Bleak⋆Squeak

Detail shot for the new tarot card~

#art #illustration #tarot #solivaga

Evergreen

Describe your plot in five words or less—if you dare.

Monica's Weird: Soulless Girl Lives in Magic Dystopia
www.amazon.com/Monicas-Weir...

Hilariously I still think to the quote from toy story short pitches for a rule some of us had broken unknowingly : “No girl toys. John doesn’t understand girls, and boy toys appeal to everyone”

So what few girl toys are in ToyStory are literally just there for a tiny diversity quota lmao

They didn’t want fresh voices or perspectives. Just obsessed with recycling their own favorite movies/shows growing up and only from the “every boy!” perspective.

Which is exactly why they took brenda chapman’s movie away from her and lost the plot with changes. A story about her own life.

It really really is. It’s so fucked how long it took to oust him when his creeping was a known secret all across the studios. It’s just because it finally left the studios when he was lusting after the freakin’ tinkerbell/fairy face cast from the parks. Pathetic turd of a man.

I’d go SO much more in depth if not for the godawful txt limit format. I’ve zero fear of being blacklisted so why do I care throwing their shit back out into the public. They bend the knee to bigots so who cares about them lmao

This is zero shade on my peer, btw. Afterwards he came to me shocked as I was, told me it didn’t feel right or even believable, and we had a nice chat about the clusterfuck of that pitch

What hurt was that was when I knew chasing my dream down this path was untenable. It was a rigged game.

It didn’t hurt from a point of feelings/pride over my art, but I have never once forgotten the day I had my boards ripped to shreds with my skill and “girly decisions” at the very crux of the dogpile

while my peer had his literal last minute stick figures glazed as Bold, Hilarious, Expressive

It does suck, but silver linings and all. In a way I had my dreams crushed, but in another way I became even more determined that storytelling should not be defined by the bullshit western studio environments alone. I live by that now, and it feels more authentic in every way!

Thank you, Mel. The studio's kind of a known nightmare for any non cis-male employees, esp the crap with Lasseter (and yes, anyone who even remotely looked female got warned about him when starting. I got it as well during a welcome BBQ on the Brooklyn building terrace. Hush-hush style).

Awful

There were some people there I truly loved the company of and greatly looked up to, but the rest really fit quite well into your assessment there.

I appreciate your kind words more than you can ever know! (unless, perhaps, PSYCHIC POWERS)

Much as the experience sucked, I'm glad I did not remain tethered to that place and felt reassured in what *I* wanted out of storytelling and art. It was certainly "None of what they're serving" lol

there's an episode of 30rock's last season that stuck with me where the lead character is shopping around for other studios to produce/finance her show. One of the stops is at the most "BRO! DUUUUDE! MANOSPHERE CAVE SHOTS AWWWWRIGHT!" studio imaginable. I uttered out loud "holy shit it's pixar"

haha I have no idea. kinda hope not!

this was over a decade ago now. My sensibilities as a storyteller and my taste in visual storytelling hasn't changed, tho. it was such whiplash. They loved my work when it was detached from me in a portfolio, in-studio tho it was just constant "Girl Story"

all this is to say "Absolutely none of the words in this article surprise me"

I still feel if I had looked like a cis man I never would have gotten a third of the shit I got over my "confusing" perspective as a storyteller (with such BRAIN BOGGLERS as portraying a cat instead of a dog). didn't help that this was right after Brave and Brenda Chapman had, well, happened.

and I need you to understand that when I say "too gay" it was with an "f-slur" feel to it, the complaint being because I exaggerated the hip tilt of his "cowboy swagger" gestures a little too much. VERY scary.

My existence as a "woman? But WEIRD??? GIRL? BOY-LIKE????" made every pitch a nightmare

Pixar was the single handed most misogyny I ever experienced to my face in my life, stemming from my work being "too girlish" with an insinuated, but never directly stated "and too gay", while also complaining that I was perplexing for not behaving like their perception of a normal "woman"

Describe your plot in five word or less - if you dare.

"Local 5"3 is strong."

Happy 34th anniversary to the original Sailor Moon anime!

#SailorMoon
#セーラームーン

#residentevil 9

Leon: Take this gun Grace. I have two more right here.

Casey Edwards ™M @ComposerCasey Follow ... NOTHING SPECIAL?! I think the phone call went more like "as you know Vergil is an extremely important and beloved character of this franchise. He needs a song to match." Me: **sweat nightmares and pulling my hair out for weeks** Kubilay @resonmon • May 29, 2021 @ComposerCasey Capcom: We need you to make another song for another character. It doesn't have to be anything special. Casey Edwards: Gotcha! Casey Edwards: Bury the Light

Every time I see those stupid “it’s just a silly game the song didn’t need to go that hard” memes I’m always reminded of Casey Edwards describing making Bury the Light for Devil May Cry 5

Same thing happened to me. It’s just that hold MMOs have on people, not at all a reflection of your worth. Really not a fan of MMOs due to how all-consuming they tend to be with people’s lives and how they’re designed to do just that. it sucks, but it’s not any mark on your worth!

Describe your plot in five words or less—if you dare.

The Path to Timbala:
Purity is inimical to life

RE9 comic Big monster dragging Grace away as she screams Monster gets shot in the face BLAM!! Leon smugly: "Seems like she was... a bit of a drag" Grace, having nearly died by a giant freakish monster, looks up at Leon entirely confused "huh?"

i almost had my head bitten off by a giant freakish monster, why is this old man making lame jokes at me 😭 #re9

Describe your plot in five words or less—if you dare.

Bad Friday:
Six kids and paranormal trouble

Same lmao still kicking myself for not buying it ages ago, but I had no idea just how much of a work of art it was ... you'd think being so into Utena as I was that it would have pulled me, but I was a fool u-u

the convoluted and grindy gameplay (nier in particular here, not siren) are not for me at all, but I think they're both absolute works of art

IT's SO GOOD! it's sadly a reigning champion of "Games I refuse to play but they live in my top favorites of all time" list (along Nier Gestalt and like two others lmao)

I just don't have the actual patience to play it, same with Nier Gestalt, but oh my god I love them both with all my heart