Bullshit and Roleplay

False Deities.

Mom, faintly after a minute: dammit.

So during the move to Texas, someone went through my stuff and stole my insulin-ya know, the stuff I need to live- probably thinking it was drugs or something. I need help with getting money (about $300) to buy more to replace all that was taken since I’m jobless, I can do commissions in the meantime if anyone is interested though. There’s also adoptables I’ve got for anyone who wants one.

If anyone would be kind enough to donate me some money that would be great, and if anyone has insulin to spare, I’d be really grateful if you could send some my way. Please spread the word. My PayPal is [email protected]

girl gamer gets saved from troll by girls singing frozen

offered money for a dick pic

i then walked out like a sassy bitch

saved by a grandma from a millennial hating anti book grandpa

even the religious people clapped

everyone behind me in gamestop gasped

the entire audience cheered and i got a thumbs up

my birthday was made into a holiday

this is my neighborhood now biatch

getting mugged, then hugged

some guy tried to recruit me into isis

ive just selected three led zeppelin CDs

you look like you could kill a man

everyones slowly getting high

oppa homeless style

and then i got ten dollars -ben carson

also im giving u 100 dollars

i wish i was alive during the 40s

my son has his own gun

facebook is for whores and pundits

a reggae man took my side

also ad agencies are dumb

What you think I mean: “I need a hug.”

 Yesterday, we revealed some pages for our graphic novel adaptation of the first Adventure Zone arc, and received some criticism of the direction we went with for Taako’s coloring. This artwork reveal came some months after the first reveal of some of our characters, for which we also received criticism of our three leads, all of whom were white in these initial designs. Us and the graphic novel team realized that, yes, that is extremely bad, went back to the drawing board, and had several long discussions about how to best rectify this situation, resulting in the artwork revealed yesterday.

More or less all of the criticism we’ve received centers on Taako, whose skin is a pale blue color in these designs. What we’ve heard most is disappointment that Taako is not realized in these pages as a person of color — or, to be more specific, a Latinx or explicitly Mexican character. There was concern we had failed to follow through on an opportunity to get better representation for Latinx listeners, instead opting to take a safe route, and make Taako a fantasy color without any kind of real-world connection. Much of the criticism also focuses on how that color (or, to be more specific, green skin) has anti-semitic connotations.

This conversation was happening in certain corners of our fandom long before the graphic novel art reveal took place yesterday. We’ve heard criticism from some folks over our policy of not having canonical visual representations of any of our characters — a policy that has resulted in a genuinely humbling ocean of fan art, but also some instances of in-fighting between members of the community who take umbrage with one another’s disparate interpretations of these characters. Another criticism of that policy is that it inherently does not foster good representation, and in fact represents a noncommittal way of handling racial representation on this show.

Here’s the truth of the matter: I think all of this comes from this underlying friction between where The Adventure Zone and us, its creators, were when we started doing the podcast, and where we, the show, and you, the community, are at now.