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i wish i was a cat so i deserved unconditional love

Harry du Bois would say this.

Caine and Gangle go outside and touch grass. I was thinkin too hard about their Parallels as self-destructive “failed” artists and this was the result.

Brad Bird once said that you can’t create the illusion of life if you haven’t actually lived one, and that’s a line I think about a lot around the Traumatizing Digital Circus. This comic was inspired by: the purpose of making your own art in a world where AI image generators can churn out endless content for you, the way 3D software makes it easy to create infinite spaces but hard to capture authentic hand-drawn human touches, the way all my college art teachers were skeptical of the students’ desire to make anime-inspired stylized 3D visuals right up until it became the new trend in the animation industry—- and how easy it is to get so lost in the technical aspects of art & the consequences of failure that you lose sight of what art is even supposed to be for.

[also: a special thanks to the windows error message generator, this Blender grass tutorial, & all the different poets who wrote about grass— though I’ll let you guys figure out all the Tolkien/biblical/& poetry references.]

demi-void

"You can get with this, or you should get with that"

Hip Hop Songs & Books

Nanami by Blicky B:

Paradise

Everfair

Rapp Snitch Knishes by MF DOOM:

Queen of Urban Prophecy

The Black Kids

Anxiety by Doechii:

The Cost of Knowing

Black Girl Unlimited

Nobody by Nas ft Lauryn Hill:

Home Home

Black Girl, Brownstones

Day by Day by Lonemoon:

Black Cake

Freshwater

Sexy Soulaan by Monaleo:

Parable of the Sower

Wings of Ebony

KFC Santeria by Cain Culto (Sudan Archives Remix):

Afroalgorhythms

O Último Ancestral

creatingblackcharacters

"I don't know what most white people in this country feel, but I can only conclude what they feel from the state of their institutions. I don't know if white Christians hate Negroes or not, but I know that we have a Christian Church, which is white and a Christian Church, which is Black.

I know as Malcolm X once put it, that the most segregated hour in American life is high noon on Sunday. That says a great deal for me about a Christian nation, it means I can't afford to trust most white Christians and certainly cannot trust the Christian Church.

I don't know whether the labour unions and their bosses really hate me. That doesn't matter. But I know I'm not in their unions. I don't know if the real estate lobby has anything against Black people, but I know the real estate lobby is keeping me in the ghetto. I don't know if the board of education hates Black people, but I know the textbooks they give my children to read, and the schools that we have to go to.

Now this is the evidence. You want me to make an act of faith, risking myself, my life, my woman, my assistant, my children on some idealism, which you assure only exists in America, which I have never seen."

-James Baldwin, 1968, on the Dick Cavett Show (clip from I Am Not Your Negro)

Stop asking Black people to be patient and have faith. Earn it.

everydaylouie

thinking of you

robinradio

I did a whole Teddybear picnic on artfight! I finally got time on the last 2 days of artfight! so I'm gonna end SWINGIN. I'm gonna try to pump out as many attacks as I can at the end, I only have 2 more revenges to hit and then I'll be free to fire away, Ima stay up ALL NIGHT so come get me for some last minute hits

franciscolemos

Hey guys, I just released this stock art pack of NPC portraits, feel free to use it :-)

Free stock art: hand-drawn collection of weird characters.

redstonedust

theres an assumption that if an alien has an alien gender system they wouldnt understand homophobia but maybe they just have their own more complex version of homophobia. alien society with eight genders and a horribly complex web of what is considered socially acceptable that makes the gender binary look like easy mode. i'm inventing homophobia 2 and it's terrible.

reachartwork

A Mavis Bacon-Zachtronics-Deckbuilder-Killer7-like.

Peace & Love in the Free World, Psychoballistica: PROJECT RETURN FIRE's prototype is out.

Have you ever wanted to type so god damn hard?

Are you a communist? Alternatively: do you hate communists? (I know these are identical statements)

Do you have not just Autism, but Turbo Autism?

PROJECT RETURN FIRE may be the game for you.

I really cannot explain it any better than my ad copy does in the itch page. So, I'll quote myself. "A typing-based turn-based roguelite with significant Zachtronics machine-building elements and a story inspired by Killer7 that will have you developing interesting new opinions about the idea of "national security.""

And you can play it in your browser. For free! The prototype/demo, at least.

Thanks! Video games.

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ayeforscotland

Still the best gaming fact.

vixivulpixel

Noted: misogyny is a skill issue

depsidase

strictlyquadrilateral

at some point during high school i drew a centaur girl with large breasts because i wanted to draw a character that looked like me, and my biofamily got real upset about it. "why are they so large" because mine are that large. "wouldn't that make it hard for her to run" interesting that you think that but keep trying to make me run. "don't draw things like this, it's morally bad" ok i and my apparently inherently pornographic body will just be over here trying to avoid being looked at

strictlyquadrilateral

this is not to say porn is bad, tbc. i just wasn't a fan as a teenager of being treated like it was impossible to look at bodies like mine non-sexually. frankly i'm not a fan of it now either lmao. i keep kind of thinking about how so many female protagonists are canonically flat or small-chested girls/women who textually wish they had larger breasts, but i can't remember the last time i encountered a protagonist with large breasts where that fact wasn't meant to be sexual. what is up with that dynamic and how do i destroy it

strictlyquadrilateral

it's like... in order to be accepted as a woman, the character has to desire the idealized form of The Perfect Woman (or if she's a #feminist, reject and detest that same idealized form, but the focus on it is often still there). but in order to be a non-pornographic protagonist, she can't attain it. the moment you have a large enough chest you don't really get to be a normal character anymore, you have to go to sex world. idk. probably someone better read than me has written some sort of papers on this. idk what search terms to use though

seraphtrevs

The thing is that sex scenes actually are incredible ways to explore character. People are at their most vulnerable during sex! The way they have sex says a lot of very interesting things about their desires, obviously, but also their psychology, their vulnerabilities, their hopes and fears, etc. It is completely insane to me to think that sex scenes have no value other than to sexually excite the audience. And even if their only value is to sexual excite the audience - SO WHAT?? A movie is supposed to excite and entertain you! Grow up!!!