I Only Wanna Be Happy From Now On

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
spectralreplica
spectralreplica

Uhhhhhhhh Sburb AU!! This was more of an excuse to classpect and make sprites, so don’t ask me questions about plot details because I put like zero thought into it. Tsumugi probably had something to do with setting up the session, and she’s hiding her real title and the fact it’s not her first session. Baby Kiibo is a robot baby because I thought that was the funniest option.

Drawing with anti-aliasing off really brings me back…

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dude homestuck AND Danganronpa sign me tf up
nekropsii
nekropsii

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Let this be a living example that knowing the beliefs of any individual who wrote any piece of text- be it literature, articles, or posts- can and should drastically alter your perception on what the text is actually communicating, even if that knowledge has, on its face, changed none of the actual printed words. This is how application of real-world context works, and this is how it applies to any recorded medium.

It reminds me heavily of a quote from video essayist Jacob Geller, regarding the 1938 film Olympia- "It's different when Nazis do it".
Olympia is a film that, on its face, simply depicts an artistic documentation of the 1936 Berlin Olympics. But within the context of its production taking place during the Nazi regime, with its director being a well known Nazi propagandist... The way the movie fixates on the power and elegance of the human form and Ancient Greek statues quickly shifts from being completely innocuous appreciation to the worship of what is perceived as the ideal forms of the "Aryan race". Suddenly, you understand the movie not to be a pretty inoffensive documentation of a historical event, but a propaganda piece.

Understanding the time period in which something was made, as well as the setting it was produced in/for, and whatever ideologies an artist may hold and experiences they've had is absolutely critical to getting a full understanding of anyone's work. There are some things that are near completely anodyne on their face, but the revelation of what the author thinks and feels about other people and the world around them totally redefines every word on the page.

This image is such a prime example of why context matters. This opinion, laid bare, stripped of context, is both inoffensive and nonsensical. No one's ever thought it to be lame to create your own nickname... But on its own, that's a harmless kind of wrong.
... But with the addition of them being marked as Anti-Trans (red) on Shinigami Eyes, a browser extension dedicated to crowdsourcing keeping track of Trans Friendly and Transphobic creators... Suddenly, "Nicknames" doesn't mean "Nicknames" anymore. Suddenly, you realize that "Nicknames" is code for "Chosen Names of Trans People". Suddenly this isn't about thinking choosing your own nickname is lame, this is about thinking that trans people shouldn't have the right to name themselves. Suddenly it's about invalidating identities, thinking they're worth mocking. Thinking that people who identify as trans are "just trying to be cool", and that they're not actually what they say they are, because you don't get to choose your gender nickname, that's something already decided for you.

Suddenly, you realize, it's not about "being lame".

It's about Transphobic Violence.

This is why you cannot ignore when an artist, author, essayist, developer, musician- so on and so forth- is bigoted. This is why you can't ignore the context behind their upbringing. This is why you can't ignore the context behind their lived experience, their ideals, their goals, their message. Yes, it may appear innocent on its face. Yes, it may look fine stripped from the context of it being written by an inevitably flawed human being. But what's really being said here? What do those words mean... To the one who wrote them?

Context redefines Text.

Even if the words didn't change.

and this is why I can’t bear to associate myself with anything relating to H/rry P/tter anymore
nyxzee
nyxzee

i loathe to do this when i’m going to need more help next month but it’s getting desperate. my laptop is glitching out badly and keeps crashing on a frequent basis, it’s the only way i’m making money as a chronically ill person who needs to buy medicine on a weekly basis so i need to try get a replacement for it. i need to raise around $300 to start looking at replacements - anything is a help, even just a signal boost is a huge benefit at this point

my commission info is here
homestuck adopts are here
my ko-fi is here

i’m willing to do quicker things for you for lesser money if asked as well! it’s sorta getting dire for me

skywardnerd
skywardnerd

If you told me a few months ago that the reason tears of the kingdom was taking so long was because the developers were implementing the entire homestuck alchemy system i would in no way have believed you and yet here we are in a world where i can make comparisons between zelda game mechanics and fucking homestuck.

God i love zelda so much

THEY WHAT well guess I gotta play the new Zelda game then
onrainynights
onrainynights

poll time!

which online game was your favorite to play as a kid?

Poptropica

Neopets

Club Penguin

Pixie Hollow

Toon Town

Wizard101

Roblox

I liked 2 or more of these equally (which ones?)

Something else not listed here (say in tags)

I didn't play/like any of these (see results)

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personally I loved pixie hollow and poptropica. I fully expect club penguin to win this, but maybe I'll be surprised. please reblog for sample size, I'm really curious to see the results of this one!

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