Justice

Hi, I'm Justice (They/Them, or anything except he/him). I'm a game designer currently working in marketing. I love games of all kinds (video, tabletop, card, etc) alongside an assortment of other interests such as writing, comics, Homestuck, cooking, and cosplay. Profile picture by Nick Elliot, artist of the banner appears to have deleted their Instagram. The characters depicted in both belong to me.

[panicawa]

The full timeskip beach episode line-up!

[stargazers-satellite]

my partner said something that kinda rocked my world

[kimwazak]

[duddubstep]

Vrisrezi request

[roadhogsbigbelly]

Sorry to be a "let people enjoy things" guy but is this not a bizarrely corny way to talk about art?

[roadhogsbigbelly]

like yeah i have encountered people online who think their ocs who exist in a contextless bubble deserve the same reverence as fully realized characters, and that mentality is annoying, but i don't actually think the end goal of all art is to became a webcomic, i think it's a perfectly fine if people want to flex their creative muscle by creating funky character designs with wacky backstories just for the joy of creation itself, like you don't have to be personally invested in it, but it's a bizarre way to moralize art especially coming from a group of people who otherwise seem to be against that?

[velvet-ii]

whatever time we have left... i want to spend it with you.

[quentims]

Love Bites

[faithfel]

arkco studying together

[sloshys]

Making biscuits

[angels-arbys]

WORLD OF WOKECRAFT

by yours truly

[ohimjustabard]

A small contribution of sadness for Mass Effect Appreciation week.

[angeliccervidae]

This ranking is meant to be very silly so don't take anything too heavy away from it. I just thought it was funny, for the most part, but these do reflect *most* of my actual headcanons? To address some points in advance:

Venture? Nonbinary lesbian.

You ranked Echo? Echo is in place of the doctor she's based on, Mina Liao, who actually has a few niche ships.

Reaper had a wife? Beard. I think he's the kind of asshole to fake a relationship with someone for his own benefit, so I do not believe she was in on it being fake.

What if a character is aro or ace but not both? Then they'd go in the category for the other part. I think Sym is bi or panromantic but asexual, but I didn't want to make a chart for sexual attraction and another chart for romantic attraction.

Ram was also a monk? Yeah I don't think all the teachings exactly stuck with him the same way.

[character] has a line of dialogue that contradicts this? There's a few reasons I'd go against those, sometimes I view it as not really being a sign of attraction as much as just banter, sometimes I just don't like the line & choose to ignore it. Sometimes I'm trying my best to protect a character from a ship I do not care for :P Notably none of these contradict canon romantic relationships or canon sexualities. Reinhardt, Ana, Hazard, Mauga, and Widowmaker do not have a confirmed orientation but have been (or currently are) in relationships and so I've placed them accordingly.

Why are there so few straight heroes? Shrug.

[polysobraniy]

[zzemla]

redraw timeee!!

the last one is from around a year ago, im so happy with how this one came out!!!!!! oh em gee!! 😛😛😛

[angeliccervidae]

Modern country production feels like the target audience is frat guys who want to listen to hip hop but are too racist to actually do so. Like explain to me why Morgan Wallen is singing over dollar store trap beats?

[miscellaneousofthevoid]

There’s a lot of elements to this tbh. Disclaimer: this is just off the dome info I’m sure there’s context I’m missing/forgetting.

Country and rap have done a fair number of crossovers over the years and I definitely remember there being a boom in the mid 2010s of rappers doing a guest verse for “bro country” hits. If I had to guess it was a product of rappers doing guest verses in a ton of pop songs across the board at the time.

As country became more pop, and pop integrated stole more influences from rap (trap beats in this case) you get the unholy least of all worlds result of mainstream country music.

The fratty aesthetics of “good ol’ boys with our trucks and our beers and our small towns and our women shaped objects of desire” that pervade the lyrics are a whole other can of beans.

And given the origins of country as a genre, it’s stealing from black communities squared!

[angeliccervidae]

I agree with basically all of this and my main issue with it boils down to, in my mind, the difference between inspiration & appropriation, which is how you treat the original. Country is already built on stealing from black music but that's not what I am focusing on here, I'm instead looking at the inspirations of modern rap & pop music on country.

Pop music has taken a lot from hip hop since the late 90s, but in turn we have black pop stars & rap songs on pop stations. I'm not claiming pop as a genre isn't racist because it absolutely is, but it's not as bad about pretending black musicians and genres don't exist.

Meanwhile country music will take all of the elements from hip hop and pop songs and will just shamelessly plaster the same white southerners as performers, while explicitly walling off black people who would challenge their genre. We saw this with Beyonce's country album, the absolute pushback against the mere idea that country music might have a racism problem was ridiculous and itself proved her right.

Much less combatively, even Lil Nas X making a pop rap song drenched in country influences and aesthetics got kicked off their charts because the person who made it was black. I genuinely don't think there's another reason, I know if a white guy from Kentucky had released Old Town Road exactly as it was that he'd have been Nashville's new favourite son, he'd probably have a truck sponsorship in minutes.

So it's much more frustrating to see the genre taking cues from rap so that it can climb the pop charts when they in turn would never let black musicians anywhere within the country sphere unless those black artists make it clear they don't intend to threaten the establishment (Sorry Kane Brown, he's not done anything wrong as far as I know but he's definitely only as accepted as he is because he is not trying to rock the boat).

Small disclaimer about Old Town Road, I agree it's not -really- a country song so much as a pop rap song with country vibes but the thing is that country radio & charts have been playing outright pop or rock songs for decades. They've made it clear that they have a really, really loose definition of country and so because of that I say the only explanation is blatant racism.

[angeliccervidae]

Modern country production feels like the target audience is frat guys who want to listen to hip hop but are too racist to actually do so. Like explain to me why Morgan Wallen is singing over dollar store trap beats?

[seracadash]