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Genshin? You good?

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… pls

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Idk what to call this

An odd phenomenon has been happening in the Mondstadt Library for the last few weeks. One that has even the librarian Lisa being put to work. Multiple books have been appearing in the library with no explanation. Most of which seemingly being unfinished however that’s only a hypothesis Lisa can make due to the how short they are. Some even being completely blank save for a title and what seems to be a summary. They’re written in a language no one in the knights including Lisa herself have seen before. The weirdest part though is how everytime you look at where the author’s name should be on one of the books, it’s a different name. Lisa had decided to try to send one of the books to be analyzed by scholars in the Akademiya but not even a day later she found the book she sent back on the shelf the book first appeared on.

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Constantly Coughing Creator pt.2

Arlecchino was surprised when she found that she was now a vessel for the creator she heard about. Including from her own children even if they weren’t the most commonly used vessels. What was even more of a surprise was that the notoriously silent creator was speaking and it wasn’t only their voice. There were two voices. They talked about many things she didn’t fully understand but she felt herself get stronger as the two decided on ‘artifacts’ and ‘leveled her up’. Even as a coughing fit wracked The Creator’s body, just like Lynette and Freminet described, The Creator seemed so happy that she had ‘come home’ as The Creator called it. The words felt right and for a moment she wondered if this was the feeling of ‘home’ that Clervie wanted before pushing those thoughts away. The Creator, despite having these coughing fits, seemed to love her vessels dearly even the ones she didn’t use. Though Arlecchino couldn’t help but wonder what kind of state The Creator was in and what could possibly cause it to such a being. Perhaps the Tsaritsa would know…

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Happy birthday to me bitches

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So I had a SAGAU moment a second ago. I was staring at Arlecchino because she’s not going to tell me to not look into her eyes and then she just slowly turns her head away. I follow her with the camera and her head just snaps back forward like she knew she got caught. Lol

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Please donate to them if you’re able. If you can’t share it to those who can.

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Guess I’m eating a wooden pen or something… yummy… so looking forward to the splinters lodged in my mouth and and possibly getting poisoned by ink…

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Oops sorry guys I accidentally reblogged it

btw the thing she couldn’t ignore was someone calling her out for saying anti-depressants/hormone therapy are only perscribed by lazy doctors

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April is “Autism Awareness Month”, so here are a few reminders for you to keep in mind:

Autism Speaks is a hate group.

The reasoning behind “Light It Up Blue” (that there are more autistic boys than girls) stems from a tendency in doctors to base their autism diagnoses on stereotypes and sometimes refuse to diagnose girls.

Most autistic people don’t want a “cure” for autism and don’t support Autism Speaks.

Autism Speaks has given abusive/ableist parents legitimacy by portraying autism as a terrifying, life-ruining affliction and sympathising with parents who have contemplated killing their children, or actually killed them.

The views of autistic people are more important in this topic than the views of our allistic family members and peers.

Autism is not a disease.

Very little (about 4%) of Autism Speaks’ proceeds go toward supporting autistic people. More of it goes toward catering.

Autism is not a tragedy.

What autistic people need is acceptance, not awareness. 

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emily gwen, the creator of the sunset lesbian flag that we’ve come to commonly use, still continues to live in poverty.

multi-billion dollar companies have used their design and made profit from it, and yet they have not seen a cent for their creation.

i’ve been friends with emily for years, and i have not once seen them be financially stable the entire time. i’ve seen them homeless, unemployed, starving. right now, they need our help more than ever.

please consider donating to emily’s ko-fi, especially if you’ve used their design to create something and profited from it.

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Constantly Coughing Creator

Furina felt the familiar feeling of the creator taking control of her as they used her to run around Mondstadt. She hasn’t been a vessel for the creator for long but in that short time she’s felt the creator’s care and love for her. Things were quiet when the creator took over. Only the sounds of the world and the idle chatter of her party members fill the silence. That was until a new sound filled the air causing the whole party to go quiet. Coughing. Not just normal coughing but deep rough ones with gasps for air in between. Furina felt her body frozen in that moment not by her own will but because she was still being used by The Creator but clearly they can’t use her at the moment. Furina was stuck internally panicking. The Creator, the one that truly gave her purpose back after the prophecy, might be dying and she can’t do anything but stand here frozen. She could hear snickering from one of the other party members as the other two were continuing casually chatting as though their Creator wasn’t sounding like they were coughing out their lungs. Things went quiet and Furina feared for the worst but then the Creator started moving her again and going about their day. Wanderer, the one who was snickering at her panic earlier simply said. “Get used to it. It’s not rare.” Furina didn’t know how to feel about the fact that this happened to the Creator so often that everyone else in the party is used to it.

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So I frequent have coughing fits and don’t talk much while playing Genshin unless I’m on call with someone. So I imagine the first few times I use a character and go into a coughing fit it’s just a moment of “Holy shit did god die?!” and then I start playing again. I imagine that Amber and Razor who have been on my team the longest it’s just business as usual at this point but Furina who is the most recent addition to my team is just freaking out every time it happens while Wanderer makes fun of her.

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Fuck…

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They pronounce it completely wrong and think it’s just some ancient name that is older than Teyvat because The Creator isn’t named that… right? Right?!

Imagine in SAGAU that the characters think you’re username is your actual name.

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URGENT! Stop KOSA!

Hey all, this is BáiYù and Sauce here with something that isn't necessarily SnaccPop related, but it's important nonetheless. For those of you who follow US politics, The Kids Online Safety Act passed the Senate yesterday and is moving forward.

This is bad news for everyone on the internet, even outside of the USA.

What is KOSA?

While it's officially known as "The Kids Online Safety Act," KOSA is an internet censorship masquerading as another "protect the children" bill, much in the same way SESTA/FOSTA claimed that it would stop illegal sex trafficking but instead hurt sex workers and their safety. KOSA was originally introduced by Sen. Edward Markey, D-Mass. and Bill Cassidy, R-La. as a way to update the 1998 Children’s Online Privacy Act, raising the age of consent for data collection to 16 among other things. You can read the original press release of KOSA here, while you can read the full updated text of the bill on the official USA Congress website.

You can read the following articles about KOSA here:

EFF: The Kids Online Safety Act is Still A Huge Danger to Our Rights Online

CyberScoop: Children’s online safety bills clear Senate hurdle despite strong civil liberties pushback

TeenVogue: The Kids Online Safety Act Would Harm LGBTQ+ Youth, Restrict Access to Information and Community

The quick TL;DR:

KOSA authorizes an individual state attorneys general to decide what might harm minors

Websites will likely preemptively remove and ban content to avoid upsetting state attorneys generals (this will likely be topics such as abortion, queerness, feminism, sexual content, and others)

In order for a platform to know which users are minors, they'll require a more invasive age and personal data verification method

Parents will be granted more surveillance tools to see what their children are doing on the web

KOSA is supported by Christofascists and those seeking to harm the LGBTQ+ community

If a website holding personally identifying information and government documents is hacked, that's a major cybersecurity breach waiting to happen

What Does This Mean?

You don't have to look far to see or hear about the violence being done to the neurodivergent and LGBTQ+ communities worldwide, who are oftentimes one and the same. Social media sites censoring discussion of these topics would stand to do even further harm to folks who lack access to local resources to understand themselves and the hardships they face; in addition, the fact that websites would likely store personally identifying information and government documents means the death of any notion of privacy.

Sex workers and those living in certain countries already are at risk of losing their ways of life, living in a reality where their online activities are closely surveilled; if KOSA officially becomes law, this will become a reality for many more people and endanger those at the fringes of society even worse than it already is.

Why This Matters Outside of The USA

I previously mentioned SESTA/FOSTA, which passed and became US law in 2018. This bill enabled many of the anti-adult content attitudes that many popular websites are taking these days as well as the tightening of restrictions laid down by payment processors. Companies and sites hosted in the USA have to follow US laws even if they're accessible worldwide, meaning that folks overseas suffer as well.

What Can You Do?

If you're a US citizen, contact your Senators and tell them that you oppose KOSA. This can be as an email, letter, or phone call that you make to your state Senator.

For resources on how to do so, view the following links:

https://www.badinternetbills.com/#kosa

https://www.stopkosa.com/

https://linktr.ee/stopkosa

If you live outside of the US or cannot vote, the best thing you can do is sign the petition at the Stop KOSA website, alert your US friends about what's happening, and raise some noise.

Above all else, don’t panic. By staying informed by what’s going on, you can prepare for the legal battles ahead.

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Imagine in SAGAU that the characters think you’re username is your actual name.