I paint this
It’s got texture to it too
The final full piece
unrequited love for siblings is the saddest thing you could ever portray on its own but over the garden wall said what if the kid is like the sweetest most kindhearted five year old you could imagine and he loves his brooding wistful bitch of an older brother sooo so much and enough to offer up his life in exchange for his brothers when his older brother saw him this whole time as just an annoying step sibling at best and a nuisance at worst and you cant be too mad cause hes also a kid and then when he finally figures it all out it saves them both, the decision to leave lethargy and the rot of melancholy behind and take the love he already has as proof the world is worth it after all and aaa a a. aaaaaa. aaaaaaa. aaa. what a sweet story. what a lovely thing.
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game companies should be fucking EMBARRASSED about being inaccessible. it should be mortifying to ship a game with shit captions or no UI scaling options or no option to disable flashing / strobing effects. games lauding their character customization should be laughingstocks for not including hearing aids or congenital disorders or prosthetic limbs. EA should be publicly fucking humiliated for the sims series being 23 goddamn years old and include cats and dogs and horses and werewolves and zombies and mermaids and star wars and not FUCKING WHEELCHAIRS.
visual novel games should be screen reader compatible and controls should be fully re-mappable by fucking default also.
Can I Play That? does reviews of accessibility in games btw. even if you do not need accessibility features personally I think it’s important to familiarize yourself with the range of options that are or aren’t commonly available + reflect on who is being left out of gaming communities and development because of it
and also personally blowing a kiss to every modder who has put in the time and effort that devs chose not to in order to represent and include disabled people. I love you
speaking as a disabled game developer, i wholly agree with this post, and encourage fellow developers to examine their input static regarding their own games.
in other words, try to come at your game with fresh eyes. use someone else, if need be. are there things you’re missing, due to your own familiarity with your game?
for example, the text you’ve read again and again. is it legible? is it screen reader friendly, as the main post asks?
is your audio necessary to understanding the game? if so, there should be other sensory cues corresponding (such as subtitles for spoken word, or controller output for combat) either pre-built in or usable by the player’s option.
there are more accessibility issues than just this. listen to player bases, listen to disabled communities. you are not infallible, and neither is your game. it should be playable.
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I still can’t believe you motherfuckers are actually doing crab day. I literally saw a trans rights are human rights post that was marked as sexual themes. You are out of your minds giving these motherfuckers your money
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The psychiatrist diagnosed me with divine madness
any other diagnoses you’d like to share?
Autism
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just a reminder - do NOT boycott streaming services or not watch new things. the unions have not called for one for a reason. for one, it affects residual payments, which as minimal as those currently are, actors are still getting them during this time, and for two, studios will use lack of viewership as an excuse to cancel shows because you are showing them there is no demand. it deeply affects the industry the writers and actors stand to come back to once the strike is over
Also: going to these places puts pressure and demand on the company. Demand they can’t meet without actors and writers. That puts stress on them, and stress is good.
^^^^ive been looking for a rb with this addition because YES. if a customer wants a burger and there is no cook to make it, that puts pressure on the owner to pay the cook what they want so the customer will still give them money. if there is no customer, the owner has no reason for the cook to make burgers
Stop watching IF AND ONLY IF the unions call for a boycott. For the time being since they haven’t, streaming the shows actually helps. You’re not crossing a picket line to watch because that picket line does not exist unless a boycott is called for.
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girl with four different “I SURVIVED THE TIME LOOP” pins on her backpack like prestige star ranks
i love you lisp i love you stutter i love you pressured speech i love you damaged vocal cords i love you aphasia i love you mutism i love you selective mutism i love you deaf voice i love you apraxia i love you speech delay i love you vocal tic i love you articulation disorder i love you sign language
i hate you societal norm to make fun of speech impediments i hate you “get it fixed” mentality i hate you mocking someone for the way they communicate i hate you “go to speech therapy so your kid won’t be bullied” i hate you i hate you i hate you
Reblog and put in the tags a fictional character you associate with whom you’re reblogging this from
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Life and Death.
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btw it’s okay if you can only convince yourself to do things with silly reasons. when i wash my face i narrate a “skincare routine” youtube video in my head. once, a pretty girl once said she was attracted to me while i was moving crates around, and that was my motivation to do yard work today. exercising is a lot easier when i think about how i want to be able to pick up my niece and swing her around even when she’s older.
so like if pretending you’re doing real-life stardew valley gets you out in the sun, or if making yourself a good meal makes you feel like you’re the host of a cooking show, do it! do whatever you need to do to take care of yourself!
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rb if ur mutuals an followers can infodump in ur inbox, even if they won’t answer the ask
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