#that and i'm going to be real i genuinely doubt nintendo is going to do that much for what the winning team will effect the next game

[moogghost]

...so now that grandfest is over and the results were revealed am i allowed to say that some of y'all were such dicks to team present over their team choice for NO good reason ever since grandfest was revealed or am i going to get mauled for being right.

anyways congrats to the team past members who weren't assholes about their team choice and those team past members only every match against you guys made me feel like i was crawling in the trenches and it's very impressive 👍

[berryyummy]

Innocent Shy Boy Head Cannon

×spoiler×

Hi guys! I fell in love with Ethan after watching Scream 6. But It has a doubtful part. Ethan is GF, why did he take Mindy to the hospital? It would have been better to just leave her alone and join the family. It's nonsense! And I love him, but I can't stop thinking about what it would have been like if he had been a really sweet and innocent guy. So... Here's my hc! I'll add more as I think of them. I'm not good at English, let me know if there are any awkward expressions!

Elementary and middle school homeschooling. High school was hell for him. He came to New York with dreams of a great college life.

He lacks social skills. But he's cute and kind, so his flaws are covered. He's fun to watch.

He can be friends with girls, but just the thought of going on a date turns him into a squeaking robot.

He doesn't know how cute he is. If someone praises him for being cute or pretty, he will be embarrassed. He wants to be told he's handsome!

He's stronger than he looks,but he never gets a chance to show it. He often imagines lifting a girl's heavy load.

He has his first gay crush when he sees Chad, he readily accepts that he is bisexual. what? Chad is the real alpha male. It is the providence of nature that he is attracted to him.

Most of his clothes are too big or the sleeves and length are too short or too worn or have peculiar prints.

He can't do housework. He puts all his clothes through the washing machine without thinking about what he will wear tomorrow.

Fortunately, his roommate can share clothes with him! Chad is shorter than Ethan but has a wider torso. He gladly gives his dark long sleeves to Ethan. (Because it suited Ethan so well)

He can't even cook. The only cooking utensil he can use is a microwave. what he does best are peanut jelly sandwiches and cup noodles.

He genuinely enjoys hanging out with his friends, but meanwhile, he misses a lot in the internet world. Whenever he has free time, he sticks his nose into his smartphone and types at a breakneck speed.

He considers suggesting that Chad wear a Mario and Luigi costume to the house party. But it was dismissed as too gay and loser by his Twitter friends, so it's just a thought.

He obviously loves Nintendo. I'm sure he has all the Nintendo machines and game chips.

There are always snacks in his backpack. mostly Cheetos, Doritos, Pringles, Twix, Jelly Beans or Oreo cokie. Some days they're all in. Of course, he always has a tissue in his pocket to wipe his hands with!

He's the one sharing the snacks. He always reaches out with a snack bag to his friends without saying anything.

He is close to Chad > Anika > Tara > Sam > Quinn > Mindy. Quinn and Mindy uncomfortable him in different ways. Quinn embarrasses him and Mindy's suspicion hurts him.

"Will I die a virgin?" It came out of his mouth before he even thought about it. He considers taking a leave of absence.

On the night of the murder, he finishes his econ and returns to his dormitory to write reports and study for exams. He's worried about his roommate who doesn't come back until late at night, he texts, there's no reply. He assumes that Chad will be with Tara. So he just played some games on his laptop and went to bed.

Only the next morning he finds out what happened. Chad grabbed him by the collar before a voice could come out of his mouth. He's genuinely hurt, but the feelings fly out of his head when he hears that two of his friends have lost their lives.

He proves his alibi, but the charges are still there. He doesn't know what to do. He couldn't even properly commemorate the deaths of his friends, but he was accused of murder, And he's being chased by a crazy psycho killer

After being targeted by Ghost Face, he is unable to come to his senses. His sense of reality is gone and he is dazed and afraid. He looks around for comfort, but hides his feelings because his friends seem more fearful than him.

It's him who gets attacked by Ghostface on the train. Gf first stabs Ethan, who is an easy target, and then tries to stab Mindy, but Ethan is strong and resists for quite some time.

He was stabbed twice in the stomach but survived. He sees Mindy approaching him and bursts into tears he has been holding back. He cries loudly like a baby. Mindy soothes him until the 911, but to no avail, so she just covers his mouth.

The next day, he is still in the hospital, He listens to his friends that Ghostface's identity was Detectives Bailey and Quinn. He is so startled that his jaw drops.

Mindy apologizes to him for doubting him. Honestly at this point he doesn't care at all. He's just grateful that he and his friends survived. they all hug each other.

[olderthannetfic]

Wait I’m genuinely curious about the mechanisms of this - so I know about ao3 and copyright law, but what about zines? I think the earliest are from the 1970s but how have they, as a media form, survived for so long if they’re also technically breaking the law by profiting off an IP? I get a lot are for charity and companies would be reluctant to sue projects for charity but I’ve seen some being sold that aren’t?

And also what about authors who post early updates on patreon or have patreon exclusive fics? That surely has to break copyright law?

Possibly answering my own question but maybe it’s because companies don’t care about this but I also did live through Nintendo viciously taking down let’s plays because they thought it breached their copyright by disincentivising people from playing the games?

Companies can be really strict about their IPs, so I’m really curious as to how this is happening and how people are protecting their works.

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Getting away with shit and shit being legal are two very different things. ;)

And, to be fair, shit being illegal and companies threatening you with legal action are also very different things.

The oldschool ones were not for charity. You could make a fair use argument, but most zines survive simply because rights holders don't bother to go after them. Small print runs of physical objects are often not seen as significant enough to bother with. Zine makers often argue that they're only charging because they need to cover the printer's bill. Some prices on old zines bear this out; others don't.

Plenty of zines did get shut down by rights holders, however, from big-for-sff-publishing names like Chelsea Quinn Yarbro to Hollywood types like George Lucas. The reasons ranged from "My historical figure vampire is super original and your random-ass zine is endangering my copyright" (Fuck you, CQY. I'm never reading a page of your crap!) to "I just don't like Luke/Leia for some reason but won't tell you why" (LOL). I hear Lucas went after horny zines in general too. I wasn't around for any of this, obviously, but there are writeups online, including on Fanlore.

I presume modern zines benefit from the greater awareness around fair use and around bad press from suppressing fanworks, but they could still be in danger from big rights holders. Being legal or illegal is less important than who has the money for lawyers. Sometimes, a fan can get a big corp to back off by brazening it out, but you have to tell them your legal name and go "Come at me, bro!" Who wants to do that?

Fic Patreons are not only on shaky legal ground, but Patreon does not allow that use of the site. It's a private company, not a public service, and it can pretty much do as it pleases. Here are the guidelines in part:

Restrictions We don’t allow creations and benefits that violate our terms or policies. You can learn more by visiting our Community Guidelines and Benefit Guidelines. A high level summary of those rules is that we don’t allow:

illegal creations or benefits;

creations or benefits that are abusive towards other people;

creations or benefits that use others’ intellectual property, unless you have written permission to use it, or your use is protected as fair use;

or creations or benefits with real people engaging in sexual acts.

If your fans include people under the age of 18, then please remind them that they need their parent’s or legal guardian’s permission to purchase an offering or membership subscription on Patreon, and that those under the age of 13 cannot use Patreon. We are not required to allow any particular person or group of persons to be a patron or otherwise access Patreon services.

Now, yes, they do make an exception for fair use, but I doubt they'll side with the majority of fanworks creators on their particular Patreon works counting as fair use. (Actually, they might be more lenient on RPF. That "real people" rule is about porn starring live actors, not about RPF.) They might rule in favor of the person selling their fic on there, but they very well might not, and even if you were willing to fight it out in court, you probably couldn't since Patreon would be denying you service on their site, not suing you. They can deny service to whomever they want any time they want.

I don't advocate tattling to Patreon simply because I don't think there's any social contract around respecting Patreon's wishes, nor are Patreons I don't back super visible and in my face. Patreon is built by people who get paid to do that; the extra ethical issues present on AO3 are not present here. I don't really approve, but I'm also not going to go out of my way to rat on people. However, I'm sure that fandom enemies of BNFs with Patreons do tattle. I'd advise anyone monetizing this way to have other contact info for their patrons in case they suddenly get kicked off.

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Basically, people are flying under the radar, and then periodically, there's a big drama where a rights holder or hosting site destroys everything.

[amnesiacsleepy]

Alright so ive had time to think about it and I believe I finally realize why TotK's Sage system is so much more annoying to use than BotW's champion abilities (spoilers for TotK btw. i mean its been a month+ since release but yeah)

When you get a new champion ability in BotW, it's mapped to an appropriate button, or is the next best thing. Daruk's protection is a forcefield that is passively on the shield button, Revali's Gale is an updraft on the jump button, Urbosa's fury is a charge-attack upgrade in the attack button, and Mipha's Grace is a fully passive heal that functions like a fairy except it's a full heal.

All of these powers are set to their own button, making them intuitive to use. This even applies to the Master Cycle, which is a rune, which is a completely separate button, the L button.

In TotK, however, none of the abilities the sages have are passive. You have to run over to them, press A, and then you can use it (in Yunobo's case you have to press a AGAIN which really disrupts the flow of gameplay). The closest comparison I can make is Persona 4 using awful menuing and scrolling a bunch to Persona 5's use of unique buttons, except they did this backwards.

This doesn't even mention when you want to use one sage's ability, but end up using another one because they all go if fighting enemies even if you dont want them to. I genuinely have not used Riju's lightning strike since finishing the Lightning Temple despite how god damn strong it is.

None of this even touches on how much of a one-man army Link is, especially after grabbing a full set of attack up armor. The sages become borderline irrelevant (minus Tulin, he's AWESOME).

Even when you get a fucking mech that you can fuse thing on to like flamethrowers and rockets its still not worth losing the flurry rush and other faster and straight up better attacks you can do off the mech, which also takes battery power and you can still take damage on. And if you use it to get over gloom/lava then a hoverbike is just more convinient for how cheap and fast you can make them.

Something else I have a problem with is the Sage's Will system which essentially lets you deepen your connection with the sages for four per sage. This is supposed to mirror BotW's Champion's ballad quest, where you go around the map collection emblems for each champion and then getting a faster recharge tike for each, which I have my own problems with, but thats for another time.

Each sage bond you deepen increases their damage. That's it. It doesn't enchance their abilities at all, which is a real disappointment.

They could have made Sidon's water shield last longer/for three hits, to closer mirror Daruk's Protection. Riju's lightning could have become a fusion to your arrows, Tulin's gust could have blown farther, and Yunobo's could have created a bigger explosion or have him roll faster. But then, I guess the Sages would have had to become stronger themselves, which maybe that's future DLC? But we don't know now so I'm not giving the benefit if the doubt.

As for how to fix it, Sidon's could be just a bonus to your shield like Daruk was. Riju's could,as previously mentioned, been an arrow fuse with a cooldown.

As for Yunobo and Tulin, I'm not as sure. But instead if forcing them onto a button, why not just... make the buttons reprogramable like in OoT, Majora's Mask, Twilight Princess, Skyward Sword, Minish Cap, Wind Waker, the Oracle games, A Link to the Past, A Link Between Worlds, and MORE.

Why Nintendo did away with the reprogrammable buttons system is beyond me, but being able to put a specific rune/weapon/sage ability/throwable material/zonai devine/etc. would make things a lot more manageable.

The kicker is, there's already a SUPER watered-down version of it, with the rune, shield, weapon, and bow buttons. You cant swap what's on there in the sense you cant have multiple weapons or runes, but you CAN choose which one is used when you press the buttons.

But then we need to figure out which buttons would be reprogrammable, and I propose that first we swap the jump button to A like in so maby other games. Does it screw up muscle memory? For sure, but by doing this we can have Y, X, L, R, D-pad Up, D-pad Left, D-pad Right, and D-pad down as reprogrammable (you can manually put in whistle too I guess). This would free up a bunch of space for the player to put things, and allow for a bunch of freedom on what is put onto the reprogrammed buttons. To change them, you coukd just go into your menu and choose from there, whether its a weapon, a sage ability, or anything else mentioned above.

I'm not completely certain this would solve all the problems the game has, but I do think it would be a huge QoL. Maybe too big, they might have to make that system in a whole new Zelda game in like 15 years.

[spinnitegaming]

Digimon Story: Lost Evolution Playthrough Information

Hello, hello! I think it's time for a big explanation, huh?

Long story short, while I'm planning on only playing Dragon Quest IX for the blog while I have to wait for the Circle Pad rubber replacement for my New 3DS to arrive (information post for it will be posted shortly after this), I got tweet news that a certain Japanese-exclusive Nintendo DS game just got an English fan translation released to the public from a certain group called "Operation: Decoded". And to my shock, that game turned out to be one of the old games I wished I played as a teen, it's Digimon Story: Lost Evolution.

Yes, I play Digimon games. Do you expect me to play only Pokemon games forever?

But on a serious note, along with watching a bit of Digimon anime like Digimon Adventure 02, Tamers, Frontiers, and Ghost Game, I played Digimon video games before excluding mobile games, mostly after I finished Pokemon games' main stories. Digimon World: DS, Digimon World: Dawn and Dusk, Digimon World Championship...

Before you ask, I know that Digimon World exists for the Playstation and despite the naming conventions, all of these games are not related to it in terms of gameplay. DS, Dawn, Dusk, and Lost Evolution are actually part of the Digimon Story series, which is actually their real title when it was released in Japan. I didn't know about this until I read more about them in Wikipedia and when I started playing Cyber Sleuth. Digimon World Championship, on the other hand, is separate from either World or Story series as it's only a glorified virtual pet on the Nintendo DS. But honestly, I had a lot of fun playing it despite I only train my Digimon by dragging them back and forth to each cage and that's the only thing you know about World Championship.

But back to Lost Evolution, as I said, it was the only Digimon Story game that wasn't released worldwide, probably because the last game before LS, Dawn and Dusk, got mixed reviews. Not sure how many were sold, but all I can say is that the other reason is how Jaiden Animations played Dawn for her video, and lack of Digimon knowledge aside, it wasn't very pretty to see her suffer. If you want to watch how she tried to survive Digimon World: Dawn, click here for her video. But does that deter me to play Lost Evolution after its fan translation is released? Absolutely not!

Just like Fantasy Life's playthrough, I will post playthrough logs throughout most of the game and will only post things outside of the main story, gameplay, and boss battles when something interesting is happening. And before you ask, I have a real DSi and I'm playing it through hardware. So sorry in advance, but you're still sticking with crappy photo camera photos.

The only difference is that I'm playing this blind for the first time. While I do have a bit of experience playing Dawn and Dusk including future games such as the Cyber Sleuth duology, I genuinely have no idea what the new features and gameplay found in Lost Evolution are. I don't know if GameFAQs have any guides posted about it, so whether they have it or not, I'm not gonna rely on it for the sake of getting through it fresh. Story-wise, I did see some spoilers on plot elements involving it when I was browsing through TV Tropes, WIkimon, and the Digimon Fandom Wiki. But honestly, with my attention span of a goldfish, I doubt I can be spoiled. I hope.

With that, it's time to start the game, but not before going over Dragon Quest IX next. See you in the next post!

[serendipitybutterfly]

As I said the other day in reply to an ask... Here's a little check up on Seokjin and Jungkook which I have tried to keep brief and to the point... Because it was meant to just be a little check up (I'm trying to control my wordiness)...

Firstly, an interesting little thing... When I started doing these for each of them, I felt like I needed to ask permission. I usually do actually ask permission, but usually indirectly through their guides and guardians with my own acting as intermediaries... But this time, for some reason, I felt the need to ask directly. I saw this in different ways... For Seokjin, I saw him lying on a bed playing a Nintendo game and I stood outside the room and knocked on the door lightly to ask to come in, he nodded so I did. Then I sat on the rug on the floor and asked if I could check for any helpful advice for him and he nodded again, so I did. It was all at a distance and I felt the need to be very careful, cautious and respectful as I was being let in. His own energy felt very watchful and alert and I was very aware that if I overstepped I would be shut out of the room.

With Jungkook, it was different. I saw him in what looked like a white walled practice room, sitting leaning against a wall with head on his knees. He looked a little tired. I felt like I should come a lot closer than I did to Seokjin and I reached out to him slowly and spoke very gently, asking if it was OK for me to ask for advice. I didn't see him speak necessarily but I 'heard' him say it was OK (hard to explain, but it wasn't necessarily in audible words in any particular language... It was almost like he pushed the energy of 'Yes Ok' towards me). His energy was very open and attentive and almost eager. With Seokjin it was almost like I suggested doing a reading for someone who, while not opposed, wasn't really looking for it... Whereas with Kookie it was like I had suggested it to someone who had been almost hoping for someone to come along and ask...

Anyway... I've already failed at keeping this brief but this felt too interesting and significant not to mention. This was, I suppose, the imagery my subconscious conjured as a visual of my energy reaching out to theirs directly and how it was received...

Without further ado, what's going on with Seokjin and what do his guides want to say to him?

The big impression I got from this reading is that Seokjin is being urged by his guides to take a leading role in pushing everyone towards their new objective. If you look at the oracle cards that came for him, he got Stone People: Vigilance from the Earth Magic deck and 'White Witch: be the light' and 'Lord: take charge with authority' from the Angels and Ancestors deck. I think these cards are the main advice cards here... They're telling him to play a major leadership role as the eldest. He's being asked to be vigilant of the others' moods and energy and to help guide them by being a positive 'light' in a difficult situation.

If I look at the tarot I can see that while he knows this and is trying, he's been pretty down himself so it's difficult. Still he's been putting up a valiant effort to seem positive and not give into cynicism in order to encourage his team. He's made a start at looking towards the future goal with passion and optimism and even though he's not entirely convinced of it genuinely himself yet... He's making sure to appear that he is.

Seokjin generally has a really healthy outlook and works his way through setbacks well so this seems about right to me. I think he listens to his guides really well... Whether consciously or not, he's definitely very connected to spiritual guides who try to keep him in a very positive, constructive state of mind. The main advice is that he'll need to be proactive and take the lead in pushing everyone forward right now because his role is being like 'sunlight'; of possessing a healing 'white witch' magic in the group. They need his particular brand of grounded earthy practicality and fun loving firey positivity and being that light will also help him push through his own doubts.

Now for Jungkook...

If we look at the Oracle cards we got for him we see a focus on the earthly passings of the seasons with Autumn: Release the Old and Rest and Spring: Let your seeds grow. One card shows the sharp cunning crow, the other, a spry jumping bunny or hare (which is perfect for Kookie huh?). However, we also see a celestial focus with Milky-Way: Perspective which calls for him to see the bigger picture. The big message here is that he has to accept that unexpected things happen, change happens, and you have to let the past die and move on to new beginnings. Like how autumn turns to winter which turns to spring. There are new seeds to water and tend to right now, even if he wasn't able to reap the last harvest the way he wanted to. Try to see the bigger picture, let go of the past and move forward .

The tarot tells me he is well on his way with this already! We can see from the reversed ten of wands and reversed six of cups that he's already begun to cast off the burdens and regrets of the past that he was clinging to. The cards also show a dramatic progression. He starts off feeling like a powerless, emotionally immature child, losing passion and energy. So he turns to some spiritual wellspring. Through meditation and reflection he reached a kind of equilibrium which enabled him to work through this time of feeling dejected over the things that didn't work out... Knowledge that, despite what it may have seemed, his members were also experiencing similar emotions and regrets helped and made him feel less alone.

Now a new goal has been set (as we saw in Seokjin's reading) and Kookie has already made a real start on this in a physical sense which is helping to fire him up and get him out of the negative mindset he had been in for a little while.

Like Seokjin, what I tend to see with Jungkook is a lot of maturity and a healthy way of working through set backs. Jungkook also seems to have a strong connection to his guides, whether consciously or subconsciously, and they always help pull him back on track. I'd say with Kookie, a spiritual emphasis has come up for him before so I think he actually does consciously turn to spirituality for peace and clarity when things seen to go awry in his life and his connection to his guides will continue to get stronger as a result which is a brilliant thing!

All in all, these readings show a positive trajectory for them both. There's something new they've started working on that they've turned their focus to following the tour being postponed and they're trying to be positive and get fired up about it despite the circumstances. Let's all wish them, and the others, love and light and protection from all harm. 🙏 💜☀ ✨

[smoolcat]

Can I get a matchup? I'm a short trans guy who is a bit on the chubby side; I have several piercings and several tattoos and I'm really shy until I get to know someone (then I just don't shut up, like, ever)! I'm a huge cat lover and I enjoy sitting in quaint, quiet coffee shops. I play a ton of video games and I'm the "dad friend" of the friend group!

I ship you with Kenma Kozume!♡

Kenma Kozume matchup!

 •   It took Kuroo a bit of his mischievous tactics to get the two ofyou together, mostly because Kenma was awfully uncooperative when it came tomeeting new people and you were so God damn shy and reserved. What was Kuroogoing to do with the two of you.. You were sitting in the corner of the gym,minding your own business while playing on your ds, meanwhile Kenma being inthe opposite part of the gym - playing on his ds as well. The same situation onthe way home, you on one side, Kenma the other and Kuroo in the middle; was he a magnet for cute boys like you two?He was flattered, really - but hisintention was to pair the two of you.•   So he began sneaking the two of you into conversations, using yourgaming habit as an advantage to his plan. To his surprise everything wentsmoother than he’d imagine. You and Kenma were now sitting in the same cornerof the gym, playing together and talking - to somewhat of an extent - and onthe way home you both walked side by side; missionaccomplished.•   One day Kuroo couldn’t attend practice, and you couldn’t help buthave your doubts. You took a liking to Kenma but the two of you never talkedunless Kuroo would initiate the conversation. So with that in mind you justshrugged, placing your backpack on the ground and claiming your rightful gamingcorner. Sliding your ds screen up and pushing the power button you sighed,budging the tips of your shoes together and frowning. “Hey.” you slightly flinched at the familiar, quietvoice, looking up to notice none other but Kenma himself “Mind if I sit here?” he muttered, offering a warm yetsmall smile. You nodded embarrassed, blushing as you switched your view back tothe Nintendo DS screen. You two never talked as much as you did that day!•   Ever since then, the two of you hit it off just fine. Of course ittook Kuroo to be the wing man while assisting Kenma regarding his.. mumblingconfessions, but you could already barely hear anything due to the loudbeatings in your chest; and it got evenworse. “I-I like you…”those were the only words swirling through your thoughts that night, which keptyou up late past 6am, arriving at school like a zombie.•   You slowly warmed up to Kenma and talking to him felt likesomething normal. You couldn’t shut up anymore! Not like Kenma wanted you to,he adored listening to you talk all day if possible. You were one of the fewlittle things he could genuinely get excited over; even more than Hinata.•   Kenma was intrigued about your tattoos and piercings, asking atfirst if it hurt. He sometimes considered getting a tattoo or piercing, but hewas skeptical about the attention which he might attract and the judgments ofothers. Funny enough, hearing people comment on what a lovely - yet odd, in agood manner - pair the two of you made, getting quite some attention now andthen, made Kenma happy.•   It was a scared routine for the two of you to head towards yourfavorite coffee shop after practice. And the fact it was almost always emptymade things so much better for both of you! Even if he gave off an emotionlessand unapproachable attitude, he wouldn’t back down showing affection towardsyou outside the public eyes; he would barely hold your hand out in the open.But when no one was around, Kenma would surely express his gratitude anddeepest of feelings through small actions. Slightly cuddling up to you, placingsmall pecks on your cheek as your talking, rest his head against your shoulderwhen playing on your ds and even go as far as mumbling a few love confessionsnow and then; which caused you mini heart attacks, worth.•   Overall, you and Kenma Kozume would have a relationship thatgoes far deeper than words. Just enjoying being in each other’s presence,sneaking a few couples’s moments and showing a side to each other in privatewhich no one knew about was worth more than a thousand words. You were perfectthe way you were in his eyes and he wouldn’t want to change a single thingabout you. Kenma hardly ever loses his cool, but you’d better believe he’dbreak a sweat if it involved you.

Bonus!: Giving how shy the both of you are, the first few nightswould most likely end up with quick ‘goodnight's’ before reaching to the realaction. Slowly warming up and welcoming the idea of discovering each other’sbodies intrigued you to the point you just couldn’t wait anymore! Even thatnight would end up with embarrassed mumblings of ‘goodnight’ but, Kenma would hold you tightly in his arms, wishingto be as close as possible to your body.

Ofc u can boo!!♡♡♡ Btw you sound lovely! I hope you like your matchup♡

x.Smoolcat♡

[tumblunni]

Also the argument "don't criticize any bad portrayals of black people on eastern media or you're being racist" makes no sense...

I've seen people acting like this is some sort of smear campaign attacking ONLY Japanese artists in Japan, when it's really just a general "oh god not again every time we get a sexy black lady in a Pokémon game this happens, primarily in American fandom, which we are talking about because we are Americans"

But somehow because it's a Japanese game we get these bullshit arguments that she's not really black and calling her black is racist and even saying she is any brown-skinned minority at all is racist, as if everyone in Asia is identically pale...

And also ITS A FUCKIN GAME SET IN BRITAIN YOU DINGUS! I'm pretty damn sure she's meant to be fucking black! Same reason they added lots of specifically black/African American characters in the game set in america. And in that generation Nintendo also PREEMPTIVELY realized a potential mistake that could evoke racist stereotypes and edited it before the game came out in the west, without anyone actually complaining about it. Yet people still went all "boo wah the sjws forced Nintendo to make this choice that they made all on their own" and it became a controversy when it never even was one?? I never saw a single sjw who actually agreed that the gym leader lady looked racist. it was more like "oh accidentally this non negatively portrayed design has some coincidental traits of a racist stereotype that Japan probably wasn't aware of, even though it also lacks other traits". And then it was surprising that a Japanese company actually did recognise the thing before the game even came statewise. And really it was just a genuine accident of a lady who only wore what looked similar to a racist outfit because it was actually an archaeologist's apron instead. And she turned out to be super awesome when the game came out and basically nothing bad even happened except that Nintendo wasted some money going a little overboard with the last minute changes.

Honestly a more genuinely bad thing was Marlon in the sequel who wasn't talked about as much because HEY YKNOW the whole "purity police sjws" actually didn't fuckin do anything to Nintendo for it. Just like they didn't do anything the last time either, but Nintendo choosing to change it themselves was misinterpreted that way. Marlon seemed like another genuine art mistake too, people just found it very weird that he had tanlines yet the colour choices for his skin seemed more like natural African American or Indian ethnicity rather than a tan. So it was bizarre and confusing and nobody even knew whether to call something like that racist because honestly how could you even draw that with racist motives as opposed to mistake motives? And it's very likely that this mistake could be made by someone intending to draw a tan in a country with a lower population of dark skinned minorities. Even though "all of Asia is light skinned" is false, it's true that racial dynamics are different there and we should be understanding of that. But I think it should just be "give them the benefit of the doubt" not "don't complain AT ALL about racism ever". Like just fuckin.. explain the mistake when it seems like they genuinely did not realise they made the mistake. But no instead we had everyone screaming that anyone who mistook Marlon for African American was The Real Racists because they didn't notice his tiny tan line. Yknow despite the in-game graphics cutting his portrait off at the waist...

Basically I'm just rambling now about all the different poke-racism-discourse shit I've seen before and GAHHHH I'm not happy it's starting again. And again we're focusing on yelling at anyone who was offended by racism rather than people actually doing it. And this time we're not even defending the Pokémon company themselves so I don't get why we should trust this person who's shown every sign of NOT making a mistake, NOT apologizing, and actively doubling down on the racism...

I really hate this “anti purity culture” stuff that decides doing anything horrible is morally correct and anyone who complains is being a prude.

Like I just saw a post blaming “purity culture” for the wave of racist art about the new pokemon character Nessa.

“of course people are gonna fight back and draw racist shit if you call them racist!”

Like sorry that’s a terrible argument?? You’re not “fighting back” against big bad Tumblr by being horrible to black people, you’re fuckin fighting black people who did nothing to deserve it.

Like if you genuinely made a mistake and accidentally whitewashed someone in your art because you weren’t skilled enough at lighting/didn’t know this was a problem and didn’t keep your eyes out for it/some other mistake, then yeah nobody should friggin “cancel” you over it. But nobody is required to find the art unoffensive just because the intent behind it wasn’t intentionally racist. People can still say “uh yeah here is the problem” and honestly any rational person would go “oh my god sorry I didn’t mean that”, apologise and not do it again. Or make corrections or take the art down or whatever. If someone still harasses you after you do that then yeah they’re being a creepy “purity police” bastard, but if you friggin didn’t apologise and ACTUALLY INTENSIFIED THE RACIST THING TO SPITE SOMEONE FOR POLITELY INFORMING YOU OF YOUR MISTAKE, then it’s pretty likely not a goddamn mistake and you’re actually just a prick.

Also the context of the original post needs to be taken into context because it absolutely 100% WAS NOT an accidental mistake and people overreacting about it. I have no fucking clue how it’s been reinterpreted that way?? The person straight up drew a picture of accurate correct dark skinned Nessa and a comparison photo of her changed into a Caucasian woman next to it, saying “I did two colours cos I wanna know who thinks this is better”. It wasn’t a mistake of someone getting a skin tone wrong, they drew her normally and literally changed it to white to make some sort of actual racist statement. And nobody fucking “went purity police” on this person, they weren’t fuckin harassed or hurt in any way. People just expressed dislike about this and tried to explain why it was wrong, honestly giving this person more benefit of the doubt than I would have. In response the artist changed the post into a picture of her as a literal monkey and laughed.

It goes without saying that there is no good reason to draw a racist stereotype of a black person as a caroactured ugly animal, but seriously they literally drew it in response to people not liking their ART THAT WAS SPECIFICALLY SAYING SHE LOOKS BETTER WHITE

There’s no debate here, it’s just a racist prick being an immature bitch.

I can’t stand when the desperation to prove that “antis” are bad turns into criticizing ANYONE who complains about ANYTHING even when it’s 100% genuinely awful. Reminds me of those people back in the era of “videogames cause violence” nonsense who would “fight back” by saying LITERALLY EVERYTHING should be allowed in videogames and nothing should be mature marked. “If you censor literal child rape or don’t sell a child rape game on store shelves, then you are just the same as people who want to ban Pokémon”

I guess it just proves that nonsensical extreme exaggeration arguments have always been a gamer fandom thing even before Tumblr…

It just sucks cos I’ve seen mutuals reblog that “mean horrible antis harassed an innocent artist so they have every right to draw racist monkey shit” post and like.. the only way I can understand it is if they didn’t understand the full context or something?