#translation: i am reading tpoh

[beetroot-merchant]

u watch as i lose my shit over a sentient tv

[everysongineverykey]

alright motherfuckers! time for me to exert all my effort in order to overcome my ✨✨✨crippling dislike of talking about my more obscure interests✨✨✨ and tell you all about one of two SUBLIME webcomics i read this year that i am completely in love with! i’ll make a post about the other one later but for now, let me tell you about the beautiful, beautiful story that is author sarah jolley’s the property of hate and why everyone needs to read it! let me explain:

the property of hate is a delightful, whimsical, fantasy-type webcomic that you can read for free online or buy in book form for 25 bucks! i'll admit, i'm a teensy bit confused about the plot, but the basic gist is that a little girl is offered the chance to become a hero by a mysterious, cheerful monster that shows up in her room one night- she accepts, and the monster- a british, suited humanoid creature named RGB with a tv for a head- takes her away to a confusing, somewhat magical land of characters that have yet to find their stories, among other things. but there are as many if not more enemies as friends- fears, doubts, nightmares, given form- and the girl soon finds out that her television-headed guide's intentions may not be as simple as they first seemed. that's a shitty synopsis, but there's world-saving and gorgeous art, as well as these significant perks:

art and storylines that play beautifully with film and art techniques such as chiaroscuro (art technique concerning light and shadow), dolly zooms (type of cinematic shot intended to disorient the viewer), and many other niche words- and it does it so that it's interesting and suspenseful!!!

PAIR OF MARRIED LESBIAN MONSTER WIVES!! "but liberty," you cry, "if they're monsters, that's questionable gay rep, isn't it?" i remove you from the premises immediately. that is not a valid argument because there is exactly one (1) human in this story. stan julienne the candy monster and her music wife or perish💙

genderfluid side character!! it's only a small detail, but it's there plain as day! ("and what are we today?" "female, darling.")

precocious small poc girl protagonist who takes NO shit from anyone. she's still adorable and likable, though, and she has short hair!! that's not important to the story but we stan young female protags with short hair💙

rgb!!! rgb the tv man who initiates the journey and guides the hero on her way so that she may save this world between worlds of sorts. dapper, british, infuriating at times, and- i kid you not- CANONICALLY PANSEXUAL, he is absolutely wonderful to read, and his character development is just *chef's kiss*. i love him a lot

an absolutely showstopping found family story. rgb and the hero are the single best father-daughter duo in fiction, contemporary or classic. they get off on the wrong foot, and they get on each other's nerves a fair bit, but they're family by the end (keep in mind that to my knowledge, the comic is currently ongoing and unfinished) and there are these amazingly heartwarming scenes between them that just make my sad scared heart go dhfssgjjfhjhiggjdhfxhd

THERE'S A PRAYING MANTIS CHARACTER WHO SPEAKS ONLY IN MORSE CODE. PULL UP AN ONLINE MORSE TRANSLATOR, THEIR REMARKS ARE TOO GOOD TO BE MISSED

genius worldbuilding.... imaginative and ingenuitive characters and worlds and concepts... honestly everything's practically perfect from a storytelling standpoint and just plain fun to read

comedy

a wonderful cast of side characters,

exquisite art,

meaningful and true morals about emotional health and good versus evil (among other things),

and so! many! other! incredible! things!!

i could go on and on about this comic but the whole reason i made this post was to persuade other people to read it, so go do that! the link to the first page is here:

http://www.jolleycomics.com/TPoH/The%20Hook/1

and you can also follow the author on tumblr if you want! she's @modmad .

THANK you for reading this post. it is MUCH more structured than my normal posts and has a ton of information in it, uncommon for me and my pea brain, but i love this webcomic and hyperfixation go brrr💙 happy reading!!

[ukagakadreamteam]

Hello! I've been quite curious about designing a few ghosts based off of other characters I like, including TPoH's RGB and Zarla's own ukagaster, and I was wondering if there's a way to keep people from editing them? I think it's possible since I've experimented with trying to add cute little bits of dialogue to the ukagaster, and when I reopen the edited ghost it completely breaks. Is there a way to code that kind of safeguard/failsafe into a ghost so it can't be stolen?

This is theoretically possible! But perhaps not how you're thinking.

The issues you've had with editing Gaster could be any number of things; from your text editor adding things it shouldn't to the files (such as smart quotes), to a small typo in the syntax causing the whole thing to break. Gaster's files are not encrypted or protected in any way. If you want help with debugging, this page will get you started, or you can join us in our Discord server!

There are tools available to encrypt the dic files of a ghost before release, though I don't believe anyone in the english community has made use of them yet. If you want to learn more about it, you can read about it on the AYAYA wiki here, though you'll likely need to run the page through google translate.

That being said, I am told that the encryption is not very strong, and can be easily broken. If you have serious concerns about your work being stolen, Ukagaka may not be a good medium to work in since they're very open source by nature. That is how we grow and thrive as a community as well; new devs often get into this art form by looking at the code of existing ghosts and trying their own edits, much like you have! I think that is something to consider before you encrypt your files as well.

Good luck if you decide to start a ghost project, anon, and feel free to ask further questions here or join us on Discord if you want live advice!

-Zichqec