#obligatory text post tag

[gootarts]

as of 8/3, the most recently updated version of this post is here (it's a reblog of this exact post with more info added)

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.

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.

#project moon #limbus company #obligatory text post tag #that's all i've got for now. highly encourage y'all to not open limbus until they make a statement

[familiariscanis]

not saying that you cant headcanon chuuya as an alcoholic but i think the reasons people have for this headcanon are usually kind of flawed? from what i've seen people tend to view him as alcoholic because he:

a. collects wine

b. drinks it sometimes

c. is a lightweight (so we've seen him behave drunkenly)

but none of these are traits that actually indicate alcoholism. honestly, they actually are more likely to indicate that he's not one and that he doesn't have a problem with alcohol at all. wine collecting is a very expensive hobby and chuuya has wines that are several thousand dollars a bottle. you don't get nice booze when you're an alcoholic: you're drinking to get drunk. the quality doesn't matter. the fact that he's a lightweight and gets drunk easily is also indicative of him not being a regular or heavy drinker, since your tolerance increases the more you drink.

this feels like such a common interpretation of his character and it's just a little odd to me since not only does it not have any canon basis, but the canon facts actually suggest he's more likely to be moderate about alcohol rather than abuse it.

tl;dr chuuya may have a wine collecting hobby but an alcoholic this does not make.

#honestly i think an alcohol abuse headcanon has more canon basis for dazai than for chuuya #there's been a few pretty eyebrow-raising remarks about his drinking habits. #but that's a seperate post #i think part of the problem with this headcanon is people not really knowing what alcoholism is or what it actually looks like #and mistaking use for abuse #but i also think it's part of the larger issue of fanon chuuya and a large part of the fandom's collective perception of him #and the inability that part of the fandom has of separating chuuya from soukoku #and therefore every single character trait or flaw he has has to be in service of soukoku scenarios and ig alcoholism is good for angst #and i think there's perhaps a status quo in this ship that people feel very strongly about upholding #so chuuya is always out of control and dazai never is #having alcoholism which is often perceived as a weakness #fits into that #more than it fits into chuuya's actual character #but that's also a separate post #obligatory text post tag #nakahara chuuya

[craqueluring]

will mimics hannibal swallowing his wine in 2x12! i couldn't believe it when i noticed this; he even makes a soft "ah" noise as if he swallowed wine too! (timestamp is 17:08)

his habit of mimicking body language/speech patterns is mentioned in the Red Dragon book:

"Often in intense conversation Graham took on the other person's speech patterns...Later Crawford realized that Graham did it involuntarily, that sometimes he tried to stop and couldn't."

#i posted this in my usual gifset format earlier #and a lot of people are reblogging it saying they never noticed it! #but i only pointed it out in the tags of the og post so i thought that since a lot of people never noticed it #i would repost it in a different format and point it out in the actual text of the post! #obligatory sorry about the quality that episode is so dark and i was struggling #hannibal #nbc hannibal #hannibal lecter #will graham #hannigram #mine #pluto gifs #hannibaledit #tvedit #murder husbands #tome wan #plutos greatest hits

[poepill]

happy belated valentines day quodo upon thee! originally posted on ao3 for the quodo minifest, this was my valentines for @chacusha, who organized the event! i had a ton of fun drawing them and im definitely looking forward to next year <333

+ bonus art based on the comic by Kate Beaton, Javert is in Slash Fiction:

#quodo #quodo minifest #star trek #star trek ds9 #Quark/Odo Kiss ///REAL NOT FAKE/// CLICK HERE>>>>> #did someone say quodo rights night??? either way Here it IS <3 #i added image descriptions to the alt text but let me know if you need them visible under the post as well! #initially i was going to post this to twitter months ago but alas. re: the state of things and life in general #anyway this was so much fun !! it literally got me motivated to draw...i couldn't stop i had to keep going and did another...then another.. #i should compile all the other drawing i did of them bc oh Boy there were a Few #also getting odo's features just right was harder than i thought. meanwhile quark was like BOOM! there he is :) #also did u see the shoe. did u see the shine did u see it. bc i swear im never coloring shoes again #all the refs i had to use.....and if you think i exaggerated quark's fat ass well Think Again i only took from Reality! it's all there bby #my obligatory one art post a year....what was my art tag again.......oh well time to revamp it #myart #also pls go read the other fics!! i know i made a post of this before but i cant believe the one i received back...kisses them. #it was perfect! literally made for me! in fact im reading it right now! wedding of the century by sirenoftitan and Boy was it ever!!!

[astranauticus]

trying to recover from round 6 and this one line from this fic just broke me down even more tbh

#alien stage #ivantill #alnst ivan #alnst till #alien stage ivan #alien stage till #how do people usually tag them actl #described #(!!!!!!) #first time im doing alt text tell me if i did anything wrong #also holy balls im not good at putting my own art into words #...i feel like something Not RightTM but fuck it. posting anyway bc im impatient #ack. please hold for obligatory 'WOW something happened to the image resolution' #it was not tumblr this time! i accidentally compressed it before sending to myself aklsjfhdljkfd <- moron #art i made

[corvidexoskeleton]

Hey gang im making a new breed and letting them hang out in orbit for a bit. Im gonna take a quick nap, wake me up in 5 minutes so I can bring them back down

#text post tag #flight rising #obligatory randy your sticks joke #laugh track

[party-gilmore]

ngl the way some of y’all goyim on here are using the word “zionist” right now reminds me an awful lot of how americans in media and news and propaganda used the word “communist” during the Red Scare and its more than a bit concerning

#That word… doesn’t mean what you think it means… #like im neither of those things for the record/obligatory disclaimer for yall to stay out of my inbox #but watching whoe swaths of people using the general term for A Concept as The Most Dangerous Radical Extreme Version Of That Concept… #its just causing a little itch in my brain thats all #i had a whole longer thing but my phone died right before i could save & post which was probably a wink-wink-nudge let all that go sign #but the core concept is bugging until i say something about it. just on a personal level #i would love to tag for people to filter out but i also dont want it IN the actual tags so heres hoping the filtering is working properly #for in body text too

[autistickaitovocaloid]

Profile Icons from Megpoid the Music#

#vocaloid #megpoid the music #gumi megpoid #obligatory ''sorry this look shit these are psp graphics comment'' #these aren't the raw files i cropped them because there was a bunch of transparent space that made formatting weird #anyway those raw images were 64 pixels across. i am fighing for my life here #id in alt text #fun fact: those tags you just read are from 2 months ago this has been in my drafts for ages i keep forgetting to post this #my rips

[piosplayhouse]

Zhuzhi lang has suffered too much for people in this fandom to not make oviposition content with him ://

#obligatory joke tag #sorry im stress posting #svsss #scumbag self saving system #scum villain's self saving system #lemon text #nsft #zhuzhi lang #zzl

[familiariscanis]

atsushi seeing dazai as a good guy, actually (underneath all the annoying/bizarre antics) is always interesting to me because i think it can come across as naive, sometimes, because we know that dazai is generally a pretty terrible human being with a broken moral compass and a body count in the hundreds so we’re like damn, really atsushi? this guy? 

but atsushi doesn’t have the perspective of the audience, and he hasn’t personally seen that side of dazai. he hasn’t seen how dazai acted to akutagawa how akutagawa acted to kyouka (ah. the cycle of abuse). atsushi knows that dazai is ex-mafia, that he’s capable and willing to do terrible things, but he doesn’t know the specifics or the extent, nor has he seen any of it personally.  

atsushi has never been an altruistic hero. he’s never been determined to save everyone. kunikida told atsushi that the ada weren’t heroes and that they can’t be heroes when he was trying to save kyouka, but atsushi wasn’t really trying to be a hero. he wasn’t driven by some moral need to save people, or even by simple compassion. there was compassion, but part of why atsushi needed to save kyouka was because he saw himself in her. he could not see his own worth in himself, could not see if he had a “right” to live, to exist, to take up space. he saw himself mirrored in kyouka, and he was compelled to rescue her largely because of his own sense of self depended on proving that people like them could get second chances. 

atsushi does not want people to die, but he’s willing to overlook things that people have done in the past if there is a personal connection, if he can relate to them. he sees akutagawa initially simply as violent, as a danger to himself, and responds defensively to akutagawa’s hatred of him, but he only starts to truly dislike him once he realizes his connection with kyouka and sees him as kyouka’s abuser. he didn’t like akutagawa, because he’s obviously not going to like someone who is hacking off his limbs and trying to kill him, but his initial reaction is more fear than hatred. he doesn’t want to fight back, he wants to stay the hell away from this weirdo. after meeting kyouka though, atsushi’s perception shifts. he begins to actively dislike him, and when akutagawa pushes, atsushi has to push back.

it’s only in season 3 when atsushi starts to realize that akutagawa is not too dissimilar from him and that perception shifts. akutagawa is as haunted by dazai as atsushi is by the headmaster. they’ve been able to work together before that, but the way they work together shifts after that revelation from “we’re beating up the same guy and are kind of weirdly in sync accidentally” to actually melding their abilities in an act of trust and intentional cooperation. he tells akutagawa to stop killing people. he might not be able to accept someone who is actively and currently a murderer, but he is able to overlook it if it’s in the past. he did it with kyouka, he did it with akutagawa and he did it with dazai.

this post took something of a detour, but the point is that atsushi sees things through the lens of his own abuse. dazai is a representation of escape from that life of abuse, giving him a place to live and a people to belong to. atsushi’s entire life changed when he pulled dazai from that river. and sure, maybe he’s frequently getting stabbed or having a limb chopped off these days, but he’s also been able to learn how to be more confident, and has started to accept himself and his past and move forward with it. he’s started to accept the tiger and to believe that he does have a right to live, that he does have worth. 

not only that, but dazai tries to be there for atsushi. dazai is not necessarily an empathetic or even sympathetic person, but he’s trying to be good and to be on the side that saves people. he’s the one who finds atsushi when the headmaster is killed, and while he’s not comforting, what he says makes atsushi feel that he has permission to grieve this man who hurt him the way that he needs to. atsushi sees dazai as a decent guy, actually, because dazai is decent to him. it doesn’t matter to him that dazai has killed before, because that’s in the past and it’s disconnected from him. in the here and now, in what atsushi can see, dazai is someone who has helped him. dazai is someone who is on his side, in a way that no adult had ever been in his life.

#I THINK.. TUMBLR WILL COMPRESS THIS SO IT WONT CLOG THE DASH..? #if i need to put a readmore just lmk tho #hmm this seems like a lot for a text post tag #meta tag #i guess #bsd #i got so carried away this was only supposed to be like 1 paragraph #i just love atsushi! i love his character! #his character has more depth than i think is often given credit! #hes sometimes seen as the sweet and innocent one #hes kind! he has a lot of kindness despite everything! but hes not sweet #obligatory text post tag #i decided i want it there too

[multi-lefaiye]

hey wait i wanna put this up to a poll b/c i think that'd be funny

if i do a mysmes run with kennedy. who should i go for. i already know who i'm going for but i want y'all's opinions.

please feel free to vote even if you don't know shit about this game <3 it's actually funnier if you don't know

#multi makes text posts #mysmes #mysmes posting #obligatory 'yeah mysmes is hella fucked up and problematic but i enjoy it' #i'm tagging it so anybody who wants to avoid it can do so #(also mainly its handling of mental health is the Yikes portion but yeah) #(i find enjoyment in it even if the writing isn't great and the fandom is Not Great) #also not doing another story b/c i hate it ❤ hope that helps! #romance cw #on the note that mysmes is a dating sim

[monstroso]

it was such a power move to not put Together, We Ride in every fe game after 7. they knew they had a banger on their hands and they deploy it in a targeted manner. that takes so much restraint! personally I'd be putting that thang in every title just to bump sales numbers, lord knows after Engage they need it

#i need a new text post tag i guess #obligatory unwarranted slam against engage ig

[2bloved]

been going through a lot, sorry for still being super inactive

hope everyone is having a good holiday, here's my sona for self insert stuff

#derek.jpeg #pokepasta oc #shintosona #i dont really even know what to tah this as my head hurts so much #pokemon #pokemon oc #obligatory 'i'll be back soon guys! heart' tag #sorry i will soon probably everythinsg just. oogh /neg right now i feel bad for like disappearing again but its not for no reason this time #hope everyone has a safe and good holiday if i dont post after this for a lil while #anyway on a brighter note the text for these drawings was made while in a call with my buddy showing me the christmas haul he got

[wormsdyke]

wizard high while browsing petfinder. no one understands me like Moe

#i simply cant figure out how to describe this for an alt text #its taken me like 20 minutes to write this post #something about his eyes. and his long ass eyebrows. the hat #obligatory cat tag #petfinder #orating!

[wyverncult]

only serious fanart in my house

#getsufumaden #getsufuumaden #getsu fuma den #getsu fuuma den #getsu fuuma #getsu fuma #getsu renge #getsu rando #my art #(i havent met rando yet sry) (sorry for obligatory vergil dmc joke) #writing alt text always makes me feel insane because i always write so much bullshit. sorry #i did most of these in a drawpile LOL #i have more actual fanart i'll post it later :) #undying moon #getsufumaden undying moon #getsu fuma den undying moon #yeah i'm not tagging all of those actually

[trans-xianxian]

so weird to me when ppl reblog art and are like "hate x character but this is cool" or "not a fan of *thing that's a major stylistic component of the piece* but I love this other part of it" like that is so crazy rude?? idk if other artists feel the same way I just find it so exhausting like if I made art of a character and someone was like HATE this guy but the art is cool or if someone tagged my art saying they aren't usually a fan of this or that bit of character design or a color or whatever but like a different thing about it it would piss me off? I feel like as a general rule if you are reblogging somebody's art it's shitty to list all of the things you Don't like about it? to this complete stranger on the internet?? like saying you're Making An Exception about a part of a piece you hate that's like. an integral aspect of the art is not the compliment you think it is and you're being an asshole

#like just don't say anything you don't have to say anything!!!!!!!!! shut up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #or like. make your own post after you reblog it #op can see your rags shut up shut up shut upppppp you're being annoying #like you do not know this person they did not ask for your unconstructive criticism #also like yeah when you post things on the internet you open yourself up to critique #but thats for friendly debate and when someone is being a piece of shit #not for saying you don't like someones character design for their oc or whatever #like its just a weird overstepping of boundaries w a stranger to me #and would be rude anyway even if you knew the person #like keep the fact you hate plaid to yourself not everyone needs to hear your internal monologue jesus christ #obligatory nawt abt mewtchuals #I just go into tags of art sometimes to see other ppl be excited about it and theres always some bitch saying shit #ghost posts #text