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Your Caucasian rituals confound me

Screen shot of the game Disco Elysium, with text: "Rhetoric [Heroic: Failure] - Alright, here we go. We're devoting all your available brain cells to coming up with a question about communism. Scratch that, to coming up with *the* question about communism, the alpha and omega of communism questions, and that question is: 1. (Whisper.) "Are women bourgeois?" 2. Oh god, that's bad. Surely I can think of something better."

I can't believe today's discourse ™️ is just this, but unironically.

Transness is not bourgeois. This is a wedge idea dreamed up by some gleefully amoral think tank lobotomite to split trans people and make us fight each other. That we relay on modern medicine doesn't make us any more bourgeois than someone who needs antidepressants or cleft palate repair.

The image is a six panel black and white comic Panel 1- A small child is being told "You'll want kids when you're older!" The child responds with "I don't think so..." Panel 2- The same child, now a teenager, is being told, "You'll change your mind when you're older." To which the teen responds, "I doubt that" Panel 3- Now an adult, someone off screen asks them, "Aren't you thinking of having kids?" To which they respond, "Nope" Panel 4- The same person, an older adult now, is being told, "better have kids soon, or it'll be too late!" to which they respond, "That's fine" Panel 5- Now elderly, they are once again asked "Don't you feel like you missed out?" to which they say, "Still nope." Panel 6- They are now in their death bed, clearly close to death. The nurse says, "Shame you didn't have kids, don't you regret it?" To which the person says "You know what just kill me already"

This is how my projector works (in blender)! (please note the perspective is insane here, the light sources are actually very close together)

fanart of Melinoe from Hades 2, wearing a modern outfit (dark jeans, orange top), she has a big tattoo on her right arm, and is about to tie her hair with a hair band (is this how it's called in english ?) her eyes are closed, she has nice arm muscles and looks extremely lesbian

fanart of Nemesis from Hades 2, wearing a modern outfit (red jeans, black crop top with the Hades sigil as a pattern on it), moon shaped necklace, tattoos on her left arm and pecs, as she's about to tie her hair using a green hairband, her eyes closed (green light on her right side cause she's standing next to Melinoe's glowing arm, off camera)

fanart of Eris, from Hades 2, she's sitting, right leg with her knee bent, in front of her right hand on her right foot, left hand on her face, framing her left eye between two fingers she's wearing big sneakers, micro shorts, some sort of sweater with stripes showing her shoulders she has apple tree branch tattoos on her thigh and left shoulder

fanart of Medea from Hades 2, but wearing modern clothes (tiny leather shorts with double belt, red/purple leather crop top), a nose ring, necklaces, also big tattoo covering the entire left arm (a snake, a moon crescent, flowers and leaves) She's sitting, resting on her left hand, her right hand next to her face, conjuring some plague magic that bathes her in green light

hades gals 💀🌸

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

the cast of Hackers (1995) posing in a series of adjacent phone booths

Today is the 30th anniversary of Hackers

a cat looking at the camera with big round eyes while walking on a log in a lush forest in a morning light

✨morning stroll✨

#art #illustration #cats

if you like this drawing, could you give it a little heart on Insta? www.instagram.com/p/DODeqDujZy7/ 🥹🙏

My partner and I (2/4th of SNW) are both trans and attempting to leave the US (I’m also an Arab immigrant). It’s extremely expensive, so please consider buying our game/leaving it a review so that we have some sort of income when we inevitably have to make the jump and start over. Thank you.

my partner just said to me “if a trans man and a cis woman get their uteri removed at the same time, that’s a hers and histerectomy.” we are driving and my only option is to duck and roll out the passenger door.

I don't think I've ever felt as betrayed by anyone or anything as when I ran into my first grub mimic 💔

Fear the Old Blood 🩸🧠👁️

Colored piece, drawing of a woman in modern clothes, jean shorts,t shirt, barefoot, with a crown of thorns on her head, wielding magic, giant flowers with an eye at their center in the dark background

witch queen

Digital art, my work. A women is impaled on the antlers of a stag

An attempt to keep moving forward.

Personal work- 2025

How am I both? 🫠

A pika sits on a mossy rock.

Tighter crop of the same pika, focusing on its head.

An even tighter crop, focusing more on the pika's eye.

An extremely tight crop of the pika's eye, emphasizing their reflection of an early morning mountain scene.

"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?"

Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.

Illustration of a person kneeling in a patch of flowers and plants and black liquid. They are wearing an animal mask with horns

Small figure holds up a frog to a cat-caterpillar in the trees.

A cosmic figure holds a deathly figure's face in her hands.

Figure on a bike, a swan rides with them. Autumn in the background.

A figure sits on the ground, their chest opened and exposed, full of mushrooms and flowers.

Art I'm proud of ✌️

Two characters kissing each other on the stairs of an old house surrounded by ghost cats, books and plants.

Pink Mist. 🩷

Sketch drawing of two women in each others arms, the one on the left holding the other’s head in a somewhat comforting or protective way

never alone

Digital illustration of a fork-tongued mutant wolf covered in eyeballs, roaring on a red background. The mutant wolf of surrounded by a circle of large crows in flight, taking on the foe together

Together🐦‍⬛

rough sketch drawing of two lesbians chatting, sitting next to each other, both of them thinking "kiss me kiss me kiss me" on repeat and none of them will ever make a move cause I guess lesbians can't have anything good on this wretched piece of rock

silly old sketch that'll sadly forever be true

We’ve always been warned, “those who don’t study history are doomed to repeat it.” But history itself is proof that the warning hasn’t worked.

We’ve studied the past, warn others of what happened—and still, we stumble into the same disasters, almost as if the warning itself were part of the cycle.

OK so the (free!) Spirit Swap update is coming this Thursday and we’re in the Wholesome Games Celebration! This adds an Actual Ending to Story Mode that has you meeting the band! It’s fully voiced! New CGs, new art, outfits and alt skins for 2P VS and Endless, perf optimizations, etc!
Pls clap😁

Edited screenshot from Disco Elysium that reads: RHETORIC [Heroic: Failure] -- Alright, here we go. We're devoting all your available brain cells to coming up with a question about video games. Scratch that, to coming up with *the* question about video games, the alpha and omega of video games questions, and that question is: 1. - (Whisper.) "Are games art?" 2. - Oh god, that's bad. Surely I can think of something better.

Every time.

Stop payment processors from censoring games!

Hey, it would mean so much to me if y'all kept up the pressure with phone calls to payment processors to show to them how much people care and that they can't just ignore it—my livelihood depends on adult games not being censored!

You can find info and phone scripts here: stop-paypros.neocities.org

2.1 Lenses, Not Boxes I wondered whether this section was necessary, but games discourse seems to repeatedly find itself adrift in questions of whether _ counts as a _. We have seen the question repeatedly: Do games count as art? Do games without goals count as games? Is The Sims a game? Are hypertexts interactive fiction? Are Twine pieces literature? In fairness to the researchers cited here, all of whom I respect immensely, many of these sources pose or imply the question rhetorically. Still, the necessity of such a framing frustrates me. "Is _ a _?" is, in my opinion, a fruitless question. The question can never be answered to anyone's satisfaction, and it often serves as either a provocation to espouse politics or as a cover to institute gatekeeping. Its agenda is usually opaque to onlookers and bewildering to those trying to advance the field from across disciplines. We should be thinking in lenses, not boxes. It is always more interesting to ask "If we think of _ through the lens of _, what do we learn?" We know it is more interesting to ask "What do we learn by considering Tom Stoppard through the lens of poststructuralism?" than to ask "Is Stoppard's work poststructuralist?" And while some works may be more or less fruitful when examined through different lenses, sometimes the most unlikely pairings of lenses and objects are the most rewarding. Certainly any of the questions above would be much better served by reframing them in this way.

Wow we’re having “games are art” discourse again! Just gonna leave this here.

From my dissertation: