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theres a certain youtuber that i like and every once in a while i see some bullshit drama starting video about them and i'll start it like "oh no did they do something really bad" and every time its always "idk they just strike me as really creepy" about extremely normal social anxiety/awkward behaviors.
anyway some of yall are extremely not okay about very minor "not fitting in" behavior and it's really really cruel. stop being fucking mean girls.
#like i cannot imagine being this person these videos are my absolute nightmare scenario#that i'd do something awkward and weird and slightly annoying#and 1000000000 people hate me forever for it#yall may or may not know which youtuber this is about but i dont want to name them because again: nightmare scenario#to be fair. there's an entirely DIFFERENT podcaster that this ALSO happens to#yall can probably guess that one
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me: you know some of the comments about sera and prince not being able to sexualize them anymore were weird, but im sure that'll be the end of bad faith criticisms
instagram comments: (yelling at me over domino's redesign because they think its "twink death")
me:

#txt#like. legitimately upset that he's not going to be feminine all the time#which is more surprising bc I went into the most detail explaining why they were changed#some of the other complaints are just... more confusing?#‘these don’t feel like the same characters’ because they’re not the same characters!#'he looks too human' he's supposed to look more human. he's lower ranked#‘why isn’t domino feminine anymore’ HES STILL FEMME PLEASE. HE DRESSES MASC SOMETIMES.#'its twink death' I DIDNT EVEN CHANGE HIS BODY TYPE#i was busy agonizing over domino's outfit because i was worried people wouldn't like the fit#turns out people didn't like that i gave him a mouth and nose which. ya know what fair. i also prefer mouthless designs#but some of the complaints feel like a fundamental inability to accept that an artist just wants to approach a character differently#domino's old design was back when he was supposed to be a cute goofball (AND A ONE OFF)#now i wanted to explore that contrast between domino's public presentation and around his friends#AND I EXPLAIN THAT ON INSTAGRAM BUT IT DOESNT MATTER BC HE HAS A NOSE. I GUESS? omg
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you always land on all fours
#umineko#umineko spoilers#ikuko hachijo#ikukos turn for a more serious piece... the old man has reigned for too long#now. INCREDIBLY LONG INCOHERENT TAGS RANT INCOMING FAIR WARNING HAS BEEN GIVEN:#it makes me so so sad how little discussion there is about specifically ikuko because imho she fits so neatly into a lot of the more#overarching Big Themes of the game in a way that i have not ever really seen people take notice of or point out in a meaningful way#like even just off of the top of my head. the significance of names and what it means to go by a name that's Not Yours (she has like 4+)#what it Means to be a witch how it represents a person's deepest insecurities and flaws & how its at its core a coping mechanism#the fact that it takes two to create a universe and trying to do it on your own anyways has the capacity to bring you intense misery#^ (how she's shown to be extremely dismissive of her own work and skill until a collaborator comes into her life and helps/encourages her)#and even the family/patriarchy/misogyny stuff that is so prevalent in the rest of the game comes back around to her. even her Only Friend#(young&stupid atp to be fair) remarks that shes Weird for being unmarried + the little she does say about her past invites the question of#to what extent her self-image stems from her family deeming her a freak outcast & effectively disowning her while celebrating her brothers#and i have lot in my mind about the witch thing specifically because i think her particular situation is very reflective of what umineko's#entire magic system and fantasy facet as a whole is meant to represent for an individual. from what little we see of (what is presumably)#her Real personality she is shown to be deeply self conscious in a way that is JARRINGLY diametrically opposed to both 1.) what we see in#featherine and 2.) what we see when she is acting as a Public Figure. because both of the above are very much purposeful acts that she is#putting on in order to obfuscate her true self. and i have always been very resolute & adamant about not totally equating her to featherine#not only because im very firmly in the camp of “featherine is the avatar of the Pen Name & tohya is part of her too” but also very much b/c#i feel very strongly that the stark differences between the two are very centrally relevant to her character & her psyche. as is the case#with most other witches featherine's personality traits serve to reveal/magnify a lot of ikukos inner workings by playing on her#insecurities/reversing them e.g. ikuko being very quick to downplay her skill/achievements becomes featherine being the COMPLETE opposite#to the point where she barely registers even other witches as living beings rather than just fun touys. BUT even though i do champion the#ikuko/featherine separation so hard i ALSO think it is purposefully relevant that at first glance the line between them seems so blurry#her introduction implying a more nebulous separation between her reality/fantasy counterpart is i think is an intentional move on her part#like it is part of the front she is putting up when acting as the Author. as opposed to Ikuko the person who we (in a way ironically very#similar to the way that the Real Battler is presumably only shown during the boatscene) only very briefly get to see take up screentime#which even on a meta level lines up very well with her apparent underlying nature as a like. extremely private largely reserved/shy person#hit tag limit but if by some miracle anyone is still reading this thank you... please see ikuko with the love she deserves... ok ily byeee
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Not to vague at anyone but I've been seeing a lot of posts responding to Veilguard criticism that entirely miss the point of those criticisms.
No, my frustration with Rook's characterization isn't that there are limitations to a video games PC. It's that there are scant options to RP in the RPG and fewer options to make choices beyond 'do you want to do this quest y/n?' in a game series which previously bent over backwards to explore the idea of how far is too far for the greater good.
No, my frustration with the way the world seems to have changed is not that the there is a change or even that those changes are underexplained. It's that those changes feel more like reboots that don't want to continue the narrative of the previous games. Sure, the differences in the Crows could be chocked up to a differences in the Houses, or the change in how Circles are described could be because how the Mage-Templar war ended but A) that's never actually addressed or even lamp shaded B) the worldstate removal means that the changes can't be a consequence for past actions because it happened regardless of whatever occurred in the last three games!
No, the number of times the word 'okay' is used doesn't inherently make the game poorly written. The change in the writing voice, anachronist word choices, and flattening of characters into marvel quip speak is just best quantified by word choice.
Perhaps most frustratingly, No, my trans ass isn't somehow scandalized by the mere existence of a nonbinary person. There is plenty of transphobic bs being flung at the game, at Taash, and at the devs but acting like being critical of how Taash is written is exclusively due to transphobia just isn't true and it does boil my blood just a little when I see a post claiming that everyone critical of Taash's character is antitrans.
#veilguard critical#not putting this in any of the main tags thank you very much#this is mostly an eyerolly rant#half of this stuff is just about other people's frustration posts#which is fair i've seen some dumbass takes#and if I really clicked with datv i'd be pretty defensive of it too#but goddamn guys maybe if someone has a different opinion than you it's because they have their own reasons#not because they're not as smart as you/ are transphobic/ don't have media literacy/ whatever the clapback of the day is
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Four swords adventure gang
This link has one of the bigger depatures from both sprite and game art, but i'll explain in the tags
Also no funny page but cooler pose so~
#tloz#princess zelda#link#four swords adventures#art#my art#redesign#loz redesigns round 2#this link and zelda went through so many changes i swear#but yeah when differentiating between the f-s and fsa sprites there arent many differences#zeldas sprite being slightly warmer and having a slightly different hairstyle#and losing the cape and just generally a bunch of details#meanwhile link just has slightly longer ears#so when debating what to do with link i decided this one would have a white tunic with a dark undershirt#being rgb additive and subtractive#i figured it made sense for it to fit this link as he had the longer adventure#so he has a more visible change from using the four sword more/for longer#whereas i just gave f-s link multicolored tinting to his tunic-vest#so f-s has the more traditional coloring but less traditional outfit#i figured it was a fair trade-off#and seeing as they have a longer/harder journey theyre also older than the f-s pair#which is also why i traded the bow in zeldas hair out for a crescent hair fork
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Penny stardewvalley makes me so sad because she's SO sensitive to, like, basically everything you tell her (telling her that you can't stand children while two children are nearby is a pretty lousy move but -1500 friendship?? being a jerk to other characters' faces typically loses you about 50 points, and if you choose the option labeled "creepy" and ask Leah for a kiss in her 2 heart event she physically hits you and kicks you out of her house but that's only -100 friendship…) and so if you want to befriend her it's a whole lot of lying and tiptoeing around her feelings (2 hearts: George was right but saying that makes her feel bad. 6 hearts: her food sucks but even if you try to be polite about it she feels like a failure; only a bald-faced lie pleases her. 8 hearts: saying you don't want to be tied down with a family loses you a little bit of friendship and she's only happy if you say you want kids) and I can't help but think she's a product of her environment. She lives in a trailer with only her mother, who gets drunk every night and has something of a temper. Penny's like a skittish rescue animal who won’t even come out from hiding under something unless you leave her lots of treats
#stardew valley#penny sdv#I didn't mention the SECOND opportunity to lose 1500 friendship with her#because I think if you go out of your way to date her and then tell her that you don't like her that way then you deserve it#but yeah she's super volatile#i was upset for a little bit after reading that one post saying the ‘right’ answer in the 2 heart event is ableist#like nooooo not my favorite farming game :(#except that in the context of several other things in the game it becomes clear that winning someone over#does not always mean doing the right thing#looking directly at how the easiest way to befriend shane and pam is by enabling their alcoholism#which is framed as a harmful thing even if the characters themselves like it#you have to lie to befriend other characters too like with sam dropping his egg#and you can lose a little friendship based on preferences like sebastian asking about what books you like#though to be fair if i saw someone who could potentially be cool and i found out that what they like was stuff im not into id also#lose interest a little#anyway those are all examples spread around on different characters#penny's got it all at once#me post
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very strongly feel that moist/adora is the only actual romantic relationship terry pratchett ever wrote.
#what if you were an inveterate liar in love with the first woman whose principles you couldn't compromise#the fact that her principles are nonsensical sort of strangely skewed and radical does not affect this at all.#......I'm reading making money which is surprisingly robust; I remember it being weaker back in the day;#but it's got the plotting of thud with 40s film patter and I like it very much.#there's a whole scene where moist introduces adora to hubert; the pale undersocialized economist who lives in the basement#and she comments essentially ''why are only men like this?''#and moist carefully doesn't point out that ''earns a tiny wage for golems'' ''puts up with vandalism and violence for golems''#''camps in the wilderness investigating a millennia-old song she can't hear for golems''#is different but not really that different. it's very romantic.#(......to be fair sam/sybil gets more robust as it goes on too; it's just thin as paper for a bit.#sybil spends a couple of books being pretty unhappy.#I do find this compelling though; it's just not as straightforward as liar4corkscrewy rebel smoker.)#discworld
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*looking at isat ss discord* my power of being silly got out of control
or how I tried understanding rpg maker basics by literally trying to do one (1) thing I really wanted to see ever since seeing Loop unused sprites lying on wiki months ago
the reason I mentioned isat ss discord was simply bc guys were the first people who saw me trying to draw close to pixel sprite face sprite for Loop to,,, do something at some point just to see how it works
and nope I'm not making this into anything, but I really like the fact that I managed to do this
(now with video post edited into this sentence!)
#the Start and the Epilogue is still planned as a visual novel in my head#I got myself rpg maker to make my thing later which is entirely not related to isat (I already showed my OCs involved in that)#isat shitpost#isat spoilers#isat#isat loop#isat siffrin#isat head housemaiden#that one post about voices difference in isat really helped as it is a bit confusing otherwise#I learn by taking apart stuff - that's how I learn#and how I analyze too#break down the character break down the game to the point of literal out-of-bounds make it all make sense in your head#as my head REALLY likes to complicate AND simplify things#basically this was both#also I have a newfound admiration of rpg games as planning ALL this is honestly so cool#like you need to have EXTREMELY clear picture of what you see otherwise it'll break and you won't be able to fix it properly#also Loop's sprite was flying for so long before I understood the problem and it was funny as hell tbh#also they're not in my Seafoam design bc I was... honestly a bit too tired to make new sprites#so I jsut changed soe details on the ones I already looked over and called it a day for now#I'm sleepy and this silly thing took me 3-4 hours and it's like 3 seconds long#but to be fair I was confused for first 2 hours#anyway shout out to isat ss discord and a happy Loop Wednesday (it's 1 am of 5th so it IS a Loop Wednesday)#not art#sillied too hard#I also accidentally softlocked myself by putting Loop nest to Head Housemaiden so they're a bit futher from her#two hats spoilers#I FORGOT that tag
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honestly, the most devastating news you could hear about in 2007 while playing roblox was learning that Scatman John passed away in 1999. like, finding that out was the roblox child's equivalent to 9/11.
#i remember discovering scatman through like. mario 64 and roblox bloopers. and also through a lot of old roblox levels#and like listening to his stuff and being like wow this guys fucking cool#only to find a remix of one of his songs that had the day he passed away on the still image of the video#i remember being like VERY saddened because i was like ''no.... no it was too soon...''#as if me as a 9 year old kid could've done anything to stop it#it is genuinely sad to see some of the people i liked as a kid having passed away via lung cancer#LIKE NOT TO BE REAL ON THIS FUCKING POST BUT. God man#like it was specifically actors i loved watching as a kid. and learning oh. the bastard cigarette did it again.#growing up i watched a lot of Lucille Ball shows and Jim Varney commercials#Jim Varney especially was another moment for me as a kid that was like. incredibly devastating#like i mainly knew him purely for his Ernest commercials. like i didn't even know he had movies for most of my time watching him as a kid#like we had a VHS tape of his commercials (that's uploaded to youtube) that i was so fucking obsessed with as a kid#like i would constantly play that VHS tape on any television in the house that i could#when we moved i think i watched it a few more times until it eventually ended up in the basement#and immediately i was saddened to find the VHS tape once more#this time found beneath the stairs and covered in a green goop (or mold-like substance)#and from then on id constantly beg my mother to go on Ebay and find Ernest's Greatest Hits Volume 1#later learned that it was uploaded to YouTube and my mother was like ''why do you want a VHS tape if it's on youtube''#which is like an absolutely fair point but. idk owning a physical copy was a completely different experience#sorry this post was supposed to be about the roblox child's personal 9/11.#anyway did you guys know that Niel Cicierega was on a youtube series discussing and rating Ernest movies#i just thought that was neat
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My bold take is that R.F. Kuang and Suzanne Collins are actually doing very similar things with their books/writing and both are doing it very well (but notably only one is getting criticized for it, for which there are many reasons, some fair and most not).
They are both making very specific and strategic points about the way that class, class consciousness and allyship, exploitative systems, propaganda, and rebellions work, just to name a few themes. And it’s far more interesting to examine their respective fictional worlds, both of which are heavily influenced by real-world events and history and hold it as a parallel to our own.
[It is also far more interesting to not boil their work down to shipping, “capitalism is the bad guy,” and oppression olympics for fictional characters with far too much projection into the real world.]
#i read babel at the start of the month and sunrise on the reaping at the end#both authors are fantastic and i think if you enjoyed The Hunger Games you would like The Poppy War trilogy and Babel#i agree with the criticism that Kuang can be a bit heavy-handed at times but also it makes sense to explain how interconnected it all is#(and usually that criticism is coming from people who are upset she implies “white people bad” more than twice)#Suzanne Collins is doing something quite similar in THG and even moreso in TBoSBS and SotR#both prequels are essentially political commentaries (discussing Locke Rousseau and Hume to name some)#but Babel gets criticism because it's too academic when it is explicitly historical fantasy in conversation with the time period?#which includes historical sources and literature and academia and philosophy#i may come back and elaborate more on the differences i think that are contributing to the reception to each work#(again some are fair some are unfair some are personal opinion)#R F Kuang#the poppy war#the poppy war trilogy#babel#babel an arcane history#babel or the necessity of violence#Suzanne Collins#the hunger games#the ballad of songbirds and snakes#sunrise on the reaping#bookblr
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I feel so validated when people comment positively on the little beady safety eyes because I often think that most people don't particularly like that look. Most crochet plushies have the big kind of eyes that have like the pupil and iris, or are embroidered or felted, and many times I've been asked why I use the safety eyes I do and not those kinds, and people just don't seem to get that I'm doing it on purpose because I find it cute and works better at this scale and no I don't think they're creepy
#text#like hello adventure time was very popular for so long and they all had little dot eyes#i think that probably has influenced my opinion in thinking they're cute and charming#i dont get why people say theyre creepy#but to be fair i also get squicked out by crochet plushes made with thick blanket and or chenille yarn. which is unfortunately very common#so just different tastes
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second dark matter battle super mystery dungeon ost
#pokemon#super mystery dungeon#request#im not crying you are. shut up.#this got requested by two different people somehow LMAO#which. fair it's really good
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so far in the world of thamepo we've seen over and over that silently sacrificing your own happiness for the good of someone you love is ultimately never the way to go (thame tried it for the sake of the other mars members, jun for thame, and inevitably all the sacrifices po made for his ex who then promptly dumped him also feature in there), so my god, i hope that this well-intentioned lie of gam's comes to light at some point asap and she and pepper still get their happy end
#obviously the topic of sacrificing personal happiness is intricately linked to the whole idol culture thing they're delving into#the company is constantly asking them to do that. the fans are LOUDLY asking it in this episode.#the way the company sold out pepper to save thame fits into this discussion too. which by the way!! awful and i really loved it#the storytelling of this show!!! i keep being bowled over by how Good all of it is. how incredibly well done#and also. calls to mind real cases of this exact thing happening. which for me mostly makes me think about rock hudson#and i like that. a little classic hollywood feels somehow wildly appropriate for this show#*#thamepo#thamepo the series#note: when i wrote 'jun for thame' i was thinking about jun's stance on things all the way at the start of the series#and not when he stepped back from po. however. i do still interpret that as. yes he had real interest#which then could arguably be an example that plays against my nice little list of moments where sacrifice isn't the way to go#HOWEVER. i think there is also something to be said about communication here#sacrifice without informing whoever you're doing it for that you're trying to help them = noble but ill-advised#talking it out (the way thame made them do) and not pursuing something because your friend's heart would break = different maybe?#and also. to be fair. stepping back from pursuing a romantic partner who is openly interested in someone else is different anyway#that's not falling on a sword. it's more like choosing not to run headfirst into a wall for no reason
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I wonder who Gavilar’s Wit was
#hoid is relatively new#so unless he’s been every wit under different aliases#which to be fair would be a him thing to do#he wasn’t around#cosmere#stormlight archive#brandon sanderson#gavilar kholin
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Y’all are aware we probably have to keep it in the top 10 overall into at least the 19th right? One business day after initial intended marketed advertised release supposedly. Then we should be good unless Mark says otherwise.
#don’t count your chickens before they hatch this is amazon we need to keep up the momentum since it’s already started#despite what public platforms and Mark says that this isn’t malicious I’m not buying it I think it was intended#industries actively don’t want indie people succeeding usually and they’ll pull stunts like this easily#or I should say industry execs to be specific and CEOs probably#wouldn’t want to have to start paying a bunch of indie creators fair pay when you can underpay already known companies and brand employees#but there’s a deeper conversation to be had about that in a different day and post and I’m not well educated on it#I hope Markiplier iron lung doesn’t get stuck in production limbo please fingers crossed we make this happen#this really is exposing how scummy the film industry can be thou which is a fascinating look into how bad stuff is#anyway go watch edge of sleep legally if you can!#idk any sites to watch it otherwise atm for people region locked out who wanna talk about it to help support the show#mine#op#the edge of sleep#teos
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some more gemstuck designs!
#homestuck#hs#gemstuck#davepetasprite#davepeta#dave strider#nepeta leijon#terezi pyrope#so happy with these gem choices#most people turn terezi into a pyrope gem which is very fair BUT#i wanted to do something a little different#and like CMOOON she's the PERFECT zircon#nepeta as a cat's eye feels so right and her with dave? tigers eye? hell yes#also i did a little dave redesign#the idea in the lore is that dave after he escaped the empire was left with a crack in his gem#dirk as a bismuth is like#fuck#i cant do anything to help you#he can make all these weapons and all these tools for war and destruction but cant help the person he cares about most#so he takes him to pink diamond (fef)#and through some means#a deal or something#dirk gets fef to repair dave#and so he reforms with a new fit!#(and since it's kinda like dave dies it felt appropriate to base his reformed version's outfit on his godtier fit)#more of these incoming btw im having a lot of fun today with them#feel free to send me asks about fusions or characters u want me to see design#no promises ill get to all of them but im having fun#also if u want to ask about lore ur welcome to as well#i have Some things in my mind scoped out
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