Bright Art

Welcome to be-a-utifly-me's art blog! This is where I will be posting all of my art for the foreseeable future! Please enjoy! The Phoenix: bridedanann.com/thephoenix Buy me a Kofi: ko-fi.com/bridedanann

[resident-bard]

Longsword, Glock, Bat, Taser

Emerging from hibernation on Tumblr to make a quick post about a game inspired by one of the perennial Pride month memes I adore here:

@brightartblog and I wrote this game a couple years ago when a friend of mine tagged me in a repost of the original meme, and pretty much dared us to make an RPG out of it. So we did!

The quick pitch: LGBT  is a one-shot tabletop roleplaying game about attending Pride with your friends in a whimsical, comics-inspired universe. Overcome challenges like a haunted airbnb, a faulty car on a long road trip, or a vicious league of evil exes on your quest to have the best Pride month ever. 

After a couple years circulating, we decided to make a second edition to streamline the game a bit, give it a fresh coat of paint with new art and layout, add more character creation options, and spruce up the adventures! We also snuck in a new one as an homage to our Scott Pilgrim vs. the World inspirations for some of the game's vibe.

It's funding on BackerKit right now if you wanna check it out :]

[brightartblog]

OH CAPTAIN MY CAPTAIN

[resident-bard]

My new tabletop roleplaying game about trash goblin magical girls is funding on Kickstarter!

In a city beset by industrial pollution, find your missing familiars, defeat hordes of trash monstrosities, and get up to your pointy green ears in garbage and goblin shenanigans.

The system is based on Eat the Reich, by Rowan Rook and Decard! The wilder your antics, the more dice you roll, and the more dice you roll, the more powerful you grow. Spend your successful dice to defend yourself, fight back, unleash combo moves, and explore the city!

Loaded with ready-to-play characters and a map stuffed with fast-paced encounters, all you need are friends and a small mountain of d6 to dive into peak goblin shenanigans.

You can click either image or right here to check it out!

[resident-bard]

Coming to Kickstarter February 5th: I CRAVE THE LOOP, a fast-paced, roguelike rpg!

Played with a real life snack, your goal is to stay one step ahead of the ghostly creature that haunts you and hungers not for your sanity, but for your cereal. Race through your home ahead of its Eldritch influence, use what items you can, and down that snack before it does!

Coming soon: I Crave The Loop

A ghost haunts you. It craves not your sanity, but your sandwich. Escape, or go hungry.

[resident-bard]

Babe, wake up, a new cover by @brightartblog and Emily Entner just dropped and I'm obsessed with it. We're teasing the full, retro-cereal inspired cover if we can drum up a hundred followers on the campaign this week, so please share the link!

In the mean time, please enjoy this little man, who was denied your bowl of fruit loops. He is unknowable. Insatiable. Inconsolable.

[brightartblog]

I haven't posted on here in AGES but I'm an artist for a very very silly and fun game for Zine Quest this year!!

I Crave The Loop asks you to protect and eat your snacks as fast as you can before the CREATURE finds you and steals them!

Follow it here to know when it goes live!

Coming soon: I Crave The Loop

A ghost haunts you. It craves not your sanity, but your sandwich. Escape, or go hungry.

[keikomivra]

You can appreciate...the gravity mavity of the situation

[dorka]

[thewitchqifrey]

DUNGEONS & DRAGONS: HONOR AMONG THIEVES 2023, dir. Jonathan Goldstein & John Francis Dale

Bonus:

[mikkeneko]

Love the third panel with Edgin nodding like “yep, this is who she is as a person”

[nosnexus]

As promised...HUNCH and FUCKS!

[closet-keys]

why none of them got into The Good Place

[exigencelost]

What I love about this is its acknowledgment that Jason had no intentions at all

[egyptiann-deactivated20260812]

this is all 100% true but it always made me really mad that Chidi’s “crime” was having a severe anxiety disorder like he needed understanding and therapy, sending him to the Bad Place for something he had literally no control over was incredibly fucked up

[thedreadvampy]

I feel like a less-surface theme of the show is that they’re all in a situation where they have been forced into bad patterns by forces outside their control - Chidi has SEVERE anxiety; Eleanor was forced by abuse and neglect to adopt a self-centered attitude from early childhood and, like many people with traumatic pasts, responds by not dealing with difficult emotions; Jason was very overtly raised in an environment where he got no education and all his models for behaviour were criminal and/or self-destructive; and Tahani has been raised in an environment where everything is performative and she is shot down for any genuine expression of unhappiness or non-material want. Just as Michael and Janet are made one way but changed by their experiences, the moral of the story is that things outside your control shape you but you can move away from them. That could easily be really insulting, in a sort of ‘just get over it’ way, but the idea isn’t that they change solely because they decide to be better - all six of them change because their circumstances change and give them the OPPORTUNITY to be better, because they’re finally given the support system they lack.

I like The Good Place because the whole show has since day 1 been predicated on the idea that black and white moral judgements made in a vacuum are bullshit, and that moral choices are informed by things outside our control, whether that be education, behaviour modelling, unfair treatment or mental health issues. That doesn’t mean we aren’t responsible for our actions but it DOES mean we have to understand morality in the context of people’s varied experiences AND asks for the possibility that if their environment is improved, their ability to function as moral agents also improves.

[nebula-maker]

[filthyprotozoan]

“sending him to the Bad Place for something he had literally no control over was incredibly fucked up” yea it was fucked up that was the entire point they made in the show. thats why they spent multiple seasons fighting to change the system of the Good Place vs. the Bad Place.

[bogleech]

this 50′s hungarian comic strip I’d never heard of until now is so damn cute for something that also gets so horny

[coolclaytony]

It helps that the writer was trying to create something he hoped would appeal to women as much as men.

[bogleech]

Yeah and I think where it really succeeds vs. modern anime wifey fantasy shit is that Jucika really is just a character super comfortable with being sexual, likes looking sexy and even has no shame in using it to get her way:

….But at the same time, she doesn’t tolerate being objectified against her wishes:

….And the comic takes her side in both cases, whereas I’ve seen countless modern narratives in which this same character would have only been framed as like a Slutty ™ Bitch ™ or full blown villain.

[hooray4skeleton]

One of the things I also really like about this comic, besides what’s already been stated, is that the humor isn’t always about her being sexy. Sometimes it’s just about other goofy things in her life!

[bogleech]

oh yes many of them are experienes just anybody can relate to

but then there’s also the time she just….built a functional AI?

she just didn’t predict how the robot rebellion would really manifest

[rosebloodcat]

I love how there isn’t a single dialogue bubble, yet you can fully understand what’s happening.

Always reblog Jucika.

[lewd-plants]

New goddess idea: She’s an earth goddess of the new age who’s domain is spinning and weaving, but specifically spinning and weaving gigantic structural steel cables for construction and other industrial purposes. Her skin is steel grey and hard to the touch and her hair is like long dredlocks of woven steel. She laughs at shitty architecture deigns that will fall apart if actually built and protects well-made bridges and buildings she likes. She might warn you of unforseen danger if you always wear your proper PPE.

Okay now what do I name her

[systlin]

O’sha. 

Obviously 

[lewd-plants]

THAT’S PERFECT

[systlin]

I AM ALWAYS HERE FOR QUALITY WORKPLACE SAFETY REGULATION PUNS

[fishmalazahn]

That’s my goddess. 👍🏻

[systlin]

May O’sha bless you with earplugs that are comfortable and respirators that fit perfectly. 

[lewd-plants]

And good steel. Always good steel.

[systlin]

May your steel deliveries be always on time and your rebar strong

[skiptomy]

I’m just gonna…. put this here…..

hope you don’t mind

[skyfire85]

You know how you occassionally find a nugget of gold on this hellsite? Found one.

May the blessings of O'sha give you both strength and flexibility.

[dduane]

Deities go where they need to go to be born. :)

[thatheathen]

Literal motherfucking genocide!

[punkasshunter]

Because no one's dropped a source link yet, here's a few, along with a "highlight" from one of them. 🙃

Text: The bill filed Wednesday is titled the “Millstone Act of 2023” – a reference to a Bible passage that a person would be better off tying a large boulder around their neck to “be drowned in the depths of the sea” than harm a child.

[cringepics]

obsessed with this gif from the wikipedia page for the mercator projection showing actual countries sizes

[cottoncandyofterror]

Remember the time we met?

Sofia and Katya are happily ever after, I don’t care about anything else.

[the-littlest-goblin]

I’ve noticed a pattern in the seating arrangements this campaign

[pr1nceshawn]

Worst Case vs. Best Case Scenarios by Karina Farek.

[castorochiaro]

This is a great joke, but it’s also a wonderful strategy for reducing anxiety that I learned about in therapy. If you’re ever nervous about something, just ask yourself: what’s the best thing that can happen? What’s the worst thing? What will most likely happen?

It does wonders for your nerves, really does.