#maddy thorson

[prokopetz]

It just occurred to me that all those B- and C-sides that are set up so that you can reach the end and beef it at the last moment because you aren't correctly positioned to dash into the heart are literally the Celeste version of Maddy Thorson's strange obsession with ending Super Mario World kaizo levels with obnoxiously positioned up-pipes.

[orkazh-arts]

Time to climb ! 🏔️✨🍓

[geekysteven]

[Image description Scene from the video game Celeste with Madeline and Badeline, Badeline is flying and says "I want you to hit me as hard as you can"]

[rabiesmutt]

my favorite part of Celeste is just the blog post about Madeline being trans opening with essentially "yea duh lmao"

[isolatedgirlthing]

everyone is asking me "why did you buy nine copies of celeste" and nobody is asking "how was the mountain the mountain looks fun was it fun"

[shezasag]

me trying to convince people kaizo smw is fun: you see you die all the time, levels can legitimately take you days to get through without tools depending on your skill level & the hack's level of difficulty, hack creators hate you and want you to suffer and there will be a troll only the one time you don't check, & don't go near brazilian or german shell/item abuse hacks for a long time (not because bad, they're on their own wavelengths of difficulty).......but mario go bounce hehe :)

[socialistexan]

Everyone say, "Thank you, award-winning 30-under-30 Maddy Thorson - creator of the smash indie platformer Celeste - for inventing trans people"

[homestuckconfession]

I don't really like it when people compare Hussie declaring June Egbert as canon to JKR saying that Dumbledore is gay. I think it's a little closer to Maddy Thorson, a couple years after releasing Celeste, confirming that the player character, Madeline, is a trans woman

Rowling is a cishet transmisogynist. Hussie and Thorson are both trans creators who, after realizing they weren't cis, have come to see their respective protagonists as transfem

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[ponett]

Got a spoilery ask about SLARPG regarding Melody's character arc and, to a lesser extent, the ending, so I'll put this below a read more!

Anonymous asked:

Heya! I adore adore adore SLARPG, and have latched pretty hard onto Melody and Harmony's dichotomy for a while... I was wondering whether you saw Harmony more as an obstacle to Melody's growth, or something to be worked on and reconciled with more like Madeline and Badeline from Celeste? Unless it's spoilers of course. It's one of the few threads left open after the game, and as a plural woman myself I was just curious. X3

I'll say up front that I've generally avoided stepping in and telling people what The One Correct Interpretation is for a lot of things in SLARPG. I didn't intend for Melody to be read as plural, since in the story Harmony is a parasitic outside force, but I also understand where that interpretation comes from and won't tell folks they're wrong for relating to her like that. That's just the beauty of art. We can relate to things however we want. I just wanna make sure my personal framing is clear before I talk about the thought behind Melody and Harmony's relationship

Harmony is more of a literary device than a character. While she's not an alternate personality for Melody, she's also not really a full person in her own right. I don't think about Harmony having her own arc. She's a magical force that occasionally externalizes Melody's darker, more self-critical thoughts for the audience, where normally she would keep them to herself. She has her own design and name to make the dialogue boxes easier to follow. I also keep it intentionally vague whether or not other people would be able to see Harmony because I find that understated uncertainty more fun.

On a literal level, Harmony is a magical parasite, and therefore an obstacle to be overcome. She's not supposed to be there, straight up. But because she's just the embodiment of dark thoughts that Melody is already having, there isn't really much point in "defeating" Harmony to me - which is why things play out the way they do.

Even if Melody got rid of Harmony, she would still have to deal with those feelings. It would be a purely symbolic victory. And symbolic victories like that are often satisfying as hell in fiction, but in real life you can't defeat your shadow self to stop those 3am "what if my friends are only pretending to like me" thoughts. So instead, Harmony is something Melody needs to cope with and minimize. It's not about getting rid of bad thoughts forever, but rather learning how to deal with them better. And that's an active, life-long process. And so Harmony remains, but Melody is working on having healthier relationships with both her loved ones and herself.

I'll also say that, while I love Celeste, Madeline and Badeline's arc is mostly irrelevant to the way I write Melody and Harmony. (I don't think this ask is accusing me of plagiarizing Maddy Thorson or anything, to be clear. I'm just on a tangent since the comparison was brought up.) SLARPG began development in 2015, so the Harmony scenes, and Melody's arc as a whole, were already planned before Celeste came out. While I worried about getting compared to a much more popular game, I stuck to my guns, knowing that my story was different enough to stand on its own. If anything, I just avoided specific phrases like "reflection" or "I'm a part of you" to try and keep people from just pointing and going "Celeste reference!"

Unfortunately the "wow this is just like Celeste" comments were unavoidable, as were the newfound generalizations about what all indie games about trans girls with anxiety must be like because there are two (2) whole games that share some common story tropes, and it seems like the ending may have thrown some people off because of expectations created by Celeste. But what are you gonna do? I at least avoided my absolute nightmare scenario of Deltarune Ch.2 doing glitch aesthetics or giving Susie and Noelle a kiss mechanic lmao

[cuddles-edits]

Canon Trans Characters

To celebrate the International Transgender Day of Visibility, here's an icon set featuring 9 canonically transgender characters. Characters who were also created and/or played by trans people will be listed in bold.

Lily Hoshikawa from Zombie Land Saga

May Marigold from RWBY

Sallie May from Helluva Boss

Madeline from Celeste

Claire Russell from Cyberpunk 2077

Zoe from Monster Prom

Tyler Ronan from Tell Me Why

Rachel Bighead from Rocko's Modern Life: Static Cling

Jewelstar from She-Ra and the Princesses of Power

Please like or reblog if using. Credit not required but is appreciated.

Sources:

May Marigold was voiced by Kdin Jenzen, who is a non-binary trans woman.

Sallie May is voiced by Morgana Ignis, who is a trans woman.

Madeline was created by Maddy Thorson, who is a trans woman.

Claire Russell was voiced by Maddie Taylor, who is a trans woman.

Zoe is voiced by Casey Mongillo, who is non-binary.

Tyler Ronan was voiced by August Aiden Black, who is a trans man.

Jewelstar was voiced by Alex Blue Davis, who is a trans man. In addition, the showrunner of She-Ra and the Princesses of Power was ND Stevenson, who is transmasculine and bi-gender.

[aokozaki]

M-Maddy Thorson?

As fun as it would be to lie and say yes, we just realized that that's probably the cause of the sudden follower influx and it would be rude to take advantage of that.

Maddy Thorson, game developer known for Celeste and also Kaizo Mario, is a different Maddy.

[prokopetz]

On the off-chance that anyone following this blog literally lives in a cave and therefore has not seen this yet, here.

[hedgypipes]

Happy (late) Canada Day! 🍁 (even tho I’m not Canadian and don’t live there lol)

Fun Facts:

-They’re Both Canadian

-Both of their games take place in Canada 🇨🇦

-Both of their games are really fun and are hard as hell

-The main protagonist of each respective game is a female

-Both of them have a dark doppelgänger (even tho one is a major part of the game she’s in and it’s story while the other one isn’t even in her good counterpart game)

(Credits to Artists, @max0ke and the artists who worked on the Celeste game)

-They Both wear blue

-Many people who are fans of these games also made tons of crossover art with another indie game that’s inspired by the wario land and 90s era platformers of the past (AntonBlast with Annalynn (especially since Anton is a playable character in the switch version of “Annalynn”) and Pizza Tower with Celeste)

(Credit to the artists, @Officaillythat2 and @retr0scum on Twitter and Tumblr) Nothing too big here just wanted to mention it here I just like these games and characters 😁

Annalynn and Antilynn belongs to Cruise Elroy

Madeline and Badeline Belongs to Maddy Thorson and Noel Berry

Pizza Tower created by McPig

AntonBlast created by Tony Grayson and SummitSphere

[geekysteven]

when you're about to completely fail an amazing platformer

[Image description Comment on Nextdoor from someone named Janet "Dear Celeste, I am currently day drunk and volatile."]

[harpermeows]

here oomfie!!!! have some strawberries

🧺🍓🍓🍓🍓🍓🍓🍓

omg strawberries!!!

Celeste is a 2018 platform game developed and published by indie studio Maddy Makes Games.[a] The player controls Madeline, a young woman with anxiety and depression who aims to climb Celeste Mountain. During her climb, she encounters several characters, including a personification of her self-doubt known as Badeline, who attempts to stop her from climbing the mountain.

Development of Celeste began in August 2015, when game developers Maddy Thorson[b] and Noel Berry participated in a game jam, where they created Celeste for the PICO-8. Thorson, who served as producer, and Berry, who served as the lead progra-

[maddymakesgames]

Absolutely insane that Maddy Thorson (and the rest of ExOK) just said "fuck it, lets make 3d celeste in a week" and for the most part it turned out amazing.