#last best hope for peace

[cordiallyfuturedwight]

mots7 hobi for @senor-hoberto 🤍 (cr. namuspromised)

[therighthandofvengeance]

[can-we-talk-socks]

[g0ldgauntlet]

(OUTDATED: PLEASE READ THE EDIT AT THE BOTTOM) Being a Genshin Impact Fan is Embarrassing.

First, CW for grooming. This is about Diluc's English voice actor.

If you still would like to read further, proceed below. (Image description is in alt text)

So, more people are finding out about Sean Chiplock having tried to groom a minor. His victim also spoke out against him yesterday (at the time of making this post). Sean has not denied any of these claims when attempting to talk to the victim.

Am I surprised about Sean being a weirdo? No, not in the slightest. He has always been weird about minors and unprofessional around them, and it's frustrating that people constantly kept giving him passes because he's "trying to get a reaction out of people."

No, Sean doesn't get a pass for making a sexual joke about Sayu.

Sean does not get a pass for telling a kid to "send proof of ID" with suggestive intentions behind that response just because they insulted him online.

Sean does not get a pass for constantly arguing with kids on the internet just because they don't like him.

Sean, you are a grown ass man. You can block and ignore these people at any time. Clearly they must have struck a nerve if you were willing to double down on this behavior for so long until you finally got caught for what you did to Casper.

Again, though, I'm not surprised. This is the same person who shamed the victims of Tighnari's ex-voice actor because Sean deemed them to be attention-seekers.

Birds of a feather flock together. (He backpedaled and deleted this tweet later, likely because he knew how poorly this reflected on him.)

This fandom's priorities with protecting weird white/lightskinned influencers and creators until it's too late to take that back - all the while bullying brown/other marginalized people at the same time - has infuriated me since day 1 of when I played Genshin. I watched creators and influencers of color in this fandom be harassed, driven off of platforms, and sent threats because they made a joke in relation to an artwork (Layla's VA),

sided with their gay friend who voiced their opinions about BL content (Candace's VA), or said negative opinions about two characters who the fandom knows are controversial (ttunaartt), yet Sean can get a pass.

Do not defend Sean Chiplock. Please send your support to Casper, his victim.

Edit (11/27/2024): After coming back to this months later, having read both this and this, I'll be honest - I messed up.

The situation was much more complicated than I gave it credit for, and I have zero issues with saying that I was wrong for believing that Sean groomed Casper. Additionally, it was very mean-spirited of me to insinuate that Sean was just as bad as Elliot Gindi. For that, I apologize.

However, I still stand by what I said regarding everything else. I understand Queen's sentiment about giving Sean a chance to change since it's been 11 years since this incident, but I'm still skeptical of him in the present day. In more recent times, Sean had still consistently been immature and irresponsible through his questionable responses to teenagers over social media instead of just blocking them.

I genuinely do not understand why a man in his thirties would spend so much time beefing with and taking shots at teens on the internet. By now, Sean should know better than to say stuff like this without checking their age, and even if they were an adult, this response to a gradeschool insult is invasive and unprofessional. He knows what he's doing and just doesn't care.

I also stand by my statements - Both here and on TikTok - that the Genshin Impact community has a bad habit of making excuses for white/lightskinned creators (especially white men) while dogpiling black and brown creators over much more trivial situations. As a black artist myself, it's incredibly frustrating to watch. I believe that Sean's actions that I mentioned outside of this incident with Casper would have been judged a lot more harshly by the fandom if Sean was a man of color, and I'm fairly certain that he knows how much he can get away with because he taunted people who acknowledged that there was a double standard with how people treat him vs Ashely Biski.

I'm not deleting this post since it would just be me trying to cover my own ass now that the truth's out, and I don't see any merit in doing that. I just want it to be known that my views have shifted a bit, so to reiterate:

I was wrong for believing that Sean was a groomer, and I was wrong to insinuate that he was just as bad as Elliot. I apologize for both of those things. However, I still think that he acts inappropriately on social media, so the allegations being false does not mean that I automatically like or trust him overall. I believe that the Genshin community is biased in favor of being softer on white/lightskinned creators, all the while being overly harsh towards black and brown creators at the same time.

[homenecromancer]

Here's something I noticed tonight --

Before Paul fights Jamis, Jamis challenges him: "May thy knife chip and shatter!"

And after a pause, Paul responds with an Atreides salute.

Before Paul fights Feyd-Rautha, Paul challenges his opponent: "May thy knife chip and shatter!"

And after a pause, Feyd-Rautha responds by repeating the challenge back word-for-word.

This structure does not come from the book -- in the book, Paul does not respond to Jamis's challenge, but continues to silently study his opponent. But this is a change I enjoyed, since it neatly sets up Paul and Feyd-Rautha as foils while saying something about them as characters.

At the end of the first movie, Paul is a newcomer to the planet, being challenged by a person of that planet, and he answers this challenge in a way that reflects his familial background. (We see Duncan use this salute toward Paul earlier.)

At the end of the second movie, Feyd is in the role Paul was playing in this specific sequence: he's a newcomer, being challenged by a person who has been adopted by (and become of) the planet, and he answers the challenge in a way that reflects his background. By Feyd's standards, his tone is downright cordial (indicating his respect for a challenging opponent?), but just repeating Paul's words back at him tells Paul little about the person he's about to fight; rather than make an indication of his own personality or background, Feyd chooses to not give anything away, perhaps because he believes it would be used against him.

And using any possible edge they can get against an opponent is something that both Paul and Feyd-Rautha would do.

[hella1975]

what does it mean to average 2:1 or 2:2? I don’t think we do that in America

okay so the uni grading system here is done based on percentages. the pass mark is 40%, which americans ALWAYS hit me with 'only 40???? easy!!!' so id like to clarify the content/exams are very difficult and the marking is very mean and generally it's really frustrating when people respond this way, like why tf would we have such a low pass grade otherwise it's a dumb assumption to make but anyway. you do about 6 modules a semester (on average, some courses have more/less), and each module will give you a final grade, and then the average of all your modules from both semesters will give you your final year grade. they're all marked by the same system, which is:

grade of less than 40% = fail

grade of 40%-50% = third class honours (called a third)

grade of 50%-60% = lower second class honours (a 2:2, literally said aloud as 'i got a two-two in my exam')

grade of 60%-70% = upper second class honours (a 2:1, said as 'i got a two-one'). this is what im PRAYING for.

grade of 70%+ = first class honours (just called a first). this is the highest you can get, so even if you get 90% you'll have the same grade as someone who got 72%. this is also what i mean by the exam system being really tough here, bc most people are just grateful to get a first.

[shireduchess]

resigning myself to the possibility that won’t hear from the boy again and as much as that’s okay, I’ll be fine, life just moves the way it does, I am sad about it, and I have to know it’s okay to let myself be really sad about it

[steakout-05]

quick post clarifying what i'm gonna do with my Crarry art and my Craig design moving forward

i just wanna make this post as short and sweet as i can as i've been struggling to find a way to write this in a coherent fashion (i'm VERY tired today, lol), especially with everything that's been going down in the fandom lately. people are not happy right now. this is a post meant to explain what i'm going to be doing with my Crarry stuff from now on, as well as how i'm gonna be using my fan design for Craig.

on the topic of my Craig x Barry art: i've been a little bit conflicted on what to do with it for a little bit, but i've mostly decided towards keeping it up on my blog for archival purposes. i don't like having to remove my art, especially when 1. it was made with the context that the (at the time) canon truth was that Barry and Craig were nothing but unrelated friends, and 2. it's still good art and it brought me a lot of joy when i first created it. i've regretted deleting art in the past and i think that i'd definitely regret deleting it now, especially if there was a threat of it becoming lost media and i didn't have the files to back it up. i care too much about my art to do that. so, it's all staying up on my blog, with the added disclaimer that it was made before August 17th 2024 and that it was obviously not supposed to portray weird incest stuff. can't do much about putting a disclaimer on it if it's already been reblogged though, so it's only gonna appear on the original post :/

on the topic of Craig himself: this is the bit i'm most excited about, but it's also the hardest bit to explain in a way that makes sense, so i'll try not to get ahead of myself here.

so, to start off with: in this post, i made some doodles showing an improved fan design i had made for Craig that portrays him as a blond nerdy guy with glasses and an injured eye. this is obviously not how Craig ended up looking like in canon and wasn't what i expected him to look like, it was something i made for myself and my own art. even so, he was practically just a skin applied to a pre-existing character whose personality had already been established. but now that the Craig i intended that design to be attached to has been revealed to be something we thought he wasn't (barry's entire freaking dad), i'm gonna do something a little different with my Craig to differentiate him from canon. i'm gonna take everything i liked about him before the reveal, retool him and his personality to better match the ideas and headcanons i had brewing in my head for him, and create a whole new canon for him to reside in. i've basically made him into a slightly divergent alternate version of canon Craig, basically. and it is incredibly self-indulgent, lol. (isn't that what being a creative is all about though..... self indulgence and insane storycrafting)

this bit might be slightly controversial, but what i'm planning with this version of Craig is that i'm gonna continue shipping Barry with him instead of Canon Craig like before. i really like the dynamic that Barry and Craig had in canon before the Dad Reveal Jumpscare Incident, with them sort of being polar opposites who would have some silly banter with each other, but also having a few similarities and shared interests that would bring them together, so that dynamic is gonna be brought over to this canon i've created for myself. it's basically gonna be a smorgasbord of everything i like about these characters with some expansions and slight changes to better fit with what i think would have been cool to see actually happen in canon. i'm likely gonna make a post about how i want to characterise my Craig later, but just know that 1. CranBarry is a thing in my little universe and 2. my Craig =/= Canon Craig and there will be a disclaimer explaining that on each fanwork i make depicting the ship from now on. i should probably give my Craig a last name so i don't have to keep calling him "my Craig" for disambiguation......

this hasn't been done out of spite or disrespect towards HB or anything at all. i'm disappointed with the change they made, and i do think it was very poorly executed, but at the end of the day, what happens in canon is not my story to write no matter how much i want to see in the series, and all i can do is sigh, shrug, pick up a pencil and start enacting the change i want to see for myself. i'm someone who believes that, while art can absolutely be criticised, it's up to the artist to decide what they want to do, and they don't have to cater to feedback if they don't want to. granted, it is a little different in Halfbrick's case because Jetpack Joyride is their product, and they are a sizable company who also makes money and business decisions and has a big audience and whatnot, but you get it right? it sucks, but like.... there's not really much you can do about it apart from write something you'd want to see.

so yeah, that's pretty much everything. i'm hoping this will go over well with everything that's happened because i really do love the gay little relationship i've given these two, i just can't continue doing it with the canon version of Craig for obvious reasons. the only problem i really see this causing is the very slight irritation that will come with possibly having to clarify this every time i post a Crarry thing. it'll probably be no biggie though, i'll just link to this post explaining everything. i sure do love coming up with incredibly convoluted solutions to simple problems looolll, it's my special talent at this point XD ahh well. if there's a bright side, it means i get to be even more self-indulgent and creative with these doofuses, and there might be some new headcanon and fanfic stuff coming later, as well as new Craig art. sucks that canon decided to fold in on itself, but i'm gonna try to ignore it for the most part.

[kyluxtrashpit]

Another old cat health ramble. Just cause sometimes I need to write things out

She’s still doing surprisingly well considering how increasingly unsettling she looks (if you follow me on twitter and open the sensitive content warnings, you know what she looks like - it’s spooky. I don’t post pics here cause there’s no real easy way to censor so it’s an opt in if you want to see her current state or not). And I think the cancer has definitely spread to her inner ear, as her balance problems are getting worse. She wobbled so bad she just about did a somersault yesterday when licking the hairball goo I give them every night off her front leg. Sometimes she rubs the area and it’s not great but it’s still manageable and it seems more like it just feels uncomfy sometimes (which I try to alleviate with the lubricant, but she doesn’t love that either so. Delicate balance)

But despite all that, she’s still so full of life and seemingly pain free. She still plays, eats, snuggles - if you covered up the affected part of her face and chocked the occasional wobble up to her being old or something, you’d never know there was anything wrong with her. She’s still so happy and tbh it. Doesn’t really make sense that she’s doing so well

Like I don’t want to look a gift horse in the mouth here but. It is strange. I expected her to be worse by now and I figured her even living to see october was a 50/50 shot. I had been hoping she’d last until this weekend, as it’s a long weekend, and unless anything goes downhill super quickly (which is absolutely possible), she’s going to sail right through without an issue. November? I don’t think it’ll happen based on the historical rate of growth from month to month but. She’s also really barely declined. The tumour is notably bigger and her balance is off but. That’s it

Idk I should be happy she’s doing so well but I can’t help but like. Feel on edge about it. Like whatever’s going to happen is going to be a really quick decline. She could pass suddenly in her sleep at any time too, or her heart could just stop or a blot clot or so many other things that would be sudden and instant. And while a long, slow deterioration is it’s own hell, so is a quick one that you don’t have the chance to prepare for. There’s no good way for it to happen but. Idk. It just makes me nervous that she’s still doing so well even though I know I should be grateful and cherishing it

Idk. There’s no real point here, it’s mostly a ramble. I feel like I’ve been preparing for it to happen any day for months, have been already mourning her for all this time. But she’s still kicking and is basically the same as she always is. And I’m happy for that, I truly truly am, but idk, I can’t help but think it’s a sign that when the time does come, there will be little to no warning. And while it sucks no matter how it happens, idk, I just can’t help being on edge about that because it still sucks, but there is at least some comfort in having at least some warning

[dogearedheart]

8i've been thinking about the last asks i got today. and i think it's better for me to take a step back from this account. i know the anon didn't mean anything by it, but i still feel like i am being a negative presence on here and weirding people out with who i am is nothing i want. so, i am not deleting or anything. i am just gonna be less present with sharing personal things or leaving tags. I'll probably be more active on my second account where i don't have that many followers :)

[the-acid-pear]

Why did my cooking dream get hijacked by my brain making a William Afton oc and au what was that about.

[therighthandofvengeance]

Vir: Don’t do something you might regret later.

Londo: Got it, I’ll do something I’ll definitely regret later!

[ariesvibe]

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[amethyinst]

this is so funny. he Pissith it out. and he grew fat

[chicxsims]

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[armenelols]

A moment of silence for my two failed attempts at an easy five minute test, not because I didn't know the answers, but because I forgot capital letters exist and also wasn't sure if lithium is lithium or litium in Czech