#crezth

for the record, i got the art from here because i’m a good girl who always keeps sources on hand and credits people

but as someone who both heavily relates to the character (especially in heavy metal berserker mode) and also believes in the wise words of that one ancient philosopher that said “smoke weed erry day” all i’m gonna say is....

these are great

I’m so glad these have gotten like a universal positive response so far here and on twitter and elsewhere.

I’ll confess to having read the Political Cartoons thread on the SA forums in the D+D subforum now for like, at least 7 years running now, and they post both current and really really old (like late 1800s, early 1900s, up through the 80s and some 90s stuff now too) stuff so I’ve been exposed to enough crap to almost make these in my sleep. It’s an utterly fascinating look into the art form of shit smearing The Other Side. It’s got its own specific style, one that’s never changed since the late 1800s really (besides the fact the art was arguably a lot better then) so once you know how it works, it’s absurdly easy to parody. If you want to see some, the thread has a tumblr over at agoodcartoon

I can’t really draw, but my favorite ninjas have enough official art and absurdity of their own that labeling them as DEBT and whatnot is so easy it’s almost laughable, but that in and of itself tells me a lot about the medium, too. It’s scary how easy it is to label anything something you do like or don’t and have a bunch of people agree with you, regardless of talent.

Mostly I’m just glad we now live in a political era where everyone has their own pirated copy of photoshop so we can all get in on the action now. Though what I make up can never be as absurd as the truth.

What do you write your games in? Jc

For “An Escort Mission” I used RPG Maker 2003, which is on Steam, and while it’s a much older version of it (compared to XP and VX and such that most use now) I am also far far far more familiar with it, where to get/how to make resources for it, and have been using it and vanilla 2K since I was like, wow, 14 or 15? I turn 30 in October so it’s easily been half my life, and can code circles/custom code around it like nobody’s business. I don’t like XP and above because there’s optional Ruby coding, but nobody takes your stuff seriously unless you can do that, and unfortunately I have tried but I am no from scratch coder. Also it’s harder for me to make reasonably good resources in it as I’m also a not from scratch artist and rely heavily on editing pre-existing stuff and templates, which while good looking, don’t really exist for more “newer” or “modern” looking/running versions of it.

That's actually fuckin awesome

I’m pretty excited about this; it’s really hard not to be. It was a good day in general on top of that; we had to practice teaching as a full teacher and while everyone else got to pick what they wanted, I got assigned teaching a more difficult task that wasn’t from the bank of techniques they were allowed to chose to try to teach. It made me feel like people trusted my knowledge on this. And also, getting told you have an exceptionally good rising draw/cut (from right hip to left clavicle, or left hip to right shoulderblade usually, if drawing off the left hip like I do) makes one feel pretty special, too.

But on top of all this, it’s something I’ve wanted to do my whole life. Before I knew really anything else much about myself, or any of my other interests or aspects about my persona or identity, I knew I was a swordsman and wanted to grow up to be one. by age 4-5 I was already consuming mass books about fighting dragons, playing the earliest of JRPGs about it, getting into D+D (if even just to roll dice at dragons), and carrying plastic swords with me everywhere (you never know where a dragon was then, my princess saving days started early). I just knew it’s who I was, who I should be, and what I should always be is someone sen as strong and reliable and really good with a sword. I’m not sure why it clicked for me so hard and when I was so young, but it’s stayed with me since. I’ve been a swordsman longer than I’ve been anything else about me, really.

So what I’m tl;dring here basically is dreams do come true. You just have to be willing to seize opportunity and then work hard to not let it go.

I am so proud of you and so sorry I gave you that first loss