#enable them to keep attacking its not a hey they are already sick! stay away! situation

[haewangsong]

About this whole situation

i feel like the least you can do

is to just... not say you're going to keep enjoying the game.

Enjoy the game, no one can hold you accountable for that, but the moment you're posting on social media about the fact you're going to just ignore everything and support or say that project moon did their best you're just harming the artist they unfairly fired. I know it's hard. I know how devastating it is but at least,

the best thing you can do if you cannot bring yourself to stop playing- is to stay silent.

Also just for some context: (it gets kind of long but long story short. PJ Moon did not make this choice to protect the artist, but they did it because it is the easiest thing.)

Korean women that are angry are angry because this has happened before- in 2016, a VA that wore a t-shirt that was associated with feminism went under attack to the same group of DC incels claiming she's a feminist and should be fired for that.

What the company did- was to fire her, creating a whole whirlpool of situation that got other women targeted and fired. I'm pretty sure the VA here in question got blacklisted from the gaming company.

There are sources revealing that from 2016 to 2020, over 14 women got fired because of similar accusation, and I'm not even sure it counts freelancers that were just silently put off to work.

The National Human Rights Commission of Korea, for fucks sake, has made a testament on 2020 in how the censorship on feminism happening in the gaming industry is a hate crime.

So what Project Moon did here was, it was to do the easiest and most inhumane choice possible, which was to fire a female artist over a similar controversy, bringing the nightmare-ish situation that happened in 2016 back all over again. In 2023. That's why people are disappointed. That's why Korean women feel threatened by this situation. Saying that this was all to protect Vellmori is an insult to her, and to the other female workers who wrongly loose their jobs over situations like these.

The hilarious thing over this whole situation? Every single company that has fired their workers like that has fumbled over themselves! The company and the game that fired the VA got ultimately labeled as a feminist game and lost its male customers too- because they had to keep firing people the moment incels didn't like them, until they couldn't. So incels are saying the game went down because of feminism. Another game? The representative is on fire because to no one's (except for the incels) surprise they fired all of the workers in the project because the game wasn't making any money anymore- making these fired workers reveal the fact that they've been mistreated, overworked, and abused over years. That is two example of many! But what about the games that did the extremely brave and difficult decision to just ignore the incels and go on with their game?

They're fine. They're okay. They had their lows just when the incels attacked, but Korean chauvinist pigs are just so childish that either they decide that it isn't fun to dox people anymore, or comfort themselves saying that oh well, they aren't that feminist after all or, well it's too fun so I don't care it's feminist! This are the pigs PJ Moon cave in. There are games that are boring as hell from smaller companies that survived and are still surviving because their customers are loyal, because the customers know that at least they won't fire their workers over stupid reasonings, the bare minimum!

So just- stop saying you're going to support the game- at least please don't for a while. I can't stop you from playing, but this is something PJ Moon has to take on themselves or this will create the same nightmare-ish situation that happened in 2016 all over again. Don't enable them. Stop giving them the message this is okay. Stop saying it was to support Vellmori, because ruining a young artist's career by telling her she's fired in a phone call after 11pm is not protection. It will never be.

#project moon #limbus company #tw misogyny #tw sexism #workers rights #gaming #please please i know that its really shitty! but understand that i just have to tell you guys to stop saying support out loud because its #a threatening situation for not only me but also other women in korea #tw swearing #project moon just did a really lazy and easy but shitty thing #that could easily cost lives of so many other people #sure incels can bring profit but that doesnt mean that games that dont have profit arent profitable #principally bc limbus had a fanbase of 60 women to 40 men and has a huge following overseas #they basically showed their company direction and thats not excusable #the reason why men in korea are able to do all the horrible and life threatening crimes is because the country and decisions like these #enable them to keep attacking its not a hey they are already sick! stay away! situation

[thealpacalypse-archive]

my identity is not a slur - a goodbye post

some of you might have noticed that I haven’t been here in the last few days. i honestly couldn’t, and I don’t really want to anymore. I wanted to leave before because this place had gotten really bad for my mental health, but then you know, druck happened and i had to obsess somewhere, and even though it was a struggle to make the fandom safe for me, I still felt like I eventually achieved that - and then it turned out that I didn’t, and that really hurt.

i had surrounded myself with a few selected blogs i trusted, i was participating in conversations about truly blessed headcanons and AUs, I felt safe and welcomed - and then I saw a post about ‘the q slur’ from those people I had come to trust and whole opinions I valued and just. wow. that hurt. it triggered some really shitty stuff for me and made me unable to come to tumblr, because what had felt safe and welcoming before, suddenly didn’t feel that way. 

and let me just say, i’m not here to attack the person who posted this, or the people who reblogged it. I absolutely believe you that you have valid reasons to not want to see this word, and the reason i’m not telling you directly or @ ing you is because this is not about you, and not against you. 

but the thing is this: I am so hurt by it. and that’s a valid feeling, because hey, that’s my identity, and so see it censored and called a slur is fucking upsetting. It’s not like I picked this label to harm anyone. I picked this label because I’ve been afraid and lonely, and I felt broken for so long, and then i found this word and everything fell into place. i’m from a country where this was never a slur, where this is used to describe not only people, but communities and places and movements and cinema and fields of study and everything that connects me to people like me. when I learned that elsewhere, this is a reclaimed word that others in the past have fought for, I rejoiced because their power, their fight had given me a word I was so grateful for. people used this word to make a change in politics, people used this word to make our voices heard in academia, people proudly yelled this word at pride events to claim their place in this world, and fuck, that makes me feel so connected to myself, my community and its history. there are so many words in this community that we’ve reclaimed - most of the words we used have this origin. And yet the word I use is the only one that gets policed over and over again, its history of reclaiming erased, its inclusiveness denied. People call themselves dykes and fags with pride, and they should!! And it’s good and amazing and inspiring! But I don’t get the same right, and why?

I do not want to hurt people who’ve been hurt by that word. These people and I, I think we’re on the same side - I hope we are. But I don’t understand why I should have to get hurt in the process? Like. “Lesbian” and “dyke” are both words that have been used against me in the past - used by straight people to hurt me, make me feel inferior, make me feel dirty and sinful and worthless. Coming from straight people, these words often still make me feel sick. But as a self identifier, I know how important these words are, and even though reading them still might trigger a negative response in me, I do not have the right to tell people not to use those, and I don’t want to. I have two options there: either i just block everyone who uses that word - but that doesn’t seem right, because those are the valued voices of many, many wlw that I don’t want to silence and whose experiences I want to learn from. Or I confront my own discomfort with those words, relearn their meanings as something others thrive from, as something they took the pain out of and wear with pride now, and I can shut up and listen to their experiences. Which I do, and yes it’s not easy because I have to confront myself with shit that has harmed me, but it’s worth it. 

With my identity, people do not show the same courtesy. I’m not asking you to not be harmed by it. I’m just asking not to be harassed or made feel dirty and wrong for the way I identify. If you can’t deal with that word, blacklist it and enable “don’t show why the post was blocked”. There, you never have to see that word again. If you want to learn though why and how people have reclaimed this word, if you want the dreadful feeling you associate with it to go away, then listen and learn to those who have reclaimed it, and those who use it. 

“Reclaiming” does not mean that this word can never hurt anyone again. “Reclaiming” means that, within a community, these words connect us and make us strong, so that when we get attacked by them from the outside, we already stand together in power, while the word has lost some of its bite because it’s ours now. 

Now here I am, writing this whole post about my identity, too afraid to use the word that describes me, and that hurts. And I’m unwilling to do that, and right now, it’s impossible for me to imagine that people here could be willing to learn to accept my identity. so i go. which is more a defeat than anything else, because it feels like now, the straight people have won, and the gatekeepers have won, and the terfs and exclusionists and everyone who keeps on pushing the idea that the way i’ve identified for eight years of my life, is a poison to my community. 

that straights and cis tell me that i’m wrong and sinful and dirty, I expect that. that it’s coming from my own people, my own community, I can’t take that, not with everything else going on. So I’m out of here, this time for good. I will not delete my account right away, and for those of you who want to stay in touch, please reach out right away so we can find a way to keep talking. and to the others: I never wanted to hurt you, and I hope you never wanted to hurt me either. I thank you all for the good conversations, the creative outbursts, the friendships i built here. It was a wild ride. Goodbye everyone.

#my posts #long post #homophobia #queerphobia