I am once again asking unfiction creators to consult with some retrotech people.
Please, just ask "hey could you do this on an N64?" and more importantly "would you do this on an N64?".
"Do CRTs look like this?" "How do VHS tapes work?" there's so many simple questions that'd make your work so much more authentic and we'd be happy to tell you all about how you can do that.
A lion and unicorn playing chess from James McNeill Whistler's The portfolio : an artistic periodical (1880). From the text:
"[...] in the scene on a papyrus in the British Museum of the lion and unicorn playing at chess, though [the lion] is obviously an emblem of royalty, the caricaturist has not aimed at representing majesty. This, however, is of the Roman period, and has probably but little of the Egyptian character."
Our fandom forbearers did NOT suffer through Anne Rice, strikethrough, and other bullshit for fucking ACOTAR and Harry Potter fans to fucking ruin it for all of us by selling fanfiction. I am not losing novel length yaoi epics because some of you don't know how to act in fannish spaces and yes I do blame the booktokification of fanfic but I also blame those of you that treat fandom like content to consume and not a community to engage with.