TGWeaver

has anyone ever thought of making a mascot horror game that's good

No payload this week! Or, well, last week. There was one but it was the pack street chapter, and that went public right away, so we don't have another lined up like we normally do

this week's payload will resume next week, sorry for the confusion

There's a lot to appreciate here. Room's very close to how I imagined it, cramped and hot. Avo's attire is even more risque than I pictured. And the brushwork's gorgeous!

But the highlight is Anna's pose and expression, they just feel so real. There's such genuine emotion in that unguarded laugh.

Anna giggles. "Nice jammies."
I take the opportunity to look her up and down a second time. "You too, girl," I smile as smoothly as I can, which probably isn't very.

Pack Street's back alright!!
Story by @tgweaver.bsky.social

People shouldn't have to self-censor because somewhere out there a hypothetical individual who can't tell reality from fantasy might take it the wrong way. Even the safest and least suggestive media has, in the past, been used to justify or inspire heinous acts. It's not your responsibility.

I feel like the opposition position comes from a perspective of "I am the only person with an interior life and everyone else is just hollow vessels who will fill up with whatever they see", like nobody has a filter, or can interpret things.
It's literally the "GTA makes murderers" argument, again.

Back in the day I had a modded PS2 and a rent-by-mail game subscription service that charged by the month rather than the game so I was constantly cycling titles, burning them to disc, and trading them back
Tons of games I never would've touched otherwise. Downside is I never finished many.

*Generally* they're not diegetic swaps.

I love drawing genderswaps so my initial premise with this setting was that anyone could be any sex or gender depending on what best fit what I was drawing at the moment.
But there's a lot of magic so they can all get swapped "mid-episode" too, for sure

Art? That's pedophilia. Being queer? That's pedophilia. Being straight and cis and doing drag? That's pedophilia.

The soulless elite that rule us trafficking real children for fucking decades and writing "loved the torture video"?
A million op-eds of "no actually that doesn't count and it's fine"

The only people who think pedophiles should run free are the pedophiles in the seats of power who run child trafficking parties and won't ever answer for it.

Coincidentally, they're the ones who get to draw the line, not you.
And they're drawing it to include all queer people.

from now on i'm only drawing forbidden love

Porn and kink used to be a progressive issue.
I say it still is.

I say be a weird little freak.

The man is gonna call you one regardless.

Like it'll eat the bad vore, but not the vore you like. It'll crush ferals but not furries. Abuse, but not my wholesome queer relationship comic. You think the country with sodomy laws still on the books will distinguish??

*Entartete Kunst* is here and it doesn't fucking care! We're all degenerate!

Otherwise-progressive people cheering censorship when it's gross stuff.
But this shit, it's small fries. The end goal was always us.

They'll go "yeah, the machine's good, they just drew the line in the wrong spot. Let me drive!"
This is the entire purpose of the machine!! This is why they built it!

Folks buy into the machine. Say that offensive, gross, violent, even just weird kinks must be regulated
Porn must be "ideologically acceptable"

"Even fiction influences people. You'll think it's okay to do IRL!"
People trying to ban queer books say this, too. That kids will read, become gay, trans.

I've said for a long time now about porn censorship, the rich and the cruel creating the big anti-art machine and how you shouldn't clap when it comes for the Bad Kinks because they're just farming consent till they come for you.

Anyway, new US bill is proposing that trans people existing is porn.

If you support drawing a line on what fictional content should or shouldn't be allowed, on what porn counts as "ethical", just know that you will not be the one deciding where the line is.

A truly adorable picture that is all the more stunning for how accurate it is to the image I had in my head, while still wearing your personal style. Thank you!

Wow, this is incredible! There's such a feeling of soft, cozy comfort to this.
It's really uncanny how exact this is to how I imagined. Remmy extra puffy with his winter wool coming in, Charlie enthusiastic and determined with her big pack, the peaceful glow of the streetlights against the night...

Charlie Foxtrot carrying heavy bug hunting equipment, aimesly discussing facts about the sport itself with Remmy Cormo; who's on his way to work in the early night. Fireflies spell the words "Chapter 36 "washed"" above their heads.

Yeah I couldn't resist. Needed to get it out my system.
Love this series.
Characters belong to @tgweaver.bsky.social

This hell is of his own making

On today's stream, I dropped the first new Pack Street chapter in over four years.

archiveofourown.org/works/121418...

For those who read Pack Street, here's that new chapter.
Please, I hope you enjoy.
And thank you for your patience.

She's really more of an expy than a parody

She and Soot have been friends since childhood, which is why they're completely platonic, 100%, no need to read into it further

That's it for this week's payload, but more news to come later today...

Payload 70 - Slouch
That's right it's Slouch!
The dorky donkey who's not the brightest bulb but sure tries her best. Lanky, awkward, hopeless. And with a libido that won't quit. Now all she needs is a boyfriend.

Also really good! But some of those minigames were total bullshit. Especially the water skipper ones.

probably!

Actually wound up finding an old Reddit threat of "here's a patreon for a project that's trying to be a spiritual successor!" and a dev directly saying they were working on another

the latter link is dead and the patreon is long gone

Yep, every last mainstream has to be company-defining, so no risks, no innovation, massive teams, massive costs, frequent crunch.

Indies are doing god's work and it's hard to look at stuff coming from them and go "no one's innovating anymore" but it is a bit disheartening on the broad scale