#i made this earlier today

[bleaksqueak]

Happy Halloween 2024!! Sweet little Moth Witch blessings upon ye

[mispelled]

I like when they hold him

[tomaturtles]

Happy Campus Apocalypse volume 1 16th anniversary here's something to celebrate

[stardestroyer81]

✨🍕Happy first anniversary to Pizza Tower!!!🍕✨

More specifically, the full release of Pizza Tower! This wonderful game has been a large part of my life in this past year, such as being the sole reason why rats are one of my favorite animals now alongside influencing my artstyle to be a smidge toonier!

I just had to draw a little something for it, and it's definitely one of the most detail-intensive Pizza Tower drawings I've made yet! 💙✨

[moeblob]

A lil guy !

[thatoneluckybee]

Going to break into your house with pots and pans and yell at you until you reframe your thinking of productivity to include more than just schoolwork or a salary or chores and the like.

Did you do a thing? Was there a positive result for you or someone else?

Congratulations, you did a Productivity!!!

You aren’t ALWAYS going to be able to have the energy to do what we consider traditionally productive. You won’t always have the motivation.

Yeah, maybe you could have spent two hours studying for that test instead of 15 minutes. Maybe you could have cleaned the kitchen instead of the dishes. And? That’s still something!

Productivity is doing things!! Did you eat food and drink water? You did something that helped your body work! Doodled in class? You made art! Even just posting theories and memes on tumblr dot com is a thing! You thought out the post, figured out how to organize it (even if you don’t realize you did that) and you made it! And now other people can see and you DID something and you should be proud!!!

Be proud of yourself or I am going to show up outside your window tonight and scream positive affirmations louder than a cat who has just discovered her food bowl is empty.

[bunnyboy-juice]

vet day 🩺

[butchvamp]

i already said it but it does really frustrate me how little agency Taash has and the more i think about it the more insidious it gets. again their entire story revolves around Rook making choices for them, and they're also consistently talked down to by other characters, even if those characters are depicted as being friendly or nice. Isabela treats them like a child despite Taash being a very accomplished dragon hunter with the lords (which we see, repeatedly, when fighting the blighted dragons! Taash is not a child), and of course there's their mother (at least this is intentional) and both her and Isabela go behind Taash's back to throw them in with Rook, without asking for their input. Isabela just assumes without even trying to discuss it with Taash separate from their mother, despite seemingly being aware of the two's strained relationship... and from there Isabela continues to make unnecessary comments to Taash whenever you visit the hall of valor with them.

even Flynn, the nonbinary grey warden you meet in the wetlands, condescends to them about the Qun when discussing their gender, and Taash isn't allowed to disagree with them (apparently they give Flynn a Look but ultimately don't press the issue) and Flynn is depicted as being helpful in this discussion. Rook lectures them about gender and their own culture; their entire narrative revolves around Other People telling them what to do and how to feel-- it's obviously meant to be Bad when Taash's mother does it, because she (the Qun) is oppressive, but otherwise the game seems to be fine when it's Rook or literally anyone else doing it, because we're the enlightened Good Guys, and Taash is just helpless and confused and so oppressed. of course, i don't think it's bad for Rook to discuss these things with Taash or give them gentle suggestions, and i don't even hate the potential gender discussion you can have with a trans Rook; and for the record, their mother does treat them poorly. but we can't ignore the way Taash's repeated infantilization culminates in the player being the one to choose their culture for them in the end, because..?

well, the game clearly doesn't think Taash is capable of doing it themselves. at one point Taash links the ropes they wear for the Qun to the ones the antaam used to tie down a dragon and "blight" them. even if i'm feeling gracious and say that Weekes really meant that womanhood & their mother's expectations are restricting, they actively chose to use the ropes of the Qun to make this comparison, and so are also implying here that their mother teaching them the Qun has tied them down and "blighted" them-- that the Qun has "infected" their thinking and is as bad as the blight (this is also implied in the previous discussion with Flynn). this is.... really racist. it takes Rook and their, again, "enlightened" (white) ideas about gender to get through to Taash, nevermind that the Qun has its own ideas around gender that just get shouted down or completely ignored. the racism here results in the narrative contradicting itself, considering one of the first things Taash says is "you don't get to tell me who i am" but... Rook does, in the end, because intentional or not the game is clearly convinced that a person like Taash needs someone from outside of their and their mother's culture (aka free of "blight") to come tell them what's best for them.... 🤔 hm! and while it's true you can choose for them to align with the qunari in the end, that doesn't mitigate all of the heinous and racist writing that leads up to that choice (and that the choice itself is racist. and you have to make it twice!)

of course we can say that Rook makes choices for all of the companions, this is true, but it's obvious that none of the other companions' choices are in the same ballpark, we aren't directly deciding something about their identity, and none of them lack agency to the same extent as Taash. we can even argue that they need Rook to explain gender to them, no one else ever has-- well, sure. the thing with Taash is that some parts of their story, when removed from context, are perfectly fine. i'm not criticizing the way Taash talks or acts or "does gender," all of which are things some people may connect to for various reasons (all of our experiences are different) but unfortunately we cannot discuss any of this without addressing the racism that is so thoroughly baked into every aspect of their character.

i criticized Taash for being "childlike" previously and that really wasn't the right phrasing-- i don't think that Taash themselves is childlike, it has nothing to do with them-- it's the way the narrative treats them, the way other characters talk down to them, how it takes away their autonomy & forces us to go along with it, and ultimately educate them and "save" them, and i think it's worth interrogating why Taash, of all the companions, is specifically depicted this way (it's racism).

[chaoticspeedrun]

Purple seems to be a color people obsess over.

When someone tells you purple is their favorite color, they're just emphasizing the obvious, it is everywhere, from their shirt, to their phone screen, to the trinkets in their room.

It's like it envelops them whole, it becomes a substance of their being more than a color.

Even when it's subtle, when it's calm, when it hides, it is present.

Purple is attention grabbing, it's noticeable, our eyes are drawn to the color regardless of it's opacity, from the store apparel to the colors in the sky at sunset, even subconsciously, you notice it.

It's resilient, like the lavender as it is cut out into a bouquet and it lasts, it lasts for days, weeks months and even as it dries, and the color fades, it still remains, and even a year later the smell of lavender stays.

Purple stains when it touches, even when you can't see it, even when the touch is light, it's still felt, it still tingles, it still reaches under your skin to where you can't touch.

It still leaves a mark, and so you crave it, you crave purple.

You crave it loudly or in silence, only wanting it to know regardless.

[sweetescapeartist]

ChestnutFest2K24

Day 1: Rescue

Had the idea of 18 briefly regaining consciousness while being carried by her future husband & fuzzy memory of hearing him being the first one to recognizing her as a person.

(I couldn't decide if I should give him white sclera like he has in the manga, Super Hero, & Daima or the skin colored sclera from the anime. Ended up doing both 😅)

@chestnutisland

[claudtrait]

laughs mischievously

[greenmcgee]

Hi hi hi hi @itslilacokay I went lookin and drew up ur character!!

I hope you like it even tho it's a sketchy lil mess hehe

And bonus with ruby just because

[partlyironic]

you don't get to claim ownership of WWW just because people dumb enough to subscribe to the streamer voted for it. that poll could have been hosted anywhere on the Internet, for free.

Mate. Come on.

It has nothing to DO with where the poll was hosted, good GOD. It has everything to do with the fact that WWW (and every other show they listed as an option) is the exact kind of content that the streamer enables.

This is because, despite being incredibly beloved – by both Watcher fans, and Watcher themselves it seems – WWW is a) expensive to make (simply by virtue of its format) and b) not something that Performs well on YouTube's algorithm. It never got enough views etc to justify them making it anymore. It didn't pay.

The streamer allows Watcher to afford to make this sort of stuff instead of being beholden to YouTube's (often very fickle) definitions of what makes content 'successful'.

So yeah. Just to really spell it out for you: They literally wouldn't have been able to make WWW again without the streamer and all Those Dumb People who decided it was worth paying for the content we want to see.

[qazastra]

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2000일이 된 오늘까지 공삼이와 함께 해준 모든 lyOn들!🦁 너무너무 고맙고 사랑합니다💖

[moeblob]

What's an otome?

You read a picture book to romance fictional characters, anon.

(for reference: on page 2 the second panel characters are from Steam Prison. Vita touch mechanic mention is Bad Apple Wars and the sexism call outs is in Sweet Fuse.)

I struggle personally with the self-insert intended otome because I look at characters and go "that's my son now" and I can't romance my son! That's why I prefer games with a designated design and some bare-bones personality protags. THEY can romance my son.