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LemonadeMochi

@lemonademochi.bsky.social

Traditional Artist | Writer | Python Coder | Enjoyer of all lemons! I like dictionaries. Willing to blame Strawberry Shortcake for all my misfortunes.

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Prem Thakker ツ@premthakker.bsky.social · 2d ago

New: Macklemore says Robert Kraft — who owns Gillette Stadium, where Macklemore & Ed Sheeran were to perform later this month — called Sheeran. Kraft rallied other owners together behind an ultimatum for Sheeran: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you won't be allowed in our venues.

I'm not sure how to start this. So I'm going to speak from the heart and share the truth. Ed Sheeran and his team have made the decision to remove me from The Loop tour. But before I get into it, I want to say something that should be obvious. In this moment I think it matters. I am not a victim. Ed Sheeran is not a victim. Pink is not a victim. We have careers, money, opportunities, safety and audiences around the world. Whatever consequences any of us face for what we say, we get to go home to our families. The victims are the Palestinian people. The men, women and children who have been killed, starved, displaced and forced to live through unimaginable violence. More than 20,000 children have been killed in Gaza alone. People are being killed today, and people will be killed tomorrow. I want to make sure that as I tell this story, we don't lose sight of that. Ed is my friend. I've known him for 13 years. We've shared late nights, studio sessions and stages. He has this infectious magic about him that I've grown to love. I consider him a brother. And because of that, we've had some difficult conversations this past week. The type of talks rooted in love and respect for one another that still end in a place of fundamental disagreement. Nothing I'm writing here is out of spite or because I want to tear down his character. But as I told Ed multiple times on the phone, our friendship can't change my responsibility to tell the truth about what happened. Last Monday, in the middle of all the media attention surrounding Pink and what I said at MetLife, Ed told me that Robert Kraft called him. We were scheduled to play Gillette Stadium later this month, which is owned by the Kraft Group. Ed told me that Kraft said I would not be allowed to perform in his stadium. Ed also told me that Kraft had rallied some of the other stadium owners and collectively they gave him an ultimatum: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you will not be allowed to play in our venues. Ed was in …What I said at MetLife I have been saying on stages around the world for almost three years. So why is it an issue now? Because now I'm sharing a stage with one of the biggest artists in the world, in some of the biggest stadiums in America. At a certain level of exposure, "Free Palestine" becomes too much of a risk. If I kept doing the shows, saying Free Palestine, with Ed implicitly supporting it, the crowd getting loud and showing undeniable support for Palestinian liberation, what artist might speak out next? The stage becomes resistance. Maybe that's why this time it became so important to silence me. And one of the most effective ways to enforce that silence has been to weaponize the accusation of antisemitism. Antisemitism is real. And that is exactly why the word matters too much to be used as a shield against criticism of the Israeli state. When criticizing Israel, opposing Zionism or saying "Free Palestine" gets conflated with hatred of Jewish people, it doesn't protect Jewish people. It protects Israel from accountability. I hope this isn't the end of my relationship with Ed. Thirteen years of friendship doesn't disappear because of one painful disagreement. I hope we both continue listening, studying what is happening in Palestine and wrestling with what neutrality means in a moment like this. My door will always be open to continuing that conversation. When my brother Omar was doing the subtitles for the video I posted from MetLife, I thanked him. He told me there's a phrase in Arabic: لا شكر على واجب "La shukra ala wajeb." There is no thanks for a duty. That stayed with me. Because that's what this has become for me and millions of others around the world. A duty. Not something deserving of praise or gratitude. Not brave. Human. Who is winning the internet, who is getting canceled, who gets to play the stadium and who doesn't, all of it becomes so small when held against what we are actually witnessing in Gaza and the West Bank. An entire people be…
Sol ✨ Play my Steam games@solarprotag.bsky.social · 3w ago

Bread Makes the Heart Aflutter is at 800+ wishlists before release! I'm honestly surprised at how much it's gotten, so if you're one of the people who wishlisted it then thank you! Just one more week!! store.steampowered.com/app/4482690/...

Bread Makes the Heart Aflutter on Steam

A romantic, fantasy slice-of-life visual novel about Emile Mayer — the owner of A Slice of Comfort bakery in the Kingdom of Selias — when the Fae Kingdom's royal procession, and the interesting newcom...

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LemonadeMochi@lemonademochi.bsky.social · 3w ago

Did the V6 playtest alpha survey. The Alpha isn't good in so many ways and that makes me sad because I would like to like this next edition of Vampire the Masquerade. However...I am getting an intense amount of schadenfreude from V5 players going: "They're acting like our love of V5 doesn't matter!"

LemonadeMochi@lemonademochi.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Me: "Why do you guys think this NPC is hot? You don't even know what he looks like." Them: "Okay, tell us what he looks like." Me: "Spike Spiegel" Them: "SO HE IS HOT!" Me: "...You know what, yeah, you got a point. My mistake."

OTOJANG Games@otojang.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Yippppeeee! My game for #joseijam Starlight Road is out! It's my (first ever?!?! ) short yuri game about two cute idols ( ദ്ദി ˙ᗜ˙ ) There's romance....if you squint! :> ✨Warnings✨ - Hand Holding - No kiss scene( ;´ - `;) 🐰 Check it out here: 🐰 otojang.itch.io/starlight-road #vndev #yuri

Starlight Road by OTOJANG Games, Rosia, LemonadeMochi, Aria, aine, tajadita, siriusverre, Hel Raiser

Short game about two idols.

otojang.itch.io

nef | Our Light Affliction is OUT NOW!!!@nefferinthia.itch.io · 3mo ago

Our Light Affliction: Spider's Covenant has released for #OtomeJam2026! Get caught in the spider prince's web... 🕷️2 yandere love interests 🕷️4 endings ranging from bittersweet to simply bitter 🕷️35k words, 9 CGs and 9 original songs nefferinthia.itch.io/our-light-af... #otomedev #vndev

Our Light Affliction: Spider's Covenant by nefferinthia

Tangled in the spider prince's web, will you struggle or give in?

nefferinthia.itch.io

LemonadeMochi@lemonademochi.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I don't like fried eggs, (They gross me out, like most egg dishes tend to do) but I think they're really pretty and fun to cook, so sometimes I just randomly make them for breakfast and hand them to the unsuspecting.

LemonadeMochi@lemonademochi.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Studying barbarian designs to get ideas and realizing how many are half-nekkid or wearing furs. There are also a lot of spiked pauldrons which I think are very cool, but I don't know if my boy should have one of those.