this is your regular, cranky reminder that you are never going to get people to give up something that humans inherently do by guilting and shaming them.
no matter how strongly you feel that people ought to feel bad about doing something, and no matter how correct you are about whether or not they should feel bad.
shaming someone is an emotional attack. and the more vitriolic your attempt at shame is, the more vicious the attack is. most people, by the time they're adults, recognize this, and have built up various defenses against emotional attacks.
the only people that shame 'works' on the way you want it to work are not mentally well. they have moral OCD, or scrupulosity issues, or have been abused so badly that they do not feel like they have the right to have boundaries, or some combination of the three.
most people with healthy boundaries and healthy emotional responses will see your weaponized shame as an attack on them, and will react accordingly. and they are correct to do so. because part of having healthy boundaries is not letting random people emotionally attack you, regardless of how correct they are.
you can convince people that you are right and they are wrong. but the harder you try to make them feel ashamed, the less effective you're going to be. you're just gonna trigger a bunch of people who are mentally ill and make everyone else pissed at you.
“nobody understands me” but not in the “edgy suffering from teenager syndrome mad at mom” kind of way, but the “lonely isolating young adult realization that the specific combination of mental illnesses and past experiences i’ve had have resulted in a pattern of behaviors that are often misinterpreted and misconstrued by others” type of way
You were so good as the narrator!! Your voice had so much “childhood library story time” energy and it really immersed me in the audio 👏👏👏🫡
Thank you!! It was a very fun job ^_^ It's a very cool project, and everyone who works on it is very kind and sweet & a hell of a lot of fun to work with.
Having the head of a project reach out to me, & ask me if I was interested in recording an old-timey children's story time cassette, & also interested in cackling like a witch... It's nice to feel understood. LOL
You ever see a design so cool, hiding innocuously in something you love so much, that you take up a new hobby about it?
Process pics under the cut!
This was a labor of love, from recreating the above page as a regularized vector diagram, to isolating out, fiddling with, and sizing all the shapes for both the Cricut and the embroidery machine:
creating a truckton of stencils and marking guides:
and TRIANGLES. so many triangles
I lost count of all the bits and bobs (btw Belos part of your sigil looks like a chicken wing)
hovering like a helicopter over the machine to get each piece laid out just right
and then picking out a backing fabric as offensive to crusty old pilgrim men as possible.
To whatever artist, designer, or animator went off on this single page that's in a single episode for seconds, and isn't even the side we're paying attention to: I see you. And thanks. <3