SilentAddle

R.I.P.

I used to be a support worker for an autistic guy, who always teetered on the edge of an MRA rabbithole.

His film interests? Very accurately depicted in the above image, he would talk for hours about loving Ellen Ripley, or Sarah Conner, but anything modern? It was a constant lament about making women masculine, or emasculating men.

And I would tell him, the arguments he's listening to would have said the exact same thing about the things and characters he loved in these films.

...[BURSTS THROUGH THE WALL LIKE THE KOOL-AID MAN] HELLO, YES, HI, ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT CREATIVE COMMONS ART PROJECTS?!

...I mean, yeah, these sorts of opposite-of-NFTs Open Source Art things are something I dedicate a lot of brainspace to, and I actually have some suggestions!

Firstly, if you wanna do that, you’d probably want to use one of the organization Creative Commons’ licenses, to make the “anyone can use/save/alter it” official and legally binding, presumably one of their looser ones like CC-BY or CC0.

Secondly, honestly, this is a rad idea, something like Open Game Art’s various sprites but more as an art project than an assets thing, and i have an idea on how you could expand it further.

Basically: Fanpro but for Pixel Art. Which, for those who don’t know, Fanpro is basically this pool of character designs people contributed to for a while, released totally and utterly under a CC0 license, for anyone to use how they see fit! Basically the exact opposite of NFTs!

It ha a successor in ComPro, but that kinda sputtered out, but one based around a specific theme like pixel art might be perfect! If only as an F-you to NFTs!

Nifty is a little 16 by 16 pixel goblin who’s yours to own and do whatever you wish to do with.

Licence: You can copy, modify and distribute this work, even for commercial projects, strictly excluding those relating to or containing non-fungible tokens (so-called "NFT") or blockchain (related) projects.

I’ve included a blown up 80 by 80 pixel version simply because I know from experience that Tumblr messes up small pixel art, but I’ve included a version in the original 16 by 16 resolution. While Sprytile is my pixel art software of choice, any image editor should do as long as long as it allows for turning off anti-aliasing, the bane of anyone who’s worked with pixels.

pattern:

Nifty with one of my d&d characters. Short queens <3

EDIT: I FORGOT TES’S MOSS she gave some to Nifty

TES’S MOSS she

gave some to Nifty

So yeah, check out EFTs!

I don't really have any need for dice, but I thought this was too cool not to share.

differences in hair aside, evil sephiroth has obvious dark circles and hollowing around his eye area. this is the go to physical change to indicate that a character has gone to the dark side. a good example of this is anakin skywalker. compare the first image with the second one.

in seph's case, could this just be lighting/shadowing/angling, etc.? that's what i thought at first until i found these two gifs:

his faces in both gifs are both shadowed, but the physical difference is still there: even when his face is shadowed, you can clearly see that good sephy has no dark circles or any hollowing to his eye area. evil sephiroth also has that "aged" look to him that reminds me of arthas menethil from warcraft (who is also a hero turned villain like sephiroth):

with this, you can see just how much sephiroth has changed, not only in terms of personality, but also in appearance. his gaze is no longer as warm or as amicable as it used to be. evil sephiroth, even when he's making a neutral expression (or at least when he's not grinning or smirking), still looks very sinister, and his eyes seem to be a glowing a lot more too.

this change is also obvious in that iconic fire scene of sephiroth burning down nibelheim:

this physical change also makes sense when you take into consideration how long he was holed up in the basement at the shinra mansion without sleeping or eating, just endlessly reading outdated information about his origins.

yeah, ur right @flowersinmidgar 👍👍 i even have a photo of it!