favorite video game console purely based on aesthetics & visuals

aaaughhuuhhGamecube. I was thinking maybe gameboy for its translucent cases, but this Just beats it. like if it's the console itself, it's more like a cool novelty lunch box than a machine and Extremely delicious looking.

the colour choices remind me a little of those liquorice pieces that always looked nice to me as a kid and never were, especially that orange.

and it has a little handle! no other console design has been this ergonomic. I know this is on its visual merit but I just have to bring this up haha. don't have to awkwardly transport this box between your palms like every other cube. and speaking of ergonomic, the controller!

not only is it a comfortable shape and distinctly colour-coded, but it's tactile, too. each button is an immediately identifiable and decently-sized shape, and your thumb glides over the A perfectly. it's just a cool-looking, chunky piece of plastic.

if you mean the visuals of the games on it, love those too. a lot of that is down to personal nostalgia, but the vibrant worlds with those eye-catching sakurai-(inspired) menus really popped.

You are an uplifting and inspiring force - always reaching out to cheer folks up and help include them. Please never stop. We need more of this, and you're wonderful at doing it!

Anon Ask Meme.

Does avgn have a large following in Japan or something?

I'd say large enough.

Sire, I'm going to have to ask you to draw the biggest booty werewolf you've ever drawn in your life with no pants, I crave ass and cheek :P

day 117 everybody

I haven’t seen the post about peeling skin but I have a moral; never buy socks at Universal Studios

Pre-COVID my family went to California and did all the fun stuff. AKA stuff I don’t find fun but who gives a shit whatever. We went to Universal Studios first, and back then, they had a store dedicated to socks. No idea if it’s still there. Cool, I want funny socks so I buy a couple pairs, and I wear one pair the next day

My feet were peeling for weeks. Like, I could peel off a square inch of skin in one go. Didn’t hurt to come off, but boy my feet were sore. This was because I went on a water ride at Disney and my feet got wet

So, you might think it was because my feet were wet, not the socks. Nah. I’m the kind of freak who both enjoys peeling her skin off and wearing socks in the shower. And when we got home, I did Science

Only the Universal Socks did this. Also they gave my sibling blisters. We tested that too, with more Science.

So don’t buy their socks

Loved your trope mashup art! If you're still doing them could you do 25 & 44? 🥰🥰🥰

This might be cheating a bit because idk if it's a Flower of Romance per se... 25. Fairy Tale AU + 44. Flowers of Romance

phoenix witch 16 or jet star 9?

in the spirit of ray's very important insta post about albany

I know your scret

U guys are reddit admins

Not sure about trollface? Do you even know what a demotivator is?

……no

but now i’m scared to ask…

hello

I require more food (thiefshipping)

I drew this Crap just for you you're welcome

how much music have you pirated

nice try, john flansburgh

Unpopular opinion: parts of the cr fandom are really dismissive/ reductive of Travis’s characters. It feels like it’s due to Travis being seen as THE cis het man of the group, and by extension his characters must be heteronormative and bad, despite the fact that you could have queer interpretations of his characters. At the very least, Travis’s characters explore masculinity and the different ways it might look. It’s like the people who are all “ew men are gross and shitty” and act like that’s an absolutely normal reaction to a man just existing.

So this is another one in that I agree with the initial statement, but I'm actually not sure re: the reasoning why. I think it's possible but I could not tell you for sure.

I used to, again, think this was people carrying through Campaign 1 elements well beyond the point where C1 had ended, and so Grog having an intelligence of 6 was being applied to Travis; and this definitely does come through to an extent when people treat Fjord (objectively as smart as Beau without her circlet) as stupid or act shocked that Chetney is the brains of Bells Hells or that he can play a Cerrit, Fjord, or Nathaniel. However, again, I think this is one of those opinions that pops up among people who weren't around for Campaign 1 (or early enough in C2 to be exposed to it regularly) so I don't know if that's the case anymore. It could still be - it could be that Approved Fandom Opinions get passed down even when the logic behind them has long since been lost; that's a really common thing in institutional memory. But I can't say for sure.

I also have in the past credited it to, as you said, people assuming his characters are the cishet guys and then writing them off. That's still possible - I've seen both Fjord and Chetney called "token straight" despite considerable evidence of bisexuality, and they also paradoxically are both commonly headcanoned as trans while still getting called "token straight," which sort of ties into a post I would need to find from someone else from quite some time ago about which cast members are granted agency by the fandom in their choices vs. which are assumed to be the victims of circumstance. And I do think that there are people in fandom who have decided men are icky or whatever, and I used to think this came from a place of bigotry and a slide towards t*rf ideology but I now do genuinely think it's just idiots who don't grant interiority to characters outside their own limited understanding.

But I think it's also useful to consider a few things, most of which I've brought up before:

Travis is extremely offline. He is not here to entertain your headcanons; he has been politely but openly dismissive of some (imo, really fucking dumb) fanon/fan theories. I think the cast frequently talks about how it's their table, and I think that's valid and correct, but Travis is one of the players who lives it the most. He is playing this game with his friends, and he'd like it to be a good story, but if you don't like it, he is not here to make you like it. I think that really fucks with the parasocial connections some people desire with the cast.

Travis's characters tend to examine masculinity as a performance but also the general performance of the self, and the fact that you cannot in the end control how you are perceived entirely, and I think that really unsettles people who have equated presentation with reality and are again, looking for external validation of the self.

Travis can play it big but he's often extremely subtle, especially with his more serious characters, and he's not as easily quotable out of context as some others at the table. I think because he is a lot more naturalistic than dramatic at times (Chetney notwithstanding) and isn't as pithy and quotable in his characters as many of Taliesin's PCs are, and a lot of the strength is in the delivery, he gets overlooked despite being very good with words on the fly.

And finally: this would be a whole post on its own but people are still very foolishly wed to this idea that pressing the big red button in D&D is Wild and Chaotic and haha Big ADHD Man when it's actually how you play D&D if you're not a coward; the button is where the story is stored, and a lot of Travis's strength is that he is extremely good at understanding what the GM wants and supporting it with sufficient grace that it's only visible if you know what you're fucking doing.

kinito comits arson :3???

this is fine

knowing you by ur fan music only and then seeing you in a fandom is is like seeing a celebrity. ill be so real i saw ur robins post and was like "PHEMIEC???? IN MY FANDOM??????" like that meme with the nun. anyways good art and cant wait to see the content you may make for the forsaken batman fandom

After that last post, pay for my therapy

Alastor: *Watching Niffty zoom around the parlor* Niffty, dear, what do you have?

Niffty: A Knife!

Charlie: No!

I love how memeable these characters are.

It's so perfect.

It's so accurate.