BE THE BEST DAMN KURAMA YOU CAN BE, BETCHES!

Me. Accept no substitutes or imitations. Formerly dumbthingswhitepplsay and some other names, I'm sure one of the anti-SJs will help you remember them all. They/them/their pronouns always. Don't start none, won't be none. You ARE being tracked. I do not ever consent to be part of any study, thesis, dissertation, etc in any capacity done on any topic. Deposit your financial solidarity here. the-original-dtwps and dumbthingswhitepplsay by Riley is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

[the-original-dtwps]

game developer feels

tfw you been on HBO for a game you made while nobodies whining

[ilovedessert]

Caramel Stuffed Pumpkin Cookies

[ithelpstodream]

[the-original-dtwps]

lol that last update really tell you how long it’s been tho

i can’t even be on twitter that much bc FULL TIME JOB plus TWO PART TIMES

[the-original-dtwps]

LOL omg, when was the last time I was here.

I haven’t used Tumblr much at all in a while, mostly on twitter, but I figure y’all deserve an update since over 2K of you STILL FOLLOW MEH.

So the main things: I have graduated from school this past June. Tumblr was here with me for most of my school journey, starting from when I decided to go back to learn more about programming, and through my first and second years while the harassment was at its worst. Looking back it’s actually kind of funny because it all worked out. I did some cool small form video games and am working on something bigger that is close to having its second or third alpha done (WE HAVE ONE HORRIFIC BUG AND IT’S KILLING MY SOUL RALIKJRLKJFLJDSF).

I’ve also got a full time job as a software engineer! :D :D :D :D Which I heard some of the people in Tumblrland are calling fictional? I mean...sure? If that’s where you wanna go with it, you can feel free. It doesn’t affect my money or the job position, so. I finish up my fifth week this week, and my first application for work, which we chose to do in a language I’ve never used because our emphasis is on learning and exploring codespace right now. I actually start with my first team today, which is a bug fixing team. The goal I had in choosing this is to dig around learning security and dev ops, and also just SEE most of the code that other tech teams are working with. I have to learn a lot of languages and tools, as well as why those engineers built certain things, and learn to fix them. I think that will help me a lot in game development bug fixes moving forward so I’m really excited about it.

I have MOVED across the country for work as well, and I started my own company with a friend earlier this year. I’ve had a couple of paying clients already and one that wants to take me on regularly to do work, so that’s always fun fun fun! A lot, since I’ve gained a nasty penchant for overworking, but fun. I’ve been flown to 2 different locations this year through that for work.

Ummmm, I live in a gorgeous apartment now? omg gorgeous. I have a loft and a pool and a jacuzzi. I’m so fucking tickled pink about them. I’ve been living here almost two months now, and I live ALONE. With NOBODY except Artemis, who is going to be a Strawberry for Halloween. I’m also having some “talking to” with people, which is cool.

Idk. I’m doing all those things I said I wanted to do. The flexibility and freedom to work from anywhere I want is truly amazing and wonderful to me. The people I work with are so cool. I live a 10 minute walk away, and in a central location with lots of stuff nearby. I’ve got 16 foot high ceilings, y’all. I mean, it’s a dream I’ve been dreaming as a little autistic queer trans kid.

I’ve *made* it out of poverty and make close to 6 figures a year. I used DENTAL INSURANCE yesterday for the first time in fucking 10 years. DENTAL. INSURANCE yo. INSURANCE. OF THE DENTAL VARIETY. The annoying thing is that I’m one of like 2 Black femmes in the entire group going back 2 years. :| Yeah, ask me my feelings on that. I’m fighting to get people jobs but I won’t get to settle down until today, wherein I can restart working on building a conference which will be a lot of fun and awesomeness. :)

Ummm, what else. Looking to get back into shape? School gained me 40 pounds. :| My knees are unhappy. My job actually gives out 100% free classes, 15x a week, just gotta be there early, so I will probably do a Yoga class tomorrow to start off. :)

I’m doing red and orange braids in my hair for the fall/Halloween. Trying to have a Halloween party, but we’ll see how far that check travels this coming month, LOL. I just got the bill check if you know what I mean. xD I’m considering moving somewhere cheaper but more likely, I’ll get a roommate for a small part of the year. Definitely looking to get a car, though. My credit is finally staunchly within “good”, so I qualify for all that gud shyt now. (WHAT? YA BOI’S CREDIT IS FIRE?? YASSSSSSS!!!!)

And, I don’t know. The world’s my oyster from here and I can do it all now. We’ll see where it goes. :D

Lastly, bc I am a proud petty penny; if y’all stalkers on here had tried making something of yourselves instead of stalking, you coulda been somewhere and somebody but instead you worrying about whether MY job is fake or not while I’m getting cash LOL.

BYE BEW

And a pic of me right before my last birthday. (FOR WHICH I HAD A KINGDOM HEARTS BIRTHDAY PARTY BTW BC YAS.)

[the-original-dtwps]

A video game about Princeeeeee? 8D <--- it’s just an alpha build and it’s free

(BECAUSE OBVIOUSLY PRINCE IS FUCKING MISSING!)

[the-original-dtwps]

This is a thing that’s happening.

Help Marginalized People Thru Tech Media

Spread if you feel up to it and block haters.

[muslimahs-in-comics]

muslimahs-in-comics is on temporary hiatus while we all die from excitement @ Aamir Khan marrying a geeky black Muslimah convert, 

while the Ms. Marvel team breaks the fourth wall to call out colorism in comics.

and perfectly captures

the exact response you get at any masjid in the world when calling out racism.

Real caps to come later. We’re just gonna be dead from excitement for a while. Regularly scheduled programming to come soon.

[artofthecatt]

[boarcriminal-deactivated2018052]

[cinnabarbie]

Due to high popularity and demand, I’m selling more Jasper dakis for $85 + shipping ♥

Dakis are available for pre-order until February 17th, 12AM EST. Expected shipping date will be Mid-March. 

No, these will never be available again after this (and I mean it this time lol), so get one while you can! 

[PRE-ORDER JASPER DAKI] 

Also, you can vote for the next Gem daki [HERE]

[cinnabarbie]

Only 2 days left. Then these will be gone. FOREVA.

[reaperneeshy-deactivated2018071]

All gifts at a price

Gentle reminder that webcomics can have:

-Cool story

-Characters of Color

AND

-Characters that are LGBT+

warning for blood and gore at points.

[itsalljustaprogram]

yvvy’s and samuel’s...design -- a much needed break-from-code day

So yesterday, I took a break from code and decided to spend much of it with Sam going over the plot. Our goal was to finalize the endings, and outline the first level in excruciating detail…including diagrams of what the levels should look like. They aren’t yet done, but the schematics are drawn out, and just waiting for placement of the set-pieces, a term described in the guide I used to design the level on paper. It was extremely helpful and the designs came out, if I do say so myself, pretty darn awesome for a first sketch. 

Today, I’ll be redoing them with more attention to scale this time. I’ll probably do as the tutorial does, make each small square the equivalent of 2x2 in-game squares. We have 100x100 sized squares. What will likely happen before deciding the exact size of each square is that we’ll use placeholders to program the art in, and test how long it takes at our current game speed for the character to walk around in it. It may be that we need to make the scale larger, or that there are just too many or too few squares for this to make sense given the allotted time scheme we wanted this level to take up, approximately 45 minutes to one hour.

I blocked out some things so it doesn’t get too spoilers, but some bits from our first set of sketches on level 1!

Keep reading

[chlove-art]

racial diversity in my own comics

Just to point out something from some readers’ reaction to the fact that Go Get a Roomie has a majority of white characters (which is absolutely true): 

Like I said in the last post, part of it has to come from my own circle of family and friends (probably 90% white), but mostly from me creating a good chunk of the characters years ago when I wasn’t fully conscious about certain representations. Most of them happened to be created as a “default” white people (including myself at the time) unconsciously went for. Which is darn silly (and harmful!), but thankfully medias (and myself) are starting to learn what diversity really means, and how much enriching it is to include it in your creations!

The way I know I have changed in this matter is looking at my other webcomic, Headless Bliss.

(note that this webcomic is mainly set in a fantasy world where skin colors can go from green to blue-ish white)

Created one year ago, but pondered on for years before it first appeared online, the characters went through different designs before reaching their “final forms”. And only one remained peach-skinned… the one that happens to be a story from the human world (which now that I think about it, is beautifully ironic).

Annùn’s design went for an Indian feel to her character, which I am so glad I changed. Now that she’s been growing in the comic for a year, I couldn’t imagine her otherwise. It’s part of her, and for the better.

The twins are designed to be of South American indigenous descent (father’s side). Even though everything human-related isn’t what this fantasy comic is about (or perhaps, it’s *all* it’s about?), the fact that they’re based in another setting than most white&western culture adds a richness to the characters I couldn’t have brought out otherwise if I had instead made them as white as my queer butt.

The other main character would be Diov, but she’s just an evil demon queen who thinks she’s sassy. The fact that she’s whiter than white (to a blue-ish hue), is far from being any form of political stab however. It’s rather her inner wish to be “pure”.  (readers will know it’s not the case)

 (though it is still enjoyable to have a villain being all white than all black)

The real sassiness Diov wishes she could rival comes from Mama Josie. A secondary character that I have come to love a bit too fast, and we haven’t seen her nearly as much as I’d like.

So there you go. Instead of working on tomorrow’s Headless Bliss update like I should be, I wanted to do a little recap on characters’ ethnicity, and how I deeply appreciate diversity in all its forms (not just sexualities), the more I learn to include it in my own comics. 

If you’re a white artist, or know of one, and you feel they could go more diverse, give them time and encouragement (not hate!). Believe me, once they get a taste of how enriching it is to include characters from various backgrounds and tastes and thoughts, they’ll never go back :)

(And don’t forget we’re all humans, and mistakes happen. If you find that someone has written a character in an offensive way, they might not be aware of it and simply needs explaining. Heck if I haven’t made (and still do) mistakes in my comics!! It’s all about learning and growing in an accepting and open-minded way.)

Cheers, Chloé C.

ps: if you want to read Headless Bliss for the first time, beware of the gore/blood and other dark fantasy themes!

[the-original-dtwps]

these are the kind of posts white webcomic creators make after they’ve been called out by multiple PoC, blocked those PoC, and want to pretend they’re relevant.

please don’t support this person or their work. they just screamed at a friend of mine earlier for pointing out their white ass comic, and now are trying to play this fucked up game of “BUT LOOK AT ALL THE PIXEL COLORS!!!”

fuck white creators like this, fuck white artists, fuck white people

[juene-deactivated20170115]

tumblr: we want more characters with mental illnesses!!

kylo ren: lashes out frequently, cannot control his emotions, has anger issues, feels like he’s being torn apart, is suffering because of his overwhelming thoughts, uses his pain to keep him going, and shows symptoms of a variety of mental illnesses

tumblr: no not that one

[tunajorts]

more like

tumblr: we want more characters with mental illnesses

kylo ren: is a villain and an asshole

tumblr: some positive representation would be nice

[admiral-yousmator]

Lol “he’s an asshole and abusive but he’s displaying symptoms of so many mental health issues WHY DON’T YOU LOVE HIM”

[memeufacturing-deactivated20161]

communism/transitional socialism actually did primarily good things for most of e/se asia so don’t let white americans fiddle with the true shit

[fuckkkkkkkktumblah-deactivated2]

ok this is where i gotta draw the line with tumblr’s ~communism is cool~ BS.

DO YOU KNOW WHO THE KHMER ROUGE ARE. Communism DESTROYED southeast asia dont even

[memeufacturing-deactivated20161]

- the Khmer Rouge was funded by the CIA for a multitude of reasons that revolved around American imperialism in Vietnam and not ideological furthering by any means. “leftist” kampuchea was not communist by any means and was a CIA setup - basic readings of the history of the Vietnam War would tell you that South Vietnam/ROV’s intent was to re-establish French colonial control over Indochina, with its most precious Asian holding being, obviously, Vietnam. the NVA was (successfully) protecting Vietnam, regardless of ideological differences - vietnam in spite of being hardly socialistic in the present is far better off due to Ho Chi Minh’s continued fight during the Vietnam War due to the rejection of French/Western “reconquest” - i’m a vietnamese citizen

[meshugenist]

[the-original-dtwps]

omg people reblogged Edward/Winry on my dash? that shit is almost as bad as Sakura/Sasuke, find standards y’all