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felis_ultharus) wrote2007-05-01 06:14 am
felis_ultharus) wrote2007-05-01 06:14 am
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Beltane
Happy Beltaine/Bealtaine/Beltane to those who celebrate it. I hope it's a good one for you all ^_^
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On a completely different note, I yanked this Salon.com article entitled Why can't gay dwarves get married in Middle-earth?" from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
jenjoou. Probably only of interest to people into gamer culture, which is about one-third of my friends-list.
Among other things, it's about the growing number of gay and bi male and women gamers playing video games, and how the people who write these things are responding.
I have to be reminded that gay and women gamers are a small demographic. All the passionate video gamers I hang out with these days are women, and I was *involved with* all but one of the guys I was hanging out with at the arcades, during my teenage years (and that one guy was the boyfriend of one of my closest male friends).
Video games have gotten a lot queerer since then -- I think Final Fantasy VII was a big turning point there. Any game where playing the passive role in sex with a guy not only restores your life and mana, but also gets you the lingerie you need to complete your drag outfit so you can seduce a mafioso, has to be among the queerest games ever made.
Even after all these years, I think Final fantasy VII still gives Shadowhearts and its man-festival a run for its money ^_^
Happy Beltaine/Bealtaine/Beltane to those who celebrate it. I hope it's a good one for you all ^_^
Video Games
On a completely different note, I yanked this Salon.com article entitled Why can't gay dwarves get married in Middle-earth?" from
jenjoou. Probably only of interest to people into gamer culture, which is about one-third of my friends-list. Among other things, it's about the growing number of gay and bi male and women gamers playing video games, and how the people who write these things are responding.
I have to be reminded that gay and women gamers are a small demographic. All the passionate video gamers I hang out with these days are women, and I was *involved with* all but one of the guys I was hanging out with at the arcades, during my teenage years (and that one guy was the boyfriend of one of my closest male friends).
Video games have gotten a lot queerer since then -- I think Final Fantasy VII was a big turning point there. Any game where playing the passive role in sex with a guy not only restores your life and mana, but also gets you the lingerie you need to complete your drag outfit so you can seduce a mafioso, has to be among the queerest games ever made.
Even after all these years, I think Final fantasy VII still gives Shadowhearts and its man-festival a run for its money ^_^
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How is Beltane celebrated in Ireland? I know the way we celebrate it in Wicca has more to do with Germanic may Day customs than with Celtic ones, and I've always wondered how it's actually celebrated in Ireland today?
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People also go out at dawn and wash themselves in the dew on the grass. But not in the cities because what little grass there is has been previously anointed by dogs.
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