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"Trans barista complains about working 8 hours in a day"
Yeah, no shit, Dolly Parton literally had a hit song about what torture it is working for exactly that number of hours.
Funny how it's only a problem when a trans person complains.
Kojima would never name a trans woman character Sirona Ryan, he’d name her something like Hard Mommy and trans women all over would go “changing my name to that” in response.
Hellena Taylor has now admitted that PG's offer from the documents was true.
So yeah, she lied. It sucks.
This doesn't change that:
- VAs should be paid much more.
- VAs asking for residuals are not asking for too much.
- Kamiya is still a manchild with attitude problems.
Just watch anime legally, it's easy!*
*if you only want to watch very specific popular series, live in the US, can afford multiple subscriptions, watch before the licenses expire, can afford several hundred dollars worth of collectors edition blurays that release two years late.
Streamers and reviewers said they couldn't boycott Hogwarts Legacy over JKR's transphobia and anti-Semitism because it was the "biggest game of the year."
It has not a single nomination at The Game Awards and it's not in the Top 50 highest rated games of the year on Metacritic.
Gotta love how Bethesda abused and fired a trans woman for being trans and yet they're now getting slammed as trans affirming by even worse bigots because of a slightly more in-depth character creator than usual.
Worked several 9 hour shifts this past summer and it wasn't just the last hour that was inhumane.
Workdays should have gotten shorter ages ago if it wasn't for corporate capitalism being designed to put pressure on the ones that have little or no choice.
Utada Hikaru has come out as non-binary! Good for them, good for them!
They had previously come out as "not straight" on Twitter a few years ago as well.
Anyway, I love them and this made me so happy to hear.
Sweden’s new gender identity law passed! The nationalists and Christians tried to stop it but failed to do so.
This means Sweden will adopt a self-id system and lower the age of legal gender change to 16.
This obsession with finding some specific number of years that people can have between each other completely misses what predatory age gaps are.
If it's not a case of an adult preying on a child then it's not an issue.
TERFs are going after intersex people again, because of course they are.
Reminder that intersex variations, of which there are many, does not inherently make someone cis or trans and it is still the intersex person themselves who defines what they are.
It’s international Lesbian Day and while Emily Gwen’s lesbian flag is shared all over she and her girlfriend are now homeless and without money to get by.
Please help them out if you can.
@FierceGlomps
We hate that we spent probably 10 minutes finding the right Kojima sounding name only to instantly realize it could be reversed into Mommy Hardest which is somehow even better.
Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria (RSD) is a condition incredibly common to people with ADHD and other neurodivergent variations.
Sulette exhibits this in Gundam: The Witch from Mercury and it's spelled out clearly here.
#G_Witch
#水星の魔女
@halomancer1
Reminder that Pokémon hasn't even done the boy/girl question for like a decade and instead either asks you for your "style" or just "what do you look like?"
This obsession with micro-managing "acceptable" relationships in both fiction and real life in a way that completely disregards any kind of nuance is so incredibly fucking harmful.
While the increase in queer rep in cartoons is wonderful and I'm glad it's growing more each year, one thing that bugs me is the lack of queer vocabulary.
We have several gay characters now but you won't ever hear the word "gay" uttered in the cartoon itself.
While it's fine to be suspect of an older person dating someone who have *just become an adult*, in general, stop policing relationships between consenting adults in the firs place.
We know what harmful relationships are and how they're formed, we have studies and data on all of that.
Someone drawing a fucking 25 year old dating a 22 year old is doing no harm.
A real 30 year old dating a 27 year old is doing no harm.
There is no nice magical cutoff.
With a new Armoured Core announced at last we're sure a lot of people are wondering how to play the original series of games.
So here's a handy list showing which of them are available on contemporary platforms!
Taylor will likely be blacklisted in the industry now, which isn't going to help her poor financial situation.
People have been wondering why she'd lie in the first place since there seemingly wasn't anything to gain from it.
The reason adults preying on minors is harmful in the first place is because minors can't consent and can be manipulated by adults who have more agency and influence than a minor can ever have.
Not because of a magical number.
Alright, gonna make a new thread talking about the queer rep that can be found in FINAL FANTASY XIV ONLINE.
There's more than you might be aware of, so let's dig in...
#FFXIV
#FINALFANTASYXIV
Reminder that Square Enix America and Dark Horse Comics forcibly changed Lara and Sam's romantic confession and kiss in the modern Tomb Raider series to a "friendly hug" because they're lesbophobic jerks.
Also, what constitutes a "harmful" relatinship is rarely something as simple as just some age gap.
You can have two people of the same age and still have a harmful power dynamic.
Given Taylor's history with mental health issues and suicidal depression, we don't want this to turn into another witch hunt but it's probably too late for that.
Just an ugly situation on all fronts.
Jared Leto, Academy Award Winner, is a known cult leader who's infamous for sleeping with minors.
But an open-handed slap over a man ridiculing an audience member's medical condition where the slap didn't even knock him over or stall the show is where the Academy draws the line.
Will Smith has officially been banned from attending the
#Oscars
for the next 10 years after slapping Chris Rock during the 94th Academy Awards. The ban applies to virtual appearances as well and ends on April 8, 2032.
Reminder that the anime industry is making more money than ever, that money doesn't go to animators and a major part of the revenue comes from overseas streaming.
Anime is doing fine regardless of piracy, it always has.
But nuance doesn't exist in online twitter world. Instead, everyone is either a good hearted pure person who only dates and ships people born within 24 months of each other and the rest are evil pedophiles out to destroy the world.
In Episode 2, Miorine stated she refused to marry a man her father chose for her, she specified a man despite the title of Holder being available to anyone.
In the tie-in novel we learn she had an ex-girlfriend who her father cut her off from.
She's a lesbian, folks.
#G_Witch
People have focused on her proximity to TERFs, her past support of Blue Life Matters and other questionable or bad stances which frankly should have been kept entirely separate from the subject of voice actors being paid what they're owed.
Nintendo are deliberately ruining this guy's life from now until the day he dies. But they also make Pokémon and Mario so it's impossible to say if they're bad
We should instead focus on how companies don't pay their animators fairly, don't make their series available widely and over-complicate how to access their series.
Additionally, it's not even the best selling game of 2023. Despite releasing on three platforms, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom beat it on just one in a shorter time frame.
It was a game never destined to actually take a historical crown.
It has a notoriously low finish rate on Steam - yes, even for single-player RPGs - and virtually no one is talking about the game any more.
Hope giving it a stage back at release was worth permanently losing the respect of countless people.
Gotoh "Bocchi" Hitori has literally always been gay and anyone who says otherwise is either not actually paying attention or just your average homophobe.
Also, this idea that random ass niche fan artists have the influence to cause genuine harm by drawing possibly problematic fan art that most people won't ever see is also just ... not how ANYTHING works.
We know how media reflects reality, niche fan art is not how.
Man, it sure sucks how decades of detailed studies and data on how harmful relationships form just couldn't reach that simple conclusion that random twitter youths could.
No, it's transphobes that are making trans bodies all about genitals. Genitalia is quite often the thing trans people today don't mind.
Shoulders probably the biggest one for trans fems.
Daisuke did his homework, you're just hardcore coping.
I'm convinced Daisuke is mocking trans people at this point.
"Dysphoria Hoodie", hiding things Bridget is dysphoric about. What's that major thing actual trans people are VERY dysphoric about?
Oh yeah, genitalia, which are proudly on display 24/7. He's parodying you guys.
Given that all of those details could have been used to call her out at any point before these events but only surfaced when it came time to disregard her for standing against PG reeks of disingenuous behaviour in our opinion.
An individual's shit takes on Twitter shouldn't be a major factor when talking about an industry wide problem that rarely gets major attention.
That's what we think, at least.
See, the genuine cool thing here is that a lesbian was able to have the script changed on the spot to be gay.
That is actually worth being happy about.
The problem is that Disney/Pixar then went out and went "LOOK AT OUR FIRST GAY CHARACTER ... AGAIN" and shit.
Let's just toss out all the research we have, all the well documented experiences of survivors of harmful relationships, after all.
Fucking anime twitter has apparently solved it all.
It was an instant way to muddy the water and make people not want to side with her even though she remains right on the larger subject matter at hand.
Everything about how this drama was handled sucks.
Oh yeah, now everyone suddenly think Andrew Garfield was great as Peter Parker and that he deserved better.
We said this a decade ago and was told we were delusional for even suggesting it. Dude nailed the middle ground between Classic and post-Ultimate Parker.
Convenience is always the main thing that makes people decide how to approach something.
If you make legal access to something more convenient than piracy, you won't suffer from piracy.
It sucks seeing things you dislike, possibly find morally repugnant, but being online means that you are responsible for your own consumption of onilne content.
Reminder that CD Projekt RED's CEO is a billionaire and just yesterday we learned that a former employee was making less than $450 a month working on The Witcher III.
Even without crunch that's beyond "bad".
There's so much fan art that I find uncomfortable and disgusting. But you don't see me trying to police and call out artists over it.
The few times I've expressed discomfort directly to an artist it has been because I knew them to some extent.
Here's the thing.
Most people who watch anime watch it legally. They watch the shows on Crunchyroll or Funimation and they do so because they live in regions that cater to them and like shows that are available at ease.
The anime never gets to that point but at the end of the manga, Ranma literally says that they're at peace with being a woman *and* a man and that their female self was always a part of them, magic spring or not.
In an interview in 2019, Yoshi-P talked about how sad he was to see a mother shield her child's eyes from a gender non-conforming / transgender person while he heading to work. This put the resolve in him to work to undo more of FFXIV's gender restricted clothing.
Unless someone is forcing you to look at something, it's you who have to take into your own hands to keep things you don't want to see away.
Trying to police these things isn't helping anyone because all you're doing is painting targets on people.
If stuff like random ass lolicon artists on pixiv were truly as harmful and influential as people claim, then the Cuties poster would have not made any kind of headlines.
But it did.
Because niche ass anime art isn't reflective of norms.
Neon Genesis Evangelion is arguably one of the most well known anime TV series in the west.
It was not available legally on any digital platform until last summer.
Of course this means people would pirate it all those years prior.
You actually wanna call out "harmful media" that "affects reality" like you claim?
Then you have to go for that kind of media, not nobody fan artists with tagged niche stuff.
Because unless you live in the right place, at the right time and make the right amount of money your access to anime instantly becomes so limited and complicated that piracy is the only reasonable option.
Companies can solve this, but that's on them, no one else.
Y’shtola: How are you taking to the Source?
Zero: Well enough, but it��s still strange to actually sink my teeth into something to feed on aether.
Y: Good or bad?
Z: Would need to taste more than apples to say.
Y: I’m available.
Z: What?
Y: What?
#FFXIV
6.2
#BuriedMemory
Also, holy shit, this tweet took off. We left is open to replies because we hoped to see more fun name suggestions but the threads that have come out of it is honestly making our mentions impossible to read.
Here's the thing.
The most repulsive offensive outright hyper-ugly problematic thing you can think of is only harmful in the form of online media if it's something being pushed into a mainstream field that in return reflects what is seen as "normal."
But right now that convenience is only something very specific lucky people are allowed.
It's enough to keep the anime industry grow wealthier and wealthier, so again, piracy clearly doesn't actually hurt them, but it also makes piracy lucrative.
Thankfully there are people who actually do this.
This is why Netflix' Cuties poster and description went the way it did.
The fact that Netflix got so much shit over it that it was taken down the very same day proves that the average person does not find that shit okay.
People get straight up scared of just displays of sexuality or mentions of things that might have them be put in the "bad person" team.
It's literally the puritan "family values" shit conservatives pushed but in a new scary guise.
"Are you saying Yoshi-P is a racist!?"
We're saying he and his team are perpetuating racist ideas that they have likely picked up through cultural osmosis, but until they recognize as much and change they are still guilty of that perpetuation.
The original Higurashi: When They Cry sound novels are on sale on Steam and Manga Gamer right now.
The previous Higurashi anime adaptation is available to watch on Netflix and Hidive.
If you're actually interested in the original mystery/story - DO NOT START WITH THE 2020 SHOW.
Wanna watch an ongoing anime airing right now, this season?
Well, if it's not available in your region then you have to wait for the physical release, which isn't guaranteed, might be region locked or limited and will release in two yaers.
Piracy does boost the size of fanbases that buy merch and stuff too, which is the biggest portion of revenue for anime companies so ... y'know, again, they're not being hurt.