that I want to buy Nendoroid figures of characters I don’t even know and have never watched the series/played the game/whatever they’re from
I just love Nendoroids in general and want all the pretty and cute ones
Just some Kel doodles
I really need to get out of this slump geh
Stupid instrument. Find a orchestra with a recorder. I dare you.
I was the only kid at my school to refuse to stay on after class and do Recorder lessons. I wanted to go home and watch Star Trek. I am eternally thankful that my parents had my back on this and let me make my own choices even at the age of six. The recorder… how uninspiring!
Hot cross buns!
Hot cross buns!
One ha’ penny, two ha’ penny,
Hot cross buns!
If you have no daughters,
Give them to your sons
One ha’ penny,
Two ha’ penny,
Hot Cross Buns!
Funny thing about this; I never had to play recorder because I was in chorus.
AND I WAS SO SAD I WANTED TO PLAY ALL THE INSTRUMENTS EVER AND THEY TOLD ME “NO YOU DON’T GET A RECORDER”
AND I’M EVEN SADDER NOW BECAUSE IT SEEMS LIKE I’M QUITE POSSIBLY THE ONLY PERSON WHO EXPERIENCED THIS AND FEELS THIS WAY ABOUT IT
Tried to figure out Annie and Kat from Gunnerkrigg Court. If you’ve had it on your to-read list for ages but haven’t actually gotten around to it yet, please do.
Two of my favorite things rolled into one
My smile’s gonna cause blindness, it’s so big and bright
youre th e god of a village of fox people and theres a black guy and everyone dies at the end
youre an alien fox thing with a robot best friend and you team up with a dumbass galactic president and another robot to fight more robots
you wash up on beach after you crash your goddamn boat a nd meet a cute, cute girl but then everything goes to shit because it turns out the game was just a dREAM and you’re sitting out here in the ocean with just a piece of driftwood to keep you afloat
you have a cool hat but apparently no social skills, and you shoot a fuckton of kawaii monsters, and then you blow up the only thing keeping everybody alive, but then you have the chance to kill the wizard who fucked everything up, but only if you fed your girlfriend magic mushrooms. you can also choose to run away with a wimpy scientist and fuck over the world even more. plus there are bunnies who perform the bunny equivalent of the salem witch trials
You are an old man in the middle of a war zone but you’re not really supposed to kill anyone and it helps if no one sees you because you’re old and it’s hard to run away from people with guns if you are old. You get a bad back sometimes.
You and your brother want the same thing and he’s also really old but he’s actually not your brother he’s just some other old guy. Your father isn’t dead and your mom was japanese (twist!). You have a nerdy friend who watches and doesn’t try to help. A little girl makes some eggs.
You get to revisit your old hangout from your younger years though, so that’s neat I guess.
(Any guesses on the game?)
Mgs 4 lol
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You’re a neckless animal who rams his body into boxes and gets rocks for it.
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Oh my favorite game? Uh okay.
Fat, possibly jewish man shoves a ghost’s nose into locks while getting money.
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These are fun, one more:
You ramsack your Dad’s Home after his best friend steals all your shit. You break green ball controlling your Dad’s worst enemy and then go into his other house that’s upside down and kill him while he’s sitting on a chair.
You wake up from some trippy ass nightmare and a clown murders your grandfather. Your best friend has been lying out his ass the whole time, and you get sucked into a black hole.
(Source: mylittlefangirl)
This is the Sorceress from Vanillaware’s Dragon’s Crown. Lately, this character has been getting a lot of heat, becoming the new icon of sexism in video games. Are you offended by this character? Do you find it sexist? Well guess what, it’s not.
Welcome to missing the point
It is sexist, and this is why:
Big buff guy in armor? This is a male power fantasy. This form of “sexism” is not looking down on men; it shows them as strong, capable, and practical.
Sorceress woman with huge tits hanging out of her low-cut dress as she breaks her own spine to make sure everyone can see her ass and her chest at the same time with the expressed intent of being a sex object to turn on male gamers(well, female too if you’re into that, but “male” is the target demographic)? That’s sexist as fuck.
The fact of the matter is that most games have a male demographic between the ages of 13 and 25 in mind; those that don’t are generally either puzzle games or covered in pink-coated female stereotypes.bolding a really good part, bless u
people seem to think male power fantasies are comparable to objectification and sexualization of females and like????? you’re comparing apples to oranges wow.
I mean yes, they can cause low self esteem in the fact they can make people feel as if they don’t “fit” with the character’s appearance but like
One was made to make others feel power, the other was made to reduce people to eye candy.
They can cause bad things and yeah they need to be addressed but they are not comparable
I want to just repeat what Nat said because it’s really succinct and spot on
One was made to make others feel power, the other was made to reduce people to eye candy.
Everyone but 7nights is dead fucking wrong and I hate every single one of you.
Yes, Sorceress is sexualized and so is the Amazon and the Elf is…questionable, depending on your tastes. But the Wizard is a straight-up bishonen, the Dwarf is 100% USDA PRIME BEEFCAKE, and the Fighter has a fucking brick wall for a chest (and twigs for legs, jfc).
Here’s a little something most SJ women on tumblr don’t seem to understand:
A male doesn’t play a male character to feel empowered or feel power. It makes zero sense logically (especially in a so-called patriarchy where they’re supposed to already be empowered just for being white straight males) and it’s just an excuse to not actually explain WHY you think these designs are sexist because in the end…
No such argument exists.
The worst part is when you folk say “But that’s not how you design a female character!” Here’s the thing: SO many women have different opinions on what a good design is for a female character that to please them all would be impossible and it’d be better to simply please no one, to please a niche, or to please others through a character creation system.
In fact, 7nights has a very good point that none of you ever mention since your heads are so full of toxic ideas and bullshit: feminism should be about celebrating your femininity, and if that supposedly means making your female character androgynous or outright masculine, then feminism as a design POV has failed.
For example, here’s a female character I really enjoy (and also because I’m marathoning/binging it on Netflix rn, sorry it’s not a vidya example):
She uses her femininity to her advantage. It’s not a weakness nor is it a shroud of shame always hanging on her shoulders. It’s a weapon as dangerous as her sword and chakram are and she has no problem being who she is, ESPECIALLY in the time period that she’s in. And it’s a weapon that almost no one can seriously prepare for, and even then she always has tricks up her sleeves(? boob space?). She’s feared and respected by every known warlord in the land, she wears a leather dress with plate, she backflips through the air every damn episode, she falls in love and sleeps with people, and nobody gives a fuck that she has tits (unless they’re trying to seduce her, in which case they get smacked up something fierce).
And going back to Dragon’s Crown itself for a moment, keep in mind that this is the same artist that designed an old man looking like this:
He’s huge and the screen trembles when he walks. Kamitami, the name of this artist, simply likes doing exaggerated designs since they can stick very well in the memory, and the fact that a simple black and purple dress with some white frills and a poofy hat makes her an image of sexism is…appalling.
Because honestly? There are worse examples out there.
It’s less about George Kamitami specifically and more the fact that this kind of shit is and has been the industry standard for a longass while in all sorts of media. I’ve come to terms with the fact that this is just what happens and will continue to happen with a lot of female characters; after all, sex sells. A lot of people into girls enjoy seeing skimpy outfits and big bouncy boobies. I’m not opposed to it in it’s entirety, and I’m certainly not advocating something as extreme as abolishing it.
But I am sick and fucking tired of being thought of as some radical man-hating feminist just because I’d like a better ratio of convincing female characters to female characters who, even if they have depth, are more often than not made into a sex object for the sake of marketing. Media is over-saturated with this shit.
You can have your eye candy; we’re not out to strip you of it. But don’t you fucking dare try to suggest this way of approaching female characters isn’t sexist.
Men don’t get told they were “asking for it” if they walk around shirtless, in tight clothing, in their swim trunks; and they CERTAINLY wouldn’t get it for wearing a full suit of armor like most male characters get to. If a woman wears a top even slightly too low of a cut or a skirt just a bit too far high, there are far too many idiots out there who would argue she is essentially advertising her body and it’s her own damn fault if something happens
tl;dr you can have your skimpy-dressed boobilicious babes but if you’re okay with this as a standard you are either thinking with your libito or seriously fucked in the head