Selena R. Quene Winters

Johnny Galecki, regarding rumors about him being gay.

I’m reblogging this again because it’s one of the best things to have ever been said ever.

Attention Black people:

STOP EXPLAINING SHIT TO WHITE PEOPLE. THEY DONT DESERVE YOUR SANITY. THEY DONT CARE ANYWAYS. MOST OF THEM ARE TROLLS. DONT FUCK UP UR HEALTH CUZ OF THESE PEOPLE.

Racist white people get the broomstick treatment around here.

www.google.com

“Sealioning is the name given to a specific, pervasive form of aggressive cluelessness, that masquerades as a sincere desire to understand.

A Sealion is a person who, when confronted with a fact that they don’t care to acknowledge, say, the persistence of systemic racism in America, will ask endlessly for ‘proof’ and insist that it is the other person’s job to stop everything they are doing and address the issue to their satisfaction.

Sealions are just ‘asking nicely’ but they are asking questions that have been asked and answered fully many times, and are unwilling to so much as open a tab to look up the answer, nor will they recognize the validity of your sources, your experience or expertise.”

— Erica Friedman

^Comic of origin for the “sea lioning” term, very very relevant. Google exists. It is not hard to use. Do not spend your time and effort and emotional labor explaining shit to lazy racist assholes (also applies for sexists/homophobes/transphobes/etc,)

“poc people”

Book of the day: No Matter The Wreckage by Sarah Kay

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things you can jack:

things you can’t jack:

Tattoo by James Delzel at Independent Tattoo

If I am ignoring you, I apologize. I become distracted and will focus on one thing a while. Sometimes I’m just emotionally overwhelmed and I have to lay down for a while. I’m not ignoring you because it’s you it’s because life is distracting and hard and so sometimes I just need to stop talking to people and sometimes I do that suddenly.

Diversity in Gaming

At Pixelberry, we’ve always strived to have a diverse cast in our stories that reflects the real world - whether it’s based on ethnicity or sexuality. This has always been important to us, especially since many of us have faced discrimination simply for being ourselves. Hopefully, from playing our stories, like “The Freshman”, you can tell from both the romantic interests and friends in the story that diversity is important to us.

But recently, we failed you. We launched “The Freshman”, with 4 different skin tones that you could choose for your character. We tried to provide a wide range of skin tones, but we didn’t succeed in doing that. We’ve had African American and other people of color tell us that they weren’t represented. We messed up and we are very sorry.

In order to correct that, we just launched new skin tones in “The Freshman.” Looking at the side by side comparisons of the new and old skin tones, it’s obvious that our initial range of skintones was too limited.

Step by step we are learning on this journey with you. We truly appreciate your feedback, and our entire team is working hard to make stories that we hope will make you laugh, make you cry, or make you fall in love–but we never want them to make you feel excluded. We hope you’ll keep letting us know how we’re doing so we can keep making Choices better and better for all of our players.

-Oliver and the Pixelberry Team

I hope that you're keeping the old skin tones too because I don't want my character to be African American!

What Does The Fox Say?

Last week’s post was pretty heavy, so we thought we’d share something lighter this week. As the chill of winter creeps into the Northern hemisphere, we’re getting ready to transport you somewhere warmer with our newest story, Endless Summer.

We’ve been debating back and forth on the color of the fox-like character. We’ve gone from red to light blue to green. I asked to see purple and “Snorlax” blue. The artists came back with the last two shades below.

What do you think? Find out what which one we picked in December!

-Oliver

Why not just orange?

I think Scarlett Joe Hanson(Mmmbop) is a good choice to portray an android because of how flat and robotic her acting is.

I would never agree, but at least spell her last name right...