Vertes contrées.

The Parade of Paws marches again this year 🐾✨🧡

Each charmingly spooky wood standee comes with your own personal parade ticket! Trick-or-treat! Which one will you get?

🐭🍎❤ Inspired by this video from simon_dell_tog

For example, you might be able to be turned into a pooltoy in a water park zone, and have to navigate the area as one (while also trying to turn back eventually).

this is such a massive pet peeve for me lmao

there are so many games that revolve around a Fun Thing — sex or kink or whatever — but then they make that a game over. so you don't actually get to play with the Fun Thing. in fact if the Fun Thing happens you are punished for it.

i get that it's the obvious thing to do in a lot of cases but

that sends such a weird message?????

It's a short RPG where the protagonists suffer various transformations (based on kinks) depending on the level they are visiting. Those transformations are inflicted by the enemies (or equipments) and affect the gameplay.

Sometimes the games encourages you to get transformed (like enemies not attacking you if you are transformed enough), sometimes it punishes you, so you have to manage those transformations by using the equipment and consumable items you find in the level. However, you get rewards in form of stats increase by reaching some achievements with those transformations.

we provide so so so much free “content” and expect nothing in return, yet they still want more from us. they want us to post our work constantly, participate in the current trends, or we will be punished by the algorithm. it is a vulnerable, exhausting experience to share our art and hope that it is good enough for our audiences and algorithm. the system kills creativity. yet artists are expected to depend on these awful systems just to survive.

websites built for artists, like deviantART and artstation, betrayed us by promoting AI. they should have protected us.

“I’ve started limiting my use of modern social media like Twitter/Tumblr, instead I use Neocities, and it is incredibly refreshing. I like being able to curate my online experience. I like that artists on Neocities can update their website at their own pace without the fear of getting lost in a sea of ‘content’. I like that it gives power back to the artists to build their own online spaces. On the Indie Web, It becomes the responsibility of the viewer to keep track of the artist if they want to see more of their work, it isn’t the artist’s responsibility to cater to the algorithm. It’s not about attention & numbers on the Indie Web, it’s about creating a virtual space to nurture our individual personalities, interests & experiences (at least that’s how I see it). Of course it’s not a perfect system, but it’s a lot better than the hellscape of modern social media.

We get less traction on indie web, but is that such a bad thing? Are a certain # of likes really what we should value our art, when art is incredibly personal self-expression? Is art only considered ‘good’ if it is palatable/aesthetic/familiar enough for people to want to ‘reblog’ it? I don’t want to be an artist in a world like that. My purpose is not to create ‘content’ for scrolling. Connecting to 1 person, is more influential to me than 50, 500, 5000 likes could ever be. I don’t want my art to exist within the vacuum of a bland, soulless corporate social media account. I want it surrounded by who I am and what inspires me, the indie web enables that.

I want to understand the people who view my art too, it brings me great joy to explore the personal websites of my Neocities followers. I really cannot overstate how important community is for artists. Art is a language, we want our art to be understood and seen, but thinking that validation can come from likes/reblogs is incredibly damaging and fruitless. I speak from a place of privilege as art is not my source of income so I don’t need to depend on having my art shared, but that’s a whole different topic.

After uploading my art to the internet since 2009, it alarms me how much of an influence it has had on my work. Of course I have been inspired by so many incredible artists that I have met through places like Twitter/Tumblr, and I am grateful to have their influence in my life, but the culture of social media has had a negative impact on me. Sub-consciously, and sometimes consciously, I will cater topics and my style to what gets more likes/view/reblogs/whatever. That makes me sad, I want my work to delve into weirder and more personal territories. When I would try to post more personal work on modern social media it performs significantly ‘worse’ compared to my more generic furry drawings. People like familiarity, familiarity grows the follower count. I’m sad that I let those stupid numbers influence what I create. I want to break away from that.

we provide so so so much free “content” and expect nothing in return, yet they still want more from us. they want us to post our work constantly, participate in the current trends, or we will be punished by the algorithm. it is a vulnerable, exhausting experience to share our art and hope that it is good enough for our audiences and algorithm. the system kills creativity. yet artists are expected to depend on these awful systems just to survive.

websites built for artists, like deviantART and artstation, betrayed us by promoting AI. they should have protected us.