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On Project Moon

Hey, this is gonna be long, I'm putting most of it under the cut. This post is about the recent firing of VellMori from Project Moon, I know that it warrants some tags for triggers, but I have no idea what's commonly used, so if I miss something, please tell me.

Additionally, I have written this up in a way that if it escapes the target audience of Project Moon fans, it can still be understood, so with that in mind, there will be Library of Ruina spoilers.

The tl;dr for those who don't wanna read the full thing is that Project Moon was put in a very bad position with some violent extremists targeting them and that I'm not happy about any of what happened.

So, for those unaware, Project Moon has fired VellMori, the CG artist for Limbus Company. Now, a not inaccurate statement that can be made from this is "Project Moon fired a woman for being a feminist" but this is... somewhat reductive. Let's immediately get out of the way that VellMori did absolutely nothing wrong. Some people have said she is a TERF. I've seen no evidence of this. Some people have said she wished death on all men. I've seen no evidence of this.

What I HAVE seen is that VellMori thinks sexual abuse is bad. Now, why would this lead to a firing? The short answer is that a bunch of violent incels, one of which was literally dressed as a clown, came knocking at their office doors.

See, Limbus Company has a "beach" event coming up. In this event, we are getting a water themed outfit for two of the characters, one male and one female. For Sinclair, the guy, he has been given an EXTREMELY slutty mechanic's outfit. For Ishmael, the woman, she has been given a very skintight wet suit outfit. Now, I wanna take care to note that VellMori is the CG artist - she had no hand in these designs, a man made them. I would also like to mention that both outfit designs are amazing, and I will be including them at the end of this post for reference.

Now, upon revealing the wet suit design for Ishmael, a bunch of whiny incels on what is basically Korean 4chan got upset that Ishmael, instead of being in a bikini as is usual for gacha games, was wearing a wet suit. Nevermind that the designs in Limbus Company have always been conservative and that the Sinclair design is the most skin we've ever seen and it's just an open shirt. Again, the wet suit is still super revealing, it's skin tight and this is literally the first design of her that doesn't make her look flat chested. They're not rioting over the lack of sex appeal, they're specifically mad that it's not a bikini.

The incels come to the conclusion that the lack of any skin being shown on Ishmael's outfit is a result of evil feminism. No, I'm not exaggerating. They initially begin harassing the artist who is actually responsible for drawing the outfits, but upon learning that he is a man, set their sights on VellMori because she's a woman, and being an artist is good enough I guess. What they do from here is they start digging and digging and digging on VellMori's twitter, making use of archived pages because many of the "offensive" tweets had been deleted.

I'd like to take a moment to point out that VellMori never actually tweeted anything out here - it was all retweets from a 4-6 year old archive, and retweets that have been long deleted. These retweets contain such transgressive statements as "I'm sick of misogyny" and "If being against patriarchy makes me antisocial, then so be it" and just... mirroring back to men what those men were saying to women. Some people would like to have you think she was calling for death to all men. She wasn't. She ALSO retweeted all this stuff while she was a teenager and well before she worked for Project Moon.

Nonetheless, the incels had decided that feminism was the reason Ishmael had a wet suit and not a bikini and they had found a feminist working for Project Moon. It is at this point that we must take a brief detour and talk about Library of Ruina, Project Moon's previous game.

See, in Library of Ruina, one of the protagonists, Angela, has this whole arc about escaping her abuser and becoming a human. Yes, she is literally a robot, but Project Moon isn't exactly a stranger to symbolism in their stories and a feminist reading of Angela is ridiculously easy. The main antagonist in Library of Ruina is Argalia, the Blue Reverberation, and his crew is called the Reverberation Ensemble. Every member of the Reverberation Ensemble is a violent lunatic who each want to reinforce the status quo in their own unique shitty way. In addition to this, typically in order to reach the titular Library, you would need to be invited. The Reverb Ensemble are the "uninvited guests", the ones who managed to reach the Library and knock down the door without an invite.

Why am I talking about this? Well, the incels decided to start calling themselves the Reverb Ensemble, and referring to each other using names of the Reverb Ensemble members such as Pluto, Elena, and Oswald. Having taken on the moniker of the uninvited guests, they then showed up to Project Moon's office to protest. Over the lack of a bikini. Now, remember how I mentioned someone was dressed up as a clown? One of the Reverb Ensemble members, Oswald, is a clown with an extremely tenuous grip on reality. So much so, that his ideal world is one in which there is no meaning whatsoever. That is the character they chose to dress up as. This is either a case of extreme self awareness or extreme self unawareness.

Eventually, the incels were let into the office possibly as a form of damage mitigation to prevent the crowd of protestors from getting any bigger. This was a questionable decision, but they had a group of violent incels at their doorstep either way, and I don't exactly have full details on this. Regardless, Project Moon had on their hands a group of violent protesting incels, who they felt compelled to let into the building, and who had demands including the firing of their feminist employee.

So while "Project Moon fired a woman for being a feminist" isn't inaccurate it also isn't the full picture. More appropriately, it'd be "Project Moon fired a woman because a group of violent incels who weren't satisfied with a form fitting wet suit instead of a bikini showed up to their office demanding that an artist who did not make the wet suit design be fired because she retweeted some feminist stuff 5 years ago while she was a teenager".

I'm not happy with this. None of this is good. People are allowed to be feminists, and Project Moon stories have always presented progressive ideas to anyone with half a brain to do some basic literary analysis. I can understand why they would cave to the demands of people who were threatening them and showed up to their actual place of work, but at the same time, that's someone's livelihood gone and proof that in the future, the same sorts of people can use the same sorts of tactics to bully Project Moon into doing whatever they want. All of this sucks.

For those who would like to see the retweets in question alongside translations: https://twitter.com/danghwangs/status/1683884236888223744

And for people who would like reference as to what the artworks these incels were up in arms about, Ishmael in the wet suit and Sinclair in the mechanic's outfit.

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Idk if I asked this before but reply with your favorite sephirah and why they’re your favorite I want to see discourse

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Slice and dice

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I've seen Brand New Animal, like it a lot, and decided to make a michiru hama

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First time doing this thing

Relationship status: alone

Favourite colours: Brown, blue, purple, black, grey

There favourite foods: chicken, potatoes in general, chocolate, all of It is good

Song stuck in my head: lagtrain, last of me, end like this (it's so good)

Last song i listened to: end like this (really is fucking awesome)

Last thing i googled: croissant arknights operator

Dream trip: maybe some forest in fall

Time: 13:15

Anything i want: a House i own, lots of lds, and a hug or several.

Oh! And Hamas lots and lots of hamas

I can really tag anyone so feel free to do the thing

tag game!

from @softdazais

Rules: tag 10 people you want to get to know better

relationship status: very single and unready to mingle

favorite color: blue, pink, and purple

three favorite foods: chicken marsala w/linguine, pad kee mow, shabu shabu

song stuck in my head: chocolate candy fruit honey butter waffle and marshmallow mango juice Dessert - HYO

last song i listened to: something from animal crossing lol

last thing i googled: just checked tracking info on a few packages

time: 12:34 pm

dream trip: vancouver, singapore, san diego!

anything i really want: to pass my classes this semester, i’ve been struggling with coursework for the past 3-4 weeks :((

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Texas: Alright, everyone, we have a new operator joining us. This here is Whislash.

Whislash: Hi everyone, please treat me well! Is Nearl around by chance? It’s been so long since I’ve seen my niece.

Lappland: Niece?

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maybe is beacuse they make for a very clear enemy, and you can see them as a very clear evil and wont question why they are bad, the only exception maybe being the saga of tanya the evil, were the main caracter happens to be german, but even has evil in the title, AND everyone is against her (except her country)

okay one thing i keep wondering about is like….. what the hell is the fascination with n/zi germany in anime

like? the saga of tanya the evil, izetta the last witch, hetalia axis powers, and the character designs for korekiyo and kokichi from danganronpa to name a few….. why is it such a prevalent theme

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the only authority I follow is my heart and the voices in my head

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“Dad, are we pyromaniacs?”

“Yes, we arson.”

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Why don’t ants get Covid?

Because they have tiny little anty bodies.

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My anxiety: *banging pots and pans together, screaming*

Me: *screams louder to assert dominance*

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but science means NOTHING when you are controlled by the sneaky little puppetmaster known as m e n t a l i l l n e s s

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Deaplout - Texas Lappland

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