#fake apology

[lukaalnst-official]

Hello.. cannot believe I’m doing this.

I would like to apologize deeply to my fans and fellow contestants. I have disappointed many due to my behavior towards them. I sincerely apologize for anyone I have hurt or offended, please forgive me. I have made mistakes but they won’t happen again. I will reflect in my behavior and learn from my mistakes.

* pulls out ukulele *

Sincerely,

Forced

Luka

[joking-jester64]

i uh..

[momentsbeforemass]

Spot the fake

Someone did you wrong. And to make it worse, it was a good friend.

Not only were you hurt. But you lost a good friend because of it. One of the very people you would have turned to – if anyone else had done that to you.

Now, they say they want to apologize. And this is what they say,

“I’m sorry if you were offended, but…”

You don’t need to listen to anything after that.

It’s like putting a Mercedes hood ornament on a Ford F-150. It is that fake. And that easy to spot.

“I’m sorry if you were offended, but…”

That’s not a real apology. It’s just someone going through the motions. Doing the less than the bare minimum. Because they don’t mean it.

Everything that comes after “but” is explanation. Rationalization. Justification.

The way they see it - they didn’t do anything wrong.

The “if you were offended” bit? That tells you all what they really think. About you.

The way they see it - this is your problem. Not theirs.

What they’re really saying is they’re not going to apologize.

And they’re not going to do anything to clean up the mess they made. Much less repair the damage that they did to their relationship with you.

But it would be great if you would get over it.

It’s a waste of time. And at bottom, it’s an insult.

If you and I are honest, how often do we approach our sins and the damage they do to our relationship with God in the same spirit?

We don’t go to confession because…it wasn’t a big deal. It wasn’t that bad. It’s not like we killed someone.

Explanation. Rationalization. Justification. The way we see it – we really didn’t do anything wrong.

And if we actually do go to confession? We may say the act of contrition. But do we mean it?

Or are we just going through the motions? Doing less than the bare minimum, so that God can get over it?

Something to think about, the next time you and I start trying to pretend that we’re not really doing what we’re doing. The next time that you and I are being fake with ourselves. And God.

Today’s Readings

[a-scary-lack-of-common-sense]

First night at Grunkle Ford's! Running away <3

Ford thought the twins were in danger or smth and busted clean through the door, this man has absolutely 0 chill 💀

[feelo-fick]

chilaios telepathy compilation. btw.

also these ones arent telepathy i just think its fun that they defend eachother + are on the same page about alchohol :

[roykentschesthair]

I’m adding to this because the apology is out.

The apology is absolutely a backtrack because of the loss of subscribers in such a short amount of time.

They are not genuinely remorseful and they are not genuine in their hurt at the fan’s disappointment.

They made this decision knowing full well there would be backlash (these are full grown intelligent educated men, there’s no way they didn’t anticipate hurt and backlash) and they thought that enough fans would stick around and subscribe that it wouldn’t matter.

They absolutely intended to fuck us over, they absolutely intended to call us poor and lame and unworthy of their amazing talents, and when they realized that it would lose them money they backtracked.

What they’re offering is essentially a Patreon, which they already had.

They are not genuine in this apology, and you do not have to forgive them.

Full stop.

If you choose to continue watching and supporting that’s entirely your choice.

I however won’t be doing it.

And if you think I’m just being bitter I’d advise you to understand that the only response we got over the weekend, in fact the first response, was Sara (Shane’s wife) doubling down and insisting that if we’re upset it’s because we hate paying artists.

So no I won’t be watching or supporting a channel that was already on the heavy decline to line the pockets of people who were in no way struggling, just simply bad at managing their business.

I wasn’t going to comment on the @wearewatcher situation because if people don’t know how to run a business/listen to their very supportive fan base, then that’s their cross to bear.

However, to everyone making the comments that artists can charge what they want and deserve to be fairly compensated for their work

1) they’re being fairly compensated, they simply expanded their business model (ie hiring more people) before their revenue could support it and are now acting as though their business was never generating enough and it’s the fans fault for not subscribing to a Patreon that they had almost zero advertising for

2) art is a luxury. Period. Full stop. No one needs Watcher content to survive, especially in the current economic climate and to act as though they’re doing us a favor by making it only $6 a month is really tone deaf and out of touch

3) you can set your prices at whatever you feel is fair. And the consumer can decide if they think your content is worth the set price. If they say, hey I’m not paying $6 for this, then that’s all there is. Art is worth what someone will pay for it

4) the fundamental misunderstanding of what their fan base is wanting/cares about just goes to show that it was never about fostering a community, it was only ever about doing what they wanted, and if the community turns on them, then that’s something they should have been able to anticipate

5) we don’t know these people. They’re grown men, no one is being held hostage. No one is being forced. They all agreed to do this, and if it tanks their careers. Well, that’s the price of doing business

I for one will not be supporting this move, and will not be consuming the content left on YouTube as it will still generate them revenue

You can do what feels right to you

[padawansuggest]

Boba: *bored in a meeting with some idiot in the throne room*

Communications Droid: -Your excellence, there is an urgent matter for you to attend at the entrance to the palace-

Boba: Is it another fake pizza delivery? I’m hungry and could throw a punch or two.

Droid: …it is a Jedi.

Boba: *sits up with a groan of annoyance* Open a channel with them please.

Speaker: *annoyed and familiar voice* Hey, Fett, please come get this thing, I’m so tired of picking up your shit-

Boba: Oh god, Kestis?

Cal: Yeah, dumbass! I brought your Mando back so you can deal with him and his brat. Just drag him inside, I don’t care.

Fennec: *looking annoyed at someone being rude about Djarin. Only she and Boba are allowed to do that. Sometimes Peli* *follows Boba to the entrance while their original guest is escorted out*

Cal: *standing in the shade with a passed out Din at his feet, who otherwise looks fine* I already checked him and healed his concussion, he just needs a long nap and some pain killers. I don’t actually want him dead so since I was in the system I figured you’d be a better bet than on Mandalore.

Boba: Oh my god. *has the guards bring him in to the medical ward* Wait, you said his ad too? Where’s Grogu?

Cal: Oh! Right, almost forgot. Lil bastard’s been kickin me in the ass since I shoved him in the bag- *pulls an annoyed af Grogu out of his canvass bag and holds him out by his collar like a scruffed kitten* Here. He’s been yelling at me since I found them. Annoying little brat.

Grogu: *struggling in his hold to try and bite him* Patu! ‘You have no honor and your soul will be rendered to pieces at my hands!’

Fennec: 👁️👄👁️ Kestis… that’s a /baby/…

Boba: *gently cradling the tot to his chest*

Cal: *scoffs* That baby is older than me by eleven years, he used to bully me relentlessly.

Boba: 👁️👄👁️ oh my god

Cal: *starts walking off* Anyways, I’m gonna go visit some gravesites while I’m on planet, you know, my old man used to have a place on this sand ball.

Fennec: …did he just imply that Kenobi was his father?

Boba: …I fucking hope so, my only other theory is his dad was a Skywalker. That’s… worse. God that man confuses me sometimes.

Grogu: Patu! ‘He needs to change his outfit, it’s why I kept kicking him!’

[izzystizzys]

Half the jobs Fox is sent on are not within his jurisdiction. This certainly isn’t.

Planetary protection unit, they said. Military police. Orbital security force.

And now Fox is being pointed at Count Dooku on some backwater planet and told to fetch. How the mighty have fallen.

He’s pretty sure Kenobi, Skywalker and their units could’ve karked this all up perfectly fine on their lonesome; they don’t need three Guardsmen there to watch them do it. But the Chancellor says jump and Fox surpressed the urge to bash his head in with a durasteel chair. So it goes.

Which is when things start going terribly, terribly wrong, of course.

“Is that Spinder?!”, Skywalker exclaims, arms wheeling out in the air wildly to try and catch his balance. “The Count fucks?!”

Across the room, Cody rips his helmet off, several shades redder than a baseline human should be. “The Count fucks my brother?!”

Two lightsticks hover uselessly in the air, Skywalker’s zig-zagging in a relentless hum with his gesturing. Fox stands stock-still, in the hope that maybe he’ll spontaneously turn invisible if he does. Around them, 501st and 212th troopers gape through helmets. Behind him, Nuisance gasps for air amidst screaming laughter.

Ping, went Fox’s comm unit, in that unmistakeable lascivious jingle sound. Ping, answered Count Dooku’s within a split second. Match found close by.

For a moment, Fox considers what it would be like to run at the Count’s lightsaber at full speed.

…not like that.

“Count”, Kenobi says, with a face like he’s bitten into a rotten fruit. Not that Fox knows what fruit tastes like. “This is a highly… unexpected development.” He fwoosh-es his lightsaber shut, obviously having given up on fighting. “I’d call it a conflict of interest, but I’m not sure that applies?”

“Oh, it’s gonna be a conflict of something, for sure”, Cody hisses, fists clenched at his sides. He looks about ready to boil over, with Crys and Waxer inching closer in preparation. “What have you done to my brother, you monster?!”

“I don’t think you want to know that, Commander”, Nuisance gasps out between barks of laughter, proving why he’s eternally Fox’s least favourite. Cody’s splotchy red complexion slowly fades into ghostly white as a sheen of horror settles over the room. “Thanks for the fancy chocolate bouquet last week, Count!”

Dooku, who has been thus far staring at the floor with an empty thousand-klick stare, looks up at that. Fox has seldom seen a man that defeated outside of the mirror, he has to admit - but shudders when he remembers exactly what the chocolates were for.

Oh Force, he’s sexted Count Dooku into buying him gifts. Does that make him a Seppie spy? Traitor by proxy?

“I feel”, says the Count, gravely, still holding his long red laserknife in a white-knuckled death-grip, “that I have been taken for a fool.”

“Uh”, says Fox, nervously. All eyes snap to him. Oh Force, oh Force, oh Force. They’re going to invent a whole new kind of decommissioning for this and name it after Fox.

“Is it really scamming if you actually get what you pay for?”, asks Grids, considering. Fox slowly pulls off his helmet just for the comforting feeling of burying his head in his gloved palms. The sounds of a struggle ensue, and Kenobi makes a choked-off noise. Maybe if he’s embarrassed enough he’ll give himself an aneurysm.

“Grandmaster, why are you paying people for naked pictures of themselves on the holonet?!” Kenobi asks, despairingly. “Aren’t you a little old for that?”

“Oi, no one said I was naked!”, Fox exclaims, head whipping up.

“So naked”, Nuisance laughs, palm thumping against the floor. He might be crying.

“I’m not decrepit”, the Count blusters, and Skywalker makes a gagging noise. “I have - there are needs, and they are perfectly natural!” It takes three troopers to restrain Cody from launching himself at the Count.

[disdaidal]

for my beloved ana @lovebillyhargrove ♥♥♥

(harringrove fake scenes)

[chipster-21]

I agree but of this

I don't mean this in like a "I told you so" or morally superior way bc I knew almost nothing about her before all this came to light, but I genuinely never found Miranda Sings/Colleen Ballinger funny. I never got the hype & I was confused as to what was supposed to be funny when I had tried to watch a couple of her videos once when I was a teenager

[tsutsumi-kurose]

god… new timeline mitsuba looking at dead mitsuba and supernatural mitsuba and being so sure that those are both the real mitsubas… feels like such an echo of supernatural mitsuba watching alive mitsuba in picture perfect... which feels like such an echo of alive mitsuba trying to be a person who will be seen and loved, who will make friends, even if that wasn’t his real self... only to realize as a ghost that his real, genuine self was already a person that someone out there could befriend and love. is there any version of mitsuba who’s not chasing some other version of himself? mitsuba is remade over and over, each time looking back at the previous version of himself and going oh, he was real.

[wienners]

saw fans that love ‘old man yaoi’ when i pull out the sexualizing tobin bell

[buttercup-barf]

I always found the “obvious impostor getting confused for the real deal” trope hilarious.

Dunno how many people already had this idea, but here’s my spin on it.

[marclef]

THE LONG-AWAITED SEQUEL TO THIS THING RIGHT HERE

1 second later:

[httyd-art-requests]

can u do a night fury or light fury family? or maybe aplha toothless fighting the alpha in the second movie, i would love to see it on your style

Apologies for the wait!! This ended up being a two-dayer, I ran out of energy on the first day because I was doing some other personal projects ^^"

Dragons #52 and #53 - Toothless vs Drago's Bewilderbeast

[sernik-krakowski]