#EXTREMELY positive review

[feral-cockroach]

what the fuck did i just watch

[shift-shaping]

i'll leave the countdown going because it seems like people have enjoyed it, but ultimately i don't think veilguard is for me. what i've read in early reviews and seen in previews is really disappointing, and ultimately while it sounds like a solid fantasy game, it doesn't sound like a dragon age game. i'll play it eventually, after it goes on sale, and maybe i'll like it just fine. for now, though, i think it's best if i just distance myself and pretend it doesn't exist.

rather than being a huge bitch and shitting on other people's fun, i'm going to take a break from tumblr. mutuals can dm me on ao3 or email eirwensurana@gmail.com for my discord.

i still enjoy writing these characters, but future chapters of raven will only be posted to ao3 for the foreseeable future.

it's been fun

[shinesurge]

lrt well i think theyre happy endings, i guess Happy is subjective some folks didn't consider the ending of wretched analog as happy as it could be lmao. my endings are like 80% totally happy

[lowpolysonic]

got so excited abt infinite wealth i had to pause my task to go make weird noises and pace around the room a couple times

[sevicia]

It really does feel like a lot of people are unable to (or don't want to) make the distinction between "nasty themes because we find it fun" and "nasty themes cause we have shit to say". Most books considered disturbing will fall into either category. "Like Porno for Psychos" falls into the first one perfectly, it has no purpose other than to entertain you for however many hours you read it, and the violence in it is just violence. I have not read many if any books that fall into the second, but I'm certain that many, many classics do and they are revered because they explore the topics well, but there is this weird attitude where the only books allowed to have "disturbing" themes are either classics or nasty for the sake of being nasty. I'm not saying we've gotten the next "Crime & Punishment", or "Perfume", or "Lolita" in recent years, because I can't possibly know that, but that people have become quick to spit at and step on anything they deem too extreme or too cruel and ignore any possible ideas the book may be trying to convey, whether they are "good" ideas or not, or whether it succeds at conveying them or not. It just feels like you can't enjoy this kind of fiction without being looked at as "weird" by most people, and I am not saying that having "darker" themes makes one work deeper or better than one that doesn't, but that people in general need to become more comfortable with being uncomfortable. I am so sleepy. Can u tell.

[stillinthatweirdfaze]

YouTubers will go to a furry convention and be fucking shocked and aghast that there are furries there.

[repugaytion]

I get that doing your research before going to the polls is one of the most important aspect of a true, mature democratic election. However, given the severity of the current situation, this discourse does nothing to address the fact that the choice is between a Democrat and a literal anti-democrat, an opportunist who has flirted with autocracy in so many ways. Doing your research and looking up party programs presupposes there is credible information on the candidate out there, deserving of thorough consideration, in the first place, whereas we know the misinformation on Trump has seeped into so many aspects of daily life that some folks would need to do a whole bachelors degree in Critical Media Literacy to recognise the falsities every single time. Phrasing the upcoming election in this way, as if the playing field were level and it might just depend on your individual interests who you are swayed by, still deeply normalises the presence of Donald Trump in a democratic election and legitimises him as a candidate that people may actually rightly vote for, rather than painting him as the rampant, lying threat to democracy he is.

[starkidlabs]

Impulse bought a Phantom of the Opera Popmart at 5am 👍

[zincbot]

i won't stop buying bundles on itch, because they're for good causes. but holy hell i have too many games on itch

[bloodymary83]

The “Cows” are Racist!

I’ve recently finished reading “Cows” by Matthew Stokoe. There are blogs and post singing praises of this book. Saying how “well-written” the story is. Most readers claim “Cows” is so brutal they can’t make it past the first three chapters. If you do make it past the first three chapters then you are in store for DISAPPOINTMENT!! Spoiler Warnings/Trigger warnings. Do not read past this point if you are under 18 years of age or triggered by animal abuse, beast***lity, SA, child abuse, mental illness, misogyny, coprophagia or, graphic depictions of violence. “Cows” begins with an incel named Steven. Steven lives with his abusive Mother and is in love with his neighbor Lucy, who he’s never talked to. Steven’s only friend is his dog named “Dog” who is crippled. Steven knows little of the outside world except what he has seen in sitcoms. Steven spent most of his life inside due to an illness which was actually caused by his Mother regularly poisoning his food. Steven decides to get a job at a slaughterhouse owned by a man named Cripps. Cripps is a morally apprehensible person who hires young naive employees so he can groom them for his “Beast****ty Cow Cult” but, wait it gets worse. Cripps feels like it is his manly duty to teach Steven how to be an “Alpha Male”. Cripps does this by kidnapping and tying up one of his employees and fellow cult members Gummy. Cripps takes Steven to a shed where he has Gummy hidden under a tarp. Cripps tells Steven to k!ll Gummy. Which Steven does by gutting Gummy from his anus to his genitals no hesitation whatsoever, he just does it. Apparently this act of alpha male violence gives Steven a confidence boost. Steven asks out his neighbor Lucy who says yes and, asserts himself to his Mother by insisting on doing all the cooking from now on. Stephen takes this opportunity to start putting pieces of his feces into all the meals he makes for his Mother because, why not? Steven feels like he is living his sitcom dream, only the girl next door is just as insane as he is. Lucy feels like there is a “posion” trapped inside of her. She binge watches medical documentaries and dissects animals to see if she can find out how to “remove” this “posion” but, the answer has completely evaded her so far. Lucy is timid and subservient to Steven in their relationship and only does what will make Steven happy. Things start to progress at the slaughterhouse where Steven discovers that he can speak with the cows. No reason is ever given, he’s just the “SA Cow Whisperer” for some reason. One of the cows tells Steven that they are tired of being graped and turned into hamburger, in that order. So the cows have started a secret underground “Cow Coalition” but, end up committing the same atrocities that the human “Cow Cult” did. When Steven points this out the cow calls Steven the N word. Yeah just flat out calls Steven the N word. I mean the cow has been through a lot but, there’s no need for that language Mrs. Cow! Fleeing from the cow’s weird racism fueled anger, Steven returns home. Where his Mother is intending to “unalive” him. Steven’s loyal pet Dog the dog attacks his Mother before she can pounce saving Steven. In a rage from her plan being spoiled, Steven’s Mother lashes out at Dog the dog unaliving him. Steven seeing his only friend being unalived before him pushes him to brutally unalive his Mother. Steven then flees to Lucy’s apartment only to walk in on a horrific scene. Lucy has become pregnant with Steven’s child but, believes her symptoms to be a part of the “posion” that lives inside her. After binge watching autopsy videos Lucy finds a solution. She takes a knife and cuts herself from her V to her A so that she can insert her hand up inside herself to pull out the “posion”. Steven witnesses Lucy self aborting their child this way before succumbing to blood loss. Do I recommend this book? NO!!! It’s a poorly written shock value monstrosity! Go read Dracula again instead!

[bidokja]

[ Image Descriptions:

Image 1: Five rectangles splayed from left to right over a black background, all painted in muted cool hues. Each shows a peek at a different scene. Rocks in a riverbed. A small pink shoe causing ripples in water. Shin Yoosoung and Lee Gilyoung laughing while sitting in a PC Bang. Pizza boxes and soft drinks on a table. Leafless trees along a riverbank. There is a quote scattered over these images. Transcript below.

Image 2: Three rectangles lined up from the left over a black background, all painted in bright warm hues. Each rectangle shows a peek of Shin Yoosoung's running figure. First, her eyes staring desperately forward. Second, her arm reaching out. Third, her hand touching warm light. To the right of these the black background shatters, revealing a bright white and a star radiating gold lines at the edge of the image. Shin Yoosoung is leaping and reaching towards this star. There are two quotes on this image. The first is a continuation of the quote from Image 1, and the other is faded and overlayed behind Shin Yoosoung. Transcript below.

Image 1 transcript: ""Shin Yoosoung ran as Kim Dokja had. She still had so many things to tell him. She'd tell him she wanted everyone to stop by at a PC Bang. She'd pester him to buy her pizza and Cola and have a picnic by the Han River. And while talking about her impossible wishes in a world where many things have become impossible to enjoy…"

Image 2 transcript: "…She'd become happy again." / "[ Quasi-myth story 'Savior of a Star' has been acquired. ]"

/ End if I.D.s ]

Chapter 440

Saviour of a star

[cherry-hulu]

— Sex or chocolate?

Synopsis: Mingyu kissing your pain away.

Warnings: Stepbro!KMG x stepsis!reader, aphrodisiac chocolates (yk the ones that can be bought online), extremely sheltered and innocent reader, READER IS 20, age gap, oral (f receiving), dubious consent, reader is a virgin. don't like = don't read.

A/N: Fantasies are fantasies. Sexual activities must only occur between two consenting partners of legal age and of legal relation.

It all started with chocolates. You pulling all nighters to review during exam week wasn't anything new for your family, especially for Mingyu who would catch your butt sticking out of the fridge in the middle of the night as you look for something to snack on. The urge to slap your cheeks was strong especially because of how jiggly it was, but he couldn't risk your mom walking in on it by chance.

Having been raised by a mother who's been betrayed by many men, you grew up to be extremely sheltered not knowing a clue about anything sexual. The only sex education you knew were the ones taught in school. You knew nothing of sex positions, kinks, and even why the number 69 was so funny to teenage boys. Not that you weren't smart, you were top of your class, you knew everything about anything— except for sex.

Mingyu found out about this pretty quickly when he and his friends were cracking dirty jokes one after the other, boisterous laughs filling the room, and you just sat there with your head tilted sideways, eyebrows furrowed, confused on what was so funny for them to become like hyenas.

Your mom and his dad had been dating for a little over a year before reaching marriage. You had not met each other prior to their engagement, with Mingyu occupied with his work and you with college. Nonetheless, you knew of their relationship and didn't mind it.

Your mother trusted you with Mingyu, always having him babysit you whenever they were away and busy with their own selves. And you trusted Mingyu, he was your brother after all. Albeit not by blood, but still your family.

Mingyu was always so kind and considerate to you, always giving into your request and providing you with what you wanted. At first you feared that he would be cold to you because of the age gap between the two of you and also due to his stern demeanor, but the truth is that he was just a giant cuddly teady bear.

He would always buy you snacks for your exams, specifically chocolates because it was your favourite. You've have a thing for tasting new things, so the ones he would buy for you would be different each time. You chose a bar on a whim, excited for what flavours it brings.

They tasted good most of the time, but the one you chose this time was special.. and weird. It only had three squares of chocolate inside each one cut in half diagonally, and upon lifting the chocolate, an illustration of an.. eggplant.. was etched behind the chocolate.

All three boxes were different, one had an eggplant, the other had water..? And the last one had peaches. You gasp as you saw the illustration of the fruit. One of your most favorite fruits were peaches, you haven't had one in a while because your mom claims that 'you eat them too quickly' and that 'too much of it will not be good.'

Curious to what the flavor might be, you quickly unwrap it from it's plastic and at the whole lot of it's diagonal cut only leaving the other half in case anyone might want a try.

As you chew the chocolate, you tilt your head in confusion, it tasted just like any other chocolate and there was no hint of peaches on it. You were tempted to take the other half to give it a second try, but your alarm was already ringing letting you know your break was done.

Quickly putting the chocolate back in the fridge, you rush back upstairs to continue your session. Not even a few minutes back in to your lesson, you were starting to feel squimish and hot. You could feel a wet patch forming on your panties as you hear it squelch every time you rub your thights together.

It seemed like it was the only way to relieve the ache. Starting to become bothered and concerned, you rush to Mingyu's home office and knock on the door. You were staying over at his house for the meantime while your parents were on vacation.

Mingyu opens the door, he was wearing his specs, a black shirt that hugged his body perfectly, and gray sweatpants. "Gyu.. I don't feel good.. I feel like I'm going to get sick.." You whimper with a pout on your lips.

Mingyu looks at you concerned and pulls you into a hug, resting your face on his chest. "Oh baby.. where does it hurt? How bad is it?" He asks.

"Down there.. it's really uncomfortable.." You whisper looking down on the floor giving into his hug. A sly dirty smirk etches on Mingyu's face as you spoke. He didn't bought those for you, it was supposed to be for him and his fubu to try. But he was not at all complaining.

Mingyu was a sick and fucked up man. He knew that, he was aware of that. He tries to be as lawful as possible, but it was ludicrous when it comes to you. You were the girl of his fantasies. Sweet, cute, innocent. Everything he'd ever dream of. And now he had you. He was a man of opportunities, when he sees it, he takes it and he always almost never regrets it.

Which brings you to now: you laying on your back on his bed, legs spread apart, with him in the middle as he rubs over your skimpy shorts. "Hurts here baby?" He asks ever so sweetly.

You moan in relief nodding yes as he messages your mound. "Mhm.. 'dunno why.." you whisper looking at him, a helpless look on your face.

"Don't worry, I can help, just trust me okay?" Mingyu says, a kind smile on his face. Only if you knew. "Okay. I trust you Gyu." You smile back at him.

"Gonna strip you baby m'kay? It'll help relieve the heat." He mutters as he roams his hands on your waist before taking your pretty tank top off. You never wear bras around the house, your top being the only thing to serve as a barrier for your boobs.

He rubs all over your nipples, pinching and picking on it making you cry out and clench around nothing. It hurts but it feels so good. It was all foreign to you. You had never known of anything like this.

And Mingyu relishes in that. Loves the fact that he gets to do this first, that nobody has ever seen you like this. "Shh.. it's okay, it'll feel so much more better as we go on I promise, just trust me. How about a kiss hm?" He says hushing you from your sounds.

You nod looking at him with glassy eyes. Kisses are normal in your family, your mom and stepdad always kissing you on the cheeks or head, same goes for Mingyu, but you also give him some on the lips, just as he tells you. Because that's his love language apparently.

He leans down on you engaging in a sweet kiss, your hands reaching to wrap around his neck as you make out with him. You love doing this. It was like a reward. Apparently it's called making out because it makes up for everything.

Which is why you would make out with each other all the time as a reward for your achievements in school. Or when you guys would fight, you'd crawl on him and kiss him, sometimes it was harsh and aggressive but most of the time it was just sweet and calm.

Mingyu leans his clothed heavy dick to rest on your mounds, resting it's length between your slit. Another thing that you always do whenever the other was angry or hungry because it was similar to a hotdog sandwich which was his favourite. It helps him calm down whenever he was frustrated for work or when he was hungry but too lazy to grab some food.

It felt good and the words came from your brother whom your mother trusted so much, so you didn't complain. His hands move from your hand down to your shorts as he pulls them down revealing your pretty pink panties who are almost sheer because of how wet it was.

He pulls away from the kiss, mouth going down on your neck slowly down to your boobs giving them love and kisses. Another thing he taught you because according to him: every part of our body should be showered with love.

The aches were getting worse but it was starting to feel good, not painful anymore. Mingyu keeps on kissing down on you until he reaches your panties. "So wet baby.. 'm so proud of you." He says praising you like an achievement.

"P.. proud of me?" You question as he leaves feathery kisses on your clothed cunt making it even wetter than before. "Yes baby, this is a good thing, it helps relieve stress. You deserve this after working so hard." Mingyu answers.

You nod in response to his reassurance. You should do this more often for him to be more proud of you. Using his teeth, he takes your panties down finally coming face to face with your bare pussy.

His mouth waters at the sight, pink and very clearly wet. Extremely wet. "Gonna make out with your pussy now baby, giving it the love it deserves." Mingyu whispers before immediately diving in leaving you no chance of question before you start to moan.

It felt so good. Something you'd never felt before. You love your brother so much, he was just always so kind and loving to you. Always knowing how to make you feel better.

Using his two fingers to spread your folds, his mouth goes harder on sucking and licking your clit, putting you at his mercy. By this point your back was arching off his bed, hands gripping the sheets, eyes closed, mouth constantly moaning.

"Yeah? Feels good doesn't it?" Mingyu whispers, pulling off from your cunt before circling his index finger on your cunt, toying with your clit. All you could let out was a gasp as he spits on your pussy before diving back in.

"So good Gyu," You whimper and whine while he devours you. Slowly, you feel a foreign feeling build up in your stomach. It felt like a knot was forming inside of you waiting for it's release. You heave deep breaths as you feel it coming. "Gyu.. stop.. i need to— pee. I need to pee!" You speak to him with a strained voice.

Mingyu does nothing but smirk as he looks at you, mouth still going like crazy. He pins your legs down to the bed, forcing you open, making you unable to move. "Go on." Mingyu says.

Unable to stop yourself, you let go at the tone, cream coming out of your hole and smily clear substance covers your pussy. Mingyu bathes in this, shoving his face deeper in you aggressively sucking and licking you clean until you're whole body is shaking without control.

He leaves a kiss on your cunt before finally pulling away to admire his work. You were completely dazed and fucked up in all ways. He hadn't even put his dick on you and he'd already turned you into this.

He trails feathery kisses all over your body as leans down on you, starting from your thighs up all the eay to your forehead, and finally your mouth. "You okay princess?" He asks, voice soft.

You only nod your head, voice strainrd from all the moaning you did. Mingyu chuckles deep above you before bending his head down to your neck. He starts off with small kisses before moving to tiny nibbles.

You open your eyes in shock, lifting your shoulders up and giggling slightly getting tickled by his mouth before gasping as he starts to suck. He continues to do all three in consecutive making you moan. It feels so good.

His hands wrap around the unoccupied side of your neck rubbing it with his thumb as he leaves hickeys on the other. The thought of another guy in his position suddenly comes to mind and he feared that if he didn't took action, he might lose his cool and do things to you that you still weren't ready for.

Mingyu leaves a few more kisses on your neck before moving back to run his thumb on it. His full hand finally wraps around your neck, lifting your face up to look at him. "If anybody else but me tries to do this to you, you say no and turn your back on them m'kay?" He says wigh a pout on his lips.

You nod, a smile forming on your face. "Okay!" You say before Mingyu leans down down to meet his lips with yours, pulling away with a smile on his face.

Oh the things he'd do to you, and for you.

[ !!Separate FICTION and FANTASY from REALITY!! ]

[copperbadge]

Important context 1: I like my boss a lot, but he has an extremely dry sense of humor, and he believes in his heart that I am normal enough to understand when he's being funny. Usually I am, but he does not comprehend that I am also at all times a roiling sea of anxiety masked by extreme competence and Adderall.

Important context 2: At this job I have only ever had positive performance reviews. I set my own goals and as long as I hit them he makes vague encouraging noises and leaves me alone. For the past three years my performance reviews have been a 15 minute video call where he tells me how much of a raise I'm getting.

Boss: Hey, can I book your performance review for tomorrow?

Me: Sure, I'm open, book for whenever.

Boss: Gotcha. We need about three hours, you think?

Me, internally: I know he's joking I know he's joking I know he's joking but what if he's not what if I'm being fired what if he found out I write romance novels on company time

Me, externally: Oh, I think we should just book out the whole day.

Him: Oh, good idea!

And then he sent me a 15-minute meeting request and I was able to start breathing again.

[mayakern]

I honestly don’t know how to write this; I have spent all week attempting to figure out what to say.

Last Monday I was informed by our factory that our merchandiser and direct point of contact with the factory passed away unexpectedly two weeks ago. She was someone who I have spent a great deal of time speaking to ever since we switched factories two years ago. She helped us realize designs for new products, sent us samples of garments extremely quickly and kept track of all our orders. She went to bat for us if something went wrong with our print shop or if I was unhappy with how a garment pattern was interpreted by their team. As their first American client and a brand that focuses on size inclusion, something that is not typical of their other clients, she handled a lot of crazy requests from us without blinking and she was dedicated to ensuring that both us and our customers were happy. We talked nearly every day, and though it was work related she was one of the kindest people I have had the pleasure interacting with daily.

She was beyond dedicated to her work and to working with us. Turkey has an 11-hour time difference from me in California, which means when she was emailing me at 2pm in the afternoon it was 1am there. You can sure bet that I extended her the same courtesy and tried my best to answer her emails at night too, even when I would rather just be sleeping.

It was also clear just how much she loved her job, and now much she loved you guys. She had been silently watching our social media since we first started working with them. She got just as excited as we did on launch days and would often email me unprompted about how she was glad people were leaving such positive comments and reviews. She read your feedback when no one ever asked her to do that or even expected it of her. She did it because she really, really cared.

Even though she was miles away and we never met in person, she was like a coworker to me and the loss of her is like losing someone on our team.

The Maya Kern team, as a whole, has been dealing with a lot lately. I personally just moved (which took far longer than we expected) and Maya and Devin are gearing up to move back to Minneapolis pretty soon. With the loss of our merchandizer, it has taken the wind out of my sails a little bit. I was trying to push through, even though I am exhausted, and carry out the photo shoot for our new products this weekend, but it has become clear that my body just can’t handle it. My arthritis has finally told me to stop moving, so unfortunately, we are going to have to reschedule the shoot for later on.

We are doing everything we can to make sure our next product drop on the 21st still happens. But as of right now, due to this sudden loss, the garments haven’t even shipped from the factory yet and I am not optimistic that they will clear customs and get checked into the fulfillment center in time for the launch. This means the drop is likely going to be pushed back to December 5th and instead of a full photo shoot, we will probably have to settle for taking quick photos of everyone at home, and likely with our phones. 

We work really hard to deliver not just garments we believe in, but also pictures of said garments on bodies that our customers can relate to, and unfortunately I just do not think that is possible this time. As always, we really appreciate your patience and understanding during what has been a very difficult time for us.

Ash

Chief Operations Officer

[reasonsforhope]

"A team of researchers at Washington University in St. Louis has developed a real-time air monitor that can detect any of the SARS-CoV-2 virus variants that are present in a room in about 5 minutes.

The proof-of-concept device was created by researchers from the McKelvey School of Engineering and the School of Medicine at Washington University...

The results are contained in a July 10 publication in Nature Communications that provides details about how the technology works.

The device holds promise as a breakthrough that - when commercially available - could be used in hospitals and health care facilities, schools, congregate living quarters, and other public places to help detect not only the SARS-CoV-2 virus, but other respiratory virus aerosol such as influenza and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) as well.

“There is nothing at the moment that tells us how safe a room is,” Cirrito said, in the university’s news release. “If you are in a room with 100 people, you don’t want to find out five days later whether you could be sick or not. The idea with this device is that you can know essentially in real time, or every 5 minutes, if there is a live virus in the air.”

How It Works

The team combined expertise in biosensing with knowhow in designing instruments that measure the toxicity of air. The resulting device is an air sampler that operates based on what’s called “wet cyclone technology.” Air is sucked into the sampler at very high speeds and is then mixed centrifugally with a fluid containing a nanobody that recognizes the spike protein from the SARS-CoV-2 virus. That fluid, which lines the walls of the sampler, creates a surface vortex that traps the virus aerosols. The wet cyclone sampler has a pump that collects the fluid and sends it to the biosensor for detection of the virus using electrochemistry.

The success of the instrument is linked to the extremely high velocity it generates - the monitor has a flow rate of about 1,000 liters per minute - allowing it to sample a much larger volume of air over a 5-minute collection period than what is possible with currently available commercial samplers. It’s also compact - about one foot wide and 10 inches tall - and lights up when a virus is detected, alerting users to increase airflow or circulation in the room.

Testing the Monitor

To test the monitor, the team placed it in the apartments of two Covid-positive patients. The real-time air samples from the bedrooms were then compared with air samples collected from a virus-free control room. The device detected the RNA of the virus in the air samples from the bedrooms but did not detect any in the control air samples.

In laboratory experiments that aerosolized SARS-CoV-2 into a room-sized chamber, the wet cyclone and biosensor were able to detect varying levels of airborne virus concentrations after only a few minutes of sampling, according to the study.

“We are starting with SARS-CoV-2, but there are plans to also measure influenza, RSV, rhinovirus and other top pathogens that routinely infect people,” Cirrito said. “In a hospital setting, the monitor could be used to measure for staph or strep, which cause all kinds of complications for patients. This could really have a major impact on people’s health.”

The Washington University team is now working to commercialize the air quality monitor."

-via Forbes, July 11, 2023

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Holy shit. I know it's still early in the technology and more testing will inevitably be needed but holy shit.

Literally, if it bears out, this could revolutionize medicine. And maybe let immunocompromised people fucking go places again

Also, for those who don't know, Nature Communications is a very prestigious scientific journal that focuses on Pretty Big Deal research. Their review process is incredibly rigorous. This is an absolutely HUGE credibility boost to this research and prototype

[princealberich]

HOW DO I COMPLAIN TO HOYOVERSE?

It's easy, and there are MULTIPLE things you can do! I recommend doing each item on this list.

1. SIGN & SHARE THE PETITION

The petition will be delivered to the appropriate cultural reps, in order to complain to the CCP about the negative impression this is leaving on Chinese companies. Genshin Impact is highly favoured by the government for the positive press it gives the country, and putting pressure on the 'big daddy' is FAR more likely to make Hoyoverse buckle.

As of right now, the petition has nearly 38k signatures.

2. EMAIL HOYOVERSE

Email them directly at genshin_cs@hoyoverse.com to state how this has affected your desire to continue playing their games.

3. USE THE IN-GAME SURVEY OR FEEDBACK

Genshin Impact has frequent update surveys, and there is a permanent option to give feedback at any time. You can find it in the Paimon Menu.

4. REVIEW BOMB

Rate Hoyoverse's games, particularly Genshin, with one star on the app store. This has already proven in the past to have an effect, when this caused the team to review the anniversary rewards.

Here is a guide on how to do this!

5. POST IN OFFICIAL HOYOVERSE ACCOUNTS' COMMENTS

Do not be silent! Speak up about your displeasure. It's important that these comments outweigh the rest! Show that we are the MAJORITY.

6. SPEAK UP

Use the tags!

#BoycottHYV #WhyAreTheyWhiteHoyo #GenshinImpact #FixNatlan

Be relentless.

FURTHER DETAILS UNDER THE CUT!

WHAT SHOULD I NOT DO?

The following actions should NOT be taken:

DO NOT spend money on Hoyoverse games.

DO NOT sent threats, to voice actors OR customer service staff.

DO NOT engage with trolls or racists. Block and report.

WHY IS THIS IMPORTANT?

It's easy to dismiss this in the face of 'more important' issues in the world at the moment, but Genshin Impact (And by extension, Hoyoverse) is a very influential game and company. It is extremely popular, and directly influences MANY other games and players through this popularity.

This isn't an issue of 'just stop playing'- This is not anger for a game's decisions, it's anger for a precedent. It's a demand that not only should Hoyoverse care about representation, but other, smaller, companies too. If Hoyoverse can get away with it, so can others- But if Hoyoverse is held accountable for their exploitation of culture, then it sets the precedent that other companies have no chance of doing the same.

Like it or not, Hoyoverse has a lot of influence, and the CCP itself values the company for giving China a positive image in other countries. This is bigger than just being mad at character design.

EDIT: It was also pointed out to me that if POC were to simply stop engaging with hostile content, they would have nothing left. 'Just stop playing' isn't fair, plain and simple. POC deserve to play the things that they enjoy WITHOUT being ostracized.

DOES HOYOVERSE LISTEN?

They listen if there's no money lining their pockets, they listen if their reputation is damaged, and they listen if the CCP gets involved. We have direct evidence of this.

Review bombing alone caused Hoyoverse to reconsider the first anniversary rewards.

The CCP forced Hoyoverse to reskin various characters to comply with their laws, which HYV did. (This isn't necessarily a good thing, however, it is still evidence that CCP has influence over them.)

This is by far the largest outcry the company has seen so far, and MANY of HYV's voice actors have spoken out in support for the movement as well. This is not just playerbase complaints, but staff, too.

I recommend following AvenOfStrats on X/Twitter for further updates on the petition's progress, and on other ways to contribute. They also share plenty of resources on why this is important, and guides on how to complain.