Good morning/evening/night, I’m here to bring some updates!
Thank you to all who donated so far, we’re at $660! We went to our court date and now have a hard deadline: April 18th
I have a job now, and so have been able to provide some help, after getting the required stuff i.e. scrubs, working phone, work shoes, etc., but that’s not going to be enough to make up the difference, especially since
We got Covid!
Which means that Mom’s gonna be missing four days from the paycheck after next, and I’m gonna be missing two and a half from the last time I get paid before the cutoff. No PTO sucks.
With nine days left to go, please donate if you can, and share/reblog if you can’t, we can’t afford to move to anywhere else in this city, and have no safety net. Getting this spread is going to be what’s gonna keep us from the streets! For legal reasons, we are only going to be able to accept donations to the GoFundMe, or you can message me for my Paypal if you’re more comfortable with that.
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Thank you all so much for the help and support we’ve already gotten, Y'all are good people.
usamerican liberals are incapable of looking at someone involved in politics without thinking about how cool it would be if they were in charge of the US military
Not a joke btw. Please go outside and pay attention to all the little creatures around you, even in your backjard, the bugs scurring for nectar and the little birds chirping and flying around, try to id them too, read something about them, learn some facts. Sit and watch them, they can mean the world to you.
My boyfriend found a lizard hitchhiking in his car the other day and sent me a picture of it and I was so completely overwhelmed with emotion I had to put my phone somewhere else and lay down
i've been reading through your mortasheen monster backlog and one thing i like is how a lot of the monsters can both look incredibly cute and incredibly monstrous under certain circumstances, like gobblegeist and braek. On a different note, what inspired you to make the boomen?
The Boo Men are actually a pre-Mortasheen concept I had in my teens and they were first inspired by the Gun-Ho Guns from Trigun, which I was only familiar with at the time for its anime dub!
It was the first time I saw a series suddenly introduce an elite team of weird villains with all different gimmicks as a story arc and I just thought it was so fun I started coming up with my own, which included a squad of “mercenary bogeymen,” horror monsters for hire, who I name after the prologue of “Scary Stories 3: More Tales to Chill Your Bones”
The “Boo Men” I originally came up with were each themed around a different way to die, basically, so they were like horror movie villain bounty hunters and ranged from simple ones like a slasher ghoul who’s very very good with weapons to a sentient tombstone creature that already has your epitaph on it, and bends probability to try and push you towards that death.
When I worked them into Mortasheen they changed a whole lot, especially because the setting is already full of odd monsters with odd powers, so I imagined them more like monsters who tried to “become human,” which is why they’re all strictly humanoid. They are all still named after their main offensive power however and they’re still like mercenary bounty hunters.
The first one I designed, Stingg, is also based loosely on a dream I had in which the Pokemon Scrafty got a new evolution that was more like an insect punk girl. The design in the dream was literally just Scrafty with thin claw-like spikes for its mohawk but I elaborated on it a little.
I do have some concern that “boo men” sounds too goofy to people who don’t know it’s an actual archaic way of saying boogieman. Boogieman is a silly word, but everyone’s used to it and knows what it means.
More than half the Boo Men in Mortasheen are ladies but it’s officially a gender neutral designation.
Three of the existing ones are slated for the TTRPG’s first book, plus a fourth brand new one by another artist!
The only reason I don’t answer more asks I get about Mortasheen is that every single one has an explanation at least this long
there's a catch-22 when you read any kind of theory or whatever.
you'll come across something extremely well-worded and useful which, if widely understood, would cut through a ton of ineffective communication in an online space (such as, but not exclusively, tumblr). it would probably make it easier for a huge number of people to articulate radical ideas simply and motivate people towards tactical power-building activity.
if you took that passage and decontextualized it from the book as a quote and shared it in that online space, it would gain much more visibility, but it also almost ensures that many people in your audience would react to that useful thought as nothing more than an abstracted playing card you are using to attempt to "win" whatever discourse that audience is currently engaged in. it wouldn't be approached as a useful analysis larger than the current argument of the week, it would be viewed as a "hot take" to quickly retort.
if you don't share that passage and simply recommend the text with the hopes people will encounter the passage contextualized, most people who could read it will not read it (certainly not soon, and for many they never will), and many more will not be able to read it (for a variety of reasons from I/DD to language barriers to access barriers to simple lack of time and energy).
so you basically just stare at the passage for 10 full minutes running through the two scenarios over and over and
I'm guessing this might be a country/regional thing, as here in my part of the UK I've only ever heard wiv-ern (but it's more wiv-vern, I guess? Wiv being kinda like with?), but in FE3H which is US voice actors they all say why-vern
So if you answer and reblog, say which one and where you're from? Pretty please?
the fantasy genre is fun because most of the audience has read tolkien and seen stuff based on tolkien and has pretty much zero other genre awareness. "there should be more badass femme wizards" you are talking about granny weatherwax from the bestselling series discworld available in a dozen languages. "the hero's journey is boring and we need to see the real consquences of lives lived like that" you are talking about uklg's tehanu, which was written before you were born and has sold millions of copies
"more *clap* brown *clap* magic *clap* users *clap*" sparrowhawk. that's not even a deep pull. that is sparrowhawk. there's an anime about him and everything
"i want a hero who's weak as hell and trans-coded and can't stop sucking dick and i'm not kidding" elric of melnibone. i could go on all day. how many of these complaints are just "i want a reactionary major network to option something they find radically ideologically disagreeable and throw it in a rock tumbler until not even the skeleton remains"? apparently like 90% of them!
It’s always important to ask kids “what do you mean?” before potentially getting offended. Like the time a kid told me, dramatically, that he was homophobic. When asked what he meant, he told me he couldn’t breathe in crowded places.
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