So y'all remember how fucked Danny Phantom was? That is a whole dead child, his parents shoot at him on the reg. It's Stellar, I'm a FAN.

Artist: Takeuchi Naoko Publication: Nakayoshi Magazine (01/1992) Details: All-Star ‘92 Ogenki Calendar (November/December) Source: Scanned from personal collection

taking a ride

in an illustrated copy of konrad von würzburgs "trojanerkrieg" (the trojan war), ca. 1441

the illustration depicts thetis and her servant riding dolphins, behind them achilles unconscious in a bag

source: Nürnberg, GNM, Hs. 998, fol. 31v

Midwife

“Midwife with child in Oslo, Norway.” - via Wikimedia Commons

A little floating island for the nether portal near the base.

ROCK YOU LIKE A HURRICANE

It would be this easy to become a 'Con with such good publicity coffcoffISAID--

I almost drew him with a guitar but that meant looking at a ref for more than 15 min and I only had those 15 mins to finish something so... air guitar orz HERE, luv him lots, @maxicaiman 💜

i really want to make a blog for some kind of plural-based resource but i have no idea what..... hmmmmm.

i can never find sebastian attractive because he falls into that “comfort character but like in a familial way” bracket. that’s my best friend. that’s my little brother. what do you mean he’s sexy - i just saw that fool trip up the stairs

231216 fancall with binsungg

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oof as much as I'd love to start drama by asking what IFs you have beef with..... I have to go with the less targeted question of 'what are some IF tropes you think are overdone'. personally if I have to see the same four ROs recycled into another game one more time I'll scream

LOL probably a safer question for me to answer too...

ROs are a big sticking point for me as well. Seeing the same archetypes over and over, feeling like someone came up with ROs first and is now desperately trying to finesse a story that can justify all of them being date-able*, someone having an actually interesting and compelling story to tell but bending themself into pretzels to fit in six romance arcs that may not even serve the plot just because that's an expected convention... Also in general I never lose interest in a new project faster than when I see artbreeder RO portraits. Not even because it's """AI art""" but because it's always the same empty eyed model-perfect 20something in different colors.

(*NOT the same as a story primarily designed to be a dating sim. I generally think that's fine as a genre, and some of these people would have an easier time if they were willing to admit that's what they were writing and not some sweeping grand narrative.)

My other biggest issue with a lot of amateur IF is like... excessive and overly ambitious customization? I think a lot of authors don't know where the line is on what they can just allow the reader to imagine without there being a variable for it, as well as what they should frankly just... be willing to decide for the reader when it best serves the story. As far as MC customization, I think this really stems from a lot of people in the community getting their first introduction to IF through CoG and then drawing the conclusion that if some character customization is good, more customization must be better! But if it's not going to come up in-text and be directly relevant to the plot or how the MC is characterized*... it doesn't need to be canonized.

(*by which I mean, like... making your character a specific religion, or disabled, or something like that. Things that actually impact how they engage with the world.)

Branching off of that, I think maybe my most potentially controversial take is... not every IF needs to have a customizable MC at all. It's entirely possible to write a story with a set, static protagonist, and still allow the player to make decisions that allow them to shape that character and the broader plot in a way that still feels personal and like they're an active participant. VNs tend to go this way, or else they have a faceless MC who still tends to have a more set personality, and I think sometimes I read IF demos and I really get the feeling they wish they could be writing someone specific, and they're getting hamstrung by the idea that they need to sand off enough defining features to let the MC be anyone.

Hazbin AU: The year is 1942, and America has just joined the war. In order to provide a distraction to the American populace, up and coming TV host Vincent Price has been sent to New Orleans to get an interview with the most vocally anti-TV radio host they could find. It's a fun rivalry to captivate the American people and keep them from worrying. Alastor's expecting to hate the change of pace, but for a whirlwind couple of weeks, they find each other crashing into one another's orbits and mediums.

Hannibal, 2014, dir. Vincenzo Natali

SE02E08 Su-zakana

if i ever walk past a pretty flower, please know that something is wrong