calliope!

anyway I'm logging off this place is insufferable. catch you on tumblr. or not. whatever. ✌️

deleted my rant because
1. getting mad at stupid internet opinions and shitty criticism is the devil and
2. I cannot take the opinions of someone with "aspiring fan fiction author" (???) in their byline seriously.

like idk I'm sorry the fantasy genre isn't the same as it was when you were a kid, i guess.

anyway. been watching gundam with my sister. amuro depression bread.

some people cannot conceive of visual design as anything more substantial than set dressing and it really fucking shows

just because little red riding hood did not also get eaten by the wolf it doesn't mean that version of the story is somehow less little red riding hood. cinderella is still cinderella whether her shoe just fell off or the prince smeared tar on the castle stairs.

it's fine to change or even remove things when you tell or retell a mythological story, actually. if anything each telling should be considered additive because, guess what! each individual version is as real as any other!

"but the depth—" babes most mythological figures have depth because they were used across cultures and time and stories were told and retold and recontextualized long before they were ever written down.

I hate the way people talk about mythology & folklore actually

Various FFT jobs are depicted including White Mages, Knight, Mimic, Summoner, Time Mage, Dragoon, Chemist, Monk, and more.

Final Fantasy Tactics The Ivalice Chronicles illustration by Ryoko Kui (Delicious in Dungeon) for Weekly Famitsu No. 1915:

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I would describe my end goal for Wellspring's layout to be "ergodic literature but it's an RPG" so put that on the record

One More Hour of Work GF meme featuring Mizi from Alien Stage. It’ll be fine. She’s just gonna sing with her gf. What could possibly go wrong?

now more than ever

on one hand that's the devil speaking on the other hand god does it feel nice to have long hair sometimes

Games criticism from ppl who have never written a line of code type shit.

(c) react that fast, I will Never be able to play this game" but I also feel like. I dunno, not everyone NEEDS to be able to play every game, and also.... making a game Easier is really not as simple to do as people probably think it is.

There's this really weird like cultural conversation that kinda just boils down to "all games should have an easy mode" for sure that just makes me go ehhh. Like it's complicated, I can see where people are coming from when it's like "yeah I can never play X game bc I physically cannot (c)

ofc we should still make a meaningful effort, but that's like ....... heavy emphasis on the word meaningful. I don't know that writers of ergodic literature should have to give a shit about, say, audiobook adaptations, yknow?

look man I am of the belief that total accessibility for everything is just not possible and that's a thing we just have to accept?

You can have the world's best screen reader alt text on a comic but like. You are still losing a fundamental part of the experience if you can't see the images.

I'm not gonna lie I feel like the "games should be easier, for accessibility" crowd largely consists of people who aren't actually disabled and/or are just straight up bad at video games

i love autism

YouTube video by GLITCH KNIGHTS OF GUINEVERE: PILOT

YOU SHOULD WATCH "KNIGHTS OF GUINEVERE" IF

1. You just cancelled Disney+ and want something on-the-nose thematically appropriate.
2. You wish Steven Universe had been more "Empty Spaces".
3. You still own Utena merch.
4. Look just watch it watch it look it's on YouTube how can I make you watch this

I say this as a former insufferable teen.

like I'm deeply sorry to teens everywhere, I do respect you and your opinions. you are also deeply insufferable. it's not your fault.

age verification is bullshit and this whole "protecting children from ~the internet~" thing is straight up motivated by fascism and censorship and a desire to control young people

however I think all social media should have a toggle that says "hide all posts from anyone in high school or younger"

idk maybe I will make the easy version and keep it unreleased-ish just to get a draft down and see how it feels At All.

I feel like Yume Nikki is more in line with where my ideas are at, despite it being a game I have never actually had the patience to play more than a few minutes of.

Tunic *is* really good but I feel it's maybe a little too much of a *Video Game* for me to draw much out of, if that makes sense? It's great nonverbal storytelling but it also relies really heavily on the mechanical aspects of the game itself in a way that doesn't quite translate to TTRPG land here

I feel like the ideas are starting to percolate at least. Brain dumping into the void is getting me Somewhere.