Honorless

Huh, I didn't see that, no it's an homage to the first gay (fanfic) author I ever read

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It's an homage

@AonEne, was waiting for you to see this

Dreamer was an indistinct name I liked. I was looking for something more personalized.

The Lord Ruler's storage caches where many Originators took shelter during the Catacendre?

Thank you for sharing. I've seen that one before, I'll go look for more and share them here to hopefully make someone's day Transgender representation is especially important as they're the quite often among the most vulnerable members of LGBT community. And it's come to the forefront again with groups like TERFs, etc. Some people believe that there are only two genders and everyone who doesn't fall into the binary is just "looking for attention" or that it's a "First World problem" and that in Third World or developing countries or in older times you won't find any trans people. That isn't true at all: there are transgender communities and institutions in all of those places and have been for a very long time. Google two-spirit or hijra and you'll find that out There are so many authors who ignore these issues, it's important to take the time to appreciate those who don't

Not really, no. People different from the norm weren't and in many places still aren't really accepted into society. Things have gotten a bit better. But nowadays resentment against social movements is once again at an all-time high. And I do understand them. Many do raise pertinent points, the one I connect to the most is that men's rights movements are often maligned, trashed and vilified by extremist feminist movements. There's active violence at rallies and no one does anything (there's literally video evidence). Even saying the term is a joke or offensive to many people. Yes, I know the two social movements are often joined at the hip, I don't care since where I come from they betrayed us by fighting the short lived legalization of being gay (you do not get to decide whether our existence is right or wrong), legislation against single dads and the definition of rape from including male rape. Being gay isn't an "alternative lifestyle" and it isn't a choice, I wouldn't have chosen to go through this much bs if I had the option. We suffer loss too as human beings, and yet some people literally fight to make us suffer even more loss. Be kind and understanding to us, that's all that's asked of you. Why are you offended by this? I asked for a gay character once and scroll to see what happened. Did I get angry and say things? Yes. But am I really asking for that much here? *sigh* also some explications for some of my previous posts. Why did I bring out those two games in particular? Mass Effect and Elder Scrolls both explicitly promised to be inclusive in representing their LGBT fanbase. Romance is a big part of Mass Effect yet it's one particular fanbase which has the least number of options. Elder Scrolls has a lot of nifty little things hidden in its massive mythos, one of the biggest LBGT positive things being a member of the Tribunal gods, Vivec being bi and intersex. Pelinal being gay could've been a big thing just like Vivec was. Yet it was cut specifically because of that. In a previous game, Morrowind, the player character is called the Nerevarine and they're a reincarnation of a Dunmer (Dark Elf) guy, but despite that they can now be a girl (or a cat, for that matter, or a cat girl). Pelinal is similar to that, a previous reincarnation of the player character in Oblivion, which was explicitly the reason why him being gay was removed from the storyline. Also, Players can choose their gender and sexuality during character creation and in Skyrim you can marry anyone regardless of gender, but if they choose to play a gay character, they'd be the only gay couple in the entire game. The idea here is that no one gets offended by the LGBT inclusion or disinclusion, I understand why but it's still quite sad. We exist, choosing to specifically build the option to ignore us like that is quite hurtful. I criticized Max Gladstone by using his own quote regarding how there are no straight male protagonists in his novels because first of all, I have nothing against straight white guys, this topic is not an attack, it's me being angry for reasons I've already explained many times. I have read his books and statement is a bit of a technically true kind of statement. His books present race and sexual identity without the context of race and sexual identity, those things are just an aesthetic layer to his characters. Also his books aren't very good, he promises to showcase a world where magic and law are intertwined, gods make legally binding agreements and people exploit legal loopholes but all of the books just harp on about how novel an idea that is. There is no story to be found here. Every ending was a letdown by Deus Ex Machina. I see some of you present statistics, all I can say is that wow, we are owed a whole lot of gay characters. *huffs* How does gay couples posting pictures of themselves on social media matter to this topic? Yes, straight couples are cute too, is this jealousy I detect? *sigh* Gay couples being more visible, more normalized, that's why they upload so many pics and vids, straight couples already do that, don't make a big deal out of this, seriously. I still don't like the rhetoric used in this topic. I've already raised these points before, but they've been somewhat lost in the hum-dum. I really don't think it's fair to make a comparison between the ostracization that gay people face trying to live their lives and how straight people might feel attacked when they see a gay person talking about these issues. These are real life issues that many people face which should be treated with compassion above being treated as politically sensitive issues that one has to dodge with wordplay, this isn't about giving offense, it's about being humane and compassionate

As far as we know there are only 10 Surges, though we don't really know what that really means nor why. There's a reason why the surge pairs formed the way they formed to make up the Orders but again, we don't know why. I assume it's natural but also constructed: the Surges were first paired (we assume) by Honor to forge the Honorblades and which was then copied by the Nahel spren to form the Orders. But other spren can also be Bonded, whether they might grant the Surges or odd Surge pairs is unknown. Odd Surge combinations should be possible via mechanical means.

It's been speculated that it might indeed be possible Check out this topic by @PrinceGenocide:

Agreed but they were specifically talking about people who actively persecute gays here. And fighting for something better than that is still worth it, isn't it?

Sorry but I can't help you much here. I didn't catalogue the Awakening Commands, though I think there was one similar to a lot of the others that you already caught that went like "be as my hands and...", but I'm not sure. I could be imagining it based on commonalities but I feel like I read that somewhere there (I can't check, I don't have access to my copy right now) And I agree that You Will Stop was a Command, as various draperies, etc acted to enact it upon its utterance.

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The LGBT movements weren't there just to stop them from getting killed or beaten up within an inch of their life. You've heard the saying, "living and not dying are two different things", haven't you? People were fighting to have a life, right to practice their religion, to love, to marry, have a job, have kids, have equal rights, see themselves represented positively, not be disincluded,... Live and let live? Live and let live then All I said and am saying is that I'd like to see a character who's a bit more like us

He has his own spren now (and she's been such a great influence on him! Though I wonder what her name is, we weren't told in Oathbringer, were we?) And he's sworn his Ideals (upto the third), deciding to try to overcome his self-loathing in a nice hero trope subversion moment

"don’t apply a negative label to a huge amount of people from specific groups due to them seeing the world through a different lense than you do." I won't, as long as you can do the same for me regarding words like 'sinful', and for some people who choose both to be gay and to be religious. And if religious families choose to love their child rather than condemn them. and people do use the term institutional homophobia to refer to that. It wasn't long ago that gay men were told to die from AIDS or sent to gay conversion camps

These are all the WoBs that we have on Bloodsealing: https://wob.coppermind.net/adv_search/?query=bloodsealing+ Beyond that, I don't really have any solid theories on it, though its interesting to note how it interacts with other Investiture that also work with the remains of the human body, like the Kandra, Dakhor, Kalad's Phantoms

Aon Ehe: fire and inspiration

A Shardplate can be broken through repeated blunt force trauma, so I'll say yes. Shardblades are less Invested than Nightblood, but whether Nightblood would shear through them has been RAFO'ed