i wonder how that will go down

A few cat studies (reference courtesy of @willabee )

The more time I sink into andromeda, the more I suspect the biggest reason it ultimately failed commercially was because of the massive tonal shift I've already mentioned, and how there was probably a pretty big chunk of original trilogy players who simply no longer fit as a demographic, while the game failed to reach the people who might’ve enjoyed it.

The original trilogy, much as I love it, feels a little bit like a wishfulfillment power fantasy for a very obvious demographic. Almost all women are overtly sexy in design and the f/f relationship in the first game seems to be written along the guidelines of 'what would a straight man find hot'; you play as someone cool and confident and powerful, the most specialest human ever, and maybe you aren’t always respected but YOU and the NARRATIVE always know you're right and you get to be rude to and sometimes punch/murder people who disagree with you so it’s fine. The game then salvages all this by means of genuinely well-written characters and arcs, really cool sci-fi tech and lore, a fantastic story, and meaningful and hard-hitting choices and consequences (which also allow and often encourage you to steer away from that exact macho ideal).

Enter andromeda. Instead of being a super powerful supersoldier from the start, you're the kid of one. You barely know what you're doing. Everyone doubts you, including yourself. You don’t get the assuredness of knowing you are Right and Cool that you have as Shepard. You don’t demand that same respect. And I'm sure there are a lot of people who hated that.

i’d have two nickels!

can i just say that afab privilege is the funniest fucking term ive ever heard of in my life

oh no, would you look at that

warm bodies walked so lisa frankenstein could run

Do you think you’d ever be interested in doing a line of semi nude portraits of different bodies? Transfem, trans masc, slim, medium, fat bodies etc? It’s totally cool if you aren’t I just love your art and I would love to see more prints from you perhaps :D

Man I hate being able to read

Very simple arcade gifs I made while at Billy Bob's Wonderland! Free to use as long as you link back to this post :]

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more highschool arrowbat yuri

she knows her target demographic well

The wildest part of all the James Somerton drama for me personally is that prior to the Hbomb video I had never heard of this man before in my life.

crazy how jack’s second spoken word in torchwood is ‘estrogen’. aaaand we are off to a fantastic start. was also flabbergasted by the casual f bomb at the beginning, i’d forgotten they were allowed to say that on tv after so many consecutive weeks of flipping hell

jamie catches up tag has not been retired it is indeed continuing. tfw everything changes