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partial art blog, atm mostly into love live/Osomatsu-san. Karamatsu's my fav. There's no worst Matsu for me. Currently not very acitve

[wario-land]

I used to enjoy Pokemon games a lot, but lately some of the newer entries have been kinda controversial due a variety of issues.

But instead of focusing on that, i'm here to bring you back to the past to the Nintendo DS era of Pokemon, where many (myself included) would say that the quality and care of the series was at it's peak!

Games included in this collection:

EVERYONE IS HERE!! Every single Pokemon game released for the Nintendo DS is featured in this pack. Two emulators are included in the set, just download and play

Download here!! (1.25 GB): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jGy0GHSDwSLIuGnUrdmsD3WY_AJiq5ws/view?usp=sharing

Mirror download: https://www.mediafire.com/file/8qw75h4ij9asbte/Pogeymon_DS_Collection.rar/file

Hooray for 65k notes!!!

[wario-land]

This. Thanks Masky

I didn't use Vimm because of the slow download, but I know a lot of people did

I greatly appreciate their compression efforts and archival of arts and manuals as well

This kind of situation is exactly why you can't put all your eggs in one basket, and why you can't trust Nintendo

You should always keep your own archival somewhere safe, preferably in more than one place

And of course, share them with others as I do here

[fepir]

brb playing rune factory bye

[cheddar-baby]

The worlds hungriest animal

[isquirtkerosine]

That elderly couple who volunteers at the soup kitchen after church on Sundays and attends every town hall meeting has done more community direct action than 99% of internet leftists 🤷🏽‍♀️

[isquirtkerosine]

#lol this post is stupid spup kitchens were created by the gov after they literally destroyed black radical organizers lives#and since when does going to a town hall meeting and working within the system help anybody in any significant way

100% agree homeless people should just starve and dumpster dive till le epic revolution happens!

and for sure local politics is so stupid it only handles dumb things like your schoolboard, judges, infrastructure, and rent laws! now tweets? Thats where the real work happens! 

[what-even-is-thiss]

Local activism stopped garbage collection from being privatized in my hometown and local activism is what defunds the police and keeps libraries and community gardens open and gets done most of the things people waiting around for a revolution claim they want. The weird former hippie suburban wine moms donating bags of quinoa chips and money to the food pantry I go to sometimes have done more for me materially then any defeatist political rant on tumblr ever has.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

There are manmade joys beyond my comprehension, too. The horrors aren’t special.

[cryptotheism]

Source

[mousegard]

like to charge, reblog to cast

[miseducatedmelanicmuse]

[xxxtictacion]

i dont get the hate with greentexting outside of 4chan

it can take a statement like 

“wow its really pathetic that you dont own an avocado tree” and simplifies it to

[iamoutofideas]

A lot of racists use it outside the site

[xxxtictacion]

A lot of racists like to eat barbeque but that ain’t gonna make me stop eating delicious brisket because I ain’t a bitch

[thefloatingstone]

[naryrising]

You can read the post here for more info, but I wanted to just add a bit about what this entails from my POV, on the Support team.  Somewhere between ¼ to 1/3 of all our tickets last month were in Chinese (somewhere upwards of 300 out of 1200 or so), almost all from users just setting up their accounts or trying to find out how to get an invitation.  A lot of the tickets are what I’d characterize as “intro” tickets - they say hi, list favourite fandoms or pairings, or provide samples of fic they’ve written. Although this isn’t necessary on AO3, this is not uncommon in Chinese fandom sites that you have to prove your credentials to get in (in fact it wasn’t uncommon in English-language fandom sites 15-20 years ago).  We respond to all of these tickets, even the ones that just say hi.  We check whether the user has managed to receive their invite or get their account sent up, and if they haven’t, we help them do so.  This means taking every single ticket through our Chinese translation team twice, once so we make sure we understand the initial ticket, and then again to translate our reply. 

This is a challenging process, although we’ve found ways to streamline it and can normally get a reply out pretty quickly (like within a few days).  We do it because this is part of why AO3 exists in the first place - to provide a safe haven where users can post their works without worrying about censorship or sudden crackdowns on certain kinds of content.  We do it because this is important, and helping these users get their accounts and be able to share their works safely is why we’re here.  We hope that we’ll be able to help as many of them as possible.  

There have been a few (thankfully few, that I’ve seen) complaints about these new AO3 users not always knowing how things work - what language to tag with, or what fandom tags to use, for instance.  To this I would say:

1. Have patience and be considerate.  They are coming to a new site that they aren’t familiar with, and using it in a language they may not be expert in, and it might take a while to learn the ropes.  You can filter out works tagged in Chinese if you don’t want to see them.  Or just scroll past.  

2. You can report works tagged with the wrong language or the wrong fandom to our Policy and Abuse team using the link at the bottom of any page.  This will not cause the authors to “get in trouble” (a concern I’ve heard before, as people are reluctant to report for these reasons).  It means the Policy and Abuse team will contact them to ask them to change the language/fandom tag, and if the creator doesn’t, they can edit it directly. 

If you remember Strikethrough or the FF.net porn ban or similar purges, please keep them in mind and consider that these users are going through something similar or potentially worse.  This is why AO3 exists.  We are doing our best to try and help make the transition smooth.  

[eabevella]

I am a Taiwanese and I’d like to put some context behind the recent influx of China based AO3 users.

China is tightening their freedom of speech in recent years after Xi has became the chairman (he even canceled the 10 years long term of service of chairman, meaning he can stay as the leader of China as long as he lives–he has became a dictator).

They censor words that are deemed “sensitive”, you can’t type anything to criticize the chinise government. Big social media platform won’t even post the posts containing sensitive words. You don’t have the freedom of publish books without the books being approved by the government either.

To disguise this whole Ninety Eighty-Four nightmare, they started to pick on the easy target: the women and the minorities (China is getting more and more misogynistic as a result of the government trying to control their male population through encouraging them to control the female population through “chinese tradition family value” but that’s another story).

Last year, the chinese government arrested a woman who is a famous yaoi/BL novel writer named 天一 and sentenced her 10 years in jail for “selling obscene publications” and “illegal publication” (she’s not the only BL writer who got arrested. Meanwhile, multiple cases where men raped women only get about 2 years of jail time in China). It’s a warning to anyone who want to publish anything that’s “not approved” by the government that they can literally ruin you. 

Just recently the chinese government “contacted” website owners of one of their largest romance/yaoi/slash fiction sites 晉江 and announced that for now on, for the sake of a Clean Society, they can’t write anything that’s slightly “obscene”. No sex scene, no sexual interaction, they can’t even write any bodily interaction below neck (I’m not kidding here).

But that’s not their actual goal. They also listed other restriction such as: can’t write anything that’s about the government, the military, the police, “sensitive history”, “race problems”, which is… you basically can’t write anything that might be used as a tool to criticize the government (as many novels did).

This recent development really hurt the chinese fanfic writers. They can’t write anything without the fear of being put on the guillotine by the government to show their control. Most of them don’t even think that deep politically, they just want to write slash fictions. But there are no platform safe in China, that’s why the sudden influx of chinese users to AO3.

I bet it won’t be long before AO3 got banned in China, but until then, be a little bit patient to them. As much as I hate the chinese government, I pity their people.

[zoooe14]

I’m crying so loud…As a Chinese, you don’t know how your kindness meant to us. When I’m young, I read 1984, and I thought this story is so unrealistic, but now, it’s getting tougher and tougher for fanfic and the writer in China. Thank you ao3. Thank you for the people who care about Chinese people. (hope I didn’t spell anything wrong)

[wrangletangle]

The OTW’s account on Weibo, the biggest Chinese social media site, is constantly fielding questions from Chinese users about how to get invitations, how to post, all of it. Chinese fans deeply want to learn how to use AO3. The difference between Lofter’s posting system and AO3′s is perhaps even wider than the gulf between Tumblr and AO3. But imagine if you had to navigate across that gap in a language you didn’t speak, using translation programs that don’t understand fan terminology.

This is exactly what the AO3 was built to deal with. We just didn’t get a chance to get the internationalization done first, so things may be bumpy for a while. We are all part of fandom, so let’s take care not to leave anyone out.

[wetwareproblem]

Just in case it isn’t clear to anyone? This. This right here is precisely why the AO3 doesn’t police content or remove things that are icky or obscene.

Because it’s not you who defines what’s obscene. It’s the authorities.

[nenastrology]

normies are literally the most vital resource in a fandom like if somethings not popular enough to have like normal people who are like just invested enough to engage mildly with fandom you are fucking doomed youre locked in this room with like people with secret furry fetish side blogs and literally the worst taste imaginable lets have some fucking respect for normal people who mind their own business and then like log off at the end of the day good hard normal people the bedrock of any fandom that wont make you want to lose your goddamn mind

[seraguro]

god, how do I stop being incredibly salty every time I see that certain people on twitter are online, especially since those people are mutuals >_>

[pegsephone]

i think one of the reasons everyone keeps making stupid fucking posts about the London attack against the two women is because y’all forgot real life exists

y’all forgot that other people don’t care about the differences between lesbians and bi women. y’all were so busying arguing about monosexual privilege and het-passing/straight-adjacent or whatever the fuck privilege that you forgot we’re basically the same in the eyes of non-lgbt people

It wouldn’t have made a difference if both women had actually been lesbians. It wouldn’t have made a difference if both of the women had been bisexual. The reason behind the assault would have been the same: love between two women has been so fetishized and objectified that the men on the bus felt it was their right to force these women to play out their fantasy.

Lesbians and bi women alike suffer from attacks like this. Painting it as an attack against a specific label and not our community as a whole is not how we move on from this. It’s not how we grow.

“Bi women shouldn’t say xyz about this attack” “lesbians need to remember xyz”. Maybe you all need to take a step back and realize this isn’t weird online discourse. Enough.

[kkmetal]

this is such good news!! not only do we FINALLY have skin color options in a mainline game - we also have way more freedom & flexibility with our character’s hair and facial features. here’s to hoping that we get more new customization options as well!! 

also - i gotta say, i’m so glad that we won’t have to meet pointless requirements for certain hairstyles anymore. that genderlock made no sense at all. 

[phalaenopsis-ex-machina-deactiv]

anyone: mentions (game/video/movie/book) 2, jokingly or not

me:

[stammsternenstaub]

Life doesn’t end at 23. 30 isn’t old. Fetishising youth as the ultimate desirable characteristic in a person is actively harmful to both young and old people. Some of us lost our teenage years to abuse and recovery, and can only begin living when we’re at a different life stage.  Literally knock it off, the lot of you.

[frottinq]

kids and teens these days are so fucking funny. they’re so much funnier than any group of teens/kids before them

[frottinq]

god i wish I could be this fucking funny

[e-seal-deactivated20210319]

Literally couldn’t care less about rich people’s “child geniuses”

[e-seal-deactivated20210319]

Oh you mean having access to the best possible education and not being hungry at school gets you ahead of where students normally are?

[e-seal-deactivated20210319]

Genius is a designation created by rich people and sparingly applied to poor people to explain class division