#this is about more than code btw

[gentle-positivity]

sometimes you just gotta tell python

and move on with your life.

also if you're learning python i am so sorry.

[thepoisonroom]

'I flirted with the idea that instead of being trans that I was just a cross-dresser (a quirk, I thought, that could be quietly folded into an otherwise average life) and that my dysphoria was sexual in nature, and sexual only. And if my feelings were only sexual, then, I wondered, perhaps I wasn’t actually trans.

I had read about a book called The Man Who Would Be Queen, by a Northwestern University professor who believed that transwomen who were attracted to women were really confused fetishists, they wanted to be women to satisfy an autogynephilia. And though I first read about this book in the context of its debunkment and disparagement, I thought about the electricity of slipping on those tights, zipping up those boots, and a stream of guilt followed. Maybe this professor was right, and maybe I was only a fetishist. Not trans, just a misguided boy.

About a year later, on the Internet, I come across a transwoman who added a unique message to the crowd refuting this professor. Oh, I wish I remember who this woman was, and I wish even more that I could do better than paraphrase her, but I remember her saying something like this: “Well, of course I feel sexy putting on women’s clothing and having a woman’s body. If you feel comfortable in your body for the first time, won’t that probably mean it’ll be the first time you feel comfortable, too, with delighting in your body as a sexual thing?”'

-Casey Plett, Consciousness

[robinfollies]

some design comcepts for older lily + lewis!!! my latest and greatest headcanon for them is that in the future they get gems and can do magic of their own :33 i just think it’d be neat,,, something to do with their love of magic!!!! 🥺

[bthump]

How does Guts and Griffith demonstrate queer coding?

The difficulty for me in applying the term queer coding to Berserk, rather than eg homoeroticism or gay subtext, is that to discuss coding thoroughly requires more cultural context than I have, since coding is inherently reliant on cultural context to be understood. But I can offer a few ideas.

So, I've seen a case made that Black Swordsman era Guts evokes a certain 80s-era Japanese gay male aesthetic (short spiky hair, I think the outfit a bit, and some body language) but I don't know nearly enough about that particular cultural niche to make that case myself. I also don't have a link handy to where I've seen this discussed with comparison pics (I think a tumblr post back in the day, but even that I'm iffy on lol), sorry about that.

Arguably Griffith's androgyny counts as coding here. I don't think bishounen in general are queer coded, since, as far as I'm aware, they're generally intended to be seen as handsome and largely masculine, but Griffith being canonically so pretty people aren't always sure he's a man is separate from that, and certainly contributes to the homoeroticism. Add in some of Miura's comments about how androgynous characters should have both male and female love interests, and BL's longstanding history of androgynous pretty boys, and it's probably enough to call it queer coding.

Again, I'm differentiating coding from homoeroticism in general or gay/romantic subtext - this is about how Guts and Griffith individually, regardless of their relationship or how the narrative frames them and the events of their lives, evoke gay vibes through their surface depiction.

If you want the homoeroticism/romance subtext I have essays and essays worth of examples. But yeah, when it comes to coding I just don't have the necessary context to have more than a few vague thoughts.

Thanks for the ask!

[coachbeards]

hey ted lasso fandom what was this all about

[wat-zu]

Absolutely love your art. I want to nom it.

Also, Hollow Heads Siblings my beloveds,,,

Theyre the doomed siblings ever its not even funny

[aurosoulart]

walking people through all my interactive AR experiences at AWE has made me realize that I literally do not need to care about anyone who approaches my work with disrespect

I guided hundreds of people through portals to other worlds, dandelion forests, carnival games we could all play together, toys and collaborative paintings and just pure magic - and 99% of them clearly experienced joy and awe unlike anything they’d ever seen before…

and the small handful of people who still managed to be negative after all of that were clearly just unhappy individuals who had some kind of personal issues entirely unrelated to anything I was doing or sharing with them.

one guy was literally mad that our marketing wasn’t good enough on our business card. like… that is so vastly unimportant. I’m just here to bring people joy and show them something new - if someone can’t let that in, it’s extremely incredibly not my problem.

[lesbianshadowheart]

havent played bg3 in a month. withering away more every day

[soratsuart]

Alright, here we go again. QSMP Day 26 Lore Update, based on what I saw and what I gathered from other people's summaries on Twitter:

First of all, I'd like to address the fact that Census Bureau seems to be more active these days, since Cucurucho was already spying on Vegetta before warning him about the no diamond rule.

Early on not much happened, Wilbur and Philza were introduced to each other's eggs and they had some family bonding time. It is now canon that Wilbur is Philza's son and Chayanne's brother, as well as Tallulah being their granddaughter and niece respectively. When things start to go downhill is after they log off, at Slime's stream.

At first Slime was just gathering resources, running away from mobs and trying to invoke angel!Rubius. Since q!Slime didn't know about Flippa's death at that point, he just kept finding stuff to give her whenever he sees her again (pain).

Everything would change with Cucurucho's visit while he was mining. They started asking him a bunch of questions about Flippa, and Slime started suspecting something had happened to her and demanded they told him. Cucurucho told him to "figure it out yourself", but in the end they did show him the clip of Mariana killing Flippa again.

Slime then enters a state of denial, refusing to believe his daughter is dead and hallucinating with her, however he seemed to finally accept her death after invoking angel!Rubius. Rubius addressed the fact that he had promised him an extra life for Flippa, though he said he had to "ask his father and other people" (aka he most likely promised him that in the first day of the event without knowing if he was allowed to do that lmao). He told Slime he had to choose between bringing back Flippa or Tilín, and Slime ultimately chose Flippa, but asked to give the life to Tilín if she didn't want to revive a second time. He also asked Rubius to not tell Quackity he was given the option to choose.

We now move on to Bad and Foolish, who learn about Leo's "friends": a platypus called Perry, Cucurucho themself and a mysterious black creature called Dark. This creature looks very similar to the monster Quackity drew according to a vision he had after Tilín's death, and according to Leo it protects her, though Foolish isn't very sure of this.

On his part, Maxo was getting drunk due to his grief over his egg's, Trump, death until he meets up with angel!Rubius, who accidentally tells him about Flippa's possible revival. Maxo confronts him about his own child's death and Rubius makes a deal with him to revive Trump if Maxo builds a church for him. However, soon would appear Cucurucho, who tells Maxo not to trust Rubius, and instead tells him that there's a chance that Trump can revive if he is online the next day, during the funeral for the eggs that have died. Maxo threatened then Cucurucho if they didn't actually bring back Trump, and they just... Laughed at him.

He then goes to visit Bad and Foolish, who by this point have had to fight a bunch of Withers Rubius spawned, to tell them about the deal and ask them for help. However they get interrupted soon by the binary code creature as well as more dragons attacking them. They are able to run away and get shelter though.

Maxo, Bad and Foolish start discussing and theorising some stuff, with Bad and Foolish agreeing to help Maxo if Cucurucho doesn't help him after all. Maxo also expresses worry that he's going to be turned into a robot like Luzu, as he was also told to go visit him by Cucurucho.

Turns out: Cucurucho was spying them, which they realised, and they followed Maxo as he ran away from them to make sure he actually believes them and tells him to trust the Census Bureau of the QSMP. The other two went their separate ways, with Bad going out of his way to check up on all the eggs and make sure no one would die out of neglect again.

And I believe that is all. Take into account I had to gather much of this from other people's commentary + the official update accounts so I might have left something out, but hopefully this is good enough.

Also, it seems something will be happening at the funeral, and since someone said "the worst is yet to come" my bets are Dark is gonna appear and won't be as kind as Leo believes it to be, but that's just a theory.

[kuroshirosb]

piper is such an inherently fun character to think about for me.

especially during bw and his villain arc. ESPECIALLY when he's at he's peak villainy.

like YEAH he gets manipulated by team plasma into making him think people are out to ruin him and is believing in a false ideal... but he's still kind of a villain. moreso than n and hilda. like at least those two don't pretend to be people's friend nor does he try to harm them and ruin an entire wealth of childhood memories for said false ideal. he goes out of his way to throw hilbert to the wolves.

he is a victim... but just because he's a victim doesn't mean what he's done is ok.

like he is VERY self motivated in the end. he's hurting hilbert and bianca for the sake of HIS future, HIS feeling of fulfillment, HIS feeling of being alive. and like going as deep in this path as team plasma has lead him on it makes him feel so alive unlike he's ever felt before that he has. an evil villain laugh about it. when his true nature is revealed and he has his villain monologue (before the monologue about how much he hates hilbert)

He's BURNING alive compared to his ever desolate feeling of cold, empty, dead-ness.

and the fact that hilbert still loves him after everything he's done infuriates him!!! like it fills him with so much turmoil and rage it makes him see red and they INSTANTLY start a pokemon battle. i think his face would be one of those shots where the camera is just ultra focused on an anime characters eyes.

and he may try to write his wrongs but AGAIN. the damage he causes has been done. and at some point, he was willing to get even worse had it not been for the cruel wake up call given by Bianca, and of course, what happened to Hilbert.

he's just a fun guy to think of. especially when i think of what he'd be like as a villain and his true alliances gets revealed to bianca and hilbert.

[welcometogrouchland]

Also, vaguely related to the last post: I do think sometimes ppl overstate the like. Importance of religion/Christian culture when writing about the Wittebane brothers-

(not that it's not a very strong element of the story that Philip is a critique of Christian institutions, but rather bc, based on what we know, both of them stopped holding explicit Christian values at some point during adulthood, if they ever really cared and weren't just witch-hunting for social clout/material gains like the reenactment in thanks to them shows. Philip only uses it as an ideological shield to buster his own notion of heroism, as in, he knows Christianity is Good but he can't be bothered to actually demonstrate it's values (like not murdering your brother) which fits with his primary metaphor as a colonist/modern conservative.(bc something something social norms and dominant groups and excuse to commit heinous crimes you know are heinous but are apathetic towards) and uh. I think it's safe to say Caleb wasn't super concerned about things like sex w/in marriage when he was already bumping a supposed 'servant of the dark' (Evelyn, my faceless darling beloved). Okay, tangent over)

-but I will be the first to admit that, as an ex-catholic, sometimes applying a twisted version of the imagery associated with Christianity to a story about murder and betrayal fucks severely. even if I don't think it would hold great significance to Philip as a person/character if he were to creepily hum "oil in my lamp" as he lights the ring of fire that he and Caleb have their death match in (he's sooooo culturally Christian who considers himself an enlightened atheist on Reddit core)...the idea and how it'd look to us as an audience? Based.

[libraryofruinaofficial]

Hands-down the most useful tip for anyone trying to figure out how divisions of astral, etheric, spiritual, etc. work (especially in relation to the mechanics of magic, the paranormal, the supernatural, etc.) is acknowledging that they all have phases and states of "matter" affected by levels of energy like the physical does, and that those phases and states will affect their own "matter type" differently than they will affect others depending on those energy levels.

[splashinkling]

thanks for the tag @aalinaaaaaa!

let's tag @notwritinganyflufftoday, @drippingmoon, @sleepy-night-child, and @pixelw0rds, +an open tag for anyone who sees this

If your WIP was a video game, what type of game would it be?

as a certified Game Enthusiast™️ (according to my friends), I won't allow myself the benefit of going typical RPGs for both Den and Witch because I love talking about games and I'd like to think I'm well-versed enough to think of cool game ideas and RPG is an incredibly broad term that can mean Animal Crossing or Digimon Cyber Sleuth or Lego Batman 3.

Demons in the Den |

a top-down hack'n'slash game akin to Unsighted and Hades. I'd say more like Unsighted since this wouldn't be a roguelike. there would definitely be Metroidvania elements because exploration and attaining character abilities is awesome. plus having bosses you can challenge out of order or straight up ignore is always fun. I'd also say that you'd play the game as a pair (Mara and Aliah) and you can switch which of them you'd like to play as but also there's also parts where you're locked into one.

Memories with the Witch |

likely a life management sim with RPG elements. think Stardew Valley and Rune Factory type games. newer examples include the Atelier series and Moonlighter (but it's also a roguelike). the main game loop would be like Stardew or Moonlighter where you do daily business things and use the rest of the time for other things you wanna do. roguelike/roguelite features might be cool since Lyzandir can fulfill that role, but it's iffy if I want it to be more like a life sim. it's also kind of hard to incorporate all the characters because so much time passes, so I'd need to focus either on Lyzandir's time (more life sim) or Lucille's time (more action RPG)

[ghostprinceiii]

A videogame about a cat who fishes up the horrors of the deep. Concept title: 'Fish With Teeth', feat. Wester the cat

[stlangels]

What are some of the best/your favorite resources for teaching yourself coding? I've never taken a CS or coding class before and a program I want to apply to next year recommends that you know or are at least familiar with python

[transmandrake]

This is rich coming from someone with adhd who's finished very little, but, gotta say, one of my longest pet peeves is advice thats like

"dont start with the really big thing you want to make! Start with little things to get better until you can do what you actually want to do!"

This seems like good advice but, as someone who has basically worked on like 1-3 ideas at a time Ever, and really should be the textbook example of why you dont do this, I dont think it really matters.

If you make something, and come back to it years later, and redo it, is the original unfinished? Is the redo and the original two separate things or a chronological view of the same thing?

I really don't think someone who redoes the same small piece of a big thing over and over 10 times necessarily is failing or not learning as much as someone who does 10 different small things completely. The only difference is probably a less varied learning, and that one person has 10 things to show off and the other has maybe 1 that doesnt stand on its own.

Does that matter? Its probably a better comparison of learning, but, does it really impact your learning itself?

Yes, tunnel vision isnt good, but i dont think this advice actually helps with that... its just as easy to do 10 slightly different things and not learn much. Or you could work on 10 wildly different parts of a bigger thing. The scope of the project does not necessarily correlate with potential learning.

It doesnt matter how big the thing you want to make is, what matters is that its the thing you Want To Make.

Like... you know what? You don't have to finish anything. Its not your job. Unless it is in which youre kinda beyond this... Theres no like. Exp gain bonus when you finish something. Nothing is ever finished, just stops being working on.

I think this advice... is very geared towards Making Products. Finishing and releasing things, schedules, limitations... Obviously these matter but it all kinda revolves around the idea that things finish, at all. That the end goal of creativity is eyes on your work, a distinct Thing that can be Shared.

I think theres a somewhat silly idea that people literally start to work on their big project and like. Lose their marbles when they cant instantly know how to do all of it. People definitely underestimate how much work has to go into things, but I dont think that people start learning something with the mindset they... dont need to learn things. I had no idea how to model my creatures when i started learning blender, I literally only wanted to do that, that doesnt mean i was 'starting with something small' when i clicked on a 'how blender works' tutorial, modelling tutorial or rigging tutorial. I knew those were building blocks to the thing i wanted to do. My first models were garbage but they were what I *wanted* to make.

I'm never going to finish my comic, I'm never going to model all my creatures, I'm never going to get all of my ideas out of my head and into a presentable form. This is okay. In fact, this is good! Being done sounds horrible. There is no goal, there is no limit. And stopping worrying about that has ironically made it so much easier to do stuff and start stuff, knowing I can just start over if I fuck up. Finished things, don't have as many mistakes, and mistakes are so, so important to have.