I just know a big ol hug from Sylus would feel soooo good. Big muscly arms wrapping around you, flexed enough to feel the muscles and careful strength he holds you with. Strong, soft chest to press your face into. The smell of his detergent and cologne and body wash taken in with every breath. The sound of him breathing, inhaling and exhaling, chest expanding and compressing under your arms. You squeeze him and he smiles where you can't see as he squeezes you back. Soft kisses pressed to your head and temple. Quiet humming and rocking slowly side to side. He only lets go when you do. And if he knows you're only pulling away because you think he's tired of it, he pulls you close and rests his cheek on your head and tells you to take your time
Wiiiiild. He did commit murder (in self defense - no judging) and America‘s Best Housewife was sent to jail because of insider trading, securities fraud, obstruction of justice and conspiracy. This is wiiiiiild 😄😄😄
also he has every right to make fun of kanye west considering snoop has had a successful career for about two decades including his own cookbook and appearing in movies whereas kanye is a flat earther who had to crowdfund another album because he ran out of money despite kim kardashian being with him, not having the money to produce another album should be the metric when you know you can tell a musician has failed somewhere in either money management or actually being a musician rather then a famous trainwreck
Whenever I think about snoop I remember that episode of cribs where he lived in an unusually modest house compared to everyone else on that show, spent the entire time with his young daughter hugging onto his leg and dragging her around as he walked. He even talked about how he didn’t want his kids to be musicians and that he just wants them to have a chance at a normal life / he doesn’t wish music career drama on anyone
The dude is mega down to earth for having a networth of 135 million dollars and staying relevant for longer than some of the top charting musicians have been alive
he says he keeps a supply of poptarts in the house for his nieces/nephews and grandkids but admits theyre really for him and then goes on to discuss what selection of condiments your fridge should have to jazz up leftover takeout
hes one of the most thoroughly human humans ive ever known of
all these people going on about how Hozier is the peak representation of musical soft masculinity when Snoop has been out here rocking the smoothest braids and most hype manicures for decades
He also did an episode of Storybots and my kids adore the computer man. Which is wild to me. Cuz I remember gangster rap Snoop. And we love and support Snoop in this house.
Hozier is the peak of good white masculinity. Snoop is the peak of good Black masculinity, and on top of what Hozier does, Snoop adds something a lot of Black children never get to see—you can be a man, you can have “cred,” you can be cool, and also know how to make cookies. (Hozier is great, but he’s never been cool a day in his life and he freely admits this. The two of them have very different kinds of good masculinity both culturally and personally.)
There’s this idea—and the tweet opening this thread exemplifies it—that being “gangsta” means being self-absorbed, materialistic, and violent. Snoop is just like “nah, I have bling and street talk and I’m higher than a kite and also I love my kids and cooking and FUCK your toxic masculinity,” and that’s an important message. You can have the look, if you like the look, but you don’t have to be a stereotype to have the look.
Edit 5:35 pm on 7/14 : In a Tiktok Corina has said that “things are being fixed”. They can’t give details yet though. Brandon (Tomo’s VA) has also come out and said “they haven’t heard anything personally” but is glad that things are heading towards the right step.
Despite things going on the upwards trend now, unions like SAG-AFTRA protect people from situations like this.
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Hi coming here to be serious once.
If you didn’t know, multiple Eng VAs from Genshin Impact are coming out about the fact they haven’t been paid—literally one of them being Paimon, the character with the most voice lines in the game.
I really want to urge people to support the Eng VAs going through this stuff and potentially going homeless because of lack of pay.
If you want more information, here’s Tomo’s VA (Twitter Thread) and Paimon’s (Tiktok) explaining the situation. Corina (Paimon’s VA) in particular has not been paid for their work since December 2022
Edit 11:47 am 7/14: Hoyoverse actually commented on the situation and said: “We truly regret to learn about the ongoing situation. Genshin Impact values and respects the work and effort of everyone involved, and we support our voice actors to claim their proper due. We have made payments to our recording studio on time, and we immediately urged the studio to pay our voice actors from past payments. Meanwhile, we are also seeking alternative solutions. And will keep you posted on further developments”
So this helps confirm it is Formosa’s, the Eng branch recording studios fault. During the 2016-2017 video game actor strikes, Formosa was one of the game companies they were striking against for unfair wages and not being paid in a timely manner.
In addition, voice actors are indeed included with the SAG-AFRTRA. Although Genshin is NOT Union, it should be in order to prevent people from not getting paid in a timely manner.
So with that being said. How can you help? Well the biggest way actually is
Stop supporting voice AI
On TikTok there have been many trends stealing Eng VAs to say whatever. Alhaitham’s and Zhongli’s seem the most popular within the Genshin realm, which again is not okay. One VA in particular, Erica Lindback, Futaba’s from Persona 5, expressed her discomfort any was send so much hate she deactivated Twitter.
Genshin’s own Erika, Erika Harlacher-Stone, who plays Venti, also discribed her discomfort with AI and people stilling her voice to say whatever and was met with a lot of hate.
Don’t interact with it. Don’t support it. These are people, not just characters
And finally If this push for unionization goes through for Genshin, support it. Support them. Their skill and acting gives life to the character we love so much.
If you'd like to support Corina, financially, they stream on Twitch and said on Twitter they are going to try raising funds from there.
