dylan 吉春 @genderfluidvi - Tumblr Blog

actually i love growing older and learning how i work as a person like realizing what kinds of fabrics feel best on my skin or what brand of yogurt i like best or how I want to be touched. watching myself change, enjoying brussel sprouts when I used to hate them as a child, understanding why I got angry in that one conversation 10 years ago… there are so many mysteries inside me that i have yet to unravel and there will always be more and sometimes i think maybe its all worth it

subterra-rose

AU where Hunter rolls the worst blunt ever and gets replaced early

#I AM CACKLING LMAOOOOOOO #Hunter #toh

My nesting partner and I as queer pirates from the One Piece universe ft. our pretty baby Priscilla 🤗 Jesse ate the queer-queer devil fruit and I ate the trans-trans devil fruit 😌😜🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

giantcheeseball

Nora Sakavic must have put crack onto whatever writing device she used when writing aftg because I don’t have any other explanation as to why this book has stayed in my life for years. This book has been in my mind since the first time I’ve read it and no matter how many books I read I always come back to it. I reread it every few months to try and find new meanings in it and I always go back to her blog after to read about things that happen in the future or what could’ve become. I compare every new book I read with it knowing it’ll never be the same. I read fanfiction about it when I have nothing better to do with my time. This book has corrupted my mind in the best and worst way possible. I get so annoyed when I see the same words everytime I open the books like somehow it’s going to be different after the 500th time reading it. No other fandom has stayed with me this long the way aftg has and no other fandom compares to the pure insanity that’s in the books.

#aftg

Happy Pride from Sailor Uranus/Haruka Tenou and Sailor Neptune/Michiru Kaiou! 🧡🤍💖

Huntlow from The Owl House inspired by this text from @sp-eedysp-special 🤗🥰

WIP of my first Huntlow drawing inspired by this text from @sp-eedysp-special 🤗🥰

POP/STARS Polycule being slumber party babes 🥰

necrol404

good morning you and sleepy andreil (´꒳`)

#aftg #andreil #neil #Andrew

luckyladylily

“I went to school for game design! I am highly qualified to talk about any game out there!”

I bet you don’t even know how big an 8 year old’s hands are.

luckyladylily

You cannot meaningfully understand a great deal of Nintendo’s game development decisions without understanding how a child holds and uses a modern game controller. People love to critique game companies like Nintendo, especially core gamers and educated developers, as if they are some authority on game design but in twenty years I have never seen this type of individual talk about how Nintendo’s game design is constrained by the size of a child’s hands.

piedude

So…how big are they?

luckyladylily

Big enough to use a dpad on the playstation controller but not large enough to use the analog stick comfortably. The opposite is true on the xbox controller. The shape of the joycon is designed for easy access for small hands for both.

Still, the kid’s thumb will have difficulty reaching both so rapid switches are not possible. On the left hand of the switch the stick is above and the dpad below, and the opposite is true on the right. This is a direct consequence of how a kid might use the controller. In most games the left hand controls movement - meaning an analog stick - and the right hand controls discreet inputs - meaning the dpad/button diamond.

Children’s also struggle to reach shoulder buttons and have lower grip width, so the natural gamer grip in which two fingers are resting on the shoulder buttons does not work at all for children. They usually have to use all four fingers to hold up a heavy device. The shoulder buttons go from being the most easily accessed buttons on the controller to the most difficult.

A child’s grip strength is lower, and thus so is their ability to hold a heavy controller comfortably, especially one not designed for their hand size. A single joycon in sideways mode, often used in child’s party games on the switch, is a far better controller size for a child while it is uncomfortably cramped for an adult.

It is not a coincidence that the Switch, which is marketed as a family console, comes prepacked with the controllers that are kid friendly and adult friendly controllers are a secondary purchase.

There are more things you can point out, but in a practical sense you can see these design principles applied by comparing something like Kirby vs Metroid Dread.

Kirby is almost entirely controlled through the face buttons, with only the rarely used defense button mapped to the shoulder buttons, and you can really get by with never using it. The triggers are not used at all. You rarely have to combination press anything. If my memory is correct, the shoulder buttons are never used for any temporary transformation abilities. The difficulty of using new abilities should not be compounded by hard to reach buttons.

Dread on the other hand uses combination presses a lot and ties three critical abilities (free aim, missile use, and sliding) to the shoulder buttons. The omega cannon, a rarely used but critical and time sensitive ability, is tied to the shoulder buttons for the easiest and most intuitive possible use. The stress of defeating an emmi should not be compounded by fumbling with controls.

Smash Bros in particular is pretty cool in how its control scheme is set up. The most basic functions that a child might use are very simply mapped to the single stick and face buttons. As you learn to play better and try more advanced techniques (like an adult might) like timed grabs, dodging, and shield use you move away from the face buttons, incorporating more and more use of the shoulder buttons. It splits the difference for the best of both worlds. You can trace the principles of this design all the way back to the N64 and I would not be surprised to learn that the in game mechanics were built specifically to compliment this novice to expert transitional design, which is what makes smash bros so friendly to novice and expert gamers alike.

luckyladylily

#i have smallish hands for an adult#and arthritis#so this is relevant to me too#something to consider

This is an excellent point as well, something I wasn’t going to get into but so much of game design just ignores accessibility issues like this all together. So many of the basic assumptions of game design from input device to button mapping to in game accessibility features are built around the assumption of fully abled adult between late teenager and middle age.

#reference #interesting #important

idyllvisa

i thought i posted this on melog’s birthday but i can’t find it on any of my accounts?! i’m sorry melog happy late birthday

#spop #catra #melog

K/DA Polycule + Seraphine slumber party WIP because I have serious brain rot for these polyamorous sapphics right now 😍😍😍

How I headcanon their polycule dynamic

-Evelynn is romantically partnered with Akali and Ahri individually

-Akali is also romantically partnered with Seraphine

-Ahri is also romantically partnered with Kai’Sa

-They’re all in a queer platonic+sexual closed polyamorous partnership as a group and with each other individually

Finally finished this drawing of Seahorse Dad™️ trans!Adam Parrish x Ronan Lynch 🥰 I love and project so much onto these boys honestly 😅

tricktster

i feel like tumblr is doing something kind of revolutionary with its advertising rn? like… if they’re doing what I suspect they’re doing, it’s almost impressive?

tricktster

tumblr: hey, we need money to keep the lights on so here’s an ad for ball shaving devices

me: i am not the target market but okay! thanks!

tumblr: hey, sorry, but you scrolled down past two posts so now it’s ad time. how about you shave your balls, huh?

me: yup, again, not a concern.

tumblr: oh, okay, cool cool, got it, keep scrolling.

me: okay, scrolling past one post, two po-

tumblr: hey you need anything for that ball shaving thing, orrrr..?

me: you like. you HAVE to know that i do not. in fact, based on a real rough read of the demographics of my followers, it seems like you have massively misjudged your audience for these ads? like, ball-havers seem to be a pretty small subset of users here?

tumblr: no, no, got it.

me: squints

me: okay, i’m gonna scroll down ag-

tumblr: hey, how about you shave your balls for once, huh????!!!

me:… is this the only ad you’re running now? like, not only are all my ads for ball shaving tools, you’re running them so close to each othet it that feels 50% of my dash is ball shaving tool ads?

tumblr: hey we’re sorry but we need money, and we only get money when someone clicks on an ad, so-

me: BUT WHO IS ACTUALLY DOING THAT???! BECAUSE MOST OF US? WE DO NOT HAVE BALLS?!!!?? Like, why not just diversify your ad sponsors to buy something that we can actually use? just like… maybe plug one! other! product! or! service! IDEALLY UNRELATED TO SHAVING BALLS!

tumblr: we actually were just about to drop a new ad for a totally different product! totally unrelated to balls!

me: awesome, thanks man, that’s progress. what’s the new ad camp-

tumblr:

tumblr: gimme 40 bucks and it stops. 40 bucks and i’ll cool it for a whole year year.

me: does…. does manscaped know you’re doing this? like, do they know their ads are now enforcing an extortion attempt or-

tumblr: LALALALALALALA I CAN’T HEAR YOU OVER THE SOUND OF ALL YOUR BALLS THAT NEED SHAVING unless you have 40 bucks that is. 40 bucks and this can end right here.

workfornow

I'm glad that I'm not the only one who's been wondering if the relentless marketing of manscaping accessories to me, who owns none of the requisite genitals, is actually an attempt to coerce me into paying to get rid of ads.

justgot1

I’m beginning to take it personally that I have not yet gotten the ball shaving ad. Tumblr squeegee, yes. I don’t really want the ball shaving ad, but I’m also feeling weirdly left out.

khangi

Hey, everyone. It’s rent time and I haven’t had any more luck this month finding a job. Rent is due 6/3, so I need the amount before then.

I’m a native artist who is struggling very hard right now, and don’t have any other options for this situation. We’re trying to come up with a better one, but we’ll see.

Any sales to my shop are appreciated, but keep in mind that checking out with PayPal is the only way for it to be available to me now.

https://awaksupegage.com

Paypal: https://www.paypal.me/jnwampler

Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/khanji

Venmo: KajiW

CashApp: $kajiw

Any help is very much appreciated.

190/$1350

khangi

It’s day 4. Can we make it to $400?