Shitty roommate: Hey man sorry for not taking out the trash again. I'll do it next time Cartoon video essayist roommate: Do you actually think just saying "sorry" means you've been redeemed?

Hm... You know, I don't think there's been enough discussion on what constitutes a good redemption arc. I feel like I should make a short-form video about it. Perhaps I'll even reference a certain character from Avatar: the Last Airbender

Breaking my silence... Flourless chocolate cake sucks. It's just a really dense, weirdly textured ganache thing. NOT cake. "Oh, it's so rich!" Well, you know what else is rich? A brownie. A chocolate souffle. A piece of actual cake. All of which I would rather be eating. #owned

assorted project hail mary doodles #phm #projecthailmary #art #doodle

assorted project hail mary doodles #phm #projecthailmary #art #doodle

It's been a while but as far as I remember, one of the best scenes on television is still from the old sci-fi show Farscape, where at one point the main character takes one of his alien companions and throws him off a set of stairs, and they have a shot of the unmanned alien puppet dead falling

One of the worst parts about working in print is that someone will come in with a blatant AI design and you aren't allowed to make fun of them. You have to say, yes I would love to print your beautiful ChatGPT poster. Yes, the design is quite nice

Lillie: Maybe I don't want to say anything when you're just gonna call me an idiot. Mordred: I don't do that. Lillie: Okay, well, you need t Mordred: I'm sorry, WHO'S the one here who has more experience with capturing demons, HMM? If you're so smart, build something yourself...! Lillie:

I like to believe the #1 most frequent Mordred and Lillie argument as they get older is Lillie being passive aggressive and Mordred going "I Know That Tone. Simply State, With ACTUAL WORDS, What You Are Really Feeling" and Lillie going "I don't know what you're talking about" (passive aggressive)

Discussing how to make a fictional work "popular" is kind of hard, because I think it really just depends on how "iconic" something from it is. And, what makes something iconic? Well... (baffled shrug)

It becomes harder to make fun of the minions movie for trapping those banana fuckers in ice when you are writing your own long-lived character and have to ask similarly uncomfortable "so what were they doing during this time period, exactly" questions

my preference for more nuanced depictions of misogyny in fiction beyond "guy is mean, GIRLPOWER!!!" is unfortunately at war with my writing stuff where a guy goes "lmao whatever. make me a sandwich, woman" and the woman knees him so hard his dick & balls invert into his body

I tend to write very sentimental + happy endings, so sometimes it's quite refreshing to write something mean-spirited and miserable.

The original ATLA has that goofy "USA-attempts-anime" style going on, but the cool part was that they stylized it in a way that preserved the characters' features. It's pretty uncanny to see them do away with that and give them all the same anime eyes + face structure + thin, pointed nose

I haven't watched it, and I really have no strong opinions on Avatar: The Last Airbender outside of "enjoyed watching it as a teen, great kids show," but the stills I've seen from the leaked movie are so scary to me. Why did they put the characters through the Netflix Voltron beam

Asked my mom if she wanted me to make anything for dinner on Sunday, and she casually suggested I thaw out a pork roast and make it + various sides. Mom, I am breaking the cycle. I am not casually making a whole roasted meat with various sides for dinner anymore. I am not doing those dishes

I can kind of understand insane gamer reactions to reasonable negative reviews, because when I was 15, Game Informer magazine gave a game I liked a low score (it was "unfunny") and my response was to wish death upon them, their family, and for anthrax to mysteriously show up in their mailbox.

type of shit mordred queues up for his "dark" journalling sessions

Not especially important, but something that does feel left out in talks regarding fictional diversity is that it's often quite fun to write characters from various backgrounds. It is (shocking, I know!) enjoyable to write about interesting people who are different than you

When I was younger and there were child characters in things, people would talk about them being annoying and needing to die for this crime. But, nowadays, when people discuss child characters, it's like "This adorable kid is DEMOLISHING decades of feminist propoganda! Long live the nuclear family!"

writing things largely involves fending off my inner reddit humor enjoyer to avoid the stuff becoming really, really bad. "it's gonna be so funny this time trust me" no it won't!

Audiences are worms who do not understand what they want, unless I agree with the audience, in which case the authors are worms who are unable to listen to basic criticism. I hope this clears up the issue

Someone asked me where I went to college today. As someone who farted around in high school and last-minute applied for them while my peers all went to ivy leagues, I cannot stress enough how much I do not want to answer this question.

going to hell because I liked ouma more than komaeda as a teenager

Demonvn is quite YA-core. It is a story about all the stuff that normal teens go through -- growing up, fitting in, man-eating demons, murder, violence, running for the student council, applying for college, murder 2.0 (massacre edition),

came out so good omg

epic heat wave outfit for 87 degree weather on the hottest floor of your house, one window for air circulation, one dusty standing fan #doodle

I may be the only one brave enough to say this, but it's hot as hell out there today.

drawing some really cool stuff... you can't see it, though.

the sheer concept of a gamer cruise

can they make a forum of some sort for indie writers and developers so i can migrate there and never use social media again, ever

So many people online are mean as hell, man. What if we were all a little more niceys to one another. Had positive thoughts. Went out and smelled that nice spring air. Etc.

Seeing people be attracted to certain shoenen male characters does at times give off the vibe as when women call the shirtless, ripped men on schlocky romance novels "yummy"

I have way more in-depth thoughts on the matter, but whenever people complain about visual novels needing more gameplay it always kills me, because my immediate thought is that they want huniepop-style match-3 minigames

starting to get to a point in my coffee enjoyment where i have actual opinions on roasts and can distinguish "flavor notes" and so on... this is so scary. what if i stop being able to enjoy the bad free coffee they give you at hotels

I often like writing my characters with bad opinions because I think it's interesting to explore the idea of "bigotry" as an antagonistic force vs. "bigots" themselves. Also, it's extremely hard to write "strawman gets OWNED" in a way that isn't annoying, even if you agree with it (from experience)

Rusty: Heh... Come here, Mordred... Let's see how well your serious facade lasts, when you watch THIS masterpiece... *holding up youtube video titled "the bee movie but every time they say "bee" it plays the bee movie at 1,000% speed"* *Mordred tries to inch away* *shackles snap his limbs in place*

THE GOOD-FOR-NOTHING: Oh, come now, KAEL! You take all this far too seriously for someone so young. Here -- I have a video to show you. Why, it's actually quite similar to what you're going through. It's about this Level 1 Mafia Goon who -- hey! Where are you going?!

told someone i'd watch something after promising for ages and i mostly drew myself looking like this the entire time

Stopped at a church-museum today. They were selling hotdogs and used books, so I went, hungry (for hot dog + knowledge), and got stuck in a conversation with religious old folks where I reinforced the "gen z stare" stereotype. Had visible underboob sweat the whole time. Did NOT get that hotdog

RABADEER: Back in MY day, KAEL, Rhemens respected strength. When a child was born deformed, it couldn't serve in Her army, so we would leave it upon a rock for the birds to eat. Now, what do they do? *gets up using his mobility aid and walks to the window* They RAISE it... disgraceful... KAEL: ok

I feel like everyone here has normal villains and so on, and then whenever I have a villain, it's like "Hi here's my OC Rabadeer. He's a cute little bunny guy who has single-handedly murdered an entire population, because he cannot stop dickriding a genocidal empire that is clearly in decline"

Not especially a fan of how Toby Fox translation discourse has morphed into "this developer is ungrateful, selfish, and EGOTISTICAL for having a creative vision"

Mordred sat at his desk, trying to write. Lillie walked up to him. "Hi, Mordy." The blonde-haired girl said. The ravenette stared up at his least favorite demon hunter. "What." The suit-beclad teen demanded. "Oh nothing." Demurred the adolescent who lived at 12345 Farmer's Lane, east-central PA.

Fanfic writers had to make up shit like "bluenette" because they were afraid of powerful descriptors such as "the blue-haired boy"

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The thing about saying "all human made stuff is superior to ai slop" is that it fails to acknowledge the YouTube shorts that feel exactly as bad as glimpsing one of those shit ass ai animated videos

i know that therapy speak is pretty annoying in stories, but i do think there's something potentially powerful about a character just straight-up saying the underlying subtext. almost feels world-shattering (or world-ending?) if employed in the right moment -- a breach of tone and expectation