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I’m willing to bet my left ball sack that Y/N only came cuz Rook is terrifying
october writing prompt #12 - lovely
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character: vil schoenheit, twisted wonderland
contains: yandere themes, reader referred to in second person pov, gender neutral reader
Oh, how absolutely lovely you were.
Catching Vil's attention was no easy feat, of course, but you had managed it. And yet... it seemed you were oblivious.
That made you all the more refreshing, but truly... He wished that you would just catch on already.
If it was anyone else, Vil would've lost interest already - but you weren't anyone else.
You were his darling.
Messy and undisciplined, sure, but he could fix that. Besides... if you didn't realize even his advances, then he was sure that no one else would be able to steal you away from him. His clueless little darling, weren't you?
As busy as you were running around NRC's campus, and taking care of that cat monster you ever so graciously took in, he was sure no one else would be able to get close enough to you to try, anyways. He was special - the only one you made time for with your hectic schedule, even if it took a bit of pushing.
He was sure that you weren't taking as many breaks as you should anyways - getting Rook and Epel to coerce you into coming over was surely the right move to both check up on you and force you to relax while getting closer to you.
He'd worm his way into your heart, slowly but surely.
It would be in poor taste to rush you, his love, and it wasn't like there was anyone at NRC that could compete with him. There was no way you would pick anyone above him.
He couldn't wait to see what face you'd make once you realized he had been pursuing you this entire time.
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This is the super bowl ad people are mad about?
some people are mad at steven for a moral issue, tbf. regardless of your thoughts on watcher’s streaming service he did still say he has racist and homophobic friends. he still goes to a homophobic church.
I absolutely recognise that you must have been recently introduced to The Pod Clip that the twitter teens who hate him preserved to break out whenever it's a fresh moment to rally hate against him, but I would advise anyone just receiving this clip from August 2020 being passed around with the angle that Watcher tried to hide this. I and many others were there and just know that I have a zero tolerance standard for people who show no remorse or growth when they uplift racists and bigots.
Mine and other fans who were startled by the statement hoped publicly that it would be an opportunity to clear the air for Watcher because the current political climate was just finally examining anti-blackness in everyone's biases and as someone who is mixed-African growing up in an Asian household, I know that anti blackness is and has been a normalised mindset in the Asian community.
But the thing is, months before this, Steven platformed Tammy and her colleagues to discuss how all of us can work together to stop Asian hate and one of the conversations I highlighte back then was how very clear Tammy was that allyship from the Asian community to the African-American community was tantamount to moving forward. That the us vs them rhetoric has and continues to be harmful for both parties. Ryan and Steven were very involved in this discussion and agreed wholeheartedly.
Having said that, the narrative around the podcast ep never had a chance to be discussed rationally. It really ended up skewed because Steven's response to the backlash from that clip was this
I hope that's legible to you. Many people who felt uneasy about what he said felt a lot better and his intention to say something at the top of the next episode would once again, unfortunately, get derailed because Twitter users (some who are particularly loud about loving and supporting Watcher yet constantly join in on the throng of bullying as soon as the tide turns) were adamant that they needed Watcher to post the clip and Steven's apology publicly on their youtube front page and on the main socials, to literally advertise it when the reality is that not many people were watching/listening to the podcast. For what reason would it be intelligent or good business practice to broadcast this hurtful moment so that more people could get hurt by it?
Watcher's response amid the harassment was to release a full podcast episode where they all discussed what they would do going forward to show that they are allies, not just by not being racist or homophobic but by being anti-these things. They showed that they cared about their impact. It was emotional and devastating to watch and by that time, we knew the pod was likely going to wind down. 2020 was already a miserable time and it was made worse because no matter what Steven or Watcher said at the time, the "stans" on Twitter wanted the man fired, they posted memes saying the world would be better if Steven Lim didn't exist, they wanted him shamed by his staff, and for Ryan and Shane to publicly disavow him. Many of these so-called devoted fans raided the server to yell about how Steven's alleged homophobia hurts them, most of them were white and pointedly talking over people of colour telling them "it's not your apology to accept!". It was a blood bath.
And I see waaaay too many of the same faces utilizing this completely neutral move--that of COURSE could have been executed better--to terrorize Steven, to make petitions to get him fired, commenting on his wedding photo telling him that Tammy should leave him, posting those same damn disgusting memes because you see, a whole bunch of people forgot how disgusting and evil this vendetta was to the point where even watcher's socials started to FOLLOW some of these genuinely mean-spirited individuals. They didn't give a shit about a movement or activism.
What kills me--what absolutely THROWS me--is that these same people expect to be able to return to interacting with the staff, attending live shows, buying merch and sending fan mail as soon as the hate tide winds down. All these people so concerned about a statement referencing faceless hypothetical racists and homophobes that Steven never named nor attributed any context for--as he was never given the chance--are so quick to dehumanize and caricaturize real human beings to their faces and they think this is a normal and acceptable behaviour.
You'll have to excuse me, as an older fan who has seen my fair share of normalised homophobia and racism in these communities, if I disagree.
HEHEHEHE I BEAT IT WITHOUT A GUIDE IM SO PROUD OF MYSELF AND MY HORRIBLE MEMORY THAT IM GONNA GET HUMAN EQUIVALENT OF CAT ZOOMIES YIPPIE!!!
(Also silly screenshot of a glitch I ran into that made only half of two block load in lol)
