Linka

knowledge long forgotten

assume people are trying their best, want to be good and treat others well, and that when their behavior doesn’t align with those goals, it’s because of outside factors that are pushing them to their limit

i have a patron who is mean as a snake. won’t respond when you greet her, barks orders at you, and is generally nasty

i couldn’t stand her & dreaded the moment she walked in the door, until i stopped one day & went “wow, to walk around feeling unhappy enough to treat people so horribly every day. what a difficult way to live.”

and so my tactics changed. i made a point to be extra kind & friendly to her. she changed her hair color one day & when i complimented her on it, she was very caught off guard & said “oh, thank you. my whole life i’ve thought i was ugly.”

now we’re at the point where she shows me pictures of watercolor paintings she made & says hi when she walks in the door. she’s not my favorite patron, but she’s perfectly okay. most unpleasant people aren’t inherently rotten, they’re just unhappy & coping with it poorly

She grew on me because her name in the spanish translation is Ani Mañas ("Ver Min") and I can't get over the werepug thing

I put her in my hood but since there's no proper cowgirl outfit she'll have to be a little urban instead. Gonna post her nightbeast design laterrrr

edit: material gworll

(left is the original, right is mine)

I am foundationally a different person for having played that game.

It was the start of my interest in unconventional storytelling. In darker and shocking stories to get you to consider new perspectives. To expressing an exclusively feminine perspective back when video games were even more of a Boy’s Club than they are now. To the very genre of horror that is “existing”, rather than something more direct like a serial killer.

I cannot overstate how much that game shaped me.

Reading the in-character blogs was electrifying. The music haunting.

I love it. I’m grateful to it.

Break in the rain.

One is cutting onions, others just watching.

like I have been Chainsaw Man fan for so long and I just realize that I should drew something like this instead just thinking like usual I do.

We were together. I forget the rest.