blue vs red battles

kai & he/him & probably primarily a red vs blue and kpop acc

[robotnuts]

im so glad i found these articles and papers on red vs blue’s impact, especially during the BGC era because while i always knew that RVB was iconic and and revolutionary as a new storytelling medium, i didn’t understand just HOW revolutionary it was. now im no longer begging my friends to watch a gamer show please god it gets really good, now i am expertly recommending them a revolutionary piece of anti-war media that is a successor to the 1950s theater of the absurd movement that has been compared to M*A*S*H and waiting for godot, which was played at film festivals and written about in the New York Times, and they should be thanking me

[robotnuts]

this is all true, of course. i would never lie to you.

here’s the new york times article, which is long. here’s a pastebin of the wallstreet journal article (2004), which i forced my friend to give me access to through her university despite her hating RVB. it is short but it’s the one that says RVB is as sophisticated as samuel beckett.

here’s where you can read one of the academic articles for free, and here’s another where you can sign up if you make an account, which is one click if you sign in through google.

credit to @riathedreamer for telling me about the two articles and also writing a university paper on RVB because she’s a genius

[riathedreamer]

because yes, I am that big a nerd, here’s some other sources I’ve worked with that either briefly mention rvb or discusses machinima as a phenomenon. Just in case you guys are also nerds. But the two articles mentioned above as the biggest in-depth analyses of the show.

Cannon, R. (2007). Meltdown. In Clarke, Mitchell, G. C., & Clarke, A (Eds.), Videogames and art. (pp. 47-66). Bristol: Intellect

Harwood, T. (2011). Towards a manifesto for machinima. Journal of Visual Culture, 10 (1), 6-12. 

Jones, R. (2011). Pink vs. blue: The emergence of women in machinima. In Lowood, H., & Nitsche, M (Eds.), The machinima reader (pp. 277-300). Cambridge: MIT Press.

Jones, R. (2011). Does machinima really democratize?. Journal of Visual Culture, 10(1), 59-65. 

Kelland, M. (2011). From game mod to low-budget film: The evolution of machinima. In Lowood, H., & Nitsche, M (Eds.), The machinima reader (pp. 23-36). Cambridge: MIT Press

Kirschner, F. (2011). Machinima’s promise. Journal of Visual Culture, 10(1), 19-24. 

Nideffer, R. F. (2011). Eight questions (and answers) about machinima. Journal of Visual Culture, 10(1), 66-73. 

Nitsche, M. (2011). A look back at machinima’s potential. Journal of Visual Culture, 10(1), 13-18. 

[ueeyasu]

oh yeah drew the cool lady with the cute helmet

[thought-42]

Please consider.

• Kimball, as the leader of a pretty small revolutionary army, being constantly and critically aware of the need for a positive, encouraging and rewarding atmosphere among her soldiers. Kimball understanding the value of acknowledging and celebrating achievements and hard work, as well as the importance of constructive, useful, and encouraging feedback to promote self-improvement. Those concepts being at the core of Kimball’s interaction and command styles both by virtue of her position and circumstances as well as simply part of her personality.

• Carolina, coming from a military command structure and family environment where her best is never good enough, where her achievments go unremarked-upon. Where there is no clear and concrete goals, where the concept of ‘good enough’ is a distant horizon moving constantly further away into the distance. Carolina who has internalized this toxic understanding of self-worth and success and deserving so deeply that she is largely unaware of the sabotaging mechanisms at work in her own brain.

Consider

• Kimball telling Carolina she’s done well

[livingosiris]

s6 extra, additional correspondence

[rexwrendraws]

CAROLINAAAAAA!!!!!! Here’s the first piece I made for the RvB Flower Zine ( @rvbflowerszine ) this past year! Thank you so much to everyone who made this zine possible, and everyone who bought the zine too! I hope you guys enjoy the art! 🌻

[gravdanger]

Mwah!!

[dakotatwins]

[shotgunslap]

IF WOMEN ARE OPPRESSED THEN WHY

SIMMONS

[bungholediversextremefitnessclub]

[jaxbeetle]

my South piece for the @rvbflowerszine ! This was fun to do

[vanessakimballs]

FILSS: thank you for activating SIMP wash: SIMP?! you have got to be fucking-

[drawnsnake]

Some people asked me to do a tutorial on drawing rocks, and since I found myself drawing rocks a lot these days, I thought I would share some things that I do.

Note: I am not a professional artist nor have I received much professional instruction. I am self-learned and thus prone to error. If you see anything wrong with the above contents, feel free to point it out, and generally, take this whole thing with a grain of salt. You don’t have to draw rocks this way.

And since this is my first time making a tutorial, feedback on readability/helpfulness would also be welcome, so that I can have a better idea of what to do in case I make another one.

[clownedcrown]

[siyeonluvbot]

i redrew tucker in a skirt because the last one kinda sucked and i adore drawing with this lineless style SO much. GO king BREAK those gender roles YAHHH

[siyeonluvbot]

i haven’t posted in a long time have my maid oc

[bixels]

Sokka, Suki, and Toph watching Aang energybend Ozai from the airship.

[spaceboy-rix]

#2020 US Election

[epsilonhybrid]

the entire state of texas came to MY house and punched ME specifically in the nuts

[lesbianchurch]

i am indulging in my “epsi-carolina staying behind in washington’s brain as a scruffy orphan brain ghost” au and there is simply nothing you can do to stop me