mr. refreshing (ft. tiny yaku)

This is basically how it happened in the movie, right

Crazy how i’m not being kissed hard enough to forget everyone who has ever hurt me rn

do u guys ever have a tumblr famous mutual leave smth nice in ur tags and you feel like ur purpose in life has been fulfilled? like i was put on earth to bring whimsy and joy and it has been reciprocated and now i can slowly let the earth reclaim me while i smile at the rose-tinted clouds overhead while my final breaths are lost in the evening breeze? just me?

sending you another extension ask for your enjoyment sir for enrichment during rough times

i think that kenshi would be delighted that his touches and kisses elicit laughter and smiles in response. kenshi would be heartbroken if it were anything but, because he's dealt with all those unfortunate events in his life one after another. He's not much of a PDA guy but in private he's very satisfied to have his touches reciprocated in romantic embraces or even johnny swinging a leg over him when he's sleeping. every time johnny smiles, kenshi knows he does. kenshi's lips and teeth between johnny's shoulder and neck, johnny feeling tickled and a laugh growls from his chest and also when johnny attempts to nudge him away (no effort on his part) kenshi gets to feel johnny's wide, toothy smile against his own cheek. it's very close and relaxing, he could fall asleep. esp because kenny over here has never really had the full hug experience so when he realizes it's so warm and he feels coddled and safe aaaahh. but anyways!! johnny ruins the moment of romance to be snarky "hmmm if i didn't know any better, i'd think you loooooove my smile kendoll" and kenshi kicks back "and what are you going to do about it, cage" johnny flabbergasted! and kenshi finishes him off like "yeah. don't think i do not know you taunt me on purpose, loverboy" (a term he learns from watching lame movies with his bf)

(all those hcs together same anon 👍 enjoy)

Kenshi has never known what "good" physical contact is like. he has to keep himself safe in the Yakuza, and romantic relationships are likely out of the question entirely. physical affection is foreign to him. physical contact that doesn't make him flinch is just as foreign to him. and then he meets Johnny, and then he loses his eyes, and then he starts dating Johnny, and all of those things that he's never had become a very big part of his life.

Johnny is very physically affectionate, and it shows when they're cuddling in any sense. he always makes sure that he's touching Kenshi somehow so he's fully aware of what he's doing, and he's always kissing him or resting with his head on him somewhere. Johnny cannot hide his smile when he's with Kenshi, and he can feel it whenever they're kissing or cuddling or anything. Kenshi can feel its permanence when he holds his face, the smile lines beneath his thumbs and the warmth of his skin. there's little better than Johnny's infectious joy and love, and Kenshi just feels good. he feels happy.

Johnny is such a tease, but Kenshi can tease back. he is not one to use pet names too often, so if he does, it's a shock. calling Johnny "loverboy" might actually make him short-circuit, his smile turning shocked and his skin growing hot with an intense blush. he's caught by surprise, and he's clearly flustered by it. Kenshi can only laugh and kiss his cheek and tell himself he'll do it again soon.

sandbagger 19 but just the jack and hanny bits

Seems like love has been stored in the Kris the past couple of days. Love to see it.

COMMUNITY | “Investigative Journalism”

Some important stuff in regards to the harassment of developers came from Bungie today. They won a lawsuit against a guy who repeatedly harassed a community manager and his family (not fully confirmed in the official document, but people are fairly certain this is about A_dmg and his family). This is a twitter thread from the lawyer who went into some details about the situation. The court document is also available to read (featuring some of the horrific harassment tactics that were motivated by racism and also used racism as part of the harassment so be advised if you want to read).

This isn't just a win for the individual community manager and Bungie, but also has potential to set a bigger precedent in the future. It's basically the first time this has been done to this extent and some ruling in this case made it clear that companies can pursue this sort of legal action in the future if their employees are harassed and threatened. This is HUGE because the protection of employees in the gaming industry has been abysmal otherwise. This case will allow for the company to file a lawsuit on behalf of their employees in cases of harassment.

Before I add some of the more heinous stuff about this situation below, I want to say that the majority of reactions to this are positive. People are happy that this happened as it did and a lot of people are excited about potential big influence this will have in the future to combatting harassment of this type in the gaming industry.

Extra details and thoughts below (racism tw):

This started because the community manager highlighted a black content creator, Uhmayyze, who is himself a victim of harassment more often than not (usually of racist nature). He is most often harassed because he is unapologetically positive for which people have continuously sent him awful shit and comments. Because he enjoys the game and isn't jumping on the hate train. Just recently he commended Bungie for a ban wave and had hundreds of people hound him on twitter for his comment, including Gladd who started it by specifically replying to Uhmayyze and putting him on blast (warning for a lot of gross comments, including photoshopped screenshots of fake discord texts to make Uhmayyze look bigoted, nsfw images, r slur, suicide baiting and so on). This is important because the incident of real life harassment was fuelled over a community manager highlighting a content creator that is himself being harassed and despised online for the crime of... being positive. And you know, for being black. This situation isn't an isolated incident. The community, including other content creators, are absolutely horrible towards this one person that they feel, I guess, does not follow the content creator NPC questline of hating Bungie and Destiny.

So of course, at some point, someone from that crowd will feel confident and justified taking things further. How dare Bungie promote this person they hate. How dare they focus on a positive creator. They're clearly biased and don't want to listen to criticism, only to "toxic positivity" streamer. How dare a community manager highlight this creator. It's a personal slight to them, and "proof" that Bungie is bad and evil and "ignoring criticism." There's someone out there (and probably not the only one) that hates this creator and the game so much they were willing to harass and threaten a community manager and his family in real life.

The community manager was first harassed by phone with text messages and voice mails featuring racist bile, including apparently a voice mail telling him to "convince Bungie to create options in its game in which only persons of color would be killed." This is the worst part for me and super concerning in general, as well as showing the dedication of this person to racism, motivated by his hatred of a black creator (which also, by proxy, technically makes the streamer being harassed as well). Absolutely ghoulish behaviour.

This escalated to also harassing the CM's wife and resulted in doxing them; the harasser somehow found their address. Most of the reports on this will say that the asshole "sent them pizza" which doesn't truly capture how horrific the incident was. First, it's a random guy who has your address which is concerning enough given that he harasses you by phone already. Apparently the pizza was made to be "inedible" and the delivery was instructed to bang loudly on the door upon arrival to maximise discomfort. The order was also deliberately made to be paid on delivery to create as much pain for the victims as possible. The harasser also kept track of the delivery and then called the family again when it was done to tell them to "enjoy the pizza." The family immediately contacted Bungie who contacted the police and provided the family with protection. There's no telling how this would've escalated had they not been in the position to call Bungie and had Bungie not reacted to them asking for help. It's absolutely crucial here that Bungie is the type of a company willing to immediately assist in this situation.

Immediately following that, Bungie organised a long and expensive manhunt to identify the harasser and bring them court. That's where most of the expenses went; finding the culprit and protecting the employee and his family. This is the money Bungie earned back by this court decision because they could prove that the expenses were caused by a person harassing and threatening their employee.

This is a big win overall for the whole industry. It's Bungie setting a precedent on how a company should protect its employees. No matter what people think about Bungie or big corporations or whatever, this is how you can use a lot of money and power to make sure that your workers have rights to decency and safety. That's huge for the rights of workers and worker protections. I hope it becomes a standard and that any future harassment is prevented altogether or at least punished accordingly.

Naturally, the commentary on the news from a big part of the community is super positive. Unfortunately, there's also a part of the community that has a lot of really awful shit to say about this. The comments on twitter are littered with people who are using THIS specific moment to yell about Bungie being a greedy corporation, how the money they won should be used to "fix the servers" and "make more pvp maps" or how Bungie will greedily put this money "into Eververse" or "into Marathon." There's comments about how time was uselessly spent protecting an employee who should expect harassment anyway, instead of working on "fixing the game."

This is what I mean when I talk about how impossible it is in the current situation to have a meaningful discussion about any sort of criticism or feedback. There's thousands of comments from people who think that this specific instance shows how Bungie is greedy. This is what I mean when I say that none of these people actually understand what they're talking about. You can't make proper criticism when you can't separate game development with a company's legal effort to stop an escalating harassment campaign of an employee. The majority of gamers are simply not fit to offer any criticism or feedback. The idea that we all have something useful to say and that employees at Bungie are obliged to give us their time of the day is simply incorrect.

I genuinely 100% stand by the claim that the recent barrage of content creators promoting the idea that Bungie is "the greediest company in the world that's scamming players and increasing costs out of greed" as well as the idea that Bungie is "abandoning Destiny for Marathon, isn't working on the game anymore and is deliberately ruining it" is the reason for these comments existing. If a big streamer said that Bungie is getting too much money but also not doing anything "good" with it, then any money that Bungie receives (including compensation for expenses they took to protect an employee from active harm) is a result of greed. The nuance of any situation is lost; when you only learn the mantra of "company has money therefore company bad" you WILL end up causing harm for people and you will most definitely not be an advocate of workers rights. That's where we're at right now.

The dehumanisation of people who work at Bungie (and the harassment itself) is a consequence of this crap and other similar crap that's been thrown into the ether for the past year, disguised as "we're just offering feedback." People heard that Bungie is a "microtransaction hell" and that Bungie is only investing in Eververse and Marathon and they feel like this story reflects that; they feel like an employee being harassed is not deserving of proper condemnation and that this isn't important enough and that Bungie is a greedy corpo anyway so who cares about that. They do not understand how companies work, how games are made, the state of the industry as a whole (or the world as a whole), the treatment of employees or workers' rights, and you cannot meaningfully critique a company's business practices without understanding that. And they don't because they think that legal expenses used to protect victims, finding a culprit and bringing their ass to court is money that is being used for game development and that Bungie receiving this money should result in... new pvp maps or "fixed servers."

And there's even seemingly good commentary where people recognise how this is good, but they initiate the comment with "As much as I hate Bungie and Destiny and I think they're awful and greedy and destroying gaming as a whole..." : that's not the time and place. You don't have to excuse your support of a big win for potential new employee protection policies just because those policies are done by a company. Of course it is. Companies are the only ones capable of pursuing this sort of legal action. It's one good way a big company can put their power and money into a good place to actually help people and bring forth positive change. And like, you don't have to tell us how much you despise Bungie before you're "allowed" to admit that this is good news. Sometimes companies do good stuff. It's literally not that complicated.

I hope that this situation will help other employees demand the same protection, that other companies will follow suit and that this will also make potential other harassers rethink whether or not they will engage in this or similar type of behaviour. In the meantime, know that the community is largely positive about this, but that there are still absolutely detestable human beings who should feel ashamed of their reaction to this. They shouldn't feel welcome here. And there's still people doing this to the devs and I hope Bungie takes their asses to court too.

Not to be all "capitalism is a disease look how it ruined this children's book" but the knowledge that the special edition journal three was written with the express intent of like, parents helping their kids read the blacklight pages and creating a fun experience for kids only for the price of the books to end up being $100 US because the blacklight ink/glue/thing was expensive and disney publishing could only sink enough money into it to print a couple thousand (originally 5,000 which was later doubled to 10,000) is really getting to me and yeah there are a million other/more important things wrong with capitalism but like. A book that was written for children wound up being read by exactly zero children because there were only 10,000 printed and they cost a hundred bucks. And by the time any of those adults have kids old enough to even watch the dang show it's not going to be relevant and there's no guarantee that they'll like it and there's no guarantee that there will even be a legal way to watch it in the first place and it just-- sucks. The whole thing sucks.

SCOTTISH CROWLEY MY BELOVED

a good day for japrils indeed LOOK AT OUR CAPTAINS 🥹

A small extra dose of serotonin? Part 2 of tibyim as vines. I can’t believe we’re getting closer too the finale like can it never end please? 🥹

Hope this makes you feel better kat❤️

I mentioned before how my teacher talked about her concerns regarding the trans movement in front of the whole class. What followed was one boy saying she was spewing terf rhetoric. The rest of the class was completely silent. I went up to my teacher after class to tell her that she wasn't alone.

Here's the thing: in this particular class, we had been put into groups that we had to work with for the whole semester. I met up with my group a few days later and we ended up speaking about what had happened.

We were all in agreement with the teacher. All of us. Three men and three women. Every single one of us are in our early twenties. They talked about how the teacher was right to feel upset by trans women taking awards made for women. One of the women in our group misgendered a trans athlete and even though she was corrected by one of the men, even he said he didn't give a fuck what she called them (I got the vibe he just wanted to be polite). They made fun of the boy for what he had said to the teacher. Mocking him for using that language in real life. One of the men in our group said he had never heard the word "terf" before in his life (god, I wish that were me).

We literally spent a good like. 30 minutes just going back and forth about how the teacher was justified and how we all had wanted to say something during class but just bit our tongue.

It was SO freeing to be in a group where we all felt similarly. It can feel like we're in the minority, but I think it's just that people (especially straight people) just don't really care about this shit enough to really get into fights about it. We were all strangers before this class and will continue to be after it. People from different walks of life were all in agreement that the trans movement has gone too far. I could barely contain how excited I was to listen to them speak.

I just wanted to share that little tidbit of my life with you guys. Hopefully it makes you feel a little happier today.

🍙💍

a fun lil collab with the loveliest @jelliedoodles !

nctzens of all units please wax poetic in the tags about YOUR nct song. what's bringing you out of a month-long coma