Euripides’ Bacchae, 405 BC (colorized)

"Capitalism breeds innovation" girl there are only five websites left and they all look the same

please let your voice shine gorgeous

Reblog my poll boy 🫵🏻

honestly as a person with a severe set of migraine triggers that means i am physically unable to play or watch the majority of 3D video games… i really don’t think ‘every game should have enough accessibility features that anyone could play it’ is quite the take people think it is. obviously i think that devs should be adding in as many accessibility features as they can. but i also think that with stuff like Videogames where the medium and the message are so deeply dependent on each other, saying “the gameplay needs to be x in order to best convey the experience this is intended to convey as a work of art” is completely legitimate.

like, it reminds me a lot of the era of this website when shitting on academia for being ‘inaccessible’ was the big thing, and, rather than focusing on the socioeconomic factors that systemically bar people from academia, the priority was mocking academic language. And yeah obviously a lot of academic texts are denser than they should be, but there really was a point in time in this website when a bunch of teens and twentysomethings were wholeheartedly convinced that if something couldn’t be read by the layman it was because the author was either elitist or incompetent. but some stuff is created for specific audiences.

i think the vast majority of video games DON’T fall into this category - off the top of my head, there are very very few video games i can think of that would lose artistic integrity if they were “”easier”” to beat. difficulty and artistic integrity are both highly subjective as well. i just think that despite it being an outlier it’s just something that’s really worth thinking of, especially if you’re advocating for video games as a Legitimate Art Form. Art as a whole need be accessible. not every individual work of art needs to be. Video games as a whole need to be accessible. not every individual game needs to be. etcetera etcetera and whatnot. 

Either this post is conflating “accessibility” with “it had an easy mode” or you’ve mystified me completely.

What kind of artistic vision could possibly be hampered by…closed captions. Or text resize options. Or text to speech. Or button remapping. Or compatibility with multiple types of controllers. Or using more than color to convey important info. I could go on and on but you get the point.

i’m not conflating accessibility with easy mode at all. the confusion here isn’t that i’m using a narrower definition of accessibility than you are - i’m in fact using a much broader one. nothing you’ve listed there is anything i think would hamper artistic vision because nothing you’ve listed involves fundamentally changing the game’s design to allow it. i think those are all great options that as many video games as possible should strive to include. but although those are all very common accessibility options, that’s far from an exhaustive list.

you might get once i mean when i explain this a bit better

#also your premise confused me because#I know of no game that requires 3D mode to be switched on to play#and if there is it is indeed a shit game

every game that has 3d graphics required 3d mode to be ‘switched on’. when i say 3D i’m not talking about vr stuff, or 3DS games, i mean quite literally any game made with fully-modeled characters and environments. the vast majority of these games are fully off the table for me because of my migraine condition. although it’s an atypical one, this is an accessibility concern.

but what can be done about that? almost nothing, without going back and completely redesigning the game’s visuals from scratch. This is what I mean about accessibility sometimes come into tension with a game’s artistic vision. obviously this is not an accommodation that can be made. 

acting like accessibility in video games is a clear-cut issue that can be obtained by hitting everything on a checklist of features ignores both the diversity in types of video games and in types of disabilities a person may have.

how accessible can you make dance dance revolution before it stops being dance dance revolution? could you make a version of a multiplayer racing game that’s as fair for players with poor hand-eye coordination and reaction time as it is for the fully abled players they might be playing against? if someone is dyslexic, and has trouble reading for long stretches of time or at all, should all text-base games be fully voice acted no matter what that might do to the budget or pacing?

I don’t intend these types of questions to be a “gotcha” that says ‘since fully accessibility is impossible, accessibility doesn’t need to be a concern’. rather, this is a topic i care about a lot, so i think it’s worth discussing in a way that doesn’t pretend accessibility only looks like one set of things. 

In the kitchen straight up "chopping it". And by "it" haha well. Let justr say. My vegetble

fyi: you can be fat and hairy and still be a pretty boy.

Pretty boy shouldn't only be for thin, hairless guys. Pretty boy is a damn mindset and you too can be a pretty boy.

hey. If you donate to palestinian relief efforts in May, whether it be a verified gfm or esims or red crescent or another verified charity, send me the receipt and ill draw for you.

min $20 donation = 1 full body flats + (optional one accessory/item ) or rendered bust

min $40 donation = 2 full body flats + accessory item or rendered busts (ill throw in hands too)

$60 and over = 2 bodies, rendered, and kinda whatever you want with a few extreme exceptions, consider it an open comm

over 100$ ill do a 8x10 honest to god oil painting of whatever you want. character, still life, your pet. itll take weeks to dry but ill mail it to you (US & canada only)

you can dm me here or email me at stillmadaboutpetra@gmail.com

same for sudanese and congolese humanitarian efforts

Book recs: black science fiction

As february and black history month nears its end, if you're a reader let's not forget to read and appreciate books by black authors the rest of the year as well! If you're a sci-fi fan like me, perhaps this list can help find some good books to sink your teeth into.

Bleak dystopias, high tech space adventures, alien monsters, alternate dimensions, mash-ups of sci-fi and fantasy - this list features a little bit of everything for genre fiction fans!

For more details on the books, continue under the readmore. Titles marked with * are my personal favorites. And as always, feel free to share your own recs in the notes!

If you want more book recs, check out my masterpost of rec lists!

ok here's one

you gotta reblog for the average tumblr demographic not just my followers i believe ppl who follow me are cool

It's like this all the time

There are two pools of water. One is called "Thinking", and the other is called "Doing".

The Thinking pool is full of wriggling, live fish. And if you want to do anything, you have to carry that live fish over and release it into the Doing pool.

All you have is your cupped hands to carry that fish - a fish that does not want to be scooped up. A fish that resits, wriggles, and jumps while you try to carry it live and whole to the other pool. Every task you want to complete, every idea for inspiration, every action is one of those fish.

If you don't catch the fish, it doesn't get done.

If you drop the fish, it doesn't get done.

If you accidentally smother the fish, it doesn't get done. And then you feel terrible.

Some days, the pools are near each other. Some days, the fish aren't as hard to catch. But some days, the pools are so far apart and the fish are fighting so much and it takes everything you have. But you do it, because you have to. It takes all your concentration to hold, carry, and anticipate the movement of that fish, and after you release that fish you're so tired.

They only count how many fish are in your Doing pool at the end of the day. "You caught enough fish! You don't need help! You're doing fine!", and you cry but they don't understand why.

Everyone else has buckets and nets. They don't understand why you think it's so hard.

Wait no, I have to share this again because I finally figured out how to say what I wanted to add.

I have, for my entire life, always managed to get enough fish to survive. I'm really damn good at that.

And so I always believed them when they said I was fine. That not getting any extra fish, especially the pretty ones, meant that I just didn't want to. After all, if I could catch enough fish, I could catch extra. If I really wanted to.

But god fucking damn it, doesn't anyone understand that I'm so tired I can't? Doesn't anyone see that the koi, and the lump fish (very beautiful, very powerful), and those little blue ones that shimmer in the sun are as important as the trout and tuna that I'm catching for food?

I'm stretching the metaphor here, I know. But this little post was the first time I've ever seen someone else actually articulate this, and it matters so much.

people hating on the brief glimpse of a new geralt twn look don't even seem to know that dorky, frumpy leather jacket is entirely book geralt's style

geralt's season 2 armor isn't real, it can't hurt me

Serval (Leptailurus serval), MELANISTIC, family Felidae, Amboseli National Park, Kenya

Photograph by nicolas.urlacher.photographer

For some reason, having black fur just really highlights how ridiculous those proportions are.

Fuckin anime cat...

That’s why I love collecting color morphs, they make you look at the animal in a new light!

He ated glass 😔

Unknown Inuit artist

Igloo Scene, c.1950

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One of the most frustrating things about researching Inuit art was that in the beginning, people did not think of these sculptures as fine art, but crafts so nobody bothered to write any artist names down. Sometimes artists inscribed works with their disc numbers (numbers assigned to individual Inuit by the Canadian government in lieu of their names because white people found them too difficult to pronounce/write down). The database of these numbers are now classified because the government is embarrassed of how dehumanizing this was.This leaves it so that there is no way for scholars like me to find out who created beautiful sculptures like the one above.

He is also Palestinian. I hadn’t seen the video from this angle yet but I suspected from the one I saw that he was targeted based on how directly the cops came at him among many others. Now from this angle you can see the cop point at him directly and then they attack. Fuck STLPD fuck WUPD fuck mayor jones and fuck chancellor Martin

I was mistaken, he is not Palestinian himself but he spoke at a panel of Palestinians I went to a while ago so I assumed he was. Either way, he is outspoken for the cause and this what the police did to him.