#eviling all over the place

[theflashjaygarrick]

it’s really ironic to me that the batfamily members most suited to being the heir to the Batman mantle (Cass and Dick) are the ones with least attachment to Gotham as a place. Meanwhile the characters with the strongest ties to Gotham (Jason, Tim, Steph, Kate, arguably Babs) can’t help but chafe against the way Batman guards the city they love.

[jjunieworld]

hybe knowing about all of the boycotts and calling the genocide in palestine the “israel issue” is genuinely fucking insane. the fact that that they say that it was “offending korean fans” and that they were waiting for the “issue” to pass and were going to pretend that they didn’t know about international fans trying to educate groups and the company itself and trying to stop them / boycotting collaborations with zionists is the most disgusting thing i’ve ever read. i literally cannot believe that they were fighting tooth and nail to try and stop fans from speaking out and educating just so they could make a quick buck.

saying jake needed “mood management” when talking about the whole starbucks weverse post like genuinely i need that company to crash.

and don’t even get me started on all of the group documents… saying how they know how exhausted their idols look but not caring. how they kept pushing them to be “perfect” at the cost of all these idols health… this company needs to fucking burn.

keep speaking out about palestine as much as you can. keep trying to educate. KEEP BOYCOTTING!! these companies are actively trying to silence everyone about palestine and i need everyone to keep being even louder about it.

FUCK HYBE. FUCK ALL OF THESE FUCKING COMPANIES. AND FUCK ZIONISTS AND EVERYONE WHO DOESNT BELIEVE IN A FREE PALESTINE.

[g0ldgauntlet]

Hilichurls and "Tribal" Portrayals.

While we're talking about Natlan, I also want to mention how awful it is that a section of the fandom tried to make us all out to be crazy years ago for pointing out how racist the portrayal of the Hilichurls are.

Quick content warning for mentions of slavery, colonization, genocide, and anti-Indigenous racism. (Image description is in alt text)

Hoyo used Indigenous people as references for these in-game enemies, which we literally have video proof of, provided by the company itself (Timestamp: 1:30).

The Hilichurls were constantly belittled by Teyvat's people, with an Inazuma npc likening them to demons. I remember Paimon acting like the items they collected were meaningless or pieces of junk during the earlier parts of the game.

They become a lot more sympathetic later due to their actual origins in-game (which I'm sure @phoenix-creates can confirm for me because I know you're farther ahead in Genshin than I am right now), sure, but I always found it strange that Hoyo used Indigenous cultures to portray these "monsters" who have lost their sense of selves (meanwhile their human forms are white), as if to imply that Indigenous cultures are more "wild" or "savage."

Genshin fans of color, since 2020, have pointed out the racist undertones that Teyvat's people were perpetuating against the Hilichurls due to them acting the same way that racists irl act towards non-White cultures, but they were told that they were overreacting and this was swept under the rug as a result. The very next year, it's brought up again with more people finding out about it, and we were still being told that we're overreacting.

So now that we're at Natlan, is it seriously that hard to believe that Hoyo straight up just doesn't respect Indigenous cultures? Black (and many brown) cultures too, because it's very telling that Iansan, the Natlan character with the darkest skin so far, is given a more stereotypically "tribal" look on her design with a bunch of bones used as her accessories despite that not being what her actual inspiration looks like.

(Artist for picture on the right: vieirapx on Instagram)

Sucrose has confirmed in her "Something to Share" voiceline that she collects Hilichurl bones, which is similar to colonizers taking the bones of dead Indigenous people with this added context.

Also, please read or reread the Teyvat Travel Guide Vol. 1. Alice basically confirms that she wants to enslave the Hilichurls for labor and also feed the weaker ones to the stronger ones.

That latter point is cannibalism. I know that many people are fans of Alice, but a lot of what she talks about in the first guide is why I don't like her.

Yes, it can be argued that Indigenous cultures are not the only inspiration for the Hilichurls, as it's been said that they may take inspiration from goblins, Bokoblins from the Zelda franchise, and the Amanojuku from Japanese mythology. Answer me this question, though.

Why is Hoyo capable of referencing a creature and not a human being when it comes to the Japanese inspiration for the Hilichurls, but this does not apply to the Indigenous references? It's dehumanizing, and it feels like another double-standard that needs to be addressed.

Hoyo has casually made black and brown cultures in Genshin appear to be less civilized and more "tribal" compared to our White and East Asian peers, both with the human characters and the non-human ones. Sumeru's quests and enemy npcs had multiple examples of this, with the Traveler and Jeht even destroying almost the entire Tanit tribe with the narrative justification being that, conveniently, most or all of them were selfish, bloodthirsty, and manipulative (Jeht's profile on the wiki page goes into what happened with more depth). They had to die because the tribe was dangerous - even though the main problem seems to be Babel - and Jeht's white, blonde companion needed to help save everyone from these evil, power-hungry savages.

(Sidenote: I think this is the second time overall that Hoyo has come up with an excuse to justify Traveler committing genocide on an entire group of people, with the first being the Iwakura Clan.)

I'm sure that the same thing is going to happen with Natlan's quests and npcs because Hoyo has always been weird about the portrayal of black and brown-inspired characters. The question is not whether any of the creatures or humans from specific groups are bad, suspicious, or designed to fit a specific image. We know the answer to that. The real question is why they are portrayed like this, and why it keeps happening more commonly to the black and brown cast members compared to our lighter peers.

[neonhellscape]

okay its no secret i dont buy into marazhai being the persona he puts on. so as i've officially met him in game now, im making a list of all the in-game reasons i think he's a bit of an idiot [which i love btw. i find him far more compelling if he's a bit stupid/weird and he's trying so hard not to be but you just know nobody in commorragh is inviting him to parties]

the very first time you get a glance of him on a rooftop and. 'deal with this' "of course" proceeds to just walk off like 3 seconds after the other two

ambushes you. has you cornered. is in optimal position to kick your ass frankly, high ground and better weapons and utilising shock against you. ...he bitches at you for a while, gets insulted, then runs off into the forest with a maniacal cackle

heinrix fired a mild insult [considering what he's like to everyone else its barely an insult] and he took big enough issue with it to start saying how he'll break him and turn him into a pet. oh sure dude you're responding super well to this mild comment from the guy who accidentally insults everyone and their entire ancestral line at some point

i think it says something that he's learned to speak your language fluently too. that Has to be some kind of Yikes moment to admit publicly in drukhari culture. buried family secret great great grandfather drukhari-georg learned to speak mon keigh and now we claim he just spoke oddly because was shot in the head as a child to prevent the shame

he also knows the mon keigh lore that says youre a super special little guy as rogue trader and actually LISTENS to the fact you're the special little guy as rogue trader. and he does treat you as more equal/with more respect than the other characters. thats not just a drukhari culture yikes thats what gets you checked for a concussion or brain damage

literally socially atrocious enough its believed he's working with you [read: with you. not using you, not manipulating, cooperating. this is a big difference i feel] and only he himself doesnt believe it

ignore the fact he eventually DOES work with you which. is its own follow up statement

challenges you to fight him, to give chase then and there. i made him wait while i went through english government simulator where i queued for multiple days, did multiple day/week voidship trips back and forth, got distracted by accidentally starting jae's romance, pasqal telling me to servitorise her, getting blackout drunk with her, shipwide broadcast tm, giving her a voidship, her getting me a space cat, attacked by pirates, dealt with a plague, explored a few extra systems.......................

he destroys your palace. ...its rebuilt effectively within a week. most of the damage is in bodies which are just sent to the poor district to rot [almost feels worse than the damage done good job imperium]

the throne has claw marks. he could've blown it up or shot it or piled corpses on it but no he wanted to sit on the fancy chair and so turned into a common housecat mauling the sofa arm

how long was he just sitting there lounging on that chair? again see how long i kept him waiting. he was just sitting there trying to find a comfy position on this [for him] kinda small chair JUST so he could briefly taunt, break your window with his space motorbike, jump off the chair in a dramatic [but not gunna lie not that impressive] feat of gymnastics, then fly out. he doesnt even shoot at you as he leaves

i will continue my list as i see more that entertain me

[beebfreeb]

do you have any docs about the conlang and/or conscript? i just found your art and that immediately stood out as incredibly cool. i wanna write some funny stuff

The majority of my conlang stuff is written on graph paper held together with a paperclip or a spreadsheet file on my computer, so I do not have much easily accessible to share. Hm...

The vocabulary is currently... quite measly ever since I bulldozed everything and killed it all dead. So fleshing out vocabulary and whatnot is what I have to work on next. Grammar is similarly rudimentary but it was never intended to be very complex. A lot of information wouldn't be encoded verbally, only through pheromones and body language.

[munnaby]

Uhmm Evil Rick cuz I think hes cool

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[mikimeiko]

Our Flag Means Death Season 2 - one gif per episode (with the first gif from their first scene and the last gif from their last scene) | Izzy Hands

[luksi27]

Ive been bored so here are some Mapes and some possessed Pangi and Spokes

[stuvvsnapsgames]

[ruushes]

hezenkoss hand in marriage?? hand in marriage please dr. hezenkoss??? 💍💍💍🧪⚗️💀

[meownotgood]

good morning. in the spirit of being positive, here are some things I actually really liked about act 3 of arcane.

the line is a great song. don't even listen to anything else by top but I loved it. the lyrics are so fitting for viktor's character as well

despite the fact that I still think choosing to retcon viktor as the mage who saves jayce is pretty stupid, their final scene together was very good. like visually and the music was phenomenal. the only scene in act 3 that actually made me a little emotional, I almost teared up

episode 7 was great and getting to see that alternate timeline with jinx and ekko was awesome, plus ekko making the z drive actually made me giddy lmao

[mc-critical]

1.06 / 2.09 (33)

[gigi-does-art]

The original mold child herself. Eveline!! I honestly do think she’s an interesting take on a character in the games from what I’ve seen! Haven’t played re7 yet so I dont fully know her character overall though ^^; Maybe i will play it at some point. I adore how her design came out!! Do feel bad for her tbh :(((( I think she deserves so much better qwq

Design fact: Due to her desire for a family, she will take the markings of other characters to show that they’re “related”. She has a few markings “shared” with mia and ethan, as well as with zoe. Originally she was just a one color coated kitten

[quicksilverdaisyday]

bing accidentally fucks up trying to clone himself and ends up creating weird little clone kids with both his and larry’s dna. yeah like that one episode of pinky and the brain.

[fridayvelvet]

Happy Hakyun Day✨

[pharawee]

the one