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A short, safe walk home. Man, this city has changed....
#Horror art#my art#horror#isometric#walk home#giant hands#scary#Monster hands#don't walk home alone#Queer character#because all the people I draw are Queer#I am unstoppable
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everyone SHUT UP and look at him. THE main character of all time. was your fav the god of the sun in a past life turned prince of destruction destined to destroy the world? i didn't think so. AND he's bisexual
#a chorus of dragons#a chorus of dragons fanart#kihrin d'mon#kihrin d'mon fanart#quil's quill#i know my mutuals. no this is not tiergan I know it looks like him but they are very different exhausted queer people#anyway! trying my hand at figuring out how to draw these guys#staring with The Guy Of All Time#he's a thief raised in a brothel he's the reincarnation of the brother of the main antagonist#he volunteered for this in a past life but forgot and now is pissed about it#he's in love with his best friend but won't admit it to himself#he blew up a volcano and destroyed and entire inhabited island to fake his death#(it was evacuated prior)#he got sold into slavery when he was 15#he got stuck on an island for 2 years because a dragon really loved his singing voice#(that's why he had to blow it up)#he's the stupidest man alive but knows this#and is therefore the smartest man alive#he has horrible luck with brothers#he's literally a bard you have to love him#i'm doing a very shallow explanation of him here I know#guys I promise I can engage with media and charcaters better than this I swear#this is for the bit it's for fun
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I'm sorry, this is long and I'm blending pride and disability pride but:
Mtf trans Nerdanel and ftm Fëanor, post Second Singing - Fëanor still has scars, most obviously the burn scars on the left side of his face, going from his hairline and running down, covering his eye
- Nyx ❤️
Thank you for the ask! I'm absolutely up for drawing characters who are both disabled and queer! I love the idea of T4T Nerdanel and Fëanor.
I think this is during Dagor Dagorath, when they have only just reunited and are watching the world burn.
Forgiveness, can you imagine?
[ID: Digital painting of Fëanor and Nerdanel in profile. Nerdanel, a light-skinned female elf with long red hair, is leaning her chin on the top of Fëanor's head, who is a very light-skinned male elf with long black hair. Fëanor has extensive scarring on the side of his face and his ear. They are both wearing earrings in the colours of the trans flag. Glowing snow or dust falls around them, and the background has indistinct dark mountains and lights.]
Since it's the end of the world and Fëanor was just reembodied, for once they don't have elaborate braids and only minimal jewellery.
I wanted to achieve a less detailed and more textured feel, and I'm pretty happy with the result!
Queer characters series | Disabled characters series
#feanor#nerdanel#silmarillion#tolkien#beautiful art#the silmarillion#feanor art#nerdanel art#echo's drawings#queer silmarillion#silm#silm art#queer tolkien characters#disabled tolkien characters#i made feanor's scars a little nondescript#because while i'm all for drawing people with facial differences accurately#burn scars specifically are a sensitive subject for me and people who were going to see this#but i love the trope of elves being reembodied with scars
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#remind me to never ask my mother for opinions on absolutely anything ever again#i only wanted to see which illustration should go on my portfolio for kidlit art#and her wonderful opinion was to take out an illustration of two dudes EATING TOGETHER because and i quote#"gay relationships are not suitable for children books. it simply isn't their target audience''#does she need the list of the thousand of books that are literally about gay couples or about gay kids?!#they're not even like overtly gay they are literally eating together!!! (sure it is actually gay cause it's fanart of a bl but whatever lol#it's literally two guys sitting at the same table eating...#how is that not appropriate for children?!#also even if they were gettin married or whatever... how's that inappropiate?!#ALSO also i'm sick of reading in every illustration agency how they're looking for artists and writers and whatever who tackle queer storie#like sure i'm not gonna say gay people don't experience discrimination but it's not the fucking 50s... there are opportunities out there#idk i'm just so fuckin upset right now because she's saying I'M the one that's taking it bad#like the whole ''i'm not homophobic but.... blah blah''#and it drives me up the fucking walls to have to deal with this when the only thing i wanted was to have a char about which drawing looks#the best for a professional portfolio lol#anyways now out of fucking spite i'm gonna send all the gay ones i have lol#dkfjhkdfg#angel talks#personal#wish me luck on this email btw i need work!#dfkjghdfg
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seeing mlptwt fight with mlptok is so funny. girl you're both god awful toxic cesspools calm down.
#remember like a week ago where an artist got bullied off twitter for *checks notes* drawing pinkie black fat and queer#in a style the masses didnt like#seriously all the so called fixed art i saw was just anime or otherwise cartoonier#thats not fixing it you just drew it in a cuter style girl what#also the people who removed her double chin when fixing.... girl no#tbh i only saw a handful i closed twt p quick lmao#anyway mlptok will just be straight up racist often and try to call you homophobic for not shipping the ship they like#so appledash or twipie#even if youre swapping a gay ship for another gay ship they cannot stand it#also mlptok is def worse for misinfo they just make up things and everybody believes it.#for a hot second they thought derpy x doctor was incest since theyre canonically related. theyre not tho someone made that up#rant in the tags jfc#ponyblr ig your my only hope at this point#because fimfiction also sucks or at least did when i used it#sasha caws
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God can hori be any more heavy handed with the "DONT YOU WANT TO BE NORMAL NORMAL NORMAL" bestie, shes drinking other kids blood, thats not just "not normal". This weird retcon thing is annoying, Idk why hed bother putting her backstory in when he didnt give much of a shit about it 😭
The thing is, I actually don't think trying to say Toga's blood drinking is normal is necessarily bad or something that can't be done well. Quirks are a major part of the world and the story overall--it's not that far fetched that blood drinking might be a normal thing a person with a Quirk would want to do. If people can accept people that can make explosions which could also be dangerous to kids and people (and very much was for Izuku) then it's not a huge stretch to accept that blood drinking for Toga is normal and she should be accepted as such.
The issue is that Hori didn't really make that the issue. I don't think he really sees it himself given how he wrote Mineta, but Toga's main problem and why shes not accepted is a matter of consent not because she's seen as a creep.
This is why her backstory doesn't work very well, besides the fact it's way to late and very short. Yes, her parents freak out about her Quirk and obsession with blood. The problem is that they don't freak out for zero reason and are the only ones who reject her.
No child should be drinking the blood of birds. Whether she killed it or not, birds carry many diseases and parasites harmful to people. Her father shouldn't have hit her (because, I guess he did even though it's poorly conveyed), but the shock given what she's doing is understandable. Especially if they think she killed it (which is weird, and suggests she might have done something they found disturbing before this or were bad parents regardless of her Quirk).
Then they yell at her because she's biting her finger bloody. That's self harm and something you would want to send a child to therapy for. Sure, the counselor didn't help, but it's not like they can give Toga what she wants.
That's hammered home when they yell at her again when she drinks another kids blood. Hori messes up and doesn't show us what happens so we don't know if she hurt this other kid, or if they were scared of her or if they were fine with it.
Just giving us a look at her parents reaction doesn't give us any idea how she was seen by her peers. Because of that it's hard to make the case that she was only rejected for her Quirk alone, rather then her actions. In fact the only time we see other students they say she was popular and well liked until she attacked a boy in the class.
Given how young she looks when her parents yell at her for sucking another kids blood, and the fact she fled school after she attacked her crush, it appears these were separate events. If that was the case people in her school might have already heard about her sucking a kids blood earlier, and clearly not cared. In the very least we have to assume they knew her Quirk involved blood because Hori doesn't make any suggestion that it was hidden.
And that's why the theme of acceptance and Toga being normal because blood drinking is a part of her falls flat. No one ever said shit about her Quirk ever, except for her parents in sparse flashbacks. Ochako never thinks her blood drinking is gross nor do any of the the other Heroes or class 1A students. Hell, Tenya doesn't even bad mouth Stain for drinking blood even though he hated the guy so much he wanted him dead. This doesn't make it seem like the world rejected her for her Quirk.
No, the entire problem is that Toga doesn't understand consent or boundaries. We never see her ever ask anyone, even as a kid if she can drink their blood (that would have been a better scene then her drinking birds blood imho) and get rejected and told off and bullied/ostracized for her desire. Which if that did happen would explain why she never asks again and feels no one will accept her.
And, you could blame her parents and the therapist for this, but I'd just wager Hori doesn't really grasp that consent is the issue here. Mainly because Ochako never addresses it in anyway, even though she does bring up Toga's crimes. She offers her blood to Toga for life, but does not say that difference between Toga drinking her blood as opposed to anyone else's is because she is giving permission.
In the end Toga doesn't learn anything and just gets what she wanted given to her. Maybe Hori will address this next chapter but it really should have been brought up sooner. That or he should have had Toga actually not be accepted what-so-ever and shunned by all her peers for her Quirk even before she attacked her crush.
And this is part of the reason I really don't like the queer reading of the chapter is because by doing so it is suggesting that queer people are dangerous. If we read Toga's blood drinking as the same as kissing--which she seems to say (though her expression while drinking blood suggests something more...problematic) then she has been going around kissing people against their will to fulfill her own needs. If we read this as queer, is the story not saying that repressed gay people will sexually harass people because they can't understand consent when they inevitably snap?
I'm not saying this was or is Hori's intent. I think it's pretty clear he just didn't see how big an issue of consent there was with Toga and her Quirk. He wanted it to be all about how she wasn't accepted as normal, but didn't put in the work of showcasing that well. He has a lousy track record with female characters getting way less attention and with his rush to finish on top of that, Ochako and Toga got screwed with a half baked climax. Unfortunately that's also left it with less then great implications if you think about it for a coupe of minutes.
#ask#thanks for the ask!#sorry for the wait#and the back log of the other ones in my inbox#but i have a hard time focusing on one thing to talk about with Toga#since her character has so many problems#and the last chapter just pissed me off#cuz i'm sorry but neither of these two people know each other at all#Ochako doesn't know Toga's past#shes not seeing the flashbacks#and Toga knows even less about ochako#she just likes ochako because it gives Hori an excuse to draw girl on girl touching#like i'm sorry but I really doubt it's much deeper then that#I mean if he does make Toga/Ochako canon it's nice that wlw relationships get some exposure#but I wouldn't say it was good representation and I don't think that's means Hori is 100% behind gay rights#like at best I'd think he's like that fresh price meme “he's confused but he's got the spirit”#which is better then you generally get from a shonen jump title#so I wouldn't say it's worthless or unimportant#but that doesn't mean it doesn't have alot of flaws#and this isn't me saying all queer ships have to be wholesome/perfect#it's just that i think if it canon it will be treated as wholesome when it's really not#like way more issues then Catadora from She-ra#anti togachako#anti toga#anti himiko#mha#bnha spoilers#bnha#bnha critical#bnha 393
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dysgraphic artiƨts risɘ UP!!!!!
#raise your pencils!!!! and erasers. to fix the backwards letters 😔#sorry still thinking about my weirdness with my art professors. yknow a lot of em have been really pushing us as#students to make our personal identities a major part of like our 'brand' as artists#which. well from an art history major perspective thats a very contentious and nuanced topic. i love a lot of artists who live this way#and i think its great seeing my peers who focus on identity thrive. but also as an fine arts major (double major fool LOL)#i keep getting pushed by teachers into like. specific '____ artist' identities???#specificaly woman artist. which is a little bizarre because im a bit fat and a bit gnc so im generally like. ungendered? in day-to-day life#(which doesnt actually matter to me directly that much honestly LOL people tend to view me as like. buddy? buddy or pal.)#(not man. not woman. not anything human. sometimes i remind people of a beloved dog. which. hkdsahjk thats its own can of worms)#(a can of worms that also doesnt matter much to me directly because im a wannabe furry who chose to be the dog when playing house as a kid)#(LOL so um. well. theres that) but yeah i dunno i dont really consider myself a woman artist. its been. shockingly (and sometimes luckily?)#irrelevant to most of my life and experiences and art (although dont get me wrong misogyny is very real and very present) so i dont#have a whole lot to say about it from an art perspective. you could also call me all kinds of things. a queer artist. a mixed race artist#again technically correct. some aspects more visible in my work than others. but also very technical. i focus on race a lot in in my#art historical work but i dunno how much my drawings have to say. except that i keep making too many mixed ocs LOL#i dunno i just think my professors gotta focus that energy away from tokenizing me and over to supporting like actual#capital W Woman artists capital Q Queer artists capital A Artists of Colour who are doing far more interesting things than I#far more thought out and engaged in these topics directly. i just kind of stumble into my art blindly and confused <3#sorry that was a long tangent WHAT IM SAYING Is despite all that: i do consider myself a capital D Dysgraphic artist#i think its an unmovable constant of my art and the way i draw and the way my hands move. the untrained eye doesnt seem to be as aware#of it directly. but those who are familiar can probably see it. the dysgraphia LOL if not just from whenever i write a letter or number#half of them are busted and frantically fixed HDKJSDJDS but its in all my art. if u can see it <3 ive been trying to embrace it#dygraphic artists raise your pencils indeed!! and throw away the eraser!!! make the legibility of your words everyone elses problem!!!#what does that say? what is that sketch? none of my business! none of your business!! its the business of my hand and the pencil alone#motor skill and spatial issues take the wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeel
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first character sheet done- adrien!! i'm planning on doing the rest of the gang this week
(please reblog this if you give it a like!)
#this took me eight hours ahhhh#i think it's because of all the decora details i added the outfit#but the rest of them should be faster because there's less to do#anyway! i hope people like this :)#fish draws#blub blub#oc stuff#oc art#original art#digital art#queer art#trans art
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i literally look so so so pretty and for what? Not a single woman is looking at me longingly from across the room, fiddling with her pen because this is a boring meeting, and i look up at her and my heart skips a beat because oh, you just caught me stealing glances, and we start talking, and she makes me a little bit insane and I fall in love with every piece of you, and you for every piece of me, and we've been friends for a year now, and one day you're walking me back home and the sun is setting on this flamboyant backdrop of vivid pinks and oranges characteristic to Autumn, and I turn around, I want to say something, but I see you and the only think I can think of is how much I want to kiss you, and I die a little bit inside. But I think you do too, because you're just looking at me in that way, the way you've always had really, and we kiss, and it's the most beautiful thing I've ever done.
But nah all I get are catcalls and creepy dudes hitting on me fml
#you cannot imagine my frustration when i dress up to the nines for the girlz#and all i get is fucking creepy jeremy passing a note with a shitty drawing of his own eye and “i love you” scribbled on it???#before you try and go “but that's kinda cute!”#well sure except i've met jeremy exactly 4 hours ago and he's been staring at me the whole time with the most blank expression#and started trauma dumping on me and my friend when we had a cigarette break#and now i fear for my safety because something about the guy felt EXTREMELY off-putting in an uncanny valley kind of way#also note that he wrote “i love you” in english which is. not my first language?? i mean obviously i understood but idk#it just added extra weird point#so obviously the best thing to do to cope is to imagine my little sapphic scenarios#i would do anything to meet fellow queer people in this shitty little town#like WHERE ARE THEY???? WHERE ARE MY PEOPLE#sapphic#lgbtqia#queer#queer community
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Omfg Fitz responding to the Fool's buckwild but clearly absolutely true claim that Bee is also his daughter by going"of all the people I could lie to, I'd always been best at lying to myself" as if to acknowledge what he's about to do and then immediately in the same paragraph lying so hard to himself that I'm pretty sure he's about to get a hernia from it A++++ I love him king of denial
#realm of the elderlings#fitz and the fool#no but for real this is why everyone is convinced hes queer ok#you CANNOT write a character whos literal defining trait is being so good at lying to himself and repressing shit he doesnt want to face#that he ends up hiding in a cabin in the woods for 15 years because magic got involved in one of his repression attempts#and now he LITERALLY cant feel emotions normally#and then put that character in THE most homoerotic friendship of all time#and expect people to not draw obvious conclusions about what else he could possibly be repressing!!!#he literally canonically lies to himself about everything and is so good at it he sometimes doesnt even realize it!!!#who's word am i supposed to trust about this???? FITZ'S???
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With the popularity of Ted Lasso, I'm genuinely just so glad that we got such a phenomenal show that has made an impact on so many people, and of course now we've also gotten the first season of Shrinking, which also knocked it out of the park.
But I still mourn Whiskey Cavalier every time I watch an episode of either of those.
There hasn't been a whole lot of tv I've actually enjoyed in the past several years, and these three feel like an absolute trifecta, but WC feels like the holy ghost at this point because there is SO MUCH of it in Ted Lasso and Shrinking-- it's so many of the same writers/directors/producers, but they're also just so similar right to their foundations. All three interrogate tv tropes and relationships (of all kinds!!!!!) and mental health through comedy, and Ted Lasso and Whiskey Cavalier actually interrogate an entire genre. I'd say that WC is more on that side than Ted Lasso even is, because although they definitely interrogate some of the tropes of sports fiction (toxic masculinity, anyone?), WC actually parodies spy fiction while playing itself as straight.
It just makes me absolutely feral to think about what more of Whiskey Cav would have looked like. A second season? A third? The development of the show from the original(-ish, one of the drafts) pilot to what was actually filmed shows so much growth and an acknowledgement that they could really work with what they had-- it turned from a show about a guy (hence the name) to a show about an entire team. Frankie took the spot as the second main character with Will once they cast Lauren Cohan (I don't think that happened before she was cast but I may be wrong) and another character was completely rewritten into Jai when Vir Das was cast. They had an entire plan for how to flip the TV trope of the will-they-won't-they relationship to a how-will-they-make-it-work relationship!!!!!! It would have been so good!!!!!! The amount of character development we got in just one season was far above and beyond anything else I've seen besides Ted Lasso and Shrinking, and honestly I think more actually happened specifically because they didn't have the assurance of more seasons (good thing they didn't assume, I guess) to build on things like the Ted Lasso Method™ but they still managed to do it without rushing it.
Honestly I feel like I could make a venn diagram of how all three of these shows all overlap and it would be hilarious. Excellent theme songs by well known artists without it feeling cheap? ✅✅✅ Excellent episodic music by well known artists also without it feeling cheap? ✅✅✅ Really well executed character development for ALL of the characters? ✅✅✅ Interrogation of tv tropes? ✅✅✅ More specifically, hilariously camp villains who still manage to take advantage of tropes to work? ✅✅ Incredibly well developed character relationships OF ALL KINDS that don't all hinge on only one romantic relationship as the centerpoint of everything? ✅✅✅ Queer characters who don't exist for the butt of a joke or solely as token queer characters? ✅✅✅ Every line is delivered with perfect comedic (or dramatic) delivery and timing? ✅✅✅
Anyway, this has been a barely coherent and very meandering way of saying that the fact that ABC put the episodes out of order really screwed things up, but Whiskey Cav really hit its stride there with the second half of season one and absolutely nailed the vibe they'd been working towards with the foundational episodes that came before them, and I just get SO ANGRY when I watch Ted Lasso and Shrinking despite the fact that they're both so good and I enjoy them so much because it makes me think about just how good a second (and third, damn it) season of Whiskey Cavalier would have been.
#also Christa Miller ✅✅#there are live five people still on this entire platform who care at all about wc but it's just permanently close to my heart#also do not @ me about queer characters in wc Frankie literally talks about being queer IN MULTIPLE EPISODES#they all also said during a live tweet that she's queer but word of god isnt the same as canon#but it is also canon so#and ray literally talks about a guy he's flirting with and I do not want to hear a word about it being an 'accident'#another reason that I'm mad we didn't get to have s2 is because we didn't get a chance to have it spoon fed to people who#weren't paying attention or didn't want to believe it#like all the people watching ted lasso who said we didn't have any queer characters in it??????#keely and colin were queer the entire time folks it was made quite apparent#trent was less obvious but they pointed out keely and colin well without hanging up a sign the side of the believe poster#to draw attention to it#do I think it should have been more important sooner? sure#but they waited to fully explore it until it was part of the narrative#once keely wasn't with roy (which made sense to happen while she was at richmond) and once#colin and trent are in the same space at Richmond#anyway that's not the point of this post it's just making me mad right now because I keep seeing it#representation is really important but at the same time having characters who we expect to announce that#they're queer loud and up front creates really unreasonable expectations for real people to do the same#but ANYWAY#jo says things
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ik that art is subjective and there is not one "true" meaning that one is meant to derive from a work but honestly, some people's readings of media ARE wrong and dumb and bad, lol
#ive seen ppl say that brokeback mountain was basically like emphasizing why people should be in the closet and stuff and im just like.#how could the point fly over your dumb little head so high smhh#they say that like jack and ennis end up miserable anyways so it shows that theres no hope for queer ppl or whatever but like?#i thought it was obvious that the whole point of the piece is that its a commentary on society and an argument as to why we need to fight#against homophobia with all that we got bc the story draws you into these two guys lives and you see just how miserable they ar#not because theyre queer but because society is so cruel and harsh and didnt let them have what they so obviously wanted#its a story thats supposed to be a mirror held up to audiences to be like 'if ur homophobic and toxically masculine and u express the same#ideals that are clearly torturing these guys then you are part of the problem and are the reason why not only jack and ennis' lives suck#but also why their families get dragged down into the muck too'#and like i guess it isnt common knowledge anymore how much of a groundbreaking movie this was but it came out at a time where it was#socially acceptable to be openly homophobic in most places and bc im insane ive read so many stories of ppl whos minds were changed#bc they saw the movie and were like damn. maybe i should stop being a dickhead to people who just wanna live their lives#so when i see reviews that are like "#brokeback mountains message is to stay in the closet im just like. shut the fuck upppppppppp and learn how to be media literate ugh. lmao#still brokeback posting
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blogger executive decree: stop being obnoxious on my posts
#to the person who just wrote like 10 paragraphs of nonsense on my murderbot post...#why did you waste so much of your time#you can just ignore the post you don't need to waste your time and energy and test my patience all at once#absolutely unnecessary#[blocks you]#i am clearly not in the mood to hear arguments about something that's literally in the books#if you don't want to consider murderbot a person then you misread the books#it doesn't matter that murderbot is a construct because it's still a person#and its queerness as a character should not be devalued because of this#i get that you're tired of nonhuman aroacespec characters but my point was that the human-bot line is canonically hard to draw#making these judgements in absolutes about 'well it's a construct and therefore not good rep' like... g-d do you hear yourself?#definition of barking up the wrong tree#get mad at people who are portraying aroacespec characters in an actual negative light please#i'm really not interested in being debated that wasn't the point of my post
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Ahhh. Well. Here we go again. Back to feeling very not-normal about the Amphibia finale.
I’m fine.
I’ll be on the floor feeling soulless if anyone needs me.
#Drawing gay people before pride month is over here I come 😈#But…gay people or Spranne first#What a conundrum. Gay people is always a win….but spranne….#Spranne is also always a win#I think I need to do Spranne.#Spranne reunion is all that keeps me going.#They are the siblings ever 😭#AND THEN GAY PEOPLE#You know what we’re going to do? Pride month part two. July I’m looking at you 😈#Many gay people will be drawn in July.#And always because ✨every day is pride month✨#amphibia#amphibia spoilers#anne boonchuy#sasha waybright#Marcy wu#lgbtq#queer
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today i have been giving ted talks in my room about how people who say they dont like country music are Phucking Stupit.
#i see it on tiktok all the goddamn time where people will hear a song like forever and ever amen and be like#'ohhh this is the one kind of country music that is good :)' NO YOU MORON!!!!!!!!!!#look the theory that 9/11 ruined country music has been popularized and i agree with it. but people didn't like country music BEFORE 9/11.#it's been seen as poor people/white trash/stupid/redneck music since before it was called country music in-fact.#if you're my age or older you probably remember when you'd ask someone what kind of music they liked and if they sucked they'd answer:#'everything but rap and country'#like 'i have no personality but i want to draw a firm line between me and black people and poor/rural white people who are lesser than me'#and i mean it was never really the case that people actually hated rap. i associate that most strongly w like 2008#and most of the top 100 songs of 2008 were *songs by rappers* that everyone knew all the words to.#it was not about actually disliking the music it was about the social capital that your music taste gave you.#you really don't hear anyone under the age of 50 proudly proclaiming they don't like 'rap' these days. but COUNTRY?#im not saying racism Is All Fixed by ANY means but especially since 2016 the hatred white liberals have for poor/rural white folks is. well.#and my own daddy's a prime example. he'll swear up and down that he hates country music because it's what trump supporters listen 2#but he loves patsy cline. like she's not the queen of country.#WHATEVER. read rednecks queers and country music by nadine hubbs.#carly.txt
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🎮 HEY I WANNA MAKE A GAME! 🎮
Yeah I getcha. I was once like you. Pure and naive. Great news. I AM STILL PURE AND NAIVE, GAME DEV IS FUN! But where to start?
To start, here are a couple of entry level softwares you can use! source: I just made a game called In Stars and Time and people are asking me how to start making vidy gaems. Now, without further ado:
SOFTWARES AND ENGINES FOR PEOPLE WHO DON'T KNOW HOW TO CODE!!!
Ren'py (and also a link to it if you click here do it):
THE visual novel software. Comic artists, look no further
✨Pros: It's free! It's simple! It has great documentation! It has a bunch of plugins and UI stuff and assets for you to buy! It can be used even if you have LITERALLY no programming experience! (You'll just need to read the doc a bunch) You can also port your game to a BUNCH of consoles!
✨Cons: None really <3
Some games to look at: Doki Doki Literature Club, Bad End Theater, Butterfly Soup
Twine:
Great for text-based games! GREAT FOR WRITERS WHO DONT WANNA DRAW!!!!!!!!! (but you can draw if you want)
✨Pros: It's free! It's simple! It's versatile! It has great documentation! It can be used even if you have LITERALLY no programming experience! (You'll just need to read the doc a bunch)
✨Cons: You can add pictures, but it's a pain.
Some games to look at: The Uncle Who Works For Nintendo, Queers In love At The End of The World, Escape Velocity
Bitsy:
Little topdown games!
✨Pros: It's free! It's simple! It's (somewhat) intuitive! It has great documentation! It can be used even if you have LITERALLY no programming experience! You can make everything in it, from text to sprites to code! Those games sure are small!
✨Cons: Those games sure are small. This is to make THE simplest game. Barely any animation for your sprites, can barely fit a line of text in there. But honestly, the restrictions are refreshing!
Some games to look at: honestly I haven't played that many bitsy games because i am a fake gamer. The picture above is from Under A Star Called Sun though and that looks so pretty
RPGMaker:
To make RPGs! LIKE ME!!!!!
NOTE: I recommend getting the latest version if you can, but all have their pros and cons. You can get a better idea by looking at this post.
✨Pros: Literally everything you need to make an RPG. Has a tutorial inside the software itself that will teach you the basics. Pretty simple to understand, even if you have no coding experience! Also I made a post helping you out with RPGMaker right here!
✨Cons: Some stuff can be hard to figure out. Also, the latest version is expensive. Get it on sale!
Some games to look at: Yume Nikki, Hylics, In Stars and Time (hehe. I made it)
engine.lol:
collage worlds! it is relatively new so I don't know much about it, but it seems fascinating. picture is from Garden!
NOTE: There's a bunch of smaller engines to find out there. Just yesterday I found out there's an Idle Game Maker made by the Cookie Clicker creator. Isn't life wonderful?
✨more advice under the cut. this is Long ok✨
ENGINES I KNOW NOTHING ABOUT AND THEY SEEM HARD BUT ALSO GIVE IT A TRY I GUESS!!!! :
Unity and Unreal: I don't know anything about those! That looks hard to learn! But indie devs use them! It seems expensive! Follow your dreams though! Don't ask me how!
GameMaker: Wuh I just don't know anything about it either! I just know it's now free if your game is non-commercial (aka, you're not selling it), and Undertale was made on it! It seems good! You probably need some coding experience though!!!
Godot: Man I know even less about this one. Heard good things though!
BUNCHA RANDOM ADVICE!!!!
-Make something small first! Try making simple: a character is in a room, and exits the room. The character can look around, decide to take an item with them, can leave, and maybe the door is locked and you have to find the key. Figuring out how to code something like that, whether it is as a fully text-based game or as an RPGMaker map, should be a good start to figure out how your software of choice works!
-After that, if you have an idea, try first to make the simplest version of that idea. For my timeloop RPG, my simplest version was two rooms: first room you can walk in, second room with the King, where a cutscene automatically plays and the battle starts, you immediately die, and loop back to the first room, with the text from this point on reflecting this change. I think I also added a loop counter. This helped me figure out the most important thing: Can This Game Be Made? After that, the rest is just fun stuff.
So if you want to make a dating sim, try and figure out how to add choices, and how to have affection points go up and down depending on your choices! If you want to make a platformer, figure out how to make your character move and jump and how to create a simple level! If you just want to make a kinetic visual novel with no choices, figure out how to add text, and how to add portraits! You'll be surprised at how powerful you'll feel after having figured even those simple things out.
-If you have a programming problem or just get confused, never underestimate the power of asking Google! You most likely won't be the only person asking this question, and you will learn some useful tips! If you are powerful enough, you can even… Ask people??? On forums??? Not me though.
-Yeah I know you probably want to make Your Big Idea RIGHT NOW but please. Make a smaller prototype first. You need to get that experience. Trust me.
-If you are not a womanthing of many skills like me, you might realize you need help. Maybe you need an artist, or a programmer. So! Game jams on itch.io are a great way to get to work and meet other game devs that have different strengths! Or ask around! Maybe your artist friend secretly always wanted to draw for a game. Ask! Collaborate! Have fun!!!
I hope that was useful! If it was. Maybe. You'd like to buy me a coffee. Or maybe you could check out my comics and games. Or just my new critically acclaimed game In Stars and Time. If you want. Ok bye
#reference#gamedev#indie dev#game dev#tutorial#video game#ACTUAL GAME DEVS DO NOT INTERACT!!!1!!!!!#this is for people who are afraid of coding. do not come at me and say 'actually godot is easy if you just--' I JUST WILL NOT.#long post
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