malaika

i am doing a shop sale to raise money for my fiance's FFS recovery. any support is appreciated. TYSM

LOOKING AT BLACK CHARACTERS

I made a zine! Rather than being just being a guide on Writing Black Characters, it's a reflection on those guides, popular media (particular Hazbin Hotel and Steven Universe), the eternal discourse wheel, and has some tips here and there.

Created for the Media Essay Zine Jam! Thanks for hosting

FIXES, EDITS, ETC

The zine has been edited primarily to encourage readability and a bit better formatting. This has been an on and off thing I did over the course of June. The zine now is formatted optimally for future editing which means when I edit in the future, I can focus on one page at a time. Before, I struggled a bit due to transitioning from Scribus to Affinity.

There are things I would do differently if I had started with Affinity before Scribus

List of edits are as follows:

Reworded some things I felt were unclear or I felt I could articulate a bit better. 

Exported everything at an optimal size for digital consumption and download

Tried to fix more of the capitalization for Black; this can be one of the more difficult things to catch as although I have some grammar checkers now, they do not capitalize Black by default much of the time

Made the addendum slightly less rambley though it is still extremely rambling

Tried to make the typesetting a bit better (though I believe I may redo the typesetting entirely someday in the future)

I included some additional thoughts on masculinity, my identity as a lesbian, etc.

As always, due to having a migraine disorder, I at times introduce more errors when editing my old work. I hope to give the zine a lookover again soon though I may have one of my friends do some more in depth editing and fixing for me.

LOOKING AT BLACK CHARACTERS

I made a zine! Rather than being just being a guide on Writing Black Characters, it's a reflection on those guides, popular media (particular Hazbin Hotel and Steven Universe), the eternal discourse wheel, and has some tips here and there.

Created for the Media Essay Zine Jam! Thanks for hosting

FIXES, EDITS, ETC

The zine has been edited primarily to encourage readability and a bit better formatting. This has been an on and off thing I did over the course of June. The zine now is formatted optimally for future editing which means when I edit in the future, I can focus on one page at a time. Before, I struggled a bit due to transitioning from Scribus to Affinity.

There are things I would do differently if I had started with Affinity before Scribus

List of edits are as follows:

Reworded some things I felt were unclear or I felt I could articulate a bit better. 

Exported everything at an optimal size for digital consumption and download

Tried to fix more of the capitalization for Black; this can be one of the more difficult things to catch as although I have some grammar checkers now, they do not capitalize Black by default much of the time

Made the addendum slightly less rambley though it is still extremely rambling

Tried to make the typesetting a bit better (though I believe I may redo the typesetting entirely someday in the future)

I included some additional thoughts on masculinity, my identity as a lesbian, etc.

As always, due to having a migraine disorder, I at times introduce more errors when editing my old work. I hope to give the zine a lookover again soon though I may have one of my friends do some more in depth editing and fixing for me.

The Lies of a Preying Mantis Demo could not be completed for Mixed Media Jam, but a lot of work has been done by me and @fizzsea.

I've made a Patreon post free for everyone to read to showcase our work and the reasons behind the new deadline! Please look forward to our bug girls.

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hi! thank you for your support and for reporting bugs. i apologize for the slow or lack of response to them. i could not address them in a timely manner due to visual studio not saving my code properly and my deteriorating health, but i have made many updates and added more tools.

i have addressed every bug that has been reported to me over the past few months. these fixes are now incorporated into the old code, and i have included instructions and details on how to update your code, why these bugs occurred, and why it took so long to fix them.

ฅᨐฅ thank you @starbage for your promo art and bug fixes ฅᨐฅ thank you @gattsuchan for your tests