a day late to my 6 years on t anniversary ✨🏳️⚧️ a short comic about looking back
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SOME OF THE BEST WOMEN YOU'LL MEET WILL HAVE COCKS.
DOES THIS SCARE YOU?
SOME OF THE BEST MEN YOU'LL MEET WILL HAVE CUNTS.
DOES THIS SCARE YOU?
SAME GENDER MARRIAGE PLANE FLIES IN TOTK
SKILL ISSUE
my little brother got a girlfriend recently and the two of them have been making their discord icons matching anime couples, so my other brother, his twin, keeps changing his icon to a third wheel character to annoy them
this is an old post but i have an update: the second brother started voice calling and playing games with a girl he likes, and every time the first brother walks into their room while hes talking to her he makes sure to hype him up, but in absurdly hyperbolized ways like “broo i just saw you on the news congrats on saving the bus full of orphans from crashing into the baby panda hospital. also zendaya called and asked if you wanted to go out with her and billie eilish but obviously you wont because youre so loyal. and joe biden came by personally and said he wanted to give you an award for most handsome man alive but i told him to just put it with the others”
“Red is the first color of the rainbow” - Pro-LGBT propaganda poster from Filipino communists (c. 2019)
thinking sooo intently about this Gerard Donelan comic on this beautiful wednesday afternoon
wanna hear about something that would make me cry? 17776 set in the DE universe. can you imagine Nine, Ten, and Juice watching Harry and Kim like they watch Manny and Nick. I just. I'm. oh, god
hehehe
hehehhehehehehehhee
What are you laughing at?
have you seen these lil guys
...You're going to have to be more specific. Which ones?
the martinese guys. the cop-guys
I don't know who you're talking about, I haven't had eyes on Martinese.
Yeah, what is there to see in Martinese?
uhhhhh only the BESTEST stuff. lady on a boat. old church. weird semenese supremacist.
Ew.
Is that one of the 'lil guys'?
no! no way. here here look ill show you. lemme zoom in.
allllllright here we are. oh martinese you dull gray town how i adore you
Huh. It is pretty... gray. Very foggy. Um... it has a nice-looking bookstore, I guess.
Juice, since when were you a big fan of Martinese?
since TEQUILA SUNSET rolled in, baby
And that's one of the lil guys?
YES
Getting you to make sense is like pulling teeth. Alright, where's this Tequila Sunset?
see that guy joggin across the water lock
Oh, yeah. He's bookin' it. Is that guy... chasing him?
LOLOLOLOL NOOO hes tryin to fuckin keep up with the shuffle
thats good ol lieutenant kim kitsuragi
RCM sent him to be harrys impromptu partner and i think hes in hell a little bit
Harry? I thought his name was Tequila Sunset.
and Raphael Ambrosius Cousteau. hes got a lotta names
Okay, sure.
Why are you so obsessed with these two?
these two are the ultimate buddy cop dream team. one of em is the best in his precinct, total icon in the force. the other one partied so fucking hard i think his memories are gone
I don't think it'll take me many guesses to figure out which is which. Detective Sunset is changing from his parka into a... silk robe. It's freezing out, why on Earth is he doing that?
thats my fucking MAN right there
Kim's not saying a word about it. Wow.
ohhhh yeah kimothy's a real peach
also didnt say a word when he realized harry-boy crashed his car into the ice
Whoa!
nanos got him out, hes fine but man. rest in peace
pour one out for that bitchin' RCM whip
Cops, huh? A wonder there's still even crime left to commit.
idk man. criminals gonna criminal. something to do with the strike going on, i bet
A strike?
yeah theres some shit going on between the union boys and the scabs yknow. martinese is a busy place.
'what is there to see in martinese' uhhh EVERYTHING??
I'm interested. I want to know what they're doing down there.
Well, let's ask, then.
Really?
Sure. We can call them. Look, they're near a public phone. I'll dial them.
YEEESSSSS do it do it do it
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PERCEPTION [SOUND]- The telephone a few meters away starts ringing, as if activated by your presence.
INLAND EMPIRE- Bizarre. Unlikely. This is not a coincidence.
YOU- "Kim-- that phone's ringing."
KIM KITSURAGI- He tugs his jacket closed against the brisk wind. "Well, I suppose you should pick it up, detective."
- Pick it up.
- Nah, I'm good.
YOU- You pick up the telephone. "Hello?"
???- Hello, is this Officer Harry- Juice, what's his last name?
???- doo bwah
???- -Du Bois?
HALF-LIGHT [GODLY:FAILURE]- Who the fuck is this? Why are they calling you? Are you being watched? You're being watched.
SHIVERS- A machine made in this country is lightyears away. We loved him. He is with the stars, now.
YOU- "...Yes, it is?"
???- Great! I'm Pioneer Ten. I don't believe we've spoken before.
ENCYCLOPEDIA [CHALLENGING:SUCCESS]- Pioneer Ten is a Vespertine space probe launched in the year '82. It is the first space probe to complete a mission to the planet Jupiter.
DRAMA [CHALLENGING:FAILURE]- They're claiming to be a... space probe? Not on one, but she is one? Sire this is impossible. Madness!
???- Hi, Officer. I'm Pioneer Nine.
ENCYCLOPEDIA {CHALLENGING: SUCCESS]- Pioneer Nine is a Vespertine space probe launchd in the year '68. It is a solar-orbiting, spin-stabilized, solar cell- and battery-powered satellite designed to obtain measurements on a continuing basis of interplanetary phenomena from widely separated points in space.
DRAMA [CHALLENGING:FAILURE]- Not one, but two?
???- yeah im juice and MAN im so jazzed to talk to you. youre a fucking legend you know that
AUTHORITY- Whoever this "Juice" is, he recognizes your legend status. He has respect for you. Juice can stay.
YOU- "Wait, wait... Pioneer Nine and Ten? Like, the space probes?"
KIM KITSURAGI- The lieutenant's eyebrows raise fractionally.
Juice- oh right lmao the memory loss. just let kimbo in on the convo he can help fill you in.
YOU- You furrow your brow, then turn to the lieutenant. You gesture for him to put his ear up to the phone as well.
KIM KITSURAGI- "What?" He whispers. "Is it... for me?"
YOU- "I guess it's for both of us?"
KIM KITSURAGI- Hesitantly, he puts his ear up to the receiver. "...Hello?"
TEN- Hello, Lieutenant. This is Pioneer Ten; with Nine and Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer on the line as well.
JUICE- sup
KIM KITSURAGI- His eyes widen and his lips part as if to speak. After clearing his throat, he does. "Ah, I see. Well... nice to meet you."
NINE- You, too!
EMPATHY [GODLY:SUCCESS]- He is starstruck.
YOU- You whisper. "Kim, am I supposed to know who these guys are?"
JUICE- LMAOOOOO not after your crazy bender you arent hahaha
KIM KITSURAGI- "...The space probes are relatively common knowledge, Detective." He says, not unkindly. "I suppose it can be a little... disquieting, to re-learn the fact that yes, they are sentient satellites."
JUICE- dont sweat explaining too much of it kimmers. harry all you need to know is that were a couple of tin cans way out in space and we think youre pretty neat
INLAND EMPIRE- From another galaxy, another star system, a satellite says that he loves you...
YOU- "Well... thank you. You seem pretty neat too."
YOU- "So, like, you're... space probes. That can talk."
JUICE- yeah basically
TEN- He's the one that does a good amount of the talking.
NINE- Mostly we watch football.
ENCYCLOPEDIA [EASY:SUCCESS]- Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel a ball around a rectangular field called a pitch.
YOU- "You guys just watch people kick around a ball all day?"
TEN- No, they mean Vespertine football.
ENCYCLOPEDIA [EASY:SUCCESS]- A game played between two teams on a usually rectangular field having goalposts or goals at each end and whose object is to get the ball over a goal line, into a goal, or between goalposts by running, passing, or kicking. Over a period of millennia, these rules of football have been modified between specific games in order to create a more complex and near-esoteric shadow of what the game once was.
YOU- "Millennia... have I really been alive that long? I know Joyce filled me in on how people stopped dying and all that, but... I just can't believe it."
JUICE- well i know its a lot to take in buddy. especially considering your uhhh
JUICE- condition.
TEN- Juice, be nice.
YOU- "My condition? Wait... you know I lost my memory?"
JUICE- yeah man lol it was pretty easy to tell even all the way over here
JUICE- you were straight up stumblers 2 still stumbling up in this bitch
JUICE- i thought it was one of your weird bits you were doing but no man you were a hundred percent for real so i knew i HAD to keep watching. like morbid curiosity. kim knows what i mean
KIM KITSURAGI- He seems surprised to be called out. "Khm, well, I can't deny that this particular experience is unlike anything I've seen in my career."
YOU- "Even after- what, 15,000 years of it?"
KIM KITSURAGI- He shrugs. "Give or take a few centuries."
DRAMA- Hear that? You're ssssspecial.
YOU- "You probably already saw this, but Joyce is done giving us a reality lowdown for today. Do you think you could fill me in on some stuff?"
NINE- Sure, we can try. Like what?
CONCEPTUALIZATION- Oh, where to even begin....
YOU- 1. "How did the world get like this?" 2. "Is there anything we can do to figure out why people stopped dying and being born?" 3. "Why am I still a cop, even after all this time?" 4. "Was I always like this? Or could have I been a normal, functioning person, millennia ago?" 5. "Why did I try to kill myself, even if I knew I couldn't die?" 6. "Is there other life out there?" 7. "Are there any answers? Any, at all?"
LOGIC- One of the biggest questions.
INLAND EMPIRE- Surely, there has to be an explanation out there. Surely. It can't just be us... can it?
JUICE- oof hard one right off the bat
TEN- Ah, ah. I'll handle this one, Juice.
JUICE- suit yourself
YOU- You lean into the receiver. Kim does, as well.
EMPATHY- You don't know if space probes have feelings, but for a moment, you can hear a melancholic lilt in her synthetic voice.
TEN- Humans are naturally curious creatures. That's the whole reason we exist in the first place- you wanted to learn more about what existed above you, so you built us and shot us into the sky.
TEN- You guys spent so much time looking for answers. Thousands of years of relentless searching, in space and on Earth. And the conclusion that the world came to, collectively, was that there really were none.
TEN- You wanted to learn what the Pale was. You couldn't. You wanted to learn if there was life out there. There isn't. You tried to find out why everyone stopped aging. It was impossible.
TEN- You're in a kind of... stasis, I think is the right word. You've developed the technology to compliment your eternal stillness. The nanobots that keep you from being injured, that hold back the Pale. By both forces unknown and your own creation, you are, effectively, encased in amber.
SHIVERS- A breeze blows through the city, picking up leaves and litter. The buildings, the streets, the snowy pavement stays still. Only the air moves.
TEN- This is the world you're in, Officer. I'm sorry that you're learning this, all over again.
HALF-LIGHT- You're alone. There's no one. Except the slow death drum that never grows louder. That will never arrive.
YOU- "So we're all alone?"
TEN- No, you're not alone. You've got a few billion others still kicking on that world of yours.
JUICE- and us
NINE- I can kind of relate to you, Harry.
YOU- 1. "Sorry, I don't think you can." 2. "No, way. You're a space probe. I'm just some washed up old cop." 3. "No, way. You're just a tin can. I'm a superstar of the law!" 4. "Can you?"
NINE- I woke up a long time ago, with no clue who I was, no clue about anything in our reality.
INLAND EMPIRE- Our reality. You share a reality with this being, this creature, this person.
NINE- And it was really scary. To learn everything is... the way it is. I didn't believe it, at first- it was grotesque. And sad. That people didn't seem to want more than the lives they had lived for thousands of years.
NINE- But then I learned what you have is enough.
VOLITION- It has to be. What else is there, if not this?
NINE- If it's any consolation, I think you're all doing pretty well with what you've got. Hell, it took me awhile to learn the ropes of being a sentient being. You picked it up in no time.
NINE- You're doing great.
cowboys be like "nah that feller is just a companion to keep the trail a bit less lonely & a lot less dangerous" & then ride funny in the saddle the next 2 days
Anonymous asked:
has there ever been anything from daisuke on why bridget was amab/an otokonoko to begin with? i feel like i remember reading that he thought it would be a fun trope (interesting, since bridget basically spawned the crossdressing boy trope) but i don’t know if anything else has been said on why he chose that trope.
(btw, this isn’t me disrespecting bridget’s transness! i fully see her as a girl, i’m just curious about this specific issue.)
Funnily enough, the Artworks of GGX 2004 interview I recently found talks about this. Translation by fairymisao:
(27)---The character Bridget, introduced in Guilty Gear XX, looks like a girl but is actually a boy, right? What was your intention in deciding on creating this kind of character? Ishiwatari: The creation of Bridget as a boy happened at the very last second; during development I was drawing him as purely a girl. It's just that when there is a need to give a worldly backbone (to the game), in order for me to try to not forget each character, and in order to revive the character, I give them my very heart. As a result, the creation of Bridget as actually a boy instead of a girl was because I thought he could become my alter ego. Well, if there was a need for the reverse—a girl that looks like a boy—that would be okay too, but it doesn't look pretty game-wise. It's also somewhat calculated (laughs).
I don't have the original text for that second to last line so I don't know what Daisuke actually said/was trying to say about a female character that looks like a male character. It sounds like he swapped Bridget's assigned gender right at the end because he wanted to project his personality through her though haha Daisuke's personal relationship with gender fascinates me. I hope some day he does an interview where he talks about it more in depth. There's also that one comment he made about Testament's gender:
Back then [1998-2002], Guilty Gear creator Daisuke Ishiwatari told fans in a newsletter interview [from 2002] that Testament wasn't really male or female. "They're androgynous," he said. "In fact, they've transcended human existence. Just like me." - via The Gamer
What did he mean... The Gamer sourced the original interview and the word Daisuke used for "androgynous" there was actually 両性具有 (ryouseiguyuu; androgynous), not 無性 (musei; agender), which is the word used to describe Testament's gender in Japanese now.
IIRC there's a comment he said about Bridget's design starting because he wanted to make a cute character to balance out all the gruff battle veterans that made up a hefty chunk of the cast at the time but I cannot for the life of me remember where I read that at. It must've been in one of the interviews; I couldn't find it in documents I translated/edited.
I said before that a lot of the older comments from Daisuke about Bridget and Testament's identities felt like he was trying his best to describe "new" genders that he may have been a little familiar with through media he liked but that he just didn't know the right terminology yet. He always seems very genuine and sincere about wanting to explore gender even though some of it hasn't aged the best in hindsight...
these are a year old but whatever disco elysium women<3
Certain words can change your brain forever and ever so you do have to be very careful about it.
Me, deleting commented-out code with my whip and fedora: This belongs in a git history!
"Why don't people recognize Link in TOTK" bc everyone imagines the legendary swordsman to be built like Ganondorf and Link doesn't bother correcting anyone bc being hailed as a hero is like on the bottom of his priorities, which are topped by things like "Bake one of every pie"
Rando farmer: They say that once the noble hero of legend passed by this very village! Isn't that wonderful to imagine, genderfluid stranger?
Link, 5'6" with 2" heels and wearing a backless dress suspiciously stained with blood: no yeah that's wild
"Wouldn't they recognize him bc he's with Zelda" Everyone interacting with Zelda was like "Wow, the princess!! The princess who saved Hyrule is here, talking to us! Plus some guy with three sets of pronouns who's building a bomb but more importantly The Princess!! Wow!!"
Zelda keeps coming across spare genders she doesn't need and Link follows behind scooping them all up off the ground like a starving trash possum
Someone uses an unfamiliar pronoun around Zelda, and she hears the item pickup sound come from Link
