#and it wasnt me who found it it was someone else

[awriternamedart]

"Yknow, I rarely see ya smile."

Gepard looked up from his paperwork to the ever familiar face that had taken himself to hanging out in the Captains office. While Sampo's presence had evolved from that of a thorn in his side general nuisence to a more appreciated general nuisence, it was unusual for him to be as quiet as he had been today.

That silence was broken, though, and it caught Gepard quite offguard.

"What do you mean?" Setting down his pen, Gepard had to ponder over Sampo's observation, his brow creasing.

"Well- I dunno, what do you want me to say?" A hint of playfulness still tinged at Sampo's voice as the conman righted himself in his chair. "Its just- I been thinking, and you just rarely smile. Thats all."

"Hm. I never took notice." Though, as Gepard rifled through his thoughts, the more he could pick out the truth in Sampo's words. It wasnt unusual for someone among the ranks to call him stoic- a compliment, for the most part. A sign of his unwavering dedication and loyalty to his home. He picked up his pen again, the scratching across paper resuming- though he was hyperaware of a certain someone vigilantly staring at his face.

"Sampo."

"Yyeeeeesss, Captain~?"

"Staring at me will not get you a smile."

"But what if it does?"

Gepard huffed, shaking his head.

"Youre impossible."

And with that, a somewhat comfortable silence stretched over them, accompanied by Sampo's snickers. It was a comfortable routine they had slowly fallen into, and Gepard found himself lingering in the moment, an occurance rare for him.

A ding went off though, signalling their times end.

"Dr. Natasha?"

A quick glance to Sampo's face told him that his guess was spot on.

"Maaannn, I thought I had at least another hour, cmon!!" Despite his whining, Gepard could see the itch in Sampo's hands- he was never one to sit still, after all.

So he simply set down his pen, intecepting Sampo as he got ready to flee out the window, pressing a somewhat missed kiss to the conmans lips. Sampo returned it eagerly, grinning into it as he caught Gepards hand with ease.

"Dont tell me youll miss me, captain?"

Those ever teasing words danced in their whispered tone, cast across his own dry skin. It drew a chuckle from him, green eyes forever turning starry at the sound.

"You know the answer to that."

With a second kiss and the beginnings of a smile on the corners of Gepards lips, Sampo vanished into the wind, not a trace in his wake.

He might have rarely smiled before, but as he sat back at his desk, he felt as if there may be many more in the near future.

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A Rare Chance, a Noticable Glance - awriternamedart

brought to you by the realization that gepard smiles once in game at the end of servals story quest (and it could be argued as not a smile) and once in official art which is his white day art

[bunnihearted]

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[ocpdzim]

what you’ve got to understand about working conditions in education (and also other care-oriented careers) is that if they’re shit, two things are true at once:

that does not ever excuse being cruel to a kid, no matter what

until those conditions are fixed, education will continue to suck absolute shit

this is because when working conditions for teachers are really bad, many of the good teachers who recognize when they are reaching a point where they can no longer be the sort of teacher the kids deserve due to burnout WILL quit. they will do the responsible thing and go away for their own sake and the sake of the kids. and you end up stuck w a combination of new teachers who are trying their best but won’t last long, burnt out teachers who are trying their best but have nothing left to give and therefore aren’t very effective at actually teaching, and cockroach shitheads who take out their misery on the kids.

we have all had terrible experiences with bad teachers, many of them flat out traumatic, but for fuck’s sake please try to look at the systemic underpinnings of the problem for one minute. spitefully declaring that teachers don’t deserve good working conditions or even the right to complain about bad working conditions because ms. whoever in 5th grade was a bitch is only going to create more of her. if you want good teachers then we need an education system they can survive in

[orcelito]

Honestly tho it's the "I don't love you" and "every time I said it was just automatic impulse" that's got me the most messed up. Like u couldn't even let me down softly by saying it just wasn't working out? You had to essentially tell me the whole thing was a lie??? After I TOLD you I had trust issues and felt like everyone is just going to leave me in the end???

Way to make me feel unlovable lol

[strawbabycowboy]

[our-lady-of-mcr]

everytime i think im done ranting i remember something else LMFAO this one is extra long i hit tag limit god mf damn

[bmpmp3]

speaking of genbu's "serious" sounding tone in his voicebank, i think that might be why he was such a dead ringer for teto pre-synthv-bank-release with just a couple little gender parameter tweaks. wait do my followers know this. sorry i know most of my vocal synthesizer talk is genuinely gibberish to my beloved and loyal long time followers but do you guys know this. for a few years, people had discovered that since utau teto and genbu have this similar strong enunciation and dark sounding tone plus teto can have a bit of a tomboyish edge to her voice anyway -> if u mess with some parameters and phonemes he'll sound close enough to her, so it became a bit of running gag in the community, along with just being a genuine and novel use case for his voicebank. actually recently i found out about someone who made a couple of synthv scripts to set genbus voice to his falsetto pitch and set the tension to drop during each syllable automatically to make him sound like the utau sora amaha. genbu's purpose is to impersonate other vocal synthesizers

[odetolovers]

shaking crying screaming

[mejomonster]

Trying to date makes me so sad...

[maaaxx]

Introduced my mom to the concept of individuality and autonomy 4 dead 1 injured

[jelreth]

ive had. quite a day.

[nomaishuttle]

exciting day so far

[listen-to-the-inner-walrus]

While we're here, I just want to add an example of a good response to Harris' video.

In the first half of the video, Harris briefly mentions a creator called Lukeypoo (who now goes by Luke Stephens) who had plagiarised Harris' Bloodborne review, and his response at the time was to deny it, signal to his alt right buddies and insult Harris.

After the video came out, Luke Stephens made a post on his community page regarding it:

For those, who can't see the screenshots, it reads:

A video went up on YouTube last night that showed something I did 6 years ago in early 2017, of which I'm very ashamed. I've talked about it on stream plenty since then and try to be very open about it, but I know a lot of people haven't been watching me since 2017 or have not heard me discuss this before. I don't want to hide from my mistakes or deflect, so very plainly here's what happened:

I was just starting on YouTube and I ripped off a phenomenal video on Bloodborne. It was a fantastic video by hbomberguy and after finding it through a Reddit post I tried to take his 1.5 hour masterpiece and make my own suckier version at around 7 minutes. I copied the premise, jokes, structure, and then pretended like it was all just a coincidence that they were so similar. I was a 19 year old idiot who thought it didn't matter because "he's a bigger creator so it's fine" and "it's just the internet." When I was rightly called out for copying his video I dodged, lied, and even attacked and insulted the appearance of those holding me to account, including hbomberguy himself. I copied someone's video, in parts word-for-word, and I pretended like *I* was the victim and *they* were being unreasonable. Unbelievable. There is no question at all: I was in the wrong, fully.

Let me be very clear: I whole heartedly disown who I was back then and what I did. Politically, religiously, and even morally/ethically I was a person that I hate today. I was an extremist, a bully, a religious zealot, and above all, a prick. This event sparked a spiral in my personal life that I didn't document online, but that has led me to who I am today. Someone who tries very hard to respect my fellow creators, audience, and to uphold a high ethical standard for myself. I strive every day to be a better man for myself, my family and kids, and for the community around me. And that's why I'm writing this, because I don't think we should hide from our mistakes or pretend they didn't happen. I screwed up, big time, and I stole the hard work of an incredibly talented creator and for that I'm incredibly sorry. I was 19, hard headed, and above all arrogant and unwilling to acknowledge I had screwed up. It took a couple years after that before I could openly admit what I had actually done, and that it took that long is all the more shameful.

I don't expect a response or certainly forgiveness, but for what it's worth, I am truly sorry for everything, @hbomberguy

For the last 6 years I've been working my butt off to be someone I can be proud of being and I hope you all can see that the man I am today is not the shameful excuse of a person I was back then.

I've never watched a video or stream by Luke Stephens so I can't attest as to his content, but this is one of the best responses I've seen to any kind of accusation, and so I lean towards believing him to be a better man than he was six years.

I thinks it's important to highlight the good response/s to Harris' video, to remind ourselves that plagiarism is not such an immoral action that from which you can't redeem yourself (though in Somerton's case, I'm less sure of that) if you take accountability for your actions, and to remember that in most cases, we should give people space to grow and become better.

The swiftness and brutality of Hbomberguy’s complete evisceration of James Somerton’s career cannot be overstated.

[dxsertrot]

The good thing about pain is that it always dulls over time but the shitty thing about it is you can still always feel it peering back at you in the moments you finally feel peace

[red-dyed-sarumane]

to give u an idea of how disproportionately popular marshall maximizer is from literally everything else ive gone thru all of the aru sekai bijutsuten & hiiragima tags, up to april 2022 of the hiiragi magnetite tag (bc twitter died violently at that point so i couldnt go farther), & both the magu & marshall maximizer tags on pixiv ive collected a total of 179 images, none of them my own, and 76 of them are marshall maximizer. the next most popular is shuuen touhikou which is 27/179.

[michellejwhp2719]

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