aside from the aforementioned affection towards snakes, i also hold a great deal of fondness in my heart for hollow knight (i am extremely normal™ about collector), rain world (miros birds are the best creature i will not be accepting criticism on this), command and conquer red alert 2 (kirov reporting), in stars and time (one must imagine sisyphus stuck in a time loop), and about a million other things.
i played through slay the princess and spent the whole game pretty much completely ignoring her in favor of dicking around with the narrator (there is no good ending because the narrator always dies) and the voices (contrarian is the best one), which probably says a lot about me (i am aromantic asexual (this will not stop me from rebugging horny™ shit that i am tangentially interested in)).
fuck it i'm a girl now (still he/they tho)
i also like to draw and make games & shit.
as a queer jewish person i feel like specifically Nazi terms ain't the best ones to reclaim. I'm not gonna say others can't call themselves whatever, but it makes me fuckin' nervous whenever I see someone using it. the fascist weeaboos (or whatever they are) call themselves that
gotta be conscientious about manners of reclaiming things
agree. conversely, reclamation of terms like queer, faggot, and tranny form a community identity, and a community that explicitly stands in opposition to oppressors.
Terms like "degenerate", even when self-assigned, aren't forming a cohesive community identity (other than the 4chan pepe frog fascists who love to self-identify with the term)
My "degenerate" take is that I most often hear it used self-deprecatingly like "ugh, my room's got sex toys scattered all over, I'm such a degenerate," which is... not quite reclamatory? It's a little too much "yeah fash, you kinda got me there, lol."
obligatory disclaimer that I'm not going to come after someone for using the word that way, but yeah it's not the same as something like Queer Pride
(then again I have a self-deprecating "perv" in my own longtime username so what do I know. but "pervert" doesn't really get used as a slur that much these days. or at least doesn't have an entire weird social darwinism theory implied by its use. or I'm just kinda married to the name now)
you'd think just being mistaken for an nft "investor" would be enough to dissuade people
