Niles Appreciation Week!

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[nilesweek]

niles week announcement!

hello everyone mod blue here

unfortunately, me & mod ani have decided to postpone niles week and push it back to next week. this is happening due to variety of things like the fact that have both been recently preoccupied with school and mental health.

on the subject of drama, this is what i have to say: please stop getting so worked up over a fictional ship. i do not care if you have a problem with mod ani and none of that has been an excuse to accuse him of race faking and harass him with multiple messages and call out posts, especially if you’re not a minor. you can choose not to support this blog or whatever but please have some basic human decency and not harass someone half your age. and to the few wonderful anons who have tried to send me hate: i don’t care and i won’t give you attention so don’t bother.

thanks for reading! new dates will follow soon

[nilesweek2018]

so Anyway mod ani faked being a poc for attention and an excuse to call out other white people over nothing, and continues to harass minors and adults over their own fucking headcanons :)

[nilesweek]

how many times do we have to remind you people that mixed people exist

are you the 25 yr old who kept making call out posts? please go outside i don’t care anymore

[nilesweek]

niles week announcement!

hello everyone mod blue here

unfortunately, me & mod ani have decided to postpone niles week and push it back to next week. this is happening due to variety of things like the fact that have both been recently preoccupied with school and mental health.

on the subject of drama, this is what i have to say: please stop getting so worked up over a fictional ship. i do not care if you have a problem with mod ani and none of that has been an excuse to accuse him of race faking and harass him with multiple messages and call out posts, especially if you’re not a minor. you can choose not to support this blog or whatever but please have some basic human decency and not harass someone half your age. and to the few wonderful anons who have tried to send me hate: i don’t care and i won’t give you attention so don’t bother.

thanks for reading! new dates will follow soon

[nilesweek]

Hi, quick thing about the week, I don't see what's wrong with leo x niles and didn't get a 'white savoir' vibe at all while playing. I'd like to know your view on the topic as I feel it's not great to invalidate an entire ship just because leo is white and niles is brown. Thanks :3

Hello there! First off, we’re not invalidating the ship just because Niles is brown and Leo is white. I am brown, and in a relationship with a white girlfriend. Fin//nrey from Star Wars is one of my favorite relationships, and it’s between a white woman and a black man. The difference is power imbalance. Niles speaks about Leo in a way that’s unhealthy, saying he owes him his life to the point of devotion- meaning he’ll do anything Leo asks with no question. That is not what a relationship should be build upon. It gives major power to Leo- another white person in a position of power over a character of color. It’s a white savior narrative because Niles was a homeless brown man who felt awful and did “bad things” until the white man took him in his service and made him feel better. And it’s not just le//on//iles- liege/retainer ships in general tend to have a major power imbalance due to the fact that the liege can command the retainer to do anything. It’s not a safe, healthy basis for a relationship. The racial tropes in le//on//iles only make it worse, especially given the fact that Niles will even call Leo “master”. Joke or not, it’s extremely inappropriate and offensive. And I’m saying this from my perspective as a brown person. It’s okay to disagree, but if you have a problem with us or our opinions on this topic, it’s best for you not to participate in Niles Appreciation Week.

-Mod Ani

[nilesweek]

Introducing: Niles Appreciation Week!

That’s right, there’s now an entire week dedicated to appreciating FE14’s most iconic archer! Niles deserves the absolute best even if the fandom doesn’t give him that, so we’re here to show him some love.

Rules:

🏹 No whitewashing whatsoever. Niles is a canonically brown character, and we do not tolerate anyone who tries to erase that. Whitewashed content will not be accepted or reblogged.

🏹 There is to be no NSFW, sexualization, or fetishizing of Niles (or any other character, for that matter). If you truly appreciate him, you’d know that there is much more to Niles than that. There are also minors viewing and modding this blog. Sexual content will not be accepted or reblogged.

🏹 The following relationships are banned: Niles x Leo, Niles x Elise, Niles x Sakura, and Niles x 2nd Gen. The first has a racist white savior narrative, while the others are pedophilia. Content with these relationships will not be accepted or reblogged. Platonic content is fine.

🏹 Content may be in the form of art, graphics, gifs, writing, or whatever else you can come up with! Just be sure to follow the other rules.

🏹 If you do not wish to post content to your blog, you are free to submit it to us! We will post it for you on the corresponding day.

🏹 Content with blood and violence are accepted, as this is Fire Emblem. They will be tagged accordingly as #blood tw and #violence tw.

🏹 Tag your creations with #nilesweek and #nilesweek2018, as these are the tags that we track!

🏹 We will continue to reblog content relating to a certain prompt even after the day has passed, as long as it is tagged for us to see.

Prompts:

August 23: Childhood

August 24: Family

August 25: Relationships

August 26: Class Change

August 27: Royalty

August 28: Alternate Universe

August 29: Free Day

We can’t wait to see what you guys create! Feel free to contact Mod Ani for additional information, questions, comments, or concerns.

[nilesweek2018]

Please read this, everyone. What I’ve linked there is damning.

[nilesweek]

What has been linked above is nothing more than old, dated posts mixed with lies, creating misunderstandings. Please read this instead, and we hope to see your creative Niles content in late August!

[nilesweek]

We would like to inform everyone here that we are not affiliated in any way with @/leonilesweek. Both myself and Mod Blue do not support that ship, and since it is our week, we are not allowing it for the listed reasons. Anyone with questions as to why it has that narrative may contact Mod Ani.

We want no drama with @/leonilesweek either, and neither does that mod, so please refrain from bothering either of us with petty things.

[nilesweek]

Introducing: Niles Appreciation Week!

That's right, there's now an entire week dedicated to appreciating FE14's most iconic archer! Niles deserves the absolute best even if the fandom doesn't give him that, so we're here to show him some love.

Rules:

🏹 No whitewashing whatsoever. Niles is a canonically brown character, and we do not tolerate anyone who tries to erase that. Whitewashed content will not be accepted or reblogged.

🏹 There is to be no NSFW, sexualization, or fetishizing of Niles (or any other character, for that matter). If you truly appreciate him, you'd know that there is much more to Niles than that. There are also minors viewing and modding this blog. Sexual content will not be accepted or reblogged.

🏹 The following relationships are banned: Niles x Leo, Niles x Elise, Niles x Sakura, and Niles x 2nd Gen. The first has a racist white savior narrative, while the others are pedophilia. Content with these relationships will not be accepted or reblogged. Platonic content is fine.

🏹 Content may be in the form of art, graphics, gifs, writing, or whatever else you can come up with! Just be sure to follow the other rules.

🏹 If you do not wish to post content to your blog, you are free to submit it to us! We will post it for you on the corresponding day.

🏹 Content with blood and violence are accepted, as this is Fire Emblem. They will be tagged accordingly as #blood tw and #violence tw.

🏹 Tag your creations with #nilesweek and #nilesweek2018, as these are the tags that we track!

🏹 We will continue to reblog content relating to a certain prompt even after the day has passed, as long as it is tagged for us to see.

Prompts:

August 23: Childhood

August 24: Family

August 25: Relationships

August 26: Class Change

August 27: Royalty

August 28: Alternate Universe

August 29: Free Day

We can't wait to see what you guys create! Feel free to contact Mod Ani for additional information, questions, comments, or concerns.