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Hopefully I'm not too late for this, but frick it. Children blast !!!

((People should send me their secret bosses.

Both to draw and describe how mine would react to them.

That'd be cool

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Sonic theory is still going at it? My brainchild? Satisfactory

DOMIC ATTACKS

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I really gotta do this. Especially since I've finalised his design. That and Turbo's design. I might also touch up on Rainie's design a bit more to make them more "Frisk-like" if that makes sense

This is what that Staggering Winds crap does to one's brain

whoa who are these freaks

finally finished some sprites.. I'm not completely happy with how Char looks (I had a hard time making fire look right in pixel art) but it's a start!

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If anyone have Deltarune secret boss OCs based on my Sonic Theory, I kinda want yall to draw them as this meme

made this last month apparently. need to let it be free.

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I figure it’s worth putting on the Tumblr radar since much of this is current discussion of Niosi is happening on Twitter.

(content warnings for sexual assault, abuse, manipulation, and otherwise taking advantage of people)

On Chris Niosi, and Kyle McCarley’s defense of him:

Recently Chris Niosi (aka Kirbopher), who has admitted to abusing people around him for at least a decade, was cast in Honkai Star Rail as the character Moze. Five years have passed since his public apology, where he addresses some specific callouts from victims to debatable effect, but unfortunately he’s lied about apologizing to all of his victims (1, 2), and the specific apologies he has written are now deleted from his tumblr, calling his efforts into changing for the better into his question. Furthermore, as he has a history of taking advantage of his fans even in his more underground days (1+2, 3), putting him in a situation where he has access to more fans to put him on a pedestal is dangerous. Other users have iterated much of this already on tumblr, where it was already discussed in previous years, so this is just some context.

But I’m here to talk about something related that hasn’t gotten any Tumblr coverage. For example, people here have talked about Griffin Puatu’s reddit post defending him already. But nobody has mentioned Kyle McCarley defending him yet.

On July 19, 2024, in the replies of Moze’s introduction tweet, he had this to say:

He addresses his use of “bad boyfriend” downplaying legitimate abuse later. I don't think it's great but we’ll get to that. However, “the court of public opinion” is a concept that he does stand by, perhaps reinforced by the backlash he received for this. Some of this was vitriolic, given the kind of person he was defending from further criticism, but others did try to reason with him, including some of the above and more as evidence that Niosi isn’t being entirely truthful about his atonement, and overall most responses expressed disbelief and disappointment more than anything else.

Still, he deactivated his account the following day, on July 20, 2024.

Unfortunately, our story doesn’t end there. In the early morning of July 21, 2024, he made an announcement in his Discord server.

So here's the thing about Niosi not being a confirmed sexual abuser or rapist or pedophile. I don't have everything, with this being such an expansive case so this is off what I've found. You know the time he planned to take advantage of his girlfriend at the time while said girlfriend was intoxicated (plus this follow-up where he attempted to cover for himself)? Drunk people cannot consent, especially not when drunk sex is already a hard boundary. Although this technically doesn't make him a rapist, to my knowledge, if you're gonna argue semantics it'll just sound like "well he didn't ACTUALLY rape someone so it's not as bad". Is it not already terrible that he tried to and still downplayed it when called on it? Besides, as mentioned in Lighty's testimony linked above, he's let other in his sphere groom minors under his watchful eye, and his other ex Audrey had things to say about how he weaponized sexual favors too. If someone actually has more on a history of sexual abuse and pedophilia, though, please bring it to my attention. I'll add it to this post.

Either way, we don't know what he knows. At best, Kyle has a very incomplete picture of the situation, and at worst he does have a complete picture and he just doesn’t think it’s valid or up-to-date criticism. The person who first brought this to people's attention on Twitter also mentioned that her messages in the server were being deleted when she spoke up to provide evidence, so for someone who welcomes others to share evidence how open he actually is to it is questionable. (UPDATE: There's more to this part of the story but we'll get to it in a future update.) His final message a couple of hours from these just solidifies it.

Having joined the server myself to see, around the time of the announcements seems to have been scrubbed clean, but there is some current discussion of the topic as of this post. Furthermore, someone there has stated that they're compiling sources to send his way to give him a better understanding of the situation (even if they're not sure if he still wants to talk about this), so maybe this will finally get him to reconsider his stance! Only time will tell.

Overall, though, I stand by my point that if Niosi makes a living, it should be somewhere far away from the public eye. Don't give him a platform to find new fans to take advantage of. Don't give his victims the opportunity to be retraumatized whenever they start a new game of show. He's been given more than enough chances. It's time to turn over a new leaf instead of digging his heels into the ground.

Still, I don't know if Kyle will change his mind at this point. I want him to - I tried, back when his Twitter was still up - but even at this stage he's doubled down on a situation he knows he might not have the full story on and I'm not sure if I can trust that. For any other fans, give this some thought - keep an eye out for any future developments if you still want to have faith in him, move on from him if you can't stand it. I just want him to at least hold his friend accountable instead of trying to shield him from the lasting consequences of his own actions.

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the memes and jokes about biden dropping out are all great but PLEASE dont turn away and forget the victims of him directly funding a genocide. these are real people that are still being impacted by his cruelty, their tragedies are still ongoing and they need our support more than ever.

if I can suggest a Palestinian family to support, I'll highly recommend Wafaa—who you can read about [here]. Her sister and niece have both been martyred and one of her daughters gave birth while suffering from a chest wound from a IOF bomb shrapnel. As of right now, Wafaa only needs €7,566 to finally reach her goal!

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Maybe unsurprisingly, Ghost won

I'll get to cooking once I get home. Stay tuned hopefully

Tumblr refuses to let me make polls on reblogs, so I'm doing it here. This was supposed to be in a reblog from Bogleech's Poison type prompts (which you should absolutely check out), but again... tumblr being tumblr. So here it is (hopefully it works this time):

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Tumblr refuses to let me make polls on reblogs, so I'm doing it here. This was supposed to be in a reblog from Bogleech's Poison type prompts (which you should absolutely check out), but again... tumblr being tumblr. So here it is (hopefully it works this time):

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Every help counts, and I figure this sounds like a good website

About Gaza Funds

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Israel doing well in Eurovision is a completely predictable result of the boycott. The people who are watching & voting in Eurovision are now at best willfully ignorant and apathetic and at worst actively pro-Israel, meaning there will be a disproportionate amount of people willing to vote for Israel and even people voting for them because of the boycott.

But saying that means that boycotting Eurovision was the wrong call completely misses the point of the boycott. The point is not "Israel should not win Eurovision", it is "Israel should not be allowed to compete in the first place". The point of the boycott is not to give the EBU views or money, so if you've been boycotting... don't give them money or legitimacy by voting for someone tomorrow to prevent Israel from winning. If Israel does win, that does not mean boycotting failed; it only further delegitimizes the competition and confirms we should burn the whole thing down.

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Tumblr refuses to let me make polls on reblogs, so I'm doing it here. This was supposed to be in a reblog from Bogleech's Poison type prompts (which you should absolutely check out), but again... tumblr being tumblr. So here it is (hopefully it works this time):

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Welp, time to go in on this. I'll go for a poll between these four (Yes I'm gonna do Ghost type even if someone already did it because you can never have too much ghosts). Anyways...

I wish I can set it to between 1-7 days, but tumblr won't let me do that

I love poison-type pokemon so much that I’m interrupting the pokemon reviews to share my giant text collection of poison type concepts - at least eight for every type combination.

There’s also a point to this beside me having fun, honest. (Not really)

Other types to come MAYBE?

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If anyone plays or at least knows Dredge (which you should play I think), these three guys are my favorite aberrations (aka weird eldritch sea creatures (Don't let fisheries tell you that fishes mean anything from the sea))

I can imagine these swimming in space, maybe around a space whale or two. I like the space vibes they have.

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Okay so I wasn't the only one who wanted to make one of my region's pseudo legendary a Dragon/Fairy cave fish/salamander. Okay, good to know. I think we needed an actual Dragon/Fairy type that isn't Mega Altaria (as much as I really like Altaria), and no animal feels more of that typing than a long, pink cave creature like an olm

There's going to be a lot more going on with this little guy's concept, but this is the first and current draft I have of it. I think I'm on the right track, but I need to play with proportions to nail the beta Wooper feel that I wanted to go for

This is long. Super long. This is a humongous gigantic dump of my fan concepts meticulously curated over the past *several months* until I thought it was “perfect.” A few Pokemon in it are sketched, but none have finalized designs, and the Pokemon themselves are kind of only the half of it I guess.

I’ve also updated the logo of my Pokemon reviews because the old one was kind of “self deprecating” by looking gross and that isn’t really me, to be honest.

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Ok gotta talk about it.

As a Jewish historian, I fucking hate Israel in ways most probably will never be able to comprehend. I'm going to try and explain it anyways. The central creation myth of Israel is that it is Jewish, and then consequently, that Israel is a part of Jewishness. Its easy to simply state this is false, but fully comprehending this and putting it into practice in thought and deed seems rare to me.

The evil at the heart of this violence predates the recent acceleration of genocide. Israel is a colony, and more than that, an antisemitic fraud itself. After WW2, when Israel was being founded, the Jews of Europe generally did not wave goodbye to their neighbors and head to the promised land. Many were expelled from their homes. Zionism itself, as an action, was a false choice at the time. A mere excuse to place an ally in the middle east, and an excuse to complete the expulsion and destruction of the European Jew. The Zionist Jew is more than complicit in this, they actively seek the destruction and assimilation of all other Jews.

Many fail to realize, and largely because of Israel, that Jews are not inherently white, Ashkenazi, European-descended people. Our faith and culture has an immense variety that is spread all across the globe. Jewishness, in population and volume of culture, exists more so outside of Israel than within it. Israel is for a very specific kind of Jew. The kind that lets Yiddish die, that attaches themselves to European things, that makes themselves and their practices as white as possible.

And they have the nerve, the fucking belligerent GALL, to frame themselves as the necessary saviors of our people. To the Zionist, questioning Israel is to question Jewishness itself. They bake adoration for the colonial machine into their very prayers, and push them on us even as children. To *not* oppress, to *not* kill, to *not* genocide, is to invite death. This is the core of fascistic thought, of course. "Kill them before they kill us." And they KNOW this too, they really do. The truth of that irony does not matter, because as is true for all fascists, the truth itself does not matter to them. They wanted this, they wanted this even before the British saw it in their best interest to give them the land. Any excuse to RETVRN, as the neo-nazis say of Rome, or the German Empire, or whatever the fuck stupid country they want to poorly animate the corpse of. Some select Zionists even *sided with the fucking Nazis* in agreement they should abandon Europe to colonize Palestine. (Haavara Agreement)

My people have proved time and time and time again you don't need a nation state to have an enduring culture. We have protected ourselves for thousands of years without the help of these spiteful, doom-saying maniacs. I was going to post something like this on Passover, but that would be hypocritical. The state of Israel doesn't actually have shit to do with Jewishness. שְׁמַע יִשְׂרָאֵל יְה Vi tsu derleb ikh im shoyn tsu bagrobn. [my best translation] Hear Israel (beginning of a prayer in Hebrew) I should outlive him long enough to bury him. (an old Yiddish curse)

Free Palestine. Donate what you can, they need it right now.

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Actually shout out to Dungeon Meshi for having what I think is the most creative take on living armor. Who the hell comes up with "siphonophore-like molluscs"? That sounded like something I expect from speculative evolution and not a fantasy anime. W to the author

On a slightly unrelated note, this is almost my new headcanon on Charcadet and Armarouge/Ceruledge; they're hermit-crab like molluscs that happen to look humanoid to make it easier to fit inside discared armor, and evolving them has them weld their armor onto their skin to make a protective layer. Something about Charcadet feels octopus-like to me