i love my mom! that's why i'm excited to see a horrifying alchemical homunculus wearing her face!

what is wrong with you

A WEAPON TO SURPASS METAL GEAR

turns out that if you want to stab someone it's pretty good to do it from far away. especially if they've got a horse

also horse archery is the coolest any military unit in all of human history has ever been, just saying. you want an IRL equivalent to a Gundam, that's it

a lot of Berserk weapons are also completely ahistorical nonsense too, and not even just the Dragonslayer lol

the main thing i'd like to see in this context is either incredibly wacky shit that isn't even pretending, or just more polearms

i looked up the numbers out of curiosity and i think the conclusion was that if the entire space were pasture (no room for human living space, a barn, any other crops or livestock, etc.) then the most fertile soil in the entire world MIGHT support a single cow

we had a whole discourse cycle a while back about an image that implied you could have complete self-sufficiency for a family of four AND MEAT PRODUCTION on a single acre lol

the majority of works in any fetish, no matter how extreme, are cishet. This is, for once, not an attack on cishets but a call for queer people to be freakier and kinkier

I guess to summarise, news designers only need to be themselves -- but they can't be controversial in ways that don't fit into a mass-approved label, and they can't be poor, and they can't be disabled/unwell, and they can't not be marketable, and they can't depend on their work.

Discussion in this space ADORES using the metrics of capitalism to measure success: downloads, sales, views, attention, clout. And yet none of those qualities touch on whether art is has reached an audience, whether design is fair, whether works will be timeless.

Like every other form of art in the global west right now, if you don't have an inheritance, rich family/friends, a well-earning partner, or a high paying job (usually related to tech, which is propped up by military spending, genocide tech, AI, etc), then you will struggle to work and reach people.

Personal opinions:
Designers entering this space will struggle against the illusionary demands of professionalism, when this is 99.9% a hobbyist space.

Solidarity and boycotting the holiday will not materially improve anyone’s life but cash money will. I’ll start.

gofund.me/d5c11b446

unfortunately i suspect step one in this evil plan would be "at least undergrad-level liberal arts education for everyone" and oooooooof about that

we seriously need to re-establish a baseline for making fun of people with shit taste. like there are all kinds of problems with a canon defined by a stuffy in-group but we can do better than that and in any case the way the culture is right now is so much worse

"best playing console shooter"

jumbo shrimp

A STAMP O'ER THE BUTT SAYS WE'RE GONNA SUCK
WE'RE GONNA SHOW HOW GOOD WE FUCK AND MORE
FOR WE ARE THE SKANKS OF THE DARK LORD'S WAR