That Shit Hurted

wei wuxian and jin ling: *exist*

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Why Publicly Sharing Paid and Datamined Content is Wrong

**reblogs are greatly appreciated!!

It’s no secret that the internationally, the Twisted Wonderland fandom has huge problems with illegally sharing content, such as scanning the recently released Magical Archive. In a way, it’s understandable. Not everyone has the means to pay for content, especially when their in a foreign country. However, it does not excuse sharing scans publicly. 

You can brush off greatly affecting the companies, couple hundred people not buying Disney’s and Aniplex’s products won’t make them bankrupt and sharing datamined groovy CGs won’t ruin gameplay. What you should be really worried about how sharing paid content will affect us, the international fandom. 

In general, sharing scans and datamined content puts the international fandom in a bad light. If Aniplex decides that the international fandom is too troublesome, they will region lock the game. There will be no more Twisted Wonderland for us to enjoy.

First and foremost, data mining and sharing paid content for free is illegal! You could get into legal trouble if Yana/Aniplex decides to do something! Being in another country does not protect you from the law. Trust me, the clout you will get for showing off a datamined groovy isn’t worth the risk. 

And in general, sharing scans and datamined content shoves the international fandom into a bad light. If Aniplex decides that the international fandom is too troublesome, they will region lock the game. There will be no more Twisted Wonderland for us to enjoy. 

What You Should Do

Privately share scans and datamined content. 

You don’t need to make a long public post showing off scans from the magical archive, just share over dms where you won’t hurt the fandom! Make a post saying you’re willing dm art references from Magical Archive. Or better yet, put the scans in a google drive and share the link to your artist friends.

Do not interact with illegal content!

Most of the time, OP is after reblogs and likes, but always give them the benefit of the doubt. If you see anyone sharing paid or datamined content, politely ask them to take it down. If that doesn’t work, report them. 

The whole reason why I’m making this post is because after I suggested to a tumblr user (who I will not name) to take down illegal magical archive, they blocked me. I don’t think they are a bad person, everybody makes mistakes. All I want from them is to make an effort to understand all the points i made above.

Once again, reblogs are greatly appreciated!!

he’s a little confused but he’s got the spirit

angsty bonus:

after a long and heartfelt hug he and Iroh had The Talk™ gay edition

Calm down, It's Out of Touch Thursday!!

And happy new year!!

…is this bird Da-ge?

ok but if bruce wayne somehow came upon zuko fresh out of banishment he would lose his mind.

black hair? check. bad parent(s)? check. trauma? double check.

bruce: how’d you get your scar?

zuko: my dad got mad at me for saying that killing people is wrong so he lit my face on fire and banished me.

bruce, vibrating with excitement, already pulling adoption papers from his utilility: that’s terrible. how do you feel about capes.

People used to comment on web comics.

People used to comment on fanfiction.

People used to comment on fanart.

People used to comment on OCs.

I hate "content" culture.

I hate "consuming content" and scrolling immediately to the next thing.

People used to be excited about the art that other people created.

People used to want to share that excitement with creators.

I hate this future.

My friend from Lebanon wrote up a really good thread on Twitter I thought I should share here, just to clear up some of the inaccuracies floating around:

And here are some of the links they provided:

https://www.supportlrc.app/

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Medical Relief to Lebanon organized by Majd Faraj

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http://www.caritas.org.lb/get_involved/donate

Caritas Lebanon

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https://beitelbaraka.net/donation/pay/

https://gogetfunding.com/beirut-emergency-relief/

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Beirut Emergency Relief

The Explosion in Beirut today feels surreal. I am still unable to fully comprehend what has happened. My neighbourhood is destroyed, my best

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I keep thinking about this moment. About how Jiang Cheng must’ve felt when Zidian - the weapon that had served him for so many years, the weapon he inherited after his mother - suddenly stopped listening to him. The moment when he no longer felt its power.

His expression here just breaks my heart. The way he looks at Zidian, trying to understand what happened, trying to process this emptiness that he suddenly feels.

Because back then, Jiang Cheng doesn’t know yet that others also have been affected. He can as well be the only one - what he does know though is this feeling. This lack of power, the sudden emptiness, he knows it. Because he’d experienced it before. He’d felt what is it like when your golden core is gone. And he’s never forgotten.

In that moment, in the midst of battle, he lost his spiritual power and his very first thought when he realizes that is simply: Again?

How often do you think this haunted his nightmares? This awful feeling of hopelessness, the fear of it repeating itself and rendering him useless? The very fact that he got a second chance was a miracle, something probably not supposed to happen. Maybe he already had wondered if he was living on borrowed time, because how could there not be a price?

There was, but he wasn’t the one to pay it. He just didn’t know that.

So right there, in that very moment he gets taken back to all those years ago, to the days when he lost everything and could only lay and look up at the ceiling, to a different time that yet is now so vivid in his mind - does he think that his fear has caught up with him at last?

And then he hears shouts along the battlefield - cultivator after cultivator stating that they cannot use their qi - and only then does he realize that although there is an emptiness, it is not as profound, not that bone-deep void that made him collapse in on himself.

It turns out right when they’re in the cave and medics state that everyone has lost their qi only temporarily - and of course their situation is still bad, because they are surrounded and stuck and the only people able to fight are Wei Wuxian, Lan Wangji, Wen Ning and a bunch of children - but Jiang Cheng is relieved. Because he’s been through worse.