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destiny-moonforge · 5 days
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Not to be a killjoy I know but saying super inappropriate things in crowded commons areas in a game marketed to children is a little. Cringe. Like if you're in an instance with friends who cares but talking about vibrators and masturbation in the ambrose commons? Have some decency.
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destiny-moonforge · 5 days
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If any of the wiz devs lurking on tumblr see this PLEAAAAASE get whoever you gotta get to put the Avalon outlaw bundle back on sale for a bit I NEED the gear so bad it’s the closest thing in the game to my design for my wizard I need it pleeeeeeaaaaasssseeeeeeeee
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I wanna be too far away You'll never see my damn face again I'll be in the right place again You know
devin and her father have a really great relationship you guys
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destiny-moonforge · 6 days
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on karamelle, why it sucks, and redeeming azteca's reputation.
I just got to Karamelle for the second time, and good lord. I hadn't forgotten how much I hated it, but it hit me like a wall of bricks. And I'm already preparing myself to marathon it and be fucking done questing here for at least a year.
I think it breaks down like this.
Baby's first workers rights movement/sugary-sweet surveillance state Listen. I know this is a game that doesn't allow for player characters to have much individual impact on the in-game narrative. I know we've had to do errands for cops. I know we work for a war criminal. I KNOW there are flaws in the system. But there's something about the way that Karamelle's set up that makes it all feel so. much. worse. And that's the fact that Karamelle has such a stellar reputation within the Spiral before this. The happiest place in the Spiral, the sweetest treats in the Spiral. Everyone seems to fucking love this place. Almost no one outside of those actually working there seem to understand how corrupt it is. And so the YW is talked down to at every turn, like this is their first exposure to a corrupt environment. And sure, maybe it is within, canon. YW gets isekai'd at a very young age and then made into a child soldier, maybe this is actually the first time in canon that they've been introduced to these concepts. But (and this may just be me) it feels really rude to the player -- who might actually have experience with these ideas -- to make them feel like a fucking idiot with the dialogue options. Karamelle's characters just feel rude.
Oh, so the Gobblers were a fatphobic, Roald Dahl type thing from the start. Cool cool cool. Any of you ever read Roald Dahl's book "The Twits"? It's a very unremarkable story all things considered, except for this bit.
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Aside from Roald Dahl's unavoidable history of antisemitism, does this remind you of anything? Honestly, this reminds me of the Gobbblers.
We first meet the Gobblers around level 10 in Wizard City -- creatures driven by consumption. And then we get to Empyrea and hear that the Alphoi -- skinny "civilized" creatures -- can become Gobblers if they eat too much or are unhealthy in their eating habits. Which makes one of our oldest running enemies a loop-around fatphobic thing, ESPECIALLY when we get to them in Karamelle, the home world of the Gobblers. Rosina, especially, just oozes fatphobia and diet culture. The literal vilification of being fat isn't even subtext, it's just text.
The Old One, The Cabal, and what to do when your escape from the world ends up shoving what you were escaping from right back in your face. When I was in sophomore year of college, fall of 2019, I had one of the worst mental health periods of my life. Antisemitism was fucking everywhere, I was always a moment away from a panic attack, and it felt like no one understood. While I'm lucky in the fact that I was able to get an official diagnosis for genetically inherited PTSD, alongside the reassurance that I wasn't fucking crazy, there was a period when I just needed to go home for a moment. So when I was going back to my dorm from the dining hall to make sure all my stuff was ready to go, I opened up tumblr and made a post on a long-gone RP sideblog I had for the Swedish Chef (y'know, from The Muppets? long story), and before I'd even gotten halfway across campus, I'd received threatening and violent messages from someone RPing as Borat, which only got worse when they realized they were talking to an actual Jewish person.
That escape from reality didn't even last five fucking minutes before the horrors I was trying to avoid found me.
Now, Wizard101 has always been a source of comfort for me. I made my account fourteen years ago, and I do not know what my life would look like if I hadn't done that. There are flaws with this game, yes, sure, but over the past five years (since I got a wiz compatible laptop) I've developed a bit of a reliance on it to get me through the horrors. No better form of escapism.
But no art form is free of the horrors.
And Wizard101 has the fucking Cabal and Old One.
The Cabal within the fiction of Wizard101 is a secret, nefarious organization pulling the strings on events across the Spiral, controlling history from the shadows. This term literally originates in antisemitic conspiracy theory, with the term 'cabal' originating from the term for Jewish mysticism, 'kabbalah'. And I promise you, you've heard plenty of applications of this conspiracy theory in real life too. It feeds into the idea that Jews (or 'global elite') control the government, the media, the banks.
And then, we get to the man in control of it all. The Old One. Whether or not this was intended, he's a walking, talking antisemitic caricature. The octopus as a symbol for the mythical Elders of Zion is a longstanding dogwhistle (see attached for a guide to this and many other visual dogwhistles). "Oh, he's based on H.P. Lovecraft-" So he's based on the works of a famous racist and antisemite, cool cool cool.
It's just exhausting, walking through a world that is so clearly modeled after Germany and other parts of eastern Europe, and finding antisemitism around every corner. And even more exhausting considering it's almost impossible to tell if they meant to do it. Antisemitism is so fucking ingrained in the world at this point that I don't actually know what they meant to do here, what they did maliciously or out of ignorance, or if any of it was put in with the purpose of turning it on its head. Over the past few years, it has become glaringly obvious that a lot of people don't realize when they're running across antisemitism, or even taking part in it. Including people I really thought would know better.
Side note. For those of you who know I see Dasein as Jewish, you may be wondering how I balance that out with the antisemitic nature of The Old One, since they share a physical form. I think of it like this. Dasein did not choose The Old One. He did not choose to resemble that, but he can attempt to reclaim it. Dasein's Judaism comes not from the resemblance he holds to the hatred that haunts us, but from the love that keeps us going. He questions authority and longstanding tradition, chooses to do what's right instead of what's expected, and is kind in the face of hatred. He literally makes himself, and a world, out of nothingness. Something out of Nothing. He's so Jewish you guys.
The Spiral's "Worst World Award" goes to... I know we all say "fuck Azteca" pretty often on this website, but I don't think it deserves to be deigned the worst world in Wiz. My main gripe with Azteca is how inaccessible it gets after Xibalba strikes -- the flashing lights aren't exactly photosensitive friendly. Which further lends frustration to my completionist nature, meaning I have to finish all quests, badges, and fishing before I finish the world (making it take forever to finish). Aside from that, there really isn't that much wrong with the world (and if you argue that it sucks because you can't save Azteca, I get it, but some tragedies are inescapable by their very nature). It's a problem of gameplay, versus a problem of plot in the case of Karamelle. And maybe its just because I'm a writer, but problems with plot feel much more egregious. I really do think Karamelle deserves more vitriol than it gets.
G-d, I can't wait to get to Lemuria.
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destiny-moonforge · 9 days
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speeding thru arc 4 with ceci and got her to 160 already, so she gets her official Final Stitch until some new cosmetic comes out and i change something which also means she gets a proper ref
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destiny-moonforge · 9 days
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have you ever seen one of your tumblr posts on another social media?
yes / no
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destiny-moonforge · 14 days
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New arc, new Ophelia design!
What happened to her arm, you may ask? She amputated it herself so she could design her own robotic prosthesis. There was nothing wrong with the arm, she just got bored.
Ophelia is what happens when you give the kids who poured salt on snails just to see what would happen magic and a genius level IQ. By arc 3 she’ll have ship of theseused herself into a cyborg, mark my words
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destiny-moonforge · 16 days
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day 28 - she shouldve been making animation memes
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destiny-moonforge · 16 days
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Guy who's only played wizard101: Getting a lot of wizard101 vibes from this
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destiny-moonforge · 20 days
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day 18 - nolan pride. i mean gay pride.
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destiny-moonforge · 24 days
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spoilers for *reads smudged notes on hand* arc 2 of wizard101
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my wizard is level 7 and i will never play the game now that my free membership is expired. however @wizzycore​‘s fire wizard just graduated and i enjoy that little meow meow and his wizzy friends
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destiny-moonforge · 24 days
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wizard101 animated cartoon show… I can dream
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destiny-moonforge · 27 days
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This is something I’ve been thinking about doing for awhile but only now have had the proper time to consider it more seriously, so I wanted to ask y’all:
I’m learning a stream like this will likely take a decent amount of time to plan, but I wanted to see if folks here may be interested in this to begin with
Also, I know this might be a bit of a left-field thing to ask/post about in our little tag, but I feel that, as someone who has some level of ‘influence’ within a well sized online community… I might as well see if I can use that presence to make a larger impact on a cause that urgently needs it.
Additionally, I want to make this absolutely clear: I will NOT, under any circumstances tolerate antisemitism on this blog or in our community, ever. But I will also always stand against genocide. Thank you.
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destiny-moonforge · 28 days
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less than 6 minutes!
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tomorrow!
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feb. 29th @ 9:00 PM EST!
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wizards!! ◉▿◉
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Its Leap Yeap!
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