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Cosplayer Neeko

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FREE Animated Cosplayer Neeko Emotes

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Ooooo \[T]/ excellent

In Stars and Time AU where everything is the same, Siffrin is the one looping; but you know how everyone's equipment persists through loops and the wish magic makes active corrections when you would otherwise rediscover those things?

And how Odile's weapon is Books?

And how Odile can figure it out?

So imagine every loop she finds ever increasing notes left in her own hand that she has no memory of, each clearly understanding how she'll interpret and react to the previous set and adding more and more info. Every time is the first time for her, she's never seen these notes before. But there they are, walking through a long winded argument with herself detailing tests she can run (and which to avoid) before launching into details about things yet to try and instructions to *keep writing*.

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Wait that's exactly how those first few "days" of notes would go XD

Love it

In Stars and Time AU where everything is the same, Siffrin is the one looping; but you know how everyone's equipment persists through loops and the wish magic makes active corrections when you would otherwise rediscover those things?

And how Odile's weapon is Books?

And how Odile can figure it out?

So imagine every loop she finds ever increasing notes left in her own hand that she has no memory of, each clearly understanding how she'll interpret and react to the previous set and adding more and more info. Every time is the first time for her, she's never seen these notes before. But there they are, walking through a long winded argument with herself detailing tests she can run (and which to avoid) before launching into details about things yet to try and instructions to *keep writing*.

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In Stars and Time AU where everything is the same, Siffrin is the one looping; but you know how everyone's equipment persists through loops and the wish magic makes active corrections when you would otherwise rediscover those things?

And how Odile's weapon is Books?

And how Odile can figure it out?

So imagine every loop she finds ever increasing notes left in her own hand that she has no memory of, each clearly understanding how she'll interpret and react to the previous set and adding more and more info. Every time is the first time for her, she's never seen these notes before. But there they are, walking through a long winded argument with herself detailing tests she can run (and which to avoid) before launching into details about things yet to try and instructions to *keep writing*.

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Genuinely some of the best movement in gaming imo

Movement(tm)

Another satisfactory fan comic cuz ive been fixating a bit on the game lol

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Dragon age having top surgery scars as an option in the character creator is like. Actually groundbreaking and I think we need to talk about it

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The different types of Pioneers (Satisfactory Comic)

Tag urself im factory builder (that's my actual factory haha)

This comic took forever to make cuz im not very good at backgrounds and i had to draw backgrounds for this and improve in real time lmao. hope u all like it!

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i kept thinking about the party as wizard of oz cast and slammed it together with Halloween cheer. Does Dormont celebrate Halloween??? probably not but i love it so

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Neeko might need an haircut like Ahri perhaps? 😳

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why he ate that

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I deleted the ask, but someone wrote one basically saying "why do you post reaction videos to Helluva Boss? Don't you know the show exploits its workers and they're overworked and get burned out?"

And, I mean, I love your energy, person who asked, definitely hold on to those values and speak up about this. But also, I am afraid I might have some bad news for you about literally the whole entire animation industry.

As near as I can make out from the sparse journalistic reporting that's been done on SpindleHorse -- and as a sidebar, please for the love of god read actual reporting about these things and not just callout posts and fandom discourse -- as near as I can make out, SpindleHorse as a studio is neither all that much better nor all that much worse than basically anywhere else in the industry on their level. It seems like it is (or was? Hazbin Hotel seems to be run differently) a studio mostly run by contracting people on a project-by-project basis, which leads to a crapton of turnover, and a huge need for organizing and onboarding, which according to the reporting I have read, the producers and freelancers have struggled to balance and manage properly, which has negatively impacted a number of the workers.

Top that with the usual catty, clique-based backbiting, sniping and poorly managed conflict resolution that's just kinda endemic in creative environments mostly staffed by twentysomethings and stressed out freelancers, and you have the recipe for a workplace where a lot of people are going to have a great time and feel creatively fulfilled, and a lot of people are going to come away feeling justifiably burnt the fuck out and exploited.

All of this is... not especially unusual for the animation industry, or indeed for any creative industry. Which is not to say that it is good, or that it should be allowed to be normal, or that it shouldn't be reported on and criticized (and please for the love of god support unionization efforts because that's the only thing that will actually address these kinds of systemic problems). It's just to say that if those kinds of issues are the line in the sand you draw where you refuse to engage with a studio's output...

Then, for starters, say goodbye to basically all of anime, because the Japanese animation industry is actively in a state of crisis trying to recruit new talent because its working conditions and pay are so astonishingly abysmal. And the horror stories that escape from that industry make the issues at SpindleHorse look like summer camp at times.

But you also have to say goodbye to a lot of American and European animation. Please do not imagine that Disney and its subcontractors, or that Nickelodeon or Warner Bros, are benevolent employers. They exploit their staff brutally and are currently trying to crush the labor value of animation with threats of generative AI being used to replace jobs. But those corporations also have extremely well-funded PR departments and the ability to silence employees with NDAs and threats of blackballing, so you don't get to hear as many of the horror stories as you might from a smaller independent studio that's less able to silence criticism by holding people's careers hostage.

All of this is to say that 1) it's valid and important to have criticism of both large and small-scale animation studios, and to keep the well-being and happiness of the workers higher in your priorities than the output of Products™.

And 2) if you're going to have a principle for what kinds of problems make a studio's output morally untouchable for you, and what kinds of problems you think should make a studio's output untouchable to other people, you do need to apply that principle consistently to the entire industry, and not just to the independent animation studio that happens to be surrounded by the internet's most inflammatory fandom discourse.

If you don't apply that principle consistently, maybe don't send reproachful messages to strangers scolding them for not living up to your standards, and even if you do apply that principle consistently, maybe still don't do that, because it's mostly quite annoying, and doesn't really do anything to support animation workers struggling for better working conditions.

The Animation Guild in the US is currently in the middle of a bargaining process with their industry, and they have a social media press kit as well as relevant talking points on their website which you can use to post in solidarity with the workers. If it comes to a full industry strike, consider donating to their strike funds to help them maintain pressure. Outside of the US, try and find out what (if any) local unions exist for animation workers, and maybe sign up to their mailing lists. They will let you know what kind of support they need from you.

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Welp

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Ranni (Elden Ring) ~

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Patreon and more

welp. as some of you know, im brazilian, and twitter got blocked on my country, 99% of my clients are on twitter. so im not sure how im gonna make rent and pay bills this month. If you like my content and would like to help. I have a patreon, where I post a lot of spicy art of Efah and Mako and a few miscellaneous things. https://www.patreon.com/MokimoLewds Im also in the process of making a (spicy) comic about them, its moving VERY slowlly, but the more people on patreon the more i can focus on the comic and art of them.

if you are interested in commissions im gonna make a post about them and how it works so stay tuned. thank you for reading ^^

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AAAAAH I LOVE THIS GAME SO MUCH!!! I missed siffrins birthday but im only a day late!!!