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Do you like this Video Game Song? #441

I like it and I've definitely heard it before

I like it and it sounds familiar

I like it and this is my first time hearing it

I don't feel strongly about it or have a complex opinion

I don't like it and I've definitely heard it before

I don't like it and it sounds familiar

I don't like it and this is my first time hearing it

Voting ended onDec 22, 2024

[amarcia]

@jedijune // Resilience

I always thought she'd be sent to the Agricultural Corps, but now I see why she wasn't. It's not that Master Yoda feels sorry for her. It' that she's already passed the test the rest of us will be facing — (Whie, about Scout.)

✨🌙  ART LOG ->  @404ama

The comic text is from '3gatsu no Lion' it has been in my Jedi-isms folder for years I was so excited to use it with this theme T_T

[hartwreck]

[stopitmeg]

do you really think…

friendships can last more than one lifetime?

[proxima-bee]

i've always been hesitant to talk about my comic scripts on here despite writing them being most of what i do anymore because i recognize that they are the least readerly medium. even less than film/tv scripts, which are at least meant to be read by many people following established formats with conventions advanced by successive generations of innovations and borrowing a lot from the very readerly theater script, comic scripts are essentially instruction manuals for the artist which the artistically precious writers of mainstream comic hubs hoard like industry dragons. this has given me a lot of room to experiment and learn (and as i actually start releasing comics with my collaborative partner i plan to go against this tide) but it also makes for a medium that might seem alien to most of the people who follow me.

that being said! here are some of my favorite pages i've scripted (note that different rows are different sequeneces):

from The Terror Fugitive:

i think one of my favorite little idiosyncrasies i developed doing this is keeping even–odd pairs on the same page and only putting the break after the odd page, which helps me keep in mind which actions flow into which and when the reader will have a big turn (and thus a different interval of time). i also started keeping a total page count to help the artist (in this case my friend) much like numbers before any text helps lettering economy

from The Vindicators (fun fact--these were picked by my collaborative partner in question):

as a fun bonus, if you want to see the development of this process, here is a page i scripted from before i learned the lessons i know now, when i first started my creative partnership with my best friend of many years:

here's the test page said friend illustrated:

you can probably immediately identify the most glaring issue: the text box is too wordy! part of my criticism of wordy text boxes in comics (especially in kirkman's writing) is partly because it's an easy mistake to make that should be corrected, instead of persisting for decades. to compare, here's a more recent draft of that same draft.

you can also see how i've adapted the page to the test page: this is why i like thinking of comics as a partnership and not 'i say what to do the other person does it.' (for instance, in a yet-untitled comic that i'm developing, we've even deliberately flipped the process: he has the final say on panel/page direction, and i write a much more free-form script.) additionally, that was written back when we were planning to pitch something much more long-form: now we're planning on doing the one-page a week format, so i've further shifted the decompression to accommodate this shift in the medium (and, in contrast to what i mentioned before, putting a break between every page).

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Do you like this Video Game Song? #441

I like it and I've definitely heard it before

I like it and it sounds familiar

I like it and this is my first time hearing it

I don't feel strongly about it or have a complex opinion

I don't like it and I've definitely heard it before

I don't like it and it sounds familiar

I don't like it and this is my first time hearing it

Voting ended onDec 22, 2024

[hotchocolatier]

Disappointing for the new women’s pro baseball league to seem to be pretty silent on trans women as far as I can tell when “protect women’s sports” seems to be quite frequently used to promote transmisogyny and legislate against trans women and girls. Seems like letting that go unchallenged only plays into it, only creates another “women’s” sport people can claim to be protecting when trying to enact bans and foment hate.

[fallout-lou-begas]

the more i think about the new professional women's baseball league the sadder i get. groundbreaking in many ways, but by aggressively marketing themselves as groundbreaking, their silence on the most obvious exclusionary issue in sports today is all the more egregious. without any kind of explicit statement or policy in the matter, all that's left is speculation. there's rumors of trans women being quietly turned away from tryouts. it's a can that they're kicking down the road for as long as they can, but the worst part is that i can't entirely blame them for trying to avoid the issue as long as possible. the truth is that if they allow trans women to play, it will open their fragile and fledgling national organization up to unsurvivably expensive lawsuits from an unfriendly federal government and its extremely resource-rich allies, not to mention the uniquely dangerous threats and harassment that they will surely get from a full third-to-half of the country: .it's a pattern of attack deployed against school districts and athletic orgs all across the country, over and over, even in "safe" states like mine. this women's league is not the MLB and surely does not have the means to weather this level of targeted hostility and surely does not have the means to guarantee protection to their players, especially any trans ones. meanwhile, banning trans women from playing, it makes a very small and already unprofitable section of the population upset. it depresses me that, if i was trying to make the first ever racially integrated women's baseball league in american history, it's a no-brainer for the sake of lasting more than one season. and it depresses me that the most that i can hope for is that any official of the organization would just honestly admit to these circumstances when asked instead of trying to weasel out of it. or, yknow, instead of actually being glad to exclude us anyway.

[proxima-bee]

to talk about or allude to anissa people should have to get some kind of special waiver form or badge from you (including kirkman naturally)

society (or at least discussion of anissa) would literally greatly benefit from this.

i think a form would look something like:

ON THE POLITICAL CONTENT OF ANISSA FROM THE SERIES INVINCIBLE

QUESTIONNAIRE

How did the comic Invincible depict sexual assault, including but not limited to the acts of sexual or sexualized violence carried out against Mark Grayson? How has the audience reacted to these depictions: which characters are shamed for their perpetration and which have not?

What did the comic do wrong in its depiction of sexual assault as portrayed in Issue #110 and beyond? Keep in mind not only a mechanical description of what is said and done, but how the rest of the series' narratological devices framed it: what is the imagery saying, who is given interiority?

How was Anissa portrayed prior to Issue #107: namely, what did she have to say on reproductive labor and relationships with men? Note that there are at least three instances where this is illustrated prominently.

How have these perpetrating characters changed for the show? Have their appearances, relationships, personality, backstory changed?

Describe the interactions Mark has had with the Viltrumites besides Anissa. How have they acted toward him? Make sure to reference not only the dialogue, but the cinematography (especially shot composition) and body language.

Conversely, how has Anissa acted toward Mark? Compare her body language and shot composition to that of the other Viltrumites.

Continuing from question #4, what are the implications of the changes to Anissa's design and how does she reference minoritized identities?

Name instances of popular fiction depicting the specially oppressed as perpetrators of sexualized violence to foment biases against these groups. What are these works, what effects have they had, how have people responded to their problematization?

Name characters who resemble the show version of Anissa in USAmeerican superhero fiction who have perpetrated sexual assault and describe how their authors have retroactively discussed the depiction.

Robert Kirkman has, on various occasions, alluded to the racial and gender politics of the comic and compared it to the show. What comparisons did he make? What does he aim to accomplish with Anissa? How would depicting her as a rapist relate to these ends?

In the majority of cases of women perpetrating sexual assault, what is the relationship between the perpetrator and the victim? Who is most commonly targeted? How is this abuse facilitated?

Based on the previous question, which women in Invincible are statistically more likely to carry out sexual violence against Mark than Anissa? Explain your reasoning.

Are women the most common perpetrators of sexual abuse? If not, who? In either case, why? What structures enable this?

What reasoning do fans of Invincible deploy to defend their desire for Anissa to be depicted as a rapist? Is this reasoning sound and backed in the aforementioned statistics? Why is this pressure exerted unequally across the characters named in Question #1?

Describe the relationship between art made in the United States (as Invincible is) explicitly meant to address political oppression and the actual statistical reality of these antagonisms: how do they compare and how do they contrast? Has this been static and unchanging, or continually evolving; if the latter, what pressures have acted upon this art to create these changes?

BONUS: Based on your understanding of political theory, what would you say is the relationship between the signs/imagery of popular art and the political character of the mechanical means of artistic production that lead to their creation?

[proxima-bee]

i obvi want anissa to be written well for other reasons but genuinely it would be kinda poetic watching the audience go ‘ohhh so the brown-skinned woman who's younger and smaller than the men who breathlessly revel in their planetary violations isn't as bad as them?’ like yeah girl you can kinda assume that by having values 😭🙏

[proxima-bee]

this is legitimately how it feels though. it's a hard to articulate kind of frustrating seeing a group of people who are so disinterested in the historic and political realities of rape or the many works of art telling it that they hold this dogshit depiction as the Jesus of Rape the defiance of which is approaching sacrilege. like it's not even good!! genuinely part of why i post about it so much is i want the nabokovian girlies to have my back here. good depiction of rape is literally possible! it's actually quite easy if you know shit from shinola! and like it's so telling how rooted in racism and misogyny this wank wave is that they're like 'nonononono it HAS to be the racialized non-normative women not the guy who Also ambushed him after a heavy discussion with eve during a sunset to tell mark (who literally descended into a hallucinatory panic attack at the site of him) in a measured tone that he was going to coerce tf out of the women of earth.' truly i won't pretend to know what this show has planned but it stands out that even the call of duty pfps on tiktok are like 'wait a minute what if the men were the violatory ones this time around?' because they are! whether or not the audience appreciates or denigrates the violatory nature of the men they are! imagine how beloved anissa could be if people weren't irritating

[crowcolouredfox]

finished watching the anime the other day. I like them :)

[dailyshittyluolisketches]

Day 67 of drawing Luo Li

[trans-girl-nausicaa]

list of (HIGHLY ETHICAL) USA military jobs where you don’t have to kill anyone:

Public Affairs. Have you ever wanted to make literal government propaganda? Well now you get to.

Emotional Support Animal Handler. The emotional support animal in question is a mutt that one of your Battle Buddies “rescued” from Afghanistan. He named the dog “Kunduz Hospital Airstrike”

Depleted Uranium Munitions Handler

Recruiter Who Specifically Targets Teenagers

Priest Who Tries To Convince Murderers That They Aren’t Going To Hell

Guy who brings Hot Pockets™ to drone operators and fruitlessly discourages them from using the term “Bug Splat”

Guy who keeps the buildings full of munitions from catching on fire. (It’s really really important that those munitions dont explode until they impact an apartment block in the global south)

Guy who stands on the deck of Coast Guard vessels and hollers threats at migrants in the worst Spanish you’ve ever heard

Guy who maintains and repairs multimillion dollar murder machines

Guy Who Trains Guys To Kill Without Hesitation or Remorse

Sex Trafficker (Army)

Sex Trafficker (Navy)

Sex Trafficker (Marines)

[utopianoverlord]

Desolation Point

[celezart]

Forlorn muskeg

Location from game "The Long Dark". Drew landscape of this quiet place cuz I really adore it :"0 Btw, I printed a poster with this, if anyone wants a printed version of this or other my arts - send me a DM.

[yulesarts]

ralsei doodle!! she was so cute in her new dress ily ralsei

[hotchocolatier]

if you think you’re going to cut up a mango all nice and save some for tomorrow you are lying to yourself