fintastical!

ashwara:

Sometimes I get a little excited when I have to go to the bathroom, like “Yes, finally a minute in my life to play a game or read a book.” A moment of reprieve and confidence; a task that I know I can complete in this uncertain world. 

I wanted to try flat colors after looking through this amazing blog 

hylian-pudding:

7年後、by 舟

“Seven Years Later”, by 舟

(brb going to go cry a little)

(Source: lumineon, via elamye)

Man I went to go look up map directions on Google and then my mind directed my hand to click on “Drive”……. 

morphinepudding:

Folie à quatre.

This is so amazing and beautiful…. and the use of the Rorschach inkblots and aaaaaaaaaa just everything about this is perfect.

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lambutt:

bradofarrell:

This year at E3 during the Xbox panel during a scripted “trash talk” bit someone made a scripted rape joke (male gamer to girl gamer who sucks at a game: “just wait, it’ll all be over soon.”) and then they acted like it wasn’t a big deal and then they released an expensive, anti-consumer (DRM on physical games) piece of hardware. And then Sony just released the PS4 which is just the PS3 but better graphics and $100 cheaper than the Xbox. So THAT happened.

But then Nintendo just quietly released a bunch of great looking sequels for all of it’s major franchises (Mario, Pikmin, Donkey Kong, and Smash Bros.) and every single one of those games interestingly features playable female characters who haven’t been seen in decades like Dixie Kong and Princess Peach - and Pikmin now has a new female hero.

One of my favorite things about Peach in the new Mario game is that one of the power ups is a literal “cat suit” and Peach’s “cat suit” doesn’t sexualize her at ALL. You can’t even see her boobs. She just looks like she’s wearing over-sized footie pajamas it’s so cute. Also they added a pink letter to the Mario logo just to accommodate Peach’s re-inclusion into the franchise as a character with actual agency!

So at the end of the presentation they tell you to go to the Smash Bros website to find out about new characters. And then they announced this character, Wii Fit Trainer, on the site. And in an interview the director said he gets thousands of requests for almost every video game character under the sun and he’s gotten absolutely zero requests for this character and he put her in the game to be funny and defy fan expectation. This character is literally “hey fuck you we’re the ones making the games around here, and we’ll be goofy and funny if we want to and also check it out another female character in Smash.”

Also the inclusion of the Animal Crossing villager is interesting because Animal Crossing is VERY popular with girls and even though the villager is male I’m 100% certain his alternate costumes will include the girl default villager character. So that’s neat. The three Smash characters they announced were two girl(ish) characters from two girl(ish) games and then Mega Man.

Also in the new Animal Crossing game boys are allowed to cross dress and all of the animals are explicitly genderqueer in the dialog. Characters say stuff like “Boys can ware make up if they want to, I mean, it’s 2013, who cares?” and just today a jock rhino was looking deeply into my eyes and asking me to hike a football and I asked him if he loved me (which was one of the option out of other options about sports) and he was like “Oh I guess a lot can happen when you look into someone else’s eyes like that, huh?” He didn’t even care that we’re both guys. Also in the new Pokemon game you can be black.

Basically what I’m saying is Nintendo is quietly and systematically making their games more socially progressive and Microsoft made a rape joke and then said “what? it was a joke.”

good

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ucresearch:

The visual linguistics of a comic book page

Inside Science recently wrote about UCSD’s Neil Cohn’s recent study, Navigating Comics, which looks at the underlying structure of the comics language:

People who read the English written word scan text from left to right. Once our eyes hit the end of the page, we stop. Then ding!, like an old-time typewriter, our eyes shift downward and snap back to the left to start reading the next line. This is known as a “Z-path,” as our eyes whip about like the end of Zorro’s sword.

But that linear track gets derailed in comics with complex layouts and Cohn wanted to know if experienced readers had strategies to follow along.

Cohn rustled up 145 participants at the 2004 Comic-Con International, a comic book convention held in San Diego. Participants had varying experience with reading comics, ranging from “never” to “often.”

Each participant was given a booklet containing 12 pages of blank panels. Each page was independent of the rest and used different design techniques.

Read More →

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claudiagray:

Baby ducks, apparently imprinted on the wrong mama. Luckily, she’s okay with it. 

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zetallis:

setsuna22:

zambiunicorn:

setsuna22:

Sorry for another post! Made a smaller post by request! :)

Just opened a Store Envy as suggested by Zambi. :) This, of course, is a much easier way to order anything from me! 

You can visit my Store Envy here! :)

buystuffsuknowuwantto

Hey Guys! So, here it is again! (pleasedonthateme)

And here’s why: As of yesterday I was laid off from Gaia Online. Which means that my very steady income is now non-existant. I might have to open commissions again soon but for now I am going to pimp my storenvy store again. Anything you guys buy will help me a TON. Thanks so much! <3

Also get art from this fine friend!

(Source: krokodile, via moonscreations)

anthonyesnark:

spiderfail:

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#SILVER’S RAW EXCITEMENT FOR THIS GAME IS DELIGHTFUL

No you don’t understand. My favorite, favorite, favorite thing in Pokemon is having a beautiful, fluffy, ADORABLE badass motherfucking slaying machine. I CAN HAVE A FLUFFY HUGGABLE DRAGON SLAYER.

tears of joy

And I get to befriend it 4realz. I get to befriend allll my Pokemon. This game is going to be the best.

Reblogging for this comment (YESS) and also for two other things:

Why do people always delete my artist’s description/comment?? I’m glad they still source but this one had a “Sylveon THE DRAGONSLAYER” title under it….. and also:

For some reason this image doesn’t show up on my art blog??? Tumblr y u so glitchyyyy “oTL

danhoward:

danhoward:

Opening for a few commissions for anyone interested.  Every little bit helps, of course.   And reblogs are quite appreciated.   Thanks!

http://www.danhowardart.com

for the late-show

zimmay:

For the first time in a long time, I am opening commissions! I have found myself suddenly unemployed and currently have no freelance work, so every little bit counts.

Please check out my new commissions page or DeviantART for info on types of commissions and prices. Reblogs are vastly appreciated. Thanks!

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smashpredictions:

Super Smash Bros. Wii U/3DS - First Trailer

I can’t express how excited I am for the fact that this is coming to 3DS too. *_______*

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pokemon-personalities:

there’s no longer blood flowing through my veins

only video games

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