#plus they villainized almost all of their poc. white people need to stop with the micro aggressions challenge.

[pookienayeon]

good god. this luther and sloane storyline got boring so fucking fast. Who even asked for this? lmao they’re so vanilla, it’s sickening.

[xgodlike]

    unpopular part 6 takes under cut because i don’t want people coming for me over my opinion

    jolyne: i wish there was more to her character, but she’s greatly reduced to being ‘jotaro’s daughter’, both in the manga & by the fandom. there wasn’t nearly enough exploration of her character & development left a lot to be desired. i overall dislike just how there’s such a lack of conflict regarding her father after hearing him say he has always cherished her. sure, it’s her father & all, but he’s also a stranger, & part of the reason she ended up the way she is. her rebellious nature is consequence of lacking the attention that a male / father figure didn’t give her, hence why she ends doing stupid stuff & involved with shitty men. after jotaro loses his disc, it feels as if jolyne’s struggle is tossed out of the window & it just becomes another quest for her.

     ermes: i have a lot of issues with ermes, but specially the way that the fandom handles her. she was poorly written, in my opinion, & almost felt like a rehash of polnareff by constantly getting into trouble & needing the protagonist to intervene, however, what pisses me the most is that her character is reduced to ‘butch lesbian’ ( when there’s no confirmation of this ), stripped from her femininity ( along with jolyne but i see this happening the most with ermes ), or having her race & skin colour changed altogether. representation is important, i understand, but by making her way darker than she is, or making her appear a different race, i can’t help but feel as if these people are saying she’s not ‘poc’ enough. & it irks me especially because i’m mexican. i’m on the lighter side, yet still not white. we do exist. just because she’s mexican or half mexican, doesn’t mean her skin tone has to be darker than what it is in the manga / game & now anime. want to talk about representation? how about touching on the fact that she was going to college in the 2011s as an immigrant because she didn’t want to end up roped in the family business? ( to which could be a big issue within mexican families ). i never see any of that being mentioned & it’s such a shame because there’s potential there. i wanted to like her, but the poor writing, though mostly the fandom’s take, has ruined it for me.

    f.f: not unpopular opinion here because she’s best gal. however, i don’t see why people think it’s necessary to change her physical form or to force ships on her. she’s plankton. plankton is asexual. also a microorganism & f.f’s body is a husk. let’s not sexualize that pls.

    jotaro: i will admit i’ve never liked jotaro as a character regardless the part. however, something that pisses me off about part 6, is just how easily he’s forgiven for what he’s done. i don’t care about his intentions or whether they were good or not. it takes more than ‘i’ve always cherished you’ for me to care, because he was aware beforehand that stand users attract each other. even if he didn’t know there were still some of DIO’s followers, he must’ve known that something, anything could happen, & still decided to get married & have a child, only for him to neglect both.

    emporio: don’t even get me started on this gremlin & how shitty & anticlimactic the end was because of him.

   weather report: i don’t get why he has become the uwu soft boi of part 6, considering he has no regards of personal space & is basically a blank slate. sure, he’s not to bad at the beginning, but later on? i don’t care what happened to him. he’s a complete dick with his memories back & has no guilt or remorse over killing innocent people for his amusement. also, his stand is ridiculously op in ways that makes no sense other than plot armour most of the time.

    anasui: i feel a great portion overlook the fact that anasui is not meant to be a ‘good’ guy. he’s not mentally well, either, & you could get that from his backstory, as short & vague as it was. he’s described to always have a mania to dissemble things. he showed no boundaries & it escalated to the point of doing just that with his neighbour’s car. yes, anasui is a killer. he’s selfish, he’s toxic, he’s many things that are bad, but even he shows some conflict when weather report acts out, because anasui didn’t kill ‘just because’.  as for his obsession with jolyne, i feel people forget the fact it’s stated that he thinks of himself as cursed, or to have lived in darkness. to him, jolyne was hope & reason enough for him to want to be better.

       also, stop just turning him into trans to only fetishize him in ships with weather report or jotaro.

     pucci: i don’t know if this is unpopular, but i consider him the best written villain in jojo series, followed by valentine. this is because i feel araki finally learned there had to be more than just world domination, & by showing pucci’s reasoning behind following DIO, & what he went through, along with his faith, he makes for a character you can empathize with, while also condemn. it pains me to see him being hated over the end of part 6, or greatly reduce to ‘lol he’s dio’s boyfriend’ because it greatly diminishes the strong bond that the two of them had.

    DIO: also not an unpopular one ( i think? ), but it’s the best rendition of him & how i wish he would’ve been for part 3. i absolutely love seeing him under a different a light & why there were people so devoted to him.

     as a plus, DIO’s kids deserve more love. not only rikiel, & i’m happy they all present attributes of the ‘old’ dio. they’re what giorno or even DIO himself, would’ve become without a goal in mind & their resolve.

[asterekmess]

1-11 Scott/Posey Stans always try to deflect criticism of the way Scott McCall is written in Teen Wolf by claiming that ANY attempt by a fan, a viewer, or a critic of holding Scott to a level of behavior that one would expect of a character who is a main and the self-proclaimed hero of the show is “racism”. Except that their accusations don’t make any sense whatsoever, because Scott’s canonical shitty actions and behavior don’t stem from his race (or canonical lack of thereof.)

Okay hun, this is a doozy, so I’m putting it under a Read More.

2-11 Scott McCall is mean. He’s mean to Stiles, he’s mean to Allison, he’s mean to Derek, he’s mean to Peter, he’s mean to Cora, he’s mean to Lydia, he’s mean to Jackson, he’s mean to Erica, he’s mean to Isaac, he’s mean to Malia, he’s mean to Malia, he’s mean to Kira, he’s mean to Liam, he’s mean to Chris, and he’s even mean to Theo (“You are barely even human!”) Scott McCall is deliberately rude to the Hales, Boyd, Ethan, Danny, Hayden, Jiang, Tierney, and Melissa.

3-11 Scott McCall deliberately USES, INSULTS, HUMILIATES and DEHUMANIZES people in ways that demonstrate that he is fully aware of what he’s doing. Scott McCall deliberately disregards other people’s needs in order to fulfill his own. Tyler Posey being half Mexican doesn’t change the fact that his fictional character Scott McCall is a whiny coward and an abusive piece of trash,

4-11 and that his so called ‘defense squad’ enjoys the power fantasy that Scott can be cruel, can lie, can assault, can lash out, can violate other people’s boundaries, bodily autonomy and consent, can commit premeditated murder, can break the law without impunity, can dehumanize, can gaslight and victim blame his friends to his heart’s content and no one should ever hold it against him

5-11 In both the production and in some Scott supremacist fanfics, there’s often the premise that people are evil and in the wrong if they call Scott out on his bullshit or hold his toxic behavior against him. Take Season 1. As much as the Scott McCall defense squad brigade love framing Stiles and Derek getting shit done and prioritizing people’s life over Scott’s jealous fits and temper tantrums as the height of depravity

6-11 Scott/Posey Stans consciously and steadfastly ignore all the cruel things that Scott says and does throughout the seasons, such as “How much Adderall have you had today?” OR “What are you trying to do?! I just made first line! I got a date with a girl who I can't believe wants to go out with me and everything in my life is perfect! Why are you trying to ruin it?!” OR “The hunters had a reason to slaughter your entire family and pack”

7-11 (As an aside, it’s amazing to me how Fanon rewrites Scott as this brilliant thinker and strategist and mastermind who is so much smarter and better than everyone else in every way even though Canon Scott spends the entirety of Teen Wolf doing absolutely nothing except get his ass handed to him by everyone, whining about wanting to be popular/get his dick wet/play lacrosse, screaming at his friends and girlfriends, being utterly useless when left to his own devices,

8-11 and planning to bite Stiles against his will because he doesn’t know what to do. But I digress.) Or take Season 5. In the rain argument in Lies of Omission (5x09), Scott McCall’s hypocritical, dehumanizing speech to Stiles is one of the meanest, cruelest, most disgusting manipulations I have ever seen a television character deliver to another television character they supposedly cared about. It’s victim blaming and gaslighting at its vilest.

9-11 And, of course, the Scott McCall defense squad focuses exclusively on the idea that Stiles didn’t behave “the right way” in that scene (AKA taking Scott’s bullshit without clapping back like Scott wanted and demanded), and cannot entertain for one moment the idea that Scott provoked that response by dehumanizing Stiles and by accusing Stiles of being a violent, dangerous, inhuman monster and serial killer based on Theo’s words alone.

10-11 After all, it’s part of their power fantasy. Scott being “abandoned” and “mistreated” by his “ungrateful” friends serves another type of fantasy: the poor oppressed martyr. It doesn’t matter why Scott is abandoned or who is leaving Scott, it’s all about Scott McCall’s right to own people and demand his friends’ love, friendship, loyalty, sympathy, forgiveness, obedience and devotion without having to account for his own abusive behavior.

11-11 And that’s Scott Stans’ point: Only Scott McCall Is Important and Damn Derek/Stiles/Liam/Other Teen Wolf character for having a life and motivations that don’t revolve around Scott! To them (and to Canon Scott), the pack exists not to serve all its members, but to serve and validate Scott McWhinyCall. Because, after all, that’s what antis want for themselves – validation in the face of shortcomings and bad behavior.

Wow, that was a lot of anger. Do you feel any better after venting that? I really hope so, it honestly looks p cathartic. Okay, I apologize in advance if I don’t come across as quite so passionate, I’m kinda bleh today and I already used up all my righteous fury in an earlier post, so I’ll do my best.

I honestly understand the worry about people disliking Scott as having racist motivations. As I said in another post, there aren’t a lot of Latino (wait, I read somewhere to use latine? Should I use that instead? I’ll use that, someone correct me if I’m wrong. The thing also said latinx was not great bc of pronunciation issues? I’m not educated enough on this. Halp, please.) Latine protagonist characters in popular television, especially for teen dramas like Teen Wolf. Intentional or not, written into the show or not, Scott is half-latine. His mother is a latine woman. We don’t see them speak spanish or take part in any specific cultural traditions, but that doesn’t make him white. Yes, his character was written for a white guy, but Tyler Posey is the one who got the part and we can’t strip him of his heritage just because the show originally meant for Scott to be white. My husband is almost always mistaken for white, even though he’s also half-latine, but that doesn’t make him any less latine. There’s little enough representation as it is, and if we start being picky about whether characters were ‘intended’ or ‘written’ as POC, everything will just fall to shit. Plus, as a white person, I have literally no rights to decide that Scott’s white. I’m cool with that. Would prefer to just stay in my lane, if I’m honest. With Scott established as being a POC, it’s totally reasonable for other POC and fans of Scott to be worried that those of us who don’t like him have that opinion because of either passive or active racism. There are a lot of occasions where Protags of Color were either liked less, or actively disliked for just being ‘not white.’ It also doesn’t help that Scott is one of very few “good” Characters of Color in TW (whether we agree or not, he is presented as a ‘good guy’). We have Boyd, who dies in 3A and doesn’t get much character developement in the meantime, and Kira, who sticks around for a while, then has to leave because of ‘losing control’ which is apparently a very common stereotype for POC, especially within Fantasy or Supernatural settings. Other than them, the other POC are either bad guys or just morally dubious. I’m not sure where Deaton falls on the scale either. I understand it being frustrating to some people for us to take one of the few “good’ characters and see him/describe him as a villain. It’s important for white people, and honestly, anyone not latine (because even POC can be racist against people who aren’t their race) to be self-aware and analyze the various reasons why we dislike Scott and make sure that we aren’t accidentally being passively racist. Just because we’re sure we aren’t, doesn’t mean we shouldn’t double check. And if we find we are, then it’s up to us to correct that mindset and educate ourselves. There is no shame in learning that you have not great habits or mindsets and working to fix them. That’s how growth works. It’s equally important that when we’re writing fic, we watch how we portray him and the other POC in the show. I’m not saying we can’t write Scott bashing fic. Fuck knows that I’ve written plenty of Bad Friend Scott McCall fic, and I don’t intend to stop. But we still need to be self-critical and make sure that we’re not writing Scott (or the others, please assume from here on out I’m saying Scott and the others) into racist stereotypes. We shouldn’t reduce him to just a “Yes” man, or make him constantly submissive, or constantly vicious and angry and mean for no reason. It’s one thing to write him as doing something bad or cruel and making it realistic for the story. It’s quite another to have him just randomly pop in to say “fuck you” and hit someone (I’m not referencing something specific here, I’m just saying dumb stuff). Honestly, I don’t know enough about this and I’m not really entitled to go into too much more detail. Instead, I’d recommend that even if you don’t think you’re hating Scott for racist reasons, still read This Post about racism in fandom/fanfic. When I read it, it was both reassuring and intimidating. I have anxiety, so I’m usually worried about doing things for ‘the wrong reason’ even when that’s not actually my reason for doing the thing. Reading this gave me a clearer view of my own thoughts, and it honestly made me feel a little more comfortable with my own mentality because it gave me a structure to think about and consider when I’m worried that I’m doing something racist. It’s worth the read. I’d also like to reiterate the suggestion on that post, to check out the blog Writing with Color, which is a great resource for writing Characters of Color. It doesn’t have as many resources for fanfiction writing and the grey area involved in writing characters that your reader already knows, but their ask box is closed at the moment, so maybe when it opens again someone’ll send in an ask about it (If I actually remember to, I’ll do it myself, but that’s unlikely, so if one of you feels so inspired, please do so and help a fic writer out!)

Now. I cannot speak for every single fan of TW who is anti-Scott in some way. Obviously not. But, I can speak for myself and for the experiences I’ve had within the fandom. My issues with Scott are many and complex and a lot of it is intrinsically connected to issues with the writing of the show in general and with the creators and the calls they made. In all the conversations that I’ve had with other fans, I’ve never seen anyone list Scott’s race as a problem. I’ve never seen anyone talk about how they wished he were more submissive or more obedient. Maybe that he would listen to actual adults once in a while, but not that he be unreasonably obedient of white characters. I’m not all-knowing on the subject of racist stereotypes, but nearly every complaint I’ve seen was based on details from the show and specific moments and dialogue, not just a general disgust with his existence. Furthermore, for all the anger I see directed at those of us that prefer Stiles, Derek, or even Peter, I’ve also never talked to anyone who liked those characters who wasn’t willing to admit that there were plenty of points in canon where they fucked up or did something wrong. Again, I don’t know everyone in fandom, so maybe there are people who won’t admit those things, but they aren’t in the majority.

I personally hate the way I see Scott treat people in the show. I hate the really vicious things he says and does and the chronic lack of self-awareness or growth. Even worse, the way the show excuses his behavior, be it intentional or not, has soured a lot of other parts of the show. The clearly impulsive moments that could easily be excused by him being a really stressed out teenager make me a lot more frustrated than they would, had I not known that he would never get better. That he would never stop saying things like that. I can’t even make myself enjoy the genuinely sweet moments with him and Allison or him and his mom, etc. I might hate that he left Stiles’ messages unanswered and skipped an entire day of school during a crisis to hang out with Allison, but I would’ve liked to enjoy their banter, the soft moments between them that are actually really nice. I can’t though, because so many other things about his character have ruined that for me.

It isn’t okay to attack people for disliking a character and throw around such charged words like “racist” and “abuse-apologist” or anything else. First off, this is fiction, and we all need to keep that in mind. These are not real people we’re talking about. Secondly, calling someone racist because they disagree with you (unless they are actively saying/doing something actually racist) isn’t okay and it isn’t an adult way to deal with things. Someone not liking a character doesn’t automatically make them racist. Someone happening to prefer a white character over a Character of Color doesn’t automatically make them racist. Sure, they might have passively racist motivations that even they don’t realize. But it is not up to strangers to come yell and call names without proof. There are plenty of reasons that have nothing to do with race (Not saying “i don’t see race.” I’m saying “Not About Race”) that I like Stiles over Scott, ranging from the fact that he’s physically more my type, to sharing a neurological condition with him, to just preferring Dylan O’Brien as an actor because he makes me fucking cry every time he cries on screen. What’s important is that we self analyze and check ourselves and our opinions to make sure that we aren’t falling into the racist habit of disliking Characters of Color for no real reason. But that isn’t something that other people can do for us, and it’s not their place to tell us what we think. Calling a stranger racist for saying they hate Scott’s behavior in the show doesn’t do anything for racial equality. It just makes people stop listening to the word ‘racist.’

There are times I seriously get frustrated with TW to the point of considering not watching anymore. Of closing my blog and stopping reading fanfic entirely because every single time I read a fic where Scott’s a ‘good guy’ or a ‘good alpha’ or where Derek is glad to be a beta again because he likes following Alpha Scott, I get squicked so badly I have to click out and just sit there for a second to settle. I can’t disentangle the things he does/says in the show from the fic.And I’ve written Good Friend Scott McCall fics. I have multiple wips where he’s either a decent person or he grows from being a dick to being a decent person. With my own work, I know that there’s an awareness to his behavior in the show and an active intent to rewrite/fix his behavior so that he is a nice person. With other people’s works, I don’t have a guarantee (unless it’s mentioned in tags or author’s notes, and I don’t expect people to have to explain themselves that way), and it personally makes me uncomfortable to read something when I don’t know if the writer actually sees Scott that way. It’s a personal preference, and one that I stick to pretty strictly.

Scott brings me no joy, and with him as the main character, I’ve come perilously close to cutting myself off from the most welcoming, loving fandom I’ve ever been a part of (except the Merlin fandom, but I don’t blame anyone who can’t compete with them. They’re fucking magical.). But I’m still here. I still love, if not the reality of the show, then all the potential I see in it when I watch. I love watching Derek and Stiles interact with each other and with the other side characters. I love seeing the glimpses of Boyd that we get, the tiny scenes of Erica, the snarky moments with Isaac. I even like Kira, though I haven’t seen a whole lot of the show where she’s in it/genuinely can’t remember it (I can’t even remember how far I’ve seen total, but I don’t think it was past S4, and I haven’t seen past S2 in months and months) and she spends most of her scenes with Scott, which just....kind of ruins the scenes for me.

That’s the glory of fandom though, of media in general. I don’t have to like Scott. I can love Derek and Stiles instead and I can choose not to read fics where Scott is a major player or an Alpha at all. I can read fics where Kira’s part of the pack without Scott ever getting involved, and see her interact with everyone else. Or fics where Boyd never dies and watch him bake or read or play lacrosse with the pack. I can curate my own experience, whether that means blocking tags or users or filtering fics, or just straight up skipping certain scenes/episodes of the show itself. I cope with my frustrations by coming on this blog and ranting about it. Yeah, this is a public space, but it’s also a space people choose to view. If they don’t like my opinions, they can block me or unfollow me or all of the above. They don’t have to read it, just like I don’t have to read any of their pro-scott stuff. I also read fic that does explore how Scott’s behavior is problematic and cruel sometimes. Fic that either erases him or turns him into the villain, I find fun and interesting and the relationship between him and Stiles cracking into pieces is something I find extremely cathartic, so I read it pretty much every chance I get (though, i’m so picky about fics I read, you’ve no idea). I also write fic. I write the most mushy, self-indulgent sterek fic and Stiles-centric fic and and Scott bashing fic that I can possibly write. It’s a joy and a therapy all its own. Fuck, I’m rewriting the entirety of canon for fuck’s sake and I’ve made so many changes that at this point I honestly have issues remembering what happens in the show, bc I rewrote the damn thing.

At the same time, Scott fans are gonna write their power fantasies. They’re gonna write anti-Stiles stuff and anti-Derek stuff, and whatever else tickles their fancy. They’re gonna make their own rant posts and gifsets. And to be quite honest, I don’t give a single flying fuck. I already have those tags filtered out on Ao3. I don’t follow any pro-scott tumblrs. That shit doesn’t show up for me most of the time, unless it’s not tagged properly, and even then I just click out, take a second, and move on.

No one is required to like or dislike specific characters, and it’s unfair of anyone to tell us otherwise. Fandom is built on choice. The choice to disagree with canon, or to re-envision it altogether, or to love it entirely. No one can take that away from you. So long as you aren’t hurting anybody, just keep doing you, friend. I’m here for you to vent to when it gets to be too much.

<3

[entamewitchlulu]

lulu does flash reviews again

hey it’s been a while since i did one of these, anyway i just finished Princess Connect and I have some Thoughts so this is genuinely just me rambling about it

So, Princess Connect Re:Dive. It’s essentially a 12 episode long commercial for the associated role playing mobile game.  It follows the adventures of the Gourmet Guild, a group of four adventurers whose goal is to investigate and enjoy the various foods of their fantasy world. 

The Guild is made up of Yuuki, ostensibly our protagonist: a somewhat blank-slate sort of character who’s obviously supposed to be whoever your face character in the mobile game is, but who is actually, surprisingly, rather charming. He has lost his memories after some unknown battle he participated in with a bunch of former party members, and tends to respond to things in monosyllables, preferring instead to communicate with thumb’s ups and “mn!” in most cases. Despite this, he seems to be a very sweet boy who cares about his friends and is eager to do his best.  Personally, I found him to be kind of a breath of fresh air in terms of male protagonists of fantasy shows otherwise populated by women.  There’s not a single bit of “lucky pervert” tropes, he doesn’t seem at all interested in pursuing or flirting with any of the other girls, and only one of the girls is interested in him romantically. He’s generally pretty straightforward and good-hearted, so at worst I could call him boring - but even so, again, I found him charming.

Next is Kokkoro, an elf from a small village sent by someone who appears to be a goddess of some kind to find Yuuki and assist him as he recovers his memories. Kokkoro is, in a word, cute. She’s the only member of the cast who is interested in Yuuki romantically.  Despite this happening immediately after she meets him, it sort of makes some sense to me, since she’s clearly been taught that he’s a special and important person whom she is duty-bound to serve, so it makes sense to me that she would hold him in high regard - and since he’s just genuinely so...genuine, it makes sense that it wouldn’t take long for a more sheltered girl to develop feelings for him. And, happily, she has a personality outside of this attraction as well: she’s reliable, patient, and good at sewing, and she enjoys spending time with the rest of the guild.  Her silly faces she makes every time Yuuki gets chewed on by a wolf are hilarious, too.

Third up is Pecorine, who, while Yuuki is supposedly the protagonist, is pretty much set up to be the real protagonist of the show. Pecorine is not-so-subtly secretly the princess of this fantasy world, Landosol, however, it appears for some reason someone else is acting as ruler. Pecorine is ridiculously strong, ridiculously peppy, and always hungry. She’s literally made of nothing but love, joy, and excitement for whatever the next day will bring. She’s always helping people and seems to consider making others happy to be her life goal, alongside eating lots of yummy food. Everyone she encounters eventually becomes her best friend, even when they start off by trying to steal from her. She’s straightforward, doesn’t seem to notice when people don’t have her best interests in mind, and yet, beneath that, she is extremely lonely and vulnerable. If you couldn’t tell, she’s far and away my favorite character of the show.

And finally, there’s Karyl: a cat girl who is, in my opinion, the perfect example of a cat girl. She’s initially a loner who doesn’t see the need for friends, and is, apparently, supposed to assassinate Pecorine. As Pecorine doesn’t notice, she quickly inducts Karyl as her new girlfriend best friend, and Karyl, for all of her tsundere, don’t-touch-me cat vibes, absolutely starts falling for Pecorine’s kindness back.  While she’s the one to call out the guild’s stupid plans and ideas, she generally ends up joining in on the shenanigans, much to her eternal chagrin.

So, I don’t mean to make this just a description of the show, because I do have thoughts and opinions, but I felt like setting up my feelings on the main cast was important before I got into the details of the show itself.  From this point forward, there will be spoilers.

So, what this show does right:

As I mentioned in my talk about Yuuki, in terms of “1 male protagonist surrounded by girls”, it’s a relief to watch a show where the main cast is just all a bunch of good friends and they’re not just all hanging on the bland main character.  Each of the cast is given their own time to develop their own personalities both with each other and outside of each other, and they’re all, genuinely, rather endearing.  There are two characters who show up later who are a bit annoying about their care over Yuuki (calling themselves his big and little sister respectively), but since they aren’t main cast members and connect the show to a larger “what happened before this?” narrative, I didn’t mind it so much.  Plus, despite a cast of all girls in a mobile game, outside of a few skimpy outfits and Pecorine’s occasional boob jiggle, there wasn’t a SINGLE bit of fanservice, which shocked me for this genre. No upskirts, no accidental boob touches, no lewd comments or innuendos.  I was floored, and in a good way.

The character design really isn’t bad for a show based on a mobile game. Characters are distinct in design and personality. The best design is, of course, the girl who is Just a Llama. 

I actually really liked being thrown into this world where it was very obvious that something had already happened Before, but you were only given pieces of it.  It built a very intriguing premise by starting us off seemingly after the climactic battle goes wrong, and adds a sense of unease here or there about knowing that something is a little bit off, but you don’t quite know what.  Not getting all of the answers at the end of the show wasn’t a dealbreaker, either, because I knew I wouldn’t going in - it’s a mobile game show. The story is still going in the mobile game, so they won’t play all their cards in the adaptation.

Karyl and Pecorine are definitely the main characters of the show, and while I’m sure it wasn’t intentional, their story very much feels like a love story, and I just really, really enjoyed that for what I expected to see going in, I instead got two girls who were allowed to have a complicated and yet very sweet relationship that developed slowly over the series into a truly beautiful climax.  Speaking of Pecorine, as well, I have to give some props to the plot twist about her character. It was obvious to me for a while that she was the princess of Landosol, and I assumed that her parents were dead.  I kept wondering why she was leaving her people to the whims of her impersonator instead of taking back her throne, and it was something that sort of bothered me throughout her seemingly cheerfully ignoring what her usurper was doing to her kingdom.  Finding out that the fake princess had, in fact, simply replaced Pecorine with herself in everyone’s memories, leaving Pecorine with no idea what to do and deciding to disappear knowing that even her own parents didn’t remember her as their daughter was a shocking, and powerful, plot twist.

When it’s good, it’s really good.  There are some genuinely heartfelt and powerful moments.  The animation is surprisingly good, beautiful to watch especially during fight scenes.  The final scene especially with its emphasis on Karyl and Pecorine really touched me, as it was clear they put a lot of effort into just the last few frames to make it really touching.

And here’s what this show does wrong:

When I said that when it’s good, it’s really good, the same can be said that when it’s bad, it’s bad.  The main problem with this show is that it wants to be everything.  It wants to be a comedy.  It wants to be a drama.  It wants to have deep character drama and heartfelt moments.  It wants to have intense battles and evil villains alongside a story about four friends making sandwiches out of monster meat.  The comedy bits and drama bits are both solid enough on their own, but smushed together, it makes for a tonally dissonant show that cheapens some of the more heartfelt moments.

The show takes way too long to even get into its main conceit, too.  I think it wasn’t until episode 4 that they started their Gourmet Guild - and then even after that, the food hunting sort of disappeared in a lot of episodes so that you kind of forgot what their goals even were.  And even when the food episodes happened, they almost felt like filler.  Because of the show’s lack of focus, it was hard to truly enjoy any part of it.

And I cannot forget to mention that though I praised the character design in the good stuff section, there were some...concerns.  Episode 3 introduces a fatphobic, borderline racist design. He is shown as cruel, violent, gleefully mean, and morbidly obese in a cast that is otherwise made up of skinny characters.  And worse, he’s the only brown character in a sea of pale, white-coded characters.  His appearance in episode 3 almost made me stop watching.  He showed up briefly in several more episodes after this, and it sucked every single time.  Despite a lot of the other things I loved about this show, I really cannot recommend it to anyone with a clean conscience just because of this character. He’s distressing and uncomfortable to me, so I can’t imagine how a POC might feel while watching it.

Genuinely, if even one or two of their “here’s a cute girl” designs had been Black or brown, I would have felt way better.  But the juxtaposition of this guy being the only dark skinned character in the show combined with his abhorrent personality just really, really distresses me, and I think it’s a warning that people should be aware of before giving it a try.

That being said, overall, I don’t think Princess Connect Re:Dive was a bad show.  As I said, there was a lot of elements I enjoyed, and I will probably go look and see if there’s any Karyl/Pecorine art out there, and since the app is Japanese only, I might even go and read the continued plot somewhere.

So this wasn’t much of a “flash review”, I had a lot to say, I guess lol.  Anyway, if anyone else watched it, please let me know what you thought~ I’d be interested to hear anyone else’s take.  For my part, I’ll give Princess Connect a solid 6/10.

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Top books I read in 2019 in no particular order

❤️ = favorites, everything else = books I enjoyed or found fun. 

Hey wow, I didn’t notice this until now, but all but one of these are by women and gay men and two are by POC. I’m saying this not for woke points as this wasn’t a conscious decision—although I really do want to make a deliberate choice of reading more books by and about people from marginalized communities—but because if you’re looking for books by or about women, POC, or queer people, maybe this list will be of interest to you.

Know My Name - Chanel Miller ❤️ A MUST-READ. The book I need EVERYONE to read. Devastating, terrifying, and so beautiful. Grueling to get through, but it's worth it. Chanel's prose is so exacting and lyrical at the same time, and despite the darkness, there’s so much shining examples of love, compassionate, and bravery in this. I knew going in that what happened to her (for those of you who don’t know, she’s the woman in the Stanford rape trial) was horrible and that it’s difficult for victims to come forward because they have to relive their trauma. I still wasn’t prepared for how excruciating it is, and this is the first time I ever knew what it would feel like (or at least get an account so detailed that I felt like I was in Chanel’s body and mind reading it). I cried. I don’t know how I read most of this at work because I was on the verge of crying so many times while reading it. And yet, like I said, it’s not all bad. I was able to see how strong and compassionate Chanel is and just how enormously talented she is as a writer. I’m beyond excited to see what the future holds for her as a writer, artist, and human being.

Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators - Ronan Farrow Fascinating account on how NBC, Weinstein, etc. tried to stop Ronan from doing his excellent and essential reporting and Weinstein's victims from coming forward. There are, I kid you not, spies involved, and the level of stalking and intimidation is terrifying. It’s unfathomable, what these women went through, and makes you understand why exactly so many of them kept quiet, other than the usual reasons why many victims do. Also, Ronan isn't shy about being critical about his shortcomings and is a nerd sometimes haha. Fun, irrelevant fact: I talked with Ronan this year and almost choked when I did (he was very nice though!).

Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda - Becky Albertalli Very cute! My sister said it was better than the movie which I didn't watch but is the reason I wanted to read this. I haven’t read a nice YA novel in a while so this made me happy. It’s an easy, fast read (and it’s a gay romance for those of you looking for queer content!), but you’re very invested in the characters and their feelings. I also want to punch you-know-who so badly, and I’m so relieved that that person wasn’t forgiven. 

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous - Ocean Vuong ❤️  Most beautiful book I read this year. As raw and tender and sometimes bloody as ripped, torn knuckles. Ocean's talent is as vast as the ocean (unfortunately, I'm not as talented a writer as he is so please have this cheesy declaration of admiration). What. a. debut. So many lines have stayed with me, and I'm still sad over the relationships in this novel. Sorry to talk about white boys, but jfc let me cry over Travis, okay? Okay. The ruminations of race, gender, sexuality, grief, violence, trauma, etc. GOD. I had to put down the book and breathe deeply sometimes.

Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell - Susanna Clarke ❤️  You can kill a person with this book; it's that big. I thought it wouldn't be my thing because it's so "old English" in both the prose and setting as this takes place in 1800s England, but it was a LOT of fun. Plus magic! Characters with major flaws! A rivalry that spans years! 

Vicious - V.E. Schwab ❤️  Fave book of 2019, tied with Know My Name. THE most fun book I read. Superpowers? Fresh take on the superhero genre, if you can even call this a superhero book? Morally gray antiheroes and great, compelling villain? Best friends turned archenemies? Incredibly cinematic writing style? BINCH...YOU KNOW I WAS HOOKED FROM THE FIRST PAGE. 

Captain America: Home of the Brave - Mark Waid & Chris Samnee We needed more to address the disgusting Hydra Cap fiasco that preceded this run. It wasn't enough. The story didn't go anywhere either and was uneven and weak...BUT this made the list because: 1. Waid knows how to write Steve, and I LOVE Samnee's art. His Cap art is always *chef's kiss* 2. I'm weak for road trip stories 3. Bro, when Waid captures the essence of Steve Rogers, he GETS it. i got emotional over some pages, and some of the lines will stay with me forever. That line about hope not being a plan but needing it in order to have one? That ending? Both are quintessential Steve Rogers. Thank you, Mark Waid, for bringing back our boy.

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Ok I need to ramble a bit about the live action Beauty and the Beast cuz I went to see it with Yazi last night and tbh it was brilliant. Gonna put this under a read more just cuz there's quite a bit (and when I say quite a bit I mean way too much especially about LeFou)

First off, my stance on the whole live-action-remakes-of-classic-animated-Disney-films is that I don't think they're exactly necessary but that doesn't mean I won't enjoy them. I enjoyed Cinderella, Maleficent and Jungle Book and I definitely enjoyed Beauty and the Beast, it's probably my fav of the remakes so far

Every scene/song that was kept the same or very similar to the original made me super nostalgic and a bit teary-eyed and the changes/new stuff were fun and interesting. Be Our Guest was frickin wild but my fav song they kept from the original was Belle, I just loved the choreography, the cinematography, Emma Watson's voice and absolutely everyone's acting in that scene. My fav new song was Evermore (which I'm listening to on repeat rn it's beautiful and the sequence was so moving to watch)

I have adopted 2 new sons: the Beast and LeFou. They are precious and I love them

The Beast isn't too different from the animated version but there was a few little things that seperate them. Both versions are great, but still, live action Beast was so nice to watch develop and like I said, his song Evermore is amazing. His final fight with Gaston was so tense I was so scared for him. Protect my furry child

Now, LeFou. Wow, LeFou is really different in this version, he's much deeper and sort of has his own little subplot. And he's smarter, much smarter than Gaston at least. The name "LeFou" doesn't really suit him tbh he's not a fool in the slightest. So I'm now headcanoning that it's a nickname Gaston gave him to try and big himself up more in comparison (and I kinda want to find a real name for him now). I know there's been some controversy around how LeFou is gay in this version and people saying how it's not good representation cuz he's a villain and the animated version apparently played off a homophobic character archetype. Course I can't say too much on that but me and Yazi talked about it and we've agreed he's at least a pretty decent gay character in the live action version. So his whole thing is that he's obviously got a Big Dumb Crush on Gaston and from what I've read, the idea is that he's kind of figuring out his sexuality and his feelings during the story. Throughout the whole film, LeFou pretty much watches over Gaston, calms him down when he gets worked up, fawns over him, bribes the other villagers into bigging him up during the song Gaston but he's constantly having second thoughts about if he's doing the right thing. He's always trying to change Gaston's mind and stop him from getting too violent or extreme. (SPOILERS FOR PRETTY MUCH THE REST OF THIS PARAGRAPH!!) The worst thing he does is only hesitating when Gaston ties up the unconscious Maurice and leaves him to the wolves but he feels awful and he's relieved when Maurice comes back safe. And where the animated LeFou was super into it in the Mob Song, live action LeFou at that point is starting to think maybe he shouldn't be doing this. There's an extra part in the song where he sings "there's a beast running wild, there's no question, but I fear the wrong monster's released". He realises Gaston is wrong and going too far and that he's got himself caught up in it. Then when they're actually fighting the enchanted servants Gaston betrays LeFou - he lets him get beat up and almost crushed just to protect himself. During this scene LeFou catches Mrs Potts and saves her from smashing on the floor and they have this brief little talk that's basically "I was on Gaston's side but idk anymore it's not working out" "oh you're too good for him" "true". Then in the ballroom scene at the end you see him dancing with a woman for a bit then the partners switch and he comes face to face with this cute guy and is just like "oh". Hopefully that guy treats him better than Gaston

Damn I wrote a lot about LeFou but he was such an interesting character and had a lot of funny, touching and emotional moments

The cast was quite racially diverse. Granted all of the main cast was white but a lot of the secondary cast were POC and they were all good people, no antagonistic or stereotypical characters. Notable characters: the priest Pere Robert who Belle borrows her books from, Plumette, Lumiere's girlfriend who became a feather duster and Madame Garderobe, the singer who became the armoire. Also two interracial couples! Besides Lumiere and Plumette, Madame Garderobe is married to Maestro Cadenza. The villagers were really mixed in their races too

Belle is demiromantic and asexual fight me. The scene near the beginning when Gaston's trying to convince her to marry him has the classic "you should be concerned about having your own children" "I'm not ready to have children" and that alone is a feminist thing and a good moment for Belle but I also take something about the way she says it and her expression when she says it as a hint that she's not interested in sex. Plus I already headcanoned Belle as ace anyway. She's demiromantic because it takes time for her to become good friends with the Beast and then she starts to fall for him. It's when they've properly bonded that something really happens

I won't spoil this bit but you should know that the backstory about Belle's mother is heartbreaking. Prepare yourselves

A lot of small plot holes from the original film got filled in such simple ways. Aside from what happened to Belle's mother, there's the whole problem with the timeline not working with the Beast's age fixed by changing the line "10 years we've been rusting" to "too long we've been rusting" and the painting of the prince shows him actually being younger, how Belle was strong enough to get the Beast onto Philippe after he saves her from the wolves just with her telling him "you have to help me, you have to stand" and why everyone apparently loves Gaston with no real explanation - he's a war hero. There's a few others but I can't remember them rn

I am very angry at myself because I didn't realise Emma Thompson was playing Mrs Potts until she turned human again and I love Emma Thompson I should have been able to tell Ly how could you

Belle is a furry. That is all

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damn ari, back at it again with dem rants

Okay, first off, hello again! It’s Ari, the one who had to rant about the person who commented on my post about the faults of YanSim. I’m back again to rant about YandereDev’s current “clearing up misunderstandings” post because that idiot really makes me wanna fight something!

Warning, this post might be long and there won’t a TL;DR at the end, so I apologize in advance!

So first off, if you have to make fucking SEVEN POSTS about clearing “misunderstandings”, then there’s something wrong with you. If you do so much shit that it causes you to make multiple posts about clearing your name, then you’re doing something wrong.

Now, onto some of the points that he made in his nasty-ass post that REALLY pissed me off.

“YandereDev said that pedophilia is just another sexual orientation!”

That’s not what I said. I said that nobody chooses to be a pedophile, just like nobody gets to choose their sexual orientation. I used the words “orientation” and “pedophilia” in separate sentences of the same paragraph, but I did not say that pedophilia IS a sexual orientation

No, just stop right there. Pedophilia and sexual/romantic orientations have ZERO THINGS IN COMMON.

Sexual/romantic orientations are a part of being a person. It changes, it’s fluid. Some people need some time until they are definitely sure they are gay/trans/bi/aro-ace/etc, and some don’t. It’s a normal thing that’s a part of life, such as puberty.

Pedophilia is not a normal thing, nor should it be normalized. It harms others, mainly impressionable minors that don’t know better because they are not as informed as those older than them. Those who act upon these “desires” to pursue romantic relationships with minors are nasty people that need to just go. People choose to be pedophiles because they’re disgusting like that.

You cannot compare the two. It’s as simple as that.

“YandereDev treatened to dox someone into silence!”

That’s not how it went down. I said something I didn’t mean while I was fired up up in the middle of an angry rant about someone who had been harassing me for several months. Obviously, it shouldn’t have been taken seriously. It was an “in the heat of the moment” statement, not a genuine threat.

Firstly, he spelled “threatened” wrong. Sorry, but I get a little nit-picky about spelling. :P

But anyways, what the hell.

I may not know much about this incident, but what I DO know is that the person (they are the original owner of this blog, right?) YandereDev threatened to dox did not harass him in any way. They did nothing of the sort.

And, (again from what I’ve heard) describing a person’s house in detail while you’re threatening to doxx someone is not a heat of the moment thing. You really got to think about stuff like that. Heat of the moment thing is not thinking about what you’re going to say while getting real emotional, and then feeling really guilty about it afterwards. YandereDev, you don’t sound guilty about what had happened. In fact, you sound like you think you’re innocent and didn’t absolutely wrong.

Oh wait, YOU DO THINK THAT YOU’RE NOT THE ONE TO BLAME HERE BECAUSE YOU’RE AN UNSEEMLY ASSHOLE.

“One of the rivals in Yandere Simulator is a pedophile!”

Pedophiles are attracted to pre-pubescent children (younger than 14), and Mida Rana is attracted to boys that are older than 14, so this statement isn’t accurate, but that’s beside the point. Sometimes, video games have antagonists who do bad things, and allow you to punish the antagonists for their evil ways. Some villains kill, some villains kidnap, some villains are sexual predators. If you don’t like Mida Rana, just punish her however you see fit, like any other villain in any other video game.

Say it with me now, kids: MIDA RANA IS A PEDOPHILE BECAUSE SHE IS ATTRACTED TO MINORS. MIDA RANA IS A PEDOPHILE BECAUSE PEDOPHILIA MEANS THAT YOU DESIRE TO HAVE ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIPS WITH MINORS. MINORS ARE THOSE UNDER THE AGE OF 18 OR 21, IF WE’RE PUTTING THIS INTO USA LAW CONTEXT. TARO YAMADA/SENPAI IS A MINOR, IF YOU WANT TO CONSIDER MINORS BEING UNDER 21.

Just because Mida Rana is an antagonist, doesn’t mean you get to brush aside the fact that she’s a pedophile. Villains are villains because you don’t brush aside the reasons that they are in the wrong. Getting the to get rid of Mida in the game still doesn’t make it okay. She SHOULDN’T have been a TEACHER in the first place. She SHOULDN’T have been a RIVAL in the first place.

“YandereDev said that pedophilia is ‘forbidden love’!”

That’s not what I said. I was referring to love between a student and a teacher as forbidden love. Student/teacher relationships are forbidden, irrespective of the age gap between the student and teacher.

LMAO, what the honest fuck is wrong with this dude.

Teachers shouldn’t be interested in having romantic relationships with their students because it is against the law and wrong at the same time. The reason it’s “forbidden” is because teachers hold so much more control over students. They can do things to students because they have more power over them due to their seniority over the student. Plus, relationships with huge age gaps (such as the student/teacher romantic relationship) are very problematic and can turn ugly without a doubt.

Forbidden love is like a royal/noble falling for a peasant; they know they can never be together due to the standards set by their society, but they don’t care because their love for one another is that strong. Forbidden love projects the idea that love conquers all, even if their situation is hopeless. The student/teacher thing is not forbidden love and it will never be. It’s harmful, disgusting, and abusive. Forbidden love is not that, not at all.

“YandereDev reads lolicon manga!”

There was a thread on 4chan where people were editing this image by putting different things in the bag. It was a meme. I could tell that the image had been taken from a sexual manga, but I didn’t care. To me, it was like any other “reaction image” featuring a character making a silly face. The meme was about putting something funny in the bag, not the character’s age or situation. I edited the image and used it in a blog post. Just because I posted a “reaction face” that came from a manga, this doesn’t mean that I read the manga, or enjoy the content. Reaction faces are reaction faces. Memes are memes.

“Reaction faces are reaction face. Memes are meme.”

*inhales deeply* BOI.

Just because you “don’t read it” or “don’t enjoy the content”, doesn’t mean you should use the material as if it were some copypasta. The content is still gross and wrong. Using it to be “funny” just adds onto the problem.

“YandereDev liked a pornographic image of one of his underage characters!”

I give “likes” to almost all of the fan art I see on Tumblr, because I am happy and flattered to see people producing artwork based on my creations. This doesn’t mean that I’m aroused by everything that I give a “like” to, or expressing approval of the subject matter of every post that I give a “like” to.

To quote one of your nice anons:

“Does he actually read the shit he writes out?”

Liking a post on Tumblr means you approve of it, idiot! That’s the definition of approval.

“YandereDev made fun of suicidal people!”

In 2015, someone asked me if it would be possible to drive girls to suicide in Yandere Simulator. I answered, “Yes.” Then, they asked me if girls would commit suicide for silly reasons, or serious reasons. I explained that I did not want people to commit suicide for petty reasons in Yandere Simulator. As an example, I posted a screenshot of a news report about a teenage boy in Russia who committed suicide because his favorite anime character had died. This was not me “making fun of suicidal people”, but providing an example of something that should not cause enough emotional distress to cause a suicide.

Hey, how about fuck off???

You don’t know what that kid’s been going through. You have no right to determine how much emotional distress makes the suicide valid. Unless you know the kid on a personal level, you can’t say shit about him.

“YandereDev wrote rape stories!”

Game of Thrones has rape scenes. Is Game of Thrones a “rape show”? No, it is a TV show that has very dark subject matter, and characters who are put through traumatic and perilous situations. I have written stories with dark subject matter. Some of my stories involved sexual assault. The sexual assaults were never meant to be “sexy”. A more elaborate answer can be found here.

Okay, no one but kiwifarms has really talked about your shitty fanfics.

Also, rape isn’t the main focus of Game of Thrones. Just because something like a TV show has a scene that depicted something like rape, it doesn’t automatically make it a “rape show”. It just means it’s a show that has rape in it. Your fanfics are focusing on rape, putting it in the spotlight. Therefore, your fanfics are “rape stories” because you focus on it.

“YandereDev refuses to add dark-skinned characters to the game!”

That’s not true. I want the ethnicity ratio in Yandere-chan’s school to match Japan’s ethnicity ratio in the real world. In the real world, 98.5% of the population of Japan are ethnic Japanese. This means that if you went to Japan and encountered 200 people, only 3 would not be ethnic Japanese. If you go to a high school in Japan, you are simply not going to encounter dozens of dark-skinned students. With all of that said, I do plan to include a dark-skinned character in Yandere Simulator’s school in the future.

Shut the fuck up. No, literally, SHUT THE FUCK UP.

You know jack shit about Asian cultures, YandereDev. You literally don’t know what it means to be an “ethnic Japanese” or an “ethnic Asian”. You are a white man, so you have NO RIGHT to decide who’s “ethnically” Asian and who’s not.

All Asians (from the Middle East to East Asia) can have dark/brown skin, just like how they can have light/peachy skin. We are not white, we are POC. Because of your fucking ignorance YandereDev, you’re contributing to the problem Asians like me face.

I am a young Asian girl with brown skin, who comes from a Filipino family. When I was young, I didn’t considered myself as an Asian because people expect Asians to be pale and beautiful. I never proudly showed off my Asian roots until I got older and got a better understanding of my culture.

There’s this little thing called colorism, and it’s a big problem in Asian countries like Japan. In Asia, white skin = rich and dark skin = poor. That’s why most characters in anime are light skinned. Thanks to the romanticizing of pale skin and the promotion of whiteness, white skin is seen as more appealing than dark skin because Asians don’t want to be seen as “poor”. It’s sickening and saddening. Dark-skinned Asians are just as beautiful as light-skinned ones. We’re still Asians, we’re still from the same country.

Saying that you’ll never see dark-skinned students in a Japanese school is very inaccurate and ignorant. Like I said, YandereDev doesn’t know a thing about Asian cultures and should stay in his fucking lane. If he wanted to be realistic, then he would’ve had already added dark-skinned characters by now. But no, he’s a prick that doesn’t seem to understand that colorism is an issue and his game is just an inaccurate piece of shit.

“YandereDev used a transphobic slur!”

I have used the term “trap”. However, this term has nothing to do with transgender people. The term “trap” refers to a male who dresses as a female and attempts to trick people into thinking he is a female, as a prank. This word describes someone who is attempting to trick others, not someone who genuinely identifies as another gender.

I have used the term “tranny”. This is because I was directly quoting someone else’s statement word-for-word. This is not because I was using the word to demean anyone.

I have expressed a dislike for “dickgirls”. Dickgirls - or “futanari” - are a type of Japanese fetish porn. Dickgirls are female anime characters who acquire a dick through a magic potion or some other fantastical reason; the term is not used to describe males who identify as female.

YandereDev, you have no right to use any of the slurs you have said in the past. The only ones who can are the people that the slur insults because they are reclaiming the slur.

Trap is associated with transgender people because people have used it to describe transgender people before.

Just because you are quoting someone, doesn’t mean you can use the slur they used as if it was just some normal word. You need to recognize that it’s a slur and that you can’t use it in a casual way.

Say it with me: IF SOMEONE IDENTIFIES AS A FEMALE, THEN THEY ARE A FEMALE. DON’T CALL THEM MALE BECAUSE YOU’RE MISGENDERING THEM. IT’S TRANSPHOBIC.

That aside, I’m pretty sure futanari are mocking transfolk? I could be wrong, so correct me if I am!

“YandereDev steals 3D models and textures!”

I sometimes put temporary placeholder assets into the game, with the intention of replacing them with original assets as soon as possible. This is not an uncommon practice for early prototypes of video games. Yandere Simulator is no longer in an “early prototype” stage, but some temporary placeholder assets are still lingering in Yandere Simulator from its earlier days. I am still in the process of removing these assets from the game. “Theft” and “stealing” are very disingenuous ways of describing the situation. It should go without saying that I have no intention to ship the final game with models or images that I don’t have permission to use.

Even if you’re using them temporarily, you still need to ask the original creator for permission. It’s their content, so they are the ones that get to decide where their creations will go and who can use them. The sandbox of Yandere Simulator is open to the public, therefore people can still see them. YandereDev, you haven’t said that the placeholders aren’t yours, so people are going to assume that you or your volunteers made these assets. You are stealing from the creators because you aren’t stating that the assets aren’t yours and that you’re using them for a sandbox build that’s anyone can see/download.

“YandereDev used the word ‘autistic’ as an insult!”

A strange person had been harassing me for several months. Eventually, I learned that they were actually an autistic child. This helped me to understand the behavior that I had been observing from them. I proceeded to tell them that I had identified their autism, but also firmly stated that their autism wasn’t any excuse for the behavior that they had been demonstrating for the past several months. This was interpreted as some kind of attack on their autism. It wasn’t.

Oh my fucking god, I cannot believe people can be this ignorant.

Unless you’ve got some kind of extensive knowledge about autism, you have no right to assume if someone is autistic or not. You can’t assume someone has a certain disorder by observing their behavior. It’s like saying you think someone is depressed if they don’t constantly smile or look happy. It’s wrong and gross.

Also, I doubt this “strange person” was harassing you. You’re the one that constantly bitches about getting too many emails or blow up at people for saying some harmless/innocent.

His whole conclusion is a mess of bullshit, but one thing I’m going to mention is this:

So, why do they do this? It’s very easy to explain. The reason is simple; they do this because it’s fun.

It’s fun to hate. It’s fun to shame. It’s fun to ridicule. It’s fun to make other people look bad. It’s fun to talk trash about others. It’s fun to “expose” other people. It’s fun to ruin someone’s life. It’s fun to ruin someone’s career. All of these things are super fun…if you’re a sadistic scumbag who takes pleasure in harming others.

To keep having fun, all they have to do is keep brainwashing themselves to believe that I’m a horrible monster, and dismiss everything I say when I attempt to explain myself. As long as they follow those two simple little rules, they can have unlimited fun. And, as long as they can keep having fun, why would they ever stop?

We haters aren’t doing this because it is “fun”. We are doing this because we want to inform others of the nasty shit you have done/are doing. I could do so many other things that are more fun than dealing with your nonsense, but your “game” has attracted the attention of younger kids. These kids don’t understand what you’re is bad and they need someone to steer them in the right direction.

Every time you explain yourself YandereDev, you just add onto the list of reasons why you’re a bad person. The fact that you have the audacity to act so high and mighty and then bitch about the “triggered SJWs” that are “harassing” you shows what kind of person you are.

In conclusion, YandereDev is just giving me more reasons why I should not support him or his gross game.

I hope I didn’t say anything wrong, but if I have please tell me! Thanks for reading and I hope all of you have a lovely day/night!

Cheers!

~ Ari

#tw: pedophilia mention #tw: abuse mention #tw: rape mention #long post

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Every Rose Has Its Thorn...

As much as I hate to admit it, I can’t deny that I am sort of a part of ��Bachelor Nation.” I have been watching the Bachelor franchise with my hometown friends for years and at this point, I can't stop even if I wanted to. (You could say that I’m in too deep.) The upcoming season of The Bachelorette is being hailed as a very big deal because ABC has a black bachelorette for the first time ever. The network is promoting this move as “historic” and I won’t dispute that fact because it took 33 seasons to make this a reality. Prior to Rachel Lindsay, a black contestant was lucky if he or she made it as far as the Top 10. (I’m not even joking, they used to never make the cut for the first rose ceremony.) I remember thinking that the options wouldn’t get better than “complicated” contestant Jubilee Sharpe on Ben Higgins’ sappy season, but then everyone’s favorite villain Nick Viall had a record high of eight women of color (which included the show’s first-ever bisexual) cast for his sham of a season.

Following the releases of Get Out and Dear White People, this season of The Bachelorette has me on edge as a black woman. The entire time that Rachel Rachel was competing for Nick’s heart—which I’m still confused by to this day—all ABC would have them talk about was race. Was Nick comfortable with dating a black woman? Had he ever even dated a black woman? My favorite moment was when Rachel brought Nick home to meet her family and he went to her all-black church and said that he had been to church before but “not like this” as in completely surrounded by black people. We get that being a interracial couple is full of obstacles like racism and that Nick wouldn’t have to deal with that if he chose any of the other (white) women, but we didn’t need to be reminded of it every single time they were on camera together. Plus, Nick pretty much claimed to be colorblind whenever he would state that he cared about who Rachel was as a “person” more than anything else. That said, I’m concerned that this is going to be the outline for Rachel’s entire season of The Bachelorette.

When I found out that Rachel was selected as ABC’s next bachelorette, I was genuinely excited. I couldn’t think of a person from the past four seasons more fitting for the role, especially after we were forced to watch Nick take his fourth shot at the reality show. The timing of the big announcement was way earlier than usual though—ABC didn’t wait for The Bachelor: Tell All, let alone the season finale. I didn’t read too into it at the time, but my mom pointed out something that I didn’t even consider: the network probably revealed it sooner to gauge viewer response.

I think I speak on behalf of most of Bachelor Nation when I say that none of us believed that Nick needed to be on another season. Following that lack of approval, ABC needed to make sure that their next choice was a real winner. Rachel was a risk for the most obvious reason, but Bachelor Nation loved her anyway—they just had to make sure that everyone else would too. Once that was out of the way, ABC would set everything else in motion almost a little too fast.

During the live reunion, Rachel was completely blindsided when OG host Chris Harrison decided to surprise her with five of the contestants that would be competing for her heart on the show. One of them—a white man named Dean—had the audacity to say, “I'm ready to go black and I'm never going to go back." Never in my 24 years of life have I cringed so hard; I’m pretty sure that I screamed at the television and my friend immediately refilled my glass of red wine. If I had been Rachel, I would have sent this fool home right then and there. (Boy, bye!)

It worries me that these are the types of things that Rachel is going to have to deal with for an entire season and she doesn’t deserve that. Yes, she is a beautiful, black southern belle, but she is so much more than her physical appearance—Rachel is a civil defense litigation attorney and she has a hell of a lot more to bring to the table than most of the past contestants that have held the title in this godforsaken franchise. (The only other accomplished individual prior to her was Andi Dorfman, a former assistant district attorney and the first-ever Jewish bachelorette.) She is an accomplished and successful woman and I’ll be damned if she isn’t given the most suitable candidates for her season. My greatest fear is that Rachel will be embarrassed on national television for the sake of ABC boosting ratings and keeping Bachelor Nation entertained on a weekly basis. I’m scared that Rachel is going to be forced into triggering situations for the purpose of cooking up drama on the program, and I’m worried that the viewers won’t empathize with her if the race stuff get too heavy.

Depending on how things go down, I am also concerned about the backlash Rachel could receive if she doesn’t wind up giving her final rose to a man that isn’t white. For the first time ever, a surplus of people of color are going to be tuning in to watch The Bachelorette. I find myself returning to Dear White People often and how it presented the exaggerated pettiness within POC communities when Samantha White’s black friends could not accept the fact that she was dating a “woke” white man. Imagine what type of responses could be generated from Black Twitter if Rachel makes this same choice. There is going to be more pressure on her than any bachelorette or bachelor that has come before her. We’re all rooting for Lindsay for our own reasons, but will she be able to live up to the high standards that ABC has set for (or against) her?

All of Rachel’s contestants have been revealed ahead of the premiere so we can get a glimpse at who we’ll be watching for the next 10-12 weeks, and she seems to have some diverse options as far as ethnicity is concerned but that might not be enough. Don’t get me wrong, I am happy to see progress being made on the program but I need for ABC to do it with dignity. Hopefully, Rachel isn’t used as a prop to fill a diversity quota and will guide the network in the right direction. I don’t want her season to serve as a test course for ABC.

Despite all of the anxiety that is building up inside of me, I’ll be tuning in every Monday night to support Rachel with a glass of wine in one hand and my fingers crossed on the other.