@daemonologie now that is some quality secret santa-ing right there. (i may just like bjork overly much and be very biased)
Death Star matte painting by Ralph McQuarrie https://gameraboy1.tumblr.com/post/181274476477/death-star-matte-painting-by-ralph-mcquarrie
the other essay i'd be writing if i was still living that english major life:
pixellation and intentional lo-fi graphics in video games functioning in horror as an 'offscreen' or 'seeing it happen in silhouette' - not showing details = actually scarier as the audience gets to fill in the blanks
ref. the secret room challenge mode cutscenes in #fnaf sister location, lone survivor/obra dinn?, heavily compare to silence of the lambs (where worst horror is offscreen, more impactful for it)
anyway if anyone needs an essay topic
lofi music : high-fidelity music quality in other genres :: pixel art : high-quality 3d rendering standard in many other games
intentional invocation of nostalgia, easier for 'little guy' artists to lean into in terms of work they can do with free/amateur tools, and has grown into a specific genre in its own right with almost exclusively "indie" cred
@colon_three ohhh okay that makes sense
it's really lovely to know that you feel like you've 'nailed it' tho giving an accurate reflection of yourself, i can see exactly why those compliments are things you must cherish immensely! 💖
@colon_three this is going to mark me as someone who is so fucking old, and while that sounds like an amazing compliment and i'm not tryin to harsh that groove:
....i thought fursonas were supposed to be furry personas that are idealized versions of yourself? did... did that change in the like decade and a half i haven't been keyed into the furry comm or
anyhoodle i think my #christmas spirit is finally kicking in but uh... (looks at calendar) if we could insert, like, another week, it'd be really nice, as it is this particular mood souffle is not going to have enough time to rise before we gotta yank it out of the oven
kink safety
it's not a moral issue for a lot of this stuff - i mean there are kinks where definitely, you can get into a moral quagmire, but i'm saying there's things where we just have to get off that train of thought at an earlier stop. it's sad and frustrating, but kink MUST be safe. IT MUST BE. it's okay for a kink to live only in fiction and in the mind's eye with the knowledge it's just too dangerous to do in real life.
kink safety
seriously tho, from your local health and safety domme, there are some kinks that just have to live in fantasy y'all. breathplay/choking may be very appealing, but it can go wrong so quickly, with brain cell death, stroke risk, etc. it's just got to be something you take off the table, the same way "cane/paddle strikes go on the butt, away from this area, always, because a kidney punch is not good play."
reddit, kink (not as exciting as you think this is going to be)
the doomsday clock of me getting banned from r/justnoMIL moves ten minutes closer to midnight today as i drop by to give an off-topic worried reminder that while it's none of your MIL's fuckin business.....your local health and safety domme would like to remind everyone that breathplay/choking is basically impossible to do 100% safely, and very easy to get wrong in ways that cause permanent damage, so PLEASE DON'T, LEAVE IN FANTASIES
30 y/o - token cishet - tumblr refugee. spoonie/15 chronic conditions in a trenchcoat/actual cyborg. just hangin' in there 