One of the stranger things about training brand new nurses is explaining how to min max small talk. It feels very weird to coach people on how to chat.
if I make and post an insanely detailed powerpoint on the twenty different equations I run mentally during casual conversation to make it flow better, everyone has to say that it's sexy and cool and not weird at all
remember, everyone promised to be cool! also disclaimer disclaimer disclaimer assume I said all the things you'd say to be like "i know human interaction is complicated, i know some of what i listed here would be very annoying to some people," and all that
Hey! i was your ultrakill secret santa this year and i wanted to know what were your thoughts about my piece.
on my side it was quite challenging because i'm not used to making ship art (i might be ace lol) and because i used perspective for the first time in a full piece instead of practices
i still think it was a slight upgrade compared to the mess that was my gift last year but i'm still sad i have to do it on paper and without proper scanning.
anyway, i hope you liked it as much as i did making it and you're free to give me any input, it makes me stronger!
rock on and goodbye
HI YES THANK YOU SO MUCH I LOVE IT RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
THE RED STRING OF FATE BINDING THEM.... V1 BY THE HAND IT CARRIES ITS GUN WITH.... V2 BY THE KNUCKLEBLASTER..... BOUND BY FATE BOUND BY VIOLENCE BOUND BY DESIGN BOUND BY LOVE BOUND BY THEIR FUCKED UP DYNAMIC. *chefs kiss* also just very happy to finally see them getting along ok? ok.
and great job with the perspective!!!!! i rarely do it myself architecture has always been my enemy grrr.
heheheh and i also like their expressions here... v1 giddy like "YIPPEE LET'S GO" and v2 looking over its shoulder like .... way more chill abt the whole deal
im glad u had fun making it!!!!! im having fun looking at it !!!!!!!!!!!!! dw abt the scanning stuff LOL i am. also a paper photographer
that's cool and i'm glad to hear the stuff was properly conveyed, honestly my favorite character dynamic is pairs that can't stand each other but work well together, besides the fact that they are both missing an arm because i thought that was cool
i could elaborate in ideas for the AU but i really didn't had anything concrete in mind besides the display of their relationship
btw are you always this energetic when you type? /s
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I certainly hope they do, and not just when it’s fictional. Humanizing them is an important step in stopping the actual real-world harm.
If you recognize that they’re human, then you can understand it’s an issue of rationale and perspective, not Inherent Evil - and you can learn to think like an adversary. This is the first step in developing a good security mindset. That mindset, in turn, is the first tool you need to build functional safety measures and protections for your community.
There’s an added bonus, too - if you recognize that they’re people, you’ll notice that not many people are villains in their own narratives. They aren’t choosing to be evil, they’re rationalizing their harmful choices. And you start asking questions.
If you recognize that cops are people, you learn to ask yourself “Am I being reactionary, authoritarian, and needlessly violent?”
If you recognize that racists are people, you learn to recognize and unpack the racist lessons you were taught.
If you learn that rapists are people, you learn to actively verify consent.
By recognizing that terrible people are not Inherently Bad, but choosing to do terrible things for reasons they think justify them, you get better at protecting yourself from them - and protecting everyone around you from your worst tendencies. It’s a difficult and ongoing process, but it’ll protect you far better than any list of specific Bad Things to watch out for.
There’s a flipside to this, of course, and it’s important:
Anyone who tells you that your enemies are inhuman monsters is using you.
Either they’re trying to convince you that they couldn’t possibly be an Enemy because they’re a normal person… or they’re trying to keep you from noticing the little rationalizations. To convince you that atrocity is okay when you do it.
No offense to the magical girl story you're doing, but I'm not sure about it. It's looks good, and you've put effort into it, but I'm just not fond of magical girl stories, like, why do they always go for the teenage girls and not, you know, adults, particularly ones who already understand the concept of responsibility and sacrifice. But good luck.
That's fine. If you don't like the genre, you don't like it
I thought about playing with the idea of an adult magical girl (magical woman?), similarly over it, but it was giving like... bitter millennial vibes which isn't what I'm going for LMAO.
With an adult it felt like "ah this is her job and she hates it haha she's so relatable". But I wanted my story to feel more like "Oh this girl hates her job, which makes sense she's a baby she shouldn't even have a job or all these responsibilities actually". Since this series is somewhat of a parody of the genre, I feel like leaning into the tropes is important. Teenage girls having this burden of protecting the world is one of them.
It also falls into the themes of being a "gifted kid who people have a lot of expectations for" that I want to explore. Growing up too fast sucks, Aika's aware of that and trying to reclaim her childhood
That's why I'm doing it but in general, I think magical girls are usually teenagers because the genre is generally marketed toward tweenage/teenage girls. A lot of film and fiction is either made to sell a fantasy and/or to inspire. What I love about magical girl animes is that they aim to teach little girls that you can to be feminine and strong. Not that I don't think you can't do that with an adult character but we all know it's nice to see characters that are like you, whether it be race, gender, sexuality and in this case, age. A child doesn't know what it's like to be an adult so seeing a kid like them doing cool shit probably resonates more. Then on the flipside, an adult can remember what it was like for them to be a kid/teenager. So having a younger protagonist can still be relatable or even nostalgic for an adult. I think teenage characters just cast a wider net of appeal/relatability for audiences.
I would love to see more media tackle broader age ranges also, but also I get why high school is an, admittedly overused, but popular age range to write.
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