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Feral boi - my new hobby is adding backgrounds to my panel redraws

jude bellingham got artists who have never drawn poc for “stylistic reasons” drawing this man

#jude bellingham #fifa world cup #england

admitting ur crushing on jude bellingham is so embarrassing like wowwwww youre into the lightskin man with the big brown eyes and cute accent and infectious smile wooooowww

#world cup #england #jude bellingham #football #fifa world cup

i might actually be joining the football fan larp

#bro what has this world cup done to me #i've never given a shit about sports ever #why am i looking up the different teams #football #fifa world cup #world cup #fifa

#guys i miss eah so much #im getting so much eah content on my tiktok #that show was so peak god #eah #ever after high

my breakup letter with LADs

it's been 24 hours and i think i've finally cooled off. ensured i was unfollowing on everything possible, muted related words on my other social medias, deac'd my ladstwt. collecting my thoughts.

fundamentally, no matter how much i love my boys, i can't respect a company that can't respect its fanbase, its staff, and the artistic integrity of its own creation.

in the last week, i have watched global players traverse language barriers, decipher updates in a language they don't understand, venture onto chinese platforms they aren't familiar with, and embark on cultural exchange projects to bolster infold's relationship with the government. i've also seen wonderful worldwide movements (CN and abroad) to donate money to worthwhile charities in valko's name, and otherwise gather to showcase the wonderful community LADS has created from billboards to public shrines. in response, the vitriol and sheer venom they have faced in return from toxic CN fans -- and infold refusing to put their foot down and condemn the cesspool of racism/xenophobia they've enabled -- is downright insulting.

also, as someone who grew up in china, called it home for many years, and has many loved ones from china, i am deeply disturbed by toxic CN fans framing their xenophobia as a matter of culture, and global valko antis excusing this behavior with similar arguments of cultural differences. it has been both fascinating and alarming to see how this fan war has been framed as a culture war, and the notion that valko and his fans are somehow corrupting the 'cultural purity' of the game is as ridiculous as the implications are disturbing.

beyond the insult of failing to protect their players from abusive community members, the silent treatment toward global specifically has been especially humiliating. when infold pulled out of bbw they enclosed an apology. it spoke volumes that this apology was isolated to xhs and not in any global communication. notably, not once has global been addressed directly since any of the valko criticism. from the infamous 'dear miss hunters' announcement to the standard patch update instructions, global was never really 'spoken to' at all - and i don't buy any 'their hands are tied because of government monitoring' because they were able to deliver an apology on xhs. not once has global heard 'we are sorry' in english on our own platforms. i'm made more aware each day that global has never been a part of the conversation, whether it's with lighting, gameplay QoL fixes, or character customizability. why have a global server at all? why show your face at anime expo? and why should i nod and hand over my cash?

infold caving to the demands of this vocal minority puts their staff in danger. sending cow dung to hq? showing up and threatening staff with a knife? this behavior is (unfortunately) absolutely not new for media companies, especially in east asia. it deeply concerns me that infold chose to reward this behavior by giving them what they want. i fear that this only encourages similar future behavior. pulling out of bbw felt like a dark foreshadowing of the kind of fanbase this game will have moving forward, and i want no part of that.

i'm honestly baffled by the incompetency of infold's management, marketing/pr, and legal team. this entire matter seems like it could have been managed internally, if not avoided entirely. staff should have had the foresight to recognize and avoid direct references that may imply unwanted parallels (ESPECIALLY given the political context they are writing in), and should have acted appropriately and promptly when concerns were raised. the appropriate authorities should have been contacted to protect hq. it should go without saying that doing something so drastic would both anger fans and draw even more public attention to escalate the matter further. given this, it's only natural that the government has (allegedly) gotten involved. i'm just genuinely amazed by how poorly this entire situation has been managed from a business and strategy standpoint.

and after removing valko and retconning the game lore (of which he is a very large part of!), it should be clear to us that any of infold's work moving forward has no artistic merit. while of course any game is a product at the end of the day, it is nonetheless the loving labor of hundreds of writers, actors, and artists who come together to make something special. fans that are okay with valko's removal and lore retcon should acknowledge that they are perfectly okay with playing with the shell of the story that should have existed. under these changes demanded by fans, LADS becomes nothing more than a *service* for personal comfort and satisfaction rather than the honest *creation* of writers, animators, actors, and artists.

i think this is what makes me feel gross about playing with the husks of the characters i fell in love with. i fell in love with characters: men written with stories, lore, and destiny. now they have become mere puppets molded to the satisfaction of these players. i can't in good conscience return to my game anymore.

i feel deeply sad for the staff losses, and the sacrifice of the wonderful thing they've spent the last three years creating. i am deeply sad about the loss of this wonderful community. i am aware of the conspiracy theories about smear campaigns. i am aware of fans continuing to fight for the game to exist by appealing to the government on infold's behalf. i just can't white knight for a multi million dollar corporation that has made it clear that they don't care about me or acknowledged any of this global action. the multi million dollar corporation can lawyer up. they will be just fine without me, without you. and quite frankly, the idea of me battling in a comments section, trying to show my allegiance to infold after the way we've been treated, is humiliating.

thank you, love and deepspace. but it's time to go.

#love and deepspace #lads #valko #infold #papergames

alpanmix

I hope you're having fun with your MC in a forest of your own.

lots of twitter users are acting like this is a black and white issue. lets be clear: if valko is in danger, ALL the lis are in danger. this move proves that if you complain loud enough, you can irreversibly change, or even remove a character.

if you care about your LI, you shouldn’t trust infold to take care of them after this. events, cards, the main story, whole characters — none of them are safe if this is permitted.

#lads #love and deepspace

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Love And Deepspace fandom etiquette is so fucked on the Chinese side it's almost hilarious. Like, I can't possibly lose more braincells reading all this shit.

• "We want more main story updates for our favorite character before other unrelated updates are released! It's horrible that they added a 6th character before updating the current ones!"

–> Oh, okay, understandable to feel disappointed about that—

• "But the real issue is that the new character looks too foreign, looks gay, is slightly too tan, and his character seems misogynistic and rape-y!"

–> Wait, I thought you were all perfectly fine with the character who's literally a terrorist and gang leader, the doctor who doesn't know medical ethics while fucking you in his office, your upstairs neighbor who stalks you and kisses you while you sleep, and your incestuous relationship with your adopted brother, so what makes this guy different?

• "He's different because his teaser tag-line said 'be careful about the wolf you let in', which could encourage women letting a dangerous man come into their house to rape them!"

–> That's his motto because he's literally a werewolf?

• "But it's different, because they also used the number 731 in a story months ago, which is related to the 731 Japanese Unit from WW2 and is controversial, so remove him!"

–> But that is a completely separate story related to a different character and not for this guy at all. And that story was released in April, so why are you bringing it up now?

• "We didn't bring it up before this because we didn't know it was in the story until now, since we don't read the main story, because it's written so stupidly and is inferior to us intelligent fans, so we don't bother!"

–> ...You don't read the main story? Then why was it an issue in the first place that your own favorite characters main story was postponed for this new characters introduction?

• "That doesn't matter! It's about content! And thats also why we've reported the game to the CCP for its clear themes of rape and support of Japanese atrocities in WW2, so they'll remove the new character!"

–> Right. So they removed the new character now... and are also being heavily questioned and pressured by the CCP to the point where all future content will likely be completely censored and the main story will be jumbled without the place of their newly planned character, and that's if the game survives the criticism by the CCP at all. Like, the game servers literally might shut down and investors might pull from the company.

• "That doesn't matter! 😊 It's removed so we won!"

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(tagged by @usagichuu)

And not to mention how they also hate the new character because he feels too "male gaze" and "misogynistic"—wait, why do they feel like that again?

Because the cards "don't show MCs face" and "only showing her body is objectifying women".

Oh, but that's funny. They complained months ago that MCs face shouldn't be shown in the story/card memories/the house system/or in the game period and begged Papergames not to show her—because it made them feel like they were seeing their favorite characters "cheat" on them with their self-designed character.

So... whose fault is that?

#this #dont talk to me about misogyny before you look in a mirror

this-dude-over-here

Love And Deepspace fandom etiquette is so fucked on the Chinese side it's almost hilarious. Like, I can't possibly lose more braincells reading all this shit.

• "We want more main story updates for our favorite character before other unrelated updates are released! It's horrible that they added a 6th character before updating the current ones!"

–> Oh, okay, understandable to feel disappointed about that—

• "But the real issue is that the new character looks too foreign, looks gay, is slightly too tan, and his character seems misogynistic and rape-y!"

–> Wait, I thought you were all perfectly fine with the character who's literally a terrorist and gang leader, the doctor who doesn't know medical ethics while fucking you in his office, your upstairs neighbor who stalks you and kisses you while you sleep, and your incestuous relationship with your adopted brother, so what makes this guy different?

• "He's different because his teaser tag-line said 'be careful about the wolf you let in', which could encourage women letting a dangerous man come into their house to rape them!"

–> That's his motto because he's literally a werewolf?

• "But it's different, because they also used the number 731 in a story months ago, which is related to the 731 Japanese Unit from WW2 and is controversial, so remove him!"

–> But that is a completely separate story related to a different character and not for this guy at all. And that story was released in April, so why are you bringing it up now?

• "We didn't bring it up before this because we didn't know it was in the story until now, since we don't read the main story, because it's written so stupidly and is inferior to us intelligent fans, so we don't bother!"

–> ...You don't read the main story? Then why was it an issue in the first place that your own favorite characters main story was postponed for this new characters introduction?

• "That doesn't matter! It's about content! And thats also why we've reported the game to the CCP for its clear themes of rape and support of Japanese atrocities in WW2, so they'll remove the new character!"

–> Right. So they removed the new character now... and are also being heavily questioned and pressured by the CCP to the point where all future content will likely be completely censored and the main story will be jumbled without the place of their newly planned character, and that's if the game survives the criticism by the CCP at all. Like, the game servers literally might shut down and investors might pull from the company.

• "That doesn't matter! 😊 It's removed so we won!"

#this is why we cant have nice things #same server that literally took away mcs voice cus they were jealous of her btw

keep seeing this circulating. other companies have literally withstood worse. celebrity funeral wreaths? are we forgetting the scaramouche black cat massacre? animal carcasses sent to hq? but angry comments and cow poop is where the government allegedly draws the line? these are baseless assumptions that aren’t worth our time and only make dissatisfied players feel hopeless. i don’t buy it.