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so so lovely. thank you so much!!

Thank you ! I appreciate! I've seen a lot of people using it but wasn't sure if it was worth changing! I understand a lot more now ^^

Yeah honestly so much could've been handled with her better/more gracefully if she just hadn't been bubbled. In Future she still seems uncomfortable and her beliefs seem to never be proven wrong outside of the Diamonds changing their mind because Steven is literally Pink. If Steven and Rose weren't literally Diamonds, they likely would've only been stopped via shattering.

She is forced to be static while seeing change happen around her (which also happens to Jasper lmao). It's so weird considering Lapis and Peridot are added to the cast lineup yet Bismuth is just not.

I grew more fond of Bismuth's design post show's ending because she is beautiful giant lesbian. I disliked a lot of the sensibilities of SU's designs for black women but... lesbianism. She is the most butch design in the show and it sucks even more that she was gone because her presence made everyone feel so Lesbian.. Like it felt like Lesbian family culture then she was sent to Bubble Hell.

I admire your efforts. I'm curious. Why are you moving to Obsidian ^^

Yeah!! I raelly wanted to mention Ryu because even outside of Ciconia, so much of his characterization works well because of love- even the aspects of his work I dislike are overshadowed by the love he has for what he's writing.

And honestly yeah! The thing is that stuff was everywhere. I blamed Tumblr but a lot of it was proliferated elsewhere too (Buzzfeed was mainstream so). Tumblr discourse just affected the rest of the internet because of its dominance at the time. With Hispanic people, I don't even know if I Can wrap my head around the representation I've seen because even in black dominated media, you all are so prominent but.. How you are depicted varies so much!!

Thank you for reading!

Thank you!

I see! This is unfortunate. I've seen project pages be transferred to other pages but it probably wouldn't fix it. Things I've seen from Charlene haven't been super helpful but the fact that she helps outside of what I've seen is nice ^^

Yes, it's fair to not be helpful. They don't respond to things a lot of the time T_T I am wishing you luck. 

Leafo is the itchio admin!  He is on Reddit and the Itch forums and indexed my game the same day after months of no response. The discord mods are notoriously unhelpful and Wrong

Your game is obviously deindexed but the mods are not in sync with each other so have no idea what is what. They give different answers to every question and deindex inconsistently.

I’d post on the itch forums too with the discord responses. No time to play can also shed light on if it was a bug or purposefully deindexed

I had a similar issue and finally got a support response via posting on the Itchio subreddit with my ticket number and the amount of time I'd be waiting, where Itch Admin saw it. 

On the bright side, while your profile doesn't appear when I search for you, your specific game titles do. This is not ideal, but at least the games are still visible ^^

i've made several of them now!!! this is so awesome. sniffles. i am not armor nerd but i am cursed woman nerd  (you should play sims medieval by the way) I want to return.. so many combos to make. fantastic use of layers!!! the artwork is also soo beautiful sniffles

yeah the spanish surprised me!! too bad it's bad haha! especially considering... it would not be that hard to not make not bad LOL.

and that's why i'm confused by amethyst being included in black history things- i saw everyone project onto amethyst at different times- viewing her as black, latino, asian, etc etc, so them lumping her into being black post the show's conclusion was honestly so weird!!

I am happy I was mostly disconnected from Tumblr discourse. I thought it was dumb—especially when people started saying all Black characters should have dark hair and dark eyes. Anime fan L. I felt like it was directly going against how I wanted people like "me" to be depicted! And everyone was just drawing us in such boring, generic ways for the sake of representation or realism, but it didn't even match the people I know or my own family’s appearance! In the end it's one reason I never got involved in fandom- the loudest people didn't want weird girls like me tobe acknowledged.

With Velvette, I realized when she was in the episode in her chair with Alastor, where she just has an afro, though I was curious before but never really knew but it left my mind quickly. Regarding HH, it's definitely not the best, lol. I have a hard time watching things I dislike, so I don't think I can confidently call it bad with my whole chest as if it was totally bad to me, I probably wouldn't watch it, but then I hear Vag say something like "I didn't know angels could be hurt," and I die a little inside.

I added Semiu and things in my afterthoughts because I haven't watched Gachiakuta yet, but honestly, the Black VAs in the English dub are why I haven't.. I usually watch things subbed, but Jabber’s VA is really good., but I dislike English direction for VA post 2015 a lot of the time.. So I haven't decided yet… <-- endless loop.

I hope to also read Ichi the Witch, but I've been waiting for it to be further along. I've heard it's good, and Descaras… I see her often in passing while browsing my manga scanlations, and she is so, so cute. We're getting a lot of random fun rep in manga and things lately which makes me happy, but I want more.. more.. (greed)

In a way, this VN feels like macrodosing on every negative thought that comes to mind with the current state of things on Earth. This was a rather scary feeling to experience as I read through it.  The story giving information to me over time was pleasurable too. It is an interesting world- despite it being the worst outcome of the current state of things (that is probably why).

I got ending 3 which surprised me as I was preparing for every other feeling aside from that one. It made me feel comforted, so comfortable that for now I am going to seek out the other endings later.

The visuals were fantastic also. CRT lines are always scary as they can easily make things hard to see, but it was beautiful here. The use of transitions is very lovely, done in a way I haven't really seen before. Really great work!!!!!!!!! I am crying!!

EDIT: I sat down and got the other endings haha ^^  I am happy I got every ending again. The discussions regarding art and the fate of artists are good. Ending 2 was frightening, but it reminded me of many artists' self destruction as a result of devotion or the need to retraumatize themselves over and over again.. Thank you for submitting!

Thank you!! Charlotte is dear to me! I am a year late! It's cause I'm a clown sorry!

Thank you!

Thank you Bean! It's funny you picked up on a lot in my project from HS ^^ It is still canon to me hence it still being cohesive with Ommatophilia so I am happy. Thank you :D !!

This looks awesome!! I really wish you'd been able to finish- there are many other jams next year and some that happen annually that you could submit for too.. The music and art direction is fantastic. So so clean. always amazed by people who make such clean things in Godot!!

here you go dear ^^ i am excited to see what you've built!! (even if i am a bit slow to read haha!!)
https://itch.io/jam/411082/add-game/4123991/2441933?token=6STmI6ttSdwyCH73MWun4j...

yeah it's not especially good much like the other rep in Hazbin but i thought it was interesting since in animation i feel like Spanish speakers usually aren't around in this capacity (despite Spanish being so common where a lot of the studios are lol). it was neat to me ^^

Thank you!! Lol I didn't mention this because no room but Hispanics really won with HH I feel LOL. The way they're written and just super prominent in HH is really good. And yeah!! Idk I think a lot of media is good and bad in various ways which is why when I see the discourse wheel I just think everyone involved is silly LOL

Thank you for playing!

Since it's the final 24 hours, please let us know if you have any submission issues here that we can help with!!!

thank you ^^

Thank you!! I appreciated it!! I didn't realize you could use classes that wayon Itchio neat!! Thank you so much ^^

SO AWESOME... I DIE... Really good REEALLY SPECTACULAR AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Hello! I am sorry to be a bother! I was wondering about the external / itch links CSS!  I havebeen using them for quite some time amongst your other CSS bits but it looks like the font icon doesn't show up ^w^ I am unsure of what I am doing wrong!!

Thank you for putting this together. It has been a life saver!! The collapsible user tools really are everything as someone who prefers HTML5 uploads haha!

Yeah, to be honest it's complicated cause of the entertainment industry and the diaspora (and the state of the entertainment industries in Africa itself which you know is where most black majority cultures are). There just aren't a lot of black studios able to make work centered on black people in comparison to like white studios or studios from majority cultures (like Japan, Korea, etc) and you know, there's probably like a small amount of black mangaka in Japan, a very tiny amount which means the diversity of storytelling is lower. There's actually like a lot of studies on it and you might be interested in the movie genre of blaxploitation (which sounds horrifying but it's cool LOL)

While there are black people making fiction and things that I read, every time I see another black person in these spaces, it's like "holy shit HI." Outside of that, most of the black dominated works I read are not in this sphere.. Though I still enjoy it and it influences my work even if I can't talk about with anime loving peers lol.

Mmmm. The face thing. There are plenty of black anime artists who draw the typical anime face or draw Everyone with wide noses, but I rarely see just one or the other so it makes me uncomfortable when it's just something that needs to be applied to us. It's creepy to me also because white and Asian people are drawn the same in anime (and often other brown people too honestly), so I just feel like it's dehumanizing when pushed as an absolute rule just for Black People. Like I never have seen my lips as being particularly larger than my nonblack peers. I have a wide nose but I don't think about it a lot and plenty of black people don't so it's strange.

It's hard for me to figure out how to answer this admittedly. IRL culture is in every work and genre. It's just a lot of it is Western culture or medieval fantasy culture which is usually viewed as inherently white. I am attracted to Western settings so I put more effort into trying to make it clear white isn't the default in my worlds. I mention this but I also try to avoid a lot of ambiguous browness (though it is inevitable and sometimes i enjoy ambiguity. Sera from Meat Girl has a canon ethnicity in my mind lol, but I think it's kinda fun for people to draw her however).

To do this, I try write and design people with their relationships with their cultures and the cultures around them in mind even if I don't fully explore every aspect of it. It doesn't have to be IRL culture, but parallels to IRL culture tend to be in most work... A lot of my characters are also based on my friends from childhood and people I know now so I  like to bother my friends and as I learn more about them, I end up learning about their culture usually inevitably which ends up being incorporated into my writing and designs (usually I end up bugging them too ahah).

One thing to keep in mind is not including IRL cultural aspects can block out the existence of certain people. IE, there are people who only wear cultural clothing, Indian women who always wear bindis, etc. It's something I try to keep in mind designing too which is why Aiyana wears more traditional clothing in small subsections of the What Is It Like to Taste. It's something she used to do even if she doesn't anymore and it goes hand in hand with other things said in story despite not directly bringing up her culture by mouth so it's easy to miss (which is fine for me since I don't need every writing/design decision to be picked up on  by every single reader)

thank you so much for replaying! i really appreciate your kind words.. thank you for your continued kindness actually T_T <3

So beautiful! The poem itself and the use of wires and button and various materials. It's really the kind of aesthetic I enjoy and a mix of things that isn't used too often in crafts as cute as this I feel (<-- lolita speaking). Thank you for joining the jam Pilot!!

It’s because of a long history of black people being humanized. those depictions influence other regions in how they depict us which is why it’s an issue everywhere (simplification obvi but)!!! I’ve been waiting for Ichi the Witch to be further along but I’d like to read it! I’ve liked Desscares’ design for a long time!! I can check out the other as well!!

Thank you so much for reading this and enjoying my other works! It really means a lot!

Thank you for reading!!

Craig of the Creek originally had a section in this essay with art of the family and other concepts. It was included because I had a section dedicated to discourse around people not from minorities writing those minorites and how it affected Craig of the Creek in converssations online along with Craig of the Creek having some of the best depictions of black childhood I've ever seen while being fun.

I ended up removing it (somewhat regrettably) because there were other shows I felt like I wanted to mention by black and nonblack creators, but it all felt too tangential... but I love Craig of the Creek!

To the dollmaker clothes? You drag them onto the default images (or onto the nodes). You can copy paste the nodes in the old folders to make new ones if you’re unsure of how to make more. This will keep them in the same folder for context.

For the UI, you can also drag on images though you’ll have to mess with the nodes a bit

To be honest I wanted people to get confused and read them out of order haha! I want them to be able to be consumed however in whatever way is interesting!! I do plan too!! Eventually I will put all the episodes in one large build but I hope to keep releasing episodes- especially for jams (IE these got released for Noise Jam). I'm always chipping at Squid Girl World and have an episode amount in mind for when it's finally 'complete' :D Thank you so much for reading!! I am delighted!

So cool.. I understand!! This makes a lot of sense. I'd never heard of Clickteam. Thank you for the in depth description ^w^ 

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thank you so much! i totally forgot to respond. this means so much to me!! T_T 

YAY this makes me so happy.. so so sweet