A bit late for Pride month, but this is my first ever blackwork finish! - pattern by Peppermint Purple by Emotional-Owl637
[ID: cross-stitched progress pride flag with each stripe done in a delicate pattern on a black background. End ID.]
From what I recall, the first time I saw ‘rainbow capitalism’ from a big brand was this image from Oreo in 2012.
It created a lot of controversy. Calls for boycotts and such. But Oreo didn’t take it down. They were unapologetic and didn’t try to appease the homophobes or backtrack.
And I know this sounds weird, but it was like a shift. Proof that public opinion or acceptance of queerness was widespread enough for a company to consider it profitable.
At Kohl’s we got a corporate email that said if we get complaints about our Pride merchandise to tell the customer a cheap ‘thanks for your suggestion’, which I really enjoy, because that’s the closest the company has ever come to telling customers to eat it.
You can tell it's a proper indie horror RPGMaker game because the menu confirmation sound is moist.
> the developer laughs > “It’s a good UI, sir”
Other essential features of the indie horror RPGMaker audio identity include, but are not limited to:
- downtempo solo piano
- sound effect that's like "shoof shoof shoof" used for multiple unrelated purposes
- fucked up circus music
- fade to black followed by macaroni noises, then when it fades back in everything is all gross
- tension-building soundtrack piece where the violins are playing backwards
- combat engine where the sound effects for the attacks consistently lag ever so slightly behind their animations
- late-game boss fight where the "music" is atmospheric drone and the menu noises get really loud
- that one specific royalty-free sound of a switch being flipped, you know the one
- public domain recording of 1920s pop music digitally pitch-shifted into a minor key
- recurring motif that's just an extremely bitcrushed clip of a dude going "weh"
That shit reading like a metal gear solid dialogue
I was gonna redraw this nicer but then I realized it’s fine as it is and I don’t care that much
I thought I'd try to give this another go! I still think the one from 2016 is nice, but it's been 7 years so I thought it might be time to try it again ;P
also a bonus gayer one:
