The Goggles Stay On

It’s the lack of commitment that intrigues me. If I was a CEO of a company and I canceled a major release, I would nuke it from orbit. Right? I mean. “He is cancelled” and then boom, he’s gone. Never existed. Remove everything and try to hope people forget about him ASAP (as …people do).

But nothing of Valko is deleted literally at all and it’s been over a week. Everything is still up, just hidden. Even with the removal of “coming soon” you can’t fuckin’ tell me the kitchen and illusio and photo booth require THAT MUCH space/memory. That’s absurd. He’s got to be in there, just inaccessible for the time being. His song was uploaded to a CN music app on July 6th. They CANNOT use that song for anything or anyone else. It’s HIS. There is no reason to keep it if he’s deleted. There’s no reason to keep it if he was going to be an NPC (which I don’t believe will happen regardless; he’s going to be in the game or not at all). They’ve canceled events I think for their own safety and safety of any cosplayers more than anything, so I’m not sure how much that aspect factors into all this. Still, it leans more in the direction of positive than negative. If they truly were going to just move on wouldn’t they prove it by showing up with only the 5 LIs? Hm.

And really, she couldn't disagree.

Yes, perhaps brushing an alpaca meant a lot of loose fur, flying dust, itchy dirt, and getting spit on once in a while, but...

Being useful made her happy, and learning to work with animals gave her more satisfaction than she ever would've imagined.

Aubrey>:(

mizuena I drew for like 5 months ago for dtiys from brthn

describing this as generalized transphobia flattens out the differences in how variously trans people are variously discriminated against. framing this as transmisogyny correctly focuses our attention on the ways in which discrimination which uniquely targets transfems is weaponized. there will no doubt be downstream effects felt by any number of transmisogyny exempt people, and they will rightly feel upset about the injustices they will experience. i do not want those things to happen, but they will and it will be bad and wrong when they do. but the first people targeted will be those least able to exempt ourselves from transmisogyny, those named explicitly in the majority opinion.

you'll pardon me for not sparing much consideration for future injustices when my sisters and siblings are already suffering, already being cast out and labeled as dangerous, things whose inclusion is a bourgeois luxury reserved only for when we have the time to weigh the complications and the nuance.