Some more samples of concept art for the Feral Predator shared by Alec Gillis, Farzad Varahramyan (the full body concept) and Justice Joseph (Spear Gun)

The Feral Predator’s bone mask was a notion that PREY director dannytrs thought would make for a nice variation on the traditional Predator bio mask. tom_woodruffjr and I had the pleasure of art directing an amazing team of concept artists including michael_vincent_art ,  farzad_varahramyan ,jfields217, the_justice_joseph

Swipe for earlier iterations, including an internally illuminated bone mask. Swipe further to meet the Crucifix Fish. I’ve been trying to find a place for this beauty in a design for years! It had its day here.

The Bone mask started as a cool 3D sculpt by  michael_vincent_art , then molded by  h2originals , a clay copy created, then detailed by sculptors Joey Orosco,  andy_bergholtz and savannahsuderman

We’ve worked with Michael on a few projects and I always have a blast with him. I’ve always loved biologically plausible creatures so any concept artist who enjoys talking about viper sensor pits and secondary faces hidden in plain sight on tigers is okay by me.

Don’t get me started on communicating through pheromones or the difference between squid tentacles and arms. Chemotactility? Not a topic for polite conversation. Thanks to dannytrs for letting us run feral on this one.

“Lessons About Police Brutality from the Chicanx Experience” by Joseph Orosco

Summary of Key Points

This essay provides a very brief summary of some notable incidents of police brutality and corruption from the Chicanx perspective. These include:

The Texas Rangers, who were specifically formed to patrol the Texas-Mexico border, were brutal. They abducted and murdered hundreds of Mexican-Americans from 1915-1919 during a period known as La Hora de Sangre.

In 1942, in an incident known as the Sleep Lagoon Murder, over a dozen  Mexican-American youth were arrested in connection with the death of a Chicano man. They were denied lawyers, were forced to appear in court in dirty clothes, and they were stereotyped as “violent” and “savage” by experts for the prosecution. They were taken away from their families and sent to reform school despite shaky evidence.

In 1951, in an incident known as Bloody Christmas, the LAPD arrested a group of young Mexican-American men. During a Christmas party, LAPD officers forced beat the men with clubs, resulting in severe injuries. Though initially covered up, families of the men joined up with Community Services Organization (CSO), a grassroots civil rights organization, to pressure the city. A review led to several convictions and many reassignments.

The Chicano Moratorium March was a nonviolent demonstration against the Vietnam War, in August 1970. 30,000 people showed up. When a nearby business was broken into, LAPD declared the entire assembly unlawful, attacked protestors with tear gas and other less-lethal weapons, injuring many and killing some, including a journalist.

These incidents reveal that police brutality and racism is not restricted to anti-Black racism.

Tales from the Borderlands [+ others!]

heyo everyone! you can call me persenche. for a short about me - 23, south dakota, mountain time, classic Cat Lady Lesbian™, long-suffering college student, 11+ years of roleplaying experience under my belt. my casual typing style on here doesn't reflect my writing style when roleplaying, by the by. here's the tl;dr gist of it, fellas - + long-term one on one + e-mail only for the roleplay --> for ooc talk, i'm chill with e-mail, skype, hangouts, or discord + adv. lit+, quality over quantity [though both are lovely tbh] + m/m, f/f, f/m, nb; platonic or romantic + i'm lgbt+ and neurodivergent friendly and you need to be too + not keen on doubling, but i can be swayed + let me know if you want to ditch the roleplay + my main limits are i fade to black and don't do rape/bestiality/etc. + love, love, love angst and character development the most + primarily seeking a one on onewriting partner for Tales from the Borderlands [dibs on Rhys] if any of that caught your attention, my e-mail is listed at the bottom. otherwise, i'll be more detailed in what i'm looking for and what you can expect from me next. __ i'd love to find a partner who adores plotting and swoons at the chance to chat ooc about our characters and the possibilities between and before them - headcanons, discussing [serious or silly!] potential scenarios and twists, playlists, art, you name it. i enjoy making friends out of my roleplaying partners, so talking out of a roleplay is a strong preference. however, let me know if you're not into that! quality over quantity, but a middle ground is solid, too. i'm able to write 4,000+ words if a reply calls for it, but i don't want length for the sake of length, you know? i can match and mirror - if the roleplay calls for longer posts, don't hesitate to hit me with a novel. i looove that shit. just as much, if only a page works then that's fine! e-mail only for roleplaying. i'm all for giving you my skype/discord/google hangout/whatever once we're getting things going and we're both comfortable chatting on there. it's summer right now, so i'm on frequently for talking. on the topic of frequency, i'm not the quickest at roleplay responses. i'm more of a one to three days gal. if unfortunate life stuff occurs, i might end up as a once a week for roleplay replies. however!! i will always let you know if it will take me longer than three days for a response, or if i'll not be around for a day or two in the case of ooc chatting. the plus side is i'm near always around for ooc chatting and willing to sacrifice all hopes of a productive sleep schedule to talk. generous, huh? lmao. don't ditch. if you want to call quits, let me know. even if all you write is "bye", it's better than me getting to fret over if something happened to you or if my e-mails aren't going though. i'll keep my grubby fingers off the keyboard and not reply if you prefer, just please let me know! on this topic! i recently had an issue with gmail marking my responses as spam and popping them in that folder for others. it seems like it was fixed, but please, please, please feel free to shoot me a message if, after a day or two, you haven't heard from me! it's likely an e-mail issue. dark, angsty, nitty-gritty ideas? my name is at the top of the 'loves the shit outta that' list. i'm all about hard choices, plot twists, making characters suffer - good ol' and well done angst with a purpose. character development is also one of my favourite aspects of roleplaying, so slam me with all the details - really let me know what your character is feeling, thinking, doing, and show me how they're changing from what's happening to them, yadda yadda.  also! if you have a character craving, i'm 100% fine with you playing a character from a game/book/movie/whatever in the universe we go with. wanna slam your favourite character from a different video game into another game/plot/whatever's universe? i'm down with that. character and/or plot transplants are good with me. ocs get a thumbs-up, too. __ what i'm looking for is Tales from the Borderlands. i'm open to almost any pairing, chill with ocs, all that jazz. we can go post-game, during game, au, anything. my one stopping point is i am not comfortable shipping Handsome Jack and Rhys together; if you wanna cook up a platonic plot with them, sure, but i'm personally not willing nor comfortable in pairing them romantically. --> i have two small plot ideas, or we can come up with something together. --> i'd like to try my hand at writing Rhys  --> i'm fine with whoever you want to play - an oc, Vaughn, Fiona, Sasha, Handsome Jack, August, an original character, etc.  --> my preferences are Vaughn/Rhys, Sasha/Rhys, and Fiona/Rhys __ otherwise, if that doesn't strike your fancy, here's some others i might be willing to roleplay. i'll list who i'd like to play as in it. - + Fallout 4: small plot idea. would prefer to play as my Sole Survivor. however, i've played all Fallout games released, so i'm also game for New Vegas, 3, 2, 1, or a mix. + TellTale's The Walking Dead: Ben Paul. have played seasons 1 and 2. + NieR: Grimoire Weiss, Kainé + NieR Automata + Silent Hill series: Angela Orosco + We Happy Few: Arthur Hastings + Kentucky Route Zero + Dishonored 1 and 2: Kirin Jindosh, Daud, Billie Lurk + The Evil Within: Joseph Oda, Tatiana Gutierrez, Juli Kidman + Resident Evil 7 + The Last of Us + The Adventure Zone: Taako + Dragon Age: Origins, 2, and Inquisition + Mass Effect 1, 2, 3 + Until Dawn: Josh Washington + Left 4 Dead + Portal: Wheatley + and a shit ton more i can't remember enough to list. if you send me a suggestion, i'll likely know it [and if i don't, again, i'm down with character/plot transplants] i'm not strictly limited to fandoms. others include - + [post] apocalypse [have a plot and a couple small ideas] + horror/survival + some ghost hunting show gone horribly wrong + androids and all their sad little existential issues [small plot idea] + desolation, being lost, an abruptly empty/decaying world - something weird and otherwordly in our world and the discomfort of it no one dares to put in words + hit me up with topics - i'm flexible! __ finally, if you're interested you can drop me a message at  ----> [email protected] feel free to include things about yourself, limits, ideas, and if you have any cutie pets

Asks for Key part 1!

@alextogroundcontrol

Silent Hill Asks

Harry Mason: What is something you’ve lost that you wish you could have back? When I was like 5, there was this toy you could get in Kellogs cereal of Thing 1 & 2 but they came separately and 1 was rare af to find. I finally got a thing 1 after receiving like 20 thing 2′s but I accidentally flushed it down my toilet and cried.

Cybil Bennett: Are you the type to challenge authority? If it goes against my personal beliefs, then yes I will.

Cheryl Mason: Ever been lost? What happened? I thought we lost my mom’s vehicle one time when we were in another state when I was like 8.

Alessa Gillespie: Ever been bullied? What for? For my weight and just being me.

Lisa Garland: Describe a nightmare you’ve had. I dreamed when I was younger that Chester the Cheetah chased me around with a Cheetos glove but it was like Freddy’s claw glove it was weird af. (Side note I had a shit ton of fucked up dreams like that as a child and could easily create a blog about it).

James Sunderland: One thing you regret? Easily two things bc I’m a rebel lmao, junior year of high school and personally how I’ve acted the past like 7 months.

Mary Sunderland: Are you more forgiving or do you tend to hold grudges? I usually forgive and forget, unless it’s something that fucked with me then I try to get even and end up accidentally fucking myself over lmao.

Laura: What’s one thing you miss from your childhood? I miss the quality of games story lines tbh.

Pyramid Head: What’s the worst thing you’ve gotten punished for? Watching porn when I was 8 lmao.

Maria: What is your best attribute? Well when I act like myself, I’m usually very talkative to anyone and I’ll always compliment you, I’m pretty poetic, and can understand feelings/emotions pretty well.

Angela Orosco: Ever been badly hurt by someone? Who? Plenty of people has hurt me in the past, just like everyone else.

Nurse: Worst injury you’ve ever received? I’m pretty good at accidentally hurting myself, but my worst one would be when I cracked my skull.

Eddie Dombrowski: Any guilty pleasures? I have a lot and probably can’t list them all bc to quote Key, “you’re(me) fat”.

Heather Mason: How do you handle change? I fear change and like panic hardcore if it happens too fast.

Claudia Wolf: Are you easily swayed by people’s opinions, or do you have a strong sense of your beliefs? I believe what I believe unless an argument is logical enough to maybe make me think (but I’ll most likely believe what I believe because I’m stubborn).

Vincent Smith: Ever taken advantage of someone/has someone taken advantage of you? I’ve been taken advantage of before, but I try not to use people.

Douglas Cartland: Are you afraid of dying? Why or why not? Yes and no. Like I don’t want to die bc I want to be alive as long as possible to spend it with Key, but death has to happen so I don’t fear it happening to me.

Robbie the Rabbit: Your most prized possession? Key’s love. As true as that is, I don’t really prize a certain object over another one so I don’t really have one.

Henry Townshend: Do you like going out or staying at home? Why? Staying at home because I am nervous af in new sceneries/ anywhere that’s not home.

Eileen Galvin: What do you look for in a person? I look to see if they’re sweet, can take a joke, and aren’t boring really.

Walter Sullivan: Nicest thing someone has done for you /given you? When Key gave me a yes when I asked to be key’s boyfriend or anything that Key has given me.

Jasper Gein: Favorite drink? Apple juice or Arizona green tea.

Richard Braintree: Ever done something to hurt someone? What was it? Plenty of times, tbh I could probably write a list of reasons lmao.

Frank Sunderland: What is one item/memory you can’t let go of? Why? I can’t let go of my stuffed animals because I feel like I’m getting rid of like actual memories and actual animals when I do.

Andrew DeSalvo: Place that brings you bad memories/gives you a foreboding feeling? School, church, anywhere that I’ve been forced to go really.

Cynthia Velasquez: Believe in ghosts? Why or why not? Yes, I feel like they’re real idk why.

Joseph Schreiber: Ever kept a journal/diary? I currently have one to keep up with every song I write/stories/ect.

All silent Hill asks

Harry Mason: What is something you’ve lost that you wish you could have back?

control of my life

Cybil Bennett: Are you the type to challenge authority?

Not really

Cheryl Mason: Ever been lost? What happened? 

nope

Alessa Gillespie: Ever been bullied? What for?

everything

Lisa Garland: Describe a nightmare you’ve had.

I’d rather not

James Sunderland: One thing you regret?

killing my wife switching schools a lot, it put me more behind than it should have

Mary Sunderland: Are you more forgiving or do you tend to hold grudges?

It depends on the person 

Laura: What’s one thing you miss from your childhood?

getting along with my mother

Pyramid Head: What’s the worst thing you’ve gotten punished for?

being upset over something i had no control over

Maria: What is your best attribute?

uhhhh

Angela Orosco: Ever been badly hurt by someone? Who?

an ex

Nurse: Worst injury you’ve ever received?

I almost broke my arm at a waterpark

Eddie Dombrowski: Any guilty pleasures?

my favorites dying in horrible ways

Heather Mason: How do you handle change?

pretty good

Claudia Wolf: Are you easily swayed by people’s opinions, or do you have a strong sense of your beliefs?

both depending on the topic

Vincent Smith: Ever taken advantage of someone/has someone taken advantage of you?

the latter

Douglas Cartland: Are you afraid of dying? Why or why not?

no, we’re all going to die one day, why should I be worried?

Robbie the Rabbit: Your most prized possession?

I dont have one

Henry Townshend: Do you like going out or staying at home? Why?

I’d like going out if there were places to go

Walter Sullivan: Nicest thing someone has done for you/given you?

I’m not sure

Jasper Gein: Favorite drink?

raspberry tea

Richard Braintree: Ever done something to hurt someone? What was it?

not on purpose 

Frank Sunderland: What is one item/memory you can’t let go of? Why?

my shitbag ex

Andrew DeSalvo: Place that brings you bad memories/gives you a forboding feeling?

oddly 3:00AM to 4:00AM makes me really uncomfortable 

Cynthia Velasquez: Believe in ghosts? Why or why not?

Sure, I’d like to be a ghost hunter in my spare time

Joseph Schreiber: Ever kept a journal/diary?

nah

Veiling at Dallas Carmel

DALLAS, 9/22/2018 - Sister Maria Benedicta of the Holy Spirit, OCD, received the holy habit Saturday, September 8, at the Discalced Carmelite Monastery of the Infant of Prague and St. Joseph near Cockrell Hill.  The ceremony was officiated by Fr. James Orosco and was followed by a Mass of thanksgiving.  Members of the Missionaries of Charity and the Order of the Presentation were present.

Sr. Maria Benedicta is an alumnus of the University of Dallas (class of 2016).

Congratulations, Sister!  We will keep you in our prayers.

Finally, it also means that ordinary white folks need to seriously contend with lingering white supremacy in their families and communities, and everyone, include Chicanx/Latinx people, need to acknowledge and grapple with anti-Black racism that is a cornerstone of the white supremacy that harms us all [...] I hope that this history does not make it seem like dealing with this problem is an overwhelming and impossible task. Rather, I hope that we can see that there are many places to get involved, many different sites of struggle, for our energies.

Joseph Orosco “Lessons About Police Brutality from the Chicanx Experience”

The casual nature of the police violence in this case, and the easy manner in which police were able to deploy weapons in a deadly way, demonstrated to many Chicanxs that mainstream America would not tolerate even nonviolent dissent from people of color.

Joseph Orosco on the Chicano Moratorium March “Lessons About Police Brutality from the Chicanx Experience”

Police state violence would not have been possible if many white citizens weren’t willing to tolerate it in order to keep Black and Mexican American youth in their place.

Joseph Orosco “Lessons About Police Brutality from the Chicanx Experience”

Joseph Orosco in “Lessons About Police Brutality from the Chicanx Experience”

[ID: “The big question is how will the work on the street translate into the kind of institutional and cultural changes necessary to confront and end police violence?”]

Joseph Orosco in “Lessons About Police Brutality from the Chicanx Experience”

[ID: “Institutional reform may not matter much without confronting the way white supremacy structures culture and everyday life.” Joseph Orosco]

In this short essay, “Lessons About Police Brutality From the Chicanx Experience”, Joseph Orosco gives a brief historical overview of some notable incidents of police brutality against Mexican-Americans.

Joseph Orosco is a professor of philosophy at Oregon State University and the author of the book “Cesar Chavez and the Common Sense of Nonviolence”. He produced the podcast Engage: Conversations in Philosophy, is the co-director of the Anarres Project for Alternative Futures, and is also the co-editor of the Journal for Philosophy in the Contemporary World.

Here’s what you’ll be studying this week:

“As historian Khalil Gibran Muhammad explains, the system of policing in the US emerged to control Black people through brutal force, both in the South and the North. This week, you’ll listen to a podcast featuring Muhammad, who explains that one origin of the contemporary police were “slave patrols,” in which all white men were required to participate; these patrols enforced the “slave codes,” the laws governing enslaved people, and were meant to prevent rebellion, through surveillance and brutal punishment. Following emancipation, the “Black Codes”, the growth of a prison-plantation system, and the rise of white vigilante groups all enshrined the criminalization of Blackness as the method to extend racial hierarchy. As Jim Crow was solidified and Black people fled the violence of the South in the early to mid 20th century, police were key to securing segregation and racial oppression across the US. Muhammad describes the early US police force as “a critical feature of establishing a racial hierarchy–even among white people,” as immigrants and ethnic white populations became subjects for racist, classist policing.

Together with a chapter from Are Prisons Obsolete?, this week introduces both policing and the US prison system as a continuation of anti-Black racism in chattel slavery. Angela Davis considers the modern prison, designed as a humanitarian reform that would supplant more brutal punishment, as another in a series of racist institutions that appeared permanent: slavery, lynching, and segregation. For the next five weeks, we will follow Davis’ charge to imagine the impermanence of the prison and the entire criminal punishment system as a racist regime.

As Davis argues, the fact that US prisons and policing developed in the context of anti-Blackness, the slave codes, and the convict lease system does not mean that state punishment has refrained from attacks on other populations; indeed, she argues, anti-Asian, Latinx and Native racisms “congeal and combine in the prison.” This week, Orosco’s new essay details police racialization of Chicanxs, while the link to the website “States of Incarceration” focuses on the example of Minnesota’s history to show the ways that settler colonialism relied on incarceration as a colonizing tactic. Finally, Dylan Rodríguez names the importance of culture, even more than “facts,” to demonstrate the necessity of joint struggle for humanization in the face of violent systems of racialized social control.”

from Abolition Journal Study Guide (these are not my words!)

one on one [tales from the borderlands and more]

heyo everyone! you can call me persenche - 23, south dakota, mountain time, classic Cat Lady Lesbian™, long-suffering college student, 11+ years of roleplaying experience under my belt. my casual typing style on here doesn't reflect my writing style when roleplaying, by the by. here's the tl;dr gist of it, fellas - + long-term one on one + e-mail only for the roleplay; for ooc talk, i'm chill with e-mail, skype, hangouts, or discord + adv. lit+, quality over quantity [though both are lovely tbh] + m/f, f/f, m/m, nb, platonic or romantic + i'm lgbt+ and neurodivergent friendly and you need to be, too + not keen on doubling, but i can be swayed + let me know if you want to ditch the roleplay + my main limits are i fade to black and, going off of that, don't do rape/bestiality/etc. + love, love, love angst and character development the most + looking mainly for Tales from the Borderlands [dibs on Rhys] if any of that caught your attention, my e-mail is listed at the bottom. otherwise, i'll be more detailed in what i'm looking for and what you can expect from me next. __ i'd love to find a partner who adores plotting and swoons at the chance to chat ooc about our characters and the possibilities between and before them - headcanons, discussing [serious or silly!] potential scenarios and twists, playlists, art, you name it. i enjoy making friends out of my roleplaying partners, so talking out of a roleplay is a strong preference. however, let me know if you're not into that! quality over quantity, but a middle ground is solid, too. i'm able to write 4,000+ words if a reply calls for it, but i don't want a length for the sake of length, you know? i can match and mirror - if the roleplay calls for longer posts, don't hesitate to hit me with a novel. i looove that shit. just as much, if only a page works, then that's just as fine! e-mail only for roleplaying. i'm all for giving you my skype/discord/google hangout/whatever once we're getting things going and we're both comfortable chatting on there. it's the summer right now, so i'm on frequently for talking. on the topic of frequency, i'm not the quickest at roleplay responses. i'm more of a one to three days kind of gal. if unfortunate life stuff occurs, i might end up as a once a week for roleplay replies. however!! i will always let you know if it will take me longer than three days for a response, or if i'll not be around for a day or two in the case of ooc chatting. the plus side is i'm near always around for ooc chatting and willing to sacrifice all hopes of a productive sleep schedule to talk. generous, huh? lmao. don't ditch. if you want to call quits, let me know. even if all you write is "bye", it's better than me getting to fret over if something happened to you or if my e-mails aren't going though. i'll keep my grubby fingers off the keyboard and not reply if you prefer, just please let me know! dark, angsty, nitty-gritty ideas? my name is at the top of the 'loves the shit outta that' list. i'm all about hard choices, plot twists, making characters suffer - good ol' and well done angst with a purpose. character development is also one of my favourite aspects of roleplaying, so slam me with all the details - really let me know what your character is feeling, thinking, doing, and show me how they're changing from what's happening to them, yadda yadda.  also! if you have a character craving, i'm 100% fine with you playing a character from a game/book/movie/whatever in the universe we go with. character and/or plot transplants are good with me. ocs get a thumbs-up, too. __ what i'm looking for is Tales from the Borderlands. i'm open to almost any pairing, chill with ocs, all that jazz. we can go post-game, during game, au, anything. i'd like to try my hand at Rhys; i'm fine with whoever you want to play - an oc, Fiona, Sasha, etc. my preferences are Rhys/Sasha and Rhys/Fiona, but again, i'm totally open to anything! don't have a solid plot in mind, but i have a couple of small and sloppy ideas floating around. definitely hit me up with any plots/ideas you might have. otherwise, if that doesn't strike your fancy, here's some others. i'll list who i'd like to play as in it. - + Fallout 4: small plot idea. would prefer to play as my Sole Survivor. however, i've played all Fallout games released, so i'm game for New Vegas, 3, or a mix. + TellTale's The Walking Dead: Ben Paul. have played seasons 1 and 2. + NieR and NieR Automata, Silent Hill [Angela Orosco], We Happy Few [Arthur Hastings], Kentucky Route Zero, Dishonored [1 and 2], The Evil Within [Joseph Oda], Resident Evil 7, The Last of Us, The Adventure Zone [Taako], Dragon Age, Mass Effect, Until Dawn, Left 4 Dead, and a shit ton more i can't remember enough to list so send me any you're craving and i'll probably know it i'm not strictly limited to fandoms. others include - + [post] apocalypse [have a plot and a couple small ideas] + horror/survival + some ghost hunting show gone horribly wrong + androids and all their sad little existential issues + desolation, being lost, an abruptly empty/decaying world + hit me up with topics - i'm flexible! not into anthro tho, sorry __ finally, if you're interested, drop me a message at  ----> [email protected].  feel free to include things about yourself, limits, ideas, and if you have any cutie pets