Announcements and Updates

Hello everyone! After an extended period of silence, we are here to announce some very good news... we're officially working on the first character trailer!

We have rudimentary character models for the two named characters who will be in the trailer. The first one is the main character, Venice Angeles, and the other is her father, Domino Angeles. There will be a post going up about Venice as an introduction to her character shortly after this one, but this post will also have her character model in it:

Though this is not finalized (partially because she is missing her signature cape!) we felt it pertinent to share with you all now.

Our next steps for the character trailer are to finish modeling the monster Venice fights and to finalize the background/set pieces. We have concept art for the five characters, including Venice, that are on her team at Invention, and we are developing concept art for the other characters that will be most prominent in the early seasons.

long time no FLAT BEE FRIDAY!!!!!!

never let being a girl stop you from being a boy

never let being a boy stop you from being a girl

let’s hear it for the world’s smallest whale (the vaquita) you guys!!

ooo.... lady vaquita

Also it’s my birthday tomorrow so nobody is allowed to argue with any of my posts

however it's not their birthday yet, get arguing my minions!

Today's Seal Is: The Spirit Of Gaming

The Beast that Bothers

feeling a deep sense of kinship with danny here

Mood

One of us one of us

a shirt that is both very specific but could also at the same time apply to about 700K people

Great news! I found the whole text.

This is not only me, but like half my friend group.

this is so sad. all this puppy has to sleep on is a baby banana with a half slice cheddar blanket

It’s cool I wouldn’t want me either

know the difference!

the only bad part about going to the zoo is hearing adult men confidently tell their kids or gfs objectively incorrect information about the animals we’re looking at and having to remain silent. do u know the restraint it takes to say nothing when a grown adult man tells someone “falcons are in the same family as eagles” next to me? no babygirl. no.

fyi falcons are not closely related to other birds of prey (hawks/eagles/buzzards). falcons are actually parrots that minmaxed for a glass cannon dps build.

assault parrots, if you will

My two faves have an important message for you.

One thing that helps me calm down about intra-left-wing sniping and the reality that the big center-left coalition inevitably includes a lot of ridiculous nonsense, is to remember how ubiquitous seances were to progressive politics in the 19th century.  Like, e.g., Frederick Douglas had to go to so many seances. Many, many political strategy sessions around the country had to include feedback from the ghost of Moses who spoke to us via morse code.  

Was thinking again today about Frederick Douglas, intellectual giant, having to sit through so many seances without complaint because he believed in coalition building.

#this seance could have been an email (@marnz)

#ah spiritualism #the crypto of the victorian age (@areyougonnabe)

In all seriousness, a lot of people on the left need to cultivate the patience to sit through bullshit and work with people who have different priorities.

Because, yes, environmentalism/reproductive rights/labor rights/disability access are all THE MOST IMPORTANT THING… to you. But there aren’t enough people who hold that one thing as top priority to get it done. And insisting everyone else prioritize your one thing before you’ll engage (and then buggering off if you get your win) means nothing gets done.

We also honestly need to be able to distinguish between harmless and harmful bullshit. Because sitting in a dimly-lit room with a few dozen people staring at a copper cone is definitely bullshit, but it’s not hurting anyone. Whereas “I want to preserve the environment and also there are only men and women and we all need to have traditional gender roles to be true to ourselves” is hurting people. So one can be tolerated, and the other… not so much.

We need bullshit. We need room for bullshit. We need to understand what bullshit we can and cannot handle.

Unfortunately, a lot of people on the left have no problem saying “Because my thing isn’t the most important thing to you, fuck you.” And then they refuse to work with anyone else (and sometimes just quit).

It seems to me the narrative that “nothing can be done” often plays into that. The majority of activists are, well, extremists. We don’t have enough people who can be normal and chill about their cause, who can and will show up for someone else even if it’s not their One Cause. But then, they don’t want to because they can’t reasonably expect reciprocation. So you just get extremists sitting alone seething that no one else wants to work with them while they are unable to work with anyone else.

And that all ties into Frederick Douglas sitting and staring at a copper cone. Because he knew that by showing up, he could get other people to show up for the things he cared about. And an hour sitting with people staring at a copper cone is a small price to pay to get a few dozen people to actually come to a protest.

Customer: THIS IS ME WHEN I VISIT MY FRIEND DMV: THE FRIENDFUL VISITOR

Verdict: DENIED