it is SO much easier for teachers to be like “hey we’re going to be talking about *sensitive topic* tomorrow so be prepared” and a student who knows that topic is one of their traumas can mentally prepare themselves, or decide “hey i’d rather not risk having an anxiety attack today, i think i’ll just stay home” instead of springing it on them last second and making a student feel like shit
thats literally all a “trigger warning” is in the context of schools. being like “hey we’re discussing this, take and precautions you need to prepare” not completely banning sensitive material. is it so hard to just try to be sensitive and caring to other people’s needs
People who are against trigger warnings and get all mad about them are gonna flip their absolute shit when they find out about tables of contents
The funniest thing to ever happen to me in a D&D game was when I’d been invited into an online group, and there was this one guy playing a dwarven barbarian that was the worst.
Now… whenever I talk about “those kinds of guys” involved in tabletop, I usually refer to them as “Dwarven Barbarians” because of this dude - even if that’s not the character they play. You get the idea.
He’d been AGGRESSIVELY hitting on the characters of me and the only other girl in the party for like an hour, but when the DM told him to cut it out, he went silent. Except it was only silent on mic, he’d dropped into private messages to send both me and this girl in character messages. I was copying all this over to send to the group so I could get him kicked out, when I heard the girl gasp in horror on her end. The message popped up on mine a moment later - he’d blasted us both with the same dick pic.
I didn’t even have a chance to react, she immediately jumped into action, and loudly proclaimed “OH! Oh!!!! [laughter] Daniel’s cosplaying his character that’s so funny. You’re very good, you got the proportions right and everything! That’s so cute, how’d you ever manage to get everything reduced down like that?”
And of course the other dudes in the game were like “Oh really? Let’s see! Daniel why aren’t you showing us?”
And I’m losing my shit because Daniel’s muted himself. Then he promptly drops out of the call. We explained everything, which MORTIFIED the other players, but my god I wish I’d been that quick on the draw. She’s my hero.
FFS, Daniel, just friggin’ play D&D, why you gotta be an ass?
I don’t know what class she rolled, but I know a perfect assassination when I see one
My vote is Bard, that was a nat 20 Vicious Mockery is what that was.
Video killed the radio star. Internet kills television. Internet creates the podcast. The internet killed video and brought the radio star back to life.
