My own yell into the digital void

thank you

sequoyah was the man who created the tsalagi syllabary before it was ever a tree

if i try to look for apparel or crafts to show off my chickasaw pride, i get results for chickasaw plums which is just a specific species of plum before i get results about human beings

others have mentioned if they google their nations name they get boot companies before their nations website!

theres a tweet that still haunts me that was about a Quirky Quasi American Restaurant in europe or somewhere that was being funny by being cowboy themed and their steaks were named after native american nations. even outside the usa we are nothing but literal dead meat for others consumption

"blackhawk" "apache" - fuck theres a whole wikipedia page for the way weve had our names used for weapons used to colonize and kill us and others!

This was going to be fully drawn, but then it took me a whole day to do just the one panel, and that was already pushing my rule about joke posts, I.E. if it takes actual effort, you’re doing it wrong. So you get a mostly sprite based comic instead.

Never come up with dialogue when you’re tired. But also, only ever come up with puns while you’re tired, that way they actually sound funny.

I will be dead and buried in the ground the day I don’t ramble nonsensically in a post, so here is the backstory for this idea: That Kris and Susie would absolutely shoplift from Sans’ store, especially after chapter 4. Then I went with thinking up how it would be funny in the world of Deltarune. Sans wouldn’t care, he’d just want something to laugh about later, hence the pictures, I’ve seen the watermelon-pregnancy gag somewhere before so I stole it shamelessly. It’s a very small town where everyone knows each other so no one would buy an overnight pregnancy like that. Next thing I know I’m searching up cheesy pregnancy pictures. I considered adding another gag where Sans says he caught on because everyone knows humans reproduce via mitosis, but how many static shots of Sans’ store can one put up with for a few more text boxes? And then I threw in the last panel right when I thought I was already finished, an hour after I should already be asleep. On a related note, this is where I learned “Baba” can be used as a term for a non-binary parent, though there were a lot of different titles to choose from.

I actually had a third drawn picture(technically the first) that had Susie on her knees and kissing Kris’s “belly” but realized I had screwed up the proportions and made Susie way too small, or perhaps made Kris too tall. Didn’t feel like redrawing it so scrapped that one. Which is a shame, I thought the line art I had was one of the better ones at the point I stopped, and I felt it added more variety to the poses since the ones I finished came out looking pretty similar. I also limited myself to just using the color palettes from the games sprites for the drawings, which led to a bit of funky shading, because outside of their faces, Susie and Kris’ sprites don’t have any shading to them to pull color from. It did make coloring them in easy, though! Kris is becoming one of my new favorite characters to draw, they have basically no facial features!

(Don’t take me having Kris play the pregnant role as me saying anything regarding Kris’s sex[I believe the canon answer to Kris being asked “what’s in your pants” is “God, I wish it were Susie…”], them being in the role is just another part of the gag seeing as Susie is right there and could have played the role herself.)

Oh, also, just the drawing, no Toriel text box.

So, back in october I was at a monthly trans meetup just chatting with the other women there. We were talking about how all the best games are made by transfems, and I made the joke that someone from team cherry needs to transition. One of the other women cackled at my joke. At the time I didn't think anything of it.

Fast forward one month. The person who cackled at my joke brought a friend with her this time. I was chatting with this new girl for a while, getting to know her, as you do.

After like an hour of chatting, the conversation turns to silksong and team cherry. I casually say "My impression of team cherry is that they're all really chill dudes," and I swear to fucking god the girl next to me says, "Yeah, we are."

Cue me being absolutely dumbfounded. I actually couldn't believe that my offhand joke from a month ago was real.

Turns out the trick to politics isn't to merely do the job, but also make sure you take credit for it.