Art Nouveau

Here is a fundraiser personally verified by me; help Ahmed's family survive and get his parents medical treatment for their chronic health conditions!

(Ignore the end of the video where I tell people to leave a long comment. That's for algorithmic platforms)

A message from Ahmed himself:

"I am Ahmed, I live in the Gaza Strip. My family and I have been suffering for years because of the Israeli siege imposed on the Gaza Strip, and now we are suffering greatly because of the war. We lost our home, which we built with great difficulty, and now live in a tent in a remote area. We lost our job, and for about 5 months we have been without a source of income. Despite all this, we are exposed daily to aircraft bombardment and tank fire, and nothing protects us. Life here is very dangerous and tiring. Our city has become completely destroyed, without homes, without roads, and without services such as electricity, water, and communications. The only way to save my life and protect my family is to travel to Egypt, but that requires a lot of money, costing about $7,000 per person. Every donation can help us survive."

You Can Now Play the First LGBTQ Computer Game, For the First Time

‘Caper in the Castro’ was thought to be long lost.

Caper in the Castro is a legendary video game, not because legions of die-hard fans continue to play it, but because it was thought to be lost forever. Now, what is largely considered to be the first LGBTQ-focused video game (it was released in 1989) is on the Internet Archive for anybody to play.

The game is a noir point-and-click that puts the player in the (gum)shoes of a private detective named Tracker McDyke who is, in case you couldn’t guess by the name, a lesbian. McDyke must unravel the mystery behind the disappearance of Tessy LaFemme, a transgender woman, in San Francisco’s Castro district, an historically gay neighbourhood.

OOOOOHhh!

The game was released as charityware – freely, with a strong request to give a donation an AIDS Charity of their choice. I’d like to push towards still following that and donating, if you’re able.

(And you might also want to donate to the Internet Archive, who is hosting it now, while you’re at it – they’re in the middle of a donation drive, and could use your support.)

Skilltober #19 - Hand/Eye-Coordination

more Dungeon Meshi in Wind Waker style! (first part)

I like the idea that Link could stumble on Laios's party in dungeons, maybe after the miniboss, and they offer you a meal that replenishes your health, sort of like Yeto from TP! You could take some with you in a bottle like grandma's soup. There could be a funny interaction if you show Marcille a joy pendant, and she thinks it's really pretty until Laios and Senshi tell her it's actually a treasure bug.

back to funger brainrot - o'saa edition

stressed dog type side-eye

a screenshot redraw of messmer i started months ago, hello elden ring fandom, i am finally posting this.

Happy birthday majoras mask :3c , old ass game

Stills here ^_^

I think a lot about how we as a culture have turned “forever” into the only acceptable definition of success.

Like… if you open a coffee shop and run it for a while and it makes you happy but then stuff gets too expensive and stressful and you want to do something else so you close it, it’s a “failed” business. If you write a book or two, then decide that you don’t actually want to keep doing that, you’re a “failed” writer. If you marry someone, and that marriage is good for a while, and then stops working and you get divorced, it’s a “failed” marriage.

The only acceptable “win condition” is “you keep doing that thing forever”. A friendship that lasts for a few years but then its time is done and you move on is considered less valuable or not a “real” friendship. A hobby that you do for a while and then are done with is a “phase” - or, alternatively, a “pity” that you don’t do that thing any more. A fandom is “dying” because people have had a lot of fun with it but are now moving on to other things.

I just think that something can be good, and also end, and that thing was still good. And it’s okay to be sad that it ended, too. But the idea that anything that ends is automatically less than this hypothetical eternal state of success… I don’t think that’s doing us any good at all.

Speed paint of my Falin design <3