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"I wasted my 20s", cool man, just in time for all the gay sex and weird tattoos you're about to have in your 30s

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MCU: hey! Loki is genderfuild!

Also MCU: “have you ever heard of a female version of us?”/“no, sounds terrifying”

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Us loki fans disappointed after that finale :/

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me: *wailing dramatically in a long Victorian dress with a lit candelabra down one of the many dimly lit corridors of my gothic mansion at midnight*

my spouse: *turning on the hall light* we fucking talked about this

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Oh, to be a handsome young navy man in 1930 with curly hair and dirt on my nose on my break from hauling cargo from the shipyard, reading a Little Blue Book titled Homosexual Life that I bought for 5¢, pretending not to notice the banker’s son eyeing me in a truly sinful way.

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Elvira: Mistress Of The Dark (1988) dir. James Signorelli

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Some of the ideation sketches/paintings for the ruinfolk dolls.

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Aphrodite

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Lucrezia Borgia

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some love for my werewolf ocs :)

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Walk by Yuri Hill

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That’s hot

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mages! I finished just in time for fanime next week haha

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Dragon Age Origins Character Aesthetics: Solas in Inquisition. Full-size image.

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Some of my favorite portrait orientation scenery shots I’ve taken recently. 

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So The Arcana’s pricing scheme is exploitative and terrible and I’m astonished nobody is talking about it.

The standard response from the developers is that all of the paid content is ‘optional’, but you know what I want out of my romance game? Romance. 90% of which is paid content.

Also, this assumes I don’t want to pay for the game. Except I do! I backed it on kickstarter! I want to give these people my money. But I also don’t want to be bled dry.

This isn’t even getting into how the kickstarter promised backers the game itself as a reward, then reneged on their promise, offering a paltry $10 refund to make up for it (which will buy you a grant total of 1 chapter for 1 character’s route). 

This kind of business practice hurts other kickstarter projects down the road, because it erodes people’s trust in the platform. A lot of indie otome game devs rely on kickstarter. But my experience with The Arcana has sure made me think twice about supporting any other projects.

The worst thing is I like the Arcana. The art is gorgeous, the characters are fun. I supported it on Kickstarter. I told my friends to support it on Kickstarter. But I can no longer turn a blind eye to how Nyx Hydra seems to be willfully exploiting their fans.

UPDATE: So this is what they posted in response to a fan asking them about this on twitter

I’m sorry, but this kind of snark in response to a legitimate question is horribly disrespectful towards your fans.

UPDATE 2: The developers behind The Arcana have released a statement regarding feedback and the way their team is structured. Go check it out. They’re also welcoming responses from fans and have included an email address where you can reach them.