Last post im making about this. this shit is tiring to see "aventurine isn't a real romani person, we dont know for sure if thats what hoyoverse intended! how could they have known that a well known slur is actually a slur? this is fiction, dont get upset by fiction. he ain't real a real person anyways, so what hoyo is doing doesn't hurt anyone. touch grass" yes, its a fictional story in hsr, and yes aventurine isn't a real person - no ones saying he is real or is actually romani (ive seen some claim that 2nd one but thats probs just their own headcanons, its not smth ive seen more then like 2 people admit to believing). but he is Clearly a Stand-in for such peoples. please actually read for once in your lives, and don't cherry pick/skim: the word itself Isn't fictional, the name of his planet/people is a literal irl slur against romani people, easy to find from a quick google search. and the genoside aventurine's people face is similar to the ones the romani went through. even if he "wasn't intended" to be a "1 to 1" rep for romani, you CAN'T deny that hoyo knew what they were doing. no way they didnt know the name they used as a slur when trying to find words for their oppressed/enslaved race with stuff like that. that info ain't hidden or some sort of new thing - its been going on and being recorded for a VERY long time. and even IF they weren't aware of that words' negative origins, they should still be held accountable. their an extremely rich company, and thus have all sorts of resources - we know they have internet access, not like any of the writers couldn't have fact checked. they just didn't want to, because they don't care. hoyoverse ain't gonna fuck you/praise you for defending them, companys don't care about or understand fandom/their customers. aventurine's story was written well, and hell - i even almost cried at some parts and had a lot of fun, but the usage of the slur and making it the most prominent word in that story arc/the most important part of avenrturines life even now that he's free (i.e.: sparkle using the slur at him casually without repercussions while she knew his past), was not good and isn't justifiable. y'all send death threats and drive random people off of the platform for minor stuff when they are just young and aspiring creators & thus of course make mistakes when making their own stories and accidentally making them parallel closely to irl history, but y'all are willing to excuse a well established company (who have a history of white-ifying poc cultures for "the aesthetic" and "good banner sales" with nations and characters and have publicly admitted it without shame), with many writers/developers who are full grown adults when they do the exact same thing - or even worse - with evidence to back up that they arent innocent uwu babies who "just didn't know any better"? give me a fucking break.
"they wouldn't make it 100% romani based cuz they are worried about getting info wrong" if they actually cared about that, they wouldn't have chosen a romani slur, or just any slur, as the primary name of his people/planet. "cherry picking" isn't an excuse. sumeru was nearly completely whiteified despite being based on poc cultures, with the only poc npcs being 1 blacksmith, all erimite enemies you have to KIll for missions, the story quest, and white character level up materals. they also only have 2 characters whos skintones aren't quarts, and one isn't even out yet/is quite late to the sumeru story as a whole. hell, they even very shamelessly lighten the skin of their dark characters in official art, even when theres no excusable "light source" to pin blame on. theres a reason why people are upset. it was something many poc fans picked up on rather fast as soon as that word showed up on screen. i know that 98% of the fanbase is white, probably all the people who will ever see this post are some sort of white (i know for a fact the only people ive seen make posts on this topic trying to defense the slur's usage in universe admited to be white at the top of their rants. legit a "im white, but-" nonstop.) but that doesn't mean anything if the majority is shortsighted and shitty. majoriy isn't always right. just cuz your white, thats no excuse to be ignorant and refuse to take 5 seconds to google search something in order to understand the context behind such social outcry. people who are defending shit like this make me shamed to be white (well, many things do that - but not the point here).
i know for a fact hoyoverse will never change this, its making them money and giving them attention - so why would they ?(any publicity is seen as "good" publicity by many businesses), and will probs keep doing stuff like this from other cultures. something i came to terms with, but just because ive accepted that reality - that doesn't mean im gonna be happy about it, or praise it like some supremacist dipshits are doing (luckily their few, but they still exist and that's an issue). im not gonna shame anyone who likes hoyo's games, as i myself am a fan of hsr and used to be super huge into genshin, but you shouldn't defend a money hungry corporation who will disregard you at every turn with no remorse.
we could go back to telegraphs instead of social media. send your mutuals unspeakable strings of morse code at 4:30am
Today is october 7th officially marking 365 days, 1 year, of the most well recorded genocide in history; of an occupation of a people which has been ongoing for 76 years. An entire year of constant israeli bombardment. Hundreds of thousands killed and missing. All the while, the people with the most power to stop the genocide continue to support and defend the politicians carrying out the slaughter.
Yet, it is also a year since the Palestinian resistance definitively proved to the world that israel is not only not the all-knowing state entity many believed nor that they were invincible or undefeatable. Over the course of the year, the resistance and its allies in Lebanon and Yemen have handed out defeats to not just israel but the west lead by the united states as well proving that those institutions and militaries are not invincible.
In israel itself, tens of thousands of bsuinesses are closing or have closed; its ports are under blockade; the settlers are fighting amongst themselves or leaving; it is a settler colony beginning to buckle under the simultaneousforces of its internal contradictions and of the Palestinian resistance. No doubt the struggle for liberation and against settler colonialism will continue until all the contradictions are resolved just as it were it rhodesia and south africa.
May we see a free Palestine in our lifetimes.
Vigilant Yaksha (Coloured one of the Xiao from way back)
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You look tired, doc. Stay with me. Have a rest. _________
I wanted to write something on this piece to give it more context, but any text seemed out of place here.
So I just wrote -.. --- -. - / .-.. . .- …- . / -- . in morse code to express Ratio's thoughts. I think this way of communication fits his personality quite well… Idk…
Trump just said the US will take over Gaza and “level” it. He said the US will “own” it.
And forcibly remove the 1.8 million Palestinians who live there. And it will become the “Riviera of the Middle East.” It is not just illegal. It is immoral.
And dangerous. And evil. ،Difficult days are ahead. We need courage. And prayer. And good organizing.
Today is Rosa Parks’ birthday… we need to lean in to the rich tradition of civil disobedience, good trouble, and nonviolent direct action.
If you are still interested in supporting the Gaza cause, donate to my family here to support us in standing firm and foiling the immigration plans.
"Alright, time to see what this animated poetry movie is like-
Oh jesus christ"
nothing beats the intimacy of being silly together
An ex-colleague of mine was complaining to me the other day about the ai problem in her students' papers, and I told her, "Just make your students hand-write them in class. Easy." She looked at me like I was insane and tried to explain how that would never work, but I just said,"That's how we did it for a thousand years. The invention of word processors doesn't erase all that."
To me it seems obvious. Readings are done out of class, handwritten essays are done within it. No more ai papers.