u/Prestigious-Choice96

For important fan art reasons, I need to know your favorite romantic and/or flirtatious quotes from any Exandria PC. Here's a challenge: can you think of a quote for each?

My favorites include the vax'ildan confession and Dorian storm's "no debts between us"

It's a movie or tv show set in a fictional, possibly fantastical world. There's a bunch of factions or countries debating like the UN. The adults can't get along, but at the end of the scene they find the children of all the different factions/countries playing together.

I'm so overwhelmed with tablet choices, does anyone have recs or advice?

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- I'm an artist and I want to be able to draw on the tablet. I use Clip Studio which is available on many devices.

- Otherwise I would use the tablet for browsing, YouTube, and text docs. No gaming or heavy streaming. Not much photos. (I have a great desktop for most work, this would primarily be for drawing and possibly replace my basic "budget" Lenovo laptop.)

- I'd rather not do Apple, I have a Galaxy smartphone and a Windows laptop/desktop.

- I can't spend $2,500 on a tablet. Maybe I could go up to $1,000 if it has longevity.

- High res and good storage is helpful for art.

My players are headed to an abandoned gnomeish foundry next to a mine that leads to the underdark. The foundry is overrun with large spiders and drow bandits. The players will either sneak in and out to retrieve the items and NPCs they need or it will lead to a conflict.

Any ideas to make the espionage or combat more interesting?

TLDR; Now that I present male, older cis-woman that I don't know personally are frequently rude to me, and come down on me really hard.

I guess this is a rant, but I'm really looking for advice.

Context: I'm a 26 year old trans male, been on T and post-top surgery for 8 years. I'm told I "pass" really well, and people do assume I'm cis when they meet me. (Sometimes when I tell people I'm trans, they think I'm a trans woman. Probably because I have long hair.) I'm also autistic (shocker) so I'm probably not coming off how I think I am in social situations.

In the past few years, I have had so many incidents of older/middle aged (50+) white (always) cis women (always) coming down on me so hard with the most disrespectful, cruel, ignorant language. It's never about trans stuff! I think it's because they're assuming I'm a cis-het guy.

Some incidents for context:

• TLDR; A woman said I was being "sh**ty" for not buying her adult daughter's crafts because she used generative AI signage.
  • At a local craft/plant sale, one booth was a young woman selling hand-knitted crafts to raise money for a family friend's barn that had been destroyed in a storm. She had a sign covered in generative AI art. When she tried to politely sell me on her items, I responded that I was an artist and I couldn't support anyone who used generative AI. I left. Her mother found me later and said I had said something very "sh**y" to her daughter, she said I should keep my comments to myself, she said I had a terrible attitude (she wasn't there when I spoke with her daughter), and she said I need to accept people as they are (lol). She said a lot of other confusing stuff that demonstrated she had little to no knowledge about art or generative AI before storming away.
• TLDR; I spoke up against the CEO of my company for using racist language, and she treated me so poorly I quit.
  • The CEO of a video game company I used to work at was trying to make an "inclusive" game by having diverse NPCs and a lot of character creation options. A few months in to working there, she got scared of losing funding and rolled back the inclusivity. Then to justify it she started saying the craziest stuff that was mysoginist, racist, homophobic (she's a lesbian), transphobic, and freaking anti-semetic. I and other employees spoke up against this in a meeting. I said one of her comments was "ignorant and discriminatory," she said I was being offensive and disrespectful. She made work so unpleasant for me in the following week that I left. 11 people left the company in the following weeks (there was 20 people in total).
• TLDR; My upstairs neighbor violated our lease's parking rules and when I asked her to move her car she said I was in the wrong, then later accused me of scaring and intimidating her.
  • I lived in a two-family house with my roommate, there was an older woman who lived above us. Our driveway was tandem parking. One night a snow storm was predicted. I came home late to find her car at the bottom of the driveway (violation of lease). When she came out to pull her car in, she came up to my car window while I was sitting in the driver's seat. She told me that I shouldn't have made her come out so late. The next day she texted me to say that I had "intimidated" her, and she was afraid talking to a guy who's "much bigger" than her (I'm 5'7" 165lbs).
• EDIT: I remembered another one. TLDR; The head of my pride commitee lied about me to everyone else after I left.
  • The head "artist" of a small-town pride committee I was on uses 100% generative AI. Before I was aware of this, I offered my services as an artist repeatedly for flyers, merchandise, websites, etc. The head of the committee (older white lesbian) always refused my help. When I found out the other "artist" used AI (because I asked him about it and he straight up admitted it) I withdrew from the committee and told the head. She said I was a liar and the other "artist" definitely didn't use AI and that I was immature and left the committee in a rude and disrespectful way. None of the other committee members will talk to me any more, I think she lied to them about me.
• There's many other smaller incidents of scoffing, dismissing me as "man-splaining," teasing me for being unintelligent, etc.

I got cat-called as a girl, but now I get a lot of "mind your own business you four-eyed f*gg*t" or "what are you looking at sicko" from cis guys. I guess I present affeminate/gay? These are easier to deal with because it's just cismen being a**holes and I can ignore it and move on.

I just don't know what to do when these women talk to me like this. They never have any idea what they're talking about, and they have no intention of having a reasonable conversation. They genuinely care less about what I have to say because I present male. I'm kind of a softie, I'm really open to feedback, and I want to know when I've made a mistake so I can be better next time. (With the upstairs neightobr car-parking insident, I apologized multiple times in a group chat with our landlord and delivered a cookie basket which she never responded to.)

I'm curious if anyone else has these experiences, have any advice with how I should act going forward, or if I really am being a huge jerk in these situations.