#commercial interests

[sheltiechicago]

Sunil Gupta’s images of 80s Pride marches feature cowboys, cops in drag and only a few famous names. They recall a joyous time before corporate interests moved in

[soupdreamer]

hey brennan what the fuck

[front-facing-pokemon]

[blueskittlesart]

*sigh* thoughts on Nintendo's botw/totk timeline shenanigans and tomfoolery?

tbh. my maybe-unpopular opinion is that the timeline is only important when a game's place on the timeline seriously informs the way their narrative progresses. the problem is that before botw we almost NEVER got games where it didn't matter. it matters for skyward sword because it's the beginning, and it matters for tp/ww/alttp (and their respective sequels) because the choices the hero of time makes explicitly inform the narrative of those games in one way or another. it matters which timeline we're in for those games because these cycles we're seeing are close enough to oot's cycle that they're still feeling the effects of his choices. botw, however, takes place at minimum 10 thousand years after oot, so its place on the timeline actually functionally means nothing. botw is completely divorced from the hero of time & his story, so what he does is a nonissue in the context of botw link and zelda's story. thus, which timeline botw happens in is a nonissue. honestly I kind of liked the idea that it happened in all of them. i think there's a cool idea of inevitability that can be played with there. but the point is that the timeline exists to enhance and fill in the lore of games that need it, and botw/totk don't really need it because the devs finally realized they could make a game without the hero of time in it.

[animatedjen]

Have you ever used a young Cal mod? Recently I got interested in the idea of seeing what Fallen Order would look like if Cal’s model was that of his Padawan self from the flashback, but I found that barely anyone has used this mod (or anything like it) before

Also, this is random but I just really like your photos!! You’re doing a great job on them and you’ve really opened my eyes to just how much the Jedi games have going on visually that I didn’t even notice whilst the gameplay was engaging you in parkour and fights. It really is stunning!

Now I'm thinking about tiny Cal on Bracca 😭

I haven't seen a Fallen Order mod that swaps Cal out for his younger Padawan model. If you have one anon, please send it! I'm just a photographer (not a modder) and that isn't something I know how to make (yet)

And thank you! The Jedi games are beautiful, and it's all thanks to the talented modelers, texture artists, and lighting artists who brought their visuals to life. Parkour fights and gameplay are definitely the main focus! But I love how much detail is in every corner of these environments, and photomode is such a fun way to explore it :)

[carefulzombie]

“i love yugioh!” i proclaim, knowing full well i could not give less of a shit about anything card game related towards it (aka 90% of the actual canon content)

[wild-joker-out-pleasures]

BOXING BOOTS, JAN?! 👀

No seriously Jan, explain yourself. What on earth are thoooooose? Explain the boxing boots. 🤨

(Does Jan have a collection of interesting boots that have soles with different weights…to step on Bojan with?)

[egophiliac]

have you seen the reveal for kamen rider gavv yet? i've fallen in love with him, he looks so great. not to mention that he doesn't have an overt animal motif this time, i've been missing having a non-animal themed main rider since zi-o. and it's just funny trying to see people guess what animal he could possibly be (i've seen rabbit, cat, jackal, and kangaroo so far).

YEAH he's so purple and shiny! 💜🧡💜 I love candy themes/aesthetic and I'm SO jazzed to see a whole series based around that; really looking forward to the trailer/press conference in like. a month. :') though I had assumed he was supposed to be reminiscent of a...cutely-rounded gummy beetle or something, because Rider? they look more like horns than ears to me at least!

oh my god I REALLY need to catch up on Gotchard

[unfinishedsweaters]

[jaubaius]

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[s0fter-sin]

they really 50/50’d the thunderbolts with characters i like and characters i couldn’t give less of a shit about

[nogoodnikolai]

i think thats why attempts to create a modern universal monster universe fail. theyre spending all their time creating new individual origin stories. buddy, you don't need to explain dracula to the general public, they get it! skip the leg work and make him fight the invisible man

[sweetest-honeybee]

Ya know, I’m out here reworking my commissions so I can open them at some point and there’s this whole document I made for terms and conditions and whatnot and it’s all fancy and the new sheet looks nice and I’m very proud

But genuinely on the other hand I can and will draw some insane shit if you pay me enough 😂

[mishafletcher]

hey it's important to me that you hear the stupidest and funniest thing i've heard this month, which is that a writer named demetrious polychron wrote a fanfic sequel to lord of the rings, then self-published it on amazon, and then sued amazon and the tolkien estate for making the rings of power tv show, which he claimed infringed on his copyright.

it didn't go well for him.

also, for those of you who love a trainwreck, as of 19 december 2023, there's a 75-page preview available on google books. it is—and i don't wish to be overly harsh—not very good.

this may shock you, but it opens with a birthday party and the arrival of an unexpected wizard. feels familiar, somehow!

[daisyofwaterdeep]

artists do themselves such a disservice by either not specifying if they're open for commercial work or theyll say they are but then not have their commercial prices/fees listed

[chronicsheepdevelopment]

So what’s your guys opinion on a game starring different makes of Aircraft?