Re: Your Excellent Flowchart About The Mindnumbing, Repetitive Comments About Tropes Vs. Women: All The

Re: your excellent flowchart about the mindnumbing, repetitive comments about Tropes vs. Women: all the cookies and confetti for you!

It's kind of impressive how much critics of TvW read from the same script.

(Yay cookies!)

The surviving characters of the previously-mentioned game of Apocalypse World were (the erroneously named) Mr. Foster - our Faceless - and Adnan, our Savvyhead. I like to think that they survived, wandering the wastes and having adventures. Only because Mr. Foster is a recovering Faceless, wacky (mostly murderous) hijinks ensue. I have a few comics I've had rattling around in my head. This is inspired by the pronoun difficulty that Mr. Foster inspired.

This past weekend I was lucky enough to go to GenCon. Among the many, amazing games that I got to play, I was lucky enough to participate in a long-form game of Apocalypse World, which is only the best tabletop roleplaying game in the history of forever. Yes, better than mine, by a factor of one million.

This game gave me, like, all the feels. So I might be bombarding you with drawings that I haven't been able to get out of my head, over the next little while. I also took a lot of photos, of things both good and bad, and might post links to my blogging exploits elsewhere. Sadly, a playtest of SexyTime Adventures did not happen. But that's okay. You can't have everything.

Flow-chart feedback (last one, I promise)

So I'll get back to posting actual art here after one more post.

Amusing responses and reblogs continue to pop up. My favorites so far (I'm not going to quote users, because frankly I don't want to validate these people):

1) Referring to me as "Herr Wundergeek". Yes. I am an evil nazi for pointing out that critics of TVW are all reading from the same script. Making fun of people who hate Anita Sarkeesian is the same as HATING FREEDOM. Or something.

2) ANITA SARKEESIAN IS A FRAUD. ...yeah, okay. Way to completely validate my flow chart, guys. Also, she's actually honoring her end of the deal and making videos. How's that Tropes Versus Men Kickstarter working out? ...yeah. That's what I thought.

3) ANITA IS A STRAW FEMINIST. ...uh, no. I do not think that word means what you think it means.

(image taken from Hark A Vagrant's comic about Straw Feminists)

4) IF U NEED A FLOW CHART TO DISPROVE PEOPLE, YOU ARE WRONG. ...yeah, that would imply that I'm taking your arguments at all seriously. I'm just laughing at you.

Lastly, let it be noted for the record that I'm a woman.

After this we will be returning to more normal updates about art and game design. Thanks, folks. You're beautiful.

It's kind of wrong, but I really like writing death scenes

Not much art this past week. I've had to knuckle down and get a lot of writing done for a deadline, and it's not something I can post previews of.

Ah! Didn't realise you had a tumblr! It's your fault (via GoMakeMeASandwich) that I really started to understand the problems games have with representation etc :)

Yeah, I suppose I should link the two. This is more meant to be an art/game design blog. But it's kind of inevitable that feminism is going to spill over here.

I'm really glad that GMMaS made a difference for you.