#this was officially retweeted so its canon

[silylilyanimove]

Welcome to the Internet family Hibiki Koto! (I accidentally spilled honey on the banner)

[abyssal-debonair]

hey Sky community, you have a racism problem

look at this

these are officially released promo art depicting the in-game spirits. I am also going to gesture at a few stills from the animations.

not even touching on that the spirits in-game are all various shades of blue, but yknow what, I will touch on it. they’re blue. the ancestors spirits are all various shades of dark blue, sometimes with darker brown wisps of skin or explicitly dark brown when portrayed as alive. likewise the skykids are various shades of brown or darker colors. I know y’all can see that.

so with that out of the way

why the fuck would you draw them white?

see, this has always bothered me for the year I’ve been playing Sky and interacting with its online fandom – seen it speckled in Skyblr, in the art channels of Skycord, throughout Twitter, disconcertingly prominent on Instagram – but given how immaturely the Sky community handles confronting any amount of discourse, I never wanted to say anything publicly cos I didn’t want to be on the receiving end of a deluge of harassment this oh so positive and kind playerbase is known for.

then TGC Twitter retweeted a piece of art that whitewashes the ancestor spirits.

deep breath.

I don’t want any of you racist shits to take this as confirmation that it’s somehow acceptable to make the ancestors and skykids white. sure, TGC says a lot of things in this game are “up to interpretation,” but it strikes me so strange that some of y’all look at these darker-skinned characters and immediately go against canon to give them light pink or paper white skin. why is it so hard to draw these darker-skinned characters with the dark skin they have both in game and as how TGC officially depicts them?

I’ve seen several excuses for this:

“I’m humanizing them.” okay and why does this humanization necessitate making them white? why do you have to make these nonhuman characters human? why does your brain immediately go to “white” when considering “human” and not any other palette for the many people of color who make up the majority of the human population?

“I’m projecting onto them.” you can’t project onto characters with dark skin? you don’t find characters with dark skin relatable? that’s quite racist. I, as a black child, often projected or saw myself in pale-skinned characters that dominate the entertainment media I watched growing up. surely it shouldn’t be that hard for white people to see themselves in non-white characters. surely.

“it doesn’t fit my artstyle / I’m not used to drawing POC.” then you are a terrible artist unwilling to challenge yourself or your own biases, unwilling to improve your skills or explore other palettes you may find favorable and attract a larger diverse audience. drawing with another color is not that difficult. if you do find it hard, there are a monumental amount of tutorials on illustrating people of color and darker skin tones out there online for free. you can even color pick from your reference! the only thing stopping you is your racism.

"they’re not human so it can’t be whitewashing.” true, the characters of Sky are not human, they likely don’t have human conceptions of race to them. I’ve been asked before “why are you bringing race into this?” as if I’m the one racializing non-raced characters. look, I wasn’t the one who drew them white. believe it or not, white is a race – it isn’t the “default,” it isn’t a non-race, white is a race. making these non-raced characters white is racializing them, putting race upon them that they do not have. it’s weird. for all you complain about “making everything about race these days,” why go out of your way to portray these humanoid characters with dark skin as white? fun fact: it’s still whitewashing even if the character is not a human being, especially if said character resembles humans of color.

however, I will add that is particularly insulting to see characters with explicitly black hairstyles drawn white. if I see another ancestor or skykid with an afro, afro poof(s), or dreadlocks with pale skin, I am going to bite someone. likewise, the Enchantment spirits take inspiration from Arabic cultures, Flight crew have influence from Inuit and other Northern American indigenous cultures. no, I am not invoking cultural appropriation to condemn your skykids with Lively Navigator’s hair or Cheerful Spectator’s afro or Fire Prophet’s short dreads or Indifferent Alchemist’s turban – that is perfectly okay. it’s the far too many Sky fanartists whitewashing skykids and these ancestors that is the problem.

I’m not demanding you to be canon compliant, I’m asking you to stop whitewashing, to stop erasing the little representation the players of color have overall. we do not often see people who resemble us in Western media very often, especially as the majority of the characters. it’s the same for those who ascribe gender onto these canonically agender characters, contributing to nonbinary erasure, though that is a story for another time.

and this doesn’t even touch on the afro chibi trend (how come this black hairstyle is only ever “cute” when it’s on an infantilized character? and for fucks sake do not call it clown hair or broccoli or, god forbid, cotton) or how Vault Elder’s headscarf is used to make “eggs” or “chickens.” why can’t you appreciate our hair and our headcoverings as just as fashionable as uncovered white hairstyles? why do y’all keep calling POC hair fucking food? if you do it as a joke, it’s still a racist joke. do you know how hard it is for me to exist without white people nonsense as a Black person with an afro irl? don’t get me started on the bullshit hijabi Muslims have to deal with. the best you could do is not mock their appearance.

now there are those of you who have been doing these racist things without really thinking about it. you just drew the ancestors with pale skin cos that’s where your mind goes or you’ve been a silly afro chibi for a while or you drew your white self as a white skykid. reading this, you’re doubling down now cos you don’t think you’re racist, you’re not a raging bigot, you can’t be a *gasp* bad person!

and, yknow what, I don’t think you’re a bad person either. I condemn the actions, not the person (unless you’re an asshole). like you, I grew up in a white supremacist society participating in racist institutions down to the micro level, not questioning what I was taught or socialized even if I was often on the receiving end of microaggressions. but I learned to confront the prejudices that have been socialized in me because they maintain an unjust world that hurts  people unnecessarily. even now I am still confronting prejudices that have been ingrained in me because I understand the harm they cause and the oppression they perpetuate, how bullshit have and continue to make the world a hostile place for people of color like myself. I stop doing bigoted things. it’s the least I can do.

surely, you can too.

and for those blokes who are aware of how racist you are and continue to do this shit anyways? fuck you.

sincerely, a Black Sky player

[nerdepic]

sorry to everyone whomst req’d art yesterday, that was all i was able to make 

[shinachikukosen]

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[hexusproductions]

I have no idea what No Straight Roads is but I want to know //everything// about it and your oc!! (Only if you want tho, obviously)

I very much want to!! Thank you for giving me an opportunity to gush about my most recent obsession

You can find my basic rundown on No Straight Roads here as well as one on my OC here, along with this post about his relationship with some of the canon characters.

As a refresher, my No Straight Roads OC is named Q-pid, the bread-and-butter for Prometheus Records. Q-pid is actually a lovecore-themed fictional persona, his real name is Pitt. Even though he loves being the character and being a musician, his ideas are usually struck down by his superiors, and he’s limited in what he’s allowed to do and write.

The in-universe ‘lore’ behind Q-pid is that he is a living embodiment of love sent to spread his message world-wide, essentially Cupid reborn. As such, the brand the record label sticks to is that of pure, family-friendly (but also commercialised) love in all of its possible forms. Q-pid has remained popular since his debut and has sparked a large fanbase. Similar to certain real-life persona bands, a variety of usual fandom creativity has popped up, including fanart and headcanons about the fictional character.

The essence of Q-pid’s personality is ‘Sweet as sugar, heart on the sleeve’, which has in fact become the mantra of those playing the character. Pitt, however, has an ego and pride in his musical abilities and appearance (he flaunts the fact that he spends hundreds of dollars into a single outfit alone). These two personalities don’t clash, however that ego occasionally shows in Q-pid.

Here’s some more information that isn’t included in his OG posts that I want to share (since you said everything about the character):

I do think of Q-pid as an optional boss in the game, who you’ll most likely find inside of the main building of Prometheus Records (the label is technically owned by NSR). You won’t get a district from defeating him, but you’ll still get all of the other boss rewards (special abilities, collectibles, etc.).

Pitt is bound by his contract to not let anyone know who he is, so he takes a lot of measures to make sure he’s not seen when out in public as himself. There’s a lot of layers involved clothing-wise, which can be a pain in the summer.

Q-pid has his own official social media account, while Pitt has his own personal one. Q-pid’s account is roughly 50/50 posts made by Pitt (in-character) and promotional posts made by his producers. Pitt’s account is full of things that he likes, but nothing personal.

Some common things you’ll find on Pitt’s personal account include; Numerous phone-recorded videos from the crowds of concerts by musical artists DJ Subatomic Supernova, Rott, and Bunk Bed Junction. Aesthetic photography of clouds, hearts, and fighter jets. Numerous retweets of cat pictures and videos.

Pitt does love the lovecore aesthetic, but he also enjoys the pilot aesthetic (this is most obvious in his go-to clothing item out of character being a bomber jacket). His back-up plan if he fails in the music business is to finally get his pilot’s license.

His favourite colours are mint green and pink

Pitt really wants at least one song where the themes/lyrics take Q-pid in a slightly darker direction. A lot of fanart commonly explores that idea, which both pleases and infuriates Pitt, because clearly it’s something at least some fans want. He even brought up the idea of a ‘bad boy’ costume for just one video, but that was also struck down.

He loves candy hearts and will pick through them for just the right message when giving them to someone, for no reason other than he feels joy from doing it. -- His costume designer implements a bracelet made out of candy hearts (painted wooden beads), which is where the ‘heart on the sleeve’ part of the Q-pid mantra originates, and it’s one of Pitt’s favourite parts of the costume.

I’m really tempted to drop all of Q-pid’s visual references here (the ones that I haven’t shown yet), but I might put all of those into a seperate post.

There are certain things I’m thinking about eventually implementing into Q-pid’s story, but at this point I’m unsure whether I should, since they impact the core element of him being controlled by his managers. Chronologically these events won’t happen for a while.

I really love this character and fully encourage any more questions about him, I plan on making more content in the future.

[callmearcturus]

I should let this go but it’s fascinating shit from the outside.

It feels like what WP/HS2 is attempting to do is something like... hey, we love fanworks, we want to make a space where those people can contribute to Homestuck Official and we’ll pay them with patreon! We’re Democratizing Canon!

And it’s so fucking smug and misguided.

1. This only counts towards fan creators who the Official Team likes. Don’t like the Epilogues? Writing something that team doesn’t dig? Don’t expect to be invited to the party. It’s still entirely a closed circle and them pretending otherwise is, uh, no.

2. We already have fanspaces. Fanspaces run by fans, not by the canon creative teams. And what they are doing is acting like this is their space too and intruding on it.

And y’all, I have been in multiple fandoms where this has happened before, where the canon creators thought “oh I can party in this space” and every single time it was actively harmful to the fandom. There is a type of social capital that the creator literally cannot fucking divest themselves of, so their influence in the fandom is continuously, always like a sledgehammer.

People be like “no one has ever done this before! Homestuck is so special” as if this kind of shit has never happened before, as if creative teams have never reached down from their shining chariot to touch the hands of the fan creator plebs before. Fuckin’ please.

3. This idea that “well we need to use Patreon bc we’re a small project and can’t afford to pay people.” Homestuck has been selling merch and games and books for years. If they somehow haven’t worked up the capital to pay their people fairly, they should not be doing this project to begin with. I still find the way they are asking fandom to subsidize their contracting and hiring choices fucking unethical, especially in conjunction with point 1.

The WP team apparently doesn’t understand why people are a liiiiittle hostile to what they’re doing. Maybe they need to step back and think about the way in the past year Homestuck fandom went from a pretty fun inviting space with a lot of potential to a place full of stung people and Drama about you just didn’t understand the story and frankly drove every single people I fucking know out of it.

This is what happens when you feel entitled to fanspaces and don’t mind shoving other people’s things off the table to make room for your self-important horseshit. No amount of “it’s BEYOND canon” and “you’re canon too we promise” stops it from being a trainwreck.

Because we’re not stupid, and we know better.

Enjoy your dwindling relevance, Homestuck.

ETA: My bestie just added like

there is a way to genuinely promote fandom work, and its by reblogging/retweeting fanworks and going “Look at this cool thing someone did” instead of trying to shove into the space. You know, like a bunch of creative teams currently do and have been doing for ages. HS ain’t shit.

It honestly takes way more effort to fuck things up this much. It’s much cheaper and easier to be a responsible canon creator. And Yet.

[little-nightmares-quotes]

The official twitter of Little Nightmares 2 hosted a contest in which someone could win a custom statuette. This statute is very interesting, as it shows a figure in a yellow raincoat looming over Mono.

First let’s the discuss size of this figurine. I think that (if this holds any canonical merit and doesn’t just look that way for fun) the size of the figure in the yellow raincoat could be key in the story of LN2. And I think it relates back to another theory posted on this site.

@sojournofthesoul made a theory about how Six had to eat the Nome at the end of the game because a subsection of humans in this universe grow perpetually hungrier as they age. If they live to adulthood, I think that the children with this condition become just like the guests from the first game. (Wow. Talk about a growth spurt.)

The senior narrative designer of LN2 stated in an interview that, “What you learn in Little Nightmares 2 will indirectly explain to you... what kind of a world can create something so terrible.” (Referring to The Maw)

If a meaningful percentage of the population gets the same sort of hunger pains that Six does, and needs to eat more as they go on living, that could certainly be a trigger for the kind of world where The Maw would develop. It’s all about supply and demand. If people need to gorge themselves on vast quantities of food in order to live, then it would make sense why they would seek out a place like The Maw that can provide what they need. And, going off the, “Guests are food,” theory, it explains how The Maw can be a place of sanctity from the outside world (implied by The Janitor’s official description). The structure of preparing, feeding, and then murdering guests for the next year’s feast provides a structure that otherwise seems to be lacking on the mainland. We don’t know if the guests know they’re going to be killed (although there is a YouTube video dissecting the audio of the Guest’s March that seems to imply they do) but nevertheless The Maw persists because it’s a self-sustaining cycle meant to /provide/ for people in its own twisted way.

Now let’s move on to the figurine’s arms. They appear to be broken based on the way they bend. They’re also unnaturally long, similar to The Janitor’s. The same narrative designer who said the sequel would develop the kind of world The Maw could exist in also said that besides Six, we would see no recurring characters. So we know this is not The Janitor, but the broken arms could still be an homage to Six absolutely decimating them at the end of the library chapter. (And, since there are no appearances by original LN enemies, what actually happened to his arms isn’t necessary for the homage to work.) I don’t know how to fit this into the actual sequel, which leads me to believe this figurine is just weird for the sole purpose of driving theories or looking cool. If anything, maybe we’ll learn more about how the adults in the world develop into their wacky forms while the kids look relatively normal.

Bonus Round: There’s also sort of face/eye on a box that Six is standing over.

It might be the urn from the original Little Nightmares (the account retweeted an art of said urn shortly before posting the video showing off the figurine.) It might also be a symbol that becomes important to the story of LN2, like the original eye design was to the first game. Being watched seems to be an important theme that carriers over to this game. (Unrelated but it reminds me of Bendy and the Ink Machine.)

Mono is holding what looks to be a saucepan.

We already know he can hold items and use them against enemies. It was said in the same interview I quoted above that he can use a ladle and quote, “Other kitchen utensils.” Like a saucepan.

Mono isn’t looking directly at her. Honestly, he doesn’t look all that worried in the first place. His weapons isn’t raised.

Six’s leg is all messed up too. Her foot is at a 90 degree angle. Weird.

[nbapprentice]

there’s so, so, SO much nonsense surrounding this game that i’m gonna do my best to separate it into digestible bits, with its own categories. even then this is... wow. it’s big.

Warning tags will be added at the start of every section, but the general gist is: incest, pedophilia mentions, fetishization of rape and abuse, fetishization of mlm, fetishization of people of color, racism, ableism, nb erasure and transphobia. aside of the warnings, this post will also touch upon Scummy Business Practices

let’s get going

Dana Rune’s and Elle’s lack of moral fiber: #incest #pedophilia#rape and abuse fetishization #homophobia

tl;dr: dana loves incest porn, elle loves guy on guy rape, and the both of them are friends with at least one pedophile

dana rune has run, is still running an incest zine (please visit my faq on what i think about “thats not really incest” and “it’s just fictional!”). The Arcana, as a dev team, clearly does not care, as shown in their e-mail responses.

dana also very much doesn’t care and has reacted to any criticism on this by dismissing people and blocking actual incest victims who tried to contact her about it claiming it was for her “mental health”

in some tweets she claims she “interprets” the characters as not siblings, but she never really cared enough to cover her ass when it all began (she happily admits she’d “cross the incest line”)

dana has commissioned artists who also ship incest, draw near-pedophilic art that’s supposed to pass as acceptable because the character involved is supposedly not a minor despite looking like a child down to wearing pigtails (the character is also wearing a racist-ass belly dancer outfit), AND even made white-washed fanart of The Arcana.

dana follows twitter user kapymui who also produces incestuous Fire Emblem art

dana has retweeted omocat long after it came out that omocat is, at the very least, consuming pedophilic content (on “omocat didn’t know what shota meant!”: yes they did)

moving on, elle has a long, long, LONG history of fetishizing mlm and the rape and abuse that comes with yaoi and had a rich, RICH “yaoi” tag before they deleted their tumblr

they curiously deleted their tumblr right after i made this reblog

shortly after that, tumblr user thalassiq remade and started attacking and insulting any blogs criticizing them - even people providing support in IMs. Since this doesn’t match Dana and Elle’s normal pity parties I’m personally willing to believe they were just a person wanting to start shit - but it’s so telling how Elle used this chance to dismiss everyone who disagrees with them by calling them “children” and did not even bother to offer a kind word to people who were harassed and even had their trauma mocked by this person. It costs 0 dollars to say “that was not me but I’m sorry about people who were hurt.”

Dana and Elle are close with Ava’s Demon creator Michelle Czajkowski aka that one person who endorses child porn of her characters, and even had her draw a promo image for the game. Michelle has been creating highly sexualized content of her minor characters for a while now.

ok so elle and dana are gross freaks, how is that related to the game?

oh it’s very very related

Dana Rune’s and Elle’s lack of moral fiber that’s Actually Inside The Game or The Game’s Blog: now with more #racism #fetishization of poc and mlm #whitewashing #fat hate #pedophilia #nb erasure #transphobia

tl;dr: the arcana is filled to the brim with racism! so much of it! haha holy shit! and that’s not even where it ends!!!

their game is rated PG-13 but includes incredibly sexual situations such as Julian making this fucking face while getting off on pain. This isn’t the only time Dana and Elle use their videogame aimed at young teens to showcase their kinks and fetishes. I have no issue with NSFW or titillating content, as long as it’s rated accordingly. This content is NOT and it’s a blatant disregard for their audience just to have a larger, more pliable demographic and have more money sent their way.

if you start your argument with “well, teenagers look at porn” 1. shut up 2. theres a HUGE difference between teenagers going after adult content aimed at adults, and adults creating content they know will be seen by kids barely starting puberty

as pointed above, dana has 0 qualms literally commissioning people who make whitewashed fanart of her own fucking game that’s supposed to be all about the inclusivity and safe spaces

thearcanagame blog has a pattern of reblogging whitewashed fanart (before you come in swinging with the good ole “ITS THE LIGHTING”: 1. no it isnt 2. the artist should’ve picked better lightning then 3. i draw and post shit online too so dont come telling me i just dont understaaaand),

fanart of their fat characters showed skinnier than they are in their sprites (although to be real for a moment - Portia is curvy at most and them behaving she’s fat rep is HILARIOUS).

going back to NSFW content: nadia and asra are overwhemlingly sexualized in the game, and were the first to have sexualized CGs and sprites introduced.

CGs: Asra’s here, here aND HERE, Nadia’s here with a NSFW warning because she’s just got her whole fucking ass out. Sprites: Asra’s thank god for whoever compiled it all in one image, Nadia’s and once again, NSFW warning lmfao!

Julian’s sprites on the other hand are noticeably tamer, including the one where he’s fucking strapped in leather. His only sexual (NSFW warning because its literally softcore tentacle porn WHICH, ONCE AGAIN, SHOULDN’T BE PUT IN A GAME AIMED AT 13YOS) CGs were also included months after Nadia and Asra received any of theirs.

Through all of the updates, people have constantly requested that Asra and Nadia’s sexualization be toned down, and time after time The Arcana just churned out fetishistic, hypersexualized content at an absurd rate, especially when compared to the one white love interest.

Oh, speaking of the one white love interest: Julian is based off of Jeff Goldblum (this is not spectulation - they p much bring it up at any given time) but like. If Jeff Goldblum was white. They base their favorite love interest off their supposed favorite man in the world but casually leave his skin tone behind. Lmao.

they also play favorites very obviously - in the prologue, Nadia and Asra have a romance paid scene each. Julian has a scene... that requires no coins. Julian was also the first LI to receive three CGs, two of them requiring no coins, while both Asra’s and Nadia’s first CGs were behind a paywall

Dana and Elle have been notoriously skittish about confirming or denying their characters’ ethnicities. After hyping for weeks on thearcanagame that they would confirm the character’s races they basically made a post that amounted to “well they’re not white lol!”

they only relented after the perfectly understandable outrage... and posted a thread about it on Elle’s twitter. Nothing on the actual thearcanagame blog. Anyway, here’s the thread. Note how there’s mention of Julian being Jeff Goldblum... but nothing about him and Portia being Jewish (or “fantasy Jewish” as it were).

The one time they did confirm their jewishness dana then backpedaled and said she shouldn’t have done that lol.

another fun tidbit of how well The Arcana handles race and how much it cares about feedback from fans: an ask was sent about an anon begging for Nadia to step on them. The blog, with the finesse of a bunch of horny dumbasses, didn’t just publish the ask, but approved of it (even though the fans of color had long, long, LONG been telling everyone not to fetishize Nadia into a “step on me kween” wet dream). People were outraged, of course, and the blog ~apologized~ and said they were still learning.... then a new chapter included a scene of Nadia stepping on the Apprentice. 🙃

not to mention elle, on their twitter, made a passive aggressive “women can be doms?” tweet, trying to twist it into a “yr oppressing women” angle (when the issue is that women of color are always constantly portrayed as aggressive and domineering)

Now for a wombo combo of racism and Elle’s fetishization of mlm:

the devs have spoken at length of how Julian’s and Asra’s relationship was quite unhealthy. In a paid scene in Asra’s route, they’re depicted as Asra being disgusted w Julian touching him+Julian following Asra to his shop when Asra refused his offer to go with him (aka julian... stalked him lmfao).

.......... this scene is promptly followed by a highly sexual scenario where Julian’s pain fetish is played up. Remember how this game is rated PG-13? Me neither. Asra’s previous disgust with Julian is also forgotten, for some reason (and by some reason i mean Elle wants to make them fuck w/o buildup or logic).

Then Asra’s route has yet another paid scene dedicated to Asrian, even though he’s supposed to not even like Julian! And be head over heels with the Apprentice! But Elle just has to make these two be entangled despite insisting their relationship was not good for either of them!

Now here’s the kicker: Julian doesn’t have any paid scenes related to his romance with Asra. Note how it’s one of the brown LIs whose route is highjacked by the white LI, but not vice versa. Hmmmmm.

Now, on the topic of Asra: thearcanagame has said repeatedly that he’s nb and uses he/him pronouns, and promised (since last year) that there would be dialogue where he speaks about his gender

as of the making of this post such dialogue still does not exist

so basically asra is the nb to dumbledore’s gay: anyone who just plays the game w/o keeping up with the official blog has no idea of what asra’s gender is supposed to be.

aka he’s not nb. he’s just a cis guy. the arcana just doesn’t want to put its money where its mouth is, i dont care if elle is nb themself. the team made a promise which has not been fulfilled yet and i suspect will not be.

instead, our introduction to canon nb characters is... these two.

By “these two” i mean neither vulgora nor valdemar are even fucking human, and stick out like sore thumbs with their monstruousness.

so our nb rep is... non-human villains. a few books later one of Nadia’s sisters with they/them pronouns shows up, but that’s too little too late on top of the fact that we should’ve known Asra was nb from the first to begin with. It’s a fucking embarrassment and an insult.

at least two villains are visibly disabled (Lucio’s missing arm and Volta’s blind eye+intentionally asymmetrical face). Julian’s eye doesn’t count because, spoilers, he’s not lacking an eye and even if he was it’d still be hidden behind a dashing eyepatch instead of grotesquely displayed as a sign of his lacking morality.

BUT WAIT! IT DOESN’T EVEN END THERE!

The Arcana Exploits The App Business Model To Price Their Full Game at $500, $1000 if the three extra routes make it out, and they never delivered their Kickstarter rewards:

tl;dr: you heard me

the original price per route was planned on being $1.99

they took that “subject to change” really seriously, it seems, because now each route, once the game is fully out, is estimated to cost around $170 each.

both those screenshots are taken from this post which explains in detail just how truly scummy all of The Arcana’s business model and decisions are: https://mysticmicrotransactions.tumblr.com/post/174308723344/dishonesty-from-the-arcana

the tl;dr is basically what’s listed in the beginning of this section, but other highlights from that post are: the use of addictive gambling mechanics such the Wheel of Fortune, and the dazzling calls to action in the new mini-game.

something that The Arcana supporters forget (or choose to ignore) is the fact that for a long, long time the game did not have the mini-game or the log-in rewards for coins. Players depended only on the gambling of the WoF or paying absurd amounts of money for the new chapters.

the devs went from playing the victims who were unable of controlling prices to (as spoken of in the link from mysticmicrotransactions) saying the making of the game (a pathetic little app game backed by a studio and a kickstarter) justifies the prices

they also gave people false hope about maybe changing the prices in the future, all while bleeding money from loyal players in “micro” transactions

the arcana literally added a $99.99 coins option on their latest update

in case it hasn’t sunk in yet: you can pay a hundred dollars upfront to the arcana, and you still will not have access to the whole game

there is no defense to this

none

“it’s free stop whining” let me explain:

“spend months on end accumulating fake currency or pay hundreds of dollars up-front to be able to play” is a scummy business model no matter how you look at it

if i can spend $60 upfront to play an AAA game there’s no excuse to demand more than that for a game with much smaller and, honestly, inferior content

the combination of there being already far and few games featuring lgbt characters and characters of color AND the little cult of personality set up by Dana and Elle makes people feel that spending money to support them is an acceptable expense.

it’s not

manipulating people into spending ridiculous amounts of money and then claiming “it’s their choice” is just scummy business, baby, and thats all the arcana does

the devs are brats who instead of admitting $500 is absurd for a game instead write petty little caricatures into their game - like, lbr: dana, elle, if i could afford diamonds in my hair i wouldn’t have even bothered with your shitstain of a game

despite bragging that ppl would get the full story w/o needing to pay, the paid scenes are pretty much required - the first few books of julian’s route have no romance without accessing any of the paid options. you dont even get so much as a kiss in without handing coins over. many, many people were baffled when julian had a teary break-up scene when from their perspective they hadn’t even started building a relationship.

wow that’s more than i ever thought it’d be

and i’ve been aware of their bullshit for near a whole year now!

i don’t have much of a note to end this on, other than: the arcana just isn’t even that good. it suffers from weak writing, pathetic character development and above all actually harmful content. do not try to argue with me on any of these points unless you’ve read all of that, because whatever you have to say i’ve likely mentioned before. if you still are that determined to yell at a me on the internet, please preface your argument with the phrase “I’m a pee pee poo poo man” so I know you’ve read everything in here. thank you!

[hashtagartistlife]

okokokok LISTEN there is one (1) actual ih shipper on my kr twit timeline (i don’t follow them but my mutuals regularly retweet them and the only reason i put up with it is because they’re a grimmichi shipper first and iher second so THANKFULLY not that many ih tweets) but the ENTIRE kr bleach twitter bar like... 3 of them subscribe to the ‘absolutely no hate allowed for anything except kubo, also ih may not be my main ship but it’s cute and ‘official’’ view of things, and. i thought i could survive but honestly. honestly i can’t. i didn’t think i was this petty but i AM. Fuck ih. Fuck ih

like theoretically speaking kr bleach twitter is a great place to be! theoretically speaking ‘no hate for anything except kubo, also be nice to people in public’ should be the policy to adopt in fandom! especially for a sns platform like twitter, which is MUCH more centred around the idea of PUBLIC speaking rather than tumblr which is first and foremost a blog! I get all this, in theory!! 

but look. 50% of why im in fandom is so i can deconstruct what im reading and the other 50% is to draw shitposts in the form of art. IM GOING TO CALL BAD ELEMENTS IN THE STORY WHAT IT IS. AND IH IS A BAD SHIP!!!! IT WAS A FUCKING TERRIBLE ELEMENT IN THE STORY!!!! IM SORRY THAT BLEACH HAD SO MUCH ROMANCE INTERWOVEN INTO ITS VERY FOUNDATIONS THAT CRITIQUING HOW IT IS WRITTEN INHERENTLY MEANS COMPARING CONTRASTING AND CRITIQUING ITS SHIPS, ENDGAME OR OTHERWISE!!!! And, like, where do we draw the line for ‘hate’??? at what point does me calling a trashcan a trashcan become.... trashcan hate??? like trashcans are literally just cans designed to hold trash me just stating this fact and explaining what they do.... doesn’t constitute HATE y’know???

ANYWAY this one iher is responsible for gems such as ‘ichigo was everyone else’s sun but hime was HIS sun’ and TODAY they made this post that was like:

ichigo during hm arc: I’M GOING TO PROTECT EVERYONE! THATS WHY IM GOING TO FIGHT YOU, ULQUIORRA! 

grimmjow: KUUUROSAKIIIIIIIII

and like, it was obviously supposed to be a grimmichi tweet, about how grimmjow was obsessed with fighting ichigo in the hm arc, but, like. 

DID THEY READ THIS MANGA WITH THEIR ASS?????????? HOW ARE THEY BAD AT SHIPPING THEIR OWN FUCKING SHIP LITERALLY WHAT THE FUCK

Ichigo literally, in canon, no subtext, straight up told ulquiorra he had no reason to fight him, didn’t show any aggression to him, told him to calmly step out of the way, THEN WHEN HE MET UP WITH GRIMMJOW HE LOST HIS SHIT AND TOLD HIM TO SQUARE TF UP HE STRAIGHT UP SAID HE WAS AT HM TO FIGHT HIM I LITERALLY DO NOT!!! UNDERSTAND!!!! HOW THEIR BRAIN WORKS!!! LITERALLY WHAT ARE YOU READING!!!!!!!!!!!!!! QUOTE THE MANGA PAGES TO ME BECAUSE I JUST, I’M JUST SO, i am honestly so.... so incredulous all the TIME im just.... wow. wow 

anyway this post has no point except ih hate im sorry if u opened it and scrolled all this way looking for a point to it. the point was that ih is a bad ship and literally none of their shippers can read. goodnight

[axelsandwich]

FAQ

I’ve been getting quite a lot of similar questions on curiouscat recently so I figured I might as well put together a FAQ for new fans who have found my twitter.

If you are a new fan of FS, PLEASE go to @soyouwanttowatchfs! 

They provide livestream links for most FS competitions and GREAT intro guides on learning about skating basics, competitions, skaters and elements.

See In The Loop podcast’s website for a handy calendar of events with timezone conversions.

A great guide for resources for watching FS events live - this is for Milan 2018 in particular but most things are applicable generally to all competitions.

Rabbit army: some FS fans have begun hosting rabbit streams of FS related content and will post announcements on their twitter when they do. some key ones to follow:

@doubleflutz

@liliorum

@eternaldolphin

Other skating resources. Just combing through the asks of the above accounts and the ones below (you can usually click through the tags) will ‘flesh out’ your basic understanding of FS. Please note that all of the writers are biased to some degree, which is why it’s good to read multiple sources and draw your own conclusions.

Here’s a quick ‘n dirty rundown guide to FS scoring + intro to the field in memes (pre-Olympics field though)

Explainers of key singles skating FS elements with handy visual aides: http://the-real-xmonster.tumblr.com/post/169802732209/hello-new-fans

Jump guide with HIGHLIGHTED visual elements - http://chibura.tumblr.com/post/155092378025/breaking-down-6-basic-jumps

Glossary of common FS terminology: https://soyouwanttowatchfs.com/post/170312069530/figure-skating-abcs-glossary-of-common-terms

Guides to skaters current in the FS scene

http://soyouwanttowatchfs.tumblr.com/tagged/preview

http://iguana012.tumblr.com/post/166468292271/the-ladies-of-figure-skating-heading-into-the

http://iguana012.tumblr.com/post/166512345061/the-men-of-figure-skating-heading-into-the

Reblogged tag of SYWTWFS has good content from other creators: http://soyouwanttowatchfs.tumblr.com/tagged/reblogged

FS Ask answers a wide range of questions: http://figureskatingask.tumblr.com/

Chibura does some VERY detailed in-depth writeups/breakdowns for when you’re a little more advanced: http://chibura.tumblr.com/tagged/figure-skating-analysis

I couldn’t watch (insert broadcast) live! Where can I rewatch?

Was it broadcast on Japanese TV? Are you within 1wk or so of the broadcast date? 

FujiTV usually saves the broadcast for about a week for you to rewatch. Find the right channel + timeslot the show originally aired (most details should be published somewhere, just dig for it. If it’s Yuzuru, the FujiTV channel number and time will be on the front page of the viewing thread on Planet Hanyu)

Did it feature Yuzuru?  

Check the compilation threads on Planet Hanyu which usually upload links very soon after the broadcast and throw some thanks to Kaeryth for doing so much hard work

It’s not in the compilation thread

Ask and hope for the best in the Media Requests thread

Read through the Twitter timelines of fans who tend to retweet news on your particular skater and they may retweet a tweet containing an upload link

Check Youtube/Dailymotion - uploaders tend to be slower (unless for competition programs). If you can find the Japanese title, sometimes searching in Japanese on Youtube or DailyMotion will give you results (Dailymotion is favoured more by JP uploaders since they don’t take things down as often)

It doesn’t feature Yuzuru

Best to message ‘main’ fans of those other skaters or check forums such as GoldenSkate (low possibility but maybe)

Here’s a list of my personal recs for a couple of non-yuzuru-focused stans

YUZURU-SPECIFIC FAQs

what’s a yuzuru hanyu?

your historic two time olympic mens figure skating champion champion, also maybe some sort of highly addictive substance idk

where can I get yuzu news and updates?

planet hanyu has a news thread with all the most recent yuzu news

here’s a fanyu and fandom lingo-specific glossary

the calendar also records when shows will be broadcasted

tumblr blogs focused on yuzuru that I personally like to follow are: @tsukihoshi14, @the-real-xmonster, @jumpitwithashuulanditwithapa, @yuzusorbet, @wherespacepooh, @jardinaquatique​, @tadakixd

sportymags on wordpress has a bunch of really nice and helpful yuzuru blog entries

I also just love reading morozombie’s blog entries, he has this dry writing style that tickles my exact funny bone

you can also comb through most of the people I follow on Twitter

who is the old dude who’s always seen with yuzuru at competitions?

most likely kikuchi akira (the old Japanese guy who is Yuzu’s personal trainer): https://sportymags.wordpress.com/2016/07/23/yuzuru-hanyu-team-hanyu/

or ghislain briand, Yuzu’s jump coach at TCC: http://kaerb.tumblr.com/post/172441621579/hey-lae-im-sorry-to-bother-you-but-i-cant-find

are yuzuru and javier real friends?

what happened between yuzuru and denis ten at boston worlds 2016?

what happened to yuzuru at boston worlds 2016? 

he was hiding a lisfranc ligament injury which had gotten steadily worse all season

this also sums up how it felt to be a fan at the time in context

what happened to yuzuru at Cup of China?

These Aoi Honoo II chapters detail the situation in Yuzuru’s own words (be warned, it’s quite graphic in its descriptions): - https://yuzusorbet.tumblr.com/post/150270208657/my-sharing-from-aoi-hono-ii-warning-will-cause - https://yuzusorbet.tumblr.com/post/150343296547/continuation-of-scene-10-of-aoi-hono-ii-a-battle

why do some fans on twitter call yuzuru ‘zazura’ or otherwise butcher his name?

it’s a joke to make fun of the fact western commentators have frequently messed up his name in the past, ranging from ‘yuzura to yasunori’

where does this clip of yuzu come from? / where can I find a clip of yuzuru at [event]

do not ask me - I rarely save links

either post here or ask the person who uploaded the clip

All of yuzuru’s senior competition performances

Links to documentaries, shows and other media yuzu’s participated in

where can I find a copy of yuzuru’s autobiographies?

There are no official translations of his autobiographies Aoi Honoo 1 and 2 or Yume wo Ikiru (his newest ones) but generous fans have translated it (or parts) into English.  You can show proof of purchase for Aoi Honoo 1 and get the Eng translation here: http://yuzuru-hanyu-translations.weebly.com/aoi-honoo.html @tsukihoshi14​ has recently completed a translation of Aoi Honoo 2, you can show proof of purchase and get the translations now: http://tsukihoshi14.tumblr.com/post/171947689783/aoi-hono-ii-english-translations   @yuzusorbet​ has done partial translations of Aoi Honoo 2 here: https://yuzusorbet.tumblr.com/post/156152283157/aoi-hono-blue-flame-and-aoi-hono-2-are

where can I get yuzu merchandise in japan?

my favourite yuzu moments

my top 5 fave yuzu programs

what I think are some of yuzu’s best contributions to figure skating

what music I want yuzu to skate to next season

what costumes I want yuzu to wear next season

what made you love hanyu?

PERSONAL STUFF

what camera/lens do I use?

I shoot with a canon 5D mk 2. for travelling and figure skating photos I shoot with a 24-105mm f/4 and 40mm f/2.8

tips for learning japanese

how long does it take to achieve fluency in japanese?

advice for solo travel

photography tips

tips for starting a blog

how do you travel so often?  

C+P from another CC ask: I pay for it with my own savings. I've been working while studying since high school and also benefit from scholarships. I'm lucky to get some support from my family (they give me money on eg. my birthday/Chinese New Years that I save) and to live with them (since Sydney house prices are so ridiculous that it’s almost impossible to move out). sometimes I travel for work so expenses can be covered there. 

I definitely don't travel this often all the time. I set aside a significant portion of my savings to do so. My biggest motivation for doing this trip I’m currently on (Europe + USA 2018) was 1) being in Europe already which, relative to Australia, means travelling to all these countries is much cheaper than eg. 4 separate trips from Australia it probably would have taken to cover all those, 2) having a large amount of time that I won’t ever have again and 3) being lucky to have eg. Friends/family in some of the cities I’m doing which means free accommodation. They’re very specific circumstances that have made it possible for me

[ericeffiorg]

ncuti was one of the only actors to not post about the renewal either. emma didn’t, but she also wasn’t posting anything at all. ncuti was active on ig and posting all about the season on his story and didn’t post about the renewal and I thought that was sus. i think he’s definitely feeling some type of way about how all of his interviews have been centered around adam/eric and that theory about them getting back together seems fitting, especially since netflix changed the title of that video about adam & eric’s story. at some point they added “so far” when it didn’t say that when it was first posted.

i noticed this too but wasn't sure what to think of it.

even chaneil who barely posts anything in general was liking other's posts and retweeted the official announcement.

i do think that it's unfair that we get a really well written black gay character and everything about him outside of the show (press, fans etc.) is about his affiliation with his white ex bully and lover, so if that's ncuti's reason for being upset i 1000% back him. there's so many reasons for effoff being the show's absolute worst canon ship (worse than ruby/otis - though that is still very bad on its own) but the biggest is that i don't remember the last time a non white gay was this much of a prominent character in a tv show and has had their entire promotion been about their white lover. when emma, asa and mimi talk about their arcs, they don't even get it clouded by their on screen lovers (though fans are definitely more focused on that) their interviews are so much more balanced, whereas even when ncuti discusses nigeria it's still brought back to adam, and finding love (with adam) and growing (away from/towards adam), and it's very annoying

[newstfionline]

Tuesday, January 12, 2021

Records show fervent Trump fans fueled US Capitol takeover (AP) The mob that showed up at the president’s behest and stormed the U.S. Capitol was overwhelmingly made up of longtime Trump supporters, including Republican Party officials, GOP political donors, far-right militants, white supremacists, members of the military and adherents of QAnon. The Associated Press reviewed social media posts, voter registrations, court files and other public records for more than 120 people either facing criminal charges related to the Jan. 6 unrest or who, going maskless amid the pandemic, were later identified through photographs and videos taken during the melee. The evidence gives lie to claims by right-wing pundits that the violence was perpetrated by left-wing antifa thugs rather than supporters of the president. Steven D’Antuono, the assistant director in charge of the FBI’s Washington field office, told reporters that investigators had seen “no indication” antifa activists were disguised as Trump supporters in Wednesday’s riot. The AP found that many of the rioters had taken to social media after the November election to retweet claims by Trump that the vote had been stolen.

Parler, Free Speech, and bans (NYT) From the start, John Matze had positioned Parler as a “free speech” social network where people could mostly say whatever they wanted. It was a bet that had recently paid off big as millions of President Trump’s supporters, fed up with what they deemed censorship on Facebook and Twitter, flocked to Parler instead. On the app, which had become a top download on Apple’s App Store, discussions over politics had ramped up. But so had discussions that the election had been stolen from Mr. Trump, with users urging aggressive demonstrations last week when Congress met to certify the election of President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. By Saturday night, Apple and Google had removed Parler from their app stores and Amazon said it would no longer host the site on its computing services, saying it had not sufficiently policed posts that incited violence and crime. Early on Monday morning, just after midnight on the West Coast, Parler appeared to have gone offline. Parler’s plight immediately drew condemnation from those on the right, who compared the big tech companies to authoritarian overlords. Parler has now become a test case in a renewed national debate over free speech on the internet and whether tech giants such as Facebook, Google, Apple and Amazon have too much power. ��    (Worldcrunch) The moves by the tech giants didn’t sit well with many, including critics of the president. “We understand the desire to permanently suspend [Trump] now,” Kate Ruane, a lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union, wrote in a statement on Friday. “But it should concern everyone when companies like Facebook and Twitter wield the unchecked power to remove people from platforms that have become indispensable for the speech of billions—especially when political realities make those decisions easier.” French Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire went further, telling France Inter radio this morning that he was “shocked” that the social networks could take such action: “The regulation of the digital [space] can’t be carried out by the digital oligarchy itself. The digital oligarchy is one of the threats that weighs on our nations and our democracies.”

Presidential Disqualification (NYT) If the House impeaches President Trump this week, it will still have almost no effect on how long he remains in office. His term expires nine days from now, and even the most rapid conceivable Senate trial would cover much of that time. But the impeachment debate is still highly consequential. The Senate has the power both to remove Trump from office and to prevent him from holding office in the future. That second power will not expire when his term ends, many constitutional scholars say. A Senate trial can happen after Jan. 20. And disqualifying Trump from holding office again could alter the future of American politics. There is a significant chance he could win the presidency again, in 2024. He remains popular with many Republican voters, and the Electoral College currently gives a big advantage to Republicans. If he is not disqualified from future office, Trump could dominate the Republican Party and shape American politics for the next four years.

As spending climbs and revenue falls, the coronavirus forces a global reckoning (Washington Post) Costa Rica built Latin America’s model society, enacting universal health care and spending its way to one of the Western Hemisphere’s highest literacy rates. Now, it’s reeling from the financially crushing side effects of the coronavirus, as cratering revenue and crisis spending force a reckoning over a massive pile of government debt. The pandemic is hurtling heavily leveraged nations into an economic danger zone, threatening to bankrupt the worst-affected. Costa Rica, a country known for zip-lining tourists and American retirees, is scrambling to stave off a full-blown debt crisis, imposing emergency cuts and proposing harsher measures that touched off rare violent protests last fall. Around the globe, the pandemic is racking up a mind-blowing bill: trillions of dollars in lost tax revenue, ramped-up spending and new borrowing set to burden the next generation with record levels of debt. In the direst cases—low- and middle-income countries, mostly in Africa and Latin America, that are already saddled with backbreaking debt—covering the rising costs is transforming into a high-stakes test of national solvency. Analysts call it a “debt tsunami”: National accounts are sinking into the red at a record pace. “I consider the risk to be very high of an emerging-market debt crisis where a lot of countries run into problems at once,” said Harvard economist Kenneth Rogoff, former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund. “This is going to be a rocky road.”

Schools shut as Madrid clears record snow (AP) Schools in Madrid were closed on Monday while most trains and flights resumed as the Spanish capital tried to return to some form of normalcy after a huge snow storm on the weekend. While many in Madrid enjoyed the rare snow fall, skiing right at the heart of the city and holding mass snowball fights, a cold spell was set to turn the snow into slippery ice this week, and authorities rushed to clear more streets. With most streets still covered in snow, many workers stayed home. A Reuters reporter saw a number of empty shelves at several central Madrid supermarkets.

Pope, in new decree, allows more roles for women in Church (Reuters) Pope Francis, in another step towards greater equality for women in the Roman Catholic Church, on Monday changed its law to allow them to serve as readers at liturgies, altar servers and distributors of communion. In a decree, the pope formalised what already has been happening in many countries for years. But with the change in the Code of Canon Law, conservative bishops will not be able to block women in their diocese from those roles. But the Vatican stressed that the roles were “essentially distinct from the ordained ministry”, and were not an automatic precursor to women one day being allowed to be ordained priests. In a big shift last August the pope appointed six women, including the former treasurer for Britain’s Prince Charles, to senior roles in the council that oversees Vatican finances. Francis has already appointed women as deputy foreign minister, director of the Vatican Museums, and deputy head of the Vatican Press Office, as well as four women as councillors to the Synod of Bishops, which prepares major meetings.

Populist, Prisoner, President: A Convicted Kidnapper Wins Kyrgyzstan Election (NYT) A populist politician and convicted kidnapper won a landslide victory on Sunday in a snap presidential election in Kyrgyzstan triggered by a popular uprising against the previous government. Sadyr Japarov, the winning candidate, got nearly 80 percent of the vote, according to the central electoral commission of the mountainous country, the only democracy in Central Asia. More than 80 percent of voters also supported Mr. Japarov’s proposal to redistribute political power away from Parliament and into the president’s hands. In September, Mr. Japarov, 52, was still in jail, serving a lengthy term for orchestrating the kidnapping of a provincial governor, a charge he denounced as politically motivated. A violent upheaval that erupted in October over a disputed parliamentary election sprung Mr. Japarov from a prison cell to the prime minister’s chair. A few days later, he assumed the interim presidency before resigning to run for that office. The country’s main investigative body quickly canceled Mr. Japarov’s conviction. A landlocked former Soviet republic of 6.3 million people, Kyrgyzstan has suffered recurrent political strife. Three of its presidents, including Mr. Japarov’s immediate predecessor Sooronbay Jeenbekov, have been toppled in violent revolts since the country’s independence from Moscow in 1991.

A Year After Wuhan, China Tells a Tale of Triumph (and No Mistakes) (NYT) At a museum in Wuhan, China, a sprawling exhibition paints a stirring tale of how the city’s sacrifices in a brutal 76-day lockdown led to triumph over the coronavirus and, ultimately, rebirth. No costs appear to have been spared for the show, which features a hologram of medical staff members moving around a hospital room, heart-rending letters from frontline health workers and a replica of a mass quarantine site, complete with beds, miniature Chinese flags and toothbrush cups. But the exhibition is also striking for what is not included. There is no mention of the whistle-blowing role of Ai Fen, one of the first doctors to sound the alarm in Wuhan, where the virus is believed to have originated, or the decision by Zhang Yongzhen, a Shanghai doctor, to share its genome with the world against official orders. Visitors are invited to lay a virtual chrysanthemum at a wall of martyrs that includes Li Wenliang, the ophthalmologist at a Wuhan hospital whose death from the virus led to nationwide mourning. But missing from his brief biography is a crucial fact: that Dr. Li was reprimanded by the government for warning colleagues about the virus from which he later died. China has spent much of the past year trying to spin the narrative of the pandemic as an undisputed victory led by the ruling Communist Party. The state-run news media has largely ignored the government’s missteps and portrayed China’s response as proof of the superiority of its authoritarian system, especially compared to that of the United States and other democracies, which are still struggling to contain raging outbreaks. Those efforts have taken on new urgency as the Jan. 23 anniversary of Wuhan’s lockdown draws closer. In recent weeks, the government has deployed an army of censors to scrub the internet of critical coverage of the Wuhan outbreak.

Daily Low Flying Israeli Jets Over Lebanon Spreading Jitters (AP) Israeli military jets carried out several low flying flights over Beirut as reconnaissance drones also buzzed overhead Sunday in what has become a daily occurrence. Israel regularly violates Lebanon airspace, often to carry out strikes in neighboring Syria. On Christmas Eve, Israeli jets flew low late into the night, terrorizing Beirut residents who are no strangers to such flights. They were followed by reported Israeli strikes in Syria. The frequency of low flying warplanes over the capital has intensified in the last two weeks, making residents jittery as tensions run high in the region on the final days of President Donald Trump’s administration. “Of all types of panic I experienced in life in Beirut, the panic that accompanies the Israeli warplanes flying this low in Beirut is very special,” Tweeted Rudeynah Baalbaky, who said it brought back memories of the 2006 war with Israel. “When the drone leaves, the warplanes come. When the warplanes leave, the drones return. They have seen us in our PJs, filmed us in our PJs and surveilled us in our PJs. Now what,” quipped Twitter user Areej_AAH.

Lebanon tightens lockdown, imposes 24-hour curfew, as hospitals buckle (Reuters) Lebanon announced a tightening of its lockdown on Monday, introducing a 24-hour curfew from Thursday as COVID-19 infections overwhelm its medical system. The new all-day curfew starts at 5 a.m. (0300 GMT) on Thursday and ends at 5 a.m. on Jan. 25, a statement by the Supreme Defense Council said. Lebanon last week ordered a three-week lockdown until Feb. 2 that included a nighttime curfew from 6 p.m. to 5 a.m. But tighter measures were now necessary as hospitals run out of capacity to treat critically ill patients, President Michel Aoun said in the statement.

In Trump’s final days, Netanyahu orders more settler homes built (Reuters) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered construction plans advanced on Monday for some 800 Jewish settler homes in the occupied West Bank, anchoring the projects in the final days of the pro-settlement Trump administration. Palestinians condemned such construction as illegal. The timing of the move appeared to be an attempt to set Israel’s blueprint in indelible ink before Joe Biden, who has been critical of its settlement policies, becomes U.S. president on Jan. 20. Moving ahead with the projects could help shore up support for Netanyahu from settlers and their backers in a March 23 election, Israel’s fourth in two years, in which the conservative leader faces new challenges from the right.

Saar, longtime Netanyahu ally, emerges as his top challenger (AP) For years, Gideon Saar was one of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s most loyal and vocal supporters, serving as Cabinet secretary and government minister. Now, the telegenic Saar, armed with extraordinary political savvy and a searing grudge against his former boss, could prove to be Netanyahu’s greatest challenge. After breaking away from the Likud Party to form his own faction, Saar is running against Netanyahu in March elections and has emerged as the long-serving leader’s top rival. A secular resident of culturally liberal Tel Aviv with a celebrity news anchor wife, Saar, 54, is a hard-line nationalist long seen as an heir to the Likud Party leadership. After unsuccessfully challenging Netanyahu in a leadership race and then being denied a government position as retribution, Saar last month broke out on his own. He said his aim was to topple Netanyahu for turning the Likud into a tool for personal survival at a time when he is on trial on corruption charges. Saar’s chances of becoming prime minister in the next elections are far from certain and polling forecasts his New Hope party coming in second place after Likud. But his entry into the race reconfigures the playing field and could complicate Netanyahu’s task of forming a coalition government, perhaps sidelining the Israeli leader after more than a decade at the helm.

Pompeo Designates Houthis as Foreign Terror Organization (Foreign Policy) The U.S. Department of State designated Yemen’s Houthis as a terrorist organization on Sunday, potentially complicating efforts by an incoming Biden administration to bring an end to a war that has become the world’s largest humanitarian crisis. Because the Houthis don’t appear to have foreign bank accounts, a terrorist designation will do little to affect the group’s operations. The designation is likely to complicate and at best delay humanitarian relief efforts, however, with charities and international groups wary of facing prosecution for working in Houthi-controlled territory. Pompeo’s statement attempted to head off humanitarian concerns surrounding the designation, adding that the U.S. Treasury Department is “prepared” to issue licenses for “certain humanitarian activities conducted by non-governmental organizations in Yemen” and “certain transactions and activities.” Scott Paul, Oxfam America’s humanitarian policy lead, is skeptical that the State Department has done its homework. “No responsible humanitarian agency or private business can afford to rely on these assurances. We’ll need to prepare for the worst,” Paul wrote on Twitter.

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“We Won’t Lie on April Fools Day”

March 30, 2020 8:09 PM EST

If Arc System Works announced a new Hokuto no Ken game for PS5 and Xbox Series X on April 1st, you should believe in victory.

Arc System Works announced via its official Twitter account that the company won’t lie about anything on April Fools. In other words, Ragna x Jin could become canon if ArcSys announces an official BlazBlue Boys Love game on April 1st.

Here is the tweet shared by Arc System Works. The image says “we won’t lie on April Fools”:

大変失礼致しました。

正しくは『今年のエイプリルフールに嘘をつきません。』となります。 https://t.co/tiJRhHVZyt

— アークシステムワークス公式ツイッター (@ARCSY_Event) March 30, 2020

ArcSys’ original tweet included a typo. So the company quote retweeted it with a correction. It’s Not Over Yet. As it turns out the official Sega Japanese Twitter account first shared this image and encouraged others to re-use it:

今週は、#エイプリルフール

※ご自由にお使いください pic.twitter.com/NhL8zWkljU

— セガ公式アカウント

(@SEGA_OFFICIAL) March 29, 2020

However, certain Twitter users believe Sega is lying in the first place. Answering these claims, Sega stressed out the company won’t be lying on April 1st as it’ll mark the merge between Sega Interactive and Sega Games. If you’re curious, Toshihiro Nagoshi previously explained the merge. Japanese personalities such as Tomokazu Sugita said they won’t be doing April Fools’ jokes either. Sugita is the seiyuu voicing Yusuke in Persona 5 Royal.

April Fools’ jokes from Japanese companies are pretty wild. Most of them end up announcing fake games and change their official websites for the day. Free-to-play gacha games will release April Fools’ joke characters. Especially, the April Fools’ Jokes from ex-doujin studios such as Type-Moon and Nitroplus can be really crazy.

Another important point is how April 1st marks the beginning of the new fiscal year. This means many Japanese companies end up announcing new projects on that day amidst the hoaxes. On April 1st, 2019, as an example, Granzella revealed R-Type Final 2. Moreover, this year, PlatinumGames is planning to reveal the fourth and final Platinum 4 announcement on April 1st.

Lastly, it’s worth noting Google already revealed the cancelation of their traditional April Fools’ jokes. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Personally speaking, I’m pretty happy about Sega and ArcSys’ decision, and I’m expecting multiple Japanese game companies, anime studios, and the like to follow suit.

Arc System Works is organizing in April 2020 the Closed Beta for Guilty Gear Strive. The game lately revealed Millia Rage and Zato=1 among its roster.

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So here’s a thought

I’ve been looking on the wikipedia entry for Uta no Prince-Sama to see if they mentioned ANYTHING about the new project for the Anime.  So far that would be a big fat NO! Okay...no problem but a part of me started to wonder WHY Well I have a possible idea You see...when S3 was announced (Then just known as “3000%”) someone had apparently let it slip that S3 would be in 2015 (which it was) and S4 (which was then called “4000%”) would be in 2016.  Now what’s funny is ALL DURING S3 people were saying that THAT was going to be the final season of the Anime but we found out otherwise and the end card said “SEE YOU NEXT SEASON” after also a “TO BE CONTINUED...” was shown before that! WELL...LOOK WHERE WE ARE NOW! Its been a month since Season 4 of UtaPri has ended and now we have the end card which said “Uta no Prince-Sama new Animation Project starts NOW!” but what’s interesting is that, while this was reported by ANN we never saw it added in any way to the Wikipedia page. Here’s why I think they haven’t done that Because of the accidental leak of Season 4 for last year A-1 and Broccoli want to keep tight lipped on it...the problem is between the time that this past season ended (December 25th JST) to when 6th stage is (May 27th JST) there are A LOT of things that need to be answered and the sooner the better! One thing I have seen a lot on twitter lately is they seem to be REALLY BEHIND HEAVENS with the amount of fan art I keep retweeting cos there are some AMAZING Artists on there that its mindblowing and a part of me is wondering if Broccoli is looking to see how many people are making art and such for them to show their support before they make their next move with them.  I can see that for sure because look...HEAVENS right now is a HUGE gamble considering that they are one of the more polarizing groups in UtaPri BUT they also are some of the most complex characters with one of the darkest stories I’ve seen in four seasons and in about 20 years of Anime! Like okay forget for a second that they are rivals of STARISH and QN for a second...was there ANY character (in the current game canon) that suffered abuse from their parents?  If there is then fine I respect that but at the same time think about what Eiichi and Eiji have gone through with Raging?  Its not a hard story to tell with them to show that they need to be rallied behind ESPECIALLY after they nearly got disbanded in S2, got DQed for improper entry into the first Election AND THEN they dealt with a lot of headaches with Raging (and even a few here and there from STARISH when Cecil pushed Shion over his tipping point and Ren...he’s debatable). Like HEAVENS’ “Redemption Arc” is an easy story to tell but its got A LOT of layers to it you know and its a story that we need to see to its ultimate conclusion and I think we will!  That conclusion will be HEAVENS getting their “Utlimate Triumph” at some point but the when and how...that’s TBD! But this brings me back to why I think people are hesitant to add any new info about the new project...because if someone leaked it IMAGINE the problems that would arise AND...if its a HEAVENS solo season or a HEAVENS/QN season (which IS going to happen at some point just because of the way Broc has done things in the past) what will the outcome be with the fan base? Embrace or run away? What’s funny is that judging by what I see a lot of on twitter they are embraced more and more by the Japanese fanbase which is a good thing!  I’d like to see that with the Western base but maybe they are waiting to see if they get a game and what the story arcs for each character are like.  I can respect that but I do wonder if this “wait and see” attitude is going to hurt them because of the fact that if people aren’t embracing them over here already then maybe they won’t pull the trigger on them.  You would think that shouldn’t matter but remember that the official twitter for UtaPri has been hardcore acknowledging the International fans and with now the Seiyuus openly acknowledging the male base (Thank you Ren and Reiji) then are HEAVENS going to be the group they use to keep people like me interested? The last statement was something I have been wondering for a good while because you see with UtaPri starting to cultivate a male fandom are they going to start to look for ways to keep them interested?  One way might be a more...”mature themed” group like HEAVENS (not saying QN or STARISH aren’t mind you) and expanding their stories from their own seasons and games!  Its entirely possible because when I heard “6th stage” after the first episode my first thought was “we got a Season 5 coming soon” and I still believe it!  The question always comes back to THIS though “Who’s in it?” Its POSSIBLE that it could be a STARISH/QN season because of Dolce Vita coming up which...okay fine I can respect that but at the same time are you saying you will abandon HEAVENS?  Yes the Merch is nice don’t get be wrong but giving their fan base a legit season or game would also help boost the confidence too! One thing that I think really helps HEAVENS’ case is this! On the Oricon Charts for their first week they were almost always in the top 10 with a peak of 3 on the daily chart.  I think they were like #4 or so on the weekly chart which is damn good and QN that week was in #2 Oh and here’s one also On Billboard Japan for New Year’s Day BOTH HEAVENS and QN were in the top 5 QUARTET NIGHT were #2 HEAVENS was #5 CLEARLY there is something to the pop of both groups...not sure how STARISH has done with any of their singles on there so if anyone knows please message me My point is there might be something to the longevity of the series if you make the new rivalry HEAVENS/QN BUT this time I think it would almost be BETTER if HEAVENS got the final victory for one reason If any story in the end deserves some kind of Happy End in UtaPri its HEAVENS for all they went through and fans like me had to watch! But this brings us back full circle now Are Broccoli holding out on HEAVENS to see how the fanbase reacts?  If so...is there enough POSITIVE momentum for them to keep going? One way to find out...May 27th at 6th Stage!

[poipoi1912]

(2/2) secondly, i havent seen the latest season yet, but i have heard talk about how the l&o twitter has been liking and retweeting a lot of barisi lately, and its officially the most written about ship. idk if its blind optimism or not, but a lot of the people i follow are thinking that itll either be canon or itll be hinted at. do you think l&o would be brave enough to actually go for it? or do you think its just something that the fans hope for but wont ever get to see?

I’m going to keep this real (fair warning).

Honestly, I do not think Barisi will happen. /Buzz Killington

(@nbcsvu feel free to prove me wrong though :D)

I do not think any ship will happen any time soon, at least going by the way the season is going, and I also get the (sad) feeling Tuckson might disintegrate as well. Ships require character development, and a personal touch, and a solid character voice, and humor, and subtext, and displays of actual emotion, i.e. all the little things this season has been lacking. I don’t feel there’s anything building up. It’s all about the cases.

Frankly, that’s not particularly new. Only Liv’s lovelife has received any attention in the last, like, 6 seasons. We also know about Rollins and her personal life, but those were all cautionary tales more than they were ships, lol. So, we’ll get more of the same, I guess?

I do think scheduling has messed with the continuity, if not the writers’ plans. They just aired episode 12 as episode 7. Next week, Tucker is back again. Which episode is that? When was it filmed? Before or after last night’s episode? Who knows? How can a ship survive this type of scheduling? An existing ship, like Tuckson, but also a budding ship, like *insert ship of your choice*?In my view, if Liv (the only character with any real focus and the only person whose feelings we actually get to explore) can’t be in a relationship, I don’t see how anyone else will manage it. Or, if you will, I don’t think the writers will bother writing anything juicy for anyone who isn’t Liv. (not that the Tuckson scene we got this week was juicy, by the way. What was that? Yikes. What happened to “I think you should try the bourbon”?)

I always used to joke about Rollaro, how it happened and we never really saw it, except that one (glorious, shirtless) time. If anything does happen this season, it’ll be like that. A ship reveal and then 5 episodes in which nothing is mentioned and the people involved act like simple colleagues. Remember how Nick left the damn show and he didn’t even say goodbye to Amanda? It’ll be like that. NEVER FORGET #justiceforamaro

As for twitter, I’m not active there (other than searching for, like, “carisi” and “peter scanavino” to find some news, lol) but, from what I gather, certain writers have certain favorites, and some writers seem to enjoy Barisi. For obvious reasons (because it’s amazing, and also because Peter and Raul are fantastic, individually and together). Realistically, I think we can at least hope that the episodes written by these particular writers will give us some Barisi quality content (as mentioned here). 

For the rest (i.e. for in-depth analyses of Sonny and Barba as multi-dimensional characters and for in-depth descriptions of them boning), there’s always fic :D

[captainpachacho-blog]

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