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When people say "The House in Fata Morgana is the GOAT," this is what they mean.

#fatamoru

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why are pornbots starting to follow me again. they stopped for a bit and now suddenly i'm having 1-2 per day again. begone

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#revue starlight

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ukyo eating poorly rendered sandwich

#dcst

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Kohaku 💪

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i know it's potato quality but i just really wanted to gif kinro's robotic-ass catwalk

he's so cute y'all i can't

#dcst #dr stone

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ok ok i mostly did this for the kinro fit i mean look at him look at how cute my wife is

if i wasn't too lazy to make a gif i'd totally gif his robotic-ass catwalk he's so hhhhhh

Stitched up the fits from the fashion show in the Dr. Stone Ryusui special because I can, idc if it's been done before lol

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Stitched up the fits from the fashion show in the Dr. Stone Ryusui special because I can, idc if it's been done before lol

#dr stone #dcst

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kim jihoon just needs to stop digging in deeper holy shit

The press conference from the union & local govt gave me hope and then he went and did this. You were given a way out and decided to double down wtf were you thinking

Dude needed to be ousted yesterday

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as a lot of you know, limbus company recently fired its CG illustrator for being a feminist, at 11 pm, via phone call, after a bunch of misogynists walked into the office earlier that day and demanded she be fired. on top of this, as per korean fans, her firing went against labor laws---in korea, you must have your dismissal in writing.

the korean fandom on twitter is, understandably, going scorched earth on project moon due to this. there's a lot currently going on to protest the decision, so i'm posting a list here of what's going on for those who want to limit their time on elon musk's $44 billion midlife crisis impulse purchase website (if you are on twitter, domuk is a good person to follow, as they translate important updates to english). a lot of the links are in korean, but generally they play nicely with machine translators. this should be current as of 8/2.

Statements condemning the decision have been issued by The Gyeonggi Youth Union and IT Union.

A press conference at the Gyeonggido Assembly will occur on 8/3, with lawmakers of the Gyeonggi province (where Project Moon is based) in attendance. This appears driven by the leader of the Gyeonggi Youth Union.

The vice chairman of the IT union--who has a good amount of experience with labor negotiations like these--has expressed strong support for the artist and is working to get media coverage due to the ongoing feminist witch hunts in the gaming industry. Project Moon isn't union to my knowledge, but he's noted that he's taken on nonunion companies such as Netmarble (largest mobile game dev in South Korea) by getting the issue in front of the National Assembly (Korea's congress).

Articles on the incident published in The Daily Labor News, Korean Daily, multiple articles on Hankyoreh (one of which made it to the print edition), and other news outlets.

Segments about the termination on the MBN 7 o' clock news and MBC's morning news

Comments by Youth Union leaders about looking into a loan made to Project Moon via Devsisters Ventures, a venture capital firm. Tax money from Gyeonggi province was invested in Devsisters in 2017, and in 2021, Devsisters gave money to Project Moon. The Gyeonggi Youth Union is asking why hard-earned tax money was indirectly given to a company who violates ESG (environmental, social and governance) principles.

Almost nonstop signage truck protests outside Project Moon's physical office during business hours until 8/22 or the company makes a statement. This occurs alongside a coordinated hashtag campaign to get the issue trending on Twitter in Korea. The signage campaign was crowd-funded in about 3 hours.

8/2 update: Project Moon has filed a formal complaint against the signage truck, after over a week of not saying anything about the firing.

A full boycott of the Limbus Company app, on both mobile and PC (steam) platforms. Overseas fans are highly encouraged to participate, regardless if whether they're F2P or not. Not opening the app at all is arguably the biggest thing any one person can do to protest the decision, as the app logs the number of accounts that log on daily. For a new gacha such as Limbus, a high number of F2P daily active users, but a small number of paying users is often preferable to having a smaller userbase but more paying users. If the company sees the number of daily users remain stable, they will likely decide to wait out any backlash rather than apologize.

Digging up verified reviews from previous employees regarding the company's poor management practices

Due to the firing, the Leviathan artist has posted about poor working conditions when making the story. As per a bilingual speaker, they were working on a storyboard revision, and thought 'if I ran into the street right now and got hit by a car and died, I wouldn't have to keep working.' They contacted Project Moon because they didn't want their work to be like that, and proposed changes to serialization/reduction in amount of work per picture/to build up a buffer of finished images (they did not have any buffer while working on Leviathan to my knowledge). They were shut out, and had to suck it up and accept the situation.

Hamhampangpang has a 'shrine' section of the restaurant for fans to leave fan-created merch and other items. They also allow the fans to take this merch back if they can prove it's theirs. Fans are now doing just that.

To boost all of the above, a large number of Korean fanartists with thousands of followers have deleted their works and/or converted their accounts from fanart accounts to accounts supporting the protests. Many of them are bilingual, and they're where I got the majority of this information.

[note 1: there's a targeted english-language disinformation campaign by the website that started the hate mob. i have read the artist's tweets with machine translation, and they're talked about in the second hankyoreh article linked above: nowhere does she express any transphobic or similarly awful beliefs. likewise, be wary of any claims that she supported anything whose description makes you raise eyebrows--those claims are likely in reference to megalia, a korean feminist movement. for information on that, i'd recommend the NPR/BBC articles below and this google drive link of english-language scholarly papers on them. for the love of god don't get your information about a feminist movement from guys going on witch hunts for feminists.]

[note 2: i've seen a couple people argue that the firing was for the physical safety of the employees, citing the kyoani incident in japan. as per this korean fan, most fans there strongly do not believe this was the case. we have english-translated transcripts of the meeting between the mob and project moon; the threats the mob was making were to......brand project moon as a feminist company online. yes, really. male korean gamers aren't normal about feminism, and there's been an ongoing witch hunt for feminists in the industry since about 2016, something you see noted in both the labor union statements. both NPR and the BBC this phenomenon to gamergate, and i'd say it's a pretty apt comparison.]

let me know if anything needs correction or if anything should be added.

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After a few days of not being able to focus on work, trying to distract myself with something else, anything, and way too much alcohol, I finally just paused everything and had a good bawl over it

I know it's ridiculous to get this hung up over some silly little games, and logically I already knew fictional creations don't always reflect the creator's real life values for better or worse. But the first half of this year has been a shitshow for me, still kinda is, and those games were one of the few things that reliably kept me going. And knowing that all the enjoyment and powerful messages I got from the stories would forever be tainted by this brouhaha, by the knowledge that some people I thought Got It to a certain extent would turn on their messages just like that, feels like being gutpunched when I'm still just trying to stand up again

I'll find something else eventually. This isn't even the first piece of fiction/art that got me through tough times, I know there will be something else. But in the meanwhile it's just a lot to process

#rambling

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now there's word coming out that the whole pjm firing fiasco was done single-handedly by the director and some staff are protesting the decision?? God what a shitshow. If it is true i do hope the other employees can salvage something out of this but even if they oust the director or something it'll still be one hell of a mess

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For Absolutely No Reason At All if anyone has any recommendations for media with morally grey old women who actually look older (so no "she's a million years old but doesn't look a day older than 30") my ears are wide open

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Middle-aged magical girl.

She's been defending the Earth since the early 90s and she's very tired.

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God I'm actually unbelievably sad about this whole mess with Projmoon. Their games have impacted me a lot during a time when my mental health has been in the pits and I probably won't be able to let go of that affection but this current bs is gonna forever colour my perception. On one hand I know receiving this much backlash especially when some of it has escalated to physical threats must be difficult for such a small company but caving in like this isn't gonna be good for them either, and of course the poor artist who got fired.

Fuck looking forward to more stuff in their games was one of the things keeping me from offing myself and while I'm not at a point where that's an immediate issue right now it's still a load of bs

#rambling

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isn’t he…. you know..?

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