#my first rdr2 fanart can you believe it

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15 Questions, 15 Mutuals

aaww thanks @hannahrama for tagging me!! :)

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  1. Are you named after anyone?

2. When was the last time you cried?

3. Do you have kids?

4. Do you use sarcasm a lot?

5. What’s the first thing you notice about people?

6. What’s your eye color?

7. Scary movies or happy endings?

8. Any special talents?

9. Where were you born?

10. What are your hobbies?

11. Have you any pets?

12. What sports do you play/have played?

13. How tall are you?

14. Favorite subject in school?

15. Dream job?

1. Are you named after anyone?

Nope, I got a very typical German name lmao. Anna is a very popular name :’) I call myself Sammy on here though because a friend of mine gave me that nickname (it’s because of Sam from SPN haha)

2. When was the last time you cried?

hmmm my uni stuff frustrates me a lot at the moment, so that’s where i get emotional

3. Do you have kids?

noope.

4. Do you use sarcasm a lot?

pretty much all the time. runs in the family. you can’t ask anyone anything because the reply will always be something ridiculous lmao.

5. What’s the first thing you notice about people?

i guess their voice? i really love voices.

6. What’s your eye color?

it’s green-grayish. there are a few pics of me on here (sometimes i think about deleting them again idk), so you can have a look at it yourself ahaha.

7. Scary movies or happy endings?

i’m starting to like scary movies again so this is a bit of a difficult choice. tbh though i think we need more happy endings. i like happy endings.

8. Any special talents?

i don’t know if it’s a special talent but my french accent is apparently quite believable, at least to my french teachers. i used to be really good at french but sadly forgot most of it. i love the language though. i used to be able to learn new languages quite fast heh :’) i also do voice acting as a hobby from time to time (just posting stuff on youtube) and sometimes here on tumblr when i post my audio stuff. it’s really fun to do. apparently, my english accent also fools some people into thinking i’m british (at least when i met ben barnes at a convention he thought i was british ahaha). so yeah...i love accents. but i don’t know if any of that counts as a special talent.

9. Where were you born?

Germany. In a small town. It’s quite boring and there is nothing here to see ahaha.

10. What are your hobbies?

i love drawing fanart, reading (although i have abandoned my reading list for a while), voice acting, photography (portrait photography), sometimes playing guitar, playing video games like TLOU, RDR2, Dragon Age, Uncharted...  I also do cosplay from time to time.

11. Have you any pets?

yes, i’ve got a dog. he’s a mix of a great mountain dog and a german shepherd. so he’s big and fluffy. his name is anton :)

12. What sports do you play/have played?

well, as a kid i used to do ballet which i am getting into again. it’s so much harder than i remember.

13. How tall are you?

just 163 cm. i think that’s 5′4 or something. so pretty much an average height haha.

14. Favorite subject in school?

I loved English, Art, and Theatre/Literature. I really miss school in that regard.

15. Dream job?

I used to want to be an actress (like most people lmao) and there were people who told me I had an ‘‘actress’‘ face and a few even told me I could be a model (lmaaooo what) but I don’t have the self confidence for that tbh. Right now I want to work in IT.  I started studying Robotics so yeahhh...it’s difficult af. I also want to learn French and Spanish again which is always useful :)

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That’s nice sweety :)

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While I will absolutely agree that CB2077 isn’t the ONLY game doing all this bullshit, or that other AAA studios don’t deserve the flack CDPR is getting, I have to say that this is absolutely the perfect storm and I think people are FINALLY seeing the problems in modern AAA gaming. CB2077 might be fun to play, may have a good story, but it’s almost impossible to see because of the glaring issues. Which, honestly, is a good thing. I hope games change after this.

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AAA studios have been like this and this sort of release has been completely normalised on all accounts by both the businesses themselves and fans because of the inherent reliance on modders (bethesda at the forefront of this), as well as the pushback every time companies actually go ‘uh we need a lil more time’ (although... they just shouldnt announce potential release dates, im even of the camp they shouldnt even start releasing the game until like 6 months out from their official date because they fuck it up every time. borderlands 3 being the only game i know of being in “secret” development and then announcing itself in march for a september release. game itself aside, thats how companies should do it). easily i can remember a lot of 2011 release games which have had the exact same issues as cp77′s release, and then every other game in between since. very rarely do you actually have a game that isn’t a fucked up mess of a pile of pixels. and it is always the customisable character ones that are honestly, genuinely, ugly looking at release. but you can definitely say its been happening looooooong before 2011, with unrealistic expectations, word limits, 11 month time frames, offloading sequels to smaller companies so they can suffer if it fails, etc etc. the entire system has been like this for so long... they dont know any real different nowadays.

i mean look. tlou2 released under crunch conditions this year, and was rewarded. it was ALL over the social media feeds, it was quite the controversy because, surprise surprise, the company promised they wouldnt do it uwu and then. bam ! crunch conditions. literally around that time too, bioware employees came out with a statement saying ‘man we wish dai FAILED so that back in 2014 we couldve proven crunch was a wrong practice’. they say this as well after having to produce da2 in 14 months, which just suffered from fans and journalism for reusing environments, because it was produced in 14 months, and honestly? no one pointed that out back then, bioware themselves pointed it out again this year, 6 years after release, that that game was produced in 14 months. rdr2′s release was hounded by stories of crunch, and they all disappeared into the night because... it was heralded as the best game of all time. that was 2018, 2 years ago.

i think too is that some people get kind of ... morally and ethically concerned. which is understandable. can you consume something when you know it was made under conditions like crunch? and i think one of the most confronting things about it is that 9/10, not only has your favourite company engaged in crunch conditions, they almost actively choose to continue with them. and then that’s a whole other bag of issues blown up over there when it comes to what is able to be consumed what isn’t etc etc

i think also like a mix of marketing, promises and then the expectations of what the game will be like have really had cdpr earn the ire of fans which is just like... you don’t believe what these companies are saying. you never should, esp when it’s their ceo’s saying it who don’t work on the actual floor. bioware itself is the main culprit of doing this to the point they finally came around with all the da4 concept art and teasing to be like ‘ummm but actually dont get invested?’. remember all that qunari lady fanart that bioware management was like ... please dont get attached? yeah. yeah. like at what point as well is there going to be heavy level of apprehension to approach this? and i can’t really talk either, i cracked open the door for mass effect again. i know exactly what kind of shit bioware will pull, i know they are teasing it already on social media, but mass effect is my ride or die series. that’s why people keep opening the door on letting these companies get away with it. and you can’t fault fans entirely either because this is down to a science of how to get money. i mean, fuck, mass effect andromeda’s entire advertising campaign HINGED on the n7 logo. for the nostalgia value. and i see text posts in the same vein of both ‘guys, disney isnt gonna fuck you if you consume every remake for nostalgia value’ and ‘its understandable why people do it’.

so then you have to go ‘well are fans as just to blame’ and then that’s a whole other argument.

i think also like. i personally havent run into aaaannnyyyyyyy of the issues that you see posted online. which is ironic bc 1) i play on ps4 and 2) its an old dusty ps4. in fact a lot of ppl i have spoken to who have had issues have played on pc. does this mean the glitches dont exist? ofc not, the vids and screenshots are right there. but like... ive had a basically unhindered experience so far, and i get where ppl are coming from (i do, i promise) where theyve basically found the game unplayable. is there also a standard of what ppl consider unplayable because ive played most AAA games at launch when they basically rushed to slap the box label on the game and called it a day until they work on patches. when ppl consider unplayable is also just... different per person. some people have a slight blur on the screen when turning too fast even in an MMO and decide the game is horrible and unplayable. some people can have broken quests and npcs not loading and falling through maps and still be fine. there’s no agreed statement of what makes a game unplayable either, which is why you read threads on twitter and someone goes ‘yeah this npc t-posed so i quit in the first hour’ with a dozen replies. everyone has different levels of it.

it’s a mixed bag of issues. im not excusing cdpr, but the ppl who worked on the game are honestly likely not the ones who pushed for a release. you’ve gotta look at sony and microsoft and ceo’s with bonuses coming up and the investors and shareholders and people who sit behind computers and read numbers detailing interest and demand and supply and how every single time they had to delay this game, the loudest (but smallest) bunch of assholes on like reddit and in the twitter threads complained that it was delayed AGAIN even though back in what 2015? they said it’ll come out when it’s ready. and yeah there are times when game delays result in a mismatched half assed sort of story (kh3... p5... ffxv... dai...) and then there are times when, if they need to delay the game... they probably need to delay the game. sometimes delays are bad sometimes theyre good sometimes you are sitting there like whew if you only didn’t try to be like THIS TIME this is the release date.

the ONLY WAY this will stop happening is, quite frankly, unionising. and everyone is allergic to that whole concept so like... this is “the perfect storm” as you put it. but it’s also not. people have been so disappointed over the last 2 years alone for gaming companies, the final product, the attitudes from higher ups, that i think cdpr is receiving a good few years worth of anger. i think theyre also on the receiving end of misdirection from american fans who still don’t fucking get the company isn’t american, because that’s another bag of issues as well. like we’re holding at least 8 bags of groceries out of the back of the car now, and we don’t want to take another trip, because there are so many little bits of this entire situation to look at. there’s so much back and forth.

i think the worst, but most realistic thing is: games won’t change. how they will social media wise will. maybe. assuming bioware gets their heads out their asses but... they’re going to be a lot more careful. i mean, hell, sony offered refunds. that was just a publicity stint. they dont give a fuck if the game was bad. as i said before, if they did, they would make all companies fix trophy problems, starting from like 2010 or whenever the trophy system first came out. they just don’t wanna fall in alongside cdpr being thrown on its sword. but the companies are gonna learn from this, get smarter, still do the same shit to their employees, still pay off journalists, still do media blackouts, etc etc. and we’re gonna be here in another year’s time, with another game, having these same roundabout arguments, and cp77′s issues are gonna fade into just a wikipedia article.

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Whitewashing in the RDR2 Community

Today is the day of yeeting things into the void (if I post all my other drafts that is...)

Basically posting this because I feel guilty that I haven’t spoken out before.

I saw some fanart here that whitewashed a character and it pissed me off.  It was basically what looked like Kim Kardashian labelled as Tilly Jackson and it baffled me how anyone would post it.  If you’re drawing and you can't get Tilly's nose right, okay, you might not have meant harm, but then surely you can see it doesn't even slightly resemble her so don't post it.  I’d seen posts about this before, but never the art itself and it was pretty stunning to see for myself just how bad the problem is.

I was going through some other personal stuff so disappeared from posting for a while, and then came back to literally first thing on my dashboard being more of the same whitewashing and conversations about it.

It always feels like it's the same people calling this out.  It must be exhausting for them.  They're literally providing free education about how to do better, being very generous in giving guides etc.  And then people wanna argue with them about it?  Or try to act like depicting a white character as a POC is the same thing (have you not heard of white supremacy????)

I wrote a whole long thing a while ago when I lost my temper about this but then I panicked about posting it.  I didn't know if it was rude to just jump into someone's replies, being new to Tumblr and not sure of the etiquette.  

But now I feel horrible that I didn't speak out and I left it to the same people to call this out who I always see calling it out.  So I am saying it now.

Whitewashing is not okay.  If you are called out on it you need to accept the criticism, not get defensive about it.

White standards of attractiveness are literally worldwide because of white supremacy.  Lightening a characters skin, giving a black character a skinnier nose etc, perpetuates this white supremacy.  It implies, whether you mean it to or not, that the character isn't good enough as is and that can cause real harm to the people seeing this content.  

Depicting a white character as a POC does nothing but improve representation. It certainly does not perpetuate white supremacy.  It's completely absurd, petty and frankly just defensive to draw that comparison.

I truly cannot believe that this community needs to argue about this.

I'm gonna go back to posting my usual trash RDR2 content of things that amuse and mildly interest me.   It’s nice if other people enjoy my content, but if not then I’m just gonna post it and it stands as a record of my time in this game.  If you wanted to enjoy my content but can’t because for some reason this post upsets you then oops, I don’t really care.    We were never gonna be friends if you feel the need to fight me or anyone else on this.

I don’t know how to tag this so I’m gonna pin it.  If you stumble across this blog of mine please know that I feel strongly about this and it’s literally the first thing I want you to know about me.

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okay this is gonna get long so i’ll put it under a cut

RDR2:

Favorite character: Mr. Arthur Morgan........... my husband

Least Favorite character: Micah Bell, absolute bitch boy

5 Favorite ships (canon or non-canon): Charles/Arthur, John/Abigail, Abigail/Sadie, Mary-Beth/Kieran, Arthur/Albert

Character I find most attractive: Probably Sadie tbh??? I love her so much.

Character I would marry: Arthur... I love him a whole lot.

Character I would be best friends with: I think I’d get along really well with Kieran!

A random thought: The horses in this game deserve better tbh.

An unpopular opinion: I don’t find low-honor Arthur attractive tbh.... I only like him as a good boy.

My Canon OTP: John/Abigail

My Non-canon OTP: Charles/Arthur

Most Badass Character: SADIE ABSOLUTELY. I LOVE HER.

Most Epic Villain: Dutch, definitely. I think he’s incredibly fascinating and he’s the most compelling villain the Red Dead Redemption franchise has.

Pairing I am not a fan of: I can see the appeal of it but I’m personally not into Sadie/Arthur ^^” I’ve seen some really cute fanart of it, though!

Character I feel the writers screwed up (in one way or another): I really feel like they screwed over my girl Karen by not giving her a proper resolution, instead just having her disappear.

Favourite Friendship: Tilly and Arthur’s friendship is very important to me and I’d die for it.

Character I most identify with: Honestly? I identify a LOT with Arthur, especially in the high honor route.

Character I wish I could be: Mary-Beth tbh... she’s baby and also she doesn’t fuckin die.

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Fabriz:

When I started shipping them: I’d say I started shipping them around episode six of season one, with “I go happily into his arms”.

My thoughts: I think it’s a really sweet ship and hits on a lot of adorable tropes relating to first love and teenage romance,,,,,,

What makes me happy about them: It’s such a cute ship!! And it works really well both platonically and romantically imo, I just love Fabian and Riz’s relationship

What makes me sad about them: The prospect that they may not remain friends after high school makes me pretty sad, but adventuring parties are for life so I Refuse to believe they’ll drift apart.

Things done in fanfic that annoys me: Nothing I’ve really seen out there in fabriz fic particularly annoys me honestly!

Things I look for in fanfic: Just,,,,, let them be happy,,,,,, that’s all I ask,,,,,,,

My wishlist: I’m not 100% sure what this means but I guess my ultimate wishlist would be that they become canon, lmao, but I’m not too deadset on that happening and I wouldn’t be too upset if they didn’t.

Who I’d be comfortable them ending up with, if not each other: Honestly I think I’d be comfortable with anything as long as these two are still close friends!

My happily ever after for them: Just let them be happy and stay close as they grow up, regardless of if they end up together,,,,, that’s all I ask.

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Jon Sims:

How I feel about this character: I’m not too far into the series but I really like him so far!! He’s a little shit and a bitch but I love him a whole damn lot.

Any/all the people I ship romantically with this character: tbh I mainly just really ship him with Martin...... I’ve seen some spoilers and they seem really cute together.

My favorite non-romantic relationship for this character: I’m not really far enough in the series to know that many other characters I’d ship with him in a non-romantic sense ^^”

My unpopular opinion about this character: I don’t know if it’s unpopular, but he may be a little bit of a bitchboy but he’s a good bean at heart.

One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon: Just,,,,,, let him be happy,,,,,,,

Favorite friendship for this character: Again, Martin, based on what I’ve seen about how their relationship evolves.

My crossover ship: I don’t have one, but I’d love to explore some options!