๐ง๐ท โข Nonbinary queer freak ๐ โข SFW + pinup โข๏ธ โข Radical inclusivity is transgressive ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ โข Fiction is a playground and I like throwing sand ๐
DO NOT WATCH IT. DO NOT HATE WATCH IT. DO NOT WATCH IT OUT OF CURIOSITY. It is SO damn important that they understand this is NOT profitable, either from genuine interest or from controversy. This has to fail so ABSURDLY that it's a fucking case study. DON'T. WATCH. IT.
@hottopicsys
I remember coming across this comic as an older teen on Tumblr and how it fully changed me. I still think about this when I think about triggers, about complexity of trauma, about "unsympathetic" victims... it was deeply sobering
Context: many of the background shots are made with AI, and while the AI developers were all credited, the artist who made the changes for the background to be intelligible was not. This is right after Netflix has laid off NEARLY ALL of its animation department.
Of all the ways to protest against greed, the way they did it was by defiling one of the few surviving paintings of a depressed, poor, mentally ill, gay artist whose work was mocked and also the only source of his income...?
"Proshipper just means 'a decent and sensible human being[...]'"
Japanese artist Maromi has been extensively harassed by antis and wrote a great article for their Japanese peers explaining proshipping & antishipping, and advising artists to block anyone with "proship DNI" in bio
translated this due to some requests & since it seems to be going around in EN fandom as well. might go back & revise later for readability but there should be no major issues with the translation itself.
@MalditoMP
Nothing looks good about laying off nearly the entire animation team and then employing AI to do the background shots that the previous animators could've done much much better, and using that as a selling point for a new anime.
I know a lot of people aren't aware of this so I'll just let y'all know: the chatgpt bots scan fanfics without consent and use machine learning to generate their responses. They work by stealing fan-made content
Being BIPOC doesn't absolve you from being racist, being queer doesn't absolve you from being queerphobic. I will not be your moral fodder, I am a fucking person. You're not โจ๏ธprotectingโจ๏ธ me by attacking fujoshi/fudanshi/fujin, you're being parochialistic and insensitive
"Go tell someone irl that you're a freak and likes freak shit" I did and I got a business proposition to work with a small business that does collaborations with queer artists?? That's some fantastic advice y'all what's my next step ๐ญ
Another reason I hate this is that we're in the middle of a full blown systemic attack on arts and artistic expression from the government and upper class, and defiling a poor man's art as a form of protest is now more than ever tactless and daft.
I hate to get real on here for a minute, but... this is not the first death threat I've received for the show. And it probably won't be the last. I generally try and brush it off, but it never really stops being unsettling.
@dickfleato
Alright, listen, I say this in the kindest and most genuine way possible... I hope one day you can enjoy the playground that is fiction without feeling like you have to morally justify your preferences as well as your dislikes. I genuinely hope you find that freedom one day,
I suspect this will influence a *lot* of Asian artists to mass block antis, who in turn will start removing the DNI from their bios. Antis already do that when they want to spread their work to a wider audience, but now they'll try to avoid being blacklisted by Jpn fandom lol
@heartsalty
Oh my god those are my fucking FAVOURITE things. Like oh you sure are describing that act of taking off shoes and socks in incredible detail and giving a lot of focus on this character's feet huh
"Apritello is tcest" gotta be one of the most glaring examples of people online doing everything they can, no matter how absurd, to turn shippers of completely vanilla ships they dislike into villains as an attempt to erradicate the ship, instead of just keeping to themselves
PLEASE SHARE IF POSSIBLE!
@Netflix
's 1899 TV show is a shameful plagiarism of a 2016 short comic, Black Silence, from Brazilian comic book artist Mary. I'm sick of North American corporations stealing stories and ideas from foreign creators believing they can go on unscathed
Wow this legit fucking sucks ass. As a professional translator and interpreter myself I can guarantee that AI will NEVER have the human understanding of grammatical exceptions, formal vs informal, & regional slang that humans do. Human languages are intrinsically human, not code
Well, if you're a fan of Duolingo, I'd advise you stop using it now. They just laid off most of their human staff and will be relying mostly on AI now.
Y'all did NOT make an artist private because of "uhhh it's cowardly to draw fem!Miguel with boobs and a small waist" bs, I can't fucking believe this shit. What is this, 2013?? What a dumbass reason to feel entitled to going off in the comments of an artist YOU DON'T EVEN FOLLOW
This isn't JUST an MV, this brother made a whole song, redesigned the Naruto characters as a Rio de Janeiro AU, and animated a music video that told an entire fucking plotline. This is a fansong, fan designs, and fanfic all in an AMV
The power of Brazilian fandom is immeasurable