#but that's not true

[the-fandom-crossroads]

Mihoyo is ignoring Boycotters and aiming for Return Players instead!

Mihoyo's marketing strategy is extremely obvious after that livestream and it's really demoralizing to see so many fall for it. Every X.0 update they add a bunch of QoL features fans have been asking for for years. (Pick your own 5 star, artifact recycling, picking artifact sub stats) Their aim is to get fans that have dropped off during previous patches to come back.

They have been ignoring those "boycotting" because they anticipate the return players to out number the boycotting ones. Also if you are still logging and playing daily you aren't boycotting in their eyes. Playtime and daily login numbers are what they care about when it comes to f2p players. Unless you are a whale going from 1,000s of dollars a patch to zero dollars you "going f2p" isn't going to hurt their bottom line. They want a large number of active users along with a few whales.

If you still care about showing Mihoyo you care about their colorism you can NOT download and play 5.0 day one. You need to actually boycott by giving mihoyo low player numbers for a X.0 patch.

We still haven't seen 3 of Natlan's tribes yet! They changed an NPC's skin tone already. We can still push them to correct with the other tribes! BUT YOU HAVE TO BOYCOTT!

If 5.0 has higher login numbers than Sumeru Mihoyo will feel like they have no reason to listen to the boycotters because they regained fans from other areas or pulled in new players. I'm not saying you have to Quit genshin forever. Just hold off on playing the Natlan update for a few weeks. Watch a youtuber's play through of the Archon quest if you can't wait for the story.

And please convince your friends who have seen the 5.0 news but haven't been keeping up with Genshin to wait before coming back. Plenty of players stopped playing after 4.3 because that's when the Fontaine Archon Quest ended. Those players need to be informed of the white washing and convinced to not come back for 5.0. Those are the players Mihoyo is "listening to feed back" from with it comes to the QoL updates. Why do you think people who haven't logged in in over 45 days are getting another 10 free pulls? Because those are the players they are aiming for. If those players say no we aren't coming back to pull for white washed characters Mihoyo is more likely to listen to the criticism.

Candace wasn't in the Sumeru trailers and Sethos was added after we left Sumeru. There is still time for them to add POC playable characters to Natlan. We still haven't seen Vanessa's tribe. PLEASE KEEP PUSHING! IT IS WORKING SO DON'T STOP NOW!

[carnage-cathedral]

congratulations on perpetuating abuse tactics and reopening trauma wounds I've had since before I can remember, you fuck

[joonebugg]

If you guys scroll far enough you can get to my first ever post on tumblr in the history of this account. Isn't that magical?

[heterochromatica]

Anonymous asked: "Well, at this point everyone knows that your dad used to beat the shit out of you and your mom... But... I think you've grown to like it considering you're with a guy who's just like your daddy dearest, huh?"

"Oh, wow how original. Was that supposed to upset me?" Shoto just scoffs at the stranger, entirely unimpressed by their pathetic attempt to get on his nerves. He doesn't understand what their point is or why they're so obsessed with it, but here we go again.

"Funny how you're talking about knowing things, even though you just gloriously proved that you know absolutely nothing and even less, since everything you just said is total bullshit." yeah, his old man had been a shitty dad (and did a lot of shitty things) but, unlike other people, Shoto understands that the situation they were in was much more complicated than that. It's a ridiculous claim that is simply not true.

"Get a life, so you don't have to stick your nose into other peoples business anymore."

[normalbrothers]

everyone has their preference so this isn't a genuine issue, but tommyarthur is this oddly underexplored/misunderstood dynamic in this fandom despite arthur being the deuteragonist and also just the sheer fact that he and tommy spent *a lot* of time together on screen. whether as a ship or like just as a regular fraternal/platonic relationship, it's incredibly dynamic and yet ...

[iwouldservehim]

I think the boy called Felix is really significant in Ed's manifestation-of-self-hate Hornigold process. Unlike in real life, Blackbeard is meant to have gone on as a business for decades, and so anything Hornigold did would be a distant memory. That he remembers him threatening to flay HIS skin "and feed it back to him" is one thing, but he remembers the boy Felix, he remembers his name, and what happened to him recounted with righteous disapproval.

Hornigold isn't the vessel of his hated persona by chance, he's the worst he could imagine, and seemingly the one he tried to emulate in his Kraken era as the worst behaviour he could imagine, including a drug abuse to make him not think about his behaviour.

As a captain himself, Ed has clearly stayed away from becoming that before. Yes, he was still revered, but it was inclining towards admiration, most of all for his brains, even while implementing certain stern rules like the pets one, or ordering a British soldier's skin flayed when openly disrespected before his crew, because he will not be seen as taking such audacity lightly.

People act like Izzy was actually doing all the work, but it is Ed he turns to for a "plan" the second time we see them while in peril. If Izzy was there to expedite things as a follower - what a first mate should do - Ed was always the one they turned to to follow, with clearly there being trust there was a reason to.

It's very significant and in line with "I've never seen Blackbeard like this" that Ed trying to personify the Kraken (again, clearly actually inspired by his memories of Hornigold) as "the worst him" was never even him. The real Ed/Blackbeard remembers Felix, some random boy in the crew treated unfairly in a most aghast, judgemental way once he's looking at this "dark persona" from the outside.

[schnaf]

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[glitchedstars]

What got you into bmc?

Okay so this once has- quite a few layers to it! My best friend(she/her) and I always listen to songs when we have sleepovers (context: sleepovers are the only time we see each other in person because she lives an hour away) and she and I listened to quite a few BMC songs years ago (even more context: She already knew of the musical I think) Then a few months, or a year (I'm horrible at timeline don't mind me) later I had one of the songs in my head, and I was so confused 'cause It felt like a million(/hyperbolic) songs in one I don't remember what next quite as well, I think I looked it up and actually found Be More Chill (Two Rivers cast recording if I remember correctly) And that was it for me I listened to Upgrade so many times and I just kinda- Well now BMC's stuck in my brain forever and it's all I ever think about and I basically eat sleep and breathe BMC (slightly hyperbolic but also I don't think I've gone a day without thinking about BMC at least once since I got into it) TLDR: Friend got me to listen to songs, songs got stuck in my head, now BMC is stuck in my head

[iaintkissingnofrog]

I don't think I care about my parents

[am-i-obsessed---maybe]

The thing is I'm pretty sure if we weren't in a capitalist hellscape where to survive you need to make money the ai art discussion would go very differently.

The issue isn't that ai shouldn't be allowed to make art, it's that with the current system ai (a computer program that does not need money to live) is taking away jobs from actual artists. Artists who often struggle to make ends meet by producing art that, fun fact, people need!

For the entire history of humanity we've been making art of all kinds!

We need art and ai, no matter how good cannot make art without humans.

Support artists!

"ai is making it so everyone can make art" Everyone can make art dipshit it came free with your fucking humanity

[nikoisme]

I hate it when people ask me what genre of music i listen to because i genuinely have no clue. It's called Music I Like genre. The best genre out there

[andisupreme]

At the company retreat, one extremely drunk girl asked what my pronouns were. (Eventually, it took her a while to word the question.) After the whole conversation was done, she goes- "YEAHHH GURL, Get on with--with THY bad self! See what I did?? They/them/thy."

I was almost holding back tears from trying not to laugh as I told her yes that's great you nailed it honey. Thank you very much I am feeling the love.

Anyway I've been assigned Thee/Thine at Supportive Drunk Girl

[jessepinwheel]

I love it when people use "shrimp" to mean "beyond the human range". like "shrimp colors" but applied to other things. "shrimp emotions" "shrimp sounds" "shrimp morality", as if shrimp are living some kind of transcendent existence that humans can never comprehend

[some-overlyrandom-stuff]

"Examining and dissecting critically a piece of media in its every detail" is basically a love language because I have neither the interest nor the dedication to dive that deeply into something I don't like.

i find it so interesting how people act like "critically examining a piece of media" is the opposite of "enjoying that piece of media." rip to you but i actually find it really enjoyable and compelling to dissect and think through the art i engage with

[willabee]