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Boycotting Genshin
I don't feel comfortable playing through Natlan and doing quest summaries + other fanart for the region. Unless something changes, I will be boycotting the game, since I don't want to support this level of insensitivity. I would encourage anyone reading this to do the same/go F2P/sign the below petition.
Here's all the designs/edits I've found for the Natlan characters so far which aim to portray the characters more accurately to their inspirations, along with other resources:
Mauvika: xxxiiv (Tumblr)
Chasca: artbymanyy (Twitter) NGreentail (Twitter) Fanart of NGreentail's design by FantaMiix (Twitter)
Xilonen: idkwhatevs1 (Twitter) inebyoonei (Twitter)
Kinich: chururira2da3 (Twitter) pam0537 (Twitter)
Mualani: mikrys_art (Twitter) fremelleCEO (Twitter)
Kachina: With Mualani and Kinich by kattkeyy (Twitter) With Mualani and Kinich by TioFarofeiro (Twitter) With Mualani and Kinich by foogie_boogie (Twitter) With Mualani and Kinich by eleiwitch (Tumblr) fruberry01 (Twitter)
Olorun: foogie_boogie (Twitter)
Citlali: NGreentail (Twitter) beubeubbu (Twitter)
OC: keadeharaaa (Twitter)
Notes on inspirations for in-game designs: DailyNatlanBR (Twitter)
Guide to complaint emails to Hoyoverse: sakura_branches (Twitter)
#If you see/have made a redesign you'd like to be added to this list you can comment or send it to me privately#Sorry for the long bout of radio silence again!#I've been really busy irl but I knew I wanted to make this post#even if it's later than I wanted it to be#v speaks#pinned post#genshin impact
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DO U EVER JUST RUN INTO A TEAM THATS JUST. A WORK OF ART. IM LAUGHING SO HARD PLEASE
#splatoon#splatoon 3#i went there and was like. ok! theres yaoicatboy and there's lord yaoi. and then it didnt hit me that the rest of them were also yaoi.#whoever u people are i hope u know i appreciate u for making me laugh. this is how you play splatoon#(i was the annoying reeflux user minatoast3094 on the other team. im sorry for the missiles but u were all so lovely and cool)#lizzy speaks#had to break my silence because everyone needs to know about these people
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breaking my silence on chess the musical to say that i would literally not give a fuck about this show if i thought it was good or fully successful at what it is saying. SORRY! i love how messy she is. i love how since 1984 and continuing to this very day people with entirely different perceptions of and opinions on the musical have attempted in their own ways to "make it good" by creating all these different versions with like notably different plots, characterization, and song order, and i love how fucking bad the vast majority of these are despite it all. i hope people keep trying to fix chess the musical forever and until the end of time. i hope no one ever figures it out. i want every currently living theatre director in existence to make their own version and for all these versions to come out on broadway at the same time, making that year's musical season entirely comprised of various different versions of the cold war chess musical by tim rice and half of abba. i want not only our greatest minds but also our middlest-of-the-road and worst minds to come up with their own conclusions as to why chess does not entirely work in its original form or any subsequent forms like to really think about it and yes i do want someone to dedicate their entire life to perfecting chess by releasing version after version after version until they die peacefully but still, as always, in the grips of obsession. i want marriages to be broken up. i want mental states to be shattered. i dream of this world
#it speaks!#ive said this on another platform but i dont like using that platform none of my friends are there. so you all get the expanded version.#pearl's chess rant: deluxe edition. and im not even finished.#i want at least one intrepid director to do what ppl do with shakespeare and set it in a completely different era ->#<- & change the central political conflict but not enough so its still like. well now this is about medieval feudalism why is it also ->#<- still about a chess proxy war ... that just makes no sense. it just doesnt make sense ........#'breaking my silence on chess the musical' sam knows i think about it still. but for the purposes of public appearance. you understand.#chessposting#chess the musical#<- real ones know i rarely maintag but i want all seven active chess fans to see this bc i need their insights
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it's this way! / squirrelpaw and leafpaw
#my art#do not copy trace or steal#squirrelflight#leafpool#warriors#warrior cats#wc#waca#wc art#IM SORRY THIS TOOK A WHILE sufferer of the stardew valley fixation and college u_u#IM GETTING MORE COMFORTABLE RENDERING which is cool but im still testing the limits of what works and what doesnt so .#REGARDLESS I AM SUPER DUPER STINKIN HAPPY WITH HOW THIS TURNED OUT#you are not immune to me constantly drawing leaf and squilf#i belieeeve theres one more coming and then ill be back to regular schedule#and that will mean either silly little/medium to low effort things or radio silence#did i tell yall i have an exam next week for algebra and i have no clue whats going on. its cobwebs in my brain#but other than that classes are going very well and i am enjoying second semester very much. i got to look at daphnia thru a microscope#today which is super fun :-) microbiology is so cool#one day ill plan my posts better since its midnight but i have a feeling yall are gonna eat this up#WHICH SPEAKING OF you guys have been so kind to me :'-) i read all of the nice things yall leave in the notes and it makes me so happy#i always get so nervous before i post and idk why#tomorrow i will put this up on my redbubble if i remember . i would do it now but it takes a while and i gotta get up#at six to study for a quiz at 8 </3 crying sobbing#anyway if the erins want to sponsor me my email is m- * sound of metal chair wham *#thats a joke unless they want to ANJHKFDGB
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Lando saying that if he had braked 1 meter later they probably would’ve crashed. Im glad he said at least
literally, time and time again we see that it's only Lando's quick reactions that save him from collisions
but ofc it was all fair, Lando just didn't expect it 🙃
#italian gp 2024#monza gp 2024#lando norris#anti piastri#i'm really exposing how i can in fact be a hater on main#i've held my silence for too long#i make anti posts now#birb speaks
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Nonverbal/Nonspeaking Whumpees. And all that this entails.
#Whumpees who sign or write to communicate having their hands bound uselessly behind them#Whumpers who don’t realize at first#and the moment they do#DEFIANT. NON-SPEAKING. WHUMPEES.#NON-SPEAKING WHUMPEES WITH SASS.#NON-SPEAKING WHUMPEES WHO WILL NOT BE SILENCED.#Caretakers who use a stilted few signs to ease Whumpee’s panic during/after rescue/escape#Whumpee being confused or irritated by the assumption that they can’t hear#Whumpers who know sign and don’t tell Whumpee—just to see what they think they can get away with#Whumpers who DON’T know sign and won’t let Whumpee use it out of paranoia#non-speaking Whumpees are so dear to an so underappreciated it makes me want to pull my hair out at the roots#whump
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Man of words
#s16 spoilers#iasip#it's always sunny in philadelphia#always sunny#macdennis#analysis#parallels#I didn't exactly know how to name this thread but i had some scattered thoughts on it#dennis is the one mac depends on to define things. he's the man of words. but this situation is very limiting#firstly because mac can't read subtext. and dennis will rarely be open in his words. but he also doesn't know everything.#cant define everything. and by forcing the situation to have dennis speak for both. what actually happens is mac gets silenced#and when mac cant speak. no one besides dennis can ever possibly understand him. and that is very isolating. because den wont be open. cant#but they trust each other. theyre following each other's lead. and they're missing the right words#den defines his own self worth in the relationship by being able to have the right words. mac is the man of action! after all#but if mac learns to speak for himself. if mac doesn't depend on den (chokes). if mac is noticed for his appearance as den becomes insecure#(''what if my shirt falls off?'') what does den have left for mac? but mac will fall for him no matter what.#''make up or not you are the golden god! it's all about what's in here💗''#maybe words arent necessary anymore. dont ask just do. and mac's the man of action... OR IS HE.#mac doesn't really act now does he. they got it backwards. don't they? mac got a lot better with his words in time...#idk lots to think about let me know what u think lolll#threads
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leo leaving foolish a sign like all the others, leaving the most concrete out of all the messages, but no one comments on it. foolish, dead quiet after asking for a direct translation, as the others come in, take note of the sign, and then continue on to other topics. forever coming up, asking if this is anything new or “just another sign”. baghera and fit, the only ones asking if he’s okay, and he just brushes it off, because of course he would, it’s foolish, and it’s easy even though it’s entirely unconvincing and obviously a lie, because everyone else is talking over them anyway. etoiles not even checking in, just pulling him aside to accuse him of federation bullshit. everyone proceeding to talk about crimes in his tower, sitting right on the concrete trail. mouse in the cappy place, saying foolish doesn’t even care about leo, he doesn’t care that she’s gone, and foolish goes quiet for a full minute, until he can find some joke to latch onto and start deflecting again. I can’t take it anymore I’m at my limit.
did anyone other than foolish know the significance of the amethyst, and take note, like they did with the other eggs and their left behind items? or was it just him, alone later on, repeating always juntos to himself as he looks at the message again.
#jmgoing to be sick#everyone else gets condolences gets oh this is significant. he gets ‘just another sign’. just another sign just another sign just another s#does anyone else know what’s important to Leo? everyone else is like oh their beloved items I’m so sorry w Tallulah chayanne and Ramon but#with foolish and leo. god. foolish who is so severely misunderstood on the server. leo who was always so afraid she would just be brushed#aside not making friends. the odd egg out. what the fuck man#and Roier too. throw in the whole family. what’s up with this man I’m sick I’m tired#foolish going quiet when he’s upset. when he’s emotional. and everyone taking it as he doesn’t care. like what is this man#or nervous laughter before silence. like you’ve known him long enough to know it’s not because he’s actually amused!!! god!!!!!!!!!!!!#I’m just upset ok I’m upset I’m upset I’m upset#‘just another sign’ fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you#qsmp#mcyt#foolish gamers#q!foolish#q!leonarda#z speaks
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thinking about hotd making my girl elinda massey go on errands and do seemingly the same job as talya like a lady in waiting isn’t a maid? and ofc that brings me to WHY don’t rhaenyra, alicent, helaena, baela and rhaena (or jeyne arryn, or rhaenys in her scenes on driftmark, or aemma in the two gd scenes we get with her) have friends? actual lady companions from the nobility. grrm is so bad at this in the books but it’s even worse in got and hotd
#hotd#bee speak#elinda massey in s1 was dressed the same as the midwives and the maids???#we do see richly-dressed ladies in the background sometimes#look in the yard when aemond gets on his horse there’s a pair of them#why can’t they be seen hanging out around their queens and princesses#aegon gets friends. ig it’s because they were gonna be plot-relevant~ but like. come on man it’s just extras#give helaena a little circle of ladies to embroider with. in silence if need be#alicent should have tons of cousins from the reach and girls from vassal houses of the hightowers.#anywayyy#i’m gonna make them up#otto sends for a mullendore girl for helaena specifically bc of their sigil. and she’s his favorite grandchild#and a webber. a girl from house ambrose. a bettley 😭😭😭
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I wonder how long it would take for anyone to notice if I just stopped talking.
speak 2004
#speak 2004#melinda sordino#girl blogger#girlblogging#femcel#feminine#coqeutte aesthetic#coquette#dark academia#romantic academia#pinterest#pink aesthetic#pink#depressing shit#thirteen 2003#kirsten stewart#bella swan#twilight#y2k#2000s#2000s films#aesthetic#winter#snow#silence#tumblr girls#im just a girl#this is what makes us girls#indie film#art
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On Daenerys, Colonisation and Race Discourse within the ASOIAF Fandom
This has been on my mind for a good long while and honestly, as much as I would like to leave discourse in the pits, it has been bugging me intermittently over the past few weeks.
Far too many of you get on here and call people who like the fictional dragon-riding family, neo-Nazis and that sentiment is so prevalent, that white people feel comfortable telling me a black woman that I am a neo-Nazi for rooting for Daenerys Targaryen. I am upholding neo-Nazi power fantasies for wanting to see a little girl live at the end of a story. I am a neo-Nazi for wanting to see the rape survivor have the family she aches for and children with the man (or men) she loves.
Then, those same people go on spiels about how the systemic erasure of those who sing the song of the earth and other old races is not colonialism. That their removal from their home is not displacement but an agreement between two equal parties. The fact that the only place where those who sing the song of the earth exist in the present timeline is north of the wall, surrounded by the bones of their dead, is not a travesty. That the expulsion of the old races from their home isn't that bad and should not be condemned.
Instead, people argue, completely seriously, that the harm that the First Men and Andals have caused is centuries in the past, so essentially the slate has been wiped clean. The logical leaps that are required to arrive at such a boneheaded conclusion are truly mind-boggling, and those who make such arguments are not good people.
I am unsure how one could read those books and come away with the impression that the old races do not mourn the loss of their home. I am unsure how one could read The Last of the Giants[1] and Ygritte’s reaction to both the song and Jon’s dismissal of the ethnic cleansing of the giants then believe that the old races and the free folk have moved past their displacement.
In Westeros, from the Wall to the broken arm of Dorne, they all speak one language despite the fact they are all different ethnicities and they all landed on the shores at different times. That is not the case in Essos, we have been introduced to at least six languages and in A Dance with Dragons, Tyrion notes that the Valyrian spoken in the Free Cities has evolved into nine distinct dialects, and they are well on their way to becoming different languages.
How would a continent as large and diverse as Westeros maintain its hegemony over the people if not for forced assimilation, discriminatory practices and violence? The brutal repression required to keep one house in power for thousands of years is nothing to sniff at. The suppression required to keep the vast majority of Westeros worshipping one (or seven) gods. The systems in place ensure that language does not grow or evolve amongst the highborns at least.
Centuries before Aegon's Landing the maesters were the definitive educational authority and even now centuries after, nothing has changed. The grey rats still decide who learns what and when they learn it. There's one in every highborn home, all correspondence passes through them, they are the healers and the councillors.
The circular logic gets even more blockheaded when you factor in the fact that Daenerys is far from the only white character in the books. She is not the only character who wishes for home. She is not the only character who draws strength from her ancestors, her bloodline and her magical creatures.
Cersei draws strength from her family’s iconography, and the Stark children (Jon included) all draw strength from their direwolves, their home and their blood. Sansa, Arya and Bran wish to return home and their home was built on the indiscriminate murder and displacement of the indigenous peoples. Their home is built on centuries of rape, murder, exclusionary practices and sexual slavery.
However, if we give the nonsensical argument that time erases crimes air; the Starks, Lannisters and Tullys are warring to settle personal grievances in the present timeline. As a consequence of that war, thousands (a modest guesstimate) of small folk, minor nobles and even some major ones have been raped, tortured, maimed and killed.
Despite all this, no one writes meta after meta about how Sansa and her siblings must surely die for justice to be had for those who sing the song of the earth, the free folk, the giants and all the old races that fled beyond the wall.
People write meta about Cersei and how she must die, but those are typically more misogynistic nature. They typically argue that she must die not for the “crime” of being Lannister, but for the “crime” of being Cersei and “ruining” Jamie.
I would not mind criticisms of Dany and her peace-focused approach to ending slavery because the approach is naïve and she gives the slavers far too much ground. However, she is learning, growing and self-critiquing. At the end of A Dance with Dragons, she has decided to embrace fire and blood, her knight is breaking the false peace which is a necessary step forward.
What I find offensive is people saying that she should have planned better before she abolished slavery. And that the death, violence, and sickness that arises from her quest to eradicate slavery is somehow worse than the death, violence, and sickness that already existed in Slaver’s Bay.
This argument often downplays the horrific conditions and suffering that exist(ed) under the slave system in Slaver's Bay. Such arguments are often in poor taste and prioritise the lives and comforts of the slavers more than the people they have enslaved.
I would not mind criticisms of Dany if people applied that same critique even-handedly. The same people who believe that Jon and Bran have done much to rectify the evil that their ancestors perpetuated believe that Dany has not done anything to right the wrongs of her ethnic kin. They praise them for the non-existent steps that they have taken, but in the same breath, they condemn Dany for not being able to immediately end the plague that is slavery.
It is perfectly alright to not like fictional characters, no law requires you to like certain fictional characters over others. However, what is not right is making broad accusations about those who do, it is beyond the pale. It is disgusting, and annoying, and trivialises real-world issues to score cheap points against fictional characters.
Equating the survival of a teenage survivor to the restoration of a fascist house or neo-Nazi power fantasy when such designations do not exist in the world of ice and fire is strange behaviour. Saying that the teenage survivor will eventually be manipulated and raped (again) before ending up dead on her manipulator's blade is also strange behaviour.
Dismissing the horrors of colonialism, especially when the text shows you that the involved parties are still affected by it, is not normal and often veers into real-world imperialism apologia. While criticism and analysis of characters and their actions are valid and even encouraged, it is essential that we do not resort to sweeping generalisations about other people and that we keep criticisms of characters grounded in the text.
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Ooooooh, I am the last of the giants, my people are gone from the earth.
The last of the great mountain giants, who ruled all the world at my birth
Oh, the smallfolk have stolen my forests, they’ve stolen my rivers and hills.
And they’ve built a great wall through my valleys, and fished all the fish from my rills
In stone halls they burn their great fires, in stone halls they forge their sharp spears.
Whilst I walk alone in the mountains, with no true companion but tears.
They hunt me with dogs in the daylight, they hunt me with torches by night.
For these men who are small can never stand tall, whilst giants still walk in the light.
Oooooooh, I am the LAST of the giants, so learn well the words of my song.
For when I am gone the singing will fade, and the silence shall last long and long.
#I do not like most of y’all.#Do not call people of colour you do not know neonazis to win points against a fictional character.#It is not my fault that most of your faves are boring and do nothing to drive the plot forward#take it up with george rr martin and stop villifying dany and her (mid) family.#The insistence that we must mind fandom etiqutte is tired as hell too especially because people use it as silencing tools.#“Yes I called you a neonazi but you are the real weirdo for finding my post so really it’s on you that you saw that.”#that’s how y’all sound.#If I see another post that equates enjoying dany to being a neonazi#i will make it everybodys problem.#Took a long break from this fandom because the rancid takes were overshadowing the good takes#and i’ve been back less than a year and the takes are even more rancid than before.#hotd opened an evil door that should’ve remained shut.#Cause why the fuck are there criston cole apologists? Why are there aemond and aegon ii apologists? It is a dark world we live in.#put the last giant at the bottom for my homies who have not read the books which if we're speaking real is more than half of y'all#now that i have gotten this out of my system#it is time to get back to demon slayer#daenerys targaryen#asoiaf#asoiaf thoughts#asoiaf nonsense#if you saw the typos in the first version#no you didn't#edited this to add some thoughts I originally put in the tags because I felt it worked better there.
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EPISODE 40 PART ONE HOLY FUCK THATS GOD
#the AUDIO MIXING FOR THE KING HAS ME GOING FUCKING CRAZYYYYYYYYY#THE SILENCE WHEN HE ENTERS THE RANDOM GUY#HOLY FUCKSHIT DUDE. HOLY GOD#mossy speaks#moss watches#malevolent spoilers#malevolent#im so beyond hype for this ep its making me Insane
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Okay, I know there are much wilder things happening right now, but am I the only one who'd really like to see Razor Rex' "seven fearsome Corpse Cardinals" ?
#considering how colorful their goddess is#i bet they are a pretty funny bunch#plus they are themed after the seven deadly sins...#paranatural#razor rex#paranatural razor rex#razor rex paranatural#also#since the name of the black sphinx has finally been revealed#here is a little theory i wanted to share regarding their golden sibling#(because i love that fluffy goober#despite how little we've seen of them)#i think they could be the sphinx of#silence#after all#they seem to possess the power to neutralize the abilities of their siblings#and all those abilities relate to words#so it'd make sense for silence to counter them#conceptually speaking#besides#you know how the saying goes#speech is silver#and silence#(like a certain sphinx)#is golden#:3
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(2/2)
#this is mainly to show piepoe communication and responses to music!!#piepoe is extremely quiet. she does not speak much and if it does its usually a few words before they remain silent again#piepoe also as shown enjoys music!! a music box is her favorite#but all kinds make him sit and listen in silence.#Piepoe arts
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who goes there...
#fake dungeon synth album cover... this was so fucking fun to make#my art#dungeon synth#fantasy#album cover#hello i am speaking directly into your ear. go give dungeon synth a chance#this is. so insanely inspired by that depressive silence cover
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Friendly reminder to not support the Autism Speaks organization
#they believe autism can be cured#it’s really genuinely a hate organization I’m positive#they put autistic people through treatments that result in ptsd#it is non led by autistic people and they often silence autistic people who speak out about it#they make out Autism to be a disease rather than a neurological disorder
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