Lady of the Land @Lady@cat.family

@akjcv well, Icelandic has them different

Old Norse didn’t exactly have a standardized orthography and whether it distinguished Þ and Ð likely depends on both time period and scribe

and likewise, the fact that Old English equated the two doesn’t say anything about whether Modern English should or shouldn’t, or else we wouldn’t be using J or U either

@coriander i do think it's interesting because like Baldur’s Gate is clearly a roleplaying adventure and you can give the characters whatever sexuality you want because you’re roleplaying and that’s your prerogative, but Bioware games have always been much more about defined Characters and Plots and i don’t think it’s wrong for them to have specific sexual orientations be a part of that

but like, commit to it if you’re going to do it; they’re too chicken in 2024 to say “no, that’s not the story we’re telling here” to the person who bought the game

@coriander just hire some lesbians to tell you if the character is lesbian or not god it's not hard

@coriander the problem with bioware sexualities wasn't that not every character could be romanced by any gender of player but that bioware was frequently wrong about which ones were which

@akjcv have you read terrorist assemblages by jasbir puar

@coriander the plot of assassin’s creed is taking down the illuminati so my understanding is that it’s basically a “feds lie, fuck cops” for time periods without feds or cops per se

@aschmitz @aescling i think allegory is definitely a closely-related term; to me the difference is in how strongly the things are bound

for me an allegory generally relates two very different things, in a way which requires some thinking to map and might not be obvious at first blush. with Plato’s allegory of the cave, “the cave wall” and “sensory perception” are not obviously related things; they are made related through the structures of the story

in contrast, i think a metaphor functions by constructing two things which ARE closely related, and saying “if true for X, then also Y”. (or, i think, it can function that way. i might think allegory is a subtype of metaphor.)