I love Splatoon's lore, because on the surface the game is just "You're a kid who's also a squid/octopus, you have guns that shoot ink, and you really like fashion."

Then you learn the lore and it's like "This game is set in a post apocalypse after humanity went extinct due to the earth flooding, because we nuked Antarctica during our 5th World War. Also there was a devastating war between the Inklings and Octarians where both sides committed war crimes and the Octarians now live in extreme poverty."

patia por’co

Introducing: A new Critical Role Wiki

As you may be aware, I’ve been involved with the Critical Role wiki on Fandom since last summer. This therefore may seem surprising, but: several dedicated former editors of the Fandom wiki, myself included, have made a new, ad-free wiki at https://criticalrole.miraheze.org. It contains much of the same material of the Fandom wiki (as is legal per the CC-BY-SA license, with full attribution), with a number of improvements made over the past month.

You may consider this our vote of no confidence in Fandom as a platform, and in the administration of the Fandom-hosted wiki.

We are doing this because the administrators of the Fandom wiki have repeatedly ignored the wishes of the community, shutting even experienced editors out from nearly all decisions, resisting even minor changes, and ignoring simple requests and basic admin tasks for months on end. They are also knowingly using fan art without artist permission* despite the strong and repeated urging of at least six experienced editors to remove it.

A recent formalization of the path to administrator roles explicitly limits new admins to people the current administration - all of whom were appointed by the wiki founder, with no input from the community - chooses. The leadership position on the wiki is now held by the person who started edit wars, protected pages, and blocked users to support presumptive and ultimately false narratives in favor of a particular ship, and who has shut down or deleted any criticism of these actions as being “bad faith.” The wiki administration has openly condoned plagiarism as a valid means of updating pages, and have consistently refused to take feedback seriously.

We are also dissatisfied with Fandom as a hosting site. In January, Fandom attempted to require an extensive and poorly handled rebranding of the wiki to promote TLOVM on behalf of Amazon (which was, to the credit of both the administrators and the editorship, unanimously resisted). I and others have additionally made repeated complaints about the administration to Fandom, none of which we believe have been taken seriously.

Despite the efforts of a passionate community, I believe the current administration will forever oppose most efforts to change or improve the wiki, and that Fandom is only interested in getting eyes on ads. We intend to provide a better option on an ad-free, open-source platform. If you share any of these frustrations or concerns, I invite you to join us.

Finally, I would be remiss if I did not thank multiple collaborators, including Ellis (not on Tumblr) for their tireless efforts. This would not have been possible without them.

Social media handles for the wiki will be forthcoming over the next few weeks. In the meantime feel free to ask me any questions you might have.

*If you are a fan artist concerned about stolen art: it’s primarily from early in Campaign 1, and can as of this time be found under the category “Images lacking permission”. If you wish to ask that your art be removed from the wiki, I recommend responding to the tweet or similar in which you were asked permission. You can also go to the Fandom wiki discord, to to https://criticalrole.fandom.com/wiki/User:CRAdmin (requires login), or submit a DMCA notice to Fandom (does not require login).

a dirtwizard and his cat

fjordy

little sketches from this afternoon

If it gets what it wants, I don’t think much of Percy will be left.

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No Mercy Percy! I finished TLOVM without knowing anything about c1 and I just loved it, especially all the reveals about Percy and Orthax—so I brought back the textured brush! I love painting in this style, I should really do it more. This painting was such a blast! (Hehe)

i think imogen will look gorgeous in a balintawak 💜

some TLOVM doodles while watching CR last night…I love you Keyleth

Haters: “Percy’s helpless without his guns.”

Percy:

2 pretty best friends…

Twitter saw it first but some Half elf twins for ya ✨

2 pretty best friends…

[ID: A tweet from Matthew Mercer @.matthewmercer which reads: “The Animated Series is it’s own “adaptation” with its own canon, though we include as much of the OG canon as we can. :) However, the actual campaign/stream still remains and is the original, core canon.” /end ID]