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Aug 6 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
I signed up for a LARP at #gencon so I reached out to the GM to say I was bringing a 6mo baby and could they incorporate that into my character?

I got a character sheet saying I was a minor noblewoman who had recently had a baby… or so it appeared to others. 1/3
But my character was really a sorcery-using spy for a rival kingdom, and the baby was really my cat familiar in disguise. They even wrote some custom abilities so that when I *appeared* to pause play to nurse or change a diaper, I was really receiving secret information. 2/3
Everyone was delighted to have a baby as a character, and even more delighted to discover she had helped me spy on them.

These are the LARPs pro-natalists want. Happy #gencon!
Let it be known, it was the Feldra Gamers: m.facebook.com/FeldraGamers/
Well, given the numbers and the topics on this tweet, I’ll mention that I run a substack, Other Feminisms, specifically on how to make women and children welcome in the world. otherfeminisms.substack.com
PPS: I co-wrote Back Again from the Broken Land with my husband Alexi of @ClovenPineGames.

It’s a game about what comes *after* the victory, inspired by the Scouring of the Shire.

cloven-pine-games.itch.io/back-again-fro…

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Dec 20, 2020
This is right on from
@DouthatNYT

nytimes.com/2020/12/19/opi…

When I was an atheist, I was frustrated that folks didn’t bring the fierce curiosity that drives science to philosophy.

This is why I made sure to tell people I was a *virtue-ethicist atheist* because

1/3
Just "not believing in God" or even "believing in science" didn't actually explain what you believed about our duties to others. This is the period when, weeks before my conversion to Catholicism, I went to the Reason Rally with this sign.

2/3
Politics is never neutral—how we allocate vaccines, whether and when we permit abortion, etc. all presumes strong claims about who we value and why.

Disclaiming the salience of those bigger questions leaves us less able to answer them.

3/3
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Jul 4, 2020
I think the zoom wedding I’m attending has layered some fussy baby noises over the polyphony on the waiting screen, and I am charmed. #swelltoberogel

All weddings (and all Masses) should have audible babies. Beatrice is excited to one day do her bit.
Ah, there are few socially distanced babies in the actual church! I wouldn’t have put piping them in past @feminaprovita! She’s a good friend to babies.
Beautiful homily from Fr. Schrenk for Claire and Bill. (And well suited to the readings from Tobit, the Apocalypse, and the Wedding at Cana) #swelltoberogel

"The sacrament of matrimony is an invitation to this holy hospitality, in which God comes to us as both host and guest."
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Mar 18, 2020
Celebrating St. Patrick's day with all of twitter, as we pray his Breastplate together. #TwitterInThisFatefulHour

I bind unto myself today
The strong name of the Trinity,
By invocation of the same
The Three in One and One in Three...

1/17
I bind this today to me forever
By power of faith, Christ’s incarnation;
His baptism in Jordan river,
His death on cross for my salvation...

St Patrick, pray for us

@Dontstopbelief 2/17

His bursting from the spicèd tomb,
His riding up the heavenly way,
His coming at the day of doom
I bind unto myself today...

St. Patrick, pray for us

@KateRAbbott 3/17 (the day itself!)

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Jun 21, 2019
Fr. Martin, in this thread, goes on to give a partial list of sins that should cause us to fear hell, and then concludes that a school should fire teachers either for all of these or none of these. Here's why I disagree:
Teaching at a Catholic school does not imply that the archdiocese has found the teacher to be sinless (a very surprising finding!) or that they've at least found the people with the least serious sins.
Teachers are fired for things that are not serious sins at all (e.g. persistent tardiness) if they interfere with their ability to teach. And persisting in a publicly known sin and denying it is sin does interfere with teaching.
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May 15, 2019
This isn't how we try to prevent murders. The goal isn't to make murder logistically impossible but to make it undesired (through a mix of value inculturation, resources to deescalate aggression, high clearance rates, etc.).

Making abortion rarely desired, not just rare...

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Making abortion rarely desired, not just rare won't happen by leaning further into the idea that healthy human bodies are defective + dangerous. A truthful society can't requiring folks to suppress their fertility to be part of the world (which we currently expect of women).

2/2
Related thread from @brandonmcg:



It's all kind of in the vein of @evetushnet's "You can't have a vocation of no." Pro-lifers want s/t more transformational than just the absence of legal abortions.
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Sep 19, 2018
"To look into the eyes of a vulnerable person is to see yourself as you might be. It’s a more harrowing experience than one might readily admit. There is a version of yourself made powerless, status diminished, reliant upon the goodwill of others."
"One response is denial: If you refuse to believe you could ever be in such a position—perhaps by blaming the frail for their frailty or ascribing their vulnerability to moral failure—You come away disgusted with the weak, but content in the certainty you aren’t among them."
The alternative? To welcome the weak, to know that we are already weak (even if we find it easier to pass). For each of us can echo Paul, "For I do not that good which I will; but the evil which I hate, that I do."

There is no more dangerous weakness.
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