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so i've been browsing a lot more hentai lately!

part of it is reading the history of hentai recently, and I now feel equipped to pinpoint the visual tropes and how they've evolved or what era of history they were in. another part of the new reading material (lol) is research for the next big gunter/corrin comic strip i want to draw (Fates -where they're from- doujinshi was also notably good in general). :P 

lastly, i guess part of it is boredom with a lot of current comic work ... i like art that makes me feel something, even if it's uncomfortably & overtly sexual at times (i find i can only read hentai in certian moods -not necessarily horny, just more emotionally chill in general vs strict work mode). what's the visual perspective angle of the characters that the artist did that felt too much? was it the sound effects? was it -horror of horrors- the vulnerability? how is it depicted in line weight & the toning?

( anyway, a text review of some selections; sfw read-more but the links are to NSFW sites. )

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being there for a friend going through a complicated situation very similar to a dogpile/harassment campaign the last few days, and like, i'm not unused to this, right. personally not a trained expert by any means but i think it's safe to say i got more tools, first hand knowledge, & awareness than the average person. and i'll never forget two bits of information a different dear friend (who had gone through a real nasty harassment campaign) gave me.

one - that one of the best things anyone can do is to simply reblog/boost/whatever their creations or something they're proud of, something completely irrelevant to the harassment at hand. essentially trying to balance out the negativity with a kindness & something positive - both in their own heads and also on social media so that way rubberneckers and random people see that there is a support group around and that the situation is way more nuanced than 'person x says person y did a Bad'. (since inevitably more people click on the profiles to figure out what's going on). if they're small creators, a lot of times their income already live or die by the algorithm so it's way more than just mental health on the line to boot.

(^  depressingly common considering if your income is stable you don't have to be on social media and you can just fuck off for a month or two.)

and two - that they notice who suddenly comes out of the woodwork to rubberneck & virtually gawp even if it's in the guise of "being there". they notice who fades away once when they're no longer in the spotlight or ""interesting/controversial/etc" versus who actually sticks around. and it can be tempting to accidentally infantalize them right, you do want to help if you're decent & have enough bandwidth, but there's a very thin line of doing that and also unintentionally forcing them to play into a victim role and smothering them with concern. maybe they just want space. maybe they'd just rather talk about anything but the situation (understandable), or whatever. generally it's easier to pick up on it if you've already been tight with them before the harassment.

essentially being a stabilizing presence rather than any active force. stable normalcy is a good thing in this case.

(there's other particular facets in the particular dogpile mentioned at the beginning that i'm not mentioning, but it made me think about all of the above, lately.)

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> be me
> man i miss gamecube games
> googles a few out of nostalgia
> man there was a bunch i missed out on
> ..............wait i have a working gamecube and cash money baybee more than i did back then at least
> I HAVE A WORKING GAMECUBE......

30 minutes later: i uh. may have gone a little trigger happy buying some games :D;;;;;

i promise this isn't totally unhinged; i prefer gaming away from my laptops after work as a way to wind down so my GC probably sees more genuine use to this day than most folks. anyway, reasonably priced resident evil 4, twin snakes, paper mario (switch vers), & metroid prime now added to the queue after ff12 :3  i'm also totally up for taking GC/switch suggestions, kinda want to give star fox a try on there? maybe get soul calibur 2??) 

I SHOULD ADD this was heavily inspired by 4chan's aggregated "top 150 games of all time" which had a disproportionate amount these games on it; been slowly trying to work through all of them!

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i had two events recently where i've wondered if there's some sort of "how to corporate 101" manual, kind of like my designer's resources but across all industries? similarly also kind of like moral mazes (one of my favorite books helpfully satirizing why managers are Like That) but more about the corp as a whole versus the manager-class specifically?

( anyway the two events that brought that question up in my mind: )