Spiritually Nerdy

The cosmic lessons I've learned from being a media nerd, and the journey to become a game designer. Also art!! :D Twitter: @I_AM_Puppycat IG: Alfie_Shmalfie

[loamsome]

What did we do to deserve Bill Nye

[iguanamouth]

remember that first live action scooby doo movie. where the antagonist was literally scrappy doo and he was stealing peoples souls, like actually really stealing and absorbing souls, and was planning on taking scoobys soul to rule the world with an army of demons and get revenge on the gang after they abandoned him because he kept peeing in the car, and near the end he turned into this huge dog monster

a real movie

[iguanamouth]

shit. shit

[tramtheram]

[rnnlmb]

I researched this because I saw this movie in cinemas when I was like 6 goddamn years old and remembering its existence just now blew my mind. James Gunn screenwrote this. The writer and director of Guardians of the Galaxy, 12 full years before his most successful film. He stated in interviews that he hated Scrappy’s guts and “their whole goal was to destroy Scrappy forever”, since the character was famously brought in to Scooby Doo in the 80s to help ratings and was almost immediately overexposed and overmarketed to the point that many fans hate him. And they totally did. He hasn’t appeared in anything Scooby Doo related since, except for these throwaway allusions as a nightmare-like traumatic event for the rest of the gang. Depending how you wanna interpret those references the canon fate of Scrappy Doo was that he went nuts and tried to kill anyone. Also, according to this movie he was never even a puppy, just “had a glandular issue”, which makes all those times he went “puppy power” really creepy in hindsight tbh I haven’t watched a SD related thing in years but I spent like a half hour looking into and reading about this. Worth.

[michigrim]

The best part is that Gunn is still proud of this and admits to writing him as the villain because scrappy is a “completely fucking awful person”

[shanigrim]

I wish to be as proud of my fanfiction as James Gunn is of his SD movie 

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Personal Update - 3/28/17

Well, here’s to hoping you hear more from me. If you’re reading this, I appreciate comments and questions about what I’m up to. It keeps me accountable. A queer creative of color with depression and anxiety could use all the help I can get.

I haven’t blogged anything in a really long time. Keeping documentation of my life helps me feel better, and my depression avidly fights against things that help me feel better. So, this is me trying to do better.

Since the last time I blogged, I dropped out of game design school. That led to one of those mid life crisis level cliches. Depression hit me hard and all of my routines fell apart. I thought stress was bad for me, but it turns out not having projects to stress about is entirely worse for me. Life is sickeningly ironic at times.

I do have one job that’s pretty amazing. I work for a non-profit in Portland Oregon that helps teach kids how to make video games, (and stories and animations.) We work hard to make sure our programs are in areas where kids don’t have access to computers at home. I was fortunate to get a computer in our house when i was 11. The problem was, I didn’t really know what I could do on it. I certainly didn’t know I could’ve been programming them to make games. It feels so gratifying to be teaching kids things that seemed so impossible. I can’t describe the deep sense of purpose I get from that.

Still, I haven’t been working on anything creative. I have so many ideas and small starts. I’ve been documenting my ideas for a tabletop role playing game and it’s been getting me really excited. I want it to involve androids so sophisticated, they’re essentially synthetic humans. I got the idea because I watch Avengers: Age of Ultron way too much. I’ve been planning a DnD campaign with my roommates to help research. I’m planning to keep a game design journal to keep myself accountable. I’ll be posting that this week.

[weaponized-androgyny]

There are people assigned female at birth who spend their whole lives being read as male or androgynous! there are people who are assigned male at birth who spend their whole lives being read as female or androgynous! Intersex people exist! You can’t tell what someone has in their pants just by looking at them! Sex assignment is arbitrary and tells you very little about a person’s body or social experience! Just treat people like what they say they are, it’s not that complicated!

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It's scary how easy this was #describeyourselfinthreefictionalcharacters

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Guess I'm blonde now #qpoc #queer #latinx #nonbinarygender #transgender #nerd #marvel #secretwars

[ha-harleyquinn]

[giraffepoliceforce]

This is Harley Quinn herself admitting that her relationship with the Joker was abusive.

Do not romanticize the relationship between Harley Quinn and the Joker.

[nefepants]

I’m just gonna bold the important part of this post, because the amount of people I know who ship this is disturbing.

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Slow Jams and Chill

Hear me ramble and share my thoughts on San Diego Comic Con, Video Games I'm playing and designing and Pokemon Go. And all this from a queer person of color's perspective. Oh my!

Another episode of my ‪#‎podcast‬ ‪#‎SpirituallyNerdy‬ is up on ‪#‎Soundcloud‬ and the iTunes store. Stay nerdy folks :)

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I had the worst day. But I had a really good lunch. @space__traveler is a cooking wizard

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Oh. Oh it's on now. This is my town now.

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My aesthetic on top of my aesthetic today #manga #pdx #roosterrock #oregon #nature (at Rooster Rock State Park)

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Documenting the "I'm finally out of work" mania face #qpoc #nonbinary #queer #coloredhair #latinx #pdx #toocuteformyowngood #gpoy #selfie

[spirituallynerdy-blog]

#qpoc #nonbinary #queer #latinx #trans #coloredhair #nerd #mutantandproud

[freegameplanet]

Public Enemy is a very cool first person civil revolt game in which you sneak past guards, spray graffiti, destroy oppressive totems and stick fish on the back of state guards with an aim of creating enough civil unrest to cause an uprising and overthrow the totalitarian government.

Play The Full Game, Free (Win, Mac & Linux)

[spirituallynerdy-blog]

This looks so cool. I too wanna make games that involve social revolution so I love having a frame of reference. 

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Summer Slow Jams

Las week I took part in a week long game jam, and we cam out of it with a pretty sweet prototype and game design! I’m going to type up a post mortem soon, but I just wanted to say I love game jams and I’m super happy that the Portland Indie Game Squad organized it. I love the indie game community so much. 

[spirituallynerdy-blog]

#aboutlastnight I love this photo for so many reasons

[queenofzombies]

Long commute, huh buddy