moved to @starblitz

I open tumblr after a while just to warn ya’ll about something i JUST found out minutes ago it might be common knowledge by now to everyone but I don’t lose anything staying safe and spreading this info

about 3 tumblr ripoff sites are taking the ENTIRETY of our blogs and posting them in their own sites, in real time. This includes text posts, art/images, videos and reblogs as well as offering statistics that as far as i know, should be private to the blog owner.

I myself stumbled upon tumgir where I found not only my main account, but my art account I hadn’t used in years (To note: The 3 sites are Tumgir , Tumblar and Tumbex)

You can look at my entire blog through this site, and anyone else’s 

I tried doing research but most of what I can find is only other tumblr users who have stumbled upon this. here’s their own posts

https://blockoframen.tumblr.com/post/188736225103/it-was-recently-brought-to-my-attention-that-there  From Nov 1st 2019

https://kodaso.tumblr.com/post/623025521415094272/our-work-is-once-again-being-re-posted-without-our From July 8th 2020

https://babycharmander.tumblr.com/post/616582450520408064/artists-of-tumblr-your-artwork-is-being-stolen From two months ago (Checked on the post themselves dates might be wrong) (also if youre the op of any of those posts and wish to be removed from this post do not be afraid to tell me)

From some of these posts we can gather that they have a lot of our info and also, it’s nearly impossible to contact them as the emails on apparently all 3 websites are fake. Only way to delete stuff from these websites is to literally delete our tumblr accounts. I am unsure on how to proceed with this situation myself and where else to look but I can at least spread this information. if you yourself got other important info to share please do! 

content creators are at risk, people who use this site to vent/cope are at risk, YOU are at risk.

Tumbex👇 Tumgir showing my statistics👇

Tagging everyone I could!

@sookyshima @babydai @fushiguroll @keijee @spiritingawaytoanime @oni-girx @shoyotime @estensity @sugurus-princess @mysterystarz @xybi @artickitafox @paradise-creator @i-need-entertainment @sunahearts @lilikags @leiaimnida @keiwaizumi @infxrity @animated-moon @discountkiyoko @miss-minty-writes @tsukkisshortcake

(though there are big problems in the fandom as well)

no. the devs are scummy and there are serious problems in the game. i rly dislike hating on people trying to create something bc creating is HARD, writing and art and shit but this isn’t me hating on the devs its just. bringing light to the shitty things they’ve done and continue to do

first off let me just say that yes i’m in the fandom and i get that that’s Free Advertising and Engagement and i admit that this kinda means i’m not 100% practising what i preach! addressing this bc i know someone’s gonna think ‘ok but if u hate the devs so much why do u advertise their content lol’ or like. call me a hypocrite or something

so, one of the. grossest things is that. dana rune runs an incest fanzine. i reaaaaaaaaaaally do not want to. elaborate. does that not say enough? a lot of people say that it’s not hers and she doesn’t run it etc which is... not true. she’s erased all mentions of it at this point, obviously bc of the backlash but... here’s a post of hers that’s been deleted since. also, either way, she follows the diplomatic relations twitter, so even if not created by her, she obviously is supporting it which. man idk . how can you not see how messy that is

here’s a post where dana rune has commissioned an artist who whitewashed nadia (pretty fucking badly) and drew a, um, racist belly dancer outfit lol don’t @ me on that one. oh, and here’s the arcana official blog reblogging whitewashed asra :) oh and here’s some more where portia + nasmira have been significantly slimmed down!

here’s a post that explains the mlm fetishisation in the game (+ other problems w it, esp in terms of race, that i’ll talk abt)

also? can we discuss the game’s rating? pg-13? really? it is such a sexual game. i don’t take criticism on this point. it IS. have you seen the julian horny sprites? the fucking scenes in his and nadia’s routes especially? and that’s just the tip of the iceberg w that one. there’s also fade-to-black scenes. all the characters are confirmed to at the very least be 20+?? come ON. the rating is, safe to say, ridiculous. and yeah it’s totally one thing that ‘teenagers look at porn’ etc BUT teenagers looking at shit aimed for adults and adults creating shit that they know teenagers will see are two different things

+ can we please talk about how so many of nadia’s and asra’s cgs are so sexualised compared to julian’s? for a while i justified this in my head as “oh, don’t worry, julian’s scenes are so much more sexual, though” but like. no. it’s a significant gripe and i hate that it’s so overlooked.

as a fantasy writer myself, i’m still a little conflicted on this point BUT for a while, the only confirmation of the characters’ races had been that they’re .. poc/not white. that’s? vague as fuck? HOWEVER here’s a thread they made afterwards on twitter. it bothers me a bit that they didn’t mention julian & portia’s jewishness/jewish-coding, despite mentioning jeff goldblum! i am a gentile tho so! jewish pals! make of that what you will. anyway, my thoughts aren’t 100% collected on this enough yet to say any more so moving on

there was an ask that kinda promoted the whole ‘nadia step on me’ brown woman wet dream and the arcana official blog made a post apologising for that here. HOWEVER,, they later made that into a literal fucking thing that happens in the game . What:

(also on their twitter, elle made it into a whole ‘women can be doms?’ thing, which IMPLIES that we’re mad that they made a woman a dom........ No????? we’re mad bc it furthers a stereotype of violence onto a woc???????)

now, as a person who is not nb, i’m not completely sure how comfortable i feel speaking on this andjajdnavsjf so please tell me if anything i’ve said is wrong or offensive: asra’s nonbinary gender is something that people in the fandom have addressed before! but i offer u this: in asra’s route, in the coliseum scene, muriel says something along the lines of “you [asra & julian] are very dead men.” now, while nb people who use ‘gendered’ pronouns exist, the devs have said that asra does not mind he/him pronouns, but he prefers if you avoid gendered terms like ‘boy,’ ‘husband.’ why does that not extend to the game itself? muriel? refers to asra as a man?

side note i appreciate nazali as a nb character, BUT they’re a super minor character. our other ‘nb rep’ is valdemar and vulgora who are.. arguably villainous and demonic and inhumane. does that not say enough? (+ same goes for valdemar being apparently aro/ace. what kind of fucking representation?)

also, the only representation of disability seems to be w/ lucio and volta (her eye & face). and coming from a lucio AND volta stan, NO WAY that that’s good/equal representation!

i’m not all that Knowledgeable on stuff to talk abt their quesTIONABLE business practises, so instead here’s a post that sums it up suuuuuper well!

anyway that’s the end of this but if you’ve noticed any other issues with the game pls reblog & add. i’m tagging ppl, including big names/significant blogs in the fandom, bc even as someone who engages with fan content of the game and plays it, the very least you all can do is to actually acknowledge the BIG, BIG problems apparent here

oh and one more thing just 2 reiterate yes i can see how i’m being hypocritical, calling out the arcana but still engaging with it— i’m ngl, i appreciate the quality of the art for the most most part, i think the game has really interesting & challenging writing, i am super attached to the characters but most of all i like being part of the fandom. i appreciate the fan content, the amazing art, the brilliant writing. but i am very conflicted. i’ve been thinking about leaving the fandom n stuff for a while bc i just don’t agree with so much in this game but i still haven’t figured it out. so yeah. it’s possible in the future, sooner or later, my hyper-fixation will fade out and i will be able to acknowledge the racism and other problems as is, without a rose-coloured lense, but for now we’ll see. for now i just want people to not ignore these problems u know?

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