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My dumb headcanon of V originally being a nurse's or a doctor's assistant of sorts before being sent to the dumps (since she has bad vision and nobody knew that drones can use human glasses, plus drones were treated as lesser) has now been validated. (just...let me have this)
Yes this is a draft of a fanfic I've been working on. Unfortunately this scene is where Cyn decided to fuck with her by giving V a semblance of control. Before taking it back in an instant.
The infant's death was, thankfully, swift and painless.
I've seen some people complain about N happily killing worker drones in the new short, and I would just like to say:
It's unfortunate that being super whipped for Uzi and having most of his scenes portray him as this lovable idiot, made everyone forget that N was an active and willing participant in a literal Genocide.
He is not any better than V or J. That man enjoyed doing his job before Uzi changed his worldview and started seeing Worker Drones as more than a parasite that needs to be wiped from the earth.
I've seen some people complain about N happily killing worker drones in the new short, and I would just like to say:
It's unfortunate that being super whipped for Uzi and having most of his scenes portray him as this lovable idiot, made everyone forget that N was an active and willing participant in a literal Genocide.
He is not any better than V or J. That man enjoyed doing his job before Uzi changed his worldview and started seeing Worker Drones as more than a clean up routine.
edit: I originally said he views them as parasites or pests but that doesn't sound like him and I was being too blunt about my explanation.
edit#2: I forgot another reason why he participated is to make himself more useful which is even more messed up.
Notable members include: Jett Fillmore, Will Harris, Modo Olachenko, Olivia Burke, Archie Everhardt, Lenny Williamson
Y’know, there was a brief time where I was willing to be a bit more lenient with how folks portrayed some characters in Goat 2026. Not all of them stood out as particularly Black to me. I just figured y'all at least knew which characters were undeniably Black, as in, it wasn't left up to interpretation. But apparently, no matter how obvious the writing and portrayal of the character is linked to their Blackness, y'all still had the audacity to depict them as white, of all things, when reimagined as human beings.
So now I have to say, nah: they are all Black. Every team member here. Meaning when you draw them as humans, they better be Black. This is already a Black sports genre story anyways.
“But what can I do about Olivia’s hair?” Either make them into afro-puffs, use the concept art where she is drawn with Black hairstyles in mind, or base it on Y2K straightened Black hairstyles. Either figure it out or don’t do it, I'm just at that point.
Literally, I can’t imagine watching a movie like this and forming the conclusion that someone like Will Harris is a generic white boy. Truly, what were y'all smoking? So for this series, I do want to point out some possible reasons, some of ya’ll don’t want to see these characters as Black. We know it’s due to antiblackness, but we gotta dig deeper into some of these reasons.
Why can’t Will be Black?:
He’s goofy in a corny way
He’s considerate
He’s small thus “non-threatening”
Typical underdog story you associate with scrawny small loser white boys
“None of those reasons only apply to non-Black characters,” and yet time and time again, y'all demonstrate you believe that to be exactly the case. Your actions speak louder than words here, remember that.
See, Will shares a similar demeanor and appearance to the character Miles Morales: a young inner-city Black boy with a humorous personality, fro-ed out hair, love of sneakers, you get the gist. Hell, there’s talk that Caleb McLaughlin may end up voicing Miles in the next Spider-verse movie(don’t quote me).
The thing with Miles, however, is that he isn’t an anthropomorphic animal or anything like that. He’s visually a normal human Black boy. Unfortunately for non-Black fans, many didn’t know how to engage with that fact. Miles’s character was funny and charming and sweet and all, but they just couldn’t imagine a Black boy having those traits, while also being unapologetically Black. I’ve seen attempts to whitewash his character on the account that his mother was Latina, but then stump themselves learning she’s Afro-Latina. People tried depicting him as a troubled Black youth who steals art supplies he can’t afford, which no…he doesn’t do that. His dad is a cop(awful), his mom is a doctor, and he goes to a private school; they aren’t struggling financially. So when all of those attempts to sanitize his Blackness were met with criticism, non-Black fans then turned all their focus onto Gwen Stacy. That's sadly the common tactic for these guys when they enter a fandom focused on Black stories, they focus on the token white.
Now, because Will is depicted as a goat person, some of y'all decided that was a perfect opportunity to say he can be white, cuz “no one said he couldn’t be,” thinking y'all are clever. We already went over how stupid that logic was, so I won’t say much here again. If you are out here believing that a character looking like this, in a Black sports movie genre is white: skill issue.
What I will talk about are the characters yall WILL agree are indefinitely Black…but only due to bigoted biases of preconceived notions towards Blackness.
See, for me, Jett Fillmore is a Black woman because her VA, Gabrielle Union, makes her sound like a typical, old-school auntie who knows how to smack-talk and got game. She was also characterized as someone who had trouble expressing emotional vulnerability and was always hardest on herself. I often see this happen to Black women irl, as we tend to keep to ourselves and close ourselves off, figuring no one actually cares to help us (which does happen more often than not). We live under a system that puts us under constant pressure and hypersurveillance, waiting, and cheering for our downfall. We are expected to help everyone, but at the same time, never to express our thoughts, as that makes us appear aggressive, threatening, and hysterical. That was just an interesting storyline they gave her, and I would have liked to explore that more (how was she not the main character???), but for what we got, the signs were there.
Also, she’s literally a black panther wearing her own Jordan brand; it’s honestly not that hard to conclude that this is a Black character. So for a time, I was impressed to see the fandom depict her as a darkskinned Black woman, cuz fandoms never go that far unless - oh….oh boy
Yeah, so imagine my disappointment to learn the fanbase seems to only agree she’s a darkskinned Black woman, because they see her as an aggressive and angry individual who is “masculine” because she doesn’t have a “feminine body.”
Idk about y'all, but it’s funny how every other day on this website, we talk about how women should be allowed to express their emotions, allowed to express anger over personal injustice, and allowed to have varying body types without being demeaned or questioned about their gender expression. But when it comes to Blackness and Black women, we all of a sudden can’t find ourselves to extend that same grace and consideration. Why does Jett need to be considered a masculine figure for being a Black athlete? Why does Will’s race AND his gender need to be questioned by non-Black people for not meeting the assumed image of Black boys?
Misogynoir in women’s sports is so disheartening to witness. Our bodies are already masculinized (or called animalistic) enough as it is. You then have to add on top of the fact that we aren’t allowed to scream, get angry, get energetic, be happy, or show any visible disappointment with a turnout, lest you be deemed the villain.
Similarly, we have the character Mane Attraction that fandom will also not argue is Black. You would think it’s because of his inner-city AAVE, his use of diss tracks, or his cornrowed mane he takes great care of (even if they might be extensions, which gestures). But no, looking at how y'all treat Jett, I can only assume it’s because Mane is a big, strong, and aggressive individual bullying the “meek, frail, and feminine” main character. I’m being sarcastic with those traits I used to describe Will btw, because that's how he’s all of a sudden framed when it comes to shipping. No, he's just smaller than the average Roarball player, that was kinda the point. Which you should ask yourselves why being small = petite and feminine...and white. Had Will been built like the other large animal players, I’m very certain yall would label him aggressively masculine for speaking AAVE.
Basically, a lot of y'all in the fandom are phony for encouraging this behavior, honestly. All this talk of how we want media to stop portraying everything as an assumed binary, only to show y’all want the status quo to remain. So until further notice, everyone on The Thorns is Black. “Everyone?”
Hey, if you can somehow find a way to make Will a white boy, I’m sure y'all can find how to make the other guys Black.
Which is very fitting considering they wanted to capture his entire style and fashion
Heres some photos i found
You cannot say hes not black when this is who hes based off the hell
I even have a little headcannon of mine
This mostly my own personal headcannons
None of this shit is by directo
I also wanna put forwars afro ukranian modo
This is mostly based off his name and surbam
First of all his surname
Olachenko or More specific Olenschenko rooted in eastern europe
Particularly wih Ukranian and Russian people
Olescha meands defender of the people and chenko is basically an ukranian patryonmic ending of "son of"
Making his name "son of olesha"=son of the defender
But what about his name modo
Well...i have an idea on what his name could be while modo aint exactly
There are two
One..i literally got modo because it is a settlement in kebbi state
But
There is a Senegalese name called Modou
This is the senegalese variant of Muhammad,mostly adapted to fit in with local phonetic patterns
The region that this name is based on is from senegambia specifically wolof people
This shit obviously aint comfirmed im sure they picked the name modo just because
Which brings a common question
If he is based in being easter european specifically afro ukranian how is that possible
Well actuall while a
There is onw which is called the Soviet period specifically..
The "Friendship" Scholarships (1960s–1980s)
Following the 1957 World Festival of Youth and Students in Moscow, the Soviet Union began an aggressive recruitment drive. They positioned themselves as "natural allies" against Western colonialism and US segregation.
Their whole plan and Incentive for the Soviet government was to offered full-ride scholarships, monthly stipends, free housing, medical care, and even allowances for winter clothing.
African Students were also a psrt of this typically underwent a two-year intensive immersion in the Russian language and Soviet culture before starting 4–8 years of professional training in fields like medicine, engineering, and filmmaking..any they liked
And mostly stay within university hubs like Kyviv and Kharviv
So also if any this is where i now came to an idea that based on his name accent
Im concluding that if any he can also be afrokranian?
Its kinda a half baked headcannon thing i have
But like i said its just a headcannon nothing morw
But considering his base inspiration from denniss rodman then him being african american also tracks
Thank you so much for sharing this information, cuz it's so frustrating to see people act like Black people can't dress or act a certain way. Knowing the designers had Dennis Rodman in mind when making Modo was a breathe of fresh air
Your take on Modo being Afro-Ukranian is also very interesting. I had limited information about the African students in Ukraine, so this was nice to hear about too.
Whichever the case, the more I look into Rodman, the more I can see the inspirations of Modo's fashion sense, like, c'mon
AND he was a former basketball player pro, like y'all-
Hello anon, thank you for waiting so long for my reply! Sorry for the late reply! I was quite busy lately but I hope this will be useful_(:3/ < )_ I am not good at making tutorials so I’ll just explain my general process for parallax maps here however there’s plenty of other ways to do it too
First I get a grid that matches the tile size of the engine you are using (I am using Rpg maker VX Ace so it is 32 x 32 pixels), and sprites of the main character for reference. Then I sketch the layout of the map.
From the sketch it looks way too big compared to the sprite. So it is good to have a reference when you draw to keep the proportions in line. I make sure the furniture and stuff is in the grid. And I draw the furniture on different layers to make it easier to move things around.
Keep in mind which parts will go over the character and where they will walk. Also, you can use the sprites like a paper doll to imagine how things will look in the game :D
Once the sketch is done, finish it however style you like
In the editor, set it as the parallax background of your map. I use this script: Yanfly Parallax Lock for locking the parallax to the tiles (this is important so that you characters dont end up floating above the maps)
Make a tileset with two transparent tiles, one that is passable and another one unpassable. and (optional) some placeholder tiles too to keep track of them.
Use placeholders to fill in the general passable and impassable parts so you don’t get confused.
Then fill in with the passable and impassable transparent tiles respectively
For parts of the map that are over the character, can use ‘Show image’ and Modern algebra’s fixed picture script.
Finished! now add events and be sure to test things and tweak them! (a lot of testing. a loooooot) Just practice making maps and you will get the hang of it!
Maybe it's because I don't expect parents to be the pinnacle of perfection but I don't think Netflix Eva is exactly a terrible mother— *Gets shot several times into a trypophobic nightmare*
I would say I'm sorry for not drawing recently, but it's not like I have a set schedule or anything. Most of the time its from depression, low energy, sleep deprivation or simply not feeling up to it.
I noticed that smoking weed often helps, and the Ramune Bottle method did work for a bit...I just forgot to use it.
Thankfully I found out how to fix the notifications for reminders on my phone, so hopefully I'll be able to draw more. I really need improve at art and hopefully open up commissions, maybe only for profile pics, I can't trust myself to finish a full on illustration that doesn't take me months.
I've been playing Persona 5 Royal lately, and even though I unfortunately already know major spoilers, I'm having fun so far.
Here's a P5 FemC doodle that I've made. She still needs fleshing out, but I want her to be a contrast to Joker, much like P3P. She's supposed to be based on gyaru, but idk if I would entirely label her as one.
Sorry for my grammar btw, I was typing down notes almost word for word from the official character book for the protagonist, the Ipad I'm using is a bit funky, as it was my mom's, but it has cracks and other various problems (still works for the most part).
"I use AI to generate my art as I can't draw and whenever I do it looks ugly, nobody would play my game or read my visual novel"
the humble ryukishu07:
Yes, "mediocre" or unconventional art styles may drive away a large majority of people, but as long as the writing or gameplay is good enough they'll see past that.
What are personas? Persona is Latin for a mask, in Jungian terms Jung described the persona as a kind of mask designed to make a definite impression on others and used to conceal the true nature of the individual. the Persona series takes this concept and twists it. The term persona means mask but rather than a mask to conceal one’s true nature the personas are used as manifestations of the user’s personality used to face hardship.
The personas in the series’ physical representations are rooted in myth, legend, and story. The appearance of the persona comes from the sea of the collective unconscious where mythological archetypes dwell; this is referenced by the fact that personae are tied to the human soul.
Personas based on the human soul are true since personas are the manifestations of the user’s will and manifestations of the soul’s conviction acting as both swords and shields to wield a persona in the persona series all it takes is a strong conviction and self-awareness of the user. Personas are the soul’s natural conviction. To summon a persona requires willpower.
The thing that defines how to summon a persona is having a strong conviction and self-awareness. The series goes out of its way to explain that personas are summoned by the genuine conviction of the user. Persona 3 is about facing the reality of death, Persona 4 dares to face and accept the truth as it is, and Persona 5 is about having a rebellious spirit that faces corruption. The thing the games have in common is that what is required to summon a persona is a strong conviction and self-awareness.
There were a lot of videos and posts that explained what the myth behind the persona has to do with the character summoning it. This post isn’t about the writing of the persona. This here is about how to design a persona for your character. This post is for people who are struggling to know how to create personas for their ocs. this post serves as a basis for you that might get you an idea of what to do in designing personas
One thing about the persona series I find fascinating is how the personas are designed. Something is interesting in the way Shigemori designed the persona for the game. As Shigemori stated The two basic approaches he took in designing persona one is focused on the original myth and legend of the persona and two is the image of the character summoning the persona. Shigemori looks to the original myth and looks at sources for inspiration for personas.
Another thing I noticed in the ultimate personas is that elements of the first persona are still seen in the final personas. The first persona served as a basis for the ultimate persona of the elements of the character from the first persona are passed over to the ultimate persona. This is seen in the appearances of the ultimate personas bare some resemblance to the first persona since this is what the ultimate personas are from such stuff from the first persona was carried over to the ultimate persona and is visible
Alright, We will start to look at Shigomori’s creative process of how he designed personas in the series by looking at the personas down below this post are about to elaborate on the steps needed to know how to design the persona that Shigomori took with persona a lot of words will be taken from artbooks and interview used to explain personas in this post. The post will be divided into two segments, one the first is about examining the designs of the personas in the series and how to make them.
"I use AI to generate my art as I can't draw and whenever I do it looks ugly, nobody would play my game or read my visual novel"
the humble ryukishu07:
Yes, "mediocre" or unconventional art styles may drive away a large majority of people, but as long as the writing or gameplay is good enough they'll see past that.
"I use AI to generate my art as I can't draw and whenever I do it looks ugly, nobody would play my game or read my visual novel"
the humble ryukishu07:
Yes, "mediocre" or unconventional art styles may drive away a large majority of people, but as long as the story or gameplay is good enough they'll see past that.
no i don't play persona 5 and a female mc probably won't make any sense in context of the story, it has been a while since i've seen the gameplay, i stopped watching before they went to the second palace.
