One of my friends, who I'll be calling Pink, sent me a list of recs for me to put here for crit folks!
Pink's explanation for each rec (minus the CosCol Studios stuff since. Iykyk(/silly). Though that's @cosmic-collective-studios as a reminder for anyone who hasn't checked our stuff out yet ^^):
Laika's Comet: Webcomic with a trans woman protagonist that portrays a post-post apocalypse world and reaffirms kindness, compassion, and patience with abuse survivors even when they're "causing a scene"
Rent (2005): My prior notes about "problematic" transfem rep, it's a musical with a heartbreaking backstory, the funeral scene with a song that isn't appropriated and is actually emotionally impactful
Perfect Blue/Serial Experiments Lain: Both lean VERY heavily into dissociative themes and the difference between digital and real world selves, where that line is drawn, ect. Perfect Blue is more horror forward while SEL is more psychological
No Evil: As I said, just vibes and it's an underrated *actual indie* series with no studio behind it
The Property Of Hate: Webcomic by Modmad, who has been personally fucked over by Glitch because one of their characters was plagiarized for one of the series and Glitch ignored every attempt of Mod's to reach out and discuss it, to the point they've had to start legal proceedings
Kirby Air Riders: Kirby actually isn't the protag of this game! The actual protag uses it/its (for all of its aspects) and is very heavily plural coded, one of its aspects is a very cool looking antihero, and the story plays with themes of autonomy and identity. As much as a Kirby spinoff's relatively short story mode can, anyway. It's still very impactful. Plus robot gore for people who are interested in that.
17776: "There is meaning in a stagnant life" THAT IS LITERALLY THE MESSAGE OF 17776! In a world where nobody ages or dies and all of the "big problems" have been solved, people will still be people. Made me cry quite a bit /pos
The Post Traumatic Manifesto: Concept album following a group of girls struggling with various mental health problems and trauma, portrayed in an unfiltered and sympathetic manner, and they all get to recover in their own ways in the end and find community in each other.
