I made this animation from April to August. It was very hard to work on this, but interesting. Hope you enjoy it <3
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I used:
TVPaint (for animation, 24fps)
FireAlpaca (for backgrounds)
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the whole 'nobody would miss me if i were gone' line of reasoning is so completely and mindblowingly false, it's almost laughable if you take a couple steps back. there's a lady at work who has been there for maybe two or three weeks and has only talked to me a handful of times, ask where the necklace i usually wear went. another person asked where i was cause i wasn't scheduled for about a week. i regularly think of friends who have deactivated their accounts or who i've lost contact with and what id tell them. i still think about people i haven't talked to for years even though i didn't know them well. people still think about you even if you're a passing specter on the street. and that's not even holding a candle to how much the people who are personally involved in your life care. people do notice and care. all the time. it might be hard to see it or remember it but people do care. ily.
Have you heard the word?
WHAT’s the word?
He’s a comin’
WHO’s a comin’?
Paul’s a comin’!
PAUL’s a comin’?!
The STAR of the SHOW!
closing night of my favorite musical. From seeing live in 2018, to working backstage as Props master and run crew on the Reprise, I have so much love for this show. Hope our journey together isn’t through, but it’s time to say goodbye for now.
And yes, I WILL be crying through the matinee and closing show
Dropped a little animation preview on YouTube, alongside some news-about-news. A big change.
We'll fill in the details this fall!
(Some of the clips might look familiar if you've been following the Patreon, where we drop updates and behind the scenes stuff more frequently.)
Look at the amazing work the team has been doing!
i think the near-extinction of people making fun, deep and/or unique interactive text-based browser games, projects and stories is catastrophic to the internet. i'm talking pre-itch.io era, nothing against it.
there are a lot of fun ones listed here and here but for the most part, they were made years ago and are now a dying breed. i get why. there's no money in it. factoring in the cost of web hosting and servers, it probably costs money. it's just sad that it's a dying art form.
anyway, here's some of my favorite browser-based interactive projects and games, if you're into that kind of thing. 90% of them are on the lists that i linked above.
if you're ever thinking about making a niche project that only a select number of individuals will be nerdy enough to enjoy, keep in mind i've been playing some of these games off and on for 20~ years (Alter Ego, for example). quite literally a lifetime of replayability.
since this post blew up, i've been wanting to do an addition with all of the recommendations from the comments and tags. but there's a lot of them. some people might be crazy enough to sit down and seriously put them all in one post with descriptions. those people are honestly sick in the head.
anyway, here's all of the recommendations from the reblogs. not all of them are text-based, but it's a great mixture of styles. also don't forget the links in the second paragraph of the OP which will take you to FMHY where there are a bunch more games listed.
thank you to everyone who contributed and the creators. please be sure to show them some love where possible.
Reblogging the update too
Usually south park's relevancy feels very fake and surface level to me, but it's really something how trump and his base are actually, visibly much more enraged by this than they've been about any other criticism, any other show, any other enemy I've seen in the entire near-decade of his political career. Fucking South Park got to them more than the combined effort of a million other comedians, journalists, parodies, academic criticisms or protest efforts. Like it's BAD. Like they want the creators in prison and want to consider this a hate crime.
What they actually do in this episode that has magas losing their shit, besides Trump dating Satan:
-The same voice and even distinct music they used for Saddam Hussein 26 years ago is used for Trump, with Satan complaining that Trump is exactly like his ex.
-Trump is depicted threatening to sue an artist for not painting him with a bigger penis than he actually has.
-The media is depicted as spinelessly holding back their true feelings about Trump to avoid getting sued.
-A B-plot has Cartman wanting to kill himself because he no longer feels "special" in an America that has become more hateful than he is.
-Jesus Christ is depicted as having also been silenced by a Trump lawsuit and lives in fear of saying anything bad about Trump out loud.
-Epstein is brought up of course.
-The episode ends airing a convincing AI deepfake of Trump stripping naked as he wanders through a desert, then his tiny floppy penis sprouts cartoon eyes and says "I'm Donald Trump and I approved this message." This is the part magas believe should count as an actual felony crime, and funny enough also comes right after Trump gave a rambling speech endorsing AI and an executive order to protect it from liability. It's only been a day or two, and is now the first time in history that the white house is officially arguing with a tv show.
I'd like to add, for anyone who does not know, South Park makes its episodes entirely inside the 7 days preceding the episode airing.
Which means, unlike animated shows whose episodes are months or years in the making, South Park can play ball in real time.
The White House rising to the bait is incredibly stupid specifically because South Park can literally answer them next week.
The filter relies on manually curated open-source blocklists, including the ‘nuclear’ list, provided by uBlockOrigin and uBlacklist Huge AI Blocklist,” DuckDuckGo said in a post on X. “While it won’t catch 100% of AI-generated results, it will greatly reduce the number of AI-generated images you see.
Left: AI filter is off Right: AI filter is on
Another tip for DDG - if you want to permanently get rid of DDG's AI features (which you can turn off in settings, but only temporarily) - for now you can just use noai.duckduckgo.com as your search engine. Works as advertised in the name.
An older woman wearing a mask came up to me at work today and pointed at my face/chin, then she pulled her mask down to show me she had chin/facial hair and said that she liked that I had it too. We talked for a little bit about it and I told her I don't like shaving it, because it's mine and it's part of me and who I am, and she got SO excited and said she felt very much the same way. I told her I even darken mine with makeup sometimes and she went "really!?" And when our conversation ended I watched her go up excitedly to the person she had come in with, I assume to talk about our conversation.
I love being trans and gender non-conforming because I love making people and especially non-trans people who don't fit the rigid binary feel better about the way their bodies are naturally. I doubt she clocked that I was a trans man, but honestly, I don't care what someone else reads me as if the way I present myself makes them feel more confident in themselves.
When we talk about breaking down gender roles this is what we mean. It's not just for queer or trans people, it's for everyone. It's so everyone can feel comfortable with the way their body naturally is, or with the way they personally present themselves. We go back and forth with who has it worse when we should be focused on setting a whole different standard completely; one where these rigid gender expression boxes are gone completely.
This woman made my day, and I hope I made hers too. If you're ever worried for a second about how you present yourself, or features you're self conscious about, think about what it would mean to see someone confidently showing off that same feature, and how everyone can better themselves when we stop being so focused on what's correct and more focused on just being comfortable with our own bodies. Learn to love yourself, love every part of yourself, and others will see that and do the same.
“Every time I show the film – whether it’s to film students at USC or UCLA or I’m going to a festival – that’s always the first question: How did Kermit ride the bicycle? And my stock answer is: I put him on a three-wheeler until he got his balance, and then I put him on the two-wheeler.”
— James Frawley, director of The Muppet Movie
Lemons! Limes! Oranges! You can do this with pretty much all citrus! Candied Lemon Peel 2 cups water 2 cups white sugar The peels of 3 lemons
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