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RT @AyoSolarin@twitter.com

Hi! I'm looking for QUEER POC illustrators, especially black, brown, trans and non binary artists who have editorial/fashion illustration experience. This is for a PAID project. Please tag/retweet/link portfolios etc. Thank you! 🧡

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/AyoSolarin/status/1163156339935367169

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Hey there! I've written a tutorial on how to do Palette-based Sprites in Gamemaker Studio 2! (It should also work in GMS1)

If you follow it, you SHOULD be able to do what's going on in the video. Check it out here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/29149858

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Okay so I want to preface this by saying these are general trends, and there's a whole lot of exceptions.

A thing I notice really commonly though is that when spaces where people are asked to give their pronouns, quite often people I perceive as cis -- and it's usually people I perceive as guys -- will make a big point of saying "any pronouns for me are fine!"

This doesn't actually help. I know the thought process is to show that you're cool and hip to a world that doesn't have as much in the way of gender expectations, but. Really. I promise. Having preferred pronouns is fine. Saying "anything works!" smacks of performative allyship and, in practice, means we have to guess for what pronoun you're actually listening for -- which defeats the entire point of people giving pronouns.

If your assumed gender identity has always fit comfortably, it's easy to feel like gender isn't a big deal. It's easy to think "yeah whatever is fine, I'm cool with things." This is especially true if you know that assigned masculinity is a prison. I can say in confidence, though, that if you've lived a life where people continually made the wrong assumption, pronouns can become a very big deal.

So, really, I promise, it's fine to say "I use he/him pronouns".

- Some people put pronouns in their profiles.

- Some people get misgendered a lot when they don't put pronouns in their profile, and put pronouns in their profile so they get misgendered less.

- Some of those aforementioned people are trans people.

- Bigots like to pick out things that the subjects of their bigotry do as "weird" to justify their harassment and abuse.

- When cis members of a community put pronouns in their profiles, harassment for listing pronouns becomes less. Anti-trans bigots are more hesitant to do it because doing so feels less socially acceptable; pro-trans people are emboldened to speak out against any such harassment that does occur. Further, trans people feel safer putting pronouns in their profiles.

- Not every cis person is comfortable or safe putting pronouns in their profile. (Not every 'cis' person is cis.) For that matter, not every /trans/ person is comfortable or safe putting pronouns in their profile. For some people, it's a no-brainer to include them or not; for other people, it's a hard choice, and they're the only ones who can make that choice.

- We talk about putting pronouns in profiles because we want people who've never thought about it to realize that it's possible. We can't make a choice for them, but they can't make the choice if they don't know there's one to be made, or what they're choosing between ... so we talk about it.

i have been doing a design dive into keshi and other cheap plastic minifigures. i thought i'd share this here because other folks who are into pixel art might find this interesting.

(this image is from http://neclosfortress.com , which is a lovely reference)

I just submitted the first release of Contrast to Flathub! It's a beautifully designed app to check the contrast ratio between two colors made with GTK & Rust by the GNOME Design Tooling team.🎉🥳

Toni Morrison, from a speech she gave in 1981. Gosh this seems relevant to just about any kind of creative work these days. thx @jomc

RT @lorenschmidt@twitter.com
labyrinth of the witch has what appear to be fairly classic room 'n' corridor maps, but i'm really curious about the tendency the hallways have to combine and align into major trunks. does anyone have good ideas for how to go about this sort of thing?

gonna throw a pRoPeR aNnOuNcEmEnT on the tweeter later but there it is

https://itch.io/jam/a-game-by-its-cover-2019

make a game based on famicase art

the jam page for this year is up

submissions are open

spread the word

go wild

thanks

Embedded the sprite editor into the game and suddenly I want to make shit look better because I can just hit tab and edit things! Like there's a dark gray bit on the car that's supposed to be a license plate or a grill but it's the same colour as the road. I can just... fix that!