#Luna's venting

[luvendrawingonthemoon]

I'm sorry I need to vent about the new banner today cause I'm about to cry about it. I'm happy for Dorothy to get in heroes but I'm literally asking "where's Elffin?" Like this man is one of the most important playable characters of the whole game, two of his generals are in the game (just missing one, the Larum's Dad), he's royal but he's still not in heroes when gimmicks and tertiary characters are already there (sorry Cath but you are as hard to recruit as forgettable).

So I'm just asking why? Why IS refuse to us to have it (honestly if someone has an explanation I would like to have it) ? It's make me very sad because I love him a lot, he's my favorite binding blade character and I would like to see him in the game, it's like... Already 6 years pls. And Perceval is still waiting for him... as I do... TwT

(first time I post something else than a drawing and it's for venting my sadness over a gatcha.... Sorry for that)

[mewguca]

POTS is acting up again so I project on my fave to cope once again

(it's my fault for not taking care of my health properly but hyperventilating because I decided to Stand Up And Walk is still rather annoying and unpleasant)

[lunaisanartist]

A few of my favorite frames from a Trigun animation I uploaded some days ago on YouTube! Check it out!

[paperlunamoth]

Just watched a youtube video where a bubbly young woman discussed an indescribably fucked up hentai manga about a teenage girl getting forced into prostitution and raped by her father, and otherwise tortured and violated in ways I will not describe here, as though it was just some run of the mill piece of media, and treated it like it had some kind of profound literary value because sometimes real girls go through those kinds of experiences, while completely ignoring the fact that it was hentai created specifically for sick men to jerk off to and written by one such sick man. And most of the comments also failed to acknowledge the nature of this work, and were just things along the lines of, "yep, life sure can be unfortunate for some people that is true." I just. What is happening to these girls? Like I truly don't understand how you can get to a place mentally where all you have to say about something like this is that it's "dark" and the characters are "bad people" like girl what you read should be illegal it is literally underage torture porn with a plot that serves the sole function of providing context that makes the porn parts as depraved as possible, and you think it was an enjoyable read that had important things to say about the female experience?? The author was not trying to earnestly depict the horrors of girlhood in order to get people to contemplate the significance of such atrocities and compel them to do something to help prevent them, he was trying to get himself and men like him off to the rape and misery of a teenager! This is a level of pornbrained internalized misogyny combined with poor media literacy that I previously did not think possible. My heart weeps for this girl and for other young women like her who are so numb to this kind of visceral depravity that they don't even register it as anything other than a sad story.

[gloom-metal]

everyone and their mom, mainly people smarter than me, have talked endlessly about fallout and especially about both new vegas and 4, but fuck it, i'll add my two cents

i think my problem with bethesda's take on fallout as opposed to black isle's/obsidian's is that they're just too caught up on the Aesthetic™ of it. they try going so hard on the "50's retro futurism meets mad max" visual that they forget why that's the case in 1, 2, and new vegas.

the kitschy, 50's visuals are there not just to contrast the modern, post-apocalyptic landscape, it's there to contrast to how pre-war america operated. before the nukes fell, america was a totalitarian, military dictatorship that routinely engaged in human rights violations that wore the facade of idealized 50's suburbia. and 200 years later, it's the only thing that remains of its corpse. in new vegas, this part of the setting is acknowledged, but it's more concerned on the current culture of the mojave and a major theme of the game (if not the series) is how to build a new society that won't destroy itself like the one that came before (it's no coincidence some of the characters that cling harder to the past are more prone to have evil karma)

but to bethesda, there's no underlying point. the aesthetic is the point. here's a bunch of things related to nuka-cola, here's a quest where you play as a silver age-esque comic book character, here's group of people that treat power armour like 50's hot rods (and i have to admit, i actually think that's pretty cool), here's a door to door salesman but he's a ghoul, etc, etc. there's all this imagery and aesthetic choices but none of it seems to tie to any theme or actually try saying anything.

[cherryviscera]

🌧️

[lunaryuwu]

MY ART FOR THE BMC ZINE!!!

[sunnychuuya]

Mmmmmmmm art yes ik they r shitty pics I'm too lazy to take better ones tho <3

@theyreinmywalls cuz u said u wanted to see it

[logically-asexual]

Nathalie was woken up by the feeling of movement next to her. She opened her eyes slowly, taking a moment for her vision to adjust to the dark. She finally turned her head when she heard a gasp to her left, and found Gabriel asleep, reclined on her bed. She remembered they were talking earlier, she must have dozed off at some point and he unintentionally followed.

He kept shifting in place. At first Nathalie thought he might be cold, since he fell asleep sitting over the covers, but then his mouth opened and closed, as if he were trying to speak. He was frowning, too, clearly distressed by some anxious dream.

She didn’t know what to do. She didn’t want to startle him by waking him up, but she couldn’t stay there doing nothing while he suffered. Carefully, she sat up and took off the glasses that were awkwardly positioned on his face. His gasping slowly became muttering, but Nathalie still couldn’t make out what he was saying.

Soon she could hear syllables. “No,” and “-lie” repeating the most. “I’m,” or “Em-,” “Don’t” and eventually, “I’m sorry.”

He was dreaming about when he lost Emilie. Nathalie didn’t know how to help with that. She gently ran her fingers through his hair in an attempt to soothe him. It seemed to work, judging by his features losing tension, and his breathing becoming less shallow. “It’s okay,” she whispered. “You’re okay.”

He relaxed more, but his eyes were still scrunched up. She brushed the loose hairs away from his face and noticed how the skin smoothed in her fingers’ wake.

“Nathalie.”

She pulled her hand away as if it had been burned, afraid that she’s woken him up. After a pause, nothing else happened, except for his breaths now sounding like sniffles.

“‘m… so-sorry,” he repeated. “N’thalie.” His face was still angled towards the ceiling. He was still asleep.

Her hand went back to caressing his face. It felt wrong, like she should have asked someone for permission. But the darkness and silence that surrounded them encouraged her to forget about everything but the man in front of her. She leaned forward and pressed a kiss on his forehead, and, as if a spell was broken, his shoulders slumped and his frown disappeared.

The stillness lasted only a moment, before he turned to his side, now fully facing her, and trapped her in a warm embrace. His chest pushed against her and pulled away in deep, even breaths. The low amount of energy she had had available at this time in the middle of the night was running out, and his peacefulness was becoming contagious. She let her head relax into his shoulder and her mind drift off.

[bluesaccharine]

I love Renheng so much, that ship deserve so much development through writing. I want them to explore more on the aftermath of HCQ on the main story. I want animated flashback of them, showing on how they first formed the group form Dan Heng's POV. I want an animated show or something.

I feel conflicted to continue the story because on how mixed the reception was in the community :(

[mewguca]

I don't feel very well

I feel upset and confused and disappointed

and kind of scared for the future... I don't like when people suffer. i dont want more suffering to happen in this community

I'm still going to try to finish my batch of emote redraws, I think... I only have one more to get done.

I'm trying to distract myself, but it's difficult... I feel like I finally stopped thinking about it entirely the other day and now I can't stop thinking about it again

Please don't harass others, for any reason. it never helps anybody. (i don't think yelling at people on anon is going to do any good either; it's not particularly productive. you should think very carefully about what you say to people and what good you believe it will accomplish.)

and please all be more critical of information you come across in the future... it can help avoid this sort of thing repeating

[paperlunamoth]

Is anyone else just entirely enraged by how blatantly sexist 99% of anime is? Like, some of the best stories I've ever come across, the most beautiful visuals I've ever seen in storytelling, the most brilliant examples of raw creativity I've ever encountered, have come from anime. There are some anime that will forever be near and dear to my heart, because they are just so well made and impactful as stories and works of art.

But darn near every anime is RIDDLED with a dozen different sexist tropes and constant examples of blatant sexism. The women are generally significantly less competent and significantly more annoying than the men. Every female character who isn't an old woman is sexualized, even minors are sexualized, just in a "cutesy" way. You got 14yo girls with tits large enough to cause serious medical problems. There's regular fanservice (which unsurprisingly rarely services hetero women), panty shots, butt shots, girls practically thrusting their boobs into people's face. Sexual assault is regularly played for laughs and treated as perfectly acceptable behavior as long as the victim gets to smack her assailant and look annoyed afterwards, which has the added bonus of diminishing the impact of sexual violence by equating its severity with that of physical violence. Access to women's bodies is used to motivate male characters, and it's treated as though it is perfectly healthy for a man to pursue such access in the absence of genuine interest on the woman's part, or for a woman to be comfortable objectifying herself and using access to her body as currency. Sometimes women are portrayed as using access to their bodies to "coerce" men, as though women's bodies are something that men need, and women wanting something from men first in order to access them is a form of bullying or humiliation akin to making a starving person dance for their supper. I could go on. There are probably a lot of other things I missed because this is just an off the cuff rant and not meant to be comprehensive.

Point is, I hate this shit. I hate how just being aware of and caring about the issue of misogyny renders it damn near impossible to enjoy otherwise enjoyable things, and I hate that otherwise enjoyable things are sexist in the first place. And you never hear anybody talk about this, either, which is just the rage-cherry on top. Whenever an anime is being critiqued or reviewed or just generally discussed, all but the most egregiously sexist series being talked about by the most militantly liberal people will be spared even a passing, casual mention of how sexist they are. A character who seems vaguely racist or homophobic? Of course people will mention that (as they should). But constant sexism baked into the very bones of the series? Not worth bringing up, apparently.

[cherryviscera]

just let me hold you, like a hostage

[lunaryuwu]

I feel like no big companies can ever be trusted ever again

Twitter or x whatever you call it is terrible i dont even need to elaborate do i

Instagram sucks for adding ai that scrapes literally EVERYTHING posted on their platform. The opt out option is so hard to find and some people dont even have the option

Netflix cancels so many shows even if it performed well. Not saying other streaming services dont do this too, but netflix does this a lot like. A LOT.

Edit: also just netflix being allergic to any show thats remotely queer and making the picture of dorian gray (homophobic version)

Spotify is just being annoying making features like seeing the lyrics a premium only thing when they barely pay the artists anyway

Pinterest is going downhill lately with how ai is taking over a bunch of pins and i’ve been seeing people have problems over and over again but only be met with automated responses. Their problems never get fixed

Living in a world like this makes me feel fucking miserable

Edit: procreate speaking about the ai situation makes me very happy,,,i just wish more big companies did that

[abibliophobiaa]

doctor’s appointment was basically useless, because i needed to be scheduled for another test that’s two months out (i guess because the complexity they’re very limited on times/days they can do them and the health care system lol) and i’m feeling pretty defeated about it. 👍🏻

[sunarots]

quit my job + found out one of my best friends essentially chose her bf over me