#gekkering

[morhido]

what is wrong with all of them

#WHY ARE THEY ALL FERAL CATS #i think hunter would be the only one in the hexsquad who's never bitten someone ngl #amity has DEFINITELY bitten her siblings before #like not even just as a toddler. once when she was 17 emira kept trying to steal her scroll so she bit her finger hard enough to bruise #(if any irls are reading this IM SORRY I BIT [redacted] WHEN SHE TRIED TO TAKE MY PHONE THAT ONE TIME) #toh #the owl house #toh willow #willow park #toh luz #luz noceda #toh gus #gus porter #gekkering

[spartalabouche]

hold on lemme grab a snack from the vending machine real quick

tysm to @lpsotd for getting me reference pictures for this ^__^

#littlest pet shop #kidcore #toycore #sorry this took SOOO long for me to get out its actually been nearly done for like weeks but i juist wasnt happy with it idk... #i was originally gonna have a hand holding the cat too but i didnt think it was looking right with the style. so oh well #gekkering #png #fox art

[eat-yourheart]

tpof dlc spoilers (just Fox's face lmao)

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When people say they have "types" they usually don't mean this badly

#tpof spoilers #tpof dlc #tpof dlc spoilers #gekkering #if you know more characters like this lmk pronto

[foxbeasts]

i was literally just about to make a post about my legs being so achey from shitty partial transformations but then i stretched out and actually laid down how a fox is supposed to and the pain just vanished....

istg i hate how often i forget that i dont have to pretend to be human in my own space 😭

#fox thoughts #gekkering #<- tagged bc im tired and grumpy abt this shitt

[fibrefox]

I've been debating when to wake the Wolf, so my phone rolled in with the child-like inquiry for me

#gekkering #i love the beach #but i don't like crowds #hence a cool September day should be good

[song-fox]

Tfw you have a friend who is also a bitch

#gekkering #you know who you are

[electrocomplex]

I'M GOING TO PISS WHEN WILL HE BE FREE FROM SHIPPING HELL

#Nuitaru #gekkering

[gaykarstaagforever]

"Gekkering" is a thing adult foxes do as an intimidation tactic to scare off rivals without actually fighting.

As here, they will usually make a brief initial contact, but then both of them will stop to do this for 10+ minutes, hoping the other one gets scared or bored with it and runs off so they don't have to fight.

The human equivalent would be two drunk men taking off their shirts and almost-kissing while they say "Come at me, bro," over and over again, until someone's frustrated girlfriend drags him away.

Foxes are just as annoying, but way more musical.

#fox #gekkering #nature #this clip is 8 years old #Youtube

[daarka]

Actually fucking nuts. Capitalism ruins everything.

Push back against this. Be loud. Use #OpenDnD liberally.

Staying in 5e and ignoring 6e/"OneDnD" is not an option. I'll try to summarize below the cut, but I'm not an expert, so please seek out resources that aren't me for full info. This link is a good start. This is the full deep-dive I read up on a few days ago. Listening to the community is also worthwhile to understand from the voices of those affected most. To be more involved in the discussion yourself, a lawyer has set up a Discord server for the community to gather and converse in regarding this issue.

Again, for full context and information from more knowledgeable sources than me (including actual professionals), please go to the links I included above. If you don't have the time/patience/spoons to read those articles, scroll a twitter feed, or poke around a Discord server though, here are the things that made the most potent impression on me and why you should care about this issue.

As mentioned, staying in 5e and ignoring 6e/"OneDnD" is not an option. While OGL1.1 was made for 6e, the extensive parts of the document that have been leaked make it clear that with OGL1.1 going into effect, OGL1.0a (which has been the OGL for the past decade) will no longer be functional. 3rd party creators must choose to either sign the OGL1.1 and comply with it's insanely restrictive and predatory terms, or face legal repercussions for publishing the content they have made their livelihoods off of the past decade.

Per the leaked document, all 3rd party creators must register themselves and their creations with WotC. - 3rd party creators making over $50,000 USD per year must also report their earnings to WotC. - 3rd party creators making over $750,000 USD gross per year must also pay WotC a 25% royalty. This means it is not 750k in profits, it is 750k before any expenses that they are taking the royalties from. Anyone whose profit margin was 25% or less would be financially invalidated by this royalty, and can even end up losing money. Furthermore, the nature of Kickstarters for example is that there is no upper ceiling on earnings, so a KS for a 3rd party sourcebook will suddenly be facing a massive expense they may not have planned for if their campaign exceeds the 750k mark, potentially destroying their ability to deliver on the rewards when they otherwise could have. While currently only a small number of creators are known to make over 750k/year (gross, not net), that does not mean this will not affect you. It creates a very dire argument for why 3rd party creators should not even make the effort in the first place, especially with crowdfunding where too much success can suddenly ruin them.

Remember how those who make over 50k have to report their earnings? Well, the 750k threshold is one WotC says they have the right to change at any time in OGL1.1. This means they can see what people are making when creators are forced to report their earnings over 50k, and use that data to lower the threshold of income for their royalty fee, and they can do this at any time, however much they want. Per OGL1.1, they are telling you that they can decide on a whim that actually, anyone making over $5,000 USD gross a year has to pay the 25% royalty.

D&DBeyond / OneDnD are working towards creating a VTT to host OneDnD/6e. While Roll20 is licensed by WotC if I'm not mistaken, virtually no other VTT is. Platforms like Foundry VTT (my personal favorite and most beloved VTT) will not be able to host the D&D system on them under OGL1.1. What does that mean? Hard to say. But it will objectively become much harder to play D&D outside of WotC-approved spaces in the near future, and that is by design. They want to monopolize how this game is played, and that means making it difficult, inconvenient, or even illegal to play the game outside of their personal playground.

Under OGL1.1, WotC claims full and complete ownership over any and all 3rd party content created for D&D, and the rights to use it however, whenever, and wherever they want without paying you royalties. You made this? Hasbro made this.

I've only ever played 5e. But this link I put up above was very informative about prior editions and the drama surrounding them. 3e had an OGL, and the community began to flourish with 3rd party content. WotC didn't like that people who weren't them were making money off a passion for D&D, and they regretted the OGL--but that OGL was irrevocable, and could not be cancelled, removed, or in any way undone. So they put together 3.5e. They promised 3.5e would be backwards compatible, and all your resources for 3e would still work for it. So people jumped to 3.5e, only to find all their 3e content was now worthless, because that hadn't been true. And 3.5e, of course, did away with that open and welcoming OGL from 3e. Sound familiar? "OneDnD" is touted to be backwards compatible. And yet also comes with crushing restrictions in their OGL1.1 that make it impossible for the D&D community to exist as it has been. It is transparently clear that for WotC/Hasbro, an ideal world would be one where all the money people have spent on flourishing this community over the last decade would have gone exclusively into their pockets. D&D makes hundreds of millions every year, but it's "under monetized" according to their new CEO. It doesn't matter if "Honor Among Thieves" flops at the box office, WotC has already green-lit the production of multiple D&D movies. It's not about fanservice, it's about fan exploitation. Because they can't fucking stand that the game they made can be played obsessively and passionately for decades with only the one-time purchases of the DMG and PHB. And instead of fixing the apparent "under-monetization" problem by publishing more official content, they choose to poach 3rd party creators. The very lifeblood that has caused D&D's success. Because capitalist greed is a soulless poison to whatever it fixes its attention on.

The only way the community has any shot in hell to fight this is if the pushback is intense and loud. WotC has released statements mentioning an openness to listening to the community and revising their choices based on feedback; whether that proves to be lip service or not remains to be seen, but either way: the only thing they seem to care about is money. Fine, let your money do the talking, then. Wholeheartedly support the boycott. Proclaim your support of it loudly. Let Hasbro know that their attempts to milk more profits out of this franchise will be the very thing that kills it if they don't ease the fuck back and allow OGL1.0a to persist. They apparently didn't learn shit when this happened in 3e/3.5e. They can either wise up now before they fuck up beyond repair, or they can be fully destroyed by their own greed. Time will tell.

Edit:

Good catch, thanks! You're right, I must have had some wires crossed when writing that bit. They couldn't revoke it, but they did publish new content for 3.5e that made 3.0e content feel worthless; this is not something I personally lived through, but is based on the reporting from this second article I linked. Likewise, that article explains how 4e did not have an OGL and was consequentially a bit of a wasteland, presumably prompting WotC to bring the OGL back for 5e. Which flourished. And now we're here.

Edit II:

I'm Super not the best source of information for this because I'm absolutely all over the place, but 2 things.

Please check out OpenDnD.games for full, proper info and a place to give your signature in support of the community's pushback.

Something else I failed to mention above: OGL1.1 has a "poison pill" clause. Anyone who signs it permanently forfeits their right to publish under prior versions of the OGL, even if they are unable to take down those prior versions. DO NOT SIGN ANYTHING FOR OGL1.1. Even if the community pushback yields results, you may have trapped yourself. "Predatory" does not even begin to cover it.

#opendnd #ogl #dnd #dungeons and dragons #dnd5e #6e #onednd #ttrpg #rpg #wotc #hasbro #daarka gekkers

[morhido]

you KNOW they stay up until 2am talking about cute boys

#they also both have horrifically different tastes which makes it 10× funnier #''idk torian in our history class is kinda cute'' ''oh GIRL....'' #toh #the owl house #toh gus #gus porter #toh willow #willow park #gekkering

[eat-yourheart]

it's me birthday in two days

#gekkering

[fibrefox]

Skipped ahead through an ad during an episode of Some More News, just to hear Katy Stoll fiercely articulating "—your DISGUSTING butt!"

#out of podtext #gekkering

[song-fox]

Tumblr what the fuck are you doing

#gekkering

[electrocomplex]

Someone explain Enkanomiya to me like I’m stupid

#gekkering

[iidirty-pawsii]

Annibalsongic

PT: Annibalsongic

Definition: When your gender is/is related to the song Animal Cannibal from Possibly in Michigan. A musicagender.

Anyone may use this term, but check my DNI before interacting with this post.

#musicagender #mogai #gender #coining post #tw cannibalism mention #cw cannibalism mention #ollie gekkers #gender coining #liom #pro mogai #mogai safe #mogai coining #mogai community #xenogender

[daarka]

I'm seeing this response a lot. I want to quickly throw this out there: this is also not an option.

Several other games, such as Pathfinder 1E, Pathfinder 2E, 13th Age, Fudge, and Traveller all use the OGL1.0 as the backbone of their existence.

They, too, will be forced to choose to either cease all production and sales of their products, or sign on to OGL1.1 and give WotC a 25% (gross, not net) royalty to stay in compliance with the new license.

I cannot overstate this enough:

THIS WILL AFFECT YOU.

Again, please go here for all information, and sign the letter in support.

Also thank you to this person, you gave me a snicker.

#opendnd #dungeons and dragons #dnd #dnd5e #pathfinder #5e #onednd #13th age #fudge #traveller #ttrpg #rpg #ogl #srd #wotc #daarka gekkers