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Pinned post so my shit is all in one place.

Tempo crushing on Blues in a way that makes really no sense through clean logic. And I think it should be because shes a teenager who has just discovered emotionally damaged boys and is having a puberty rite of passage. Like

Chainsmoking cat looks fire, but the debate around it being a "waste" of animation and talent, has brought back a very specific conviction in me that comes up whenever there is any talk about artistic skill being "wasted" specifically in reguards to the art it produces. Youll hear it a lot with nsfw or otherwise unconventional artists a lot, where dickheads will talk about how they are "wasting their talent" on what they do, obviously implying that they should be creating something else thats more paletable to the person saying that. And that enfuriates me on so many levels. The use of the word "talent" instead of skill is the first red flag, but its generally just the notion that artistic ability, the work it takes to develop, and the labor it takes to use, dont actually belong to the person who developed them. They belong to some nebulous concept of art as an object of value. A persons labor, time, and proficiency in their craft arent theirs by right, but its actually a cosmic resource that has a correct alocation. Your work isnt something you do to serve yourself, its something that exists to facilitate me seeing more content I want.

Learning that Ciel is only 14 years old fucked me up in not just the sense of her being the first girl in the “children forced into being soldiers” (she gets close enough, shut up) thing this franchise does to specifically torture ME. But also it reframed the entire dynamic I imagined her to have with Zero.

I think a generation of people are genuenly, seriously having their first ever toxic relationship with Genshin impact to the point where Im actually starting to think some of them might actually get some sort of minor trauma from it. Like I have never seen this level of just… not stopping, with something you clearly hate, for something as unimportant as a single player videogame. Like, you look at how they talk about it and they just dont fucking like it. They find the gameplay annoying, the story not worth reading, the new characters constantly underwhelming, the “generosity” lacking and like, the response to this atitude is to basically tell them to shut up and stop complaining, and never to like, leave. Like this game is not low comitment I played that shit, and to even keep up you need to dump hours upon hours, and you cant do it in a way thats convenient for you, with the energy shit, you have to space it out every day. This is not something you can just casually pick up at random, have some fun and put down. Its honestly not even a mobile game anymore. You should not have to make compromises for a hobby that demands so much. You should love it, every time.

We are fucking off about aging technicalities with Sage ok?

For a long time, I had been surprised at how chill everyone has been about Pinkpanthress so casually talking about her experience with purchasing sex work, and how open and down to earth she is about it and especially how respectful she is towards the worker in a way that doesent feel ideological or political, just sincere and human.

*Sighs*