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We often try to decorate our house with unique items, but wall hangings are always at the top of the list. Walls Arts look very pretty and simple in general, but it adds a different charm to the house. People these days are obsessed with wall art.
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I'm a bit late to the party with this because shipping to Australia + being away over the holiday period, but I'm here to say that I believe the first volume of Egmont Manga's 'Wedding Peach Luxury Edition' re-release is likely to make a solid addition to any fan's collection.
The page and print quality is easily the best available for Yazawa's original Wedding Peach manga anywhere in the world right now and the hardback presentation is quite lovely. I'm not in a position to judge the quality of the translation (I did 3 years of German in high school lol, so I can just read a kids' book like this and that's about it), but the overall presentation of lettering etc. is easily at current industry standard in this volume.
This hardback release contains what was originally volumes 1-3 of content from the Ciao-serialised Wedding Peach manga series. A second hardback will conclude the series in April 2024.
Easily the biggest drawback with this release is the cost of these volumes. 30,00€ is NOT cheap and with a label like 'luxury edition' it's obvious Egmont are gunning for older collectors who want to upgrade their original German paperback print from a couple of decades ago. This means anyone just wanting to check the series out casually is unlikely to engage with this release based on cost alone.
I do think you get decent (though not amazing) bang for your buck if you're an existing fan, but that's very much a niche market. Similarly, I don't think this release is likely to win over anyone who has never liked Wedding Peach in the past, it's nicely presented but there's no colour pages or anything else special included and the plot is still, well, Wedding Peach so I doubt it'll bring over a new generation of fans based on that alone.
Still, I'm glad this re-release exists and I'd love for the US market to do something similar though I know that's quite unlikely.
#ai tenshi densetsu wedding peach#wedding peach#yazawa nao#nao yazawa#90s manga#shoujo#egmont manga#merch#merchandise#photo: hotwaterandmilk#sorry for the shitty photos#i've been sick and back at work all week#it sucks#so this is all i can be bothered with
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In just under 20 days, I am flying to Western Australia to see a solar eclipse.
Because it's so dangerous to look at the sun directly, I've been trying out sun viewing equipment.
Got to find something that won't give me a headache, or worse, damage my eyes.
I got these specialised eclipse binoculars a while ago. They're celestron, a mostly respected brand, and have all the right certifications. They are second hand though.
I feel fine after using them, if a little dazzled - sunlight gets in around the sides . I plan to 3d print something to go around them to block that, which hopefully will make them fine to use.
I have since found out that they're only supposed to be used when an eclipse is nearly at totality. So if you're using some yourself, please do your own research rathet than going of just this post
Even then, I'd like a second option.
This is an Aliexpress solar filter designed for my telescope. I don't trust it on the telescope.
Even holding it up to the sun while wearing sunglasses - (despite my eyes collecting a thousandish times less light than the telescope) - after a short time I feel like I've been at the beach all day without sunglasses.
I will not be bringing this to Exmouth.
Next up is the cheap, but more legit cardboard solar glasses from the astronomy shop in the city:
These use the same baader film tech as the filter above.
Despite being from a reputable source, these still feel too bright, and make my eyes feel funny. Even when combined with sunnies.
Just today, this arrived:
This is a pair of shade 14 welding glass lenses - nasa recommended, and the darkest ones I could get my hands on.
They're perfect.
They turn the sun into a much fainter greenish yellow ball.
It is soooo much easier on the eyes than any of the tools I tried above.
Now what I need to do is go and make something to use them in
#3d printing#astronomy#solar eclipse#i didn't want to shell out for a full welding mask - i want to save money for my trip#i have a 3d printer and this sort of thing is what that's for#i might use both lenses and make a wide glasses thing - but that has extra complications#currently thinking i'll set one into a handheld viewer and the other into some sort of glasses frame or hood#if for some reason 3d printing falls through cardboard will probably be ok#eclipse#solar astronomy#there was a pre-made solar viewer that you could hold up - but that had a very green tint and i didn't want that
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A scene from the ghosts of the past.
Tw: violence, drugs, rape and child abuse
Sharing a bed, which was not truly a bed yet a clearly molding mattress on the floor, was never something Jacob Makepeace or his cousin wished for.
He had loved his younger brother the moment he saw him, covered in fluids, placenta, and blood. With Zeke, he had learned to love, a hard fret for the angry boy.
the youngest boy did not mind, he was though a lap dog curled up on the end of it.
They had all lost track of how long he had been sick, all they knew was he wasn’t going to get any better.
When the door of the public house slammed open, then shut, Jacob blinked his eyes awake.
“Oi.. Lads.” A deep voice slurred.
“You got any money?” A known voice called out from behind him.
“Mum!” He cried out, stifling his arms behind him to see her from the light of the stars, sticking out from the ripped curtains of the window.
Soft rays of light illuminated her blonde hair, her sunken, blood picked face.
“Money!! Have you got any money!?” She yelled, yanking his blond hair towards herself as she came close.
“No! No! I don’t have any money.”
“oh fuck off then.” She swore, pushing his head back down.
From the end of the mattress, a head of thin blond hair made its way up.
“Mummy?” The youngest boy cried.
“Have you got money?!” She now screamed, grabbing onto his wrist and holding him tightly, panicking.
“We don’t have money!” Jacob defended.
“Ladss.. got any money?” The man asked.
“Dad. We don’t have money. The bottle o isn’t even open anymore.” Zeke tried.
“Yessss it’s it- it’s holiday?” He asked, flopping down onto the mattress lengthwise.
Well violently attacking the length of her arm, Violet began to tear at every inch of the house she could, pulling on each handle of the cabinet, sticking her head under the sink.
“It’s Christmas Eve.” Zeke mentioned.
Unlike most in Australia, none of the children in the room were gifted anything for Christmas. There was no tree,no lights strung up to light the joyous mood, no decorations. The only thing that remained slightly related to the holiday was the sprinkling of what they had told the youngest boy was fake snow.
“Oooh. You know you know in my day we didn’t have Christmas.” He stated.
“You did, dad. You just don’t remember it.” Zeke cleared, as Violet came back up the stairs.
She ignored them all and kept going up, stomping into the bathroom.
“Yeah..” the man slumped down on his head, before it could bash on the ground, Zeke caught it with his bruised hand.
From upstairs, there was a huge crash, then running footsteps.
In her hand, clenched tightly was a glass pipe and a small bag. Upon seeing the bag, her current fix shot up.
“Hey! You betta fucking share, bitch!” He yelled, swaying over to the spot next to the window where a beaten couch cushion lay. They did not own a couch and never had.
“Fuck off! This is mine!” She swore, he pushed her down to the ground, holding her down by her thin wrists.
“Leave her alone!” The youngest boy cried, just has ripped the bag from her right and the pipe from her left.
Pulling the boy into his chest, Jacob shushed him softly. With the final blow landing to her head, Violet froze up into a tight knit ball.
The man opened the bag, filling the pipe with the little that was left. He then reached out for his cheap lighter, the same one that burned Zeke on his thighs.
As the rocks light up, thick smoke filled his mouth, he blew it out. It flooded the air, enough to make Jacob swipe his hand.
Once done, he turned to the ball on the ground.
“Come here, shank.” He shouted,she lightly shirked as her feet were pulled closer to his crotch.The boys facing her stared.
“Stop it! Stop, please not in front of my boys.” She cried, he ignored her and ripped off her bleached skirt, then her soiled stolen panties.
Out of the things Jacob had been witnessed her steal, the cheeta print panties was not the worst. At least not in his opinion, according to Zeke it was. Now he knew why he thought so.
“Get out! Get the fuck out!” The man screamed, Jacob quickly picked up his younger brother, then followed Zeke as he fled the house. He held the front door open for him as they went.
Without any where to go, they sat down in the browning grass of the front lawn. From the thin walls, they could hear her screaming, begging, pleading, then finally a sickening silence.
“Why is he doing that to mommy?” The youngest boy cried.
“They’re just playing.” Zeke tried to explain, as his brother pulled him onto his lap.
He knew he was lying.Almost everything he said was a lie. He had to, to protect him.He loved him.That’s what’s people who love you do.
He had not seen him come out of his shared womb, yet he would never allow him to be covered in that much blood again.
He had learned to love the bothersome boy. As much as he the boy facing him. He had seen him covered in that much blood.He was protecting himself and Zeke. He knew how. He knew he needed to, so he did.
“Will Santa still visit if we’re outside?” He asked, allowing his brother to rub his back lightly.
Both older boys gaped at each other. It had been a longer time than they had believed in the concept of the big fat man stuffing his way into each and every home to eat cookies in return for presents.
“We didn’t make any cookies. He won’t want to see us without cookies.” Zeke defended.
“What about carrots? Do we have carrots? For Rudolph.” He asked, tugging gently on the hole filled shirt, putting the hem of it in his mouth.
“I’m sure we have some stale cereal on the floor, we can pick them up off the ground and stuff them in a bag. For Rudolph. For the road.”Jacob soothed, as his younger brother sucked on his shirt.
“Try and get some sleep, Archie.” Zeke suggested.
None of them ever got sleep. At least not good sleep. The sounds of the neighbour hood was intense, howling canines, screaming children, husbands wifes girlfriend boyfriend, gunshots, gun wounds.
As Jacob watched the consolations begin to fade as the sun came up, he wondered if Santa was real in the same way his family thought the angels were real. Were they only there if you believed? If you gave faith to something other than yourself, your morals, your sense of justice, your pride.
Just has he had with Santa, he knew the answer. If there was an angel in the sky, he wasn’t looking out for the three of them.
Stranded on rotting wood, starving, confused. If the angel was real, his mother wouldn’t be the way that she was.
She wasn’t a bad person, the things she did made her a bad person. The company she kept, the way she treated her kids. He knew her better than anyone, yet she was the reason he has stop knowing what to believe. Yet he still plays the role of her defender. He always will.
#Jacob makepeace#Zeke#shadowhunters#the shadowhuter chronicles#ao3 writer#ao3 author#the mortal instruments#city of bones#one shot#short story#is it a short story? I don’t know. I’m not a mathematician.#I’m sorry I wrote this.#LORE??#Australians please tell me if this was aqurate.#PoetPony with a tumblr only short fic??? what???#exclusive content POETPONY#as the weeks pass by#a scene from the ghosts of the past
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The other day I helped this lady at work with a photo she wanted from July. She was real sweet and patient while I found it because I somehow clicked on June 27, (went through the entire folder before I realised) and then went through July 27.
We made small talk and she wanted the photo for her granddaughter back in Australia I think it was. So I found it, put it on the system so we could print it off, obviously had it printed and handed it to her.
Bless her, she was all ready to pay for it, but as a kind gesture, I let her have it for no cost. She called me a sweetheart and all the sweetest names she could possibly manage and she left...
I thought she left
because not even five minutes later this lady comes back and hands me a gift from the gift shop next to us and was like "even if you don't drink, this is something for you for being so kind" and it was a shot glass
MA'AM I NEARLY CRIED ON THE SPOT
She could've handed me a cheap pencil and I still would've cried, it's just the thought that counts. She went out of her way to buy me a lil something LADY I LOVE YOU
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Welcome to my NISA Nightmare.
This is beyond a bloody joke, now, and I am livid.
For almost six whole weeks now, I have been given the runaround by NIS America Europe's Customer Support, for an issue entirely their fault. And it's not the first time.
I love the games NISA publish. I preorder the vast majority of the Collector's Edition packages they put out, in spite of my precarious financial situation. Because I love these games and I want to have those nice sets to celebrate the art and music and game with a nice, generally sensible set of extra stuff that isn't just cheap tat to fill a box and charge a fortune for.
I have maintained "Diamond Prinny" loyalty status for years, which doesn't really mean much more than "buys their stuff a lot and gets offered small discounts when new ones go up" but you'd think if they recognise a group of their biggest customers, they would at least try to offer solid Customer Support for that group.
Here's the backstory: On September 8 2022, I placed a preorder with NISAE for four Collector's Editions. If you're unfamiliar with preorders, how this is supposed to work is that you pay money now, and they put a copy aside to make sure that you get them when they come out; I try to order as many things as I can at once, because shipping to Australia is expensive, and it helps to spread the load. When placing the order, one of the games I was ordering had an option for an Australian cover sheet - the only difference being the little rating symbol on the cover - so I picked that because... hey, why not?
At some point in production, they changed their mind, and decided they wouldn't bother printing that Australian cover sheet. No big deal, you might assume - just swap it for the UK English cover; no big deal.
Ah, sweet summer child, I see you have never had to deal with NISAE's order system backend.
Any other web store on the internet can make simple changes to an order relatively easily - but NISAE is special. They can't even change a tiny little dropdown menu option for which printed cover sheet should be included with the game.
To make any small change to your order, the entire thing must be cancelled. You must wait for a refund to clear. Then you must place the order again yourself with the changes in place.
Remember that thing about how preorders work? Yeah. It doesn't work if they just cancel your order without warning, and tell you to make the order again when something in your order is now out of stock.
For weeks now, I've been assured that they're securing a copy of the game that was out of stock, because I guess when your order is cancelled, they immediately incinerate the copies that should have been set aside for you.
But they'll have it shortly, so I can make the order then!
I've been dreadfully concerned about the other parts of my order going out of stock while I wait for them to find me a copy of the game I preordered. And naturally... that exact thing happened.
I've been keeping an eye on the stock situation and... now another one is completely sold out.
They haven't even fixed the first screw-up, and now this is added on top. It's cartoonish levels of incompetence. I have a heart condition! I can't deal with this kind of constant stress for weeks and weeks!!
If you know me, you'll know I am a very patient person. But this is really my limit. I'm fed up, and genuinely upset.
This isn't the first time I've had trouble with NISAE before, either.
A while back, I received a copy of a collector's edition set with a soundtrack CD - I love soundtrack CDs and they're a major reason I get these versions! But for some reason, one of the discs was just... missing.
Factory error, I suppose. Not much you can do about that.
So I contacted support, and they promised to just pack a replacement in with the next order that would be shipped out; it wouldn't take long for that, so, sounded to me like a perfectly reasonable solution.
Well, my next order from them came... and the next... and the next... and no CD.
After contacting them again, to see what the deal was... they just decided to send it out by itself, and eat the cost of shipping.
Screwed themselves over in that one, really. I was mildly inconvenienced, but it all worked out without too much hassle.
On another occasion, I had a preorder combined with some older items - the order won't ship until everything is ready to go, but it saves you on shipping, so, hey. That's fine.
Between the time of my order and the time it was ready to ship, they moved to a new warehouse. In the process of doing this... they lost the copy of something I ordered that had been set aside. And they had no more left.
Of course.
There was really nothing that could be done, at that point. "Sorry, we lost the very last copy of the thing you ordered." I was very unhappy about this, but... it was at least understandable. Moving to a new warehouse is a massive undertaking, and losing the last copy of some old stock... well, it sucks, but I get it. Exceptional circumstances; things happen.
So it's with this history of excusing mistakes that I am now faced with the latest one. This time, there is no massive warehouse to move; no unusual situation of sending out a replacement for part of a set that was botched by the factory.
I don't think it's unreasonable to expect better than this.
I don't think it's unreasonable to expect the barest minimum features of an online shop to include "swapping a tiny option in an order" and "actually getting the things you paid a couple hundred pounds to preorder six months ago."
I don't think it's unreasonable to expect better from the official European branch of a very prominent publisher, handling a large number of beloved titles that can't be bought elsewhere.
As it stands, if you have the option to buy NISA games from any retailer other than the NISA Europe Online Store, I advise you to choose that other option. I desperately wish this weren't the case, and would prefer to support the publisher directly... but until they get some web developers to implement a functional backend... I truly recommend choosing literally any other option, if you have it.
Maybe if I'm lucky, people will see this and they'll actually do something.
#NIS#NISA#NISAE#Nippon Ichi Software#Nippon Ichi Software America#Nippon Ichi Software America Europe
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Just because I've lived in both England and Australia, and I'm feeling a bit nostalgic for both, I wanted to list some of the things I missed (Putting aside some more questionable aspects):
Australia:
The good side of "Tall Poppy Syndrome" and that not everyone is invested in "hustle culture"
Nippy's Coffee Milk that I drank far too much of
7-11 Cheap-as-hell coffee I drank every day
Wombats
Being near the ocean
Kikki K's Stationary
The bookstore near my apartment with the rolling ladder shelf
Amazing coffee and baking from the Italian part of town made from coffee machines brought over after World War Two to start a new life with
Honesty
A feeling that if you're down a certain path, no one would look down their nose at you if you wanted to change your mind
Stupid shortening of names/nicknames that you at first have no idea what they mean but soon you realize a friend of yours has seen a bogen version of you at the shops and understand what it means (aka "Bogen Lozza")
England:
Compared to where I'm from originally, I enjoyed train rides because everything was relatively close
Regional dialects
Northerners (Sorry, people from the South- I vibed with people from the North more).
Attending my dream university (Cambridge).
Waterstones
You can enjoy slightly twee prints and vintage things like when Cath Kidston was more of a thing, and people don't think you're soft in the head.
If you're in some of the more smaller/sleepier towns/villages, you feel as though you can take your time and enjoy things.
How close it is to France, Scotland, and Ireland for trips (I know this is a joke for some English, but a two hour trip is NOTHING to me in comparison) (Also I love Edinburgh).
#personal#compared to where I live now which is blinding expenses in terms of costs and hustle culture#I think if there wasn't a crazy housing crisis in Oz still and I had the money I might go back
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Built to Last
Not knowing an ad’s genesis, I make it a rule to refrain from commenting on it, but there are times when exceptions to the rule are necessary:
Appalled by commercial after commercial appearing on a recent Super Bowl, I didn’t hold back, dismissing the dozens that were dismissible, praising the one that wasn’t.
Impressed by the long overdue recognition of my former agency, Ammirati & Puris, I didn’t hold back there either, acknowledging what was great about a shop most everyone considered stellar. Like other once-great-now-gone firms victimized then extinguished by holding company avarice, Ammirati’s rightly celebrated work endures.
Australia not only has earned a reputation for inventiveness when it comes to films and scripted television drama, they are marvelously iconoclastic when it comes to advertising, best reflected in the spot, “Dumb Ways to Die.” Suspend judgement on the wickedly direct, very unsettling title and watch; you’ll see why Australia is home to some of the best creative work ever.
Given the deep respect I have for Yvon Chouinard and the company he founded, Patagonia, years ago I cited one of the print ads I hold in high regard, recognizing that to this day remains true to the company’s core values.
That makes four examples in nearly 750 posts written over more than 13 years, so I often don’t give in to the need to play the critic, but am reminded of this because Chouinard was in the news recently, this time with a New York Times guest editorial, where he observes:
“The company I founded turns 50 this year. People ask me how it has managed to stick around so long when the average life span of a corporation is less than 20 years. I tell them it’s been our unrelenting focus on quality, which includes making things that last and that cause the least amount of harm to our planet.”
He observes that critics,
“thought we were crazy for repairing our own gear and urging our customers to buy less. They said our focus on quality would drive up prices and put our products out of reach. “But the naysayers were wrong.”
Then goes on to say,
“Quality is smart business. Even during economic downturns, people don’t stop spending. In our experience, instead of wanting more, they value better.”
Patagonia makes stuff – climbing gear, all-weather apparel, a variety of outdoor equipment – but step back from the items they produce and you see not things, you see values – durability, sustainability, longevity that borders on timeless, unimpeachable, and eternal.
I work in a business that doesn’t make stuff; at its best, it makes ideas; ideas that find their voice in all forms of advertising and marketing, in colleague support when its needed most, in client service at its best, when it solves problems, pursues opportunities, and builds enduring relationships.
It’s a business to which my former advertising agency, Ammirati & Puris, dedicated itself, explaining, in part, the post I wrote about it, in an industry where fewer such shops exist, seemingly losing their sense of mission, vision, and purpose.
It’s a business to which The Art of Client Service dedicates itself, explaining, in part, why I’ve written three editions over the last 20-plus years, and always am thinking how I can help people get better at what they do.
And it’s the business to which Yvon Chouinard and Patagonia dedicates itself, explaining in part, why it could succeed when predictions said couldn’t.
As Chouinard points out, “the poor can’t afford cheap goods.” Clients can’t afford cheap advertising either, or short-changed client service, or work that is perishable, disposable, and forgettable, something all of us should keep in mind the next time we search for something cheap, which often means, something not worth whatever you paid for it.
A concluding thought: “Built to last” is a fitting way to end the year; the next time we connect, it will be 2024. To repeat what I said in my last post, if you’re traveling to see family or friends, by all means travel safe.
Thursday also is Roberta’s and my 26th wedding anniversary, another thing that’s built to last. Happy anniversary Honey! Xoxo mbb
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This was probably asked before, but did you ever consider releasing print copies of your serials like Fae Tales or FFS, or even an anthology of the oneshots and shorts? Not necesserily on amazon, but maybe your own shop?
Hi anon,
I've been thinking about this question for a few days trying to reason it out, and basically the reasons I wouldn't consider releasing print copies of my serials on my own website are the same reason I wouldn't consider releasing print copies of my serials on Amazon, with one exception (the Amazon TOS, lol).
If I'm not drop-shipping, which is a pain to organise re: quality control, I have to host the books at my house, which is a cottage where we already don't have enough room to store things. Not to mention shipping anything from Australia to the rest of the world (especially books) is prohibitively expensive.
Game Theory and The Court of Five Thrones are not normal 'books.' They are each about 5 standard novels in length (in romance, that shoots up right up to about 6-8). I would not want to make the font size small because that makes accessibility hard for everyone, and at best I might be able to publish the books as a set of maybe 6-8 books. So people would not be buying two books to get two installments in a series, but 6-8 really heavy books. Realistically, if I made the books like, nice to look at and factored in shipping and stuff, that means people would easily be paying over $300~ (and realistically much more) to get a series they can right now...read for free. Shipping books in particular is...like...the biggest killer for authors and why so many, almost all authors, do not organise shipping themselves. Even then, ordering 8 books at once is still a lot of shipping from most smaller distributors.
Amazon is not the main problem, anon. I can publish my books on Smashwords right now and there wouldn't be an issue with the content. Amazon is only a small part of the problem. Tbh hosting books on your own website is considered one of the worst ways to distribute in terms of getting interest. Which I would need, because of the next part:
Finally, the years it would take to edit these books to a standard that I would consider publishable would not really be worth the fact that I would never ever earn that time or labour back. If I was a rich person who could just spend my time doing whatever I wanted, then I'd be able to do this, but I barely have enough time as it is to write the things that I do which actually do make me a living. Paying someone to edit those books would cost easily in the bracket of around $15-20k AUD ($10-14k USD), for extremely cheap (and therefore not guaranteed good quality) editing - that's an entire year's worth of income for me. Doing it myself or in tandem with someone else takes a huge amount of time. Like, realistically, I would maybe sell 200 copies of the books at best. It's a little like taking thousands of dollars and flushing it down the toilet. I would love to be privileged enough to do that, because I would like to see my books on my shelves more than anyone else would, for probably obvious reasons. But this is the path I've chosen, and I do not have thousands of dollars or hundreds of hours of time that I can afford to flush away, anon. And right now I don't see very obvious reasons beyond 'it would be cool' to do it. I hate talking about these practicalities, but I have to consider them. The editing in particular is the biggest killer, because if it was just typos etc. I could maybe get it done in a year or so. But I want to make some structural and continuity edits to Game Theory in particular, and that will take a lot of time.
#asks and answers#fae tales verse#game theory#the court of five thrones#the fact is even self-publishing standard novels that have more appealing themes#is something i stopped doing anon#it's why there hasn't been a perth shifters book in years#i do not make proportionately enough money to break even#even when i don't spend more than $150 on advertising#i have considered lots of options for getting print out there#the one i would not do is publish the novels as they are#because they're not at a standard where i'd consider it#ironically i probably would for the ice plague#but that's the least popular series lmao#like... i am an extremely small fish in an extremely small pond#that fights to get the interest i get in my works#while other authors manage it pretty effortlessly#i'm doing my best#but my best doesn't always put food on the table if i'm not careful#about where i'm putting my attention#and publishing has taught me it's not an obviously lucrative path#and would take a LOT more work and time to make lucrative at all
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some tshirt designs. the slaughter horse 2 tee i rendered from scratch, but the messiah tee is a severely edited scan of a manual from one of the physical releases of the game. i dont own the core design obviously, but its for personal use and just a cool edit i did to put on a tshirt so i assume the copyright whatever is fine. i dont think anyone will care about a weird girl in australia printing this on a tshirt and posting about it on her art blog at the least.
slaughter horse 2 is a really cool game on steam, its like single player roguelike werewolf/town of salem. has really really incredible art and its cheap rn bc its in early access. its a fantastic indie horror game that really immerses you in the mindset of a serial killer on a spree (in a little village of colourful horses). if you like horror and my little pony go buy SH2 right now. its cheap and itll run on anything and its beautiful.
messiah is a weird 90s pc game made as a reaction to all the christian fundamentalists in america saying games and DnD were the devil. its not a great game, but its an interesting one. cyberpunk satire dystopia in the vein of the judge dredd comics, where you play a cherub who possesses people and uses them to murder other people. its blasphemy all the way down which i really enjoy. and the art is really good. studio is long dead now sadly, oof.
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