i saw your post on how you were thinking about handling the Whole Artificer Thing and i say, let em be a villain! i think it would be fun
I don't have any qualms about Artificer being cruel or whatever; I just don't think that when working them into an anthro doing a 1-to-1 transfer of their behaviors and/or making them just flat out racist/genocidal is an interesting or accurate way to characterize them. (and I just have. Negative interest in working with that type of character) People can do whatever they want but ultimately I just find the idea that anything other making them aggressively genocidal is like, woobifying them, tiring.
Artificer is obviously not good in the context of the game. But the problem and focus of their actions is the scale and spiritual aspect of it, not the actions themselves. Other slugcats are perfectly capable of killing scavengers, most players likely will and many who don't are only held back by the consequences. Scavengers are also warriors, and Artificer's whole campaign is basically set up on the fact that scavengers are defensive and very much follow a 'shoot first' method of self preservation.
So why does Artificer have always be the one thats uniquely villainous in behavior (now with significantly more moral weight behind it than they had as an animal) when the other slugcats, and even the scavengers, get properly 'civilized' when people make them anthros? I just don't think its an interesting way to utilize them, and I won't fault people who do- but like- I feel like if Artificer is going to be Like That when they can walk and talk and do taxes or whatever than at bare minimum the other slugcats and scavengers' relationship with violence/murder/hunting should be touched on.
I'm not making Artificer a good person. I don't want them to be a good person, because I think the fact they are so bad that they have problems on a spiritual level to be the interesting part. Technically, the Artificer I do for anthro stuff has already done their 'Scav King' and found their 'closure'. They set out to do something awful and did it, they got their ending. So now theyre just old and tired and mean and miserable because getting what you want isnt a solution.
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A character i designed in class today, got the assignment to make a character and for some reason i was thinking about bells
I realized while making her that she'd actually fit into my oc world pretty well and add some really interesting stuff
Have not come up with a name for her yet unsurprisingly, so lets just call her Bell Goat(sheep? cow?) Grandma for now
Also heres the sketches from when i was trying to come up with ideas, first i drew the bells in the corner, then the person in the top right, and then the sketch i ended up refining
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I HAVE BEEN WORKING ON THIS... FOR SO LONG... And there's definitely SO MUCH I can do better but ummm I'm proud of this!! And I will be doing much more like it. Inspired/referenced from Batman: Arkham Asylum, which I have been enjoying, except that Robin is TOO burly !!! get small idiot. Wayne Family Adventures flavored Asylum time plz.
Bonus sketches and the early version, which got critiqued by some friends whose harsh words made it WAY better, thank u <3
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it really is funny how many american ‘white’ women believe the universe is providing for them because of them manifesting their ideas into reality or whatever the fuckin theory of attraction shit is when its like. no youre just privileged
i have no fuckin idea what my life would have looked like if i wasnt a reasonably conventionally attractive white woman in america?? not only do i have the privilege of being a white woman in america but my hometown is mostly Black and i am genuinely a minority here. my mom literally got hired at a Black law firm as their diversity hire in the 90s 😂 yes white people ESPECIALLY WHITE WOMEN have a ton of privilege even when we are not the majority
denying your privilege is so fucking cringe i like literally talk about this irl with coworkers and ppl in my community all the time. i so desperately want to use this privilege to improve my community for all.
its been crushing dealing with disabilities that limit my physical activities and just trying to keep myself financially stable while so much evil is going on in the world rn. i am ridiculously passionately anti war but i have been preparing for genocide since i was a kid. i grew up in a Black and Jewish community so i wasnt shielded from this shit. white americans get your fucking shit together NOW. liberalism will not protect our families. (our families are not just blood btw.)
anyways all this is to say im glad i might be getting a dykey construction/contractor job and learning real skills and meeting people throughout my town. its been horrible dealing with a spine injury on top of everything. but my injections worked and THE TIGER IS OUT god damn i need to join a union
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