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Inktober Day 1
“You will remember my name!” – Ember McLain, the ghostly rockstar of Danny Phantom
Please excuse the quality, my scanner kicked it just in time for uploading.
baby meeting cat for the first time
i have never seen one of those baby potato sack suits but id really appreciate it if every baby worse these now
HAPPY STARFISH
*adjusts AP Lang glasses*
Just so you guys know…
Rain (and water by an extension) is EXTREMELY symbolic in literature and film and such. You’ve seen the movies where someone looks up at the rain and extends their arms? Or when someone falls in the ocean
or a lake with their brother on halloween?These scenes always happen at turning points for characters.
Getting wet is a reference to baptism. Baptism is a symbol for rebirth.
So the character they were before…
…is certainly not the character they are now.
“maybe when peridot gets to earth, she’ll see how nice all the people are and she won’t want to hurt anyone”
What about our fans? Are they privileged? Let me tell you about Anders. He was one of two male love interests in Dragon Age II, and the only one of the two that would actually make his intentions known to the player without the player expressing interest first. If you were nice to him, he would make a pass at you, and you could turn him down, and that would be the end of it. And some fans REALLY did not like that.
Some of them asked for a gay toggle; because in a game where there’s mature themes, slavery, death, and none of which we offer toggles for, encountering a gay character? OOH, beyond the pale. They didn’t want to be exposed to homosexuality.
And this one fan on our forums posted that he felt too much attention had been spent on women and gays and not enough on straight male gamers. For all of whom he personally spoke, of course. ‘It’s ridiculous that I even have to use a term like Straight Male Gamers, when in the past I would only have to say fans.’ The purpose of the romances in Dragon Age II was to give each type of fan an equal content. Two romances whether you’re male or female, straight or gay.
How upsetting for this particular Straight Male Gamer to realize he wasn’t being catered to. This was not equality to him, but an imbalance; an imbalance of the natural order. He did not want equality, he’s not interested in equality. To him, from his perspective, equality means he’s getting less. Less options? Actually, no, the number of options we had in that game was actually the same number of options that he would have received earlier. What was his issue was the idea that there was attention being spent on other groups, which SHOULD have rightly gone to him.
Do ALL straight male gamers feel exactly the same as he does? Absolutely not. In the thread where this came up in fact, there was quite a few guys who came in and identified themselves as straight male gamers and said ‘I actually don’t have an issue with that, as long as I receive an experience I enjoy, I think other people should be able to enjoy that too.’ But if you think that Straight Male Gamer Dude is an outlier among our fanbase, you were not paying attention.
This is Anita Sarkeesian, she’s the author of the Feminist Frequency, a blog which examines tropes in the depiction of women in popular culture. You’ve probably all heard about this, it’s a matter of public record, she announced a Kickstarter to start a web series to look at the tropes in video games and she was subjected to a campaign of vicious abuse and harassment by male gamers. Why? Well, because she represents to these guys the loss of their coveted place in the gaming audience. Never mind that we all know Goddamn well that they’re still at the top of the totem pole. What they see themselves losing is sole proprietorship over their domain. That’s what it is.
Everything that is changing about the gaming industry to accommodate these players, to them, is diluting the purity of gaming which has belonged solely to them. That’s what this is all about. And here’s the thing, I’m pretty certain that our industry fears the scrutiny of those guys way more than the scrutiny of everyone else. Because those are the guys that scream at the top of their lungs, they spend their time on every internet forum, they spend their time making Metacritic reviews. Infuriate them, and you become a target. It’s so much easier to say “Well, that’s what our fans are like. There’s nothing we can do.” And that’s bullshit.
They didn’t set the tone, did they? We set the tone. What we put out there, what we permit, whether it’s on our forums, whether it’s on Xbox Live, the things that we permit we are in effect condoning. What happened to Anita, we the industry, are partly responsible for. We’re in part to blame. And if the idea of moral responsibility doesn’t phase you, consider the idea that the time will probably soon come that this will also amount to legal responsibility.
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Pack up everything that’s yours and get out of my house
ROFL
DA:O : Will you side with the mages or the templars?
Me: HAHAHAHAHA is that even a question
you don’t even need any factual backup to headcanon a character as autistic tbh. they don’t need to have whatever you consider to be “common autistic traits”. if an autistic person wants to headcanon a character as autistic because they identify with that character, or because it makes them feel good, or for whatever reason, let them.
I’ve seen allistic people reblogging this post and that actually makes me really happy. thank you for listening to autistic voices stay tolerant and stay lovely
So when I was at Oz Comic Con I was talking to Mark Sexton, the lead storyboard artist for Mad Max Fury Road, and he told me that the Crow people on stilts at the Green Place aren’t the abandoned male children of the Vuvalini - they’re what remains of the Vuvalini (female and male) who decided to stay there rather than going off like the ones Furiosa meets. Apparently the Vuvalini split into two groups - those that remained and those that left. The ones that stayed adapted to try and catch crows and eat them and apparently there’s this whole culture they have that was designed but eventually not shown in the movie (though its existence is canon). The Crow People no longer follow the old ways of the Vuvalini (which would explain why the Vuvalini Furiosa meets said “we’re the only ones left” - alternatively the Vuvalini might have thought there’s no way the ones left behind could have survived).
I don’t know where the “Crow people are the children the Vuvalini abandoned because they were male” theory came from but Mark Sexton was privy to all the discussions of the plot of Fury Road and was responsible for quite a bit of it, and he knows the ins and outs of what was shown on screen vs what was not so I’d say his word on the subject can be taken as canon…
Makes me happy to learn this because it bothered me to think of the Vuvalini as being so sexist as to leave male children in an inhospitable place just because they were male. Didn’t ring true.
girls need to stop thinking it’s okay to touch another girl inappropriately just because they’re girls
I had a girl go up to me and spank me and tell me I had a “fat ass” and I looked at her like she was fucking crazy
On god I did not even know her name
If it’s disrespectful for a man to do it it’s disrespectful for you to do it too??Y'all also gotta learn not to touch guys too. Like it feels mad awkward when girls rub my arms or body out of nowhere.
It’s also not cool when gay guys grab my boobs and say “it’s okay, I don’t like girls”.
Basically respect people’s personal fucking space
