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   Jess👾 (jesstheunstill@infosec.exchange)'s status on Friday, 28-Mar-2025 02:48:05 JST Jess👾

   Fantasy artists creating "evil" races that don't just look like exaggerated racial stereotypes
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     tom jennings (tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org)'s status on Friday, 28-Mar-2025 02:48:05 JST tom jennings

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     @JessTheUnstill

     LORD OF THE RINGS, for example? SHEESH.

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     Asta [AMP] (aud@fire.asta.lgbt)'s status on Friday, 28-Mar-2025 04:12:43 JST Asta [AMP]

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     @JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange I’m really happy that D&D (and others?) did away with “forced alignment” for races. Such a ridiculously bigoted idea to start with, I’m glad that at least in some places it’s going away.
     
     I remember seeing people post/boost some artwork online when it happened and it was stuff like a Kobold barista and it was adorable and delightful.
     
     It also, unsurprisingly, leads to better storytelling (because the characters are free to be sentient entities who have a cultural background and make individual choices, rather than a cardboard box with a couple loose leaf pages from an 18th century race “science” book stuffed inside).