#Argo's Choice: Visual Novel

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Hi!!! :)

So I uhhh... was bored about a week ago and wanted to play another visual novel... and so I looked at what other games Buff studios had... and ummm....

I started playing 7 days, which led me to Argo's choice (the prequel) and ummm... I just finished drawing a page with the guys in it :)

I havent finished either of them, but I have gotten the cannon endings of both! It's pretty good :D

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"7 Days: Decide your story". This game is too underrated.

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Ok, maybe I'm dumb and didn't notice it sooner, but we're getting Argo visual novel!!!!

Look at him!!!

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ATTENTION BUFF STUDIO GAMERS

My friend is hosting their first MAP ever on their channel, and it, of course, will be about Buff Studio visual novels.

7 Days? Yes. Underworld Office? Definitely? Argo’s Choice? You got it!

If you want to join, make sure you check out the link in the description!

Reblogs are greatly appreciated :)

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Shaping the World and Young Women.

Born atheist, but converted to Islam, G. Willow Wilson the author of Ms. Marvel spoke to students, and faculty about her comic book last Wednesday at Moraine Valley community college in which she spoke about her conversion, and why she chose to write about a Pakistani Muslim girl named Kamala Khan that has polymorphism. 

             Wilson is an atheist born but converted to Islam who was asked by Marvel writers to create a comic about a Muslim girl with polymorphism. Polymorphism is the power to transform and reshape the form of one's body. Being that Khan is Pakistani, shown as a hero is different because she is the only Muslim superhero in the marvel cinematic universe, so she is a different kind of superhero who shows different groups of people that they can to be heroes. 

                On Apr 10. at noon inside the theater of the F building, which moraine doesn’t host their book events there often, “At the fine and performing arts center, we seldom offer these types of book or author events. Those are most often curated by the library. This specific event, however, was a collaboration with the library and because Wilson is so well-known, we felt that the theater was a better venue to accommodate larger audiences,” says Tommy Hensel who is the managing director of the one and performing arts center.

 I asked him what are these events called and why they host them, “every year, the library picks one text and creates a year-long series of events called ‘One Book/One college.’ For this academic year, they picked the “ms. marvel” graphic novels by Willson. That choice was part of a collaboration with the fine and performing arts center and a program we have been running called ‘Mosaics: Muslim Voices in America.’ That program was funded by a grant from the Association of Performing Arts Professionals for the Building Bridges: Arts, Culture and Identity program. Moraine Valley, along with one consortium and three other individual organizations, received funding to build knowledge, and appreciation for arts and culture with roots in Muslim-majority societies. This grant program is supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, and the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art, and helps support mission-critical projects that demonstrate the power of the arts to strengthen communities and increase intercultural understanding across America. Moraine Valley’s specific project is titled Mosaics: Muslim Voices in America and our focus is to highlight the artistic and cultural diversity of Muslim artists living and working in the United States.”  Hensel says which is amazing because there were so many young Muslim students at the event that day, mostly women, who are most likely inspired by her writing and the storyline. 

One woman was a fan of the marvel comics, which was obvious because she wore her captain marvel shirt which is a new movie that just been released in March which finally got one billion in the box office. She is the first woman in the Marvel cinematic universe to have her own movie and to reach one billion ticket sales.

The event was located in the Dorothy Menker Theater. I and my friend Ana decided to sit in the front. Behind us was a class from Argo High School. There were at least 20 students apart from that class and about 40 people overall in the theater. To my right was an interpreter signing for a few deaf students, and to my left was a group of professors and equational the cameraman would jump on stage and snap photos. After waiting for ten minutes Wilson took the stage. I couldn’t fully tell what she had on, because she was behind the podium but I caught the sight of her hijab which was white and Hensel announced his thanks to everyone for being there and did an intro before he walked off stage to give Wilson the room. The screen above us had the book cover which I’ve noticed. Wilson’s family were atheists so she wasn’t raised in a religious household. She thought about converting to Islam because as a teen she was so invested in religion and reading a lot about it and when she was in college she was exposed to it as well, but since 9/11, it set her back from doing so. “Is this is? Are they right and I’m wrong?” She says. After graduating she moved to Egypt to teach English and she finally converted. Since then the audience seemed very interested in what she had to say. A group of young Muslim girls that go to moraine came to get a closer to listen. Everyone was now focused on her as she spoke lively about her new life.  “It was very much a matter of kind of living a double life for a time and not reviewing bits of me to the people I love the most and I’m feeling really guilty about it and guilty about feeling like some kind of betrayal by taking this radical departure from the life that is expected of me and I wrestled with it for a long time but coming to a place where I can talk about it with the people I love is something that helped,” Wilson says as I looked around, and see people’s elbows were on their legs, they were pushed forward trying to listen closely to the story on how she went from atheist to Muslim. A few years after Marvel came to her to start the idea to write a comic about a Muslim superhero.

At the time she didn’t know what the Khan background is going to be what costume she was going to wear and what her powers she is going to have. 

“Your story is about belonging,” Sanaa Omna says her to help her get a sense of how Khan's storyline will go. “I was interested in making her power something more kinetic, something more visually interesting something that wasn’t necessarily pretty and sparkly but with more visceral that was kind of weird.” So that’s when she settled on polymorphism. She can become really big, really small and she can bend the laws of physics. 

She brings up how she relates to Khan and the other characters in her own way since she never grew up with being Muslim and also that she’s white and not brown. 

“I think all of us in our teenage years are trying to figure out who we are in relation to the people around us. Trying to cycle all your life and keep a major development away from your parents and people you grew up with and I think that almost feels like more and the way handled her superpowers from anything else not that I view as converting religion as getting superpowers if so that would be awesome. But that feeling was very well known to me I have the secret I don’t have to tell I don't know if it’s a bad thing, something I should share this with people, I don’t know how to feel about it. So that way she deals with her superpowers and who do she tells and who she not tell is me trying to be right in vitally context by Omni stories and by the things she felt were important to include and that was the matter of making myself quiet and not bring myself into the stories except as a sidekick you know there is a lot of me in Bruno, there is a lot of me in Zoey I felt like it was important to have those characters there.”

At the time when Marvel asked her write the comic Wilson got very shocked and it came out of nowhere. “I got a call from Omna who at that point was an editor from X men, authors, at marvel comics and I met with her briefly we had lunch with a mutual friend and kinda empathized with each other because at that point we were the only two Muslim women working The entire mainstream American superhero industry just us and we haven’t spoken since then so I was not expecting that call much less was I expecting her to say so we had this idea we want to create a new American Muslim superhero on her own ongoing book and we would like you to help develop his character,” Wilson says as one of the professors pulled out her phone and started recording, “that’s utter madness, I had at that point my relatively short career in comics accrued already a certain number of threats from some serious, some not for writing that hadn't nothing to with religion with politics with anything that can be considered remotely controversial and write two entirely unremarkable fill-in issues on superman and get threats,” she finishes. Wilson went on to speak about her challenges writing the story. 

“We almost romanticize the idea that if you are under a threat you must have said something really important and out there and it kinda makes you a more important figure than you were otherwise when in actual fact I said nothing very remarkable and it did not feel excited or dangerous in a fun way or all American to have to deal with this threat and it felt like I had done something wrong because I was the one who has a police escort which is not the most fun and I was the one who couldn't use the bathroom like a normal person or go into the building the normal way,” she spoke confidently.

         It was very interesting seeing her writing a character who is Muslim/Pakistani when she’s not. Someone can only know so much about someone’s culture. She decided to step away from ms. marvel this year to give young Muslim authors a chance to give Khan more of a story since she isn’t born into the culture or religion because being born into that and growing up with it is a whole different experience. She thought so as well. It’s amazing of her to do that since she has been with Khan for so long but her thinking about young Muslim readers and wanting more for those readers is a thoughtful thing to do.

              “We never thought this landscape would have changed so much artistically politically with this character to be embraced by so many people and that there will be this amazing dynamic and crap of young Muslim writers who will rise together and love this character and take her on as their own.”

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Best Rifle Scopes (2020 Reviews & Buying Guide): Hit The BullsEye

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With so many rifle scopes available, we can't in any way, shape or form remember the entirety of the best degrees for a rundown of only five. So here are a couple of noteworthy notices in no specific request:

Vortex Optics Diamondback

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Athlon Optics Argo

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Redfield Revolution

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Best WordPress eBook Themes TopNotch Themes | Templified

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Best WordPress eBook Themes TopNotch Themes

This is a collection of themes for selling high quality eBooks.  There are certain things you’ll need if you want to sell online, digitally downloadable products.  One of those things you’ll need is a great WordPress theme with the traits, details and qualities you need to sell those products efficiently and safely.

WordPress, paired with Easy Digital Downloads is a great idea because it’s so powerful and quickly adjusted.   Whatever kind of digital products you’re selling, one of these themes could be perfect.  eBooks, After Effects projects, MP3s, video files and more.  If you’re creating a recipe book, a novel, short stories, any sort of book.  Digital downloads are really popular nowadays, so maybe it’s time to get into the mix with a fantastic digital download WordPress theme.

Checkout

With this new WordPress theme called ‘Checkout’, along with the free plugin Easy Digital Downloads, you can make your very own digital products store to sell things like stock photography, audio files, MP3s, eBooks, videos, After Effects templates and more.  Pretty much anything in digital form.  Now, add in the Easy Digital Downloads Marketplace Bundle and you’ve got a powerful solution if you’ve ever wanted to create a true multi-vendor marketplace for WordPress.   (Though, to be fair, you don’t need to be selling digital stuff to use this theme.)  That’s because Checkout also offers up some gorgeous looking page templates that will work perfectly for a business or portfolio website.  You can have a ‘team’ page, pricing tables and more.

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Argo

At it’s heart, Argo is a magazine or newspaper theme, but it’s also specially made to serve as a great looking eBook sales page, since it’s compatible with Easy Digital Downloads.  DesignWall WP created Argo with a modern, trendy ‘Metro Style’ and it’s unbelievably simple to navigate and shop for all kinds of downloadable products.  Argo is a purly responsive theme, 100% GPL and it’s easy to customize and manage on the backend too.  Selling products is a breeze with Easy Digital Downloads.  Why might you want that in a magazine site, you ask?  Well, check out some of the biggest online magazines around, they do the same thing.  Smashing Magazine or Designmodo, both have shops to sell eBooks.  If you’re running an SEO blog, you may want to sell eBooks too.  The choice is yours, but Argo is a great solution if that’s how you choose to monetize your site.

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Zerif Pro

Zerif Pro could be a great choice for folks who want a simple, one page theme that allows you to sell digital downloads.  I don’t think I’d recommend it if you’ve got tons and tons of content that you want to sell, this isn’t for a stock photo company or a music label with a ton of products to sell.  But if you’re selling SEO services or software or a plugin or addon, maybe even for WordPress, it’s a solid choice.  Particularly great for selling eBooks.  Zerif Pro is professional in it’s layout.  This thing is all business.  I’ve shown a screencap of five different child themes above, each one a little different than the others, but you can always use the included Site Origin Page Builder to craft more unique layouts and designs if you’d like to.  Perfectly responsive, easily customized, this Zerif Pro theme is a fantastic solution for all kinds of online shops, particularly ones selling downloadable products.

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Shop Isle Pro

Offering you a highly customizable and clean layout with a built in support for WooCommerce compatibility, ShopIsle Pro is the right alternative for anyone who is looking to set up shop with a digital downloads marketplace.  ShopIsle Pro is assembled mainly for online shopping, that is why it integrates WooCommerce compatibility at its center so users can set up their store on their own webpage and present their products in an organized and professional manner.

Purchases are hassle-free and just a click away, the cursor hovers over a merchandise as an Add to Shopping Cart button slides in effortlessly. It’s a really cool effect.  Users can then monitor of the variety of digital downloads they have added to shopping cart by looking at the ‘shopping cart’ symbol found at the top-right hand side of their display.

Whether you are selling a eBooks or marketing a web series for horror buffs, ShopIsle Pro features a layout that is completely customizable to satisfy your preferences. The parallax scrolling makes your online shop multilayered and more satisfying to your visitors, and the totally responsive layout makes your web site fit perfectly on any device, computer or web-enabled apparatus, so whether your buyers use their telephones or their tablet computers, you can be sure your products are reachable and presentable.  For a shop selling digital downloads, that’s a really key feature to offer.

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Made

Made is a very attractive, minimalist WordPress theme that I think could make for a great site for selling eBooks.  While I don’t really think that this site would scale particularly well for a massive enterprise (you’re not going head to head with Amazon or Powell’s Books with this theme) I think it could be really solid if you have a small number of books that you’ve self published.  Perhaps you’re an author, novelist or poet who wants to upgrade the look and feel of your site, Made could be a great solution.  Just add Easy Digital Downloads or WooCommerce and you’ll be on the way to selling digitally downloadable products from your own site.  Made has a built in blog that’s really effective too, so you’ve always got that going for you.  All in all, Made is a really nice all purpose, minimal eCommerce theme.

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Composition

For a theme that loads so fast, Composition packs in a lot of features that you might expect in a much larger theme.  But GraphPaper Press generally doesn’t mess around with bloated code, so this Composition theme is a pretty good example of the type of WordPress portfolio themes that are currently leading the market.  Composition is mobile device friendly, with perfectly responsive design and your portfolio is going to look fantastic with masonry grid gallery designs for posts, photos and portfolios too.  You can integrate Composition with the Sell Media plugin to make your site into a digital downloads business.  For photographers who have been selling on iStockPhoto, ShutterStock or other stock photo and footage websites, it’s a pretty cool way to make some additional money and to have the freedom to do what you want, not what the owners of those other sites want.

Composition is simple to customize and personalize since you can move your posts, blogs and welcome messages around to the places you want them to be.  Composition features clean HTML5 markup, a theme customizer for personalizing your website, it’s translation ready, SEO optimized, completely widgetized, offers the choice of custom backgrounds, page templates.  GraphPaper Press is known for their fantastic support and the documentation for Composition is thorough and comprehensive.  If you need a great looking portfolio theme for WordPress, this is one you should really consider.

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Burst

Burst is a multi faceted WordPress template, that’s bursting with features, practically begging for you to explore just how powerful it is.  Burst is a premium WordPress template with a whole mess of demonstration site pre-made for your to check out, maybe even use.  Be sure to check out everything this theme has to offer, because it is really one of the best out there right now.  I think there’s something for everybody.  It’s smart.  It’s dazzling.  It’s lovely and talented.  This WooCommerce ready theme can even help you get an online store up and running, selling your products, whether they’re tangible or downloadable digital products.  The unique layout helps attract attention too.  It’s flexible in design and layout, which means you won’t get stuck in a rut if you want to alter the design of your home page or any other page for that matter.  Visual Compose sees to that.  You can also change up fonts, use parallax sections and more in this responsive premium WordPress theme.

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CoupShop

This is Coup Shop, an eCommerce theme that I believe could strike the right balance between form and function, letting you set up a shop selling digitally downloadable products like eBooks.  CoupShop was created by Themes Kingdom, it’s simple to look at, just as easy to use and the features are endless.  I love a plugin like WooCommerce or Easy Digital Downloads for establishing a great looking online shop and Themes Kingdom works perfectly with both of those plugins.  For promoting your products, you’ll want an SEO friendly theme, one that’s responsive too, which perfectly describes CoupShop.  Elegant and minimalist, sophisticated and user friendly, CoupShop has multiple layout options for making your products look the best they can look.  CoupShop also has a blog and portfolio, so you can create posts to help promote and sell your products too.  This theme really does have a lot going for it and it’s absolutely worth checking out.

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Booker

Booker is, kind of like it sounds like it might be, a web template that helps authors promote and sell books online.  If you’re marketing eBooks, you know there’s a ton of competition out there and it can be a big challenge to get the attention you deserve.  If you’ve put in all the hard work that it takes to create a book, you need to be able to market it to as wide an audience as possible.  That’s what Booker aims to do, helping you promote to your book, to allow for a simple, optimised purchase and download process.  There are overviews, samples, reviews and author biography options to help make your books look incredibly professional.  The Booker page builder can allow for any sort of layout for your pages and posts.  There are a lot of innovative and critical features with this theme from the responsive design to the flip book builder, iPad scroller, book review posts and plenty more.  It’s a massive amount of promotional tools in one very easy to use package.

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