Tonight I told my sweetheart about my ONE Legend of Zelda theory that I'd fight for, citing multiple games for lore and reference, and they still love me 💙
I know your first impulse is to despair. To say we’re fucked. To feel desperate and hopeless. I feel it. We all feel it.
But Notorious RBG would not have wanted us to lie down and accept defeat.
She’d have wanted us to fight like hell. And that’s what we’re going to do.
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Pretty sure tumblr doesn’t care about this sort of thing as much as the deviantart crowd does, but I made some simple adoptables. They’re all for sale to whatever OC parents out there are in need of a sparklecat. I’d love to do more of this sort of thing if only because it makes me use wild colors I never touch.
Another speedpaint session with Bob Ross done, and this time, I recorded a little process video. I had a lot of fun painting with as close to the same color palette that Bob uses and trying to use digital techniques to mimic traditional ones. Between figuring out how painting works in Clip Studio Paint and editing motion graphics and then rendering...like 5 times...and then the initial file got corrupted, I’d say this was an ordeal, but I mean, that IS editing. I still had a ton of fun and hope you like the end product and the process video.
Here’s the link for the process video over on YouTube:
Life is Strange; Before the Storm criticism -- David Madsen was just a lil TOO douchey. Like, I get it. He’s a vet with issues separating himself from active duty to civilian life, but telling Chloe that her “vacation [from having a father figure] was over” is just insensitive and garbage. At least by the end of LiS 1, you saw David’s true grief over failing Chloe as a father when you tell him Chloe was killed. You get to know him a more rounded character and not “shitty dude is shitty.” I just wish that could’ve been portrayed in similar light, or maybe even show that David was TRYING to be a parent, just not doing a great job at it.
I think one of the most heartbreaking takeaways I have from Life is Strange is that in no timeline does Chloe really get to be happy and feel secure. In the final scene of the first game, you ultimately choose between Chloe or Arcadia Bay but there’s still no guarantee that either of you survive afterwards. The game was about working through the grief and concept of wanting to go back and change future/present outcomes so choosing Chloe in the end seems like an incomplete way to conclude the themes.
I think I saw something about them appearing for a second in LiS 2, but I haven’t played or seen any playthroughs to know that for sure.