peaceful skeleton realm

dude wait. what if we got really close together so we feel safe

bro. take shelter in my arms

I feel like people keep excusing Texas Red just because he's a youth of 24 🙄 but literally the notches on his pistol number one and 19 more??

it’s actually really easy to satisfy audiences with Good Representation. you can’t depict someone struggling with their Otherness because that portrays it in a bad light but you have to depict them struggling with their Otherness because if you don’t, then you’re romanticizing how hard it is to be Othered. be super careful not to depict anything that might be adjacent to a common stereotype but if you go too far to avoid all stereotypes, then you’re still building the characters around stereotypes, which is a stereotype in its own way. if your storyline uses tropes, then it’s cliche, but if it avoids tropes, then it’s inauthentic. if you lampshade any of this, then you’re speaking down to your audience but if you don’t acknowledge this, you’re also speaking down to your audience. this is all really easy stuff i don’t know why people don’t get it.

forgot The Most Important thing. you absolutely CANNOT make them perfect because that dehumanizes them, but if you give them flaws? hoooo boy…let’s just say, you do *not* want to give them flaws…

*sigh* fine, fine, i'll be the new doctor who showrunner. bring me two twinks, britain's tallest woman, and 1000 pounds worth of alumininamian foil

you're allowed to draw. draw badly even. draw and then delete it. draw and rework it and then delete it anyway. draw only half of it and the other half three years later. in one style or another. in different styles in the same week. traditional or digital. you're literally allowed to draw however you want

it's thousand yard stare summer

Children aged 36-48 report their lives as “better than nothing I guess.”

you have to click on me to prompt dialogue

Actually, regarding the last point, that player is me. I just remembered that I hated the Skyrim thieves guild, because the first quest is to intimidate shopkeepers. But realistically, a thieves guild would devolve into a protection racket in less than a minute.

See this is just a fundamental weakness with the whole 'each class has a sort of institution and the arch of the PC is rising to the top of theirs' paradigm imo - 'forever on the run from the really nasty organized criminals because they drew some line in the sane and didn't kill someone/freed some slaves that were going to make the boss a lot of money/whatever' is one of the most archetypally plucky charming rogue situations to be in!