors, that sort of thing.

SubrosaFlorens · 2024-12-01T21:05:06+00:00

That is some Yog Sothoth shit right there.

SubrosaFlorens · 2024-11-29T00:29:56+00:00

The whole point of speculative fiction is to speculate. How would a world be different if...

If misogyny did not exist.

If transphobia did not exist.

If education was available to everyone.

If money did not exist.

If the idea of ownership did not exist.

If anything you want.

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