I'm gonna have to tell my parents how trendy they were

THE PITT - 10:00 AM

Bonus: live slug reaction

vibes for this chapter

The Shepherds of Haven alpha preview has been updated here!

ESTIMATED WORDCOUNT: 1,420,000 WORDS WITHOUT CODE

20,000 words of new content

The conclusion of Chapter 10 (for certain routes)

Croelle.........

New music added throughout Chapter 10

New newspaper section added for Chapter 10

Minor bugs and typos throughout the game addressed (both public demo and alpha build)

GRHGHHhHHHH Croelle. I am so interested to see if the number of voters for his potential future romance will rise or fall after this update, lol!

WHAT’S NEXT:

I'm not sure yet--February is looking crazy (because I'm getting married in a few weeks! 😱) but I'm guessing I'll finish up the routes of Chapter 10 that I wasn't able to complete this month, so we can have a fresh start to Chapter 11 as we move forward! (Though, of course, we have actually skipped an earlier section of Chapter 10 that I'm waiting to do once all of the character interludes are caught up!)

"I Want to be a Normal Girl"

SATURDAY, JANUARY 31ST @ 11AM PST!!!!!!!!!!!!

New episode animatic dropping! Planning on doing a stream right before to watch the pilot/episode 1 together and do a small QnA~ There will also be a lil announcement after the credits 👀

WE'RE SO BACK!!!

And I also remember how, especially under cover of darkness, cops became particularly nasty and brutal.

We protested to say Black Lives Matter,

People protested to Occupy Wall Street, the police brutally attacked them.

Water protectors protested at Standing Rock, police and the National Guard pepper sprayed them.

The police are attacking and killing unarmed protesters right now today at Cop City in Atlanta. So please let’s knock off the “imagine if people in the US protested like that” nonsense. Sometimes it feels like we stay protesting, like since before I was even ever born.

In addition to all the innocent and unarmed Black people they routinely murder, the police also did things like shoot protesters directly in the head with tear gas canisters, at point blank range. I remember police wilding out on students who were protesting at UC Davis campus to protest tuition hikes. I remember the police tear-gassing a young girl named Sarah Grossman. The cops gassed her in the face and she died from it. And the media even tried covering for the police by parroting their version of events that she had asthma.

I could continue…

But I do not begrudge the French protesters. Like, not at all. They are right to protest Macron’s callous neoliberal ass, and I hope they get what’s theirs. I hope they win. We are on the same side.

#Solidarity #PowerToThePeople ✊🏿

You have been on this earth for fewer years than my cat has.

Doctor Who (Steven Moffat specifically)

Sherlock (Steven Moffat specifically)

Actually Steven Moffat is basically just this sentiment given human form.

A version of this happened with The Magicians, tbh. Though instead of expectation: men, reality: women it was expectation: smug nihilists, reality: mentally ill queer folks.

Arguably Game of Thrones.

If we broaden it outside of television...I think Star Wars falls into this, at least the sequel trilogy. Maybe the MCU as well. And I can't help but think of every band that's ever complained that their fanbase is mostly women. 5 Seconds of Summer comes immediately to mind.

In general, most white male creators seem to have this massively entitled mindset where they want--and think they deserve--the time, attention, and enthusiasm that creative fandom (i.e. the side of fandom more dominated by women) is known for.

They want our eyes for ratings, our word-of-mouth for free publicity, our metas for social media buzz, and our spending power for merch and cons. But they don't want us. And they don't really want the responsibility of telling a story to a thoughtful, engaged audience, regardless of that audience's demographic makeup. They just want to be praised for whatever schlock they cough up.

Mind you it is perfectly possible to make the switch in marketing, but execs would rather throw it all out than have something that doesn't perform well with male viewers. For example the Rey merch was not expected to be popular, for some reason, there had to be public outcry to get merch of one of the main 3 protagonists. A PROTAGONIST. The fact that she wasn't a huge part of the 1st launch says a lot already.

And what happened when female fans got too invested in the Sequel Trilogy? The entire writers room didn't necessarily lash out, but they sure forgot how to behave.

Young Justice

Paul Dini: Superhero cartoon execs don't want largely female audiences

#WhereIsRey (initial)

#WhereIsRey (ongoing)

The next image is the same screencap, but in place of the muppet, it is Konata Izumi dancing from the anime Lucky Star.

The third image is a screenshot from tumblr’s “more like this” section. Eight of the previews are an image of Konata Izumi from Lucky Star, the last image preview is a mannequin head robot.