when are we gonna stop using the word “abusive” as a synonym for “just being an asshole”
hate 2 break this 2 yall but the world isnt split up into nice people and abusers. being cruel or manipulative in the absence of an observable pattern of behavior and an established power dynamic isnt abuse. sometimes people are just shitty
Y’all non-aromantics making aro icons and stuff to include us in pride posts: hey thanks! That’s really cool of you! But please, can you make sure you’re using the right flag? The aro flag got changed up a lot when people were first putting one together and I see a lot of you using really old designs that the aro community doesn’t use anymore (like, the one with the orange stripe). Since three different ones come up when you search on google images, the confusion is completely understandable and if I weren’t aro and hanging around aro spaces online a lot, I would get confused too.
Here is the current one:
Note the five stripes and the one in the middle being white and not yellow. A lot of aros at the time of the flag’s creation had issues with eye strain when the yellow one was more common, so the yellow stripe was switched out for white to accommodate them.
Thank you for including us, but we’d really appreciate it if you used the flag we’re using!
yes I agree!!! but it’s not just non aros, and I wanna ask that other aros be aware of the current flag and why the community had problems with the others too. if you’re making stuff for other aros, its important that it be something that the community is most comfortable with.
Caper in the Castro is a legendary video game, not because
legions of die-hard fans continue to play it, but because it was thought
to be lost forever. Now, what is largely considered to be the first
LGBTQ-focused video game (it was released in 1989) is on the Internet Archive for anybody to play.
The game is a noir point-and-click that puts the player in the
(gum)shoes of a private detective named Tracker McDyke who is, in case
you couldn’t guess by the name, a lesbian. McDyke must unravel the
mystery behind the disappearance of Tessy LaFemme, a transgender woman,
in San Francisco’s Castro district, an historically gay neighbourhood.
OOOOOHhh!
The game was released as charityware – freely, with a strong request to give a donation an AIDS Charity of their choice. I’d like to push towards still following that and donating, if you’re able.
(And you might also want to donate to the Internet Archive, who is hosting it now, while you’re at it – they’re in the middle of a donation drive, and could use your support.)
Hey guys, thought I would add a walkthrough for anyone who is having trouble with the game. For a bonus, it doubles as a plot summary, as well.
First, you should start up the emulator. Once it is finished booting, click the Apple logo in the upper left and open “Control Panels”. Open “Keyboard” and set the layout to U.S. and Domestic– This will solve the issue of some of the keys being shifted over one space.
Back in “Control Panels”, scroll down to “Sound” and set it to 7 if you want to hear the wonderful audio effects in the game.
Finally, click the Apple logo again and open “Key Caps”. Check if you can type a hyphen (-) with your keyboard. If yes, you can skip the rest of this paragraph. If no, use your mouse to type one with the on-screen keyboard and highlight it. Press Alt+C to copy it to your clipboard. When you need to type some hyphens later, you can paste the symbol by pressing Alt+V.
Now, you can open the game by clicking “disk” on the right side of the screen and then opening “Caper in the Castro”.
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