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felt meh about putting my characters up on Art Fight this year. felt like a buncha effort when my hopes for this year were less about receiving art and more about drawing it. but also it didn't feel quite right to be assailing people from my untouchable fortress

THEN IT HIT ME. I COULD PUT MY TSUCHINOKO PLUSHIE ON THERE



bazelgeuse-apologist
@bazelgeuse-apologist

the real irony here is that if I do decide to do Endgame Content(tm) this expac despite my sourness about healer buttons, I will likely end up going as pictomancer. like on one hand I'm allergic to the DPS meta in FFXIV. but on the other hand, I'm like "you want me to be a DPS??? fine then, I'll be a DPS. I'll be the BEST DAMN DPS YOU COULD ASK FOR"


bazelgeuse-apologist
@bazelgeuse-apologist

that being said I also fully expect my resolve to break the moment I queue a duty and watch 6/8ths of the party eat dirt to one mechanic



the real irony here is that if I do decide to do Endgame Content(tm) this expac despite my sourness about healer buttons, I will likely end up going as pictomancer. like on one hand I'm allergic to the DPS meta in FFXIV. but on the other hand, I'm like "you want me to be a DPS??? fine then, I'll be a DPS. I'll be the BEST DAMN DPS YOU COULD ASK FOR"



jesncin
@jesncin

As Pride comes to a close, I want to celebrate Lunar Boy and talk about what including explicit queer terms in a middle grade graphic novel means.

This was really difficult to summarize in comic essay form haha. I had done extensive research while I was in school over how middle grade comics often avoid saying words like "gay" "lesbian" or "trans" and its connection with bans and censorship. While I was at school, it felt like Raina Telgemeier's "Drama" was the last time I saw a character say "bi" in a middle grade graphic novel, and that was published in 2012! Why haven't we built more from that bravery since then? So I vowed to make sure Lunar Boy wasn't going to be a kids book that talked around queerness,

As I continued to develop Lunar Boy, I realized how this would affect the larger intersectional context of honoring Indonesian history. And that led to another rabbit hole of pressures! Inter-cultural discourse, the way so many Indonesians don't have access to broader knowledge about our history, it's a lot!

Happy Pride, be nice to each other 🌈