TekSoda

making games and music and also i draw sometimes

[teksoda]

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[rqbossman]

Hello, Alex! The Flesh here (no relation lol)

I’ve been looking through some of the stuff the fandom does and thinks in regards to TMA, and—call me a snooty bastard if you wish—I think they’re missing out on a lot in relation to how they interact with the show.

The two episodes that come to mind are MAG102: Nesting Instinct and MAG103: Cruelty Free. I find that a non-insignificant number of people undermine the horror in these episodes. Specifically, they mock 102 for what they believe to be an absurd premise of a man falling in love with a beetle, and they refer to 103’s Monster Pig as cute, in some regard, for its proclamation of Dylan Anderson as “Friend.” I could speak at length about how this completely overlooks the nuance of both episodes, but you’d know better than I, and I wouldn’t want to embarrass myself popping the hood of a car you helped to design.

I suppose what I’m asking is, how do I avoid this tonal dissonance between work and fandom when doing my own projects? It has been a persistent worry of mine, that whatever I make shall be undermined by an innate desire in many fandoms to sympathize or soften, especially when such things are deleterious to full enjoyment of the work.

I cannot state enough that I do not aim to be pompous or establish that I am better than anyone. I am not. That is why I’m asking a superior artist—you—for advice.

Hey, I got bad news for you. You can't avoid tonal dissonance between a work and it's fandom. If you try you will likely sabotage the work and alienate the fandom. Examples: 1) Spoonfeed your audience their opinions in the work? Your work becomes didactic and alienating. 2) "Correct" audience opinions outside the work? At best you're ignored, at worst you're now perceived as an asshole. 3) Double down on the negatives to deliberately alienate audience sympathy? Your work just became edgelord nonsense. At the risk of going all Buddhist on you... Your discomfort will fade when you stop trying to control people. You cannot make people do what you want. You can only make the path you desire for them to take as easy as possible. If people are taking an unexpected path, ask them why because there is clearly a need your path isn't providing. Then you can either a) continue and modify your path to better meet that need b) accept that you cannot cater to that need and continue as you were, losing those people in the process c) quit the path. It's all valid, even option C. I know that's not a satisfying answer. I suspect you probably wanted some practical advice on steering audience reception via the execution of the work itself but this is, I think, a more helpful response. Accepting other people's readings without being consumed by them is profoundly difficult, especially when people are harmfully projecting themselves onto you and your work but its the best advice I've got. TLDR: You cannot control how people engage with your work. All you can do is make the work as well as you can, learn a lesson then make the next thing different. Sometimes the lesson is "make the desired reading more obvious" sometimes it's "some people will always be contrarian" and sometimes its even realising that you were saying something you weren't aware of at the time. Either way, you have something to work with next time and if you give it the consideration it deserves your work will improve over time.

[xxmigrainequeenxx]

Metaverse fits (fem akeshu)

[bovid-beauty]

Major 'DIY' hormone hub shuts down as the anti-trans brigade targets more sites

One of the biggest DIY HRT hubs in the UK appears to have permanently shut down just days after being targeted by right-wing outlets.

HRT Cafe, a grassroots database of tutorials, resources, and information on hormone replacement therapy (HRT), closed its doors earlier this week.

The website, which was maintained by a small, anonymous group of developers, was considered one of the biggest resources for ‘DIY’ HRT in the UK.

It is not illegal to possess non-controlled hormones for personal use without a prescription in the UK.

Developers shuttered the site unexpectedly earlier this week. No official statement has been published, only that its developers were no longer accepting donations.

Its closure came just days after a number of right-wing news outlets, including The Daily Signal, published articles on ‘DIY’ vendors citing HRT Cafe and other resource sites.

[trans4trans]

HRTCafe.net, formerly DIYHRT.Cafe, is a website created to provide information for how to safely obtain DIY HRT for trans people who cannot

GitHub - addidotlol/hrtcafe-mirror: mirror for hrt.cafe

mirror for hrt.cafe. Contribute to addidotlol/hrtcafe-mirror development by creating an account on GitHub.

web archive of hrt cafe and a github mirror for those who need it. the link below is an archive of various diy sites including hrt cafe as well.

GitHub - soapingtime/diyhrt: Automatically archiving DIYHRT resources

Automatically archiving DIYHRT resources. Contribute to soapingtime/diyhrt development by creating an account on GitHub.

[treecitysessions]

Why does everyone think fiction is just fantasy wish fulfillment now and not like an exploration of themes and ideas

[my-chou]

Good luck, Ouno.

[teksoda]

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Found an old theme I made for a D&D character I was playing. (my art from the time was bad so here's jin from atla. they looked abt the same)

[teksoda]

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i found a deltarune gaster fight fansong i made like forever ago and its genuinely good, even if like. what tf did i think was gonna happen in the plot bro 😭

[teksoda]

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A Touhou-style track I was commissioned to make a year ago and never put here. I think there's still a little too much of my own style in it, but I like it, so c'est la vie.

[lexia-solve-e]

And even now, you are there, waiting to suffer with me once more

[teksoda]

This is a little random but I’m wondering how old are you?

incomprehensibly antediluvian. people struggle to understand how big a billion is, this ask is a hopeless pursuit

[teksoda]

hello!! I hope you're having a nice day!

I was wondering if you still had the instrumental for Perfect Me (very cool song btw), thank you!

ok so technically the flp went the way of the perfect me flp (destroyed computer/wiped/another state/etc) but i do have this one that has everything EXCEPT the lead(?) guitar in the final chorus so like i hope that will suffice

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[teksoda]

Watazaki thoughts???

watazaki makes me really sad. i love their dynamic so much its insane but i just wish they met outside the game man. if they met in literally any other context...

[teksoda]

hiiiiiiii i wanna record an english cover for perfect me and von led me here so. can i request the english translation of the lyrics

i have translated and localized the lyrics. go wild i guess

[teksoda]

Strange question- but are you the person who made the Epithet Erased remixes ? I’m pretty sure you are however I’d like to check..

dude every time someone brings that up i feel like the critic from ratatouille

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ART REQS OMG OKAY ,,sasaki and okazaki :33 student council president and the hall overlord that's definitely a real thing

i havent actually thought abt them as a duo… they couldve been really funny together

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Can I request Watari and Okazaki??

okazakis coat gets 5% bigger everytime i draw it and idk how to stop this